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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CONSUMER GRADE WEARABLE DEVICES IN HEALTH CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)Background: The proliferation of wearable and mobile devices in recent years has led to the generation of unprecedented amounts of health-related data. Together with the growing population of older adults in Canada, the ... -
Put a finger down if you've ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-27)Put a finger down if you’ve ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms is a collection of critical reflections on embedded social media microaggressions reflecting acts of racism, body shaming, the glorification ... -
“Putting Quality Food on the Tray”: Assessing Patients’ Expectations and Experiences of Meals Served in Sixteen Ontario Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)Background: Malnutrition is prevalent among hospital patients and occurs in up to 45% of Canadian medical and surgical patients. Hospital malnutrition is associated with detrimental outcomes for patients, such as further ... -
The Puzzle of the Morrissette-Arcand Clan: A History Of Metis Historic and Intergenerational Trauma
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)This thesis explores how members of the Morrissette-Arcand clan, a Metis road allowance family from Saskatchewan, endured intergenerational trauma since being displaced from Red River in the 1870s. It frames Metis history ... -
A Puzzle-Based Synthesis Algorithm For a Triple Intersection of Schubert Varieties
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-29)This thesis develops an algorithm for the Schubert calculus of the Grassmanian. Specifically, we state a puzzle-based, synthesis algorithm for a triple intersection of Schubert varieties. Our algorithm is a reformulation ... -
PV ENABLED NET ZERO EV CHARGING STATION: SYSTEM DESIGN AND SIMULATION STUDY
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)A paradigm shift in the transportation sector is being witnessed due to resurgence of electric vehicles (EVs). They are ideally considered to be non-polluting and eco-friendly, however it has its own demerits of overloading ... -
PVAm-PVA Composite Membranes Incorporated with Carbon Nanotubes and Molecular Amines for Gas Separation and Pervaporation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)This study deals with polyvinylamine (PVAm)-poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) based composite membranes incorporated with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and molecular amines (e.g., piperazine (PZ), triethanolamine (TEA), N-methyldiethanolamine ... -
Pyrene Excimer Formation: A Tool to Study Macromolecular Conformations in Solution
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-26)The current view for fluorescence collisional quenching (FCQ) experiments is that no quantitative information can be retrieved from macromolecules containing more than a single dye-quencher pair attached at two specific ... -
q-deformed LQG in three dimensional space-time
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a canonical, background-independent and non-perturbative approach to quantum gravity. This thesis is devoted to studying three-dimensional (3D) quantum gravity with a non-vanishing cosmological ... -
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Tibet Tourism: Travelers’ Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-22)With the distinguished natural and cultural tourism resources, Tibet is undoubtedly a desirable travel destination both domestically and internationally. With the newly opened Qinghai-Tibet railway to Lhasa in July 2006, ... -
QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-28)Wireless Mesh Networking is envisioned as an economically viable paradigm and a promising technology in providing wireless broadband services. The wireless mesh backbone consists of fixed mesh routers that interconnect ... -
QoS Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)With the exploding increase of mobile users and the release of new wireless applications, the high bandwidth requirement has been taking as a main concern for the design and development of the wireless techniques. There ... -
QoS Support for Voice Packet Transmission over Cognitive Radio Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-27)Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) provide a solution for the spectrum scarcity problem facing the wireless communications community. However, due to the infancy of CRNs, further research is needed before we can truly benefit ... -
QoS-aware Mobile Web Services Discovery Using Utility Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)Existing QoS-aware Web Services discovery architectures tend to focus solely on fulfilling the requirements of either the client or the provider. However, the interests of the provider and client are not equivalent. The ... -
Quadratic Hedging with Margin Requirements and Portfolio Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)We consider a mean-variance portfolio optimization problem, namely, a problem of minimizing the variance of the final wealth that results from trading over a fixed finite horizon in a continuous-time complete market in the ... -
Quadratic Loss Minimization in a Regime Switching Model with Control and State Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-09)In this thesis, we address a convex stochastic optimal control problem in mathematical finance, with the goal of minimizing a general quadratic loss function of the wealth at close of trade. We study this problem in the ... -
A quadratic programming approach to find faces in robust nonnegative matrix factorization
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular dimensionality reduction technique because it is easily interpretable and can discern useful features. For a given matrix M (dimension n x m) whose entries are nonnegative ... -
Quadratically Dense Matroids
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-08)This thesis is concerned with finding the maximum density of rank-$n$ matroids in a minor-closed class. The extremal function of a non-empty minor-closed class $\mathcal M$ of matroids which excludes a rank-2 uniform ... -
Quadrotor Position Estimation using Low Quality Images
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)The use of unmanned systems is becoming widespread in commercial and military sectors. The ability of these systems to take on dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks which were formerly done by humans is encouraging their rapid ... -
Quadrupole Electric Field for Erasing the Fine Structure Splitting of a Nanowire Quantum Dot Entangled Photon Source
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)Entanglement is an essential tool in quantum information processing (QIP), for example, to achieve a secure quantum communication network and quantum computing. Semiconductor quantum dots can generate on-demand entangled ...