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Employing Community-based Participatory Research Approaches to Improve Local Influenza Pandemic Preparedness in Remote and Isolated Canadian First Nations Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-31)Background: Public health emergencies, such as influenza pandemics, continue to disproportionately impact Aboriginal Canadians (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis), especially those populations residing in geographically ... -
Empowering Architecture: Citizen Participation in the Design of Urban Public Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-10)As our contemporary cities continue to revitalize, redefine, and reassert themselves on an international scale, public spaces provide an opportunity to lend the sense of place which makes cities unique and compelling. ... -
Empowering Los Angeles: A Vision for a New Urban Ecology
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-11)This thesis addresses the future of sustainable energy distribution and transportation in the United States. Predictions of future energy and transportation demands promote localized energy as the most likely situation. ... -
Empowering User Participation Through Technological Mediation: Rethinking Citizen Agency in the Quayside Public Realm
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)The idea of public space has moved from a critique to an orthodoxy, embraced by most stakeholders as an important part of urban development. In the last few decades there is an increase in a particular landscape of projects, ... -
EMS Response Time Models: A Case Study and Analysis for the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)Ambulance response time is a key measure used to assess EMS system performance. However, the speed with which ambulances respond to emergencies can be highly variable. In some cases, this is due to geography. In dense urban ... -
Emulation of Anyonic Statistics using High-Fidelity NMR Quantum Information Processing (QIP) Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)NMR control techniques have made many important contributions in developing set of tools for optimal quantum control, ranging from spin echo to dynamical decoupling. Using such optimal quantum control techniques, the ... -
Enabling Censorship Tolerant Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Billions of people in the world live under heavy information censorship. We propose a new class of delay tolerant network (DTN), known as a censorship tolerant network (CTN), to counter the growing practice of Internet-based ... -
Enabling Cross-lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Language diversity in NLP is critical in enabling the development of tools for a wide range of users. However, there are limited resources for building such tools for many languages, particularly those spoken in Africa. ... -
Enabling Efficient Communications Over Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Channels Using Hybrid Beamforming
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)The use of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over millimeter wave (mmWave) channels is the new frontier for fulfilling the exigent requirements of next-generation wireless systems and solving the wireless network ... -
Enabling Expressive Keyboard Interaction with Finger, Hand, and Hand Posture Identification
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-13)The input space of conventional physical keyboards is largely limited by the number of keys. To enable more actions than simply entering the symbol represented by a key, standard keyboards use combinations of modifier keys ... -
Enabling High Wind Penetration in Electrical Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-03)Wind generation has become one of the most popular choices of technology for adding new generation capacity to power systems worldwide. Several factors have contributed to the increased integration of wind generation, ... -
Enabling Human-Machine Collaborative Inspections through Smart Infrastructure Metaverse
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-08)Over the last ten years, novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) based structure assessment methods and tools have been proposed to identify and quantify structural damage indicators (e.g., cracking, spalling, corrosion, etc.) ... -
Enabling Language-Specific Transformations in Language-Agnostic Program Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)When a program P triggers a bug in a language implementation, program reduction can reduce P by removing program elements that are irrelevant to the bug, to facilitate debugging. Program reduction has been widely used in ... -
Enabling Millimeter Wave Communication for 5G Cellular Networks: MAC-layer Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)Data traffic among mobile devices increases dramatically with emerging high-speed multimedia applications such as uncompressed video streaming. Many new applications beyond personal communications involve tens or even ... -
Enabling Post-Quantum Signatures in DNSSEC: One ARRF at a time
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provide authentication of DNS responses using digital signatures. DNS relies on UDP as its primary delivery method which imposes several constraints, with the most notable ... -
Enabling Practical and Accessible Automatic Droplet Microfluidics Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-21)Droplet microfluidics has emerged as an innovative technology enabling high-sensitivity, high-resolution chemical and biological analyses via precise manipulation of picoliter-to-microliter fluid droplets. The ideal end ... -
Enabling Techniques to support Reliable Smartphone-Based Motion Gesture Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)When using motion gestures - 3D movements of a mobile phone - as an input modality, one significant challenge is how to teach end users the movement parameters necessary to successfully issue a command. Is a simple video ... -
Enabling the Integration of Ecosystem Service-based Approaches into Planning Organizations: Municipal Natural Asset Management
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-06)This research seeks to help bridge the gap between science and practice around the integration of ecosystem service-based approaches within municipal planning. This thesis identified enablers of organizational change needed ... -
Enabling Utility-Scale Electrical Energy Storage through Underground Hydrogen-Natural Gas Co-Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Energy storage technology is needed for the storage of surplus baseload generation and the storage of intermittent wind power, because it can increase the flexibility of power grid operations. Underground storage of hydrogen ... -
Enantioselective Conjugate Additions to Meldrum’s Acid Acceptors for the Synthesis of Quaternary Centres and Studies on Persistent Intramolecular C–H•••X (X = O, S, Br, Cl, and F) Hydrogen Bonds Involving Benzyl Meldrum’s Acids
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)The construction of benzylic quaternary stereocentres via the enantioselective copper-catalyzed 1,4-addition of dialkylzinc reagents to Meldrum’s acid acceptors in the presence of a phosphoramidite ligand is reported. ...