University of Waterloo: Recent submissions
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Assessing the Sampling Design of the Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (CAMP)
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)The Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (CAMP) is a community based monitoring program that involves local stakeholders to monitor estuaries and bays in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (sGSL). Implemented in 2003, CAMP ... -
Using a hierarchy of climate models to investigate snow processes influencing surface albedo
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropical land has experienced dramatic warming over the past century, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming decades. There is however, significant uncertainty surrounding projections ... -
Estimating Values of Integrated PV-Battery Systems for Single-Detached Residences in Japan
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Climate change is now widely acknowledged as a threat facing the current generation. To combat this, photovoltaic (PV) power generation, one of the renewable energy sources, has been regarded as a preferable solution to ... -
Dreaming Space: Exploring the Transformative Power of Immersive Art and Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)The role of art is to transform our experience of reality. This process often involves a quality of rupture; of breaking through the boundaries of our habitual, conditioned modes of perception in order to experience new ... -
Animating Coupling between Inviscid Free-Surface Liquids and Elastic Deformable Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Driven by demand for high-fidelity computer-generated imagery, physics-based animation has become an exciting frontier of research in computer science. Simulations of fluids and their interactions with other objects in the ... -
Multi-terminal VSC-HVDC Based Offshore Wind-Farms Integration System Operation and Control
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Worldwide, many countries direct billions of dollars into the development of renewable energy sources; especially wind generation, in an effort to relieve global warming effects and other environmental concerns. As a result ... -
53 North: Tactical Infrastructure in Edmonton
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Edmonton, Alberta is the northernmost major city in North America, but inappropriate urban form has created a winter culture of avoidance. Long, straight city streets and a proliferation of voids within the downtown urban ... -
MathBrush web application: Design and implementation of an online pen-input interface for computer algebra systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Several pen-math systems have been developed for mobile and tablet platforms, most notably by the MathBrush project. With the increasing variety of available devices and platforms used by students, this thesis aims to ... -
Design and Fabrication of a Nanofluidic Cell System for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy of in-Liquid Samples.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)The transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been an important characterization tool since its invention in 1932.[1] The ability to achieve atomic resolution imaging and collect real-time movies, combined with the ... -
From the outside in… Geopolitical Supply Risk and Life Cycle Assessment of Products
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Growth in global population and living standards, along with the transition to a low-carbon economy, require increasing supply of an unprecedented variety of material commodities. Consequently, securing availability of ... -
Turning Point for Transformation? Investigating a Local Decarbonization Initiative in Waterloo Region, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Canada is a world leader - in burning fossil fuels. Canadians produce more tonnes of CO2 per capita than almost any nation on earth. Canada’s GHG emissions are part of a global problem. There is international consensus ... -
Construction Scene Point Cloud Acquisition, Object Finding and Clutter Removal in Real Time
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Within industrial construction, piping can constitute up to 50% of the cost of a typical project. It has been shown that across the activities involved in pipe fabrication, pipe fitting has the highest impact on the critical ... -
Air-coupled Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers based on Annular Cell Geometry
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Air-coupled ultrasound is gaining increasing industry momentum due to the demands and development of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of aerospace composite materials. Currently, the micromachining technology has advanced ... -
A modelling investigation into the impacts of the convective parameterization on the tropical circulation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Many studies have shown that the tropical circulations (Walker and Hadley circulations) will weaken in a warmer world. This is sometimes attributed to changes in the tropical mean water cycling rate (driven by convective ... -
Entanglement Entropy of Scalar Fields in Causal Set Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Entanglement entropy is now widely accepted as having deep connections with quantum gravity. It is therefore desirable to understand it in the context of causal sets, especially since they provide the UV cutoff needed to ... -
Development of RTgutGC as a Tool for Fish Feed Development
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)A rainbow trout intestinal epithelial cell line, RTgutGC, has been used in this thesis to investigate the effects of various stresses in aquaculture on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and for identifying possible beneficial ... -
Fabrication and Evaluation of Multiple Memory Nitinol Stents for Biomedical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of deaths worldwide. The development of stents led to a revolutionary phase in the treatment of these diseases [1]. A stent is a tubular metallic structure that is implanted ... -
Design and Evaluation of Social CheatSheet: A Community-Curated Software Help Overlay
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Software users can often find it difficult to sift through dense help pages, tutorials, Q&A sites, blogs, and other resources, trying to locate useful task-specific instructions for the applications they use. We present ... -
Strategic Network Design for Delivery by Drones under Service-based Competition
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In today’s world, E-commerce is a fast growing industry and e-retailers are looking for innovative ways to deliver customer orders within short delivery times at a low cost. Currently, the use of drone technology for ... -
Control Mechanisms in Queueing Systems with Nonlinear Waiting Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In many queueing systems, customers have been observed to exhibit strategic behavior. Each customer gains a value when receiving a product or getting served and suffers when incurring a delay. We consider a nonlinear ...