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Flexible Bent-Cable Models for Mixture Longitudinal Data
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-27)Data showing a trend that characterizes a change due to a shock to the system are a type of changepoint data, and may be referred to as shock-through data. As a result of the shock, this type of data may exhibit one of two ... -
Flexible Fixtures: An Exploratory Study on the Emergence & Mobilization of the Flexible Streets Concept in Ontario Municipalities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-16)The most plentiful public space within Canadian cities are the streets; however, these spaces are overwhelmingly dominated by automobiles with much of the space designated for vehicular traffic flows. So often, the leftover ... -
Flexible Mixed-Effect Modeling of Functional Data, with Applications to Process Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-18)High levels of automation in manufacturing industries are leading to data sets of increasing size and dimension. The challenge facing statisticians and field professionals is to develop methodology to help meet this ... -
Flexible Monitoring of Storage I/O
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)For any computer system, monitoring its performance is vital to understanding and fixing problems and performance bottlenecks. In this work we present the architecture and implementation of a system for monitoring storage ... -
A Flexible Ultralight Hardware Security Module for EPC RFID Tags
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)Due to the rapid growth of using Internet of Things (IoT) devices in daily life, the need to achieve an acceptable level of security and privacy for these devices is rising. Security risks may include privacy threats like ... -
FlexQueue: Simple and Efficient Priority Queue for System Software
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-18)Existing studies of priority queue implementations often focus on improving canonical operations such as insert and deleteMin, while sacrificing design simplicity and pre- dictable worst-case latency. Design simplicity is ... -
FlexSADRA: Flexible Structural Alignment using a Dimensionality Reduction Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2005)A topic of research that is frequently studied in Structural Biology is the problem of determining the degree of similarity between two protein structures. The most common solution is to perform a three dimensional ... -
Flexural Behavior and Strength of Cold-formed Steel L-Headers
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)Cold-formed steel framing of residential and light commercial buildings continues to grow in popularity due to its structural and material advantages. The North American steel industry is actively performing research ... -
Flexural Behaviour of Partially Bonded CFRP Strengthened Concrete T-Beams
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) composites have been widely used for the flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Flexural strengthening methods with FRP include external bonding of FRP composites (EB ... -
Flexural Behaviour of Stay-In-Place PVC Encased Reinforced Concrete Walls with Various Panel Types
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The use of stay-in-place (SIP) formwork has become an increasingly popular tool for concrete structures, providing advantages in construction scheduling and labour reduction. Stay-in-place formwork made of strong materials ... -
Flexural Fatigue Behaviour of Corroded Pretensioned Beams and Their Repair Using Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Sheets
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)The study presented in this thesis investigated the flexural fatigue behaviour of non-corroded and corroded pretensioned beams and examined the use of externally bonded Carbon Fibre Reinforcement Polymer (CFRP) sheets as ... -
A Floating Ball and Two Asymptotic Problems in Capillarity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The study of capillary phenomena can be traced back to the age of Aristotle. In this thesis, a floating ball and two asymptotic problems in capillarity are considered, all of which include surface tension and gravity. The ... -
Floating Bodies in the Absence of Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-20)The study of infinitely long cylinders of constant cross-section floating in an infinite fluid bath in zero-gravity environments has primarily been focused on bodies whose cross-sections are strictly convex and sufficiently ... -
Floating Bodies with Surface Tension
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-18)Capillary phenomena have been studied by mathematicians and physicists for hundreds of years. In this thesis, both two-dimensional(2D) and three-dimensional(3D) bodies floating on an unbounded reservoir are studied based ... -
Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)In this thesis, we discuss models for multi-agent dynamical systems. We study the tracking/migration problem for flocks and a theoretical framework for design and analysis of flocking algorithm is presented. The interactions ... -
Flood risk and sanitation service delivery in informal settlements under climate change: a case study of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)Informal settlements are home to 32 per cent of urban dwellers worldwide. Access to sanitation in these spaces is amongst the most pressing needs and contentious issues in cities in developing countries. Shack dwellers, ... -
Flood Risk Management in Canada: A Political Discourse Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-02)Floods are Canada’s most frequent and expensive natural catastrophe; they are associated with the largest losses of any climate-related disaster in Canada (Nastev & Todorov, 2013). As the impacts of climate change take ... -
Flooded with terror: Identifying existential threat in water crisis communication and exploring gender bias in the depths of water management
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)The purpose of this dissertation was to advance understanding of gender inequity in water management and the ways in which threatening water communication may contribute to that inequity. Water crises are increasing with ... -
Flora Tristan: Rethinking the Intersection of 19th Century French Women’s Travel Writing and History of Anthropology
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)Flora Tristan was a 19th century French socialist and feminist writer and activist. During her lifetime, Tristan published two works of travel writing, Pérégrinations d'une paria (Tristan 1838a; 1838b) and Promenades ... -
Flow and Sediment Routing in Urban Channels with Flashy Hydrographs
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-20)Urbanization has a major impact on flow and erosion in open channels. By replacing rural land surfaces with impervious surfaces, urbanization causes a decrease in infiltration and an increase in surface runoff and faster ...