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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 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 ... -
Characterization of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Use by Canadian Youths in Grades 9 – 12
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-28)In Canada, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a best practice for adult smoking cessation, but it is not recommended for use by youth smokers. Previous research has indicated that more than 20 percent of high school-aged ... -
Characterization of non-universal two-qubit Hamiltonians
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-16)It is known that almost all 2-qubit gates are universal for quantum computing (Lloyd 1995; Deutsch, Barenco, Eckert 1995). However, an explicit characterization of non-universal 2-qubit gates is not known. We consider a ... -
Characterization of novel FHA domain ligand binding motifs
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)Rad53, a key checkpoint protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has a central catalytic kinase domain as well as two forkhead-associated (FHA) domains, FHA1 and FHA2. Along with the extensively studied phosphothreonine binding ... -
Characterization of Novel Protease Flagellinolysin in Pseudoalteromonas tunicata
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-03)Flagellinolysins are a family of novel enzymes that act both as structural flagellins and proteases. Although previously identified and shown to be both structurally integrated into filaments and proteolytically active, ... -
Characterization of Optically Sensitive Amorphous Selenium Photodetector for Indirect X-Ray Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-15)Advances in medical imaging have significantly improved patient care, and considering all modalities X-ray imaging is historically the pioneer. Recently, there has been an ongoing interest in development of large area ... -
Characterization of Orc6 function following pre-replicative complex assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-22)Pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) components the origin recognition complex (ORC), Cdc6, and Cdt1, play key roles in the recruitment, and loading of the replicative helicase, the minichromosome maintenance complex (Mcm2-7), ... -
Characterization of p53 in rainbow trout cell lines
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-27)The tumour suppressor protein p53 is a critical protein in the DNA damage checkpoint pathway. It acts as a transcription factor that is involved in initiating the apoptotic pathway; disruption of this pathway can lead to ...