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Gait shape control for 2-D.O.F bipedal robots using hybrid virtual holonomic constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-29)Motion control for bipedal robots is an active research area because bipedal robots can perform tasks and work in terrain where wheeled robots cannot. Researchers have developed bipedal robots that are able to walk, run ... -
Gaits and Their Development in the Infraorder Pecora
(University of Waterloo, 1967-02)The gaits of twenty-eight species of the Infraorder Pecora are analyzed from motion picture sequences comprising over 45,000 frames. For each gait the percentage time spent on the various supporting legs during each stride ... -
Galactic Molecular Dust Clumps using SCUBA-2 - Effects of HII Regions on Star Formation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)I present findings from a broad array of SCUBA-2 observations. The sample consists of 38 SCUBA-2 images targeted near mature, galactic, HII regions of the Sharpless "Sh-2" or Blitz-Stark-Fich "BFS" catalogue. In 31 of those ... -
Galaxy Formation at Redshift ~0.75: A Low Mass Survey & The Role of Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The majority of galaxy formation studies which explore beyond local redshifts do not typically probe down to the dwarf galaxy stellar mass range of ∼ 10^9 Msun . Thus trends in the observed evolution or characteristics of ... -
Galaxy Morphology In Cluster Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)It is a well known fact that cluster environments favour early-type galaxies over late- type. However, the physical origin of the correlation remains uncertain. We focus specifically on the external environmental mechanisms ... -
Galaxy Transformations in the Last 5 Billion Years
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-01)It has become clear that the global star formation rate in the Universe has been decreasing since at least z~1, and blue, star-forming galaxies are transformed into red, passive galaxies through one or more processes. The ... -
Gallium isotope fractionation during adsorption on clay and oxide minerals: implications for using gallium isotopes as a geochemical tracer
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)Increasing climate change leads to the imbalance between silicate, sulfide, and carbonate weathering fluxes, influencing the global carbon budget. Thus, understanding this balance is critical for understanding future global ... -
Gallo-Roman Relations under the Early Empire
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This paper examines the changing attitudes of Gallo-Romans from the time of Caesar's conquest in the 50s BCE to the start of Vespasian's reign in 70-71 CE and how Roman prejudice shaped those attitudes. I first examine the ... -
Galore: And Exhibition of Drawings
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)'Galore' is a series of drawings that celebrate the urge to reproduce and multiply ‘beauty’. Working from a collection of appropriated photographs, I have produced a suite of small-scale ballpoint pen drawings that explore ... -
Galt Agora: Vision for a Pedestrian Fabric in the City of Cambridge
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-17)The ongoing urban renewal occurring within the City of Cambridge, and its Galt city centre has been a long delayed process, yet it is a necessary one for the city and its inhabitants. A latent sense of disintegration within ... -
Gambling by Ontario Casino Employees: Gambling Behaviours, Problem Gambling, and Impacts of the Employment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-14)This study investigated various aspects of the gambling engaged in by Ontario casino employees. Five casinos participated in the study, which involved a survey sample of 934 employees and an interview sample of 21 employees. ... -
The Game with Death : a transgressive tradition of Villa Adriana
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)Villa Adriana has long been hailed as poetry in architectural form. A world building project executed at the scale of landscape, it manipulated the very fabric of the earth with audacity, draining a river plain, conjuring ... -
A Game-Theoretic Decision-Making Framework for Engineering Self-Protecting Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Targeted and destructive nature of strategies used by attackers to break down a software system require mitigation approaches with dynamic awareness. Making a right decision, when facing today’s sophisticated and dynamic ... -
Games with Words: Textual Representation in the Wake of Graphical Realism in Videogames
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Much of the videogame industry is based around a model of technological progress, whereby developers, individual videogames, and videogame platforms are lauded as superior based on their engagement with the latest, cutting ... -
Gamification in a Volunteered Geographic Information context with regard to contributors' motivations: A case study of OpenStreetMap
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) describes a new type of spatial information created by the public voluntarily (Goodchild, 2007). However, many questions persist about the quality of VGI, due to a lack of knowledge ... -
GaN Micro-LED Integration with Thin-Film Transistors for Flexible Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-13)The research presented provides a systematic attempt to address the major challenges for the development of flexible micro-light-emitting diode (LED) displays. The feasibility of driving GaN-based micro-LEDs with a-Si:H-based ... -
Gas permeation through water-swollen sericin / PVA membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)Silk sericin, a protein obtained from cocoons, is a highly hydrophilic macromolecular material with many hydroxyl, carboxyl and amino acid groups. Sericin has been used for cosmetics, medical, polymer materials and other ... -
Gas Separation by Poly(ether block amide) Membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-16)This study deals with poly(ether block amide) (PEBA) (type 2533) membranes for gas separation. A new method was developed to prepare flat thin film PEBA membranes by spontaneous spreading of a solution of the block copolymer ... -
Gauge Models of Topological Phases and Applications to Quantum Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-26)In 2+1 dimensions, gravity is an SU(2) topological gauge theory that can be written as BF theory. In the condensed matter literature, the Hamiltonian realization of BF theory for finite groups is known as the Kitaev model. ... -
Gauge Theory Dynamics and Calabi-Yau Moduli
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-02)We compute the exact partition function of two dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories on S². For theories with SU(2|1)_A invariance, the partition function admits two equivalent representations corresponding to ...