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Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Infrared Imaging Upconversion Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-30)Upconversion of near-infrared to visible light in a single, hybrid organic/inorganic device is explored in the following work. The components of the photodetector and organic light emitting diode, and the challenge of ... -
A hybrid inverse dynamic-neural network approach to lower limb exoskeleton control
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)A powered machine that is wearable over all or part of the human body can be referred to as a powered exoskeleton. The role of powered exoskeletons is usually to provide ergonomic structural support while using motor power ... -
Hybrid lithium-ion battery and hydrogen energy storage systems for a wind-supplied microgrid
(Elsevier, 2023-09-01)Microgrids with high shares of variable renewable energy resources, such as wind, experience intermittent and variable electricity generation that causes supply-demand mismatches over multiple timescales. Lithium-ion ... -
Hybrid Metallic Nanostructures for Bio and Analytical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)Different hybrid nanoparticles (NPs), including FeM (M=Ni, Au, Pt, Pd) and Fe-biomolecules (biomolecule=glucose oxidase, p53p protein), have been synthesized by a surfactant-free, single-step electrochemical method. FeNi ... -
A Hybrid Model for Object-Oriented Software Maintenance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-22)An object-oriented software system is composed of a collection of communicating objects that co-operate with one another to achieve some desired goals. The object is the basic unit of abstraction in an OO program; ... -
A Hybrid Neural Network- Mathematical Programming Approach to Design an Air Quality Monitoring Network for an Industrial Complex
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-10)Air pollution sampling site selection is one of the most important and yet most vexing of the problems faced by those responsible for regional and urban air quality management and for the attainment and maintenance of ... -
A hybrid nonlinear FDTD method and its application to nonlinear optical and millimeter-wave devices
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A Hybrid Numerical Simulation Approach for Turbulent Flows over Building-Like Obstacles
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-03)Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been widely applied to simulate turbulent flows in an urban environment. The two basic methodologies in CFD that have been applied here are a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) ... -
A Hybrid of Stochastic Programming Approaches with Economic and Operational Risk Management for Petroleum Refinery Planning under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)In view of the current situation of fluctuating high crude oil prices, it is now more important than ever for petroleum refineries to operate at an optimal level in the present dynamic global economy. Acknowledging the ... -
Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Optical Upconversion Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-19)The widely available charge coupled device (CCD) and lately CMOS imaging devices have created many applications on a mass scale. However these devices are limited to wavelengths shorter than about 1 μm. Hybrid photon ... -
Hybrid Path Integral Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics Approach for the Simulation of Rigid Rotating and Translating Molecules
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)The path integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics [1] is widely used for formulating the partition function and diverse thermodynamic properties. The basic objective of this thesis is to present the benchmark ... -
Hybrid Polymer and Peptide-Based Nanostructures for Stimuli-Responsive Drug Delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Targeting of human tissues by nanomedicines can occur both passively, benefiting from the enhanced permeation and retention (EPR) effect, and actively, through design elements which exploit the unique microenvironment (pH, ... -
Hybrid Semiconductor Detectors for High Spatial Resolution Phase-contrast X-ray Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-20)When conventional x-ray radiography presents inadequate absorption-contrast, higher sensitivity can be achieved using phase-contrast methods. The implementation of phase-contrast x-ray imaging using propagation-based ... -
Hybrid Spectral Ray Tracing Method for Multi-scale Millimeter-wave and Photonic Propagation Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-04)This thesis presents an efficient self-consistent Hybrid Spectral Ray Tracing (HSRT) technique for analysis and design of multi-scale sub-millimeter wave problems, where sub-wavelength features are modeled using rigorous ... -
A Hybrid Symbolic-Numeric Method for Multiple Integration Based on Tensor-Product Series Approximations
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This work presents a new hybrid symbolic-numeric method for fast and accurate evaluation of multiple integrals, effective both in high dimensions and with high accuracy. In two dimensions, the thesis presents an adaptive ... -
A Hybrid Theory of Evidence
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-28)In the literature on doxastic evidence, the phenomenon is regarded as either internal (Plantinga 1993, Feldman and Conee 2001, Turri 2009) or external (Armstrong 1973, Collins 1997, BonJour 2008). Though the specifics of ... -
Hybrid Thresholds, Redefining the Don River’s Edge
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-28)My proposal envisions the threshold between the built urban fabric and the natural environment at the water’s edge. It focuses on the development of public space at the water’s edge, and tries to transform that space ... -
Hybrid Time and Time-Frequency Blind Source Separation Towards Ambient System Identi cation of Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-24)Blind source separation methods such as independent component analysis (ICA) and second order blind identification (SOBI) have shown considerable potential in the area of ambient vibration system identification. The objective ... -
Hybrid Tin Based Nanostructures Wrapped with Graphene as Efficient Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-12)Recently, many developments in the electric & hybrid electric vehicles, and in the electronic devices, have resulted in an increasing demand for high power and high energy density lithium-ion batteries. The current commercial ... -
Hybrid Transparent Conductive Oxide Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-09)In Ontario, there are great incentives to invest in solar cell research through the Feed-In Tariff program, which has successfully increased the total connected capacity of solar power in Ontario to well over 215 MW. ...