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Finding the “Generationed City”: The Form and Structure of Young Adult Settlement Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)This thesis examines the present patterns in the residential geographies of young adults in major cities in Canada and the United States. It explains how the differences and similarities in young adult residential patterns ... -
Fine Sediment Contributions to Cyanobacterial Growth: Potential Threats to Drinking Water Reservoirs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-14)In the drinking water industry, the transport and release of nutrients such as phosphorus (P) to the water column is largely overlooked in reservoir management. Phosphorus is considered the key limiting nutrient for algal ... -
Fingerprint-based indoor positioning and intensity classification using an improved machine learning framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-21)Covid-19 has changed the world in terms of business, public, and many other fields. Millions of livelihoods have been affected by the pandemic. Amidst the upheaval, work from home and restrictions on indoor gatherings have ... -
Fingerprinting and tracing the signature of basement-hosted unconformity-type uranium alteration through thick Quaternary tills: an example from the Thelon Basin, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-17)The question of whether or not it is possible to trace the signature of alteration haloes surrounding deep-seated unconformity-type U mineralization through thick Quaternary tills is one of great importance for those ... -
Fingerprinting Codes and Related Combinatorial Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Fingerprinting codes were introduced by Boneh and Shaw in 1998 as a method of copyright control. The desired properties of a good fingerprinting code has been found to have deep connections to combinatorial structures such ... -
Fingerprinting Quaternary Subglacial Processes on Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, using Multiproxy Data
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)It is important to study subglacial environments in northern Canada for many reasons, such as to develop a more comprehensive understanding of glacial landscape development and to aid in mineral exploration. The purpose ... -
Finitary approximations of free probability, involving combinatorial representation theory
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-18)This thesis contributes to two theories which approximate free probability by finitary combinatorial structures. The first is finite free probability, which is concerned with expected characteristic polynomials of various ... -
Finite Difference-Boundary Element Methods in Infinite and Semi-infinite Media in Geomechanics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)The engineering problems in Geomechanics and Geotechnical fields are commonly treated through the infinite or semi-infinite media. The best approach to solve these problems numerically is by coupling a finite element or a ... -
Finite Element Analysis Workflow for Heat Straightening of Impact-Damaged Steel Bridges
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-11)Impacts between over-height vehicles and steel bridges are common throughout North America and the resulting bridge damage is unpredictable and sudden. Heat straightening is an alternative to replacing steel members and ... -
Finite Element Exterior Calculus with Applications to the Numerical Solution of the Green–Naghdi Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-09)The study of finite element methods for the numerical solution of differential equations is one of the gems of modern mathematics, boasting rigorous analytical foundations as well as unambiguously useful scientific ... -
A Finite Element Investigation of Possible Mechanisms of Luminal Cell Escape from the Mammary Duct: An Initial Step in Breast Cancer Metastasis
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-14)Cancer is an illness that kills some ten million people every year, and as cancer rates increase, a cure for metastatic disease is more necessary than ever. Breast cancer is the most common form of malignancy in the female ... -
Finite Element Methods to Analyze Helical Stent Expansion
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-18)Stent angioplasty or stenting is the standard noninvasive therapy method to address narrowing of the arteries and restore blood flow. Although drug-eluting stents have resolved immediate restenosis (i.e., re-narrowing of ... -
Finite Element Model of a Two-cell Contact and Separation Experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-08)Cell-cell adhesion is important to understanding the mechanics of cell-cell interactions. A recent study of cell adhesion was conducted by others using an Atomic Force Microscopy to measure forces when two cells are brought ... -
Finite Element Modelling of FRP Reinforced Concrete Beams and Comparative Analysis of Current Strength Prediction Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-23)The modelling of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforced, concrete beams was conducted by the author in the finite element analysis software ABAQUS. The study extended upon the work done by Joseph Stoner (2015) ... -
Finite Element Modelling of GFRP Reinforced Concrete Beams
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)The numerical modelling of twelve concrete beams reinforced with glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) longitudinal and transverse bars was performed by the author using the finite element analysis (FEA) software ABAQUS. ... -
Finite Element Modelling of RC Beams Strengthened with Prestressed NSM CFRP Plate
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)Near Surface mounted (NSM) carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) reinforcement has become a promising flexural strengthening technique for reinforced concrete (RC) elements. The prestressing of a CFRP plate can be used ... -
Finite Element Studies of an Embryonic Cell Aggregate under Parallel Plate Compression
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)Cell shape is important to understanding the mechanics of three-dimensional (3D) cell aggregates. When an aggregate of embryonic cells is compressed between parallel plates, the cell mass and the cells of which it is ... -
Finite Field Multiplier Architectures for Cryptographic Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Security issues have started to play an important role in the wireless communication and computer networks due to the migration of commerce practices to the electronic medium. The deployment of security procedures requires ... -
Finite Strain Elastoplasticity: Consistent Eulerian and Lagrangian Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-08)Infinitesimal strain approximation and its additive decomposition into elastic and plastic parts used in phenomenological plasticity models are incapable of predicting the hardening behavior of materials for large strain ... -
Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulations of Light Scattering from Retinal Photoreceptors
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)Recently, a novel optical imaging technique was successfully used in measuring the functional response of living retinal tissues. The technique, functional ultra high resolution optical coherence tomography, measures ...