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Sequences design for OFDM and CDMA systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)With the emergence of multi-carrier (MC) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme in the current WLAN standards and next generation wireless broadband standards, the necessitation to acquire a method for ... -
Sequences of Trees and Higher-Order Renormalization Group Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)In 1998, Connes and Kreimer introduced a combinatorial Hopf algebra HCK on the vector space of forests of rooted trees that precisely explains the phenomenon of renormalization in quantum field theory. This Hopf algebra ... -
Sequential Decision Making Schemes in Inventory and Transportation Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-10)Many mathematical models exist for the simultaneous optimization of transportation and inventory functions. A simultaneous model, while giving the lowest total cost, may not be easily implemented in a firm with decentralized ... -
Sequential Extraction of Trace Metals as Geochemical Indicators of Land Use Near Ancient Metallurgical Sites in Faynan, Jordan
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)Civilizations are tied to soils through a reliance on agriculture. In the Faynan Valley, southern Jordan, both the individuals who tend to the soils and the soils themselves have evolved through a series of environmental ... -
Serial Compression Effects on Porosity, Diffusion, Permeability, and Water Droplet Contact Angle of the Gas Diffusion Layer in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)The polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell is an electrochemical device that directly converts the chemical energy of hydrogen and oxygen into electricity with water and heat as byproducts. It is very promising to ... -
A series
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)I have written a series of abstracts — an infinite string of summaries with formal and functional resemblances — none of which ended up in my thesis. The complication was that of practicality, none of the abstracts could ... -
Series-Parallel Posets and Polymorphisms
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)We examine various aspects of the poset retraction problem for series-parallel posets. In particular we show that the poset retraction problem for series-parallel posets that are already solvable in polynomial time are ... -
Serious Game for Fire Evacuation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)Fire safety for buildings has been of increasing concern due to the increase in occupant density in modern-day infrastructures. Efforts have been made by civil engineers to reduce loss in building fire accidents. For ... -
Serious Games on the Lived Experience of Dementia as Learning Tools in Pharmacy Education
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-23)Dementia is a stigmatized and often ‘invisible’ condition which requires clinicians to have a nuanced understanding of the lived experience to build trust and provide better quality of care. Pharmacists are at the frontline ... -
Serverless Data Analytics with Flint
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Serverless architectures organized around loosely-coupled function invocations represent an emerging design for many applications. Recent work mostly focuses on user-facing products and event-driven processing pipelines. ... -
A Serverless Discrete Optimization Service in the Cloud Based on Boolean Circuit Satisfiability
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)This thesis discusses the implementation of a serverless cloud service designed for solving discrete optimization problems encoded as boolean circuit satisfiability. Boolean circuit satisfiability problem involves determining ... -
Service Negotiation and Contracting in Virtual Network Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)The current Internet presents a high barrier to entry for new service providers, due to its inability to accommodate new protocols and technologies, and lack of competition among the network providers. Recently, network ... -
Service Revenue Management in the Presence of Grouping Complementarities
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)This thesis studies a revenue management problem faced by providers of differentiated and congested services when customer preferences are subject to externalities. In particular, a customer benefits not only from receiving ... -
Service System Design with Immobile Servers, Stochastic Demand and Economies of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-26)The service system design problem seeks to locate facilities, determine their capacity, and assign customers to them in order to improve the service quality and the customers' experience while minimizing the capacity ... -
Service-Driven Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-15)This thesis presents our research on service-driven networking, which is a general design framework for service quality assurance and integrated network and service management in large scale multi-domain networks. The ... -
Service-Level-Driven Load Scheduling and Balancing in Multi-Tier Cloud Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-06)Cloud computing environments often deal with random-arrival computational workloads that vary in resource requirements and demand high Quality of Service (QoS) obligations. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is employed to ... -
Serving the Fast Food Nation: Analyzing and Understanding Food Choice, BMI and Self-Perceived Weight in the Food Service Worker Population
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Policymakers, politicians, and media outlets have declared an obesity epidemic. In doing so, they have named a variety of villains, including fast food. Despite the framing of fast food as being a leading contributor to ... -
Set Representation Learning: A Framework for Learning Gigapixel Images
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)In Machine Learning, we often encounter data as a set of instances such Point Clouds (set of x,y, and z coordinates), patches from gigapixel images (Digital Pathology, Satellite Imagery, Astronomical Images, etc.), Weakly ... -
Set Up For Failure? Understanding Probation Orders and Breaches of Probation for Youth in Conflict with the Law
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)This dissertation examines probation for young people in Canada. Ninety percent of all young people sentenced in Canada receive a non-custodial or community sentence, with probation accounting for the majority (91%) of ... -
Setting Target Rates for Construction Activity Analysis Categories
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)This thesis is focused on increasing productive actions in construction by a procedure known as Activity Analysis. Activity Analysis is a continuous productivity improvement tool for identifying barriers to site productivity ...