Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Title
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Processing Exact Results for Queries over Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-11)In a growing number of information-processing applications, such as network-traffic monitoring, sensor networks, financial analysis, data mining for e-commerce, etc., data takes the form of continuous data streams rather ... -
Product Design of Wheat Straw Polypropylene Composite
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-15)The use of wheat straw and other agricultural by-product fibers in polymer composite materials offers many economical and environmental benefits. Wheat straw has been recently commercialized as new filler for polypropylene ... -
Product Differentiation and Operations Strategy for Price and Time Sensitive Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-29)In this dissertation, we study the interplay between a firm’s operations strategy, with regard to its capacity management, and its marketing decision of product differentiation. For this, we study a market comprising ... -
Production and Characterization of Electrospun Metal Nanofibers for Applications in Nanoaerosol Filtration
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-13)Airborne particles have a large impact on human health and the environment. They can be as small as a few nanometers. Electrospun nanofibrous materials have shown strong potential in filtering airborne nanoparticles for ... -
Production and Characterization of Wheat Gluten Films
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-17)Biodegradable, edible wheat gluten films offer a renewable alternative to plastic food packaging or can be incorporated directly in the food product. Wheat gluten is a good option because it forms a fibrous network, lending ... -
Production and fractionation of antioxidant peptides from soy protein isolate using sequential membrane ultrafiltration and nanofiltration
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)Antioxidants are molecules capable of stabilizing and preventing oxidation. Certain peptides, protein hydrolysates, have shown antioxidant capacities, which are obtained once liberated from the native protein structure. ... -
Production and Modeling of Recombinant Protein
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)Computational models of recombinant production of tissue-type Plasminogen Activator (tPA) were created, studied and compared for two hosts, Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO)cells and Escherichia coli (E. coli), using SuperPro® ... -
Production of Linear Alkybenzene Sulfonic Acid (LAS) at High Pressure in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Medium
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)Linear Alkyl benzene Sulfonic Acid (LAS) is the main ingredient of many commercial formulations for industrial and domestic synthetic detergents. The current industrial LAS production method includes sulfonation of linear ... -
Production of 3-hydroxy acids from acetate in engineered Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Acetate serves as an uncommon carbon source for metabolic engineering of value-added chemicals. As a carbon source, acetate has unique advantages since it is not derived from food sources and can be produced as a waste ... -
The Production of Space for Entrepreneurship: State-Led Gentrification & Innovation along the ION Light Rail Transit Line in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The Region of Waterloo is rapidly transforming along the route of the ION Light Rail Transit Line as expansions in the innovation industry and investments in public space enhance a new linear core. As the transit line ... -
Production Scheduling Optimization of a Plastics Compounding Plant with Quality Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)Production scheduling is a common problem that occurs in multi-product manufacturing facilities where a wide range of products are produced in small quantities, resulting in frequent changeovers. A plastics compounding ... -
Production, Fractionation, and Evaluation of Antioxidant Potential of Peptides Derived from Soy Protein Digests
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-08)Oxidation plays an important role in the basic processes of life, such as the production of energy and phagocytosis employed by the immune system. However, when an imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants exists in ... -
Profit Maximizing Hub Location Problems
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)In this paper, we study profit maximizing hub location problems. We formulate mathematical models determining the location of hubs, designing the hub networks, and routing the demand in order to maximize profit. The profit ... -
Programmable stimuli-responsive zwitterionic hydrogels for soft robotic applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)As a prominent class of actuators, stimuli-responsive hydrogels have attracted significant interest in the soft robotics community for biomedical applications. Key features of hydrogels, including high water content ... -
Progress on the application of the NS-alpha model to wall-bounded flows
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-09)In this thesis we study the NS-alpha model of flow turbulence. In this model the closure arises through a modified nonlinearity. For the NS-alpha model currently used in published numerical studies, the parameter representing ... -
Progress towards Automated Human Factors Evaluation
(Elsevier, 2015-10-23)Human factors tests are important components of systems design. Designers need to evaluate users’ performance and workload while using a system and compare different design options to determine the optimal design choice. ... -
Progressive Lossless Image Compression Using Image Decomposition and Context Quantization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Lossless image compression has many applications, for example, in medical imaging, space photograph and film industry. In this thesis, we propose an efficient lossless image compression scheme for both binary images and ... -
Progressive-Failure Analysis of Steel Building Structures under Abnormal Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-18)Engineered structures are designed to resist all expected loadings without failure. However, structural failures do occasionally occur due to inadequate design and construction, especially for extreme and abnormal loads. ... -
Project Management: A Socio-Technical Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-22)This dissertation presents a study on project management and its effectiveness in a multinational pharmaceutical company (MPC). A mixed qualitative-quantitative method consisting of a case study (33 managers) and a follow-up ... -
Projector Compensation for Unconventional Projection Surface
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-19)Projecting onto irregular textured surfaces found on buildings, automobiles and theatre stages calls for the development of radiometric and geometric compensation algorithms that require no user intervention and compensate ...