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Achieving contrapuntal balance at a lake outlet: Restoring salmon spawning habitat with gravel augmentation design
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-09)The degradation of gravel bed rivers in logging and climate-impacted watersheds has led to an increase in salmonid habitat conservation and restoration efforts. Gravel augmentation is one such technique that seeks to restore ... -
Achieving Cultural Diversity in Wilderness Recreation: A Study of the Chinese in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2003)As Canada welcomes immigrants from around the world, planners increasingly strive for policies and initiatives that meet culturally diverse needs. In Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, park planners have directed more ... -
Achieving Drag Reduction Through Polymer-Surfactant Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Drag reduction is a well-observed phenomenon, it was first observed by the British chemist Toms in 1946, yet its mechanism is still unknown to this day. Polymer Drag reduction has found application in reducing pumping costs ... -
Achieving Fairness in 802.11-Based Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Multi-hop wireless networks based on 802. 11 are being used more widely as an alternative technology for last-mile broadband Internet access. Their benefits include ease of deployment and lower cost. Such networks are ... -
Achieving Performance Objectives for Database Workloads
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)In this thesis, our goal is to achieve customer-specified performance objectives for workloads in a database management system (DBMS). Competing workloads in current DBMSs have detrimental effects on performance. ... -
Achieving Scalable, Exhaustive Network Data Processing by Exploiting Parallelism
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Telecommunications companies (telcos) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) monitor the traffic passing through their networks for the purposes of network evaluation and planning for future growth. Most monitoring ... -
Achieving Soft Real-time Guarantees for Interactive Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)The use of 802.11-based multi-hop wireless mesh networks for Internet access is extensive and growing. The primary advantages of this approach are ease of deployment and lower cost. However, these networks are designed for ... -
ACL Injury Mechanisms and the Kinetic Chain Linkage: The effect of proximal joint stiffness on ACL injury risk.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)Recent literature has suggested that core and gluteal neuromuscular deficits are involved in the mechanism of non-contact ACL injury. Several research groups have identified dynamic valgus of the lower extremity to be an ... -
ACL Strain During Single-Leg Jump Landing: An Experimental and Computational Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a commonly-injured ligament in the human knee joint. ACL injury repair is a costly procedure; however, left unrepaired, ACL injuries can lead to complications later in life. In ... -
Acoustic Monitoring for Leaks in Water Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)Water distribution networks (WDNs) are complex systems that are subjected to stresses due to a number of hydraulic and environmental loads. Small leaks can run continuously for extended periods, sometimes indefinitely, ... -
Acquiring Multimodal Disaggregate Travel Behavior Data Using Smart Phones
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Despite the significant advances that have been made in traffic sensor technologies, there are only a few systems that provide measurements at the trip level and fewer yet that can do so for all travel modes. On the other ... -
Across the River: A Library Reflected
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)The thickening line crafted as a ‘temporary’ border thirteen years ago during the Dayton Peace Agreement –dividing Bosnia into Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosniaks and Croats- is gaining an unsettling permanence ... -
Act Small and Think Big: Exploring the Plurality and Complexity of Shrinking Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Demographically and economically, there is an ongoing global shift that has resulted in the uneven development and distribution of monetary, human and knowledge capital, and the emergence of global and shrinking cities. ... -
Action Mechanism and Structural Studies on the Lipopeptide Antibiotic Daptomycin
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-02)Daptomycin (dap) is calcium-dependent lipopeptide antibiotic that is used clinically to treat systemic infections caused by Gram-positive pathogens. It is thought that dap brings about its antimicrobial effect by binding ... -
Action of degenerate Bethe operators on representations of the symmetric group
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-24)Degenerate Bethe operators are elements defined by explicit sums in the center of the group algebra of the symmetric group. They are useful on account of their relation to the Gelfand-Zetlin algebra and the Young-Jucys-Murphy ... -
Activating Play-Based Escape, Awakening Creativity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Everyone participates in escape. The drive to escape is something we are born with. It is a force that has ties to our curiosity, as well as our profound psychological restlessness, and can even be seen in our displeasure ... -
Activating Values to Enhance e-Participation in Environmental Decision-making
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-26)A participatory modeling approach is designed to connect citizens and decision-makers during the selection of the most appropriate alternative solution to an environmental project based on user values systems. First, a ... -
Active Acoustics for Monitoring Unreported Leaks in Water Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-08)Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructure elements conveying water through thousands of kilometers of pipes. Pipes - one of the most critical elements in such systems - are subjected to various structural ... -
Active Aerodynamic Modification of Wind Turbine Blades to Reduce Load Fluctuation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-16)Wind turbines operate predominantly in relatively unsteady flow conditions and are typically misaligned with the incoming wind. Moreover, as wind turbines increase in size, the loading on the blades becomes more problematic ... -
Active and Marginal Religious Affiliates in Canada: Describing the Difference and the Difference it Makes
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-19)In 2002, Reginald Bibby surprisingly asserted that a renaissance of religion is, or soon will be taking place in Canada. However, the assertion clashes with the dominant belief based largely on Bibby’s accumulated data ...