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Nonlinear Optimal Control of Automated Vehicles in a Connected Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)This thesis is based around the University of Waterloo EcoCAR Team (UWAFT) and the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge. The overall objective of the competition is to design and build a hybrid electric vehicle with SAE Level 2 ... -
Nonlinear Parameter Estimation for Multiple Site-Type Polyolefin Catalysts Using an Integrated Microstructure Deconvolution Methodology
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-17)The microstructure of polyolefins determines their macroscopic properties. Consequently, it is essential to predict how polymerization conditions will affect polyolefin microstructure. The most important microstructural ... -
Nonlinear Periodic Adaptive Control for Linear Time-Varying Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time-varying parameters. Adaptive control techniques have been developed since 1950’s and most results were proven in the cases when the ... -
Nonlinear Preconditioning Methods for Optimization and Parallel-In-Time Methods for 1D Scalar Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-18)This thesis consists of two main parts, part one addressing problems from nonlinear optimization and part two based on solving systems of time dependent differential equations, with both parts describing strategies for ... -
Nonlinear screening of external charge by doped graphene
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)In the rst part of this thesis we discuss some details of properties of graphene and we explain the tight-binding approach to nd the energy spectrum in graphene. In the second part of the thesis, we solve a nonlinear ... -
Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Brass Instruments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The study of wave production and propagation is a common phenomenon seen within a variety of math and physics problems. This thesis in particular will investigate the production and propagation of sound waves through musical ... -
Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)The quantum properties of electromagnetic radiation at single photon level promise to offer what are classically inaccessible. Single photon sources and detectors are therefore on demand for exploiting these properties in ... -
Nonparametric Estimation in a Compound Mixture Model and False Discovery Rate Control with Auxiliary Information
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)In this thesis, we focus on two important statistical problems. The first is the nonparametric estimation in a compound mixture model with application to the malaria study. The second is the control of the false discovery ... -
Nonparametric Methods for Road Safety Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-16)Crash models for predicting long-term crash risk at some specific components of a road network are fundamental to road safety analyses such as network screening and countermeasure studies. These models are often calibrated ... -
Nonparametric Neighbourhood Based Multiscale Model for Image Analysis and Understanding
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-28)Image processing applications such as image denoising, image segmentation, object detection, object recognition and texture synthesis often require a multi-scale analysis of images. This is useful because different features ... -
Nonprehensile Manipulation via Multisensory Learning from Demonstration
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-04)Dexterous manipulation problem concerns control of a robot hand to manipulate an object in a desired manner. While classical dexterous manipulation strategies are based on stable grasping (or force closure), many human-like ... -
Nonribosomal Peptide Analog Identification with Tandem Mass Spectrometry
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-29)Nonribosomal peptides (NRP) are a class of peptide secondary metabolites, usually produced by microorganisms like bacteria and fungi. NRP antibiotics, cytostatics, and immunosuppressants are in commercial use. ... -
Nonribosomal Peptide Identification with Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Searching Structural Database
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Nonribosomal peptides (NRP) are highlighted in pharmacological studies as novel NRPs are often promising substances for new drug development. To effectively discover novel NRPs from microbial fermentations, a crucial step ... -
Nonrigid Image Registration Using Physically Based Models
(University of Waterloo, 2006)It is well known that biological structures such as human brains, although may contain the same global structures, differ in shape, orientation, and fine structures across individuals and at different times. Such ... -
Nonsmooth Newton Methods for Solving the Best Approximation Problem; with Applications to Linear Programming
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-19)In this thesis, we study the effects of applying a modified Levenberg-Marquardt regularization to a nonsmooth Newton method. We expand this application to exact and inexact nonsmooth Newton methods and apply it to the ... -
Nordic Interventions in African Sustainable Water Development: Addressing Participation Deficits as a Primary Success Factor
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-29)Aligning with the beginning of a new sustainable development paradigm in 2000 and the introduction of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the international community has developed more collaborative ... -
The Normal Distribution of ω(φ(m)) in Function Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-28)Let ω(m) be the number of distinct prime factors of m. A celebrated theorem of Erdös-Kac states that the quantity (ω(m)-loglog m)/√(loglog m) distributes normally. Let φ(m) be Euler's φ-function. Erdös and Pomerance ... -
Normal Mode Wave-Vortex Decompositions of Mesoscale Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-18)The kinetic energy spectrum of the atmosphere has been well observed to exhibit a k^(-3) power law at synoptic scales with a transition to a shallower k^(-5/3) power law at the mesoscale. To better understand the mesoscale ... -
Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, the School, and the Family in Post-World War II
(University of Waterloo, 1996)'Psychology and the Construction of the 'Normal' Family in Postwar Canada, 1945-1960,' investigates the manner in which psychological discourse constructed notions of the normal postwar family in Canada. Despite their ... -
Normative Age-Related Individual Differences in Executive Functioning and its Impact on Quality of Life and Mood in Aging Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)With the aging of society and increased longevity, understanding the factors that contribute to declines in quality of life and mood, such as normative health declines and cognitive declines is progressively more important. ...