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Evaluating the Influence of Flooding on Aquatic Food-webs in Basins of the Peace-Athabasca Delta Using Isotopic Tracers
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)Periodic flooding has been widely believed to serve an important role in maintaining water levels and productivity of aquatic basins in floodplain landscapes. Here, I analyze four basins of contrasting flood frequencies ... -
Evaluating the Progress of Municipal Natural Asset Management through Monitoring & Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-29)Contemporary environmental and land-use planning in many Canadian municipalities is challenged with two key problems that have grown with increasing urban development: 1) natural ecosystems decline and 2) grey infrastructure ... -
Evaluating the Prospective Benefits of Physical Demands Description (PDD) Data Created from Job Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-12)A physical demands description (PDD) is a document that results from the systematic procedure to quantify, and evaluate all of the physical and environmental demand components of all essential and non- essential tasks of ... -
Evaluating the Retrofit of Highway Bridges Using Fluid Viscous Dampers
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Highway bridges function as the arteries of our society. Hence, it is essential that they remain operational following an earthquake. Unfortunately, a significant number of bridges worldwide, including in Canada, were ... -
Evaluating the role of local climate change on reduced freshwater availability at the Peace-Athabasca Delta using paleolimnology
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-02)Abundant small, shallow lakes across northern freshwater landscapes are particularly sensitive to alteration of hydrological processes, which makes them vulnerable to multiple potential stressors. At the Peace-Athabasca ... -
Evaluating the Sampling Design of a Long-Term Community-Based Estuary Monitoring Program
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-08-02)Community-based monitoring programs (CBMPs) are a cost-effective option to collect the long-term data required to effectively monitor estuaries. Data quality concerns have caused some CBMP datasets, which could fill knowledge ... -
Evaluating the Speed and Accuracy of Touch Input at the Edge of a Table
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)Tables, desks, and counters are often nearby, motivating their use as interactive surfaces. However, they are typically cluttered with objects. As an alternative, we explore touch input along the 'edge' of table-like ... -
Evaluating the toxicity of eight reactive environmental contaminants by monitoring three measures of cell viability in two fish cell lines
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-18)As fish cell cultures continue to be explored as alternatives to whole fish for evaluating the toxicity of environment chemicals, technical issues have emerged that influence results and thus need to be understood and ... -
Evaluating the Usability of a Medication Organizing Tool on Home Medication Management - A Proof-of-Concept Experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-20)Background: Chronic disease and medication self-management is a life-long process in which patient self-efficacy plays an important role in determining success. Efforts to improve self-management have traditionally focused ... -
Evaluating the Usefulness of Synthetic Data in Healthcare: Applications in Predictive Modeling and Privacy Protection
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-24)The advent of data-driven approaches in healthcare has opened new horizons for patient care, disease management, and medical research. However, one of the significant challenges is the availability of large-scale, high-quality ... -
Evaluating Thermal Regime of Cold Region Roads for Climate Change Adaptation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-07)Nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is underlain with permafrost, of which discontinuous permafrost is most sensitive to the temperature of its surrounding. Climate change and the implementation of infrastructure ... -
Evaluating Tire Pressure Control System to Improve Productivity and Mitigate Pavement Damage
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)The introduction of the use of Tire Pressure Control Systems (TPCS) to improve the productivity of the Canadian trucking industry is gaining momentum. The imposition of seasonal load restrictions (SLR) on the thaw-weakened ... -
Evaluating Unattended Technology, a Subset of Calm Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Information is a central theme of the twenty-first century. This is evident in the fact that everyday objects are being augmented to provide information. Thus, ubiquitous computing – providing information using everyday ... -
Evaluating Unbonded Concrete Overlay for Usage on Ontario Residential Streets
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Composite pavements have become increasingly common in North America, these pavements usually result from the rehabilitation of Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements. When a PCC pavement reaches close to the end of its ... -
Evaluating Vadose Zone Moisture Dynamics using Ground-Penetrating Radar
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-27)Near-surface sediments in the vadose zone play a fundamental role in the hydrologic system. The shallow vadose zone can act as a buffer to delay or attenuate surface contaminants before they reach the water table. It also ... -
Evaluating Wind Power Generating Capacity Adequacy Using MCMC Time Series Model
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)In recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in utilizing renewable energy resources by many power utilities around the world. The tendency toward using renewable energy resources is mainly due to the environmental ... -
Evaluation and Application of Microextraction Techniques Coupled with Portable Analytical Instrumentation for On-site Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-12)In recent years, on-site analysis has garnered increased interest from the scientific community. The development of smaller, more sophisticated analytical instruments, and the establishment of new environmental regulations ... -
Evaluation and calibration of anisotropic yield criteria in shear Loading: Constraints to eliminate numerical artefacts
(Elsevier, 2017-06-24)Many anisotropic phenomenological yield functions have been proposed in the literature in which their predictive capabilities strongly depend on the experimental calibration data as well as the calibration procedure to ... -
Evaluation and Calibration of Pedestrian Bridge Standards for Vibration Serviceability
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)An increase in the use of lightweight materials and emphasis on architecturally appealing designs has resulted in lively pedestrian bridges. A prominent example for this is the serviceability failure of the London Millenium ... -
Evaluation and Comparison of Two Novel Non-Platinum-Based Antitumor Agents on Pancreatic Cancer and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-03)Cancer is one of the leading causes threatening human life. People suffering from pancreatic cancer and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have particularly low survival rate among all cancer types. The novel non-platinum ...