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Machine Learning based Models for Fresh Produce Yield and Price Forecasting for Strawberry Fruit
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-02)Building market price forecasting models of Fresh Produce (FP) is crucial to protect retailers and consumers from highly priced FP. However, the task of forecasting FP prices is highly complex due to the very short shelf ... -
Makers and Quilters: Investigating Opportunities for Improving Gender-Imbalanced Maker Groups
(ACM, 2019-11)Recent efforts to diversify participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) activities through informal learning environments, such as hackathons and makerspaces, confirm a real desire for inclusion among ... -
Making Spaces: Mapping Opportunities for Improved Equity in Makerspaces and Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)The promise of "making"—that is, learning, experimenting, DIY, creation, reappropriation, or otherwise—has become a popular topic in human-computer interaction (HCI) research, and a subject of interest for public institutions ... -
MAPS: A Comprehensive Feature Model for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis With Multiparametric MRI
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)Prostate cancer killed over 33000 North American men in 2013. However, the survival outlook for prostate cancer is very good if it is caught early. Prostate cancer screening is therefore very important. Although many ... -
Material-Induced Platelet and Leukocyte Activation: A Systems Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)A systems approach in the study of blood-biomaterial interactions (BBI) is likely to provide better insight into the transient behaviors of complex biological systems. Although some attempts have been made to apply a systems ... -
Math-based spark ignition engine modelling including emission prediction for control applications
(Inderscience, 2015-04-22)A complete spark ignition (SI) engine model is a multi-domain model including fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, combustion, electrical, and mechanical sub-models. The complexity of these models depends on the type of analysis ... -
Matrix Representations and Extension of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-07)The graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR) provides a convenient and effective means to model and analyze a strategic conflict. Standard practice is to carry out a stability analysis of a graph model, and then to ... -
Matrix representations of the inverse problem in the graph model for conflict resolution
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)Given the final individual stability for each decision maker or an equilibrium of interest, a matrix-based method for an inverse analysis is developed in order to calculate all of the possible preferences for each decision ... -
Mechanics and Control of Human Balance
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-18)A predictive, forward-dynamic model and computer simulation of human gait has important medical and research applications. Most human simulation work has focused on inverse dynamics studies to quantify bone on bone forces ... -
A mechanistic model of motion processing in the early visual system
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-05)A prerequisite for the perception of motion in primates is the transformation of varying intensities of light on the retina into an estimation of position, direction and speed of coherent objects. The neuro-computational ... -
Meetings in the Metaverse: Exploring Online Meeting Spaces through Meaningful Interactions in Gather.Town
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)Online meetings and communication spaces have become a part of many people's work during the global COVID-19 pandemic. While we rely on computer-mediated communication (CMC) daily, we need to be engaged to be productive ... -
MEMS Demodulator Based on Electrostatic Actuator
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This thesis provides analysis and modeling for one of the Micro-Eletro-Mechanical System (MEMS) electrostatic actuator that consists of a micro-plate at the end of a cantilever beam, and introduces different type of MEMS ... -
Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques for Articulated Human Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-16)Four adaptive metaheuristic optimization algorithms are proposed and demonstrated: Adaptive Parameter Particle Swarm Optimization (AP-PSO), Modified Artificial Bat (MAB), Differential Mutated Artificial Immune System ... -
Metamodel-Based Probabilistic Design for Dynamic Systems with Degrading Components
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)The probabilistic design of dynamic systems with degrading components is difficult. Design of dynamic systems typically involves the optimization of a time-invariant performance measure, such as Energy, that is estimated ... -
Micro-electro-thermo-magnetic Actuators for MEMS Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-08)This research focuses on developing new techniques and designs for highly con- trollable microactuating systems with large force-stroke outputs. A fixed-fixed mi- crobeam is the actuating element in the introduced ... -
Micromechanics of Fiber Networks Including Nonlinear Hysteresis and its Application to Multibody Dynamic Modeling of Piano Mechanisms
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-11)Many engineering applications make use of fiber assemblies under compression. Unfortunately, this compression behavior is difficult to predict, due to nonlinear compliance, hysteresis, and anelasticity. The main objective ... -
Mixture Regression for Sea Ice Segmentation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)The classification of sea ice in SAR imagery is complicated by statistical nonstationarity. Incidence angle effects, heterogeneous ice conditions and other confounding variables contribute to spatial and temporal variability ... -
Model Compression via Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Modern convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, despite their superiority in solving various problems, are generally too large to be deployed on resource constrained edge devices. In practice, this limits many ... -
Model Development for Corneal Inflammation and Biocompatibility
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)The ocular surface presents a complex environment where the corneal epithelium has to interact with the tear film, the blink, and the many proteins, lipids, and signaling molecules that exist. As a contact lens is placed ... -
A model-based approach to predict muscle synergies using optimization: application to feedback control
(Frontiers Media, 2015-10-06)This paper presents a new model-based method to define muscle synergies. Unlike the conventional factorization approach, which extracts synergies from electromyographic data, the proposed method employs a biomechanical ...