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The Effect of Wide Spread Adoption of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles on Emissions and Electric Generating Capacity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-20)Effects of the wide spread adoption of PHEVs on Ontario electric generating capacity from the year 2014 to 2030 is studied. Long-term forecasting models of load demands and the number of light-duty vehicles sold are developed ... -
Effect of Woodpecker Damage and Wood Decay on Wood Utility Pole Strength
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)In many regions of North America, Europe, and Australia, wood utility poles are used as main and secondary structural members for the support of electrical distribution and transmission lines. In the province of Ontario ... -
The Effect of Woodpecker Damage on the Reliability of Wood Utility Poles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Hydro One, a major distribution of electricity in Ontario, has reported that approximately 16,000 of the wood utility poles in its network of two million poles have been damaged by woodpeckers. With a cost of replacement ... -
The Effect of Working Memory on Corticospinal Excitability
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)Skilled behavior is dependent upon the ability to extract and integrate sensory afference into appropriate output from motor cortex. This process is dynamic with executive control, guided by declarative knowledge (i.e. ... -
Effective and Efficient Optimization Methods for Kernel Based Classification Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-22)Kernel methods are a popular choice in solving a number of problems in statistical machine learning. In this thesis, we propose new methods for two important kernel based classification problems: 1) learning from highly ... -
Effective Consultation and Participation in Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning: Advancing Sustainable Development in a Remote First Nations Community in Northern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-27)INTRODUCTION. Environmental decision-making related to policy, often includes an overall objective that advances opportunities for sustainable development. Advancing the concept of sustainable development draws on, and ... -
Effective Dimensionality Control in Quantitative Finance and Insurance
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-06)It is well-known that dimension reduction techniques such as the Brownian bridge, principal component analysis, linear transformation could increase the efficiency of Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. Caflisch et al. (1997), ... -
Effective Dose Gradients in Lung Radiotherapy: Setting Target Margins and Monitoring Dose Deviations for Image-Guided Adaptive Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)Organ motion is a major source of geometric uncertainty in the delivery of external beam radiation therapy. Organ motion that occurs during the delivery of radiation therapy is referred to as intrafraction organ motion. ... -
Effective Math-Aware Ad-Hoc Retrieval based on Structure Search and Semantic Similarities
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)Despite the prevalence of digital scientific and educational contents on the Internet, only a few search engines are capable to retrieve them efficiently and effectively. The main challenge in freely searching scientific ... -
Effective Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Vehicle-to-Everything Services
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Owing to the advancement of wireless communication technologies, drivers can rely on smart connected vehicles to communicate with each other, roadside units, pedestrians, and remote service providers to enjoy a large amount ... -
Effective Synthesis of Iron-Carbonyl Small Rings and Macrocycles via Migratory Insertion Reactions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Migratory insertion reactions (MIRs) of PFpR [PFp = (PPh2(CH2)3Cp)Fe(CO)2, R = (CH2)5CH3 or (CH2)4CH=CH2], which involve migratory insertion polymerization (MIP) and intramolecular migratory insertion cyclization (MIC), ... -
Effective Thermal Conductivity of Composite Fluidic Thermal Interface Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Thermally enhanced greases made of dispersions of small conductive particles suspended in fluidic polymers can offer significant advantages when used as a thermal interface material (TIM) in microelectronics cooling ... -
Effective Use of SSDs in Database Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-07)With the advent of solid state drives (SSDs), the storage industry has experienced a revolutionary improvement in I/O performance. Compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs benefit from shorter I/O latency, ... -
Effectiveness of Organic Carbon Cover Systems on Sulfide-rich Tailings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)Acid mine drainage (AMD) occurs when sulfide minerals oxidize; generating low pH water and the release of dissolved metals. This phenomena is of primary concern in the mining industry, where the future loading of dissolved ... -
The Effectiveness of Persulfate and Hydrogen Peroxide on the Oxidation of Hydrocarbon Contaminants at 30°C: A Study with Focus on the Performance of Compound Specific Isotope Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-05)Two oxidants, persulfate and hydrogen peroxide, were used to investigate the effectiveness of in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) on target contaminants (sourced from industrial wastewater) in saline and high-temperature ... -
The Effectiveness of Persulfate in the Oxidation of Petroleum Contaminants in Saline Environment at Elevated Groundwater Temperature
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-08)In the past few decades, several aqueous oxidants have been employed (e.g., permanganate, persulfate) to remediate petroleum hydrocarbons. However, the majority of the research in this field has been focused primarily on ... -
The effectiveness of photocatalysis on reducing the toxicity of oil sands process-affected water to Lemna minor
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) is a by-product produced by the surface-mining of oil sands in Alberta, Canada. OSPW has been found to be acutely and chronically toxic to many forms of wildlife, and due to the ... -
The Effectiveness of the Internet as a Marketing Tool in Tourism
(University of Waterloo, 2004)With the ever-increasing number of people accessing the Internet and the recent explosion of e-commerce world wide, there are considerable implications for the tourism industry. Tourism suppliers are investing in the ... -
Effectiveness of Transit Signal Priority Strategies at Intersections with High Truck Volumes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-27)This thesis discusses the effectiveness of two Transit Signal Priority (TSP) strategies, Queue Jump Lane combined with Advanced Transit Signal (QJL-TS) and Green Extension (GE), at an isolated intersection during ... -
Effectiveness of Vibration-based Haptic Feedback Effects for 3D Object Manipulation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)This research explores the development of vibration-based haptic feedback for a mouse-like computer input device. The haptic feedback is intended to be used in 3D virtual environments to provide users of the environment ...