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Application of Cellulose Nanomaterials in Water Treatment Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Many advanced water treatment processes have been designed and implemented to purify water, such as adsorption, photocatalysis, and membrane filtration processes. All these processes have the potential to be enhanced through ... -
Application of Complex Vectors and Complex Transformations in Solving Maxwell’s Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)Application and implication of using complex vectors and complex transformations in solutions of Maxwell’s equations is investigated. Complex vectors are used in complex plane waves and help to represent this type of waves ... -
Application of Crowdsourced Travel Data in Identifying Potential Opportunities for Transportation Demand Management
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)Traffic congestion is a major concern that many urban regions contend with. Since the 1970s, transport practitioners have sought out different ways to alleviate the negative impacts of congestion. The concept of Transportation ... -
Application of Data mining in Medical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Abstract Data mining is a relatively new field of research whose major objective is to acquire knowledge from large amounts of data. In medical and health care areas, due to regulations and due to the availability ... -
Application of Deep Learning in Chemical Processes: Explainability, Monitoring and Observability
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-04)The last decade has seen remarkable advances in speech, image, and language recognition tools that have been made available to the public through computer and mobile devices’ applications. Most of these significant ... -
Application of Definability to Query Answering over Knowledge Bases
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)Answering object queries (i.e. instance retrieval) is a central task in ontology based data access (OBDA). Performing this task involves reasoning with respect to a knowledge base K (i.e. ontology) over some description ... -
Application of Different Measures of Bioavailability at Contaminated Sites
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-14)Contaminated areas resulting from anthropogenic activities have, for the most part, concentrations of contaminants that exceed Tier 1 standards below which the risk is considered acceptable. However, contaminants that have ... -
The Application of Digital Filters to Improve Visibility for People with Maculopathy
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)Purpose: Previous studies have shown that some digital filters can enhance picture-image visibility for people with visual impairment. The ultimate purposes of this study are to determine the improvement of picture-image ... -
Application of Environmental Metabolomics for Assessment of Aquatic Invertebrate Sensitivity to Naphthenic Acids
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-14)Naphthenic acids (NAs) are a class of chemicals found in oil sands process waters (OSPW) from the extraction of bitumen from surface mined oil sand. In Alberta, Canada, OSPW is currently stored indefinitely in tailing ponds ... -
Application of Environmental Technology Management (ETM) to Automobile Exhaust Emission Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-23)Vehicle emissions, arising from incomplete fuel combustion and reactions between N2 and O2 leading to NOX, have detrimental effects on human health and environment quality. Engine exhaust contains a variety of regulated ... -
Application of Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Monitor and Predict the Fermentation Activity in a Vaccine Manufacturing Process
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative coccobacillus, pathogenic and aerobic bacterium responsible for causing whooping cough, which is an upper respiratory tract infection in humans. To prevent this disease whole cellular ... -
The Application of FROID in MR Image Reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), sampling methods that lead to incomplete data coverage of k-space are used to accelerate imaging and reduce overall scan time. Non-Cartesian sampling trajectories such as radial, spiral, ... -
Application of Game Theory to Interactive Lane Change Decision Making for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-21)The decision-making and motion planning play a critical role in the autonomous driving by connecting the perception to the vehicle control. It aims at generating available paths in the specific driving environment considering ... -
Application of GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry for Lake Ice Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-20)This thesis examines the use of Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) for the study of lake ice with a particular focus on the estimation of ice thickness. Experiments were conducted ... -
Application of hydrocarbon and perfluorocarbon oxygen vectors to enhance heterologous production of hyaluronic acid in engineered Bacillus subtilis
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)In microbial cultivations for hyaluronic acid (HA) production, oxygen can be a limiting substrate due to its poor solubility in aqueous medium and the substantial increase in culture viscosity at relatively low HA titers. ... -
Application of Integrated Sustainability-based Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): a Case Study of the Master Planning Process in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-27)Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has gained increasing prominence as a means of accommodating the goals of sustainability in development planning since the 1990s. However, SEA faces considerable difficulties before ... -
Application of interRAI Assessments in Disaster Management: Identifying Vulnerable Persons in the Community
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Background: Several studies have shown the increased vulnerability and disproportionate mortality rate among frail community dwelling older adults as a result of disasters. Parallel to an escalating number of disasters, ... -
Application of Learning Technologies to Support Community-Based Health Care Workers and Build Capacity in Chronic Disease Prevention in Thailand
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-27)Thailand has faced under-nutrition and yet, paradoxically, the prevalence of diseases of over-nutrition, such as obesity and diabetes, has escalated. Since access to diabetes prevention programs is limited in Thailand, ... -
The Application of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques in Non-Linear Parameter Estimation for Chemical Engineering Models
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)Modeling of chemical engineering systems often necessitates using non-linear models. These models can range in complexity, from a simple analytical equation to a system of differential equations. Regardless of what type ... -
An Application of Matrix Analytic Methods to Queueing Models with Polling
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)We review what it means to model a queueing system, and highlight several components of interest which govern the behaviour of customers, as well as the server(s) who tend to them. Our primary focus is on polling systems, ...