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Impacts of temperature on Asian Carp life history and population growth
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)Asian carp (bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis; black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus; grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella; and silver carp, H. molitrix) are a group of invasive species predicted to cause ecological and ... -
Impacts of the Introduction of an Express Transit Service in Waterloo Region
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-08)For more than a century, public transportation has played a significant role in society. Transit agencies, like other service industries, are intent on improving their quality of service so as to increase transit ridership ... -
Impacts of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) on the Travel Behavior of its Residents in Shenzhen, China
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-18)Rapid urbanization in cities across the world has generated a number of issues including urban sprawl, segregation of land uses, traffic congestion and negative environmental impacts. Transit-oriented development (TOD) has ... -
Impacts of wastewater treatment plant effluent and pharmaceutical exposure on innate cytokine expression of darters (Etheostoma spp.) in the Grand River
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-10)Aquatic organisms, such as fish, are in constant contact with various stressors and antigenic material present within their environments. The impact of stressors associated with wastewater-exposed environments on native ... -
Impairments in glucose and lipid metabolism in breast cancer patients
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-08)BACKGROUND: Breast cancer patients typically present with unhealthy body composition (high fat mass and low muscularity) near diagnosis. These body composition characteristics often worsen during treatment and ultimately ... -
Impedance Matching Networks for Wireless Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Impedance matching implies maximum power transfer from source to load as well as minimum signal reflection from the load, in an RF system. This explains the importance of impedance matching networks and their continuously ... -
Imperfect Heart
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Herein lies a personal inquiry and collection of beautiful ruin in an imperfect architectural world. The journey into abandoned ruin, born out of a curiosity to see what comes of viewing architecture in its darkest hours. ... -
Imperial Transportation and Communication from the Third to the Late Fourth Century: The Golden Age of the cursus publicus
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-05)The existence of an infrastructure that allowed reliable communication between the emperors and all parts of the Roman civil and military administration was integral for the dissemination of ideologies, the promulgation ... -
Implementation Analysis of Strassen-Like Matrix Multiplication Algorithms Based on Block Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-11)Matrix multiplication is one of the most widely used operations in all computational fields of linear algebra. The complexity of the naive method for multiplying two n×n matrices requires O(n^3) arithmetic operations over ... -
The Implementation Continuous Improvement Program: a Case Study for a Canadian Job Shop Manufacturer
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)The purpose of this thesis is to study and to understand the impact of implementing a Continuous Improvement (CI) program with employees. The study has covered ideas generated by employees, and their impact on the ideas’ ... -
An Implementation of 5G-AKA and a Usability Analysis of OpenLDAP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)We address two pieces of work: (i) an implementation of the Authentication and Key Agreement protocol suite from the 5th generation cellular communications standards (5G-AKA) that we intend to make available as open-source, ... -
Implementation of a GIS to Assess the Effects of Water Level Fluctuations on the Wetland Complex at Long Point, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2003)The Long Point wetland complex is one of the most significant coastal wetland systems in the Great Lakes, containing a diverse mosaic of wetland vegetation communities that have developed in response to water level ... -
Implementation of a Modular Magnetic Levitation Planar Motor
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)A large-scale magnetically-levitated planar motor has the potential to revolutionize conveying and flexible manufacturing applications. The contactless nature nearly eliminates friction to produce less noise, vibration, ... -
An Implementation of a Predictable Cache-coherent Multi-core System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)Multi-core platforms have entered the realm of the embedded systems to meet the ever growing performance requirements of the real-time embedded applications. Real-time applications leverage the hardware parallelism from ... -
Implementation of a Stair Walking Algorithm on the REEM-C Humanoid Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)The recent increased usage of robots in society brings about unique challenges, such as endowing these robots with the ability to operate in a manner similar to humans. These challenges are well structured for humanoid ... -
Implementation of a Universal Fine-Structure Splitting Eraser for Quantum Dots
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-04)Entangled photons are an important resource for different applications in quantum computation, quantum information, and quantum communication. Sources based on semiconductor quantum dots have successfully obtained on-demand, ... -
Implementation of a Variable Duty Factor Controller on a Six-Legged Axi-Symmetric Walking Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Hexplorer is a six-legged walking robot developed at the University of Waterloo. The robot is controlled by a network of seven digital signal processors, six of which control three motors each, for a total of 18 motors. ... -
Implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4 Based MAC/PHY on a FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The IEEE 802.15.4 standard defines the implementation of a Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). While the current version of the standard was ratified in 2006, there is still no readily available Medium Access ... -
Implementation of Antenna Switching Diversity and Its Improvements over Single-Input Single-Output System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)This dissertation study the effectiveness of antenna switching diversity for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems such as in IEEE 802.11. One of the ways to exploit the multiple antenna configurations ... -
Implementation of Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Topology Optimization Methods for Effective Additive Manufacturing of a Gas Turbine Component
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-18)Additive manufacturing (AM) is a relatively new technology that is making its way into different industries at a fast pace. In order to take full advantage of flexibility and freedom that this technology provides, a proper ...