Browsing Theses by Title
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Coupled chemically-assisted filtration (CCAF) approaches for increasing filter resilience and performance during drinking water treatment
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-11)The paramount objective of drinking water treatment is the prevention of acute waterborne disease. Filtration remains a critical barrier for ensuring that Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia are removed during drinking water ... -
COUPLED DYNAMICS OF CABLE-HARNESSED STRUCTURES: ANALYTICAL MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)This thesis presents analytical models to study the vibration characteristics of cable-harnessed beam structures motivated by space structure applications. The distributed parameter models proposed in this work considers ... -
Coupled Experimentally-Driven Constraint Functions and Topology Optimization utilized in Design for Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-28)Topology optimization (TO) is a structural optimization technique that searches for the proper material distribution inside a design space such that an objective function is maximized/ minimized. Rapid prototyping ... -
Coupled models of structured contagion processes in human-environment systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)Models of infectious processes are a common feature in the landscape of applied mathematics. It is rare that these processes are isolated from other significant dynamics in nature, and therefore we can incorporate some of ... -
Coupled Numerical Moelling Of Vacuum Consolidation With Nonuniform Pore Pressure Distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)In this study, Biot’s type hydro-mechanical coupled numerical models are used to examine ground improvement of fine-grained soft soil deposits using prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) and vacuum assisted consolidation ... -
Coupled Topology Optimization and Process Simulation System for Laser Powder-bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)Additive Manufacturing (AM), widely known as 3D printing, is a transformative method to industrial manufacturing, helping in creating lighter, stronger, smarter parts and systems. As one of the most important and commercially ... -
Coupling of two natural complex systems: earthquake-triggered landslides
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis contains two main parts. The first part presents a database compiling 137 landslide-triggering earthquakes (LTEs) worldwide, with magnitudes greater than the minimum observed threshold for causing landslides ... -
Coupling reactive transport and travel time modeling at the watershed scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Nonpoint source pollution poses the greatest threat to water quality in developed countries. Modeling this type of pollution is a challenge for reactive transport models because of the change in scale: moving from a local ... -
Court convictions of a Canadian birth cohort
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)Although youth crime and young offenders have attracted a significant amount of ongoing research attention and have given rise to a voluminous amount of literature devoted to describing and explaining their existence and ... -
Courtyard Urbanism : A Model for North American Cities?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-26)The courtyard has endured as one of the most widespread architectural forms, transcending regional, historical and cultural boundaries to mediate open and closed, inside and outside, social constraints and environmental ... -
A Covariant Natural Ultraviolet Cutoff in Inflationary Cosmology
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)In the field of quantum gravity, it is widely expected that some form of a minimum length scale, or ultraviolet cutoff, exists in nature. Recently, a new natural ultraviolet cutoff that is fully covariant was proposed. In ... -
Coverage Path Planning and Room Segmentation in Indoor Environments using the Constriction Decomposition Method
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)The task of complete coverage path planning in complex 2D environments is a classic NP- Hard problem that has been an active research topic for well over 30 years. A common approach to solving coverage problem in such ... -
Coverage Path Planning for a Moving Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)A simple coverage plan called a Conformal Lawn Mower plan is demonstrated. This plan enables a UAV to fully cover the route ahead of a moving ground vehicle. The plan requires only limited knowledge of the ground vehicle's ... -
Covering Graphs and Equiangular Tight Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Recently, there has been huge attention paid to equiangular tight frames and their constructions, due to the fact that the relationship between these frames and quantum information theory was established. One of the problems ... -
Covering Problems via Structural Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)The minimum set cover problem is, without question, among the most ubiquitous and well-studied problems in computer science. Its theoretical hardness has been fully characterized--logarithmic approximability has been ... -
"Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece": Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)This dissertation studies visual artifacts associated with early modern theatre and book culture, and through them examines acts of communication in the marketplace. These artifacts, illustrated play-text title pages from ... -
COVID-19 FOOTPRINTS AND POST PANDEMIC VISUALIZATION OF SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES: CASE STUDY OF CHILIKA LAGOON IN INDIA
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Small-scale fisheries and local communities reflect a way of life, and provide critical contributions to nutrition and food security, poverty alleviation and livelihoods, and local and national economies. Fisherfolk suffer ... -
COVID-19 Risk Perception in Urban and Architectural Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)The COVID-19 pandemic presented a profound challenge for cities. Cities are designed to maximize the benefits of density, yet this same density becomes a liability during an outbreak of a socially communicable infection. ... -
COVID-19, Mental Health, and Chronic Illnesses: A Syndemic Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-12)Introduction: The term "syndemic" refers to the interaction between two or more coexisting epidemics, where the interactions amplify the negative health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a syndemic because ... -
Coworking through the Pandemic: Flexibly Yours
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)Coworking can be defined as a paid for service (usually) providing shared workspace and amenities to users. When the pandemic hit, owing to the business model’s in-person foundations of physical proximity and shared ...