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Relationships among the number of food stores around schools, school level academic performance and school neighbourhood household income
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the number of food stores (FS) within 500m, 1000m and 1500m of Region of Waterloo schools and describe them by type: full-service restaurants, fast food restaurants, ... -
Relationships Between Motor Unit Anatomical Characteristics and Motor Unit Potential Statistics in Healthy Muscles
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The main goal of this thesis was to discover the relationships between MU characteristics and MUP features. To reach this goal, several features explaining the anatomical structure of the muscle were introduced. ... -
Relationships between Quality of Life and Selected Resident and Facility Characteristics in Long Term Care Facilities in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-04)Background: Quality of life (QoL) of long term care facility (LTC) residents is being recognized as an important outcome of care by LTC providers, researchers, and policy makers. For residents, measurement of QoL is a ... -
The relationships of prolonged standing induced low back pain development with lumbopelvic posture and movement patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-10)Over 80% of individuals will suffer from low back pain at least once in their lifetime. The cause within the population is not homogenous, leading to sub-classifications of non-specific low back pain. One such sub-classification ... -
A Relative Landscape-Level Habitat Quality Model for the Burrowing Owls of the Canadian Prairies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-30)The range and population of the Burrowing Owls as flagship migratory species of the open prairie landscape are in decline across the northernmost portion of their global range in Canada. Multiple sources of degradation, ... -
The Relative Performance of International Students and Their Academic Program Choices
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new immigrants. In Chapter 1, we examine the relative course grades of international undergraduate students in an ... -
Relative Pose Estimation Using Non-overlapping Multicamera Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-17)This thesis considers the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem using a set of perspective cameras arranged such that there is no overlap in their fields-of-view. With the known and fixed extrinsic calibration ... -
Relativistic Theory of the Interaction of Two-Dimensional Materials with Moving Charged Particles
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-08)Prompted by the recent surge of interest in integrating atomically thin layers of conducting materials into nanophotonic and nanoplasmonic devices; we propose, in this thesis, a theoretical framework to analyze the ... -
Relaxations of the Maximum Flow Minimum Cut Property for Ideal Clutters
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)Given a family of sets, a covering problem consists of finding a minimum cost collection of elements that hits every set. This objective can always be bound by the maximum number of disjoint sets in the family, we refer ... -
Relay-aided Interference Alignment in Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)Resource management in wireless networks is one of the key factors in maximizing the overall throughput. Contrary to popular belief, dividing the resources in a dense network does not yield the best results. A method that ... -
Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)The atmospheric lightwave propagation is considerably influenced by the random variations in the refractive index of air pockets due to turbulence. This undesired effect significantly degrades the performance of free-space ... -
Reliability Analysis of Power Systems Considering the Effect of Weather Variability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-09)The continuity of power supply is affected by numerous factors, one of which is related to the weather conditions to which power system components are exposed. Bad weather conditions have been noticed to be one of the major ... -
Reliability Analysis Using the Method of Multiplicative Dimensional Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Traditional engineering analyses and designs are based on deterministic input variables, and variability seen in the real world are often ignored to simplify the work. Formal reliability analyses are generally avoided by ... -
Reliability Assessment of Load Testing for Concrete Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-24)Structural rehabilitation is regularly undertaken to diagnose and repair a building during its service life; this practice ensures that buildings operate under safe and reliable conditions. Engineers generally rely on ... -
Reliability-based Environmental Impact Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-30)A sustainable design is achieved by balancing the four aspects, so called the four Es, of sustainability – environment, economy, equity, and engineering. Given that geotechnical constructions involve land transformations ... -
Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Replacement for Transformer
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Deregulated and competitive power market places utilities under high pressure to assure providing power with a satisfactory level of power continuity. This objective entails a high level of reliability which in turn demands ... -
Reliable Vehicle State and Parameter Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-08)Diverse vehicle active safety systems including vehicle electronic stability control (ESC) system, anti-lock braking system (ABS), and traction control system (TCS) are significantly relying on information about the vehicle's ... -
Reliable Communications over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)The recent years have seen an enormous advance in wireless communication technology and co-existence of various types of wireless networks, which requires effective inter-networking among the heterogeneous wireless networks ... -
A Reliable Multiple Access Scheme Based on Chirp Spread Spectrum and Turbo Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Nowadays, smart devices are the indispensable part of everyone's life and they play an important role in the advancement of industries and businesses.These devices are able to communicate with themselves and build the ... -
Reliable Transport Performance in Mobile Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Expanding the global Internet to include mobile devices is an exciting area of current research. Because of the vast size of the Internet, and because the protocols in it are already widely deployed, mobile devices must ...