Browsing Theses by Subject "monitoring"
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Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management through Standardized Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-28)In Canada, many urban and near-urban ecosystems are in decline. As well, engineered infrastructure is aging, its capital and operating costs are rising, and municipal service delivery is strained. Local governments are ... -
Deep Decarbonization in Cities: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement, Monitoring, and Reporting
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-18)Municipalities have a significant role in reducing global emissions to net-zero by 2050. Local climate action has immense potential for driving the required emissions reductions, but the practices involved in measuring, ... -
Detecting pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica in surface water from the Grand River watershed: An evaluation and comparison of methods
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)Yersinia enterocolitica are potentially pathogenic bacteria transmitted through the fecal oral route. Typical disease symptoms include those associated with gastrointestinal disease, although infection can also lead to ... -
Efficient Pattern Search in Large, Partial-Order Data Sets
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)The behaviour of a large, distributed system is inherently complex. One step towards making this behaviour more understandable to a user involves instrumenting the system and collecting data about its execution. We can ... -
Flexible Monitoring of Storage I/O
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)For any computer system, monitoring its performance is vital to understanding and fixing problems and performance bottlenecks. In this work we present the architecture and implementation of a system for monitoring storage ... -
Indigenous Guardian programs as a model for evaluating traditional land use in post-reclaimed sites
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-08)This thesis explores Indigenous Guardian programs as a model for monitoring post-reclaimed mine sites in Treaty 8 Territory, Alberta, Canada. As a joint research project between Fort McKay First Nation (FMFN), University ... -
An interdisciplinary approach to monitoring the hydroecology of thermokarst lakes in Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Lake-rich thermokarst landscapes, such as Old Crow Flats (OCF) in northern Yukon, Canada have been identified as amongst the most vulnerable to climate change. This has raised concerns of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation ... -
Monitoring and Evaluating Cycling in Canadian Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)Many cities in North America have stated goals in their Official Plans, Transportation Plans, and other municipal documents related to cycling. A common objective is to increase the number and proportion of cyclists for ... -
My Meal Intake Tool (MMIT) and the Mealtime Audit Tool (MAT) - Criterion Validity and Inter-rater Reliability Testing of two Novel Tools for Improving Food Intake in Acute Care
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-19)BACKGROUND: Forty-five percent of patients in Canada are admitted to hospital already malnourished. Compared to well-nourished patients, those with diminished nutritional status are at an increased risk of in-hospital ... -
Native Wetland Plant Recovery Following Phragmites australis Invasion
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Invasive common reed (Phragmites australis ssp. australis) has negatively affected 25% of all Species at Risk in Ontario since its arrival in the twentieth century. This is of particular concern at Long Point and Rondeau, ... -
Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring using Microwave Sensor with Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-14)Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the levels of glucose are high in the blood because the body cannot produce any or enough insulin or use insulin effectively. According to the International Diabetes Federation ... -
OpenBSD Hardware Sensors — Environmental Monitoring and Fan Control
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)This thesis discusses the motivation, origin, history, design guidelines, API, the device drivers and userland utilities of the hardware sensors framework available in OpenBSD. The framework spans multiple utilities in ... -
Parallel Run-Time Verification
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Run-time verification is a technique to reason about a program correctness. Given a set of desirable properties and a program trace from the inspected program as an input, the monitor module verifies that properties hold ... -
The participatory design of an ecosystem approach to monitoring in support of sense-making: What's the Point?
(University of Waterloo, 1999)Environmental monitoring initiatives are typically conceived as strictly scientific affairs designed to provide support for managerial decision-making; as a consequence most initiatives are centered on a formal mandate or ... -
Policy Driven Software Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)Software monitoring and logging is one of the most important tools a software engineer has when faced with the challenge of auditing or analysing a software system. However, the difficulty in effectively monitoring a ...