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Real-time Optimal Energy Management System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)Air pollution and rising fuel costs are becoming increasingly important concerns for the transportation industry. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are seen as a solution to these problems as they off er lower emissions and ... -
Real-Time Traffic Performance Measurement of Signalized Intersections Using Connected Vehicle Data: A Simulation-Based Study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)Traffic congestion has long become a major concern in many cities in Canada and around the world. It has been estimated that the annual total economic loss due to traffic congestion in major Canadian urban centers has ... -
Real-Time Vehicle Emission Estimation Using Traffic Data
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)The current state of climate change should be addressed by all sectors that contribute to it. One of the major contributors is the transportation sector, which generates a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in North ... -
Realisation of Quantum Operations using Linear Optics
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-04)The main topic of this thesis is linear optics and the implementation of quantum operations (measurements, quantum channels, and unitary rotations) on optical systems. In the opening chapter the basic notions needed to ... -
A Realist Critique of Structural Empiricism
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-04)In his latest work, Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, Bas van Fraassen has argued for a position he describes as empiricist structuralism. This position embraces a structuralist view of science which ... -
A realistic account of evidence-informed tobacco control practice in Ontario public health agencies
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-06)Policy-makers, research funders, and practitioners acknowledge the need for theories about the uptake of scientific evidence into policy and programs to reduce population-wide risk factors for the major avoidable chronic ... -
Realitätsverlust und Medienkonstitution: Thomas Glavinics Die Arbeit der Nacht (2006) als radikale Literarisierung Baudrillardscher Konzepte?
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)In this thesis I argue that Thomas Glavinic’s novel Die Arbeit der Nacht (Night Work) investigates existential themes of the human condition in a post-modern world. My analysis demonstrates that the novel can be understood ... -
Realization of atomically smooth defect free InGaAs/InAlAs superlattice on InP(111) substrate by molecular beam epitaxy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-15)InGaAs and InAlAs epilayers and superlattices were grown on rounded edge InP(111)A and InP(111)B substrates as well as on 0.45°, 1° and 2° misoriented InP(111)B substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). Rounded edge ... -
Realization of Non-Volatile Memory in Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)The integration of memory circuits in thin-film transistors (TFTs) is essential to extend the functionalities of large-area applications such as flat-panel displays, imagers etc. Intensive research is being conducted with ... -
Realization of novel entangled photon sources using periodically poled materials
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)This thesis deals with the production of entangled photons using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). We start with a short overview of some important theoretical concepts. First we provide a brief reminder of ... -
Realizing Surface Driven Flows in the Primitive Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)The surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) model describes the evolution of buoyancy at vertical boundaries in the limit of infinitesimal Rossby number. In this regime, the quasi-geostrophic approximations are expected to hold. ... -
Realtime Motion Planning for Manipulator Robots under Dynamic Environments: An Optimal Control Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-19)This report presents optimal control methods integrated with hierarchical control framework to realize real-time collision-free optimal trajectories for motion control in kinematic chain manipulator (KCM) robot systems ... -
Reanimation: Redefining the Urban Network in St James Town, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)Urban intensification in the city of Toronto during the 1960s draws from the essential idea – “Tower in the Park”, a concept that we now recognize as pervasively problematic. These neighbourhoods are flooded with criticism ... -
Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of ... -
Reasoned connections: Complex creativity and dual-process theories of cognition
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Creativity is one of the most imperative of all psychological constructs to study, for the implications of understanding creativity have immense bearing upon our future as a species. Understanding creativity can reveal not ... -
Reasoning about Benefits and Costs of Interaction with Users in Real-time Decision Making Environments with Application to Healthcare Scenarios
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)This thesis examines the problem of having an intelligent agent reasoning about interaction with users in real-time decision making environments. Our work is motivated by the models of Fleming and Cheng, which reason about ... -
Reasoning About Foreign Function Interfaces: Blame and Nondeterministic Formal Semantics
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Foreign function interfaces (FFIs) are commonly used as a way to mix programming languages. In such systems, a program written in a host language calls functions written in a guest language from within the same program. ... -
Reassessing foreign language classroom anxiety: Employing poststructuralist theories in a qualitative meta-analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis will generate new insight into the study of classroom language anxiety and its method of analysis in current SLA discourse. Drawing heavily from Horcoff, Horcoff and Cope’s seminal paper “Foreign Language ... -
The Rebirth of Rape: Tracing Ovidian Rape Motifs with Respect to Bernini's Pluto and Persephone as a Piece of Classical Reception
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Rape, as it is understood in a modern context, is approached with a completely different perspective than that of an ancient, and even a post-Renaissance, audience. With the contributing factors of cultural, historical, ... -
REBUILDING OUR WATERS: An alternative view of Ontario cottage country through models of community engagement and shared environmental stewardship.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Cottaging is a ‘summer-home’ tradition for many Canadian families and plays an important role in Ontario’s cultural and provincial identity. The North-Hastings – East Haliburton area is a popular cottage destination; however ...