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Wideband Rectenna System for Microwave Power Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)One of the fundamental devices in Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) is the recenna or rectifying antenna, which collects the electromagnetic energy from the free space and convert it directly to a useful DC power. Although ... -
Widefield Computational Biophotonic Imaging for Spatiotemporal Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-14)Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality, resulting in 17.3 million deaths per year globally. Although cardiovascular disease accounts for approximately 30% of deaths in the United States, many deleterious ... -
Widely Linear MIMO MMSE Filter and Joint MLSE for VAMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Currently, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards body is working actively to specify Voice services over Adaptive Multi-user channels on One Slot (VAMOS), an enhanced transmission scheme to double the ... -
Wider das System: Gesellschaftliche Aussteiger bei Genazino, Kleist und Kafka
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)This thesis deals with the sociological conception of the dropout (Aussteiger) figure in Wilhelm Genazino’s Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag (2001) and, in terms of the history of ideas, his predecessors in Heinrich von ... -
Wie lebendig ist die Popliteratur um die Jahrtausendwende? Judith Hermanns "Nichts als Gespenster" in Gegenüberstellung zu Christian Krachts "Faserland".
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The focus of this master?s thesis is on determining whether Judith Hermann?s book of collected short stories, <em>Nichts als Gespenster</em> (2003) can be assigned to the so-called category <em>Popliteratur</em> which had ... -
Wikipedia-Based Semantic Enhancements for Information Nugget Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)When the objective of an information retrieval task is to return a nugget rather than a document, query terms that exist in a document often will not be used in the most relevant nugget in the document for the query. In ... -
Wild fish responses to wastewater treatment plant upgrades in the Grand River, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-24)Municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent is a major point source of contaminants (nutrients, pharmaceuticals, estrogens, etc.) which can harm aquatic life. Many studies have investigated the effects of WWTP ... -
The Wilderness
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)This thesis is a critical cultural investigation into the meaning of wilderness. It is based on the premise that as a constructed, imaginary landscape wilderness is an expression of cultural impulses. It suggests that the ... -
Wildfire and Forest Harvesting Effects on Natural Organic Matter: Implications to Drinking Water Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-19)Forested catchments are critical for water supply globally and provide ~60% of the water supplies for the world’s 100 largest cities and 2/3 of all water supplies, including drinking water for ~180 million people in the ... -
Wildfire Impacts on Water Quality and Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Forests are critical source areas for downstream drinking water supplies in many parts of the world. However, large-scale landscape disturbance by insect infestation and wildfire—exacerbated by warming climate—can have a ... -
Wildlife & Roadways: Incorporating Wildlife-Management Strategies Into Road Infrastructure in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)Wildlife-road conflict has a profound negative impact on both wildlife populations and society. Ecological effects, human safety concerns, and economic consequences all contribute to the need to mitigate against wildlife-road ... -
"Will I Be Happy in High School?” Exploring How Interpersonal and Executive Functions Influence Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Across the Transition to High School
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)The transition to high school is a stressful life event, with teenagers typically facing increased demands for independent academic work coupled with the need to establish new social networks. Students who successfully ... -
Will the Mediterranean Become "Too Hot" for Tourists?: A Reassessment
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Numerous studies emphasize that climate, particularly temperature, is one of the most important resources of a tourist destination. With the onset of climate change, this climatic parameter of tourist destinations may ... -
Wind Farms Production: Control and Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-16)Wind energy resources, unlike dispatchable central station generation, produce power dependable on external irregular source and that is the incident wind speed which does not always blow when electricity is needed. This ... -
Wind Turbines in Ontario: An Examination of Perceptions and Potential Health Effects, and How They Relate To Policy and Decision-Making Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This thesis explores resistance to wind turbine development in Ontario: perceptions of wind turbines, the impact of policy and decision-making on perceptions, possible health effects and how they relate to perceptions, and ... -
A Window into October: Examining the Framing of the October Crisis of 1970 in Canada's English-Language Newspapers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-02)Much of the historiography on the October Crisis has centred around whether the War Measures Act (WMA) represented a necessary deployment of available legislation to crush a threat to national order and security, or an ... -
Winning While Losing on Multiline Slot Machine Games
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)On multiline slot machine games, small “wins” often amount to less than the spin wager, resulting in a monetary loss to the gambler. Nevertheless, these monetary losses are still accompanied by “winning” (and potentially ... -
Winter Road Surface Condition Estimation and Forecasting
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-13)This thesis research has attempted to address two challenging problems in winter road maintenance, namely road surface condition (RSC) estimation and forecasting. For RSC estimation, the goal of the research was to develop ... -
Wireless One-time PAD : A Practical Method to Achieve Perfect Secrecy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-11)In this thesis, a new practical method to realize one-time pad perfect secrecy for wireless communication is presented. Most commonly used security methods are based on cryp- tographic techniques employed at the upper ... -
Wireless Sensors and their Applications in Controlling Vibrations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)As wireless devices are becoming more powerful, more flexible and less costly to produce, they are often being applied in new ways. Combining wireless technology with new types of sensors results in the ability to monitor ...