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Condition Assessment of In-Service Pendulum Tuned Mass Dampers
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are auxiliary damping devices installed within tall structures to reduce undesirable wind-induced vibrations and to enhance the overall system damping and hence, the dissipative capacity. The ... -
Condition Assessment of Power Transformer Winding Insulation Based on Partial Discharge Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Power transformers are important components of power systems, as their failure can result in major losses to electric utilities. Transformer windings are responsible for approximately 30% of transformer failures. A principal ... -
Condition-based Inspection and Maintenance of Medical Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Inspection and Maintenance of medical devices are essential for modern health services, but the low availability of devices or unnecessary maintenance can cause major problems. A proper maintenance program can signi ... -
Conditional Decoding for X Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)The conditional decoder is a low complexity and optimal decoder for multiplexed orthogonal designs in point-to-point channels. We extend this notion to X channels and differentiate between two interference scenarios. First, ... -
Conditional Moment Closure Methods for Turbulent Combustion Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-28)This thesis describes the application of the first-order Conditional Moment Closure (CMC) to the autoignition of high-pressure fuel jets, and to piloted and lifted turbulent jet flames using classical and advanced CMC ... -
Conditional Probability in Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)I investigated the effects of probability on visual search. Previous work has shown that people can utilize spatial and sequential probability information to improve their performance on visual attention tasks. My task was ... -
Conditional Scenario Generation with a GVAR Model
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-15)The stress-testing method formed an integral part of the practice of risk management. However, the underlying models for scenarios generation have not been much studied so far. In past practice, the users typically did ... -
Conditioning Community: Power and Decision-Making in Transitioning an Industry-based Community
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)While it is well understood that many resource-based communities are transitioning to tourism to provide a new economic foundation, few studies have probed in-depth the rationale and mechanisms influencing decision-making ... -
Condocracy: The con-dos and the con-don'ts of condo community
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Condo development, as a form of housing, currently comprises almost half of all housing starts in Ontario. This type of development is aided by policy directives (Lehrer and Wieditz, 2009), and it is what Rosen and Walks ... -
Condominium Towers: Habitus and alienation in the new urban framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)Since 2002, over 180000 new dwellings have been built in Toronto through condominium ownership, filling the downtown core with towers and locking much of the city’s society into a relatively new model of property ownership ... -
Condos in the Suburb: What are the Drivers Behind the Decision to Move into Suburban Condominiums?
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-12)High-rise residential condominiums are increasingly utilized by suburban municipalities in Canada as an alternative to suburban sprawl for accommodating population growth. Despite its increasing adoption, little research ... -
Conductive Cellulose Nanocrystals for Electrochemical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-23)Recognized as the ‘nature’s latest wonder material’, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), can be extracted from cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on earth. This nanomaterial is inherently renewable, nontoxic, sustainable, ... -
Conductive Thermoplastic Composite Blends for Flow Field Plates for Use in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC)<br><br>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This project is aimed at developing and demonstrating highly conductive, lightweight, and low-cost thermoplastic blends to be used as flow field bipolar plates for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. <br><br> ... -
Confined Quantum Molecular Degrees of Freedom
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)Motivated by recent experimental measurements of the degeneracy lifting of the rotational ground state of molecular ortho-H2 con ned inside the fullerene cage C60 and, more generally, motivated by the physics of con ned ... -
Conflict detection in dual-process theory: Are we good at detecting when we are biased at decision making?
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)In the domain of reasoning and decision making, some dual-process theorists have suggested that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs engendered by competing intuitive and analytic processes (De Neys ... -
Conflicting Attitudes in Environmental Management and Brownfield Redevelopment
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)An enhanced attitudes methodology within the framework of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) is developed and applied to a range of environmental disputes, including a sustainable development conflict, an ... -
Conformation of 2-fold Anisotropic Molecules Confined on a Spherical Surface
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-09)Anisotropic molecules confined on a spherical or other curved surface can display coupled positional and orientational orderings, which make possible applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and material science. ... -
Conformational Ensemble Generation via Constraint-based Rigid-body Dynamics Guided by the Elastic Network Model
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)Conformational selection is the idea that proteins traverse positions on the conformational space represented by their potential energy landscape, and in particular positions considered as local energy minima. Conformational ... -
Confronting Hitler's Legacy: Canadian Jews and Early Holocaust Discourse, 1933-1956
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)This dissertation examines Canadian Jewish thought from the Nazi period through to the immediate postwar era regarding the Nazis’ persecution and murder of European Jewry. It challenges the widely accepted position that ... -
Confronting the intractable: An evaluation of the Seeds of Peace experience
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-04)This study investigated the impact of participation in the Seeds of Peace International Summer Camp program on attitudes toward perceived enemies and in-group members. Specifically, individuals’ social dominance orientation, ...