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Characterization of Formability and Friction during Hot Stamping of Al-Si Coated Press Hardened Steel
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)This thesis investigates the friction and formability characteristics of Al-Si coated press hardened steels (PHS) during direct hot stamping. The PHS grades examined were PHS1800 and PHS1500, with nominal ultimate tensile ... -
Characterization of Fouling of Tertiary Membranes Treating Secondary Effluent of Domestic Wastewater
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)The use of membranes for tertiary treatment of wastewater has become more frequent over the years, especially with increasing interest in water reuse. Fouling prevents wider application of this technology as it creates ... -
Characterization of Fresh and Hardened Properties of 3D Printable Cementitious Materials Produced with Ground-Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)Application of additive manufacturing technology to promote the digital construction practice in civil engineering has been gaining momentum, especially during the past 5 years. To this end, three dimensionalconcrete ... -
Characterization of gate oxides and microwave resonators for silicon spin qubit devices
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)Silicon quantum dots present themselves as a promising implementation for quantum information processing due to the fact that they possess a small chip foot-print, yield high coherence times and are able to leverage the ... -
Characterization of gemini nanoparticle assembly by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)Research in the field of non-viral gene delivery has demonstrated that a deeper understanding of the fundamental processes of nanoparticle assembly is required in order to improve their efficacy. While gemini nanoparticles ... -
Characterization of Genes involved In Development and Senescence
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Plant development is complex and highly regulated. Tens of thousands of genes have been sequenced for the model plant <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em>, yet few have been functionally annotated and characterized. This ... -
The Characterization of Graphene Paper for Flexible Electronics Application
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-29)Graphene has been gaining attention mainly because of its exceptional electrical and mechanical properties. Mono layer graphene with its planar hexagonal lattice structure is transparent and flexible. Together with its ... -
Characterization of High-PGE Low-Sulphur Mineralization at the Marathon PGE-Cu Deposit, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-13)The Marathon PGM-Cu deposit is hosted by the Coldwell alkaline complex, which consists predominantly of gabbro and syenite and was emplaced at 1108 Ma as part of the Mid-Continent Rift System. Mineralization at the Marathon ... -
Characterization of HSP47 Expression in <i>Xenopus Laevis</i> Cell Culture and Embryos
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The heat shock or stress response is a transient response to stressful stimuli that protects vital cellular proteins from damage and irreversible aggregation. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones that ... -
Characterization of Hydrophobically Modified Starch Nanoparticles by Pyrene Fluorescence
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-25)Starch nanoparticles (SNPs) were hydrophobically modified with propionic (C3) and hexanoic (C6) anhydride via esterification. Different degrees of substitution (DS) of the hydroxyl groups of the SNPs were achieved by varying ... -
Characterization of iron- and zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenases from anaerobic hyperthermophiles
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-18)Hyperthermophiles are microorganisms that can grow at temperatures close to the boiling point of water or above. They are potential resources of thermostable enzymes including alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs). Both Thermococcus ... -
Characterization of lambda systems using superconducting qubits
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)Lambda systems, with a metastable state in addition to the ground state, naturally occur in many atomic systems. Atomic lambda systems offer many potential applications in quantum information processing including single ... -
Characterization of laminar separation bubbles using infrared thermography
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-11)An experimental investigation of laminar separation bubbles is presented, demonstrating the feasibility of employing infrared thermography for identification and quantitative characterization of a laminar separation bubble. ... -
Characterization of Langmuir-Blodgett Films by Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films built up with amphiphilic molecules have well-known optical, electrical and magnetic properties. For most applications, it is fundamentally important to understand the structure of the films. ... -
Characterization of Lipid Deposition on Contact Lenses
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the influence of lipid deposition on silicone hydrogel contact lens materials and to construct an in vitro platform to further explore the effect of lipid interaction with contact ... -
A Characterization of LYM and Rank Logarithmically Concave Partially Ordered Sets and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)The LYM property of a finite standard graded poset is one of the central notions in Sperner theory. It is known that the product of two finite standard graded posets satisfying the LYM properties may not have the LYM ... -
Characterization of Micro-Plasma Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing: Anisotropy and Layer Height Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-16)Directed energy deposition describes the process of deposition of molten metal in wire or powder form with a focused energy beam source in a layer-by-layer fashion to create a final part. The use of an arc as heat source ... -
Characterization of Mrc1 during Replication Initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-12)DNA replication is a highly specific process that is completed under the control of several factors, to ensure faithful duplication of the genome. Mrc1 (Claspin in mammalian cells) is a protein that is a part of a fork ... -
Characterization of murine HRASLS-1: transcript variant analysis, metabolic regulation, developmental expression, and a role in inflammation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)N-acylethanolamides (NAE) are involved in a variety of biological processes ranging from fat oxidation to inflammation mediation. Recently, the HRASLS family, a group of class II tumour suppressor proteins, have been ... -
Characterization of Neuromuscular Disorders Using Quantitative Electromyographic Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-04)This thesis presents a multifaceted effort to develop a system that allows electrodiagnostic clinicians to perform a quantitative analysis of needle detected electromyographic (EMG) signals for characterization of neuromuscular ...