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Acceptance Criteria for Ultrasonic Impact Treatment of Highway Steel Bridges
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)The need for rehabilitation of bridges has become a critical challenge due to aging and an increase in traffic loads. Many of these bridges are exceeding their design fatigue life. Since many of these bridges are structurally ... -
Acceptance of a Remote Desktop Access System to Increase Workspace Awareness
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Awareness systems are being designed and implemented to improve employee connections. This study examines the variables that affect the acceptance of an awareness system. The awareness system that was used for this ... -
Access Network Selection in a 4G Networking Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-18)An all-IP pervasive networking system provides a comprehensive IP solution where voice, data and streamed multimedia can be delivered to users at anytime and anywhere. Network selection is a key issue in this converged ... -
Access to Government Micro-data for SME Internationalization Research
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-10)International entrepreneurship (IE) is “a combination of innovative, proactive and risk-seeking behaviour that crosses national borders and is intended to create value in organizations”. The IE literature has been concerned ... -
Accessible Integration of Physiological Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Technological advancements in creating and commercializing novel unobtrusive wearable physiological sensors have generated new opportunities to develop adaptive human-robot interaction (HRI). Detecting complex human states ... -
Accommodating a High Penetration of PHEVs and PV Electricity in Residential Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Global warming is threatening the world’s delicate ecosystems to the point where the extinction of numerous species is becoming increasingly likely. Experts have determined that avoiding such a disaster requires an 80% ... -
Accommodating a High Penetration of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-12)The last few decades have seen growing concern about climate change caused by global warming, and it now seems that the very future of humanity depends on saving the environment. With recognition of CO2 emissions as the ... -
Accounting for the Effects of Power System Controllers and Stability on Power Dispatch and Electricity Market Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Recently, the widespread use of power system controllers, such as PSS and FACTS controllers, has led to the analysis of their effect on the overall stability of power systems. Many studies have been conducted to allocate ... -
Accumulative fold-forging (AFF) as a novel severe plastic deformation process to fabricate a high strength ultra-fine grained layered aluminum alloy structure
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)A novel severe plastic deformation (SPD) process termed accumulative fold forging (AFF) is introduced to fabricate a homogenous ultra-fine grained (UFG) layered metal structure by repetitive folding and forging aluminum ... -
Accuracies of Optimal Transmission Switching Heuristics Based on Exact and Approximate Power Flow Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Optimal transmission switching (OTS) enables us to remove selected transmission lines from service as a cost reduction method. A mixed integer programming (MIP) model has been proposed to solve the OTS problem based on the ... -
Accuracy Improvement for Measurement of Gas Diffusivity through Thin Porous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Accurate measurement of the gas diffusion coefficient through porous media is of significant interest to science and engineering applications including mass transfer through soils, building materials, and fuel cells to ... -
Accurate determination of interface trap state parameters by admittance spectroscopy in the presence of a Schottky barrier contact: Application to ZnO-based solar cells
(AIP Publishing, 2013-04-14)This work shows that when a Schottky barrier is present in a photovoltaic device, such as in a device with an ITO/ZnO contact, equivalent circuit analysis must be performed with admittance spectroscopy to accurately determine ... -
Achievable Rate Regions of Two-Way Relay Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)With the fast development of communication networks, cooperative communication has been more widely used in many different fields, such as satellite networks, broadcast networks, internet and so on. Therefore relay channels ... -
Achieving contrapuntal balance at a lake outlet: Restoring salmon spawning habitat with gravel augmentation design
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-09)The degradation of gravel bed rivers in logging and climate-impacted watersheds has led to an increase in salmonid habitat conservation and restoration efforts. Gravel augmentation is one such technique that seeks to restore ... -
Achieving Drag Reduction Through Polymer-Surfactant Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Drag reduction is a well-observed phenomenon, it was first observed by the British chemist Toms in 1946, yet its mechanism is still unknown to this day. Polymer Drag reduction has found application in reducing pumping costs ... -
Achieving Fairness in 802.11-Based Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Multi-hop wireless networks based on 802. 11 are being used more widely as an alternative technology for last-mile broadband Internet access. Their benefits include ease of deployment and lower cost. Such networks are ... -
Achieving Scalable, Exhaustive Network Data Processing by Exploiting Parallelism
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Telecommunications companies (telcos) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) monitor the traffic passing through their networks for the purposes of network evaluation and planning for future growth. Most monitoring ... -
Achieving Soft Real-time Guarantees for Interactive Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)The use of 802.11-based multi-hop wireless mesh networks for Internet access is extensive and growing. The primary advantages of this approach are ease of deployment and lower cost. However, these networks are designed for ... -
ACL Strain During Single-Leg Jump Landing: An Experimental and Computational Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a commonly-injured ligament in the human knee joint. ACL injury repair is a costly procedure; however, left unrepaired, ACL injuries can lead to complications later in life. In ... -
Acoustic Monitoring for Leaks in Water Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)Water distribution networks (WDNs) are complex systems that are subjected to stresses due to a number of hydraulic and environmental loads. Small leaks can run continuously for extended periods, sometimes indefinitely, ...