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Friction and Adhesion of Microparticle Suspensions on Repellent Surfaces
(ACS, 2020-11-06)With the recent advancements in the development and application of repellent surfaces, both in air and under liquid medium, accurate characterization of repellence behavior is critical in understanding the mechanism behind ... -
Friction-induced Vibration in Lead Screw Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)Lead screw drives are used in various motion delivery systems ranging from manufacturing to high precision medical devices. Lead screws come in many different shapes and sizes; they may be big enough to move a 140 tons ... -
Fringe Benefits
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-21)The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is in a state of constant and massive growth in terms of population, development and economic investment. This growth has generated pressures both within and at the peripheries ... -
From Houses to Hillsides: Support for Adaptive Housing on Hong Kong's Slopes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)Hong Kong’s urban development is governed by the mountainous terrain of the city. The city is growing, and easily developable low-lying flat land is becoming increasingly scarce. As a result, Hong Kong’s development is ... -
From Industrial District to Interface City: Re-imagining the Corrugated Metal Sheds of Taiwan
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-07)Manufacturing industries are on the decline in Taiwan, leaving many of the island’s corrugated metal warehouses and factories at the risk of being replaced by more profitable high-rise towers. The result is a gentrification ... -
From Isomorphism-Based Security for Graphs to Semantics-Preserving Security for the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a graph-like data model designed for the web. One of its compelling features is a precise, model-theoretic semantics. We address security in the context of the RDF. We first observe ... -
From Metabolite Concentration to Flux – A Systematic Assessment of Error in Cell Culture Metabolomics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-05)The growing availability of genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic data has opened the door to the synthesis of multiple levels of information in biological research. As a consequence, there has been a push to analyze ... -
From Mountain to Maleh: Water as an Agent of Negotiation in the Kidron Valley/Wadi an-Nar
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-05)In a site with significantly fractured political, social, and environmental governance, it comes as no surprise that the West Bank’s water network is fraught with issues. Over-pumping of groundwater, inadequate sewage ... -
From Pedagogy to Agency: Learning to Act in Rural China
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-14)From Pedagogy to Agency confronts the imbalances found between rural and urban society in China, exploring the role education plays in their ever-changing relationship. The thesis posits that schools, classrooms, ... -
From Socialist Estate to City Neighbourhood: A Critical Look at Eastern European Housing Estates
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-22)This thesis presents a critical examination of Eastern European housing estates, examining their unique condition and growing concerns, in order to propose a new model for their regeneration so that they can become vital ... -
From Suburban to Urban: Increasing Density and Housing Adaptability via Small-Scale Infill Development in Medium Sized Cities.
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-08)Abstract The combination of the drastic rise in housing prices and the post-pandemic emergence of remote work, has resulted in population migration from densely populated urban centres to smaller scale suburban ... -
Frozen-State Hierarchical Annealing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-21)There is significant interest in the synthesis of discrete-state random fields, particularly those possessing structure over a wide range of scales. However, given a model on some finest, pixellated scale, it is computationally ... -
Fuel Cell Distributed Generation: Power Conditioning, Control and Energy Management
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-28)Distributed generation is expected to play a significant role in remedying the many shortcomings in today’s energy market. In particular, fuel cell power generation will play a big part due to several advantages. Still, ... -
A Fuel-Cell Vehicle Test Station
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Due to concerns about energy security, rising oil prices, and adverse effects of internal combustion engine vehicles on the environment, the automotive industry is quickly moving towards developing efficient “green” vehicles. ... -
Full Vehicle State Estimation Using a Holistic Corner-based Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Vehicles' active safety systems use different sensors, vehicle states, and actuators, along with an advanced control algorithm, to assist drivers and to maintain the dynamics of a vehicle within a desired safe range in ... -
Full-Body Inverse Dynamics Using Inertial Measurement Units
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Estimating the loads on the human body is crucial in ergonomics, where it is of use in workplace design, task-load assessment, and safety limits establishment. It is also relevant to rehabilitation studies, where it can ... -
Full-Depth Reclamation with Hydraulic Road Binders
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)According to a recent report, 16.4% of Canadian roads are in a poor or very poor condition. This means 146,255 km of the Canadian roads are either unfit for service or are approaching the end of their service life. The ... -
A Fully Decentralized Approach for Solving the Economic Dispatch Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-14)A practical formulation of the economic dispatch problem is based on treating the problem as a non-convex optimization problem in which the practical non-convex cost functions are taken into consideration. Formulating the ... -
Fully Integrated 60 GHz Power Amplifiers in 45nm SOI CMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)With the rapid growth of consumer demand for high data rates and high speed communications, the wireless spectrum has become increasingly precious. This has promoted the evolution of new standards and modulation schemes ... -
Functional Polysaccharide Nanomaterials (PS-NMs) for the reduction of elevated serum cholesterol & progressive diet-induced obesity (DIO): A 'novel' application of PS-NMs.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)High plasma cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia) is a potential consequence of obesity that is becoming a major public health challenge. Excess caloric intake without a corresponding increase in energy expenditure is believed ...