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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 ... -
Smart Operation of Centralized Temperature Control System in Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Smart Grid has emerged a very important concept in modern power systems. The integration of different loads such as residential, commercial and industrial into the smart grid and their optimal operation has a significant ... -
Smart Operation of Four-Quadrant Electric Vehicle Chargers in Distribution Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)Many policies and programs adopted in the context of climate change mitigation and substitution of fossil fuels are contributing to the continuous development and growth of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in urban mobility systems, ... -
Smart PEV Charging Station Operation and Design Considering Distribution System Impact
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)Penetration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) into the market is expected to be large in the near future. Also, as stated by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, the province is investing $20 million from Ontario's ... -
Smart Planning and Operation in Cellular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Cellular networks are less and less regular as operators add base stations (BSs) to increase coverage and performance. Given these facts, we explore the network planning and operation stages of the downlink of a multi-cell ... -
Smart Polymeric Materials by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)The aim of this Thesis work was to address the issue of microbial contamination inside fuel tanks. Microorganisms induce the chemical corrosion of airplane tank walls due to their production of organic acids. Biocide ... -
Smart Roaming: How Operator Cooperation Can Increase Spectrum Usage Efficiency At practically No Cost
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)We propose Smart Roaming (SR), a cooperation technique between cellular telcos operating in the same region, that enables users to roam for performance reasons (instead of lack of coverage from their operator). Within a ... -
Smart-Meter Enabled Estimation and Prediction of Outdoor Residential Water Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Smart meter technology allows frequent measurements of water consumption at a household level. This greater availability of data allows improved analysis of patterns of residential water consumption, which is important ... -
Smartphone Applications in Government: Characterizing and Evaluating Municipal Smartphone Applications for Service Requests
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Using advanced information and communication technologies to deliver information and services, which is referred to as e-government, is trending at different levels of governments. Through the evolution of web technologies ... -
A Smartphone-based Connected Vehicle Solution for Winter Road Surface Condition Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-11)The monitoring of winter road surface conditions (RSCs) is essential to transportation agencies and the traveling public, since the former needs to be aware of the location and severity of existing RSCs in order to effectively ... -
Smartphone-enabled Biotelemetric System For a Smart Contact Lens
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)Diabetes describes a disordered metabolic state with an overabundance of glucose in the bloodstream, due to insu cient production or utilization of insulin to allow tissue cells from consuming glucose. People with unmanaged ... -
Smith Normal Form over Local Rings and Related Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)The Smith normal form is a diagonalization of matrices with many applications in diophantine analysis, graph theory, system control theory, simplicial homology, and more recently, in topological analysis of big data. ... -
Smokeless Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth in Grades 9-12
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-01)Youth represent a substantial portion of smokeless tobacco (ST) users in Canada compared to the general population. Highest prevalence of use is typically seen in males, in current smokers, and in the Western provinces. ... -
Smoking Cessation among Young Adult Dual Users of E-cigarettes and Tobacco Cigarettes in a Mobile Phone Intervention: Analysis of Data from a Randomized Controlled Trial
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)Background Dual-use of electronic (e-cigarettes) and tobacco cigarettes has increased in the past few years (Czoli et al., 2015) without evidence of it being effective as a smoking cessation aid (Manzoli et al., 2015). ... -
Smooth and Time-Optimal Trajectory Generation for High Speed Machine Tools
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)In machining complex dies, molds, aerospace and automotive parts, or biomedical components, it is crucial to minimize the cycle time, which reduces costs, while preserving the quality and tolerance integrity of the part ... -
Smooth and Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Multi-Axis Machine Tools
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-26)This thesis presents novel methods for feedrate optimization and toolpath smoothing in CNC machining. Descriptions of the algorithms, simulation test cases, and experimental results are presented. Both feedrate optimization ... -
Smoothening Functions and the Homomorphism Learning Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)This thesis is an exploration of certain algebraic and geometrical aspects of the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem introduced in Reg05. On the algebraic front, we view it as a Learning Homomorphisms with Noise problem, ... -
Snakes in the Plane
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Recent developments in tiling theory, primarily in the study of anisohedral shapes, have been the product of exhaustive computer searches through various classes of polygons. I present a brief background of tiling theory ... -
Snapshotting Mechanisms for Persistent Memory-Mapped Files
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)In this research, we explore ways to enhance the reliability of persistent memory systems. Using Montage (ICPP'21) as our reference model, we identify areas of potential improvement, especially concerning the risk of data ... -
SNGF Selected Node Geographic Forwarding Routing Protocol for VANETs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-31)This thesis presents a protocol for intervehicle communication for use in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET). VANET is a natural extension of mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) in which the restrictions related to power and ...