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Improving leach bed reactor design for medium-chain fatty acid production from food waste at room-temperature.
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-10)Food waste treatment is an urgent problem which if addressed can make substantial reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions while recovering energy, nutrients, and valuable biomolecules. While anaerobic digestion has ... -
Improving Object Detection with MatrixNets
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-20)Object detection is a popular task in computer vision with various applications, from pedestrian detection to face detection. Following the success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), many CNN based object detectors ... -
Improving Organizational Life Cycle Assessment (O-LCA) through a Hospital Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-03)In this thesis, I advance methods and data for organizational life cycle assessment (O-LCA) through a novel application that supports sustainability management in healthcare. In essence, the term sustainability management ... -
Improving Passive Magnetic Inspection for Reinforced Concrete Condition Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-06)Life quality, industrial productivity, and community safety can be assured by the reliability and the safety of infrastructure such as highways, bridges, and energy-supply systems. Reinforced concrete is the most-commonly ... -
Improving Peptide Identification in Proteomics Data Analysis through Repeat-Preserving Decoy and Decoy-Free Retraining
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-10)Accurately identifying peptides in proteomics is central to understanding the complexities of biological systems. Despite the advancements in proteomics data analysis, challenges related to False Discovery Rate (FDR) ... -
Improving Perceptions of Fairness and Performance through Explanation and Perspective Taking
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-02)Employee performance can be negatively impacted due to the occurrence of unforeseen negative events. To filter out the influence of these negative exogenous shocks on employee compensation, management can commit ex-ante ... -
Improving post-quantum cryptography through cryptanalysis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-15)Large quantum computers pose a threat to our public-key cryptographic infrastructure. The possible responses are: Do nothing; accept the fact that quantum computers might be used to break widely deployed protocols. Mitigate ... -
Improving Predictions of Precipitation Phase over Canada with the Development of a Spatially Aware Parameterization of Rain/Snow Partitioning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)Partitioning precipitation into rain or snow is an important aspect of hydrologic and climatological modelling, affecting a wide variety of downstream processes (Harpold et al., 2017). Current conventional methods typically ... -
Improving Predictive Models for Road Safety Screening: Cost-Benefit Data Analytics and Deep Generative Models
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)The process of identifying the sites (e.g., road segments, intersections) within a road network that are most in need of detailed safety audits and interventions with the most potential for improvement is known as road ... -
Improving Productivity in Bioreactors through Control of Cell Heterogeneity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Whooping cough, also referred to as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial respiratory tract disease. At Sanofi Pasteur, the fermentation step in the manufacturing of the vaccine for pertussis involves a sequence of ... -
Improving Public Understanding of Large-Scale Transit Projects: A case study of the Region of Waterloo’s ION
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-16)In light of increasing social, economic and environmental costs associated with automobile use, Canadian municipalities are facing mounting transportation pressures and many mid-size cities are investing in larger scale ... -
Improving Query Classification by Features’ Weight Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)This work is an attempt to enhance query classification in call routing applications. A new method has been introduced to learn weights from training data by means of a regression model. This work has investigated applying ... -
Improving Robustness of Homography Estimation for Ice Rink Registration
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Hockey analytics involves obtaining information from games so that coaches, managers, and teams can make better decisions in training, playing, and hiring. As there is a large amount of information available in each game, ... -
Improving Scan Registration Methods Using Secondary Point Data Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)Autonomous vehicle technology has advanced significantly in recent years and these vehicles are poised to make major strides into everyday use. Autonomous vehicles have already entered military and commercial use, performing ... -
Improving Selfie Aesthetics with Interactive Guidance based on Empirical Models
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-06)We introduce RealSelfie, a smartphone camera application providing interactive guid- ance to help people take better self-portrait photos (commonly called “selfies”). The appli- cation uses empirical models to estimate ... -
Improving Software Dependability through Documentation Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-31)Software documentation contains critical information that describes a system’s functionality and requirements. Documentation exists in several forms, including code comments, test plans, manual pages, and user manuals. The ... -
Improving Spaces for Women First Responders: Investigating women’s occupational experiences using a comparative grounded theory
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-10)Background: First response work has historically been designed for and performed by men; yet more women than ever are conducting this work. Research suggests women first responders face unequal access to resources and ... -
Improving Spatial Resolution of and Error Estimation for Radical Probe Mass Spectrometry
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-23)The function of a protein depends on the structure of the protein. A commonly used analytical technique for studying protein structure is radical-probe mass spectrometry (RP-MS). RP-MS oxidizes a protein of interest then ... -
Improving strategy for the Canadian Wildlife Service: A comparative study with the Parks Canada Agency and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-25)This research evaluates the development of strategy and planning undertaken by the three federal protected areas management organisations in Canada. These organisations and the protected areas they manage are: the Canadian ... -
Improving the Correctness of Automated Program Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-02)Developers spend much of their time fixing bugs in software programs. Automated program repair (APR) techniques aim to alleviate the burden of bug fixing from developers by generating patches at the source-code level. ...