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Modeling User Affect Using Interaction Events
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-08)Emotions play a significant role in many human mental activities, including decision-making, motivation, and cognition. Various intelligent and expert systems can be empowered with emotionally intelligent capabilities, ... -
Modeling Volatile Organic Sulfur Compounds In Anaerobic Digestion
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-19)Anaerobic digestion is a common process for treatment of wastewater sludge from municipal sewage systems. Volatile sulfur compounds, including volatile organic sulfur compounds (VOSCs) and hydrogen sulfide, have been ... -
Modeling Water Emission from Intermediate Mass Star Formation Regions
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-22)In this research water emission is modeled from intermediate mass star formations regions placed at 1 kpc. Nine models are created to describe these regions of varying source luminosity ($L=100,500,$ and $1000L_{\odot}$) ... -
Modeling, Analysis and Experimental Validation of a Three Degree of Freedom Electromagnetic Energy Harvester
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Vibration energy harvesting devices have been widely used to power many electronic self-sustainable devices. The aim of this study is to introduce an alternative design to an existing electromagnetic energy harvesting ... -
Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of the Gas-Phase Methanol Synthesis Process
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)Methanol synthesis has been the subject of many improvements over the last decades since it became more cost effective and scalable than earlier high pressure technology. The synthesis of methanol from syngas has conventionally ... -
Modeling, Design and Test of an Integrated Optical Neural Recording Device
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-20)It has long been a goal of neuroscientists to understand how electrophysiological activity in the nervous system corresponds to, and causes, specific physiological actions. Such knowledge could be used to develop cures for ... -
Modeling, performance evaluation, and post-process planning for directed energy deposition
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-15)This dissertation focuses on improving part quality and process reliability by proposing methods for predicting process outcomes, detecting defects and process anomalies in DED. These methods include physics-based process ... -
Modeling, Stability Analysis, and Control of Distributed Generation in the Context of Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)One of the consequences of competitive electricity markets and international commitments to green energy is the fast development and increase in the amount of distributed generation (DG) in distribution grids. These DGs ... -
Modelling Acoustic Propagation with Dominant Paths
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-15)Hearing is one of our major senses. In addition to being, arguably, our primary form of communication, it affects how we perceive the world around us. Accurate acoustic simulation can complement graphical simulation systems, ... -
Modelling Aerothermal Heating with Conjugate Heat Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)Supersonic and hypersonic vehicles experience flows under complex thermodynamic conditions due to the presence of shock waves and large thermophysical gradients. A large thermal load is imparted to the vehicle from the ... -
Modelling Allostery using a Computational Analysis of Side-Chain Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)Allostery refers to the regulation of protein activity arising from an effector molecule, such as a ligand, binding to a protein. The exact mechanisms that take place in allosteric regulation are still a source of debate ... -
Modelling and Analysis using Graph Transformation Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-01)Communication protocols, a class of critical systems, play an important role in industry. These protocols are critical because the tolerance for faults in these systems is low and it is highly desirable that these systems ... -
Modelling and Control of Small-Scale Helicopter on a Test Platform
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)The helicopter is a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system with highly coupled characteristics, which increases the complexity of the system dynamics. In addition, the system dynamics of the helicopter are ... -
Modelling and Experimental Study of Methane Catalytic Cracking as a Hydrogen Production Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Production of hydrogen is primarily achieved via catalytic steam reforming, partial oxidation,and auto-thermal reforming of natural gas. Although these processes are mature technologies, they are somewhat complex and CO ... -
Modelling and Model Predictive Control of Power-Split Hybrid Powertrains for Self-Driving Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-05)Designing an autonomous vehicle system architecture requires extensive vehicle simulation prior to its implementation on a vehicle. Simulation provides a controlled environment to test the robustness of an autonomous ... -
Modelling and Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles on Roundabouts
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-08)A path following controller was proposed that allows autonomous vehicles to safely navigate roundabouts. The controller consisted of a vector field algorithm that generated velocity commands to direct a vehicle. These ... -
Modelling and Optimization of a Pilot-Scale Entrained Flow gasifier using Artificial Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-04)In this research, the construction and validation of both ANN and RNN models was presented to accurately and efficiently predict both steady state and dynamic performance of a pilot-scale gasifier unit. The corresponding ... -
Modelling and Optimization of an Airflow Window with Between-the-Panes Shading Device
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Abstract <br /> This thesis deals with the numerical investigation of the upper section of a building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal double-façade. The upper section consists of an airflow window with a between-the-panes ... -
Modelling Axial Turbomachinery for Compressed Air Energy Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2018-03-07)Climate change and negative environmental effects from a human’s life style have ignited the search for grid-scale electricity production from renewable energy sources. Significant advances with respect to renewable energy ... -
Modelling Batch and Fed-batch Mammalian Cell Cultures for Optimizing MAb Productivity
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-21)The large-scale production of monoclonal antibodies (MAb) by mammalian cells in batch and fed-batch culture systems is limited by the unwanted decline in cell viability and reduced productivity that may result from changes ...