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Small and Medium-size Enterprise Leadership in Sustainable Development, a Case Study of the Tourism Industry in Jamaica
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-21)This research addresses the evolution in the role of businesses in sustainable development as they shift from the traditional corporate responsibility practices to the contemporary approaches that see businesses adding ... -
Small Farms, Big Impacts: A Case Study in the Development of a Sustainable Farming Livelihood for Direct-Marketing Farmers in Southwestern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-10)Direct-marketing farms play an important role in fostering healthy communities in an era of rapid climate change and unsustainable global agro-industrial practices. Canadian cities intimately depend on foodstuffs imported ... -
Small Holds Sway: How Small Businesses Mobilize Knowledge to Support Action in Learning Processes for Sustainability Transformations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)Transformations of the industrialized food sector toward more sustainable food production, manufacturing, and consumption take place through individual and collective learning processes. Achieving transformational change ... -
Small scale energy harvesting for use with an electronic door strike
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-18)Smart or connected devices are becoming more and more prevalent in modern society. These devices typically consist of miniature sensors and actuators to automate and control common daily activities. The spread of these ... -
Small Towns in Transitions, an Exploratory Study in Collingwood, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-25)Collingwood, Ontario is experiencing an economic and social transition away from resource-dependent orient toward place-based development trajectory, after its economic breakdown of the traditional industries (e.g., ... -
Small Worlds: An Exhibition of Wall Drawing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-01)Small Worlds is an installation of wall drawing that explores the possibilities of shape and colour through repetition and scale. Combining drawing materials with printmaking techniques, I use my hands and body to replace ... -
The Small-er House Design Scheme
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-30)There is a conflict taking place between regional and community interests. This tension is nothing new. Often times this conflict is borne out of urban renewal schemes and major infrastructure interventions in core ... -
Small-scale producers and the governance of certified organic seafood production in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)As food scares have hastened the growth of safety and quality standards around the world, certification schemes to assure various attributes of foods have proliferated in the global marketplace. High-value food commodities ... -
A Small-Scale Standalone Wind Energy Conversion System Featuring SCIG, CSI and a Novel Storage Integration Scheme
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-12)Small-scale standalone wind turbines provide a very attractive renewable energy source for off-grid remote communities. Taking advantage of variable-speed turbine technology, which requires a partial- or full-scale power ... -
Small-Scale Tourism Development in Communist Cuba
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Tourism is arguably the world’s largest industry today, and has been adopted as an economic staple by countless low-income countries. However, while the tourism industry can bring much needed foreign capital into a country’s ... -
Smart Aging: How Smart Materials in Architecture Can Respond to Changing User Needs
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-04)As smart materials and digital fabrication technologies advance in architecture, environments can increasingly respond and interact with their users. One area of interest is the development of habitats that respond and ... -
Smart Antenna RF Front-end for WLAN and SDARS
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-01)This thesis presents RF front-end system design for both WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) and SDARS (Satellite Digital Audio Radio System) applications using adaptive smart antenna technique. It is important to understand ... -
Smart Charging of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Distribution Systems Considering Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-05)Distribution feeders and equipment are designed to serve peak loads, and in the absence of Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) loads, day-ahead dispatch of feeders is typically performed by optimizing feeder controls for ... -
Smart City Governance: A comparison of models and COVID-19 related implications within the GTA
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-16)The first part of this research asks the question “what is good smart city governance” and analyzes the relevant body of literature on smart cities and smart city governance. Based on the theoretical research, 13 potential ... -
Smart Contract Analysis Through Communication Abstractions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Smart contracts are programs that manage interactions between many users. Recently, Solidity smart contract have become a popular way to enforce financial agreements between untrusting users. However, such agreements do ... -
Smart Distribution Power Systems Reconfiguration using a Novel Multi-agent Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-22)The few past years have witnessed a huge leap in the field of the smart grid communication networks in which many theories are being developed, and many applications are being evolved to accommodate the implementation of ... -
Smart Exercise Adaptive Control of a Three Degree of Freedom Upper-limb Manipulator Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)An adaptive velocity field controller for robotic manipulators is proposed in this thesis. The control objective is to cause the user to exercise in a manner that optimizes a criterion related to the user’s mechanical ... -
Smart Grid Deployment and Climate Change Response: Evaluating Climate Change Integration in Ontario's Smart Grid Deployment Regime
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)Smart grid (SG) is modern electricity infrastructure that has the capacity to facilitate mitigation and adaptation to climate change through technological, institutional, and behavioral interventions. However, despite the ... -
Smart Growth and Parking: An Analysis of Downtown Revitalization in Mid-Sized Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-09)The post-WWII period saw significant suburban expansion in North American cities. This push outward utilized the abundant available land to satisfy the demand for housing, and saw the rise in use of the personal automobile. ... -
Smart Lighting and Student Performance: A Novel System Design, Implementation, and Effects in Classrooms
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-14)As one of the most essential factors of learning environment, lighting in classroom has been found to have significant impact on student performance. Moreover, brightness level and correlated color temperature (CCT) are ...