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The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: Report of the Contact Lens Materials, Design, and Care Subcommittee
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2013-10-18)Examining the role of the contact lens material, design, and the care system is fundamental to understanding contact lens discomfort (CLD). However, a systematic review that tries to determine the governing factors is ... -
Th/U ratios in metamorphic zircon
(Wiley, 2018-03-05)The Th/U ratios of zircon crystals are routinely used to help understand their growth mechanism. Despite the wide application of Th/U ratios in understanding the geological significance of zircon U–Pb ages, the main controls ... -
Thallium Tellurides as Thermoelectrics
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-11)Noting the steadily worsening problem of depleted fossil fuel sources, alternate energy sources become increasingly important, such as thermoelectrics that may use waste heat to generate electricity. To be economically ... -
Theoretical Analysis of A Protected Superconducting Qubit
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-02)In the past few decades, quantum computation has become an active area of research due to prospects to execute high-efficiency quantum algorithms. Quantum algorithms promise to accelerate many practical computation problems, ... -
Theoretical Investigations on Two-Dimensional Optical Ion Trapping
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Trapped ion systems have become one of the important platforms for quantum information processing (QIP) experiments. However, conventional Paul ion traps suffer from micromotion effect, which makes it difficult to extend ... -
Theoretical studies of frustrated magnets with dipolar interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-18)Several magnetic materials, in the first approximation, can be described by idealised theoretical models, such as classical Ising or Heisenberg spin systems, and, to some extent, such models are able to qualitatively expose ... -
Theoretical study of non-relativistic electron dynamics under intense laser fields
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-09)Strong field approximation (SFA) is the most important approximation in the analytical theory of intense laser matter interaction. Based on SFA many analytical theories have been developed such that a broad spectrum ... -
Theory and Applications of Josephson Photomultipliers
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)This thesis describes the back action of microwave-photon detection via a Josephson photomultiplier (JPM), a superconducting qubit coupled strongly to a high-quality mi- crowave cavity, and the applications of these devices. ... -
Theory and simulation of interactive membrane-macromolecule structures in biological systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-11)This thesis focuses on one of the branches of soft matter: biological systems. More specifically, we study the morphological transformation of lipid bilayer membranes induced by interacting with macromolecules. Recent ... -
The therapeutic application of Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide and double stranded (ds)RNA as immunostimulants and antiviral agents in crustaceans
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Currently valued at 28 billion USD per year, the global shrimp market is growing faster than any other aquaculture industry. The initial fast-paced global industry expansion led to many catastrophic viral shrimp pandemics. ... -
Therapeutic drug monitoring, clinical metabolomics and pharmacometabolomics via solid phase microextraction (SPME): The first step towards an alternative rapid diagnostic tool
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-20)Personalized medicine is a branch of medicine that focuses on how a prescribed therapeutic treatment affects a specific individual as opposed to its general effects for the broader population. The goal of personalized ... -
Thermal and charge conductivities of superconducting skutterudite compounds, PrRu4Sb12 and PrOs4Sb12
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-20)The measurement of thermal conductivity is a powerful probe that can be used for identifying the nature of heat and charge carriers and structure of the gap in the superconducting compounds. At low temperature when the ... -
Thermal cis-to-trans isomerization mechanism of N-(phenylazo)-substituted nitrogen heterocycles
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-10)Triazenes, compounds containing a diazoamino moiety (–N(1)=N(2)–N(3)<), are known for their reversible cis-trans isomerization character and hence, have the potential to be used in photoswitchable devices and photostorage ... -
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMNT AT ULTRA LOW TEMPERATURES
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-01)Thermal Conductivity studies can provide fundamental information regarding the symmetry of the superconducting energy gap. To perform this kind of experiment, we need to use a very low temperature environment. Also a ... -
Thermal evolution of simple amino acids (glycine and alanine) on non-crystalline and polycrystalline ice studied by Reflection-Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)The behaviour of glycine and alanine, deposited under ultrahigh vacuum conditions onto non-crystalline ice (NCI) and polycrystalline ice (PCI) has been studied using Reflection-Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy (RAIRS). The ... -
A Thermal Expansion Coefficient Study of Several Magnetic Spin Materials via Capacitive Dilatometry
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)The work presented in this thesis detail the measurement of the thermal expansion coefficient of three magnetic spin materials. Thermal expansion coefficient values were measured by capacitive dilatometry in several key ... -
Thermal Interface Materials (TIM) for Applications in Microelectronics
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)A major challenge in the formulation of thermal interface materials (TIM), used in the microelectronics industry to facilitate heat transfer from an electronic package to a heat sink, is to ensure that the material is ... -
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Conductive Fractures using a Hybrid Finite Difference – Displacement Discontinuity Method
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)Large amounts of hydrocarbon reserves are trapped in fractured reservoirs where fluid flux is far more rapid along fractures than through the porous matrix, even though the volume of the pore space may be a hundred times ... -
A Thermochemical Investigation of Gas Phase Anionic Nucleobase Complexes by Infrared Multiple Photon Dissociation Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure Calculations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)In this thesis, a computational and experimental investigation of gas phase cation-molecule complexes has been undertaken to analyse the gas phase clustering behaviour of biologically relevant cyclic anionic species. ... -
The Thermochemistry of Protonated and Sodiated Clusters Investigated via High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)High-pressure mass spectrometry has been employed to investigate hydrogen and sodium bound ion-molecule complexes in the gas phase. Insight into the structure and reactivity of ion-molecule complexes has been gained by ...