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An Integrated Voltage Optimization Approach For Industrial Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Although Voltage Varying (VV) strategies like Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) are widely used by utilities to reduce the overall energy consumption and peak power demand of distribution feeders, it is aberrant among ... -
Integrated Waveguide Interfaces for Quantum Optics Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-30)This dissertation explores the integration and interfacing of a variety of photonic devices with optical waveguides, aiming to minimize the optical losses and physical footprint of such systems. The specific investigations ... -
Integrating a Triple Bottom-Line Approach into the Management System: A Framework for Institutions and Businesses Alike
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-05)Organizations are increasingly considering a transition to a more sustainable management approach, primarily as a result of drivers related to operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and corporate reputation. ... -
Integrating Affective Expressions into Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue to Improve Human-Robot Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)Unexplained or ambiguous behaviours of rescue robots can lead to inefficient collaborations between humans and robots in robot-assisted SAR teams. To date, rescue robots do not have the ability to interact with humans on ... -
Integrating Column-Oriented Storage and Query Processing Techniques into Graph Database Management Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-14)Column-oriented RDBMSs, which support traditional read-heavy analytics workloads, employ a specific set of storage and query processing techniques for scalability and performance, such as positional tuple IDs, column-specific ... -
Integrating Community‐Based Social Marketing Theory to Improve Waste Sorting Behaviour at the University of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Improving waste sorting has become an urgent matter in the global North since 2017 when China, the world’s largest waste importer, announced that it would no longer accept highly contaminated waste. Consequently, new ... -
Integrating Compressed Air Energy Storage with Borehole Thermal Energy Storage: A Feasibility Study
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)There is an increasing number of renewable energy projects deployed to supply electrical energy, thermal energy, or both. The trend is mainly driven by the continuing growth in global energy demand and effort to deviate ... -
Integrating Experimental and Computational Approaches to Optimize 3D Bioprinting of Cancer Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)A key feature distinguishing 3D bioprinting from other 3D cell culture techniques is its precise control over created structures. This property allows for the high-resolution fabrication of biomimetic structures with ... -
Integrating Gender, Health, Mining, and Governance in Zambia and Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-03)Increasingly, mining companies have begun to develop new projects in low- and middle-income countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Optimism for development potential is often initially high given assessment of the ... -
Integrating Methods for Characterizing the Passive Treatment of Mercury and Selenium in Groundwater and Sediment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-16)Standard geochemical analysis methods, such as aqueous geochemistry analysis and mineralogical analysis, frequently are utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of passive treatment systems, though they do not necessarily ... -
Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change in Orissa, India: Coupling Entrepreneurial Agricultural Mechanization with Village-Based Biodiesel Production
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-10)India’s strong agrarian economy, global location and climatic zoning make it highly vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change. Recent evidence of shortening cropping seasons has raised interest among academics ... -
Integrating Observational and Microscopic Simulation Models for Traffic Safety Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)In safety analysis, two questions typically need to be addressed: 1) how to identify unsafe sites for priority intervention? and 2) how to determine the effectiveness of treatments introduced at these and other sites? ... -
Integrating Planning Theory with Energy Planning in Developing Rural Areas: A Critical Assessment of the Energy Intervention Programs in Rural Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-24)Energy intervention programs have gained prominence in governmental policies and development agendas as a prevailing practice of improving rural livelihoods and protecting local environment and resources in developing rural ... -
Integrating Security Mechanisms in Hard Real-Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)Traditionally Real-Time Systems (RTSs) and security have been considered as separate domains. This is mostly because traditional systems employed isolated customized components, while modern systems tend to be highly ... -
Integrating Semantically Configurable State-machine Models in a C Programming Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)Model-driven engineering is a popular software-development methodology, which requires suitable domain-specific modelling languages (DSLs) to create models. A DSL requires flexible semantics depending on the domain knowledge. ... -
Integrating Skips and Bitvectors for List Intersection
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-20)This thesis examines space-time optimizations of in-memory search engines. Search engines can answer queries quickly, but this is accomplished using significant resources in the form of multiple machines running concurrently. ... -
Integrating Structure and Meaning: Using Holographic Reduced Representations to Improve Automatic Text Classification
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-10)Current representation schemes for automatic text classification treat documents as syntactically unstructured collections of words (Bag-of-Words) or `concepts' (Bag-of-Concepts). Past attempts to encode syntactic structure ... -
Integrating supportive housing into the continuum of care in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Background: An essential component of managing the health care system effectively as the population ages is to provide care to seniors in the care setting that can best meet their needs. The majority of seniors wish to ... -
Integrating Youth into Worship Leadership
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-06)This thesis explores significant theological and pastoral questions associated with the integration of youth into worship leadership in Anabaptist-Mennonite congregations. Chapter 1 develops an Anabaptist-Mennonite ... -
Integration in Computer Experiments and Bayesian Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Mathematical models are commonly used in science and industry to simulate complex physical processes. These models are implemented by computer codes which are often complex. For this reason, the codes are also ...