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Direct Chill Casting of Aluminum Alloys: Experimental Methods and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)Novelis Global Technology Centre (NGTC) in Kingston, Ontario have been developing a relatively new technology known as Novelis Fusion™ Technology, which is a new variant of the traditional direct chill (DC) casting process ... -
Direct Fitting of Analytical Potential Functions to Diatomic Molecular Spectroscopic Data
(University of Waterloo, 2000)The standard practice of spectroscopic data reduction is generally to fit data to level energy expansions in terms of the vibrational and rotational quantum numbers. However, the utility of such expressions is limited ... -
Direct generation of three-photon entanglement using cascaded downconversion
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-06)High quality entangled photon sources are a key requirement for many promising quantum optical technologies. However, the production of multi-photon entangled states with good fidelity is challenging. Current sources of ... -
Direct Laser Writing of Metal and Metal Oxide Patterns for Flexible and Memristive Electronic Components
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-04)Growing interest in the fields of flexible electronics and AI are leading the development of new manufacturing techniques able to make computer hardware devices that can suite their unique needs. Research into these areas ... -
Direct Method for Floor Response Spectra Considering Soil-Structure Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) analysis is required in structural dynamic analysis under seismic excitations in the current standards, and it significantly influences the Floor Response Spectra (FRS),which are used in ... -
Direct Method of Generating Floor Response Spectra
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-12)Floor Response Spectra (FRS), also called In-structure Response Spectra (IRS) in some standards and literature, are extensively used as seismic input in safety assessment for Systems, Structures, and Components (SSCs) in ... -
Direct Method of Generating Floor Response Spectra for Structures under Earthquake Excitations at Multiple Supports
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Floor Response Spectra (FRS) are commonly used as seismic input in the safety assessment for secondary systems in the nuclear power industry. Efficient and accurate determination of FRS is crucial in the design of nuclear ... -
Direct Numerical Simulation of Salt Fingering Gravity Currents and Double-Diffusive Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Double-diffusion refers to a class of instabilities that develops when the density of a fluid depends on two components with different diffusivities. For example, when warm, salty water is layered over cool, fresh water, ... -
Direct Numerical Simulations of the Degeneration and Shear Instability of Large and Small Amplitude Basin Scale Internal Waves at Varied Aspect Ratios
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)This thesis presents high resolution simulations of the degeneration and shear instability of standing waves, or seiches, of varying amplitudes and aspect ratios in a continuously stratified fluid. It is well known that ... -
Direct Observations of Scavenging Reactions of the Prehydrated Electron and OH Radicals by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)Radiotherapy is the major curative therapy for carcinogesis. Identifying the effective species that induce DNA damage under ionizing radiation holds the key to improve and advance radiotherapy. In a cellular environment, ... -
Direct transesterification of microalgae to biodiesel using ionic liquid catalysts
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-30)Increasing global energy demand coupled with the environmental effects of fossil fuels have, like global warming, reinvigorated the need for the commercialization and development of alternative renewable energy sources such ... -
Direct User Calls from the Kernel: Design and Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)Traditional, general-purpose operating systems strictly separate user processes from the kernel. Processes can only communicate with the kernel through system calls. As a means to ensure system security, system calls ... -
Direct Visual Servoing for Grasping Using Depth Maps
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Visual servoing is extremely helpful for many applications such as tracking objects, controlling the position of end-effectors, grasping and many others. It has been helpful in industrial sites, academic projects and ... -
Direct Visual-Inertial Odometry using Epipolar Constraints for Land Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Autonomously operating vehicles are being developed to take over human supervision in applications such as search and rescue, surveillance, exploration and scientific data collection. For a vehicle to operate autonomously, ... -
DIRECTION SPECIFIC COSTS TO SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY FROM SACCADIC AND SPATIAL REMAPPING
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-24)Right parietal lesions often lead to neglect, in which patients fail to attend to leftward stimuli. Recent models of neglect suggest that, in addition to attentional impairments, patients demonstrate impairments of spatial ... -
Directional Control of Generating Brownian Path under Quasi Monte Carlo
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-10)Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are playing an increasingly important role in computational finance. This is attributed to the increased complexity of the derivative securities and the sophistication of the financial models. ... -
Directly Learning Tractable Models for Sequential Inference and DecisionMaking
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)Probabilistic graphical models such as Bayesian networks and Markov networks provide a general framework to represent multivariate distributions while exploiting conditional independence. Over the years, many approaches ... -
Disability Drama: Semiotic Bodies and Diegetic Subjectivities in post-WWI German Expressionist Drama
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-05)In this dissertation, I examine discourses on disability and the body in three German Expressionist dramas written directly after WWI both for the discursive work they do in this context and for their relevance today: Ernst ... -
Disablement, Diversity, Deviation: Disability in an Age of Environmental Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This dissertation brings disability studies and postcolonial studies into dialogue with discourse surrounding risk in the environmental humanities. The central question that it investigates is how critics can reframe and ... -
Disappearing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-25)Disappearing Architecture Media facades dominate the skylines of many of our cities. A quick stroll through today’s urban areas involves a one-sided conversation directed at pedestrians. Advertisements aggressively ...