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Energy Performance Analysis of Software Applications on Servers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-10)The power cost of running a data center is a significant portion of its total annual operating budget. Although the hardware subsystems, namely, processors, memory, disk, and network interfaces of a server actually consume ... -
Energy Performance Testing of Smartphones: A First Look at Energy Bugs in Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-17)Smartphones have revolutionized the way people live their daily lives, the way they communicate with each other and the way they access information on-line. A decade ago, desktop computers and laptops were the primary ... -
Energy Regeneration and Environment Sensing for Robotic Leg Prostheses and Exoskeletons
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)Robotic leg prostheses and exoskeletons can provide powered locomotor assistance to older adults and/or persons with physical disabilities. However, limitations in automated control and energy-efficient actuation have ... -
Energy Saving Behaviours of Occupants in a Multi-Tenant Zero-Carbon Office Building: The Integration of Social Influence Theory and the Energy Cultures Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-18)Energy sustainability in the building industry has received increased attention as building technologies become more energy efficient and the building codes become more stringent. However, the role of occupants in energy ... -
Energy Shaping for Systems with Two Degrees of Underactuation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-11)In this thesis we are going to study the energy shaping problem on controlled Lagrangian systems with degree of underactuation less than or equal to two. Energy shaping is a method of stabilization by designing a suitable ... -
Energy Storage for Grid Power: Policy Arguments Based on Technical, Economic, and Environmental Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-10)Renewable energy has been increasing as the demand for cleaner energy increases. The introduction of renewable energy into the power grid has however introduced supply and demand discontinuities due to the intermittency ... -
Energy Storage Solutions for Wind Generator Connected Distribution Systems in Rural Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-16)Environmental awareness and uncertainty about continued supply of fossil fuel has given rise to the renewable energy movement. Wind based power generation has been at the forefront of the motion to integrate distributed ... -
Energy Strategies for the Canadian Province of Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)The current and future energy situations in Canada are put into perspective, and the importance of nuclear energy and controversies surrounding it are investigated. More specifically, to demonstrate the important role ... -
Energy Trading Platforms for Isolated and Inter-connected Microgrids Utilizing Adapted Blockchain
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)The rapid increase in microgrid technology development has led to a decentralized yet interconnected system that is highly flexible and dynamic. This will change the planning and operational strategies from being grid-connected ... -
Energy transport in saturated porous media
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)The energy analysis of the wave motion in the Lamb’s problem for a poroelastic half-space in the framework of Biot’s theory is presented. The results for the energy velocity and quality factor of poroelastic waves are ... -
An Energy-Efficient Bit Allocation Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-09)In wireless sensor networks (WSN), a large number of sensor nodes which are capable of sensing, data processing and communicating are densely deployed in an area to measure some physical phenomenon. Generally, wireless ... -
An Energy-Efficient System with Timing-Reliable Error-Detection Sequentials
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)A new type of energy-efficient digital system that integrate EDS and DVS circuits has been developed. In these systems, EDS-monitored paths convert the PVT variations into timing variations. Nevertheless, the conversion ... -
Energy-Efficient Transaction Scheduling in Data Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-30)Natural short term fluctuations in the load of transactional data systems present an opportunity for power savings. For example, a system handling 1000 requests per second on average can expect more than 1000 requests in ... -
Energy-Efficient Turbo Decoder for 3G Wireless Terminals
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Since its introduction in 1993, the turbo coding error-correction technique has generated a tremendous interest due to its near Shannon-limit performance. Two key innovations of turbo codes are parallel concatenated ... -
Enforcing Abstract Immutability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)Researchers have recently proposed a number of systems for expressing, verifying, and inferring immutability declarations. These systems are often rigid, and do not support "abstract immutability". An abstractly immutable ... -
ENFRAMED.
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Contemporary architectural discourse commonly invokes the term framing. Derivative phrases contrived in education and practise are seemingly inexhaustible: framing the view, framing space, framing an idea, frame of ... -
Engaging beyond the meter: Encouraging residential energy management using smart grid tools
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)With scientists around the world indicating a brief window of opportunity for reducing irreversible climate change impacts, the time has never been more pressing for sustainability transitions (IPCC, 2018). The role of ... -
Engaging Canada’s Older adults in health TECHnology innovation ecosystems: The ECOTECH Project
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)Background: Technological innovation offers many opportunities and challenges to support the health and well-being of older adults. Increasingly, the value of developing regional infrastructure that supports and drives ... -
Engaging Mycelium: explorations of a cultivated architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)This thesis presents a material investigation into understanding the architectural value of a biologically grown, fungal-based fabrication method. By utilizing the natural growth patterns of fungal mycelium, this ... -
Engineered expression system in K. phaffii for expression of human alpha-glucosidases, their characterization and inhibition
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)This thesis describes a progression of experiments that lead from the design of a new cloning-expression vector for K. phaffii, to the successful expression of numerous human alpha-glucosidases, their characterization and ...