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Environmental Technology Management
(University of Waterloo, 2008-03-25)With steadily increasing emissions regulations being imposed by government agencies, automobile manufacturers have been developing technologies to mitigate NOX emissions. Furthermore, there has been increasing focus on CO2 ... -
Environmental variability and intraspecies diversification in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-17)Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) exhibit what is arguably the greatest observed range of phenotypic and ecological diversity within a single vertebrate species. The patterns of adaptive diversity that have developed among ... -
An Environmentally Conscious Robust Optimization Approach for Planning Power Generating Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-28)Carbon dioxide is a main greenhouse gas that is responsible for global warming and climate change. The reduction in greenhouse gas emission is required to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Looking at CO2 emissions distribution ... -
Envisioning a Future City with Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)The evolution and formation of our urban fabric have an inextricable relationship with transportation and urban mobility. The revolution in speed and power of transportation as a result of the automobile in the early ... -
Envisioning sustainable forestry communities in Northern Ontario: the role of architecture and design
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)This thesis envisions sustainable forestry communities in Northern Ontario. Forestry communities struggle to maintain a quality of life against obstacles such as external (often global) economic pressures on the community’s ... -
Envisioning the Downtown - The Design of Third Places to Revitalize Town-Gown Downtowns
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)This thesis redefines the typology of Third Places and the design considerations that influence envisioning downtown revitalization of mid-size cities that are embracing a town-gown partnership. The exercise ultimately ... -
Enzyme-instructed siRNA Release and Functional Self-assembly of Peptide-based Delivery System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Cell-penetrating peptide (CPP)-based small interfering RNA (siRNA) delivery is one of the approaches with great potential to achieve RNA interference (RNAi) applied in gene therapy. CPP-based siRNA carriers hold many merits, ... -
Ephemeral Embraces: milkweed fibres from land to body
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-24)Garments historically originate from organic fibres harvested from the Earth, however the visual and physical qualities of materials and their origins are not typically foregrounded in modern garment architecture. This ... -
Epidemic Models with Pulse Vaccination and Time Delay
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-22)In this thesis we discuss deterministic compartmental epidemic models. We study the asymp- totic stability of the disease-free solution of models with pulse vaccination campaigns. The main contributions of this thesis ... -
An Epidemiological Analysis of Smoking and Smoking Cessation among Persons Undergoing Inpatient Treatment for Psychiatric Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-14)Background: Tobacco use increases the odds of suffering and dying prematurely from a host of chronic disease, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, lung diseases, and mental illness. There is limited published data ... -
The epidemiology and healthcare costs of pregnancy-related listeriosis in British Columbia, Canada, 2005-2014
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)Introduction: Listeriosis, a disease caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, remains relatively rare in Canada. However, the case-fatality rate from listeriosis is high at 20-30%. Listeriosis in pregnancy is of ... -
The Epidemiology of Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-26)Gastrointestinal infections transmitted by food are a global concern and most severe in African low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), though in these countries accurate data on acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) are ... -
The Episodic Nature of "Blessedness" in Spinoza's Ethics
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)The final chapter of Spinoza’s Ethics has elicited numerous interpretations, and in this work, I discuss Jonathan Bennett’s and Harry Wolfson’s. Bennett claims that the doctrine of blessedness is unintelligible, while ... -
Epoxy Adhesives, Correlation between Strain Whitening and Damage Using a Macroscopic Optical Method
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-12)The success of lightweight automotive multi-material assemblies depends on selecting appropriate joining techniques that can provide the expected day-to-day operational strength while delivering occupant protection during ... -
Equality of Number-Theoretic Functions over Consecutive Integers
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)This thesis will survey a group of problems related to certain number-theoretic functions. In particular, for said functions, these problems take the form of when and how often they are equal over consecutive integers, n ... -
Equality Operators for Constant-weight Codewords with Applications in (Keyword) PIR
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Homomorphic encryption allows computation to be performed on data while in encrypted form. However, the computational overhead of a circuit that is run using homomorphic encryption depends on the number of multiplications ... -
Equator Principles and Climate Change Issues: Examining the EPs’ Climate Change Policies and Analyzing the Likely Effectiveness of these Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-07)Climate change is a global environmental issue that adversely affects economic activities; on the other hand, economic activities, in particular infrastructure project financing, are one of the main drivers of current ... -
Equiangular Lines and Antipodal Covers
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)It is not hard to see that the number of equiangular lines in a complex space of dimension $d$ is at most $d^{2}$. A set of $d^{2}$ equiangular lines in a $d$-dimensional complex space is of significant importance in Quantum ... -
Equilibrium and dynamical computation schemes for vibronic models of nonadiabatic systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-06)Two computational schemes were investigated for studying vibronic models of nonadiabatic systems: Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and vibrational electronic coupled cluster (VECC). A PIMC method was used to investigate ... -
Equilibrium and kinetic folding studies of two YchN-like proteins: the Tm0979 dimer and the Mth1491 trimer
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)Proper folding of a protein to its native state is critical for the protein to be fully functional under biological conditions. Understanding protein folding and protein folding evolution within the same structural family ...