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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. ... -
Enantioselective Rh(I)-Catalyzed Conjugate Alkynylation of 5-Benzylidene Meldrum’s Acid with TMS-acetylene
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-27)The Rh-catalyzed conjugate addition of TMS-acetylene to alkylidene Meldrum’s acids was developed. Exceptional ee’s and yields were attained using chiral 3,5-Xylyl-BIPHEP ligand. The scope of the reaction was also shown ... -
Encoding XQuery using <em>System F</em>
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recommended XQuery as the standard XML query language, the interest in using existing relational technology to query the XML data has dramatically increased. The most significant ... -
Encountering the Waterlands: Stories of Environment, Animals and Architecture in the Ahiak
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)In spring of 2019, I travelled through Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut to the Ahiak (Queen Maud Gulf) Migratory Bird Sanctuary for a five-week volunteer position studying populations of migratory geese. In this ... -
Encounters with Difference and Politics of Place: Meanings of Birdwatchers and Dog Walkers at a Multiple-Use Urban Forest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-25)With a particular interest in birdwatchers and dog walkers, this case study explored place meanings of users at Westmount Summit Woods, a multiple-use urban forest located just west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A ... -
Encouraging Climate Change Adaptation through Payment for Environmental Services: Case Studies in the Pacific Region of Costa Rica
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-09)During the last decade, climate change has prolonged droughts and increased rainfall intensity, which has resulted in an increase in the number of flash floods and tropical storms. These events are affecting Costa Rica’s ... -
Encouraging Family-Friendly Condominium Development and Creating Complete Communities in Downtown Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)This thesis explores the idea of complete communities and discusses how condominium development in downtown Toronto can be made more family friendly by focusing on the proposed ‘Official Plan Amendment to Encourage the ... -
Encrypted Web Traffic Classification Using Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-19)Traffic classification is essential in network management for operations ranging from capacity planning, performance monitoring, volumetry, and resource provisioning, to anomaly detection and security. Recently, it has ... -
The End-to-End BER Analysis of Two Simulated OFDM-RoF Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-06)With the rapid grown of informational and visual services, larger capacity and higher-speed transmissions are demanded in today's cellular network, which makes the current wireless networks eventually fail to deal with the ... -
End-to-End Encrypted Group Messaging with Insider Security
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-11)Our society has become heavily dependent on electronic communication, and preserving the integrity of this communication has never been more important. Cryptography is a tool that can help to protect the security and privacy ... -
End-to-End Multiview Gesture Recognition for Autonomous Car Parking System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)The use of hand gestures can be the most intuitive human-machine interaction medium. The early approaches for hand gesture recognition used device-based methods. These methods use mechanical or optical sensors attached ... -
End-to-end Neural Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)In recent years we have witnessed many successes of neural networks in the information retrieval community with lots of labeled data. Yet it remains unknown whether the same techniques can be easily adapted to search ... -
End-to-End Whole Slide Image Classification and Search using Set Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)Due to the sheer size of gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs), it is difficult to apply deep learning and computer vision algorithms for digital pathology. Traditional approaches rely on extracting meaningful patches from ... -
Ending the Stigma: How a Causal Deterministic View of Free Will Can Inform Both Healthy and Pathological Cognitive Function and Increase Compassion
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-24)Depression is the leading cause of disability around the world, and in Canada, 8% of adults will experience depression in their lifetimes. Nearly half of those with depression will not seek treatment, one of the major ... -
Endlich frei? Die Darstellung des Endes der DDR in Thomas Brussigs Helden wie wir und Wie es leuchtet
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-02)This thesis focuses on an analysis of the representation of the German Democratic Re-public (GDR) in two literary works by Thomas Brussig. The year between the summer of 1989 and the fall of 1990 was very eventful in ... -
Endocannabinoids as Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Aggregation Inhibitors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-13)The endocannabinoid system, including endogenous cannabinoids and their corresponding receptors, has received extensive attention in the last few years for their neuroprotective effect in the central nervous system. The ...