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High-Risk Medication Use, Frailty and Hospitalization among Older Assisted Living Residents
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-11)Background: With substantial comorbidity, high levels of medication use and age-related physiological changes, older adults are at an increased risk of drug-related errors and adverse events. Of particular concern are (i) ... -
High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters for Broadband Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-15)Flash Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), targeting optical communication standards, have been reported in SiGe BiCMOS technology. CMOS implementation of such designs faces two challenges. The first is to achieve a ... -
High-Speed Clocking Deskewing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-10)As the CMOS technology continues to scale into the deep sub-micron regime, the demand for higher frequencies and higher levels of integration poses a significant challenge for the clock generation and distribution design ... -
High-Speed Elliptic Curve and Pairing-Based Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-25)Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), independently proposed by Miller [Mil86] and Koblitz [Kob87] in mid 80’s, is finding momentum to consolidate its status as the public-key system of choice in a wide range of applications ... -
High-Speed Probe Card Analysis Using Real-time Machine Vision and Image Restoration Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)There has been an increase in demand for the wafer-level test techniques that evaluates the functionality and performance of the wafer chips before packaging them, since the trend of integrated circuits are getting more ... -
High-Temperature Oxidation, Fluoride-Ion Cleaning, and Activated Diffusion Brazing of Nickel-Based Superalloy GTD111
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)The need for industrial gas turbines to operate at higher temperatures and/or speeds has resulted in the continual modification of nickel-based superalloys to provide better high-temperature strength and corrosion resistance ... -
High-throughput analysis of biological fluids using 96-blade (thin-film) solid phase microextraction system
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-07)The initial research of this thesis involves the evaluation of different strategies for developing diverse chemistries of highly stable coatings for the automated 96-blade (thin-film) solid phase microextraction (SPME) ... -
High-throughput OpenArray™: novel, swift TaqMan® Real-Time PCR chip for diagnostic biomarkers in Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)In 2014, aquaculture replaced capture fisheries as the primary source of fish supply for human consumption for the first time in history, but to date, fish domestication has not developed enough to cope with the ... -
High-Volume-Rate Ultrasound for Quantitative Assessments of Vascular Function
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-12)Free flap surgery is a common reconstructive technique to repair tissue damage after trauma or cancer removal. This complex procedure involves the transfer of tissue, along with its associated blood supply, from one ... -
Higher dimensional Taub-NUT spaces and applications
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In the first part of this thesis we discuss classes of new exact NUT-charged solutions in four dimensions and higher, while in the remainder of the thesis we make a study of their properties and their possible applications. ... -
Higher Gauge Theory and Discrete Geometry
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-05)In four dimensions, gravity can be seen as a constrained topological model. This provides a natural way to construct quantum gravity models, since topological models are relatively straightforward to quantize. Difficulty ... -
Higher intake of fish and fat is associated with lower plasma s-adenosylhomocysteine: a cross-sectional study
(Elsevier, 2017-10-02)Several B-vitamins act as co-factors in one-carbon metabolism, a pathway that plays a central role in several chronic diseases. However, there is a lack of knowledge of how diet affects markers in one-carbon metabolism. ... -
Higher Order Random Walks, Local Spectral Expansion, and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-16)The study of spectral expansion of graphs and expander graphs has been an extremely fruitful line of research in Mathematics and Computer Science, with applications ranging from random walks and fast sampling to optimization. ... -
Higher-Dimensional Kloosterman Sums and the Greatest Prime Factor of Integers of the Form a_1a_2\cdots a_{k+1}+1
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)We consider the greatest prime factors of integers of certain form. -
Higher-order Losses and Optimization for Low-level and Deep Segmentation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)Regularized objectives are common in low-level and deep segmentation. Regularization incorporates prior knowledge into objectives or losses. It represents constraints necessary to address ill-posedness, data noise, outliers, ... -
A Highly Active RNA-Cleaving DNAzyme with Accelerated Activity by Ethanol and by Freezing
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-27)DNAzymes are functional DNA molecules with catalytic activities. The EtNa is an example of a RNA-cleaving DNAzyme that catalyzes the cleavage reaction of a phosphodiester bond in the presence of metal ions, such as Na+ or ... -
Highly Efficient Deep Intelligence via Multi-Parent Evolutionary Synthesis of Deep Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-11)Machine learning methods, and particularly deep neural networks, are a rapidly growing field and are currently being employed in domains such as science, business, and government. However, the significant success of neural ... -
Highly Efficient Planar Antenna System Based on the Planar Waveguide Technology for Low Cost Millimeter-Wave Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2011-11-11)This thesis investigates the integration of planar antennas, such as Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRAs) to the planar waveguide structure, specifically the Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) for high radiation efficiency ... -
Highly Filled, Durable, and Sustainable Wood-Plastic Composites from Recycled Thermoplastics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The increasing concern for environmental sustainability and the accumulation of solid waste (e.g. single-use plastics) has led to an increased interest in the utilization of renewable feedstocks and recycling of plastics ... -
Highly Non-Convex Crossing Sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)For a given graph, G, the crossing number crₐ(G) denotes the minimum number of edge crossings when a graph is drawn on an orientable surface of genus a. The sequence cr₀(G), cr₁(G), ... is said to be the crossing sequence ...