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Reducing Environmental Impacts of The Petroleum Refining Operations: Studies Related to Water Treatment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Management
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)Petroleum refining is one of the most important chemical processing industries, converting crude oil into many usable and useful products, but it can cause adverse environmental impacts. Two environmental issues were ... -
Reducing Health Misinformation in Search Results
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)People commonly search the web for answers to health-related questions. With health information being added to the Internet every day, misinformation proliferates and disseminates wildly. Previous work has shown that if ... -
Reducing Interaction Cost: A Mechanism Deisgn Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-06)In this thesis we study the problem of requiring self-interested agents need to interact with some centralized mechanism where this interaction is costly. To improve their utility, agents may choose to interact ... -
Reducing the Cost of Operating a Datacenter Network
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)Datacenters are a significant capital expense for many enterprises. Yet, they are difficult to manage and are hard to design and maintain. The initial design of a datacenter network tends to follow vendor guidelines, but ... -
Reducing the electric field sensitivity of a Rydberg state transition by the application of a non-resonant microwave field
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)The 87Rb 49s->48s Rydberg state transition was rendered insensitive to electric field fluctuations about a 1V/cm dc electric field. This was accomplished by applying a non-resonant 38.445GHz microwave field to modify the ... -
Reducing the Emergence of the Gaps: Computation for Weak Emergence
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-29)This thesis contributes to the growing literature surrounding the importance of weak emergence by showing it can account for more phenomena than originally conceived via the use of computational reduction. Weak emergence ... -
Reducing the Latency of Dependent Operations in Large-Scale Geo-Distributed Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-14)Many applications rely on large-scale distributed systems for data management and computation. These distributed systems are complex and built from different networked services. Dependencies between these services can ... -
A Reduction from Smart Contract Verification to Model Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)We present a reduction from verification of smart contracts to model checking. A smart contract is a computer program written in a language with constructs that correspond to real-world contracts, such as verified sending ... -
Reduction of CO2 Emissions from Cement Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-14)Reduction of CO2 Emissions from Cement Plants Governments around the world have been pressured by society to discuss environmental issues, and global warming is one of the most controversial debates. The Kyoto Protocol ... -
Reduction of Implementation Complexity in MIMO-OFDM Decoding for V-BLAST Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)This dissertation documents alternative designs of the Zero Forcing decoding algorithm with Successive Interference Cancellation (ZF-SIC) for use in Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space Time Architecture (V-BLAST) ... -
Reduction of TCE and Chromate by Granular Iron in the Presence of Dissolved CaCO<sub>3</sub>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Iron permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) have been installed at sites contaminated with various reducible organic and inorganic chemicals, particularly chlorinated solvents, worldwide. Many geochemical factors can affect ... -
Reductions and Triangularizations of Sets of Matrices
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Families of operators that are triangularizable must necessarily satisfy a number of spectral mapping properties. These necessary conditions are often sufficient as well. This thesis investigates such properties in ... -
Redundant Hybrid Cable-Driven Robots: Modeling, Control, and Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)Serial and Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are two types of robots that are widely used in industrial applications. Usually, the former offers high position accuracy at the cost of high motion inertia and small workspace ... -
Reference and Reinterpretation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-02)Reference is the relation held to obtain between an expression and what a speaker or thinker intends the expression to represent. Reference is a component of interpretation, the process of giving terms, sentences, and ... -
Reference Frames and Algorithms for Quantum Information Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-27)The main results of this thesis fall in to two areas, firstly quantum reference frames as a resource for quantum computations and secondly quantum algorithms. The results relating to quantum references consider their scaling ... -
Refill Friction Stir Spot Welding Of Dissimilar Alloys
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)Lightweight alloy materials such as magnesium and aluminum alloys are frequently employed in the automotive and manufacturing industry in order to improve vehicle fuel economy. This creates a pressing need for joining of ... -
A Refined Method for Quantitation of Divalent Metal Ions in Metalloproteins and Local Stability and Conformational Heterogeneity of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Associated Cu, Zn Superoxide Dismutase
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-13)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating and progressive disease that results in selective death of motor neurons in the cortex, brain stem and spinal cord. ALS is the most common adult onset motor neuron disease ... -
Refining Flow: The Re-conceptualization And Measurement Of Flow As Deep Effortless Concentration
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)The work reported in this dissertation includes a series of studies that have the broad goal of understanding and encapsulating the experience of flow. In this chapter (Chapter 1), I have laid out the theoretical and ... -
Refining the relationship between the mechanical demands on the spine and injury mechanisms through improved estimates of load exposure and tissue tolerance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-09)The low back loading to which an individual is exposed has been linked to injury and the reporting of low back pain. Despite extensive research on the spine and workplace loading exposures, statistics indicate that efforts ... -
Refining, Implementing, and Evaluating the Extended Continuous Variable-Specific Resolutions of Feature Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)Systems that involve feature-oriented software development suffer from feature interactions, in which features affect one another’s behaviour in surprising ways. As the number of features increases, the complexity of ...