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Autopsy: Redesigning Urban Transportation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)According to the United Nations’ report, State of World Population 2008, humankind has come to a turning point; more than 50% of the earth’s population now lives in urban centres. Along with considerations for housing, ... -
Autoregressive models for text independent speaker identification in noisy environments
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)The closed-set speaker identification problem is defined as the search within a set of persons for the speaker of a certain utterance. It is reported that the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier achieves very high ... -
Availability-Aware Spare Capacity Allocation with Partially Protected Rings
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-19)This thesis work focuses on designing a survivable IP-core network with the minimal investment of spare capacity. A span-oriented spare capacity allocation (SCA) scheme is proposed to satisfy customers' availability ... -
The Average Best Solution: A Generative Design Tool for Multi-Objective Optimization of Free-Form Diagrid Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)This research describes the generative modeling method implemented in an open-source program (Grasshopper) as a computational tool for performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization. It explores the initial steps ... -
Average Cell Orientation, Eccentricity and Size Estimated from Tissue Images
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Five image processing algorithms are proposed to measure the average orientation, eccentricity and size of cells in images of biological tissue. These properties, which can be embodied by an elliptical 'composite cell', ... -
Avian species richness elevational patterns in mountain peatlands
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-17)Avian research and elevation gradients have been studied extensively in the last century but there is a lack of understanding of the patterns and underlying mechanisms that drive avian species richness in mountain peatlands. ... -
Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Unsuccessful Client Requests Under Heavy Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-21)In three-tiered web applications, some form of admission control is required to ensure that throughput and response times are not significantly harmed during periods of heavy load. We propose Q-Cop, a prototype system ... -
Awakening Beauty: Meaning in Contemporary Catholic Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)A Catholic church is unique among other places of worship because the space of a church forms the central place for the sacramental life of the Church, as Body of Christ, while also being an expression of it. With the ... -
Awe-Inducing Interior Space: Architectural Causes and Cognitive Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)The purpose of the present work was to investigate whether religious monumental architecture facilitates religious feeling by inducing a sense of awe. In order to elucidate how church interiors elicit awe and otherwise ... -
AWS Identity-based Policies with "Read", "Write" and "Execute" Actions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)This thesis addresses Amazon Web Service (AWS) identity-based policies with "read", "write" and "execute" actions. AWS is a large provider of cloud computing, security is an important property that an application running ... -
Axial Crush Performance of Hot Stamped Tailor Welded Blanks - Experiments and Numerical Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-30)This thesis investigates the axial crush performance of hot stamped tailor-welded blanks (TWBs) and their potential for weight reduction in the front crush structure of a vehicle. A baseline demonstrator structure, fabricated ... -
Axial twist loading of the spine: Modulators of injury mechanisms and the potential for pain generation.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)There are several reasons to research the effects of axial twist exposures and the resulting loading on the spine. The lack of consensus from the limited work that has previously examined the role of axial twist moments ... -
Axial twist of the lumbar spine: Mechanical responses to twisted postures and potential factors for workplace injury
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)While a link between magnitudes of spinal axial twist motions and the various modes of associated injury, pain reporting, and lost time claims has been tentatively established, there is need for greater investigation and ... -
Axon: A Middleware for Robotics
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-28)The area of multi-robot systems and frameworks has become, in recent years, a hot research area in the field of robotics. This is attributed to the great advances made in robotic hardware, software, and the diversity of ... -
Baby Boomers’ and Seniors’ Domestic Travel Motivations: An Examination of Citizens in Tainan, Taiwan
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)The literature on the travel market has focused on the motivations and activities of different market segments, destination attributes, evaluation of well-being, travel behaviour and characteristics, and demographic ... -
Back to the Mountains: A Guesthouse for the Preservation of Vernacular Memory on Mount Tomorr in Albania
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)For millennia, the mountains of Albania have been a repository of vernacular knowledge, and in difficult times, a place of refuge from the often-hostile urban world. However, since the fall of Communism in the early 1990s, ... -
Backdoors in Satisfiability Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-08)Although satisfiability problems (SAT) are NP-complete, state-of-the-art SAT solvers are able to solve large practical instances. The notion of backdoors has been introduced to capture structural properties of instances. ... -
Backplane Circuit Design with Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors for Flexible Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-20)In recent years, rapid advancement in LED fabrication has enabled the possibility of using GaN micro-LEDs to be the light media in a display panel. It has superior performance in many aspects when compared with OLED ... -
A bacteria-responsive drug release platform for the local treatment of bacterial vaginosis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-25)Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common vaginal anaerobic dysbiosis affecting millions of women, with a high recurrence rate probably due to the stubborn existence of biofilms and Gardnerella vaginalis (G. vaginalis) as the ... -
Bacterial biogeography of the rare Charitable Research Reserve
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)Soil microbial communities play a dominant role in global biogeochemical cycles, with profound effects on agriculture, ecosystem stability, human health, and global climate. As a result, assessing their biogeographic ...