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A Web-based Transit Technology Selection Model
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)There are many cities in North America planning to upgrade or implement public transportation infrastructure with the goals of increasing transit ridership and promoting transit-oriented development. The most commonly ... -
The Weft House: A Transitional Housing Program to Empower Afghan Refugees in Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-20)According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of forcibly displaced people is growing yearly. These people flee their country due to war, violence, persecution, famine, and other life-threatening ... -
Weighted Opposition-Based Fuzzy Thresholding
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-18)With the rapid growth of the digital imaging, image processing techniques are widely involved in many industrial and medical applications. Image thresholding plays an essential role in image processing and computer vision ... -
Weldability of a Dual-Phase Sheet Steel by the Gas Metal Arc Welding Process
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-18)Dual-phase (DP) sheet steels have recently been used for automotive manufacturing to reduce vehicle weight and improve fuel economy. Dual-phase steels offer higher strength without reduced formability when compared to ... -
Weldability of AZ31B Magnesium Sheet by Laser Welding Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Due to finite fossil fuel resources and the impact on our environment of burning fossil fuels, the automotive industry has been investigating ways to reduce the overall weight of automotive vehicles. This has led to ... -
A wet process for oxidation-absorption of nitric oxide by persulfate/calcium peroxide
(Elsevier, 2018-10-15)This study develops and evaluates a novel wet method for NO removal using a Na2S2O8/CaO2 solution. The effects of these two components both and alone in solution, Na2S2O8 concentration, CaO2 concentration, initial pH, ... -
Wettability and capillary behavior of fibrous gas diffusion media for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
(Elsevier, 2009-10-20)The relationship of capillary pressure to liquid saturation for the water-air fluid pair in two different types of gas diffusion media (GDM) used in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) electrodes is elucidated. ... -
Wetting & Capillarity: From Thin Film Mediated Processes to Droplet-Surface Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Wetting and capillarity remain ubiquitous in both daily lives and industrial applications. The present thesis explores several fundamentally interesting problems of practical relevance in wetting and capillarity. Two primary ... -
Wetting of underliquid systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)Wetting studies can be tracked back over the last few decades due to its applications in the development of water repellent (superhydrophobic), oil repellent (superoleophobic) surfaces. Despite the fact that these surfaces ... -
Wetting, adhesion and droplet impact on face masks
(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 ... -
What Happens After The Mine?: A critique of approaches to the design, remediation, and perpetual care of post-extraction landscapes in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Mining produces enormous amounts of waste, often toxic, that requires containment, record keeping, and monitoring in perpetuity to ensure it does not harm the surrounding ecosystem. Post-extraction landscapes in Canada ... -
What's Up With the Downtown?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)What’s Up with the Downtown? uses North Bay, Ontario to examine issues of downtown core usage and design in rural North American cities. As malls and box retail have moved to the forefront of physical spaces catering to ... -
Wheat Straw-Clay-Polypropylene Hybrid Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-23)The preparation of polymeric hybrid composite consisting of organic and inorganic fillers is of interest for industries like automotive, construction and packaging. In order to understand and predict the physical and ... -
Wheat Straw-Polypropylene Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)Composites are combinations of mainly two different components: the matrix and the filler/reinforcement. In the thermoplastic composites industry, natural fibers from agricultural crops have been emerged as alternative ... -
When does eco-efficiency rebound or backfire? An analytical model
(Elsevier, 2021-04-16)It is known that an eco-efficiency strategy, which saves resources in the production process, may be offset by a rebound effect; it may even backfire. Less known are the exact conditions under which eco-efficiency rebounds ... -
When Nature Goes to School: A Green School Design for Milton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)It is generally agreed upon that environmental education has an important place in 21st century schools, as the need to educate the current and future generations of young people on how to live in a sustainable way grows ... -
Where Is The House You Will Build For Me?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)The adaptive reuse of secular buildings as churches signals a return to the fundamental belief that architecture is not necessary for Christian worship. Following are the stories and photographs of fifteen churches in the ... -
Where Ravens Dream: Encountering Property in Relation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)This thesis asks a personal question that I have struggled with since before the Masters program: Is Architecture inherently an imposition on place? Through personal relation, reciprocity and dialogue with a particular ... -
Where the River Flows Fast
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-13)Kashechewan, a flood-prone remote First Nation in northern Ontario, is the focus of this thesis. It is an exploration into the factors that have contributed to the community’s decline and current state. By looking at how ... -
The White House, and Other Counter-Narratives from the Lockdown
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-17)Contemporary emplacement demands movement, whether through migration, travel, or transcultural exchange. Identity, as positioned by the postcolonial writer Édouard Glissant, is linked fundamentally with change and contact ...