• Geophysical Methods for Detecting Permafrost Discontinuities 

  Salman, Max (University of Waterloo, 2021-03-04)

  Global climate change has sparked various concerns over the future of the Arctic. One of the major concerns around the environmental and ecological health of the Arctic is directly related to the deterioration of the ...

• Site Finding in a Complex Urban Landscape 

  Huang, Jie Jie (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)

  This thesis demonstrates a working method for architectural analysis that combines manipulation of spatial data with a systematic analysis approach, configured for small-scale urban site selection in Toronto. The study ...

• Learning-based Image Scale Estimation for Quantitative Visual Inspection of Civil Structures 

  Park, Ju An (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-25)

  The number of assets of civil infrastructure (e.g., bridges or roads) have been increasing to meet the demands of growing populations around the world. However, they degrade over time due to environmental factors and must ...

• Wetting, adhesion and droplet impact on face masks 

  Melayil, Kiran Raj; Mitra, Sushanta K. (ACS, 2021-02-12)

  In the present pandemic time, face masks are found to be the most effective strategy against the spread of the virus within the community. As aerosol-based spreading of the virus is considered as the primary mode of ...

• Flexibility Provisions from Energy Storage Systems and Loads in Smart Grid 

  Alrumayh, Omar (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)

  Electric power systems are experiencing a movement toward increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs), while having to cope with the retirement of conventional generating units to facilitate an eco-friendly ...

• Let’s Make Good Stuff: Combatting planned obsolescence and junk by relearning repair, maintenance, and personal agency over the things around us 

  Scheffler, Nathanael (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)

  Let’s Make Good Stuff explores our relationship with the designed objects around us. Mass produced items have an increased ability to provide everyone with good design, or to fill our world with sub-par products. This ...

• Interaction of water droplets residing on a solid surface with wall-bounded shear flows 

  Zhang, Xueqing (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)

  Droplet depinning under wind-forcing arises in a wide range of engineering scenarios. Better understanding of this phenomenon not only can optimize the design of relevant engineering systems, but also can help preventing ...

• Barriers to Change: Environmental Blockades as Radical Spatial Practice 

  Arndt, Devin (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)

  Space carries a fundamental role in the pursuit of societal change. Recently, the relationship between space and change has constantly been revealed, challenged, and advanced at diverse sites of resistance. Amidst a multitude ...

• Measuring Smoke Evolution at Full-Scale with Video Recordings 

  Ellingham, Jennifer (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)

  Many knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of fire and smoke dynamics — caused in large part by a lack of data on smoke evolution in fires. Advances in computer technology, however, now make it possible for ...

• The Green Scare: Radical environmental activism and the invention of "eco-terrorism" in American superhero comics from 1970 to 1990 

  Lacy, Brendan (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)

  American environmentalism became a recognizable social movement in the 1960s. In the following two decades the movement evolved to represent a diverse set of philosophies and developed new protest methods. In the early ...

• Many Rooms: Mixed Use Reimagining Church Redevelopments in Vancouver 

  Yan, Wayne (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-19)

  In recent decades, Christian congregations in Canada have seen a significant decrease in affiliation and attendance. As congregations dwindled, many of the aging church buildings across the country have been sold, ...

• Data Reduction Algorithms in Machine Learning and Data Science 

  Ghojogh, Benyamin (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-19)

  Raw data are usually required to be pre-processed for better representation or discrimination of classes. This pre-processing can be done by data reduction, i.e., either reduction in dimensionality or numerosity (cardinality). ...

• Investigating Input Offset Reduction with Timing Manipulation in Low Voltage Sense Amplifiers 

  Di Nardo, Matthew Joseph (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-18)

  Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) are ubiquitous in modern computer systems. They provide a fast and relatively compact method of data storage. SRAM cells are read from and written to using analog differential bitline ...

• A Robust Optimization Approach for Advance Scheduling in Health Care Systems with Demand Uncertainty: Policy Insights 

  Niazi Shahraki, Nafise (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-17)

  Patient wait times have increased significantly over the past few decades. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 40% of Canadians have experienced difficulties in receiving diagnostics tests. ...

• A Unified Hybrid Formulation for Visual SLAM 

  Younes, Georges (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-16)

  Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Visual SLAM (VSLAM)), is the process of estimating the six degrees of freedom ego-motion of a camera, from its video feed, while simultaneously constructing a 3D model of the ...

• The Effects of Methacrylated Glucosamine on the Mechanical Properties of Gelatin Methacryloyl Hydrogels and Gelatin-Methacryloyl/Nanohydroxyapatite Composite Materials. 

  Tielemans, Cullen (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-10)

  Gelatin-methacryloyl (GelMA) has been a material of keen research interest in the past few decades, with diverse potential applications such as drug delivery, tissue engineering, and 3D bioprinting, due to it possessing ...

• TimeFabric: Trusted Time for Hyperledger Fabric 

  Mitra, Aritra (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-01)

  Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, the interest in blockchain technology has surged tremendously. Numerous applications have been proposed in the field of finance, healthcare, and supply chain over the last decade. And, ...

• Fabrication and Characterization of Novel Zinc Air Battery Cathodes Using Electrospinning and Electrospraying Techniques 

  Bell, Ellsworth (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-01)

  High specific energy density, low cost, and relative safety make zinc air batteries a promising energy storage technology. However, to fully realize their advantages improvements must be made to increase their efficiency, ...

• ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE IN THE INNOVATING FIRM: SIZE, R&D AND SECTOR EFFECTS 

  Cozzarin, Brian Paul; Dimitrov, Stanko; Koo, Bonwoo (World Scientific, 2019-08-05)

  This study investigates whether organisational innovation has positive impacts on small and medium enterprises, using three waves of the South Korean innovation survey. While correcting for endogeneity, we find that the ...

• Optimal inventory decisions when offering layaway 

  Dimitrov, Stanko; Ceryan, Oben (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  This paper presents an inventory management policy for a retailer offering a layaway programme. Layaway is a service provided by retailers that allows budget constrained consumers who have sufficiently high valuations to ...

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