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Dried Blood Spot Fatty Acid Quantitation: Developing Methods for Determining Unknown Volumes, Identifying Contaminants and Assessing Fatty Acid Stability During Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)Omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 LCPUFA) blood levels are a potential risk factor for coronary heart disease, particularly sudden cardiac death. Venipuncture sampling for fatty acid profiling is invasive, ... -
Drifting Outside of the City
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-27)There are spaces in Toronto where the city’s grid is forced to give way. Remnants of outdated infrastructure, deep geographic indentations, and natural elements appear, disrupting the constraints that govern our urban ... -
Drinking Water Softening/Scale Prevention Technology Assessment and Performance of Template Assisted Crystallization
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-18)Hard water typically has a hardness concentration over 120 mg/L CaCO3. Hardness is not a regulated drinking water parameter and does not have severe health effects. However, hard water causes more soap and detergent ... -
Drinking Water Treatment Technology Resilience for Management of Severely Deteriorated Water after Wildfire
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-29)Severe wildland fire is occurring with increased frequency in many regions and can be potentially catastrophic for the provision of safe drinking water due to increasingly variable or deteriorated source quality. Deteriorated ... -
Driver Command Interpreter for Electric Vehicles: Development and Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Electric-driven vehicles (EVs) are a relatively new topic in the area of alternative-fuel vehicles. EVs that have the capability for an independent wheel-drive system provide researchers and automakers with numerous benefits. ... -
Driver Response to Rainfall on the Gardiner Expressway
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Adverse weather conditions can increase travel risk. Understanding how drivers react to adverse weather, such as rainfall, can aid in the understanding of road safety patterns and traffic operations. This information ... -
Driverless Car Transit Hub
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-24)The world is moving towards automation, and manual labour is quickly becoming obsolete to avoid unnecessary human error in complex processes. As an example of this evolution, in twenty to thirty years, a new era of driverless ... -
Drivers and Implications for Water Governance: A case study of the western Lake Erie basin
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-02)The purpose of this study was to better understand drivers of water problems and their implications for water governance scholarship and practice. Drivers here are identified as social and environmental forces affecting a ... -
Driving Cessation and Relocation to Retirement Villages: A Preliminary Examination of Associations between these Transitions and their Influence on Travel Patterns and Community Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Introduction: Mobility is critical for independence, social engagement and quality of life, which for many seniors equates with driving. Driving cessation has been associated with depression, isolation and decreased social ... -
Driving Manoeuvre Recognition using Mobile Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Automobiles are integral in today's society as they are used for transportation, commerce, and public services. The ubiquity of automotive transportation creates a demand for active safety technologies for the consumer. ... -
Driving Scene Understanding using Spiking Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-24)One of the applications of AI lies in developing intelligent systems for safe on-road driving, other than building and perfecting self-driving vehicles, and many others. Driving Scene Understanding (DSU) is one such area ... -
Drop Size and Velocity Distributions in Sprays, A New Approach Based on the Maximum Entropy Formalism
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)A new basis for the prediction of the drop size and velocity distribution in a spray is developed, using the maximum entropy formalism. The prediction considers the imposition of integral conservation constraints for ... -
A Droplet Microfluidic Platform Used to Encapsulate Single Pre-formed Cancer Spheroids in Hydrogel Microenvironments
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-19)Cancer has been a leading cause of death around the world for many years. Even with the emerging technologies seen in these times, there is still a lack of truly personalized treatments since cancer tumors are not fully ... -
Droplet Production and Transport in Microfluidic Networks with Pressure Driven Flow Control
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-24)Droplet based microfluidics is a developing technology with great potential towards improving large scale combinatorial studies that require high throughput and accurate metering of reagents. Each droplet can be thought ... -
Droplet Production of Biological non-Newtonian Fluids and Bioassay Applications in a Microfluidic Network
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Droplet-based microfluidics has been developed over the last two decades and presented as a promising platform for biochemical assay. This promise relies on the system’s ability to quantify the reagents accurately with ... -
Droplet-based Microfluidic Chip Design for High Throughput Screening Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-11)Droplet-based microfluidics has been considered as a prospective tool for high throughput screening analysis, which is highly demanded in a wide range of areas including but not limited to life science research, drug ... -
DsRNA-mediated antiviral immunity in fish cells: visualization, sensors, and innate immune responses
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-15)The global aquaculture industry is a multibillion dollar business that is threatened by pathogens, including a wide array of aquatic viruses. Currently there are no antiviral treatments available to combat viral outbreaks, ... -
dstlr: Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Text Collections
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-06)In recent years, the amount of data being generated for consumption by enterprises has increased exponentially. Enterprises typically work with structured data, but oftentimes the data being generated is semi-structured ... -
Dual Oxidant System for In Situ Treatment of Organic Contaminants
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)Recently, the potential catalytic properties of manganese dioxide have attracted attention as a means to activate persulfate. This focus of this research was on the potential ability of MnO2(s) solids synthesized through ... -
Dual Pore Network Model of Electrical Resistivity for Carbonate Rocks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Extreme variability of carbonate depositional environments and susceptibility of carbonate sediments to a host of post-depositional (diagenetic) processes involving mineral dissolution and precipitation, result in complex ...