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Bifurcation and Robust Control of Instabilities in the Presence of Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-06)In real-world applications, nominal mathematical models that are used to describe the state behaviors of dynamical systems are usually less robust to deal with environmental disruptions. Uncertainties, such as imprecision ... -
Big Ships, Small Towns: The Impact of New Port Developments in the Cruise Tourism Industry. The case of Falmouth Jamaica
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-18)ABSTRACT The cruise sector constitutes one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry. With the continued growth of the industry comes the need to develop new ports to accommodate the increased volume of ... -
A Big Tiny Problem: Flows of Primary Microplastics in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, posing chemical and physical risks to wildlife and human health. To effectively monitor and manage the microplastics problem, a baseline of the mass of primary microplastics ... -
Bilateral Macro-Micro Teleoperation Using A Magnetic Actuation Mechanism
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the advancement of microrobotic systems in micro-engineering, micro-fabrication, biological research and biomedical applications. Untethered magnetic-based microrobotic ... -
BIM-Based Decision Support for Evaluation of Architectural Submittals during Construction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-15)Submittal review is a formal process that takes place after construction has begun. All materials, equipment, and processes submitted by a contractor are evaluated for compliance with specifications before they can be ... -
Bimetal Temperature Compensation for Waveguide Microwave Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)Microwave communication devices have become ubiquitous in the past decade. As an increasing number of systems compete for spectrum, guard bands have shrunk to increase bandwidth efficiency. The frequency behaviour of ... -
Bimodal Gate Oxide Breakdown in Sub-100 nm CMOS Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)In the last three decades, the electronic industry has registered a tremendous progress. The continuous and aggressive downsizing of the transistor feature sizes (CMOS scaling) has been the main driver of the astonishing ... -
The Bin Packing Problem with Fragile Objects: Models and Solution Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-25)The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is an important optimization problem with many applications. Given a set of items with a certain weight and a set of bins with fixed capacity, the classical BPP seeks to pack the items into ... -
Binder Development for Binder Jetting of Aluminum Powder
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)Binder jetting (BJ) is a branch of additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses progressive addition of powders and adhesive binders to build parts with complex geometries. Compared to the other AM methods, the BJ ... -
Binder Jetting and Heat Treatment of Ferrous Alloys
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-15)Binder Jetting (BJ) is a manufacturing process that involves iterative and layer-wise deposition of powder material and an adhesive binder to construct geometrical features. It can be used to construct freeform and complex ... -
Binder-free TiO2/Carbon Cloth Composite Anode for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Lithium-Ion Capacitors are a new type of hybrid capacitor that combines both supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries into one device. It has a promising future as the next-generation electrochemical energy storage device ... -
Binding of Au3+ Ions by Polyadenine DNA
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)Interactions between DNA and metal ions are important for many applications such as metal sensing, therapeutics and nanotechnology. Many studies have already been published on these topics. DNA can bind metal ions via its ... -
Binding of Self-assembling Peptides to Oligodeoxynucleotides
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)This thesis is an experimental investigation on the binding of self-assembling peptides to oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) and the characterization of the resulting peptide-ODN complexes/aggregates, the first key step in the ... -
Binocular vision and fixational eye movements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Introduction In observers with amblyopia, abnormal patterns of amblyopic eye (AME) fixational eye movements (FEM) have been associated with monocular (reduced amblyopic eye visual acuity) and binocular sensory deficits ... -
A Bio-Assembly, Mosaic Building, and Informatics System for Cell Biology
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)In the field of regenerative medicine, there is a need to develop technologies that can increase the overall efficiency of imaging and expanding cells in culture and in complex heterogeneous arrangements necessary for ... -
Bio-Based Production of Uroporphyrin and Protoporphyrin-IX in Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-06)Porphyrins are tetrapyrrole compounds with diverse medical applications but challenging chemical and biological synthesis. This thesis reports a novel bioprocess approach for enhanced production of porphyrins including ... -
Bio-inspired Oleophobic/Conductive Micro/nano Structures and Their Applications in Frozen Oil Adhesion Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)Inspired by the excellent superhydrophobicity and self-cleaning properties of the lotus leaf, numerous superhydro-oleophobic micro/nanostructures have been developed which mimicked biological systems. These structures have ... -
Bio-optical Modeling of Aquatic Photosynthesis in the Laurentian Great Lakes
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)The methodology of phytoplankton production measurements in the Laurentian Great Lakes and other freshwater lakes has remained largely unchanged in the past 40 years. In most studies photosynthesis from a single water ... -
Bioarchaeology in Greece: Breathing Life into the Early Helladic and Archaic Skeletal Assemblages from Klenia
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-15)Rescue excavations between 2014 and 2015 in Klenia, Corinthia, Greece uncovered an assemblage of human skeletal remains from one Archaic (750-479 BCE) and four Early Helladic (2650-2200 BCE) tombs. Until recently, ... -
A bioassessment of the impact of livestock restriction on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Grand River watershed in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Livestock exclusion from streams is a best management practice applied in attempts to improve water quality in the Grand River watershed in Ontario, Canada. Because of the lack of resources, minimal biomonitoring is conducted ...