Browsing Theses by Title
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An Inventory and Recommendations for the Management of High Priority Invasive Alien Plants in Point Pelee National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Point Pelee National Park in Ontario, Canada has been affected by a long history of human activity. This activity has encouraged the establishment of approximately 276 exotic invasive plant species. These plants decrease ... -
Inventory and Service Optimization for Self-serve Kiosks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-20)In the retail industry, labor costs constitute a big chunk of total operating costs and retailers are advancing towards process automation to minimize their operating costs and to provide reliable services to their customers. ... -
Inventory Decisions for the Price Setting Retailer: Extensions to the EOQ Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Practical inventory settings often include multiple generations of the same product on hand. New products often arrive before old stock is exhausted, but most inventory models do not account for this. Such a setting gives ... -
An Inventory Routing Problem with Cross-Docking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)This thesis concerns inventory-transportation tradeoffs in which a number of suppliers serve multiple customers, each ordering several product types. The goal is to design optimal routes to satisfy the customers’ demands. ... -
Inventory-Location Problems for Spare Parts with Time-Based Service Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)This thesis studies an inventory-location problem faced by a large manufacturer and supplier of small to medium sized aircraft and their spare parts. The sale of after market spare parts is a major source of revenue for ... -
Inverse Analysis of Light Scattered by Soot Aggregates
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-16)The impact of soot on human health and the environment is a function of its size and morphology. Thus, it is important to have a method to quickly and accurately determine the aggregate size distribution of soot. Elastic ... -
An Inverse Finite Element Approach for Identifying Forces in Biological Tissues
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)For centuries physicians, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and many others have been asking: 'what are the forces that drive tissues in an embryo to their final geometric forms?' At the tissue and whole embryo level, ... -
Inverse Partial Fluorescence Yield Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful probe of electronic and spatial structure that has been at the heart of many advances in physics, biology, chemistry, engineering and the earth sciences. Unfortunately, the ... -
Inverse Problems and Self-similarity in Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-06)This thesis examines the concept of image self-similarity and provides solutions to various associated inverse problems such as resolution enhancement and missing fractal codes. In general, many real-world inverse ... -
Inverse Problems in Portfolio Selection: Scenario Optimization Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-27)A number of researchers have proposed several Bayesian methods for portfolio selection, which combine statistical information from financial time series with the prior beliefs of the portfolio manager, in an attempt to ... -
Inverted Index Partitioning Strategies for a Distributed Search Engine
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-21)One of the greatest challenges in information retrieval is to develop an intelligent system for user and machine interaction that supports users in their quest for relevant information. The dramatic increase in the amount ... -
Inverting Permutations In Place
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-17)We address the problem of quickly inverting the standard representation of a permutation on $n$ elements in place. First, we present a naive algorithm to do it using $O(\log n)$ extra bits in $O(n^2)$ time in the worst ... -
Investigating Age-Friendly Communities through Walkability
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-08)Walkability is a measure of how conducive a particular area is to active transportation, specifically towards walking. Research had placed more emphasis on objective measures of walkability, utilizing audits, indices, and ... -
Investigating and Developing Fatigue-Healing Characterization of Asphalt Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)Canada’s aging highway network, consisting of over 1.1 million kilometres of roads, is a vital component in ensuring the safe and reliable day-to-day movement of people and goods. Flexible asphalt pavements experience ... -
Investigating Anion-Quadrupole Interactions of Phenylalanine and Fluorinated Phenylalanine Derivatives Using Density Functional Theory and Infrared Multiple Photon Dissociation Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)Electronic structure calculations have been used to provide a new model for the quadrupole moments of bare and fluorinated phenylalanine. Calculations of the quadrupole moments were performed at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) ... -
Investigating cerebellar contributions to sensory processing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)Over the last two decades, the long-standing view of the cerebellum as a motor structure has been challenged with evidence highlighting the presence of cerebellar activation during non-motor tasks and functional connectivity ... -
Investigating cerebellar modulation of premotor inhibitory control during motor adaptation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-02)Motor adaptation is marked by neurophysiological changes in the motor cortex; however, other regions of the motor network such as the cerebellum and premotor cortex also contribute to this process. Enhancing cerebellar ... -
Investigating Children’s Naturalistic Explorations in a Living History Museum
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-12)Researchers have taken the approach of examining children’s learning in more naturalistic settings such as museums, science centers, and zoos (e.g., Sobel & Jipson, 2015), as in-lab experiments do not resemble the situations ... -
Investigating Consensus-Seeking Partnerships in Water Governance: A Case Study of Southern Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-06)Growing demand for public involvement in environmental governance combined with recognition that top-down approaches often are not well suited to dealing with local concerns has led to increased use of collaborative ... -
Investigating cortical buffering effects of acute exercise: A cTBS study targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-26)Objective: The beneficial effects of both single-session bouts of aerobic exercise and therapeutic exercise interventions on the cortical regions associated with executive functions (i.e., prefrontal cortex (PFC)) and ...