Browsing Theses by Title
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An Integrated Approach to Paleo-Ice Stream Determination in Mid Continental Prairies, Saskatchewan, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Ice stream research has gained momentum in the last decade due to the increased need to understand ice sheet dynamics and instability and, by extension, the role ice streams have on climate change and sea level rise. ... -
Integrated Asset Management Framework and Model for Water Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)The Canadian Infrastructure Report Card (2012) estimates the replacement value of water assets to be $362 billion. Water distribution and wastewater collection networks have been in service for more than a century in the ... -
An Integrated Behavior and Demand-Oriented Methodology for Quality of Service Evaluation of Bicycle Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-13)Cycling is a viable mode of transport, and its mode share is consistently growing in many parts of the globe. However, many existing infrastructures still lack the safety and convenience that cyclists of all levels of ... -
Integrated Circuit and Antenna Technology for Millimeter-wave Phased Array Radio Front-end
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Ever growing demands for higher data rate and bandwidth are pushing extremely high data rate wireless applications to millimeter-wave band (30-300GHz), where sufficient bandwidth is available and high data rate wireless ... -
Integrated Computational Measurement System for Enhanced Polarimetric Measurements
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-30)Polarimetry is an useful tool in chemical identification and characterisation both inside and outside the lab. It is a modality where the effects of chiral molecules, water impurities and cancerous cells are noticeable ... -
Integrated Daily Windows and But-For Analyses for Accurate Schedule Forensics in Construction Projects
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-04)Construction projects usually operate in dynamic multi-party constrained environments that frequently cause schedule delays and cost overruns and lead to disputes among parties. To mitigate such disputes and fairly apportion ... -
Integrated Decision Support System for Infrastructure Privatization under Uncertainty using Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-03)Infrastructure privatization decisions have an enormous financial and social impact on all stakeholders, including the public sector, the private sector, and the general public. Appropriate privatization decisions, however, ... -
An Integrated Design Approach for Improving Drinking Water Ozone Disinfection Treatment Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Ozonation is currently considered as one of the most effective microbial disinfection technologies due to its powerful disinfection capacity and reduction in levels of chlorinated disinfection by-products (DBP). However, ... -
An Integrated Energy Optimization Model for the Canadian Oil Sands Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)The aim of this thesis was to develop a new energy model that predicts the energy infrastructure required to maintain the oil production in the Oil Sands operation at minimum cost. Previous studies in this area have focused ... -
Integrated Feature Analysis for Prostate Tissue Characterization Using TRUS Images
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The Prostate is a male gland that is located around the urethra. Prostate Cancer is the second most diagnosed malignancy in men over the age of fifty. Typically, prostate cancer is diagnosed from clinical data, medical ... -
Integrated Fluorescence Detection System for Lab on a Chip Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)This thesis focuses on the design of a versatile, portable, and cost-effective fluorescence detection system for LOC devices. Components that are widely available are used, such as LEDs for excitation and a microcontroller ... -
Integrated Framework Design for Intelligent Human Machine Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Human-computer interaction, sometimes referred to as Man-Machine Interaction, is a concept that emerged simultaneously with computers, or more generally machines. The methods by which humans have been interacting with ... -
Integrated hydrologic model calibration under non-stationary climates
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-17)With global climate change, quantifying water availability for management under non-stationary conditions is, and will continue to be, a major challenge. When hydrologic models are calibrated to historic climatic conditions, ... -
Integrated Infrastructures for an Urban Lake in Wuhan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)One of the consequences of China’s rapid urbanization is the disappearance, or at least, mismanagement of the many lakes of the Central Yangtze River Basin. The thesis investigates the situation by conducting a complex ... -
Integrated MEMS-Based Phase Shifters
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Multilayer microwave circuit processing technology is essential in developing more compact radio frequency (RF) electronically scanned arrays (ESAs) for next generation radar systems. ESAs are typically realized using the ... -
Integrated metabolic engineering and bioprocessing strategies for production of succinyl-CoA-derived chemicals in Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-15)Due to various social, environmental, and technological issues associated with petro-based chemical processes, bio-based production using microbial cell factories has been recognized as a modern biotechnology for more ... -
An Integrated Model of Contex, Short-Term, and Long-Term Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-27)I present the context-unified encoding (CUE) model, a large-scale spiking neural network model of human memory. It combines and integrates activity-based short-term memory with weight-based long-term memory. The ... -
An Integrated Modeling Framework for Managing the Deployment and Operation of Cloud Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-23)Cloud computing can help Software as a Service (SaaS) providers to take advantage of the sheer number of cloud benefits such as, agility, continuity, cost reduction, autonomy, and easy management of resources. To reap the ... -
Integrated Optoelectronic Devices and System Limitations for WDM Passive Optical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)This thesis puts focus on the technological challenges for Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) implementation, and presents novel semiconductor optical devices for deployment at the optical ... -
Integrated Performance Analysis and Optimum Fund Allocation for Capital Renewal of Healthcare Facilities
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)Healthcare facilities, including hospitals, are among the most challenging assets to maintain and modernize. An accurate performance assessment is essential for the appropriate prioritization of the subsystems that are ...