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Vibration characterisation of aluminium pedestrian bridges
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)Despite several full-scale applications in Canada, the vibrational characteristics and performance of aluminium pedestrian bridges have not been studied comprehensively in the literature. There is a large degree of variability ... -
Vibration Control in Cable Robots Using a Multi-Axis Reaction System
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)The primary motivation of this thesis is to develop a control strategy for eliminating persistent vibrations in all six spatial directions of the end effector of a planar cable-driven parallel robotic manipulator. By ... -
Vibration Serviceability and Dynamic Modeling of Cold-Formed Steel Floor Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-10)The use of cold-formed steel as a framework for floor systems in multi-story buildings and single occupancy residences is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to traditional materials and techniques. Builders and ... -
Vibration Serviceability of Cold-Formed Steel Floor Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Excessive vibration in response to human activities has been a significant problem associated with lightweight steel floor systems, especially cold-formed steel (CFS) floors. Methods for accurately predicting these vibrations ... -
Vibratory Lines; Experiments in Expressivity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-12)All matter is expressive. All matter, animate or inanimate, sentient or made, is filled with the infinite potential for difference and articulation. All things, all bodies, are equal. In this context of absolute ... -
A Vibrotactile Display Design, evaluation and Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Vision and audition are the two best understood modalities which humans use to interact with the outside world. These modalities can provide highly precise spatial and temporal information. Thus, the field of human-computer ... -
A Vicious Cycle: An Examination of How the Feedback Loop Between Coup-proofing and Regime Insecurity Helped Facilitate the Rise of Pro-Government Militias in the Syrian Conflict
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)This thesis explores the emergence of pro-government militias (PGMs) within the context of the post-2011 intrastate conflict in Syria. It investigates the factors that contributed to the breakdown of Syria’s armed forces ... -
Victim Services’ Implementation of Mobile Tracking Systems for Victims of High-Risk Gender-Based Violence Cases in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-19)Since 2012, Ontario Victim Services providers have been a leading force in implementing Mobile Tracking Systems, a technological device some victim advocates and law enforcement officials believe will reduce risks in ... -
Video Imaging Methodology for Estimation of Pile Capacity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)Piles have been used for generations in areas with weak soil conditions to reinforce existing ground or to support bridges and structures. As the piling industry increased over these years it was necessary to develop ... -
Video Quality Assessment: Exploring the Impact of Frame Rate
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Technology advancements in the past decades has led to an immense increase in data traffic over various networks. Videos constitute a major percentage of this traffic and their share is projected to increase at an accelerating ... -
Video See-Through Augmented Reality Application on a Mobile Computing Platform Using Position Based Visual POSE Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)A technique for real time object tracking in a mobile computing environment and its application to video see-through Augmented Reality (AR) has been designed, verified through simulation, and implemented and validated on ... -
Video-Based Object Detection in Security Monitoring System
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)Object detection technology has been widely used in many real world applications. With the development of the deep learning method, the accuracy and speed of object de tection method have been improved significantly, ... -
The Viennese Ethos: Delineating the Role of the Ringstrasse Today
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)A touch off true North from Vienna’s core, a grand boulevard begins to parade counterclockwise from the Donaukanal, around the Historic City Center until it meets the water once more. Over 160 years after its inauguration, ... -
View from a Body: Situating the Lived Experience of Painful Obsessions and Compulsions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Painful obsessions and compulsions have been traditionally consigned to the realm of mental illness. However, an investigation into the lived experience of these tendencies demonstrates that they constitute embodied forms ... -
ViewDF: a Flexible Framework for Incremental View Maintenance in Stream Data Warehouses
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-20)Because of the increasing data sizes and demands for low latency in modern data analysis, the traditional data warehousing technologies are greatly pushed beyond their limits. Several stream data warehouse (SDW) systems, ... -
Viewing Trends in Graph Connectivity as Early Warnings of Epidemics and Vaccine Crises
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)When measles was rampant, suffering apparent, and relief desired, the prospect of vaccination was received with open arms by a grateful public. But it worked \emph{too} well, and opinions slowly diverged; scientists saw ... -
Viewport- and World-based Personal Device Point-Select Interactions in the Augmented Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-20)Personal smart devices have demonstrated a variety of efficient techniques for pointing and selecting on physical displays. However, when migrating these input techniques to augmented reality, it is both unclear what the ... -
A Views-Based Design Framework for Web Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Web application design is a broad term that refers to any aspect of designing a Web application, including designing Web interfaces to data. There are a number of commercial software tools available that employ various ... -
Villa Canadensis - The Ontario Cottage as an instrument of rehabilitation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)The tradition of the summer cottage in Ontario is a testament to Canadians’ close identification with the wilderness. This thesis establishes a link between the Ontario cottage and the ancient villa originating in classical ... -
Villagers’ Life Transformation and Community Governance in China’s Land Expropriation-induced Resettlement Neighborhoods: A Shanghai Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)In China, urban lands belong to the state and rural lands belong to village collectives. To meet the demand for land to use in expansive urbanization, the state expropriates rural land from village collectives and offers ...