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A Study on Intraorganismal Genetic Heterogeneity in Arabidopsis thaliana in Response to Stress
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-04)In sexually reproducing individuals, intraorganismal genetic heterogeneity (IGH) or mosaicism is thought to occur infrequently while genetic homogeneity is presumed the norm. In organisms that undergo modular development, ... -
A Study on Longevity Risk Hedging in the Presence of Population Basis Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)Longevity risk refers to uncertainty surrounding the trend in human life expectancy. Standardized hedging instruments that are linked to broad-based mortality indexes can be used to offload longevity risk from pension plans ... -
A Study on Nano-Si/Polyaniline/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)Because of its high theoretical specific capacity (4200mAh/g) and natural abundance (2nd most abundant element on earth), silicon is considered a promising anode candidate for high energy density lithium-ion batteries. ... -
A Study on Optimizing Infrared Heating Technology for Asphalt Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)In Canada especially, cracking and potholes on asphalt concrete pavements is a continuous problem requiring constant repairs. With the increased expansion and use of asphalt pavement infrastructure, combined with more ... -
Study on Solution-Processable Polypyrrole-Based Conducting Polymers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Due to the adjustable conductivity, cost-effective synthesis, and easy device fabrication, conducting polymers have wide-ranging applications in numerous areas, including sensors, solar cells, supercapacitors, and electrodes. ... -
A Study on the Acceleration of Arrival Curve Construction and Regular Specification Mining using GPUs
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)Data analytics is a process of examining datasets using various analytical and statistical techniques. Several tools have been proposed in the literature to extract hidden patterns, gather insights and build mathematical ... -
A Study on the Capacity of Gaussian Channels: From a Lattice Code Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-18)As one of the most significant classes of structure codes, lattice codes are related to various geometric and coding problems, such as sphere packing and covering, quantization, signaling for the additive white Gaussian ... -
A Study on the Effect of Bond Stress and Process Temperature on Palladium Coated Silver Wire Bonds on Aluminum Metallization
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)In the past ten years, the increasing price of gold has motivated the wire bonding industry to look for alternative bonding wire materials in the field of microelectronics packaging. A new candidate wire to replace gold ... -
A Study on the Effects of Exception Usage in Open-Source C++ Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Exception handling (EH) is a feature common to many modern programming languages, including C++, Java, and Python, that allows error handling in client code to be performed in a way that is both systematic and largely ... -
Study on the Nano-structured Materials for Energy Storage System
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-27)The Li-oxygen cell is an emerging energy storage system which has a great promise in the near future for its high energy density and use of free oxygen available from the air. This energy system is attractive since it has ... -
A Study on Turn-to-Turn Insulation of Medium Voltage Motors Fed by Variable Frequency Drives
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)The use of inverter drives in machine applications is expanding rapidly due to their advantages in terms of energy savings and speed control. Advances in the inverter drive industry have made it possible for inverter drives ... -
A Study on Urban Water Reuse Management Modeling
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This research deals with urban water reuse planning and management modeling in the context of sustainable development. Rapid urbanization and population growth have presented a great challenge to urban water resources ... -
A Study on Vibration Isolation in a Wind Turbine Subjected to Wind and Seismic Loading
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The primary loading on wind turbines is in the lateral direction and is of a stochastic nature, due to wind and seismic forces. As turbines grow larger, they experience proportionally larger lateral forces. Large forces ... -
Study, Analysis, and Validation of a Specific Two-fluid Model for Dispersed Two-Phase Flow
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-17)Multiphase flows are commonly found and have a significant role in different processes in the energy, environmental, biological, and pharmaceuticals industries. The behavior of multiphase flows is very complicated due to ... -
Studying and Leveraging API Usage Patterns
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)Software projects make use of libraries extensively. Libraries have intended API surfaces—sets of exposed library interfaces that library developers expect clients to use. However, in practice, clients only use small ... -
Studying Black Holes in Superposition Using Unruh-DeWitt Particle Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)In quantum gravity, we expect black holes to exist in quantum superposition. However, the measurable effects of black hole superpositions have not been studied widely. In this thesis, we study superpositions of different ... -
Studying CNN representations through activation dimensionality reduction and visualization
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)The field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to explain the decisions of DNNs. Complete DNN explanations accurately reflect the inner workings of the DNN while interpretable explanations are easy for humans ... -
Studying Economic Sanctions Using The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-28)The methodology of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) is improved to show how a Graph Model can account for strength of sanctions, to introduce a trigger option to simplify a model, and to connect a Graph Model ... -
Studying Journal Articles under Time Pressure
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how students distribute their attention while reading academic journal articles under time pressure. Given that most of the reading done in university is commonly ... -
Studying polymer physics by machine learning.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-16)Recently, machine learning becomes a computational method that burst in popularity. Many disciplines, such as condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, chemical engineering as well as polymer physics have incorporate ...