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Back to the Mountains: A Guesthouse for the Preservation of Vernacular Memory on Mount Tomorr in Albania
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)For millennia, the mountains of Albania have been a repository of vernacular knowledge, and in difficult times, a place of refuge from the often-hostile urban world. However, since the fall of Communism in the early 1990s, ... -
Backplane Circuit Design with Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors for Flexible Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-20)In recent years, rapid advancement in LED fabrication has enabled the possibility of using GaN micro-LEDs to be the light media in a display panel. It has superior performance in many aspects when compared with OLED ... -
Bankers' Perceptions of the Role of Technology in Addressing Financial Exclusion
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-20)Financial inclusion is a measure of the ability of a population to make use of financial services. High rates of financial inclusion in a country are empirically correlated with high levels of economic development in that ... -
Barriers to Change: Environmental Blockades as Radical Spatial Practice
(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 ... -
Basin-wide Water Demand Management: Transfers and Compensation among Competing Users
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-02)Water demand management is incorporated into a two-step water allocation process in order to motivate water users to implement water demand management strategies. In the first step, the initial allocation of water is based ... -
Batch Ordering and Batch Replenishment Policies for MTS-MTO Manufacturing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)Hybrid Make-To-Stock (MTS)-Make-To-Order (MTO) manufacturing is a well known policy that captures the benefits of both MTS and MTO policies. This manufacturing policy is adopted by many manufacturing firms because it allows ... -
Battery Degradation Modeling For Vehicle Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Fuel efficiency is a fundamental part of the automotive industry and its impact on the global environment. This is a direct result of the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards imposing a 70% improvement of ... -
A battery hardware-in-the-loop setup for concurrent design and evaluation of real-time optimal HEV power management controllers
(Inderscience publishers, 2013-11-03)We have developed a battery hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setup, which can expedite the design and evaluation of power management controllers for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in a novel cost- and time-effective manner. The ... -
Battery-Free Water Leak Detector Design Towards High-Scale Production
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-11)Water leaks can be a significant destructive environmental phenomenon that can result in extensive damage if not addressed promptly. Internet of Things (IoT) sensors help connect objects to the Internet for recording and ... -
Bayesian Deep Learning and Uncertainty in Computer Vision
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-17)Visual data contains rich information about the operating environment of an intelligent robotic system. Extracting this information allows intelligent systems to reason and decide their future actions. Erroneous visual ... -
Bayesian Experimental Design Framework Applied to Complex Polymerization Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-29)The Bayesian design approach is an experimental design technique which has the same objectives as standard experimental (full or fractional factorial) designs but with significant practical benefits over standard design ... -
Bayesian Filtering of Surface EMG for Accurate Simultaneous and Proportional Prosthetic Control
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-12-01)The amplitude of the surface EMG (sEMG) is commonly estimated by rectification or other nonlinear transformations, followed by smoothing (low-pass linear filtering). Although computationally efficient, this approach leads ... -
A Bayesian Framework for Software Regression Testing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)Software maintenance reportedly accounts for much of the total cost associated with developing software. These costs occur because modifying software is a highly error-prone task. Changing software to correct faults or ... -
Bayesian inference for source determination in the atmospheric environment
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-17)In the event of a hazardous release (chemical, biological, or radiological) in an urban environment, monitoring agencies must have the tools to locate and characterize the source of the emission in order to respond and ... -
Bayesian Inference of Stochastic Degradation Models: A Likelihood-Free Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)The structural integrity and system performance of large engineering systems are adversely affected by various forms of degradation mechanisms. Modeling of such mechanisms is accomplished by collecting degradation data ... -
Bayesian Methods for Gas-Phase Tomography
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)Gas-phase tomography refers to a set of techniques that determine the 2D or 3D distribution of a target species in a jet, plume, or flame using measurements of light, made around the boundary of a flow area. Reconstructed ... -
Bayesian Model Based Tracking with Application to Cell Segmentation and Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-14)The goal of this research is to develop a model-based tracking framework with biomedical imaging applications. This is an interdisciplinary area of research with interests in machine vision, image processing, and ... -
Bayesian Modeling of Pitting Corrosion in Steam Generators
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-05)Steam generators in nuclear power plants experienced varying degrees of under-deposit pitting corrosion. A probabilistic model to accurately predict pitting corrosion is necessary for effective life-cycle management of ... -
Bayesian Nonparametric Dirichlet Process Mixture Modeling in Transportation Safety Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-08)In transportation safety studies, it is often necessary to account for unobserved heterogeneity and multimodality in data. The commonly used standard generalized linear models (e.g., Poisson-gamma models) do not fully ... -
Beam Me 'Round, Scotty! II: Reflections on Transforming Research Goals into Gameplay Mechanics
(ACM, 2018-10-23)We reflect on the design, implementation, and testing of the experimental testbed game Beam Me 'Round, Scotty! II and the numerous design lessons learned in transitioning theoretical research questions about social presence ...