Theses: Recent submissions
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Barriers to Growth Management: Local Challenges Implementing the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-15)To combat urban sprawl and its negative effects on ecosystem services and human health, regional growth management and containment policies have been used with increased frequency to manage urban growth. Yet, local ... -
Distribution, Abundance, and Spatial Variability of Microplastic Pollution in Surface Waters of Lake Superior
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)Plastic pollution in oceans and lakes has been a concern for more than three decades, and largely through the breakdown of large plastics, microplastic pollution has been of real concern for over 20 years. Most research ... -
Wideband Rectenna System for Microwave Power Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)One of the fundamental devices in Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) is the recenna or rectifying antenna, which collects the electromagnetic energy from the free space and convert it directly to a useful DC power. Although ... -
Direct Numerical Simulations of the Degeneration and Shear Instability of Large and Small Amplitude Basin Scale Internal Waves at Varied Aspect Ratios
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)This thesis presents high resolution simulations of the degeneration and shear instability of standing waves, or seiches, of varying amplitudes and aspect ratios in a continuously stratified fluid. It is well known that ... -
Investigation of Thorax Response and Potential for Injury in Side Impacts Using Integrated Detailed Human and Vehicle Finite-Element Models
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)Car accidents are amongst the most common causes of fatalities for a younger population in developed countries and world-wide. While research using Anthropometric Test Devices (ATDs) has led to improvements in frontal ... -
Closed-loop Supply Chain: A Systematic Review
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)The extraction of virgin materials from nature depletes existing resources and creates huge waste problems both in the extraction process itself and at the product’s end-of-life. There is a propensity for this waste to be ... -
Disentangled Representation Learning for Stylistic Variation in Neural Language Models
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)The neural network has proven to be an effective machine learning method over the past decade, prompting its usage for modelling language, among several other domains. However, the latent representations learned by these ... -
Exploring Presentations of the Self: Tourist Identity and Representation on Facebook
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-14)The aim of this study is to explore how tourists present and manage impressions of the self as tourist, on Facebook, while travelling. This study applies a qualitative content analysis to the tourism-related, user-generated ... -
Development and Characterization of Graphene-based Microporous Layers for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is an energy-conversion device that converts the chemical energy of hydrogen and oxygen into electricity directly through electrochemical reactions with only water and heat as ... -
Age-related effects on EEG and Brain-computer Interface Classification
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)There is a rapid increase in the number of older adults around the world. This directly translates to an increase in the number of people living with health complications that are more prevalent in the elderly population, ... -
Survival analysis of chronic dialysis patients
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Background: The number of dialysis patients is steadily rising in Canada because of demographic changes as well as an increased prevalence of associated risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and aging (Clark & Khan, ... -
Development of Flexible Lithium Sulfur Batteries Based on Laser-Induced Graphene
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Emerging technologies have become increasingly advanced with flexible components and are integrated into various interfaces, finding themselves in applications such as rollable displays, wearable technologies and e-textiles. ... -
A Game-Theoretic Decision-Making Framework for Engineering Self-Protecting Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Targeted and destructive nature of strategies used by attackers to break down a software system require mitigation approaches with dynamic awareness. Making a right decision, when facing today’s sophisticated and dynamic ... -
Informed Data Selection For Dynamic Multi-Camera Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Traditional multi-camera systems require a fixed calibration between cameras to provide the solution at the correct scale, which places many limitations on its performance. This thesis investigates the calibration of dynamic ... -
Tsirelson's problems and entanglement breaking rank
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)There are two main themes of this thesis. In the first part, we study the various sets of correlations arising in the study of non-local games and Tsirelson's problems. In the second part we introduce the notion of ... -
Natural Language Generation with Neural Variational Models
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Automatic generation of text is an important topic in natural language processing with applications in tasks such as machine translation and text summarization. In this thesis, we explore the use of deep neural networks ... -
Mixture Models for Coarsened Multivariate Failure Time Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)The aim of this thesis is to develop statistical methodology for the analysis of life history data under incomplete observation schemes and with latent features which must be accom- modated to ensure models provide a ... -
Factors Associated with Dialysis Withdrawal in Chronic Dialysis Patients
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Background: Research on the factors associated with dialysis withdrawal in chronic dialysis patients has been limited. Authors and clinicians have used different definitions for dialysis withdrawal, resulting in inconsistent ... -
Simple Convolutional Neural Networks with Linguistically-Annotated Input for Answer Selection in Question Answering
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)With the advent of deep learning methods, researchers have been increasingly preferring deep learning methods over decades-old feature-engineering-inspired work in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The research community ... -
Abstract and Explicit Constructions of Jacobian Varieties
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)Abelian varieties, in particular Jacobian varieties, have long attracted interest in mathematics. Their influence pervades arithmetic geometry and number theory, and understanding their construction was a primary motivator ...