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The Efficacy of Source Rate Control in Achieving Fairness in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)The use of 802.11-based wireless mesh networks (WMNs) as an alternative network backbone technology is growing rapidly. The primary advantages of this approach are ease of deployment and lower cost. However, such networks ... -
The Efficacy of the DNA Barcoding Proctol in determining species in the red algal orders Batrachospermales and Thoreales and a comparison with the plastid rbcL gene.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-01)The red algae (Rhodophyta) is a monophyletic phylum and is comprised of seven classes including the Florideophyceae. The class monophyletic Florideophyceae is postulated to have diverged from the class Bangiophyceae and ... -
The Efficacy of the Meiotic Toolkit in Determining the Sexuality and Evolutionary History of Red Algae (Rhodophyta)
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-16)Meiosis is a unique mechanism and fundamental process that is shared by sexually reproducing eukaryotic species. Species that undergo meiosis can be determined by identifying the presence of core meiotic genes also known ... -
The Efficacy of Viewing Health Warnings on Shisha Smoking among Shisha Smokers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)As shisha smoking is increasing globally, the need for a critical action to control shisha smoking consumption becomes crucial. Despite the success of cigarette warning labels in increasing smokers' awareness of the negative ... -
Efficiency Analysis of Public Transit systems in Bangladesh: A Case Study of Dhaka City
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-29)Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh and the centre of administrative, political, economic and social life for the country. An efficient transit system is needed in this city to provide services in every corner and to ... -
Efficiency and Linearity Improvement of Sub-6GHz Digital Beam-forming Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)The fifth generation (5G) cellular network promises to bring higher data capacity, faster transmission speed, and lower latency. 5G employs massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) architecture which enables many ... -
Efficiency Improvement for III-V Nitride Micro Light-Emitting Diodes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-10)As a solid-state lighting source with high luminance and long life-time, the gallium nitride/ indium gallium nitride (GaN/InGaN) light-emitting diode (LED) is considered as a promising technology for many applications, ... -
Efficiency of Management System Certification: Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-24)Implementation and certification of management systems represented by ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 have been major activities of organizations motivated by both internal incentives and external pressures. Nevertheless, ... -
Efficiency Options for a Focus Company: Comparison and Analysis of Potential Industrial Ecology and In-House Process Change Initiatives
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-24)Industrial ecology is a popular option in the literature for improving the efficiency of industrial facilities, most notably through the eco-industrial park (EIP) concept. Relatively little attention has been paid to overall ... -
Efficiency-based hp-refinement for finite element methods
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-23)Two efficiency-based grid refinement strategies are investigated for adaptive finite element solution of partial differential equations. In each refinement step, the elements are ordered in terms of decreasing local ... -
Efficient algorithms in quantum query complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-13)In this thesis we provide new upper and lower bounds on the quantum query complexity of a diverse set of problems. Specifically, we study quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, matrix multiplication, oracle ... -
Efficient Analysis for Nonlinear Effects and Power Handling Capability in High Power HTSC Thin Film Microwave Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2000)In this study two nonlinear analysis methods are proposed for investigation of nonlinear effects of high temperature superconductive(HTSC) thin film planar microwave circuits. The MoM-HB combination method is based on ... -
Efficient analysis for nonlinear effects and power handling capability in high power HTSC thin film microwave circuits
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Efficient and Differentially Private Statistical Estimation via a Sum-of-Squares Exponential Mechanism
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-30)As machine learning is applied to more privacy-sensitive data, it is becoming increasingly crucial to develop algorithms that maintain privacy. However, even the most basic high-dimensional statistical estimation tasks ... -
Efficient and Flexible Search in Large Scale Distributed Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has triggered a wide range of distributed systems beyond simple file-sharing. Distributed XML databases, distributed computing, server-less web publishing and networked resource/service ... -
Efficient Authentication, Node Clone Detection, and Secure Data Aggregation for Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)Sensor networks are innovative wireless networks consisting of a large number of low-cost, resource-constrained sensor nodes that collect, process, and transmit data in a distributed and collaborative way. There are numerous ... -
Efficient Characterization of a Unitary Quantum Gate via a Projective Rabi Experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-09)In this thesis, we introduce a novel randomization-based protocol for estimation of parameters in a sparse Hamiltonian. This is achieved via a projective Rabi experiment which interleaves projective channels between ... -
Efficient Composition of Discrete Time Quantum Walks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)It is well known that certain search problems are efficiently solved by quantum walk algorithms. Of particular interest are those problems whose efficient solutions involve nesting of search algorithms. The nesting of ... -
An Efficient Computation of Convex Closure on Abstract Events
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The behaviour of distributed applications can be modeled as the occurrence of events and how these events relate to each other. Event data collected according to this event model can be visualized using process-time ... -
Efficient Computation with Sparse and Dense Polynomials
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)Computations with polynomials are at the heart of any computer algebra system and also have many applications in engineering, coding theory, and cryptography. Generally speaking, the low-level polynomial computations of ...