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Strategic Location Planning for Broadband Access Networks under Cooperative Transmission
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-28)To achieve a cost-effective network deployment, employing state-of-art technical advances provides a practical and effective way to enhance system performance and quality of service provisioning. Cooperative transmission ... -
Strategic Network Design for Delivery by Drones under Service-based Competition
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In today’s world, E-commerce is a fast growing industry and e-retailers are looking for innovative ways to deliver customer orders within short delivery times at a low cost. Currently, the use of drone technology for ... -
Strategic Planning for Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Community sport organizations (CSOs) are membership-based nonprofit associations that offer accessible and affordable pathways for sport participation. As such, CSOs are fundamental to the sport delivery system, particularly ... -
Strategic Total Highway Asset Management
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)The last decade has seen significant developments in highway asset management. A key component to successful asset management is long-term network investment planning. In order to successfully manage a significant quantity ... -
Strategic Trip Planning: Striking a Balance Between Competition and Cooperation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)In intelligent transportation systems, cooperative mobility planning is considered to be one of the challenging problems. Mobility planning as it stands today is an in- dividual decision-making effort that takes place in ... -
Strategic Voting and Social Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)With the ever increasing ubiquity of social networks in our everyday lives, comes an increasing urgency for us to understand their impact on human behavior. Social networks quantify the ways in which we communicate with ... -
Strategically Coupled Inertial Flow and Interfaced Evolution (SCI-FIE) Models for Dissolution Mining
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Mineral dissolution or dissolution mining is a technology for underground mineral extraction. The space developed after the mining may be a desirable reservoir for the storage of natural gas and hydrocarbons or compressed ... -
Strategies and Adaptations Seen with Unilateral Lower Limb Weighting during Level Ground Walking and Obstacle Clearance Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-17)Abstract: Previous lower limb weighting studies have placed a load on the legs bilaterally and tested different placement locations. It was previously determined that kinematic changes occur with greater masses and at ... -
Strategies for the Direct Coupling of Solid Phase Microextraction to Mass Spectrometry
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)In recent years, advances in direct sample to mass spectrometry (MS) techniques have allowed for the application of these methods towards quantitative analysis in complex matrices such as biofluids and tissue. However, the ... -
Strategies to Improve Solid Phase Microextraction Sensitivity: Temperature, Geometry and Sorbent Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-24)Solid phase microextraction (SPME) has been widely used in a variety of sample matrices and proven to be a simple, fast and solvent-free sample preparation technique. A challenging limitation in the further development of ... -
Strategies Towards Asymmetric Conjugate Trifluoromethylation of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones and the Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Boronates to β-Trifluoromethyl α,β-Unsaturated Ketones
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)Currently, there are no reported methods in the literature for the conjugate addition of the trifluoromethyl group to α,β-unsaturated ketones. A bulk of this thesis focused on developing a method to overcome this problem. ... -
Strategies Utilized while Minimizing Ankle Motion Bilaterally and Unilaterally during Level Ground Walking and Obstacle Clearance Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)A great deal of research has been done on the adaptive strategies of individuals who have been affected by a gait altering ailment, but there is little research on the adaptive strategies to imposed restrictions in the ... -
Stratified Flow Over Topography: Steady Nonlinear Waves, Boundary Layer Instabilities, and Crater Topography
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-29)This thesis investigates several aspects of stratified flow over isolated topography in ocean, lake, and atmospheric settings. Three major sub-topics are addressed: steady, inviscid internal waves trapped over topography ... -
Stratigraphy, Structure and Geochronology of Archean Lode Gold Deposits in the Southeastern Rice Lake Greenstone Belt, Southeast Manitoba
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)The Central Manitoba mine trend is one of the most important lode gold camps in the Rice Lake greenstone-granitoid belt of the western Uchi Subprovince within the western Superior Province, Manitoba, Canada. Neoarchean ... -
Straw Pressboard Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-15)To fully explore the potential of wheat straw and expand its use in composite applications, this thesis aimed to develop a feasible and effective manufacturing method for wheat straw based polymer pressboard composites. ... -
Stream Restoration Monitoring in Theory and Practice A Case Study of Restored Streams in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-07)Recently, the importance of quantifying the success of stream/river restoration projects has become a priority in restoration. The absence of ecological monitoring of stream restoration has been made very evident, resulting ... -
Stream WatDiv - A Streaming RDF Benchmark
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Modern applications are required to process stream data which are semantically tagged. Sometimes static background data interlinked with stream data are also needed to answer the query. To meet these requirements, streaming ... -
Streaming and Dynamic Algorithms for Minimum Enclosing Balls in High Dimensions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)At SODA'10, Agarwal and Sharathkumar presented a streaming algorithm for approximating the minimum enclosing ball of a set of points in d-dimensional Euclidean space. Their algorithm requires one pass, uses O(d) space, ... -
Streetscape Design: Perceptions of Good Design and Determinants of Social Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-25)Historically, streets have provided both a means of livelihood and social support for its inhabitants. The emergence of the car dramatically shifted planning practices from the pedestrian, to the efficient movement of ... -
Strength of Cold-Formed Steel Jamb Stud-To-Track Connections
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Cold-formed steel structural members are used extensively in building construction, with a common application being wind load bearing steel studs. The studs frame into horizontal steel track members at the top and bottom ...