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Front-of-Pack Labelling in the Caribbean Community: Power and Policy in Regional Standard Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-03)The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) identified FOP labelling as a promising policy tool to slow the region’s growing rates of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These diseases are associated with the region’s ... -
Frontal and parietal contributions to the modulation of somatosensory cortex by relevance and modality
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)Afferent somatosensory inputs ascend from the periphery to the cortex carrying information about touch that is critical for planning motor responses. At the cortical level, this information is subject to modulation from ... -
Frontiers of Gravity: Astrophysical Environments, Ringdown Nonlinearities and the Semiclassical Approximation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Einstein’s general relativity is based on a tensorial, nonlinear equation for the spacetime metric. The gravitational interaction is however so weak that, in most circumstances, the equations can be solved perturbatively. ... -
Frozen-State Hierarchical Annealing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-21)There is significant interest in the synthesis of discrete-state random fields, particularly those possessing structure over a wide range of scales. However, given a model on some finest, pixellated scale, it is computationally ... -
Fuel Cell Distributed Generation: Power Conditioning, Control and Energy Management
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-28)Distributed generation is expected to play a significant role in remedying the many shortcomings in today’s energy market. In particular, fuel cell power generation will play a big part due to several advantages. Still, ... -
A Fuel-Cell Vehicle Test Station
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Due to concerns about energy security, rising oil prices, and adverse effects of internal combustion engine vehicles on the environment, the automotive industry is quickly moving towards developing efficient “green” vehicles. ... -
Full Vehicle State Estimation Using a Holistic Corner-based Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Vehicles' active safety systems use different sensors, vehicle states, and actuators, along with an advanced control algorithm, to assist drivers and to maintain the dynamics of a vehicle within a desired safe range in ... -
Full-Body Inverse Dynamics Using Inertial Measurement Units
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Estimating the loads on the human body is crucial in ergonomics, where it is of use in workplace design, task-load assessment, and safety limits establishment. It is also relevant to rehabilitation studies, where it can ... -
Full-Depth Reclamation with Hydraulic Road Binders
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)According to a recent report, 16.4% of Canadian roads are in a poor or very poor condition. This means 146,255 km of the Canadian roads are either unfit for service or are approaching the end of their service life. The ... -
Fully Automated Translation of BoxTalk to Promela
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)Telecommunication systems are structured to enable incremental growth, so that new telecommunication features can be added to the set of existing features. With the addition of more features, certain existing features may ... -
A Fully Decentralized Approach for Solving the Economic Dispatch Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-14)A practical formulation of the economic dispatch problem is based on treating the problem as a non-convex optimization problem in which the practical non-convex cost functions are taken into consideration. Formulating the ... -
Fully Integrated 60 GHz Power Amplifiers in 45nm SOI CMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)With the rapid growth of consumer demand for high data rates and high speed communications, the wireless spectrum has become increasingly precious. This has promoted the evolution of new standards and modulation schemes ... -
Function-valued Mappings and SSIM-based Optimization in Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)In a few words, this thesis is concerned with two alternative approaches to imag- ing, namely, Function-valued Mappings (FVMs) and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM)-based Optimization. Briefly, a FVM is a mathematical ... -
Functional analysis of concealment: a novel application of prospect and refuge theory
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)According to prospect-refuge theory, humans prefer to be in spaces that afford protection from threat (refuge), but also provide large fields of view (prospect). These preferences are said to arise from the adaptive ... -
Functional Analysis of Putative Adenosine Recycling Enzymes in Arabidopsis thaliana
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-25)Adenosine (Ado) salvage is essential in plant development. The lack of Ado kinase activity (ADK) in Arabidopsis thaliana adk1 adk2 double mutants results in embryonic lethality; reduction of ADK expression causes a pleiotropic ... -
Functional characterization and bioinformatic analysis of glutamine synthetases of Ochrobactrum anthropi
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-22)Glutamine synthetase (GS) is an essential enzyme required for the conversion of ammonium (NH4+) into glutamine. It is commonly classified into GSI, GSII, and GSIII based on molecular size, number of subunits, underlying ... -
Functional Characterization of Arcanobacterium pyogenes Pyolysin in an Oligomeric Form, and the Binding of CAMP Factor to IgG.
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-04)The work described in this thesis deals with two pore forming toxins, namely Arcanobacterium pyogenes pyolysin and Streptococcus agalactiae CAMP factor. Pyolysin (PLO) belongs to the homologous group of cholesterol-dependent ... -
Functional characterization of murine 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase 4 (AGPAT4)
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)The human genome project has allowed for the rapid identification of a large number of protein families based on similarities in their genetic sequences. The acyl-glycerol phosphate acyltransferase (AGPAT) family of enzymes ... -
Functional Characterization of Rainbow Trout (<em>Oncorhynchus mykiss</em>) Chemokine 2 (CK-2)
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Chemokines are cytokines with chemoattractant ability, and comprise one of the major groups of molecules in immune system. These are small, secreted proteins cause the migration of leukocytes to the sites of injury. ... -
Functional Characterization of the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) in S. cerevisiae
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)The origin recognition complex (Orc1-6) plays a fundamental role in the initiation of DNA replication by binding replication origins throughout the budding yeast cell cycle. ORC acts as a scaffold for the assembly of the ...