• Resource Theories as Quantale Modules 

  Gonda, Tomas (University of Waterloo, 2021-12-03)

  We aim to counter the tendency for specialization in science by advancing a language that can facilitate the translation of ideas and methods between disparate contexts. The methods we address relate to questions of ...

• Integrating Gender, Health, Mining, and Governance in Zambia and Canada 

  Johnston, Lesley (University of Waterloo, 2021-12-03)

  Increasingly, mining companies have begun to develop new projects in low- and middle-income countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Optimism for development potential is often initially high given assessment of the ...

• Irreversible Oxidation Reaction in Aqueous Rechargeable Zn-MnO2 Batteries and Its Elimination for High Reversibility at Low Current Density 

  Wu, Yan (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-30)

  With the ascending requirements of global energy storage, secondary batteries are receiving significant attentions. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been dominating the market over the decades because of their superior ...

• Applications of Iodonium Ylides for Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropane Synthesis 

  Chidley, Tristan (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-30)

  The application of hypervalent iodine (HVI) reagents in the field of organic chemistry has emerged as a viable option for many different useful organic transformations. There have been many considerable contributions made ...

• Stochastic Reconstruction and Morphological Studies of Catalyst Layers of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 

  Zhang, Yixiang (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26)

  Durability is one of the main obstacles that inhibits the commercialization of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells for transport applications, in which the microstructure of catalyst layers (CL) under dynamic ...

• The Prediction of Nociceptive Neural Activity in Passive Tissues following Lumbar Spine Flexion 

  Viggiani, Daniel (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26)

  Low back pain is a costly and debilitating disorder; however, most cases are categorized as being non-specific: low back pain without an identifiable origin or cause. Non-specific low back pain can be broadly considered ...

• Three Years and Two Continents Apart: A Comparative Study of the Great Sioux War and Anglo-Zulu War 

  Winter, Cameron (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26)

  In 1876 and 1879, the American and British armies suffered extremely similar disasters at, respectively, the Battles of the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana. Though these two colonial reversals have often been compared to one ...

• Combined Multibody Musculoskeletal Dynamic Modeling and Finite Element Modeling of the Human Tibia in Countermovement Jumps 

  Al-Rasheed, Merwa (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-25)

  Computational models have been used to examine and estimate various motions and loading conditions of the human body that are otherwise difficult to examine experimentally. To study human musculoskeletal dynamics, biomechanical ...

• Determination of Characteristic Transport Coefficients of Porous Media from Volumetric Images using the Diffuse Interface Method 

  Aggarwal, Chahat (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-24)

  Transport in engineered materials such as electrodes, membranes, filters, and natural materials such as rock, sand, soil can be modeled as transport in porous media. Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) on volumetric images ...

• Understanding Refugee Employment in Tourism Social Enterprises: The Case of the Magdas Hotel 

  Alomari, Thabit (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-24)

  The tourism and hospitality sector has come to rely heavily on immigrants, including displaced people (i.e., refugees), as a significant employee source. While much research has explored the role of immigrants and refugees ...

• Super-fine Powdered Activated Carbon for the Removal of Microcystin-LR from Drinking Water 

  Golchi, Mohammadsina (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-24)

  Harmful algal blooms are considered threats to drinking water quality. During drinking water treatment, suspended and dissolved materials must be removed and treated, and in the case of cyanobacteria, these are intact cells ...

• An artificial intelligence framework for vehicle crashworthiness design 

  Liusko, Timofei (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-24)

  Numerical crash test simulations are crucial for vehicle safety design. In the automotive industry, frameworks based on finite element methods are most common as they are precise and reliable. A few of the setbacks are ...

• Nationalism in Ghana After 1945: Causes, Actors, and Its Impact on Ghana's Decolonisation Drive. 

  Paddy, Emmanuel (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-23)

  The post- Second World War (WW II) period witnessed an increase in nationalist activities, and activism in Asia and Africa which resulted in the independence of most the colonies in these continents. The declaration of the ...

• Characterization of the Conformation and Internal Backbone Dynamics of a-Polyglucans by Pyrene Excimer Fluorescence 

  Kim, Damin (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-23)

  The conformation and internal backbone dynamics (IBD) of several pyrene-labeled polysaccharides (Py-PSs), namely Py-Amylopectin, Py-Glycogen, Py-Dextran, and Py-Pullulan, were successfully examined with a combination of ...

• Nanoparticle Focussing Using Aerodynamic Lenses and a Divergent Nozzle 

  Mrayeh, Hasan Jumaah (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-23)

  Since the COVID-19 pandemic has been a global crisis that has posed enormous and diverse challenges to humanity, it has revealed the urgent need for further study into a variety of properties of viruses, including virus ...

• Healthy Food Zones Around Schools: Evaluating Projected Impacts of a Restrictive Food Planning Policy on Junk Food Availability after 10 years: An Equity- focused Simulation Study 

  Soon, Lindsey (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-22)

  Healthy diets are important for public health and health equity, given that globally, dietary risks currently comprise the largest burden of morbidity and mortality (Afshin et al., 2019). In Canada, diet quality is the ...

• Experimental Evaluation of Affordance Detection Applied to 6-DoF Pose Estimation for Intelligent Robotic Grasping of Household Objects 

  Keaveny, Aidan (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-22)

  Recent computer vision research has demonstrated that deep convolutional neural networks can be trained on real images to add context to object parts for simultaneous object detection and affordance segmentation. However, ...

• Measurements of quantum fields and the Unruh effect: a particle detector perspective 

  de Ramon Rivera, Jose (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)

  This thesis is devoted to the study of detector models in quantum field theory. A detector model aims to describe a hypothetical physical situation, realistic or not, in which a measurement is performed on a quantum field ...

• Heat Extraction from Shallow Ground using Closed Single-Phase Thermosyphons 

  Kazemi, Alireza (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)

  Artificial ground freezing could be costly. Except for drilling and installation costs, they may also include maintenance and electricity consumption. What if we can build a device that naturally works without a need of ...

• Re-wilding the Neighborhood: Discovering Ecological Harmony Through Design with Habitats Along the Oak Ridges Trail 

  Moseley, Emma (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)

  This thesis is a reflection on the impacts of suburban sprawl on ecosystem health and biodiversity in York Region, using a design proposal to repopulate pollinator habitat within the fabric of an existing neighborhood. The ...

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