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Ink-based Note Taking On Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Although touchscreen mobile phones are widely used for recording informal text notes (e.g., grocery lists, reminders and directions), the lack of efficient mechanisms for combining informal graphical content with text is ... -
Inner 'Green' Space A Study of Conservationism in Atrium Spaces Using Academic Buildings in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-22)Since taking hold in the mid 1960s, the modern atrium has become prevalent in many designs and buildings within contemporary architecture. The modern day atrium has endured to find its place amidst our current technologies ... -
Inner approximation of convex cones via primal-dual ellipsoidal norms
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)We study ellipsoids from the point of view of approximating convex sets. Our focus is on finding largest volume ellipsoids with specified centers which are contained in certain convex cones. After reviewing the related ... -
Innovation and Competition in Standard-Based Industries: An Analysis of the High Definition U.S. Home Video Market
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-27)This paper examines the competitive dynamics in a standard-based industry through a historical examination of the U.S. home video industry. It analyzes how the Blu-ray technology wins the battle of the high definition DVD ... -
Innovation in e-Business Models: a Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) Theory Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-10)Despite potentially increased sales and operational efficiencies, a surprising number of firms have not adopted e-business. Annual surveys of e-business use in Canada and other Organization for Economic Co-operation and ... -
Innovation Intermediaries: Practice and Use of Evidence
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-25)Governments of the G7 have relied primarily on two strategies to develop their respective economies, the commercialization of research using licensing models and new venture creation. Yet, they have acknowledged no specific ... -
Innovation-Performance relationship: the moderating role of the Degree of Internationalization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Moderator variables are typically introduced when there is an unexpectedly weak or inconsistent relationship between a predictor and a criterion variable (Baron and Kenny, 1986). Holak, Parry and Song (1991) and Zhang, Li, ... -
Innovations in Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-03)The digital transformation of our society is creating a tremendous amount of data at an unprecedented rate. A large part of this data is in unstructured text format. While enjoying the benefit of instantaneous data access, ... -
Innovations in Rotary Drill Bit Design to Reduce Vibration and Improve Durability
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)Well drilling is an important process for extracting oil, natural gas, water, and mineral materials. Opening wells requires boring through earth formations, which can range from very soft to very hard. Penetrating into ... -
Innovative Evaluation of Crumb Rubber Asphalt and Recycled Asphalt Pavement
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-02)Recycling asphalt pavement is consistent with the concept of sustainability and when engineered properly, it can potentially provide a more cost-effective alternative to conventional road practices. In 2011, the Centre for ... -
Innovative Methods for the Catalyzed Construction of Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)The selective transformation of carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds represents an attractive approach and rapidly developing frontier in synthesis. Benefits include step and atom economy, as well as the ubiquitous ... -
INNOVATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING (NDT) FOR CONDITION ASSESSMNET OF LONGITUDINAL JOINTS IN ASPHALT PAVEMENTS
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)The failure of longitudinal construction joints is one of the critical factors causing accelerated pavement deterioration. Poor-quality longitudinal construction joints are often characterized by a difference in elevation ... -
Innovative Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithms for Networks with Packet-Level Dynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-07)Scheduling in wireless networks plays an important role. The undeterministic nature of the wireless channel is usually considered as an undesirable property. Recently, the idea of opportunistic scheduling is introduced ... -
Innovative Shear Connections for the Accelerated Construction of Composite Bridges
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-13)Accelerated bridge construction methods are being progressively used to construct and replace bridges in North America. Unlike traditional bridge construction methods, accelerated bridge construction methods allow bridges ... -
Innovative Studies for the Construction of Carbon-Carbon Bonds to Access Synthetically Challenging Scaffolds and Novel Models for Halogen Bonding Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)The formation of carbon-carbon bonds to access sterically challenging all-carbon quaternary centers still remains a synthetic challenge. Conjugate addition reactions have proven to be a very effective strategy for transferring ... -
Inorganic Phosphor Coatings for Ultraviolet Responsive Image Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Typical CCD digital imaging sensors are insensitive to ultraviolet ( UV ) radiation by virtue of the very shallow ( 2 nm ) penetration depth in silicon. This warrants the use of a post-packaging coating to up-covert the ... -
An Inquiry into Mental Variation
(University of Waterloo, 1995)Although there are both common and specialised senses of the term variation, (the OED lists dozens) there seems to be no well defined use of this term in philosophy. The main task of my thesis is to demonstrate that ... -
Insight into Quantitation of Solid-phase Microextraction
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-21)Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a well-known sampling and sample preparation technique used for a wide variety of analytical applications. As there are various complex processes taking place at the time of extraction ... -
Insights into the metabolic regulation of insulin secretion using a metabolomics approach
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-20)In the post genomic era, metabolomics, as an integrated part of system biology, offers a promising approach to identify biomarkers associated with diseases and hence has been widely used in disease diagnosis, toxicology, ... -
Insole Energy Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)Various energy harvesting techniques have been studied extensively to power portable devices. Each technique has proven to have advantages and disadvantages. Generating energy from human walking is an important energy ...