• Assessing the Sampling Design of the Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (CAMP) 

  Kidd, Jessica (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)

  The Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (CAMP) is a community based monitoring program that involves local stakeholders to monitor estuaries and bays in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (sGSL). Implemented in 2003, CAMP ...

• Design and Fabrication of a Nanofluidic Cell System for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy of in-Liquid Samples. 

  Allen, Caroline Ruth (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)

  The transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been an important characterization tool since its invention in 1932.[1] The ability to achieve atomic resolution imaging and collect real-time movies, combined with the ...

• Entanglement Entropy of Scalar Fields in Causal Set Theory 

  Kouchekzadeh Yazdi, Yasaman (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)

  Entanglement entropy is now widely accepted as having deep connections with quantum gravity. It is therefore desirable to understand it in the context of causal sets, especially since they provide the UV cutoff needed to ...

• Development of RTgutGC as a Tool for Fish Feed Development 

  Pumputis, Patrick Gilles (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)

  A rainbow trout intestinal epithelial cell line, RTgutGC, has been used in this thesis to investigate the effects of various stresses in aquaculture on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and for identifying possible beneficial ...

• Synthesis and Characterisation of Chiral Nanomaterials and their Influence on Stem Cell Differentiation 

  Kemper, Gregor (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-11)

  Tissue engineering is a field related to regenerative medicine which aims at replacing or regenerating a patient’s tissue, usually using a combination of cells and a bioactive material which is designed to influence cell ...

• The TFOS Dry Eye Workshop II: Executive Summary 

  Craig, Jennifer P.; Nelson, J. Daniel; Azar, Dimitri T.; Belmonte, Carlos; Bron, Anthony J.; Chauhan, Sunil K.; de Paiva, Cintia S.; Gomes, José A.P.; Hammitt, Katherine M.; Jones, Lyndon W.; Nichols, Jason J.; Nichols, Kelly K.; Novack, Gary D.; Stapleton, Fiona J.; Willcox, Mark D. P.; Wolffsohn, James S.; Sullivan, David A. (Elsevier, 2017-08-07)

  This article presents an Executive Summary of the conclusions and recommendations of the 10-chapter TFOS DEWS II report. The entire TFOS DEWS II report was published in the July 2017 issue of The Ocular Surface. A downloadable ...

• Arborescent Polypeptides for Sustained Drug Delivery Applications 

  Alsehli, Mosa (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-09)

  This Ph.D. dissertation describes the synthesis of arborescent copolymers of generations G1 and G2 designed to serve as drug delivery nanocarriers for cancer treatment. Poly(γ-benzyl L-glutamate) (PBG) building blocks were ...

• A priori discretization error metrics for distributed hydrologic modeling applications 

  Liu, Hongli; Tolson, Bryan A.; Craig, James R.; Shafii, Mahyar (Elsevier, 2016-12-01)

  Watershed spatial discretization is an important step in developing a distributed hydrologic model. A key difficulty in the spatial discretization process is maintaining a balance between the aggregation-induced information ...

• Uncertainty-based multi-criteria calibration of rainfall-runoff models: a comparative study 

  Shafii, Mahyar; Tolson, Bryan A.; Matott, Loren Shawn (Springer, 2014-08-01)

  This study compares formal Bayesian inference to the informal generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) approach for uncertainty-based calibration of rainfall-runoff models in a multi-criteria context. Bayesian ...

• A diagnostic approach to constraining flow partitioning in hydrologic models using a multiobjective optimization framework 

  Shafii, Mahyar; Basu, Nandita; Craig, James R.; Schiff, Sherry L.; Van Cappellen, Philippe (American Geophysical Union, 2017-04-21)

  Hydrologic models are often tasked with replicating historical hydrographs but may do so without accurately reproducing the internal hydrological functioning of the watershed, including the flow partitioning, which is ...

• Optimizing hydrological consistency by incorporating hydrological signatures into model calibration objectives 

  Shafii, Mahyar; Tolson, Bryan A. (American Geophysical Union, 2015-05-31)

  The simulated outcome of a calibrated hydrologic model should be hydrologically consistent with the measured response data. Hydrologic modelers typically calibrate models to optimize residual-based goodness-of-fit measures, ...

• Improving the efficiency of Monte Carlo Bayesian calibration of hydrologic models via model pre-emption 

  Shafii, Mahyar; Tolson, Bryan A.; Matott, Loren Shawn (International Water Association, 2015-09-01)

  Bayesian inference via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling and sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampling are popular methods for uncertainty analysis in hydrological modelling. However, application of these methodologies ...

• Amplitudes in the Spin Foam Approach to Quantum Gravity 

  Chen, Linqing (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)

  In this thesis, we study a Spin Foam model for 4D Riemannian quantum gravity, and propose a new way of imposing the simplicity constraints that uses the recently developed holomorphic representation. Rather than imposing ...

• Regulation of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) mRNA at the innate/adaptive immunity interface in response to Vibrogen 2 

  Soulliere, Cheryl (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)

  Aquaculture supplies the world market with over 50% of food fish and is an economically important industry, however limited disease management strategies often lead to significant economic losses and/or poor-quality product. ...

• Towards vertex renormalization in 4d Spin Foams 

  Banburski, Andrzej (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-24)

  A long-standing open problem in 4-dimensional Spin Foam models of Quantum Gravity has been the behavior of the amplitudes under coarse graining. In this thesis, we attempt to study this question by using the recent ...

• Explorations in the Conformal Bootstrap 

  Mazac, Dalimil (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)

  We investigate properties of various conformally invariant quantum systems, especially from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. First, we study twist line defects in three-dimensional conformal field theories. ...

• Environmental controls of sediment mercury accumulation in a large, glacially-fed lake 

  Zabel, Nelson (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)

  Mercury is an environmental contaminant of concern, especially in northern regions where human exposure to mercury through fish consumption can be high. Mercury accumulation in northern lakes has increased over the past ...

• The effect of isothiocyanates on heat shock protein, heme oxygenase-1 and α-tubulin levels and localization in Xenopus A6 kidney cells 

  Khamis, Imran (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)

  Numerous studies have elucidated the health promoting properties of organosulfur compounds derived from cruciferous vegetables known as isothiocyanates (ITCs). As electrophiles, the impact of ITCs at the molecular level ...

• Binocular vision and fixational eye movements 

  Nallour Raveendran, Rajkumar (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)

  Introduction In observers with amblyopia, abnormal patterns of amblyopic eye (AME) fixational eye movements (FEM) have been associated with monocular (reduced amblyopic eye visual acuity) and binocular sensory deficits ...

• Transient episodes of mild environmental oxygenation and oxidative continental weathering during the late Archean 

  Kendall, Brian; Creaser, Robert; Reinhard, Christopher T.; Lyons, Timothy W.; Anbar, Ariel (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015-11-20)

  It is not known whether environmental O2 levels increased in a linear fashion or fluctuated dynamically between the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and the later Great Oxidation Event. New rhenium-osmium isotope data ...

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