University of Waterloo: Recent submissions
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Defining gameful experience as a psychological state caused by gameplay: Replacing the term ‘Gamefulness’ with three distinct constructs
(Elsevier, 2019-07)Background and Aim Gamefulness is commonly cited as the primary goal of gamification, a family of approaches employed in education, business, healthcare, government, and elsewhere. However, gamefulness is defined ... -
Fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Quadrotors: Design and Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Quadrotor (or quadcopter) is a type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Due to the quadrotors simple and inexpensive design, they have become popular platforms. This thesis proposes a computationally fast scheme for ... -
Electrode Design for Durable and Energy-Dense Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Zinc-air batteries have been proposed as a low-cost and energy-dense candidate to replace or supplement lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. This thesis explores the viability of zinc-air batteries in electric ... -
DYNAMIC VISUALIZATIONS: Developing a Framework for Crowd-Based Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Since its conception in the 1960s, digital computation has experienced both exponential growth in power and reduction in cost. This has allowed the production of relatively cheap electronics, which are now integrated ... -
Investigation of Photon Interactions with Semiconductor Quantum Dot Devices for Quantum Communication Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)A major goal in the field of quantum communication is to achieve long-distance (>100 km) transmission of quantum information, which would allow for the formation of a global quantum network. Devices called 'quantum repeaters' ... -
Modelling Biogeochemical Cycles Across Scales: From Whole-Lake Phosphorus Dynamics to Microbial Reaction Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Lakes are ecologically, economically, and culturally significant resources that are, at the same time, very fragile and sensitive to human disturbances. During the last decades, intensified urbanization and discharge of ... -
Frequency Shifting a Single Photon by Electro-Optic Modulation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Entanglement is a rare resource only a select few people worldwide can create. Its fundamentally non-classical behavior seeds a tree of ideas from which transformative technologies in information processing, communication, ... -
Cost-effectiveness of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy for Treating Large B-cell Lymphoma Patients in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Background/Aim: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a novel cell therapy for treating hematological cancers including multiply relapsed large B-cell lymphoma in adults. Although for some patients it can ... -
Microbial communities of wastewater in the Canadian Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Wastewater management in the Canadian Arctic is challenging due to the extreme climate and lack of conventional treatment system infrastructure. To resolve these issues, most Northern communities use waste stabilization ... -
Late Woodland Pottery Production in Essex County, Ontario: Evidence from the Puce Site
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)This thesis examines a collection of Early Late Woodland (Western Basin Tradition) pottery from the Puce Site (AbHq-3) in St. Clair Shores, Essex County, Ontario. The site was discovered through a Cultural Resource Management ... -
Bichromatic dressing of Rydberg atoms and on the correctness of many-mode Floquet theory
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Many-mode Floquet theory [T.-S. Ho, S.-I. Chu, and J. V. Tietz, Chem. Phys. Lett. 96, 464 (1983)] was designed as an extension of Floquet theory suitable for solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation with multiple ... -
Full-Depth Reclamation with Hydraulic Road Binders
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)According to a recent report, 16.4% of Canadian roads are in a poor or very poor condition. This means 146,255 km of the Canadian roads are either unfit for service or are approaching the end of their service life. The ... -
Layers of History - A Reflection on Conservation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)The industrial collapse and economic instability of the late twentieth century drastically changed the way many North American towns and cities function. Galt, Ontario is an example of a town that has experienced many ... -
Effect of co-ions and counter-ions on mAb capture with weak cation exchange membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Cation exchange chromatography (CEX) has risen as a promising alternative to Protein-A affinity chromatography for the capture of monoclonal antibody (mAb). mAb capture with CEX works on the basis of electrostatic interactions ... -
API Parameter Recommendation Based on Documentation Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are widely used in today's software development, as they provide a easy and safe way to build more powerful applications with less code. However, learning how to use an API function ... -
Application of Cellulose Nanomaterials in Water Treatment Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Many advanced water treatment processes have been designed and implemented to purify water, such as adsorption, photocatalysis, and membrane filtration processes. All these processes have the potential to be enhanced through ... -
Climate Change Risk in Stock Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Climate change is becoming a common threat to the world and has been studied by scholars in various fields. In the field of finance, many papers have discussed financial market efficiency toward climate change in order to ... -
Towards On-demand Generation of Entangled Photons with Quantum Dots
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)The biexciton-exciton cascade in quantum dots (QDs) yields entangled photon pairs, and recent developments in engineering photonic structures around the dot for efficient light extraction and proper control of the ... -
Systems for Managing Work-Related Transitions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Peoples' work lives have become ever-populated with transitions across tasks, devices, and environments. Despite their ubiquitous nature, managing transitions across these three domains has remained a significant challenge. ... -
Evaluating Aerial Ku-Band Radar Altimetry over Landfast First-Year Sea Ice
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Recent studies have challenged the assumption that Ku-band radar, used by the CryoSat-2 satellite altimetry platform, fully penetrates the dry snow cover of Arctic sea ice in the winter. There is also uncertainty around ...