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Simple Yet Effective Pseudo Relevance Feedback with Rocchio’s Technique and Text Classification
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)With the continuous growth of the Internet and the availability of large-scale collections, assisting users in locating the information they need becomes a necessity. Generally, an information retrieval system will process ... -
Simple, economical methods for electrical access to nanostructures used for characterizing and welding individual silver nanowires
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Elongated nanostructures have attracted a great deal of interest due to unique optical, electrical and physical properties. In particular, silver nanowires and nanobeams have proven to be top contenders for a variety of ... -
Simplified Channel Estimation Techniques for OFDM Systems with Realistic Indoor Fading Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)This dissertation deals with the channel estimation techniques for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems such as in IEEE 802.11. Although there has been a great amount of research in this area, ... -
A Simplified Method for Hedging Jump Diffusions
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-23)Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) and has been widely used in the Black Scholes option-pricing framework to model the return of assets. However, many empirical investigations show that market returns have higher peaks and ... -
Simplified Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Devices: A Study of Efficiency and Stability
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-10)Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), compared to their inorganic counterparts, have potentially lower fabrication costs, lighter weight and better mechanical flexibility. Since its invention almost three decades ago, ... -
Simplified Seismic Design for Mid-Rise Buildings with Vertical Combination of Framing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-11)The mid-rise building with vertical combination of framing systems consists of a structural system in which the seismic-force-resisting-system (SFRS) of the upper structure is commonly a lightweight structural system such ... -
Simplifying Accelerated Electromigration Testing of Solder using Wire-based DUTs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-17)A novel and accelerated method for the characterization of Electromigration (EM) in a solder material typically used in electronics packaging is proposed in this report. The method includes a novel approach to prepare EM ... -
Simplifying the Creation of Multi-core Processors: An Interconnection Architecture and Tool Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-25)The contribution of this thesis is two-fold: an on-chip interconnection architecture designed specifically for multi-core processors and a tool framework that simplifies the process of designing a multi-core processor. ... -
Simulated Annealing Reconstruction and Effective Transport Properties of PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-15)A proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is an energy-conversion device that can be used in a wide variety of applications and is considered a promising alternative to gas and diesel engines for vehicular purposes. ... -
Simulated Overloading using Generic Functions in Scheme
(University of Waterloo, 1997)This thesis investigates extending the dynamically-typed, functional programming language Scheme, with simulated overloading in order to permit the binding of multiple, distributed defnitions to function names. Overloading ... -
Simulating a Novel Nitrogen Removal Process Using EnviroPro Designer
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)Ammonia removal is an important problem that Canadian municipalities are encountering in their wastewater treatment systems due to ammonia’s adverse environmental effects and its increasingly stringent discharge ... -
Simulating Farmer Adoption of Agricultural Best Management Practices in the Upper Medway Creek Subwatershed
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-16)In the coupled human-environment system, humans play a central role in creating various environmental problems, and in turn, are impacted by these environmental consequences. In Canada, water quality degradation caused by ... -
Simulating lake dynamics: the effects of bathymetry and bottom drag
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-31)This work seeks, through numerical simulations as well as analysis, to derive from relatively simple models an intuitive understanding of the dynamics and behaviour of flow in lakes near the bottom boundary. The main body ... -
Simulating Many-Body States of Light and Matter with Tensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)When Feynman originally proposed the concept of a quantum computer, his purpose was to perform quantum simulation of complex materials. It is thus a key requirement that quantum resources can emulate physical processes ... -
Simulating quantum matter through lattice field theories
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-16)Quantum many-body systems are comprised of complex networks of microscopic interactions that work together to produce novel collective phases and phenomena. For strongly-interacting systems, the connection between the ... -
Simulating the Effects of Enclosure Retrofits on Post-War High-Rise Apartment Buildings in Cold Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)A large portion of the existing building stock in North America is comprised of post-World War II high-rise apartment buildings, particularly in the Greater Golden Horseshoe in Ontario. They are home to a large portion of ... -
Simulating the Impact of Methane Gas Production from the Clearwater B Formation on the Regional Groundwater Flow System
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)The production of natural gas from a saline aquifer will reduce the pressure regime in that aquifer to some degree. Simultaneously, this relief in pressure will causes gas to be exsolved out of the aqueous phase, which ... -
Simulating the impact of water infrastructure on groundwater and surface water within the Laurel Creek Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)As the urbanization of the City of Waterloo, the infrastructure system expanded fast in the last couple decades. The increased population gave a higher load to the Laurel Creek Watershed. At the same time, the aged ... -
Simulating the Predevelopment Hydrologic Condition of the San Joaquin Valley, California
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-23)The San Joaquin Valley is part of the Great Central Valley of California, a major agricultural centre and food supplier for the United States. This area has significant water management concerns given the very high water ... -
Simulating the TCE DNAPL Source Zone Below the Water Table at the Santa Susanna Field Laboratory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-26)Both 2D and 3D numerical models using the CompFlow Bio were built to simulate TCE introduced from 1940 through 1990 due to industrial activities, in the fractured bedrock with a turbidities sequence of sandstones with shale ...