• The Association Between Emotional Expressivity in Early Adulthood and Healthy Aging in Late Adulthood 

  Franklin, Dylan (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  Canada’s population is aging quickly, with growth in the population of older adults now exceeding that of younger adults. This increase emphasizes the need for research on healthy aging to determine potential predictors ...

• Induction Relations in the Symmetric Groups and Jucys-Murphy Elements 

  Chan, Kelvin Tian Yi (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  Transitive factorizations faithfully encode many interesting objects. The well-known ones include ramified coverings of the sphere and hypermaps. Enumeration of specific classes of such objects have been known for quite ...

• Hierarchical and Nesting Approaches for the Facility Layout Problem 

  Ulch, Daniel (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  The Facility Layout Problem (FLP) seeks to determine the dimensions, coordinates and arrangement of rectangular departments within a given facility. The goal is to minimize the cost of inter-department flow. It has several ...

• Exploring Social-Ecological Regime Shift and Governance: Coastal-Marine Systems in the Gulf of Thailand, Malaysia 

  Maidar, Dulguun (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  This research examines social-ecological regime shift in a coastal-marine systems setting. The research investigates the social-ecological factors influencing regime shift, takes into account their resulting impacts, and ...

• Politics of Fear: Unitary Bias of a Federal Design in Nepal 

  Jnawali, Hari Har (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  This thesis explores the reasons that have led the framers of the constitution to centralize powers in the federal government of Nepal, despite claims for accommodation by its minority groups. It contends that the centralized ...

• Novel SiCNW-Si/SiOₓ-graphite based composite anode materials for Li-ion battery 

  Ray, Archisman (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  Over the past years, the extensive use of graphite as an anode material in a Li-ion battery (LIB) led to its commercialization and use as the standard anode material in a LIB. The use of graphite as an anode material in ...

• Na0.66(Ni0.13Mn0.54Co0.13)O2 Cathode Coated with Alucone by Molecular Layer Deposition for Sodium Ion Batteries 

  Raimbault, Justin (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  The importance of batteries has skyrocketed in the twentieth century due to an impending energy crisis arising from a dependence on fossil fuels. Global warming has alerted the world to the environmental dangers of fossil ...

• Recipes for Resistance: A Censorship Circumvention Cookbook 

  Bocovich, Cecylia (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)

  The increasing centralization of Internet infrastructure and web services, along with advancements in the application of machine learning techniques to analyze and classify network traffic, have enabled the growth and ...

• Barriers to Growth Management: Local Challenges Implementing the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe 

  Lee, L. Michelle (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-15)

  To combat urban sprawl and its negative effects on ecosystem services and human health, regional growth management and containment policies have been used with increased frequency to manage urban growth. Yet, local ...

• Distribution, Abundance, and Spatial Variability of Microplastic Pollution in Surface Waters of Lake Superior 

  Cox, Kara (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  Plastic pollution in oceans and lakes has been a concern for more than three decades, and largely through the breakdown of large plastics, microplastic pollution has been of real concern for over 20 years. Most research ...

• Wideband Rectenna System for Microwave Power Transfer 

  Aldosari, Mohammed (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  One of the fundamental devices in Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) is the recenna or rectifying antenna, which collects the electromagnetic energy from the free space and convert it directly to a useful DC power. Although ...

• Direct Numerical Simulations of the Degeneration and Shear Instability of Large and Small Amplitude Basin Scale Internal Waves at Varied Aspect Ratios 

  Grace, Andrew (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  This thesis presents high resolution simulations of the degeneration and shear instability of standing waves, or seiches, of varying amplitudes and aspect ratios in a continuously stratified fluid. It is well known that ...

• Investigation of Thorax Response and Potential for Injury in Side Impacts Using Integrated Detailed Human and Vehicle Finite-Element Models 

  Gierczycka, Donata (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  Car accidents are amongst the most common causes of fatalities for a younger population in developed countries and world-wide. While research using Anthropometric Test Devices (ATDs) has led to improvements in frontal ...

• Closed-loop Supply Chain: A Systematic Review 

  Bajwa, Muhammad Moaz Tariq (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  The extraction of virgin materials from nature depletes existing resources and creates huge waste problems both in the extraction process itself and at the product’s end-of-life. There is a propensity for this waste to be ...

• Disentangled Representation Learning for Stylistic Variation in Neural Language Models 

  John, Vineet (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  The neural network has proven to be an effective machine learning method over the past decade, prompting its usage for modelling language, among several other domains. However, the latent representations learned by these ...

• Exploring Presentations of the Self: Tourist Identity and Representation on Facebook 

  Cohen, Helen Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)

  The aim of this study is to explore how tourists present and manage impressions of the self as tourist, on Facebook, while travelling. This study applies a qualitative content analysis to the tourism-related, user-generated ...

• Development and Characterization of Graphene-based Microporous Layers for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 

  Ozden, Adnan (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)

  Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is an energy-conversion device that converts the chemical energy of hydrogen and oxygen into electricity directly through electrochemical reactions with only water and heat as ...

• Age-related effects on EEG and Brain-computer Interface Classification 

  Chen, Mei Lin (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)

  There is a rapid increase in the number of older adults around the world. This directly translates to an increase in the number of people living with health complications that are more prevalent in the elderly population, ...

• Survival analysis of chronic dialysis patients 

  Ebad, Mahsa (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)

  Background: The number of dialysis patients is steadily rising in Canada because of demographic changes as well as an increased prevalence of associated risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and aging (Clark & Khan, ...

• Development of Flexible Lithium Sulfur Batteries Based on Laser-Induced Graphene 

  Lau, Ngai Yan (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)

  Emerging technologies have become increasingly advanced with flexible components and are integrated into various interfaces, finding themselves in applications such as rollable displays, wearable technologies and e-textiles. ...

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