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Posturing Horses: Xenophon on Biomechanical Soundness in The Art of Horsemanship
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)As early as the Bronze Age, ancient Greek horses shared in the social status of the military elite. The ritual inclusion of horses and their equipment in burial practices from the Bronze Age to the Classical period marked ... -
Potential and Limitations of MCM-41 in Dechlorination Reactions
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-27)The purpose of this thesis was to conduct preliminary research into the feasibility of using MCM-41 as a catalyst support material in the treatment of organochloride contaminated water. Specifically, the stability of MCM-41 ... -
Potential and Observed Release of Phosphorus from Crop Residue and Cover Crops Over the Non-growing Season in a Cool Temperate Region
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-11)Maintaining crop residue or cover crops on fields during winter is a recommended Best Management Practice (BMP) in temperate regions. However, losses of phosphorus (P) to runoff have been attributed to vegetation following ... -
Potential Applications of Silk Fibroin as a Biomaterial
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)Fibroin is a biopolymer obtained from the cocoons of the Bombyx mori silkworm that offers many unique advantages. In this thesis work, fibroin was processed into a regenerated film and examined for potential biomaterial ... -
Potential Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Counselling and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Coverage in Reducing Smoking-Attributable Lung Cancer Burden in Urban China
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Background: Currently, there are no population-level smoking cessation interventions widely promoted in China. Economic concerns are one of the major barriers to a greater promotion of smoking cessation interventions in ... -
Potential of surface modified exosomes for extended intravitreal drug delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)Diabetic retinopathy is a serious condition affecting retinal cells that can lead to blindness. Intravitreal injection is the only feasible method of drug delivery to the retina. However, intravitreal injections are only ... -
Potential Roles for the Neurotrophic Molecules Agrin and Neuregulin in Regulating Aspects of the Inflammatory Response
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)Agrin and neuregulin are neurotrophic molecules well known for their roles at synapses in the peripheral and central nervous systems. The expression of these two molecules is not restricted to these sites however, as they ... -
Potential use of the Oncorhynchus mykiss checkpoint proteins Rad1 and Hus1 as genotoxicity biomarkers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-13)Cell-cycle checkpoint proteins help maintain genomic integrity by sensing damaged DNA and initiating DNA repair or apoptosis. Checkpoint protein activation to cell-cycle damaging agents can involve post-translational ... -
Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Conservation through adoption of Appropriate Housing Improvement Technologies (AHITs): a case study of the Appropriate Housing Improvement Technologies developed by Building and Construction Improvement Program in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-20)This paper is an attempt to determine the impacts of Appropriate Housing Improvement Products (AHITs) on poverty alleviation and environmental conservation with special reference to the housing improvement technologies/techniques ... -
Powder Spray Laser Additive Manufacturing of Zirconium
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-29)Zirconium is commonly used in nuclear, chemical processing and biomedical applications due to its low thermal neutron cross-section, relatively high corrosion resistance and great biocompatibility. Although it is an ideal ... -
Powder-fed Laser Directed Energy Deposition of Near-β Titanium Alloy: A Comprehensive Analytical and Experimental Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-12)Laser directed energy deposition through powder feeding (LDED-PF), a class of metal additive manufacturing (AM), is a promising technique that enables the repair and refurbishment of metallic components with a variety of ... -
Powell Lens-based Line-Scan Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Cellular Resolution Imaging of Biological Tissues
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)A line-scan spectral-domain optical coherence tomography system was developed for corneal imaging. It utilizes a Powell lens to achieve a better line illumination power distribution than the conventional use of cylindrical ... -
Power Analysis of Sub-threshold Logics for Security Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Requirements of ultra-low power for many portable devices have drawn increased attention to digital sub-threshold logic design. Major reductions in power consumption and frequency of operation degradation due to the ... -
Power and Fuel Economy Optimization of Unthrottled Spark-Ignition Engines Using Highly Flexible Hydraulic Variable Valve Actuation System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-16)Variety of technologies along with the mechanisms for their implementations have been developed in order to pursue possible improvements in the performance and efficiency of gasoline engines. Yet, most of the commonly used ... -
Power Characterization of a Digit-Online FPGA Implementation of a Low-Density Parity-Check Decoder for WiMAX Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-17)Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of easily decodable error-correcting codes. Published parallel LDPC decoders demonstrate high throughput and low energy-per-bit but require a lot of silicon area. Decoders ... -
Power Characterization of a Gbit/s FPGA Convolutional LDPC Decoder
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)In this thesis, we present an FPGA implementation of parallel-node low-density-parity-check convolutional-code (PN-LDPC-CC) encoder and decoder. A 2.4 Gbit/s rate-1/2 (3, 6) PN-LDPC-CC encoder and decoder were implemented ... -
Power Generation and Blade Flow Measurements of a Full Scale Wind Turbine
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)Experimental research has been completed using a custom designed and built 4m diameter wind turbine in a university operated wind facility. The primary goals of turbine testing were to determine the power production of the ... -
Power Generation Shortage in Developing Countries: Causes, Challenges and Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-14)Electricity consumers in developing countries are seeking reliable electricity services to subsidize the economy and assist the rising population. Underprivileged electricity services are major concerns for these consumers ... -
The Power Landmark Vector Learning Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-12)Kernel methods have recently become popular in bioinformatics machine learning. Kernel methods allow linear algorithms to be applied to non-linear learning situations. By using kernels, non-linear learning problems can ... -
Power Management for Deep Submicron Microprocessors
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-18)As VLSI technology scales, the enhanced performance of smaller transistors comes at the expense of increased power consumption. In addition to the dynamic power consumed by the circuits there is a tremendous increase in ...