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Plant-Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Enhanced Phytoremediation of Saline Soils and Salt Uptake into Plant Biomass
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-19)Soil salinity affects an estimated one billion hectares worldwide. Excess salinity inhibits plant growth, limiting crop production. This is caused by osmotic stress in saline soil, nutrient imbalance and specific ion ... -
Plasmon Induced Carrier Polarization in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Currently used technologies are reaching the natural performance limit, invigorating the development of different quantum technologies. Spintronics and valleytronics are emerging quantum electronic technologies that rely ... -
Plasmonic and Magneto-Optical Properties of Nonstoichiometric Indium Nitride Nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-23)Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in semiconductor nanostructures have attracted intense attention recently for its broad application in bio-imaging, chemical sensing, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics. Compared ... -
Plasmonic Superconducting Single Photon Detector
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)A theoretical model with experimental verification is presented to enhance the quantum efficiency of a superconducting single-photon detector without increasing the length or thickness of the active element. The basic ... -
Plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Classification, distribution and environmental drivers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-03)Pollution by plastic debris is an increasing environmental concern in the Laurentian Great Lakes: it affects open-water, shoreline, and benthic environments. Many plastics degrade slowly in the environment and may have ... -
Plastic Film and Packaging Waste Management in Southwestern Ontario: An analysis of current diversion patterns and trends
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-27)The production of plastics has drastically grown through the years. In the age of convenience, single use plastics (especially film) have become ubiquitous in everyday life and so has its waste. Plastic waste can be found ... -
Plastic Instability and Failure of Sheet Metals Subjected to Complex Stress States
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)The rapid development of new emerging classes of steels has outpaced the methodologies and modelling strategies to exploit the superior mechanical properties in the design stage of structural automotive lightweight components. ... -
Plastic Pollution in the Canadian Great Lakes: Drivers, Barriers and Policy Recommendations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)Plastic pollution is detrimental to the economy, the environment and human health. More research have been conducted on marine plastic pollution than on freshwater plastic pollution, even though rivers and lakes are ... -
A Platform for Assessing the Efficiency of Distributed Access Enforcement in Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and its Validation
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-19)We consider the distributed access enforcement problem for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) systems. Such enforcement has become important with RBAC's increasing adoption, and the proliferation of data that needs to be ... -
A Platform for Generating Anomalous Traces Under Cooperative Driving Scenarios
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)As we allow more critical decisions to be made by software, it becomes increasingly necessary to ensure the decisions made are correct. One approach is to monitor the software for signs of an anomaly. The approach is an ... -
A Platform for Robot-Assisted Intracardiac Catheter Navigation
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-05)Steerable catheters are routinely deployed in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. During invasive electrophysiology studies, the catheter handle is manipulated by an interventionalist to guide the catheter's distal ... -
Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalyst and Catalyst Layer Design for PEM Fuel Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-12)Facing the crises of energy shortage and climate change, it becomes increasingly urgent to find renewable and low carbon emission replacements for fossil fuels. Renewable energy such as wind power, hydropower, solar energy, ... -
Play
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Adults in North American society lack the natural ability of children to play and explore their environments in a non-judgemental, non-programmed manner. The underlying theories of James Carse and Johan Huizinga examine ... -
Player Agency, Decision-Making, and Morality in Cinematic Choice-Based Adventure Games
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)Cinematic choice-based adventure games (CCAGs) offer examples of complex decision-making and player agency through plot construction and player choices. These games are a perfect example and opportunity to explore players’ ... -
The Player and The Machine
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Modern multiline video slots are popular games with high fidelity sounds and salient graphics, which allow players to wager on multiple lines at once. Interestingly, on multiline slots, many small wins actually amount to ... -
Player tracking and identification in broadcast ice hockey video
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-19)Tracking and identifying players is a fundamental step in computer vision-based ice hockey analytics. The data generated by tracking is used in many other downstream tasks, such as game event detection and game strategy ... -
Playing for keeps: The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in the public sphere, 1983-2006
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-14)This thesis is an intellectual history of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and its public policy activity from 1983 to 2006. The EFC represents many of the major evangelical Protestant denominations and organizations ... -
Playing the Story: The Emergence of Narrative through the Interaction between Players, Game Mechanics, and Participatory Fan Communities.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-07)If all games are understood as ultimately driven by the operation of their mechanics, then that operation cannot fully exist without the interaction of a player, and by extension the participatory fan community in which ... -
PLOX: A Secure Serverless Framework for the Smart Home
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-17)Smart hubs play a key role in the modern smart home in executing code on behalf of devices locally or on the cloud. Unfortunately, smart hubs are prone to security problems due to misconfigurations, device over permissioning ... -
Plug-In City Outlets: Revisioning the Form of Urban Logistics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-06)In support of a modal shift towards rail for goods movement, a reconceptualization of urban and interurban mobility frameworks leads to the proposed infrastructural fitting for the urban periphery. Keller Easterling’s ...