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Performance of Large Diameter Residential Drinking Water Wells - Biofilm Growth: Laboratory and Field Testing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-11-23)In the first phase of this project three enhanced large diameter (> 60 cm) residential wells were constructed at a study site in Lindsay, Ontario. Two wells were constructed using concrete tile casing while the other well ... -
Performance of Load-Bearing Cold-Formed Steel Wall Systems with Web-Perforated Studs Subjected to Standard Fire
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Load-bearing cold-formed steel (CFS) wall systems are commonly constructed with CFS C-shape studs with one or two layers of fire-rated sheathing attached to both sides. In practice, perforations are placed in stud webs to ... -
Performance of Massive MIMO with Interference Decoding
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-06)In a massive MIMO system, base stations (BS) utilize a large number of antennas to simultaneously serve several (single or multi-antenna) users at once, where the number of BS antennas is normally assumed to be significantly ... -
Performance of Multi-antenna Wireless Systems with Channel Estimation Error
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-14)Wireless services and applications have become extremely popular and widely employed over the past decades. This, in turn, has led to a dramatic increase in the number of wireless users who demand reliable services with ... -
Performance of Pillars in Rock Salt Mines
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)The viscoelastic and creep properties of salt create challenges in the design of salt mines. Salt undergoes steady state creep for a long period of time, and the time of failure is not easily predicted. Developing functions ... -
The Performance of Rainscreen Walls in Coastal British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-11)This thesis examines the widespread moisture problems which emerged over the past twenty years in buildings throughout coastal British Columbia, commonly known as ‘leaky condos’. A literature review of building physics and ... -
Performance of Soil Borehole Thermal Energy Storage System under Different Natural and Engineered Subsurface Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-18)Borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) system, a type of underground thermal energy storage (UTES) systems, is a promising technology for sustainable space heating. BTES stores thermal energy in subsurface media (rock or ... -
Performance of the Ultra-Wide Word Model
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-08)The Ultra-wide word model of computation (UWRAM) is an extension of the Word-RAM model which has an ALU that can operate on w^2 bits at a time, where w is the size in bits of a cell in memory. The purpose of this thesis ... -
Performance of Treatment Media for the Stabilization of Mercury under Variable Geochemical Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Mercury-contaminated sediments are found in many locations throughout North America and the world. Release of Hg from such sediments and subsequent biological uptake can result in biomagnification in associated ecosystems. ... -
Performance Optimization of a Cation-Disordered Rock-Salt Positive Electrode Material for Next-Generation Lithium-ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)The growing threat of climate change has sparked a shift in societal norms surrounding the reliance on fossil fuels for our energy and transportation sectors. Driven by this shift, the global demand for sustainable energy ... -
Performance Prediction Upon Toolchain Migration in Model-Based Software
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)Changing the development environment can have severe impacts on the system behavior such as the execution-time performance. Since it can be costly to migrate a software application, engineers would like to predict the ... -
Performance Simulation of Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-14)The performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) at the cell and system levels is studied using computer simulation. At the cell level, a new model combining the cell micro and macro models is developed. Using this ... -
Performance Test Selection Using Machine Learning and a Study of Binning Effect in Memory Allocators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Performance testing is an essential part of the development life cycle that must be done in a timely fashion. However, checking for performance regressions in software can be time-consuming, especially for complex systems ... -
PERFORMATIVE GESTURES An Exhibition of Painting
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-07)My painted self-portraiture explores identity as changing social performance or masquerade and examines bodily flesh as the vital interface for reciprocal encounter on life’s stage. The larger-than-life sized images ... -
Performing Short-Term Travel Time Prediction on Arterials
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-23)As urban centers become larger and more densely developed, their roadway networks tend to experience more severe congestion for longer periods of the day and increasingly unreliable travel times. Proactive traffic management ... -
Performing the Forbidden Public Space: the Case of the New Clock Tower Square in Homs, Syria
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)Public spaces in Syria have been controlled and militarized for a long time, even before the revolution of 2011. In the city of Homs, however, during the revolution's early days, thousands of people poured into the New ... -
Periodic Adaptive Control for First-Order Discrete-Time Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-24)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time- varying parameters. An adaptive controller typically consists of an LTI compensator together with an identifier or a tuner which is used ... -
Periodic Nonlinear Adaptive Control of Rapidly Time-Varying Linear Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time-varying parameters. Most techniques are proven for the case in which any time-variation is slow, with results for systems with fast ... -
Periodically-driven quantum many-body systems, many-body localization and machine learning
(University of Waterloo, 2018-03-09)Despite the exponentially large amount of information required in the quantum description of many-body systems, finite size numerical simulations have paved the way for recent progress in the understanding of quantum phases ... -
Periodicity and Repetition in Combinatorics on Words
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis concerns combinatorics on words. I present many results in this area, united by the common themes of periodicity and repetition. Most of these results have already appeared in journal or conference ...