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Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Investigations of Amyloid-β Aggregation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-29)Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease affecting over five million people in the United States alone, with almost half a million new cases every year. As the population ages, these figures will only increase ... -
Single Phase Pump: Non-Mechanical Valvular Conduit
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)This thesis evaluates performance of a non-mechanical conduit valve that was designed for the purpose of this research. The motivation came from the need for a cooling system of portable computers (e.g. laptops and netbooks). ... -
Single photon measurements: from spin-orbit lattices to ultrafast pulses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)Single photons are naturally suited to quantum information processes as they can carry entanglement in multiple degrees of freedom and maintain coherence easily. In order to fully harness single photons for this use, it ... -
Single View Human Pose Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Recovery of human pose from videos has become a highly active research area in the last decade because of many attractive potential applications, such as surveillance, non-intrusive motion analysis and natural human machine ... -
Single White-Light-Emitting Nanostructures Based on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: Development, Characterization and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-19)Electric energy use associated with lighting reaches up to 3400 Terawatts hours and constitutes approximately 20 % of the world total electricity output per year. That in turn contributes to the release of at least 1900 ... -
Single-Chip Scanning Probe Microscopes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) are the highest resolution imaging instruments available today and are among the most important tools in nanoscience. Conventional SPMs suffer from several drawbacks owing to their large ... -
Single-Entity-Single-Relation Question Answering with Minimal Annotation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)We present a novel bag-of-words based approach that automatically constructs a semantic parsing based question answering (QA) system tailored to single-entity-single-relation questions. Given a large community QA pair ... -
The Single-Member Plurality and Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral Systems: Different Concepts of an Election
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The thesis is an analysis of the different concepts of an election reflected in the single-member plurality (SMP) electoral system and the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system. These different concepts reflect ... -
Single-Particle Dynamics in Nanoscopic Systems: Statistical Modeling and Inference
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-24)Our work aims to solve some of the most significant and fundamental theoretical problems involved in the current statistical modeling of stochastic processes in single-molecule experiments, for which a well recognized yet ... -
Single-pass stratified importance resampling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)Simulating the behavior of light to produce realistic images involves evaluation of difficult integrals. Monte Carlo integration is a general method to estimate such integrals and is therefore widely used in physically ... -
Single-Phase and Boiling Flow in Microchannels with High Heat Flux
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-13)A cooling system for high heat flux applications is examined using microchannel evaporators with water as the working fluid and boiling as the heat transfer mechanism. Experimental studies are performed using single channel ... -
Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Quantum communications and quantum cryptography are developing rapidly during the last decades caused partly by a fast progress in quantum computing. Quantum cryptography provides an unconditionally secure way of communicating ... -
Single-photon detectors for satellite based quantum communications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)With the growing use of online communications in our modern society, information security is becoming a big concern. Along with that, the progress in quantum computers is posing severe threats to such communications. Once ... -
Single-Session Imagery Rescripting for Social Anxiety Disorder: Efficacy and Mechanisms.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-25)Cognitive theories of social anxiety propose that negative mental imagery plays a central role in the maintenance of the disorder. Research has indicated that the content of such mental imagery represents negative core ... -
Single-Shot Direct Block Address Encoding for Learning Screen Geometry
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-17)3D surface reconstruction has many applications in different domains such as projection mapping, virtual reality, robot navigation, human computer interaction and manufacturing inspection, to name a few. Among different ... -
The Sinorhizobium meliloti ExoS/ChvI two-component regulatory system
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)Exopolysaccharides are essential for the establishment of the symbiosis between Sinorhizobium meliloti and Medicago sativa (alfalfa). The ExoS/ChvI two-component regulatory system is known as a regulator of succinoglycan ... -
Sir John Eldon Gorst and British Social Policy 1875-1914
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)The period of Liberal rule in Britain between 1906 and 1914 is justly remembered for its social reforms. The "New Liberalism" of these years produced the social legislation which constituted the nucleus of what is now the ... -
Site Finding in a Complex Urban Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)This thesis demonstrates a working method for architectural analysis that combines manipulation of spatial data with a systematic analysis approach, configured for small-scale urban site selection in Toronto. The study ... -
Site Investigation and Modelling of DNAPL Migration in a Fractured-Porous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-01)The present work is in the area of site and computational investigations dealing with migration of a dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) within a discrete fractures network embedded in a porous rock media at field scale ... -
Site of Emerging Memory: Ritual of Recollection in Post-Communist Sofia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)Collective memory emerges within our physical realm through material and spatial manifestations that link personal and collective conceptions of the past and present. The role of the memorial, as the primary urban element ...