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Mocarabe: High-Performance Time-Multiplexed Overlays for FPGAs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)Coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) overlays can improve dataflow kernel throughput by an order of magnitude over Vivado HLS on Xilinx Alveo U280. This is possible with a combination of carefully floorplanned ... -
MockDetector: Detecting and tracking mock objects in unit tests
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Unit testing is a widely used tool in modern software development processes. A well-known issue in writing tests is handling dependencies: creating usable objects for dependencies is often complicated. Developers must ... -
Mode Invisibility Technique - A Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement for Light
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-14)The act of measuring an observable of a quantum system introduces backaction noise to the measured system. In the most extreme case, the system gets destroyed with its state left unavailable for future measurement. An ... -
Mode of Action of Daptomycin, a Lipopeptide Antibiotic
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic that contains 13 amino acids and an N-terminally attached fatty acyl residue. The antibiotic kills Gram-positive bacteria by membrane depolarization. It has long been assumed that ... -
A Mode-Based Pattern for Feature Requirements, and a Generic Feature Interface
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Feature-oriented requirements decompose a system's requirements into individual bundles of functionality called features, where each feature's behaviour can be expressed as a state-machine model. However, state machines ... -
A Model Based Approach to Apraxia in Parkinson's Disease
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)This thesis provides new insight into how learned skilled movements are affected in a disease with basal ganglia damage, within what task demands these deficits can be detected, and how this detection can occur within the ... -
Model Based Automotive System Design: A Power Window Controller Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-24)Modern day vehicles come equipped with a large number of sensors, actuators and ECU’s with sophisticated control algorithms, which requires engineering activities from various disciplines. An automotive system is developed ... -
Model Based Design Framework Development of a Hybrid Supervisory Controller for a P4 Parallel Hybrid Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)The expected rise in the number of ECUs in an automotive based development environment, poses additional efficiency risk on developer time and code complexity. This thesis examines the design and validation of a Hybrid ... -
Model Compression via Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Modern convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, despite their superiority in solving various problems, are generally too large to be deployed on resource constrained edge devices. In practice, this limits many ... -
Model Development and Validation of Samaria Doped Ceria (SDC) Based Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Operating with Practical Fuels
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-24)Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is a promising technology for producing electricity cleanly and efficiently. This type of fuel cell is a high temperature fuel cell operating around 1000C for state-of-the-art SOFC. An advantage ... -
Model Development for Corneal Inflammation and Biocompatibility
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)The ocular surface presents a complex environment where the corneal epithelium has to interact with the tear film, the blink, and the many proteins, lipids, and signaling molecules that exist. As a contact lens is placed ... -
MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR MICRO–CHANNEL COOLING TECHNOLOGY
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-06)The micro–channel research literature presents a clear need to provide accurate models that can predict pressure drop and heat transfer coefficients for a greater number of experimental data sets while capturing the physical ... -
Model Discrimination Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-26)Model discrimination deals with situations where there are several candidate models available to represent a system. The objective is to find the “best” model among rival models with respect to prediction of system behavior. ... -
Model Driven Service Description and Discovery Framework for Carrier Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-26)The most dominant architecture in the contemporary business domain is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The large number of the existing service description and discovery systems available today, including the ones ... -
Model for a cortical circuit associated with childhood absence epilepsy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Childhood absence epilepsy is suspected to result from mutations in genes which encode ion channels including sodium channels. Our purpose in this thesis is to explore some of the factors that alter the function of neurons ... -
A Model for Automated Construction Materials Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-16)Materials management is a critical factor in construction project performance, particularly in the industrial sector. Research has shown that construction materials and installed equipment may constitute more than 50% of ... -
A Model for Implementing an Automated Change Management Process for Construction Mega-projects
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-21)This thesis develops a model for implementing and continuously improving the automated change management process for construction megaprojects. Changes are inevitable in megaprojects. Their negative impact along with the ... -
A Model for Self-Phase Modulation Noise in Fiber-link Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Recent tele-communication hugely relies on fiber-optic systems. Linear fiber-optic impairments can be modeled with chromatic and polarization-mode dispersion. However, nonlinear impairments such as SPM and XPM noise are much ... -
A Model for Shear Response in Swimming Plankton
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-11)The responses of zooplankton to the hydrodynamic variables of their environment, such as shear, are not well understood. We examine stochastic swimming models of the run and tumble type for plankton moving in a velocity ... -
Model for the RE-TC thalamic circuit with application to childhood absence epilepsy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-12)Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is an idiopathic neurological disorder affecting roughly 2-8 children per 100,000 children worldwide. It is characterized by absence seizures, or short lapses in consciousness, and the ...