University of Waterloo: Recent submissions
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Design and Simulation of Novel Sabatier Reactors for the Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2 into Renewable Natural Gas
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)Producing synthetic chemicals and fuels using CO2 as a feedstock through the thermocatalytic hydrogenation of CO2 via the Sabatier reaction to produce synthetic CH4 is both a CO2 emissions reduction strategy and an ... -
“In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)This dissertation explores the concept of loss and the possibility of consolation in Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog and Alexander Sokurov’s Oriental Elegy through a method that ... -
Content-Adaptive Non-Stationary Projector Resolution Enhancement
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)For any projection system, one goal will surely be to maximize the quality of projected imagery at a minimized hardware cost, which is considered a challenging engineering problem. Experience in applying different image ... -
Overcoming Inequality: How Schools Compensate for Socioeconomic Gaps in Children’s Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)This dissertation views schools’ compensatory mechanisms from a mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data that were collected from a larger study on summer learning in Canada (see Davies ... -
Methodology for improving the net environmental impacts of new buildings through product recovery management
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)Buildings contribute significantly to the global environmental load caused by human activities. There has been a growing interest in improving a building's performance over all of the life-cycle stages (production, ... -
Feasibility Study of Lean Oil Sand as Base and Surface Material on Gravel Roads in Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)A major concern has been raised by Imperial Oil Inc. that dust issues extensively occurred on the gravel roads in Kearl Lake Oil Sand site in northern Alberta, Canada. Some mitigation measures had been utilized to minimize ... -
Wetting of underliquid systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)Wetting studies can be tracked back over the last few decades due to its applications in the development of water repellent (superhydrophobic), oil repellent (superoleophobic) surfaces. Despite the fact that these surfaces ... -
An Investigation of Non-stationary Nature of Environmental Data
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)Several investigations have shown that the Earth's climate is experiencing change, as evident by rising global temperatures, receding ice sheets and reducing glacier sizes. There is also empirical observation supporting ... -
Development of Photocatalytic Materials and Systems for the Removal of Selenium from Industrially Impacted Water
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)Selenium (Se) contaminated water derived from global industrial activities such as power generation, oil extraction and refining, coal and mineral mining, metal smelting, and agricultural irrigation can bioaccumulate in ... -
Computational Aeroacoustic Prediction of Airfoil Self-Noise at Static Angles of Attack
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)Aeroacoustic noise from wind turbines is often an obstacle in the implementation of wind farms. Reduction of this noise is key to allowing the expansion of the wind energy sector which is crucial for decreasing the dependence ... -
Development of a Compact, Energy-Positive Food Waste Treatment Process
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)This study developed an innovative bioprocess for food waste (FW) treatment by combining a leach bed reactor (LBR) with an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR). The two bioreactors were consistently operated at neutral ... -
Longevity Risk Management: Models and Hedging Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)Longevity risk management is becoming increasingly important in the pension and life insurance industries. The unexpected mortality improvements observed in recent decades are posing serious concerns to the financial ... -
Gaits and Their Development in the Infraorder Pecora
(University of Waterloo, 1967-02)The gaits of twenty-eight species of the Infraorder Pecora are analyzed from motion picture sequences comprising over 45,000 frames. For each gait the percentage time spent on the various supporting legs during each stride ... -
A structural and stratigraphic study in Liuyuan area, Southern Beishan orogenic collage, Northwest China
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)A stratigraphic and structural study of the Permian North Shuangbaotang Complex offers new evidence constraining the timing of the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean to the late Permian. The fold and thrust belt of ... -
Chaotic Advection for Enhanced Reagent Mixing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-17)In situ remediation techniques commonly involve the injection of a reagent into the subsurface to create a zone in which biological and/or chemical reactions lead to mass destruction of contaminants. In these injection-driven ... -
Une lecture d'Honoré de Balzac par le cadre des portes : le rôle que jouent les portes dans les demeures privées du Père Goriot et d'Eugénie Grandet
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-16)Cette thèse se consacre à l’étude détaillée du rôle que jouent les portes dans les demeures privées du Père Goriot (1835) et d’Eugénie Grandet (1833) du romancier français Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). Après un examen dans ... -
Exploring Health and Wellbeing in a Low-to-Middle Income Country: A Case Study of Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)The recent past has witnessed an increased interest in the concept of wellbeing both in academia and public policy. Governments and international organizations have developed a policy agenda with the broad goal of improving ... -
Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)The aim of this thesis is to develop efficient transition matrix Monte Carlo simulation methods for complex systems(e.g., spin glasses) that enable one to construct the transition matrix from which the density of states ... -
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Reduction Strategies for Real-time Optimal Control
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)This thesis presents a variety of strategies to accelerate the turnaround times (TATs) of nonlinear and hybrid model predictive controllers (MPCs). These strategies are unified by the themes of symbolic computing, nonlinear ... -
"A New Park, A New Opportunity": Place-Branding, Acculturation, and Cultural Diversity in Rouge National Urban Park
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)In 2015, the Rouge National Urban Park Act formally established the ‘newest member to the Parks Canada family’ in the form of Canada’s first-ever national urban park. Located in the eastern end of Toronto, the largest and ...