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Coordinated Landing and Mapping with Aerial and Ground Vehicle Teams
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)Micro Umanned Aerial Vehicle~(UAV) and Umanned Ground Vehicle~(UGV) teams present tremendous opportunities in expanding the range of operations for these vehicles. An effective coordination of these vehicles can take ... -
Coordinated Operation of Distributed Energy Resources in Renewables Based Microgrids under Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)In recent years, the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) has been increasing in the electricity generation mix with a mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are released from burning fossil fuels. Indeed, a ... -
Coordinated path following: A nested invariant sets approach
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)In this thesis we study a coordinated path following problem for multi-agent systems. Each agent is modelled by a smooth, nonlinear, autonomous, deterministic control-affine ordinary differential equation. Coordinated ... -
Coordinated Volt/Var Control in Smart Distribution System with Distributed Generators
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-28)The high penetration level of Distributed Generation (DG) is one of the most attractive features of the smart grid aside from being automatic, modern, reliable and efficient. However, high penetration comes with more ... -
Coordinated Voltage and Reactive Power Control for Renewable Dominant Smart Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-06)Driven by their economic and environmental advantages, smart grids promote the deployment of active components, including renewable energy sources (RESs), energy storage systems (ESSs), and electric vehicles (EVs), for ... -
Coordinating the Optimal Discount Schedules of Supplier and Carrier
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Transportation is important in making supply chain decisions. With the careful consideration of transportation expenses, the performance of each supply chain member, as well as the entire supply chain, could be improved ... -
Coordination in a Peer Production Platform: A study of Reddit's /r/Place experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-24)Understanding the factors causing groups to engage in coordinating behaviour has been an active research area for decades. In this thesis, we study this problem using a novel dataset of crowd behaviour from an online ... -
Coordination of turning when standing and walking in healthy older adults and persons with Parkinson’s disease
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-23)It is difficult to think of any activity that does not require some degree of turning. Despite the prevalence of turning in daily activities and the challenge it poses to mobility-impaired individuals such as those with ... -
COPIA: A New Software for Finding Consensus Patterns in Unaligned Protein Sequences
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Consensus pattern problem (CPP) aims at finding conserved regions, or motifs, in unaligned sequences. This problem is NP-hard under various scoring schemes. To solve this problem for protein sequences more efficiently,a ... -
Copper doped ceria catalyst prepared by reverse microemulsion method for thermocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide via reverse water gas shift
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)High surface area CeO2/Al2O3 nano-catalysts were synthesized via the reverse microemulsion method and evaluated for reverse water gas shift. The effect of the active phase dispersion on the CeO2 nanoparticle growth was ... -
Copper Isotope Fractionation and the Evolution of Sulfide Alteration in a Sudbury Tailings Impoundment
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)The fate of dissolved Cu in the Copper Cliff Central Tailings Impoundment was investigated to better understand the extent of Cu stable isotope fractionation accompanying the oxidation of Cu-bearing sulfide minerals and ... -
Copper-mediated C-S Bond Formation and C(sp2)-H Functionalization via Cascade Cyclization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)Organosulfur compounds have a wide variety of applications in pharmaceutical compounds and synthetic materials. Carbon-sulfur bonds are often found in natural and important bioactive compounds, thus the formation of C-S ... -
Cops and Robber Game with a Fast Robber
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-24)Graph searching problems are described as games played on graphs, between a set of searchers and a fugitive. Variants of the game restrict the abilities of the searchers and the fugitive and the corresponding search number ... -
Copula Models for Multi-type Life History Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This thesis considers statistical issues in the analysis of data in the studies of chronic diseases which involve modeling dependencies between life history processes using copula functions. Many disease processes feature ... -
A Copula-based Quantile Risk Measure Approach to Hedging under Regime Switching
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-16)In this thesis, our work builds on the future hedging strategy presented by Barbi and Romagnoli (2014). The authors propose the optimal hedge ratio as the minimizer of a generic quantile risk measure (QRM), which includes ... -
Coral Bleaching and Dive Operators in the Caribbean: Perceptions of Environmental Change
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-12)Dive tourism is a growing and important industry which is often reliant on a high quality natural environment. As dive tourism’s significance grows due to its economic and ecological impacts on many tropical destinations, ... -
Core Self-Evaluations and the Hierarchical Model of Approach/Avoidance Motivation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)In the current dissertation I examined the relation between a new personality trait, core self-evaluations (CSE), and job performance, using the hierarchical model of approach and avoidance motivation as a theoretical ... -
Core Structures in Random Graphs and Hypergraphs
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)The k-core of a graph is its maximal subgraph with minimum degree at least k. The study of k-cores in random graphs was initiated by Bollobás in 1984 in connection to k-connected subgraphs of random graphs. Subsequently, ... -
Corneal epithelial cell responses to tensile stress and compressive stress
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-03)Eye rubbing is a commonly adopted habit that is frequently happening in our daily life. However, the mechanical stress generated by long term chronic abnormal eye rubbing could lead to keratoconus (KC) with the symptoms ... -
CORNWALL and the POST-INDUSTRIAL SEAWAY LANDSCAPE: Localized Agency After Absolute Authority
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)In the 1950s the Ontario city of Cornwall was the site of a massive industrial infrastructural project, the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway Project was a modernist dream intended to spur development of an industrial ...