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PASoC: A Predictable Accelerator Rich SoC for Safety-Critical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)This thesis presents a model of a Predictable Accelerator-rich System-on-Chip (PASoC) for safety-critical systems, which guarantees timing predictability of a memory access in the system. Earlier adoption of accelerator-rich ... -
Passenger Response to Driving Style in an Autonomous Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Despite rapid advancements in automated driving systems (ADS), current human-computer interaction research tends to focus more on the safety driver in lower level vehicles. The future of automated driving lies in higher ... -
Passing Peak Millennial: Planning for Demographic Change in Mid-sized and Large Metropolitan Areas in Canada and the United States
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)The Millennial generation has been reshaping cities in the United States and Canada as their Boomer parents did before them. Prior research explored the relationship among the changing size of the young adult cohort, ... -
Passing Through: An Installation of Photography
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)Passing Through, an installation of photography, encourages the nature of memory through an engagement with the materiality of photographic images. Considering memory as an ephemeral phenomenon, I am interested in exploring ... -
Passive Frontal Plane Knee Joint Laxity Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Within 6 Months to 5 Years
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-28)Following an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, surgical reconstructions aim to restore the joint stability. Increased frontal plane laxity has been observed in the anterior cruciate ligament deficient knee, intra-operatively ... -
Passive Full-Wave MOSFET Rectifiers for Electromagnetic Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)A new generation of electronic devices has emerged requiring micro-watt-level power supply to operate. Thanks to micro-power processors and sensors, micro-power sources have become an attractive option for industry and ... -
Passive In Situ Treatment of Acidic and Neutral Mine Drainage: Field and Laboratory Investigations
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-16)Water quality degradation is the foremost environmental issue faced by the mining industry. Negative impacts on water quality are commonly associated with unmitigated drainage emanating from sulfide-bearing mine waste ... -
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Ice Cover on Large Northern Lakes: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-11)Time series of brightness temperature (TB) measurement obtained at various frequencies by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) are investigated to determine ice phenology parameters ... -
Passive sampling to understand and predict sources of wastewater and agricultural contamination in rural watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-12)Passive sampling techniques have emerged as valuable tools in environmental monitoring, offering distinct advantages over traditional discrete sampling methods. Discrete sampling techniques are only representative of the ... -
Patent Technological Diversity and Examination Outcomes in China
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-07)This study examines how the duration of patent examination is affected by technological diversity of patent applications, using a sample of all pharmaceutical patent applications filed between 1985 and 2017 at State ... -
Path Following and Output Synchronization of Homogeneous Linear Time-Invariant Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-20)This thesis examines two aspects of the path following control design problem for Linear Time-Invariant (L.T.I.) systems assigned closed curves in their output space. In the first part of the thesis we define a path ... -
Path Following and Stabilization of an Autonomous Bicycle
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)In this thesis we investigate the problem of designing a control system for a modern bicycle so that the bicycle is stable and follows a path. We propose a multi-loop control architecture, where each loop is systematically ... -
Path Following for Mechanical Systems Applied to Robotic Manipulators
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Many applications in robotics require faithfully following a prescribed path. Tracking controllers may not be appropriate for such a task, as there is no guarantee that the robot will stay on the path. The objective of ... -
Path Following for Robot Manipulators Using Gyroscopic Forces
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-23)This thesis deals with the path following problem the objective of which is to make the end effector of a robot manipulator trace a desired path while maintaining a desired orientation. The fact that the pose of the end ... -
A Path Home
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-06)With the shift in perspective from temporary to permanent residence in this country, Sikhs are caught in between two polar ends of homeland and diaspora. This thesis attempts to illuminate a third – a universal permanence ... -
Path Integral Approaches and Graphics Processing Unit Tools for Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-21)This thesis details both the technical and theoretical aspects of performing path integrals through classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. In particular, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing is used to augment ... -
Path integral ground state approaches for the study of weakly bound clusters and confined molecules
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)This thesis presents the study of weakly bound clusters in the ground state (or the zero-temperature limit) using path integral molecular dynamics. Specifically, we look individually at the quantum properties of small ... -
Path integral Langevin dynamics of complex molecular systems: from low-temperature quantum clusters to biomolecules
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)This thesis presents an implementation of path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) for sampling equilibrium and dynamical properties within the molecular modelling toolkit (MMTK) [J. Comp. Chem. 21, 79 (2000)], an open ... -
A path integral Monte Carlo method for obtaining thermodynamic properties of nonadiabatic systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)The calculation of thermochemical properties is an important goal of quantum chemistry. Calculation techniques are well established for stable molecules. They are used routinely to calculate Gibbs energy (G) for stable ... -
Path Integrals in the Sky: Classical and Quantum Problems with Minimal Assumptions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)Cosmology has, after the formulation of general relativity, been transformed from a branch of philosophy into an active field in physics. Notwithstanding the significant improvements in our understanding of our Universe, ...