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Improving Data Locality in Applications using Message Passing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-04)This thesis presents a systematic study of two modes of program execution: synchronous and asynchronous. In synchronous mode, program components are tightly coupled. Traditional procedure call represents the synchronous ... -
Improving Data Quality in Primary Care: Modelling, Measurement, and the Design of Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-24)In an era where governments around the world invest heavily in data collection and data management, poor-quality data is expensive and has many direct and indirect costs. While there are different types of data quality ... -
Improving Dielectric Thin Films for Metal Insulator Metal Diodes and Perovskite Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diodes are nano-electronic devices that operate by quantum tunneling of electrons through a thin dielectric layer to rectify high frequency alternating current (AC) to usable direct current (DC). ... -
Improving Distributed Filesystem Performance by Combining Replica and Network Path Selection
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)Distributed filesystems are often the primary bandwidth consumers of large-scale datacenter networks. Unsurprisingly, the datacenter network is often the performance bottleneck for distributed filesystems. Yet even ... -
Improving Durability of Asphalt Mixes Produced With Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) by Enhancing Binder Blending
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) has been favoured over virgin materials in the light of the unstable cost of virgin asphalt binders, shortage of quality aggregates, and compelling need to preserve the environment and ... -
Improving estimates of net ecosystem CO2 exchange between the Arctic land surface and the atmosphere
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Feedbacks between the climate system and the high-latitude carbon cycle will substantially influence the intensity of future climate change. It is therefore crucial that the net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) between ... -
Improving Frequency Reuse and Cochannel Interference Coordination in 4G HetNets
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This report describes my M.A.Sc. thesis research work. The emerging 4th generation (4G) mobile systems and networks (so called 4G HetNets) are designed as multilayered cellular topology with a number of asymmetrically ... -
Improving Fuel Economy via Management of Auxiliary Loads in Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)The automotive industry is in a state of flux at the moment. Traditional combustion engine technologies are becoming challenged by newer, more efficient and environmentally friendly propulsion methods. These include ... -
Improving hydrological process representation in lake and forest dominated watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-15)Hydrological models are simplified representations of the natural surface water dynamic system. This thesis focuses on improving these representations to make them more realistic and thus more appropriate tools to simulate ... -
Improving Interruption Recovery in Human-Supervisory Control (HSC)
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-30)Interruptions have negative effects on the task performance in modern work environments. These negative effects are not affordable in tasks in which decisions are time-critical and have a life-critical nature. Human-supervisory ... -
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 ...