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Capacitive Storage of Ions Modelled in a Pore Network using Electrical Double Layer Theories: Helmholtz, Gouy-Chapman-Stern, and modified Donnan
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)Capacitive Deionization (CDI) is an electro-driven water desalination technology that has been researched extensively over the last two decades. A CDI cell consists of a pair of charged porous electrodes separated by a ... -
Capacity analysis in different systems exploiting mobility of VANETs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Improving road safety and traffic efficiency has been a long-term endeavor for not only government but also automobile industry and academia. After the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) allocated a 75 MHz spectrum ... -
Capacity Characterization of a MIMO-OFDM Wireless Channel with BLAST Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)As the data rates and performance of current telecommunications technologies reach their limits, MIMO offers promising results allowing for higher spectral efficiencies (or capacities) through the use of multiple element ... -
Capacity Design Optimization of Steel Building Frameworks Using Nonlinear Time-History Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)This study proposes a seismic design optimization method for steel building frameworks following the capacity design principle. Currently, when a structural design employs an elastic analysis to evaluate structural demands, ... -
Capacity Pricing in Electric Generation Expansion
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-16)The focus of this thesis is to explore a new mechanism to give added incentive to invest in new capacities in deregulated electricity markets. There is a lot of concern in energy markets, regarding lack of sufficient private ... -
Capacity Results for Interference Networks and Nested Cut-Set Bound
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)In this thesis, a full characterization of the sum-rate capacity for degraded interference networks with any number of transmitters, any number of receivers, and any possible distribution of messages among transmitters and ... -
Capacity Scaling and Optimal Operation of Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-24)How much information can be transferred over a wireless network and what is the optimal strategy for the operation of such network? This thesis tries to answer some of these questions from an information theoretic ... -
Capacity-Achieving Distributions of Gaussian Multiple Access Channel with Peak Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-21)Characterizing probability distribution function for the input of a communication channel that achieves the maximum possible data rate is one of the most fundamental problems in the field of information theory. In his ... -
Capillary-discharge ignition of dispersed-phase Al@CuO core-shell thermite particles in a liquid filled microchannel
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-09)Aluminum based thermites are a broad class of highly tunable solid energetic materials that can be formulated to perform as pyrotechnics, propellants, or explosives. Their functional versatility, energy density, reactivity ... -
Capital Brownfields: An Assessment of Brownfield Planning Policy in the City of Ottawa, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)A brownfield is previously developed land which suffers from actual or perceived contamination due to past uses. The City of Ottawa, like many of Canada's municipalities, is faced with a significant inventory of brownfields. ... -
Capturing Atmospheric Moisture: Towards a Local Water Catchment at the Aral Sea
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)The desertification of the Aral Sea in Central Asia is an iconic example of the devastating local consequences of large-scale water diversion. Critical of the humanitarian consequences associated with trans-boundary water ... -
Capturing Dynamic Fluctuations in Remembered Momentary Attentional States
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)States of attention such as engagement and mind-wandering fluctuate dynamically over time. Although aggregate retrospective reports of attention have been used in prior research, the full nature of people’s remembered ... -
The Caravan Citizens: Spatial resistance and resilience in the refugee camp of Za’atari - a Graphic Novel
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)In the realm of refugeeism, camps can be perceived as places that sustain the lives of displaced humans, vulnerable environments that contain passive recipients, or territories of sovereign power that enforce state-sanctioned ... -
The carbon and nitrogen composition of suspended particulate matter in Lake Erie, selected tributaries, and its outflow
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Since their introduction to Lake Erie, dreissenid mussels may have reengineered the cycling of nutrients in the lake so that the nearshore benthic community intercepts, retains, and recycles greater quantities of nutrients. ... -
Carbon and Nitrogen Removal at a Full-Scale Municipal Drinking Water Treatment Plant employing Sand-ballasted Clarification, Ozone and Biofiltration
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-23)Natural organic matter (NOM) is composed of a complex matrix of organic compounds originating primarily from plant and animal degradation products, including both carbon and nitrogen, and is found in all natural waters. ... -
Carbon and TiO2 based electrodes with metal alloy electrode for self-powered detection of water
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-27)Self-powered devices are an emerging research field that could be leveraged into many devices that ordinarily are cost-prohibitive or otherwise high maintenance to utilize. The emergence of self-powered devices that do ... -
Carbon Cycling in a Glacier Ice Meltwater Impacted Freshwater System of the Canadian High Arctic: Biogeochemical Processes of the Lake Hazen Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-23)Accelerated glacier ice mass loss and intensified meltwater fluxes are among principal vectors of change affecting northern latitudes in a warming climate. Aquatic systems impacted by glacier ice meltwater are vulnerable ... -
Carbon Footprinting Dietary Choices in Ontario: A life cycle approach to assessing sustainable, healthy & socially acceptable diets
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-17)Recent studies have established the link between food consumption and its broad impact on the environment. However, environmental implications of dietary choices have not been previously studied in Canada. Given geographic ... -
Carbon Formation Inhibition in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) Using H2S
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-15)Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising devices for power generation due to their high efficiency and clean operation. Another prominent feature of SOFCs is their ability to operate with not only H2 fuel but also ... -
Carbon gas exchange, primary production and litter decomposition of a restored fen on a former oil well-pad
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-16)Over 500,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in Alberta. Recently updated peatland restoration criteria for well-pads creates incentive for peatland restoration, but little is known about functional outcomes of restoration ...