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Enhancing Mechanical Strength of Electrospun Nanofibers by Thermal Crosslinking and Coaxial Electrospinning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-14)Electrospinning of nonwoven nanofibrous mats has received significant attention in recent years due to the high versatility and porosity of electrospun mats. Specifically, considerable interest has developed in using ... -
Enhancing Memory by Enactment: Does Meaning Underlie the Advantage of Producing or Observing an Action?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-11)Enactment is an encoding strategy in which performing an action depicting a word (relative to reading) enhances its memorability. Precisely how this motor activity aids recall is unclear. In our Experiments, we investigated ... -
Enhancing Open Government Data Quality: A Quantitative Evaluation Assessment for Cross- Jurisdictional Open Data Programs in Waterloo Region
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-06)This study builds on the previous research for identifying the current issues and gaps existing for the cross-jurisdictional data quality of the open data programs in the Waterloo region, not only as the governments in the ... -
Enhancing Real-Time Data Acquisition from Embedded Road Structural Health Monitoring Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)Canada's economy heavily relies on its roadways, yet managing pavement assets faces challenges due to past infrastructure spending cuts. Addressing this, a pavement management system (PMS) is essential for efficient resource ... -
Enhancing Recommender Systems with Causal Inference Methodologies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-22)In the current era of data deluge, recommender systems (RSs) are widely recognized as one of the most effective tools for information filtering. However, traditional RSs are founded on associational relationships among ... -
Enhancing System Reliability Utilizing Private Electric Vehicle Parking Lots Accounting for the Uncertainties of Renewables
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Integration of renewable energy sources into electric grids comes with significant challenges. The produced energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar is intermittent, non-dispatchable and uncertain. The uncertainty ... -
Enhancing the Decoding Performance of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials based Brain-Computer Interface
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) based on steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) responses are the most widely used BCI. SSVEP are responses elicited in the visual cortex when a user gazes at an object ... -
Enhancing the Ministring DNA (msDNA) Purification Using PI-Sce1 Homing Endonuclease/CRISPR-Cas3 Recombinant System
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-05)In the generation of msDNA the recombinant E. coli cells are transformed by a msDNA generating precursor plasmid, whereupon expression of the Tel protelomerase enzyme, acting on the pal target sequence present in the ... -
Enhancing the Modeling and Efficiency of Photovoltaic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-02)Solar energy is a strong contender among the sustainable alternatives that offer practical potential for replacing increasingly depleted fossil fuels and supplying the world’s growing energy demands. However, despite its ... -
Enhancing the performance of transparent electrodes through the design of new silver nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-07)Transparent electrodes are a necessary component in a number of devices such as solar cells, flat panel displays, touch screens and light emitting diodes. The most commonly used transparent conductor, indium tin oxide ... -
Enhancing the Role of the Recreationist in the Conservation of Parks and Protected Areas
(University of Waterloo, 2001)The tension between 'acceptable' human use of the environment and the management systems that intend to mitigate this use continues to be an important focus for discussion and research. This is particularly evident in ... -
Enhancing the Simultaneous Alignment and Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-02)Carbon nanotubes have broken through the barriers of our imagination and are currently being investigated for various nano-electronic device applications. Successful implementation in these applications however, often ... -
Enhancing Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) Visualization with Open Source Web-Based Software
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-13)Recent advances in information technology such as Web mapping and location-aware mobile devices have enabled non-experts to create, use and share volumes of spatial data in an increasingly accessible fashion. Such ... -
The Enigma History and Mathematics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)In this thesis we look at the solution to the German code machine, the Enigma machine. This solution was originally found by Polish cryptologists. We look at the solution from a historical perspective, but most importantly, ... -
Enrichment and activity of comammox Nitrospira from the rotating biological contactors of a municipal wastewater treatment system
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-05)Nitrification, the biological conversion of ammonia to nitrate, via nitrite, is an important process in both natural and engineered systems. Nitrification within wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is necessary because ... -
Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)We study a proposed statistical explanation for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a black hole in which entropy arises quantum-mechanically as a result of entanglement. Arguments for the identification of black hole entropy ... -
Entanglement Entropy of Scalar Fields in Causal Set Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Entanglement entropy is now widely accepted as having deep connections with quantum gravity. It is therefore desirable to understand it in the context of causal sets, especially since they provide the UV cutoff needed to ... -
Entanglement Harvesting and Divergences in Unruh-DeWitt Detector Pairs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)We analyze correlations between pairs of detectors quadratically coupled to real and complex scalar bosonic fields in 3+1 dimensions. This is a first step toward studying the entanglement structure of the fermionic ... -
Entanglement in Non-inertial Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-19)This thesis considers entanglement, an important resource for quantum information processing tasks, while taking into account the theory of relativity. Not only is this a more complete description of quantum information, ... -
Entanglement in single-shot quantum channel discrimination
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Single-shot quantum channel discrimination is the fundamental task of determining, given only a single use, which of two known quantum channels is acting on a system. In this thesis we investigate the well-known phenomenon ...