Browsing Waterloo Research by Title
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The contribution of the prefrontal cortex to relevancy‑based gating of visual and tactile stimuli.
(Springer, 2019-10)Patients with lesions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) show increased distractibility and impairments in inhibiting cortical responses to irrelevant stimuli. This study was designed to test the role of the PFC in the early ... -
Control of mercury and methylmercury in contaminated sediments using biochars: A long-term microcosm study
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)The effectiveness of activated carbon and four types of biochar, switchgrass (300 °C and 600 °C), poultry manure (600 °C), and oak (∼700 °C) with respect to mercury (Hg) and methylmercury (MeHg) control was assessed in ... -
Control of the Landau–Lifshitz equation
(Elsevier, 2016-05)The Landau–Lifshitz equation describes the dynamics of magnetization inside a ferromagnet. This equation is nonlinear and has an infinite number of stable equilibria. It is desirable to control the system from one equilibrium ... -
A Controlled Experiment Investigating the Effects of Explanatory Manual on Adherence to Operating Procedures
(MDPI, 2019-04-14)Operators’ adherence to operating procedures is a crucial factor for process safety in the process industry. Instruction manuals that document Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are commonly used both as training ... -
Controlling the sustainability and shape change of the zinc anode in rechargeable aqueous Zn/LiMn2O4 battery
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)The use of thixotropic gel electrolytes in the rechargeable hybrid aqueous battery improves the battery performance but it is required to have a corrosion inhibitor in the gel electrolyte. These inhibitors are not always ... -
Controlling the workload of M/G/1 queues via the q-policy
(Elsevier, 2015-06-01)We consider a single-server queueing system with Poisson arrivals and generally distributed service times. To systematically control the workload of the queue, we define for each busy period an associated timer process, ... -
Controlling “chemical nose” biosensor characteristics by modulating gold nanoparticle shape and concentration
(Elsevier, 2015-09)Conventional lock-and-key biosensors often only detect a single pathogen because they incorporate biomolecules with high specificity. “Chemical nose” biosensors are overcoming this limitation and identifying multiple ... -
Controls on plot-scale growing season CO2 and CH4 fluxes in restored peatlands: Do they differ from unrestored and natural sites?
(International Peatland Society (IPS) and the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) - Jointly published, 2016-06-14)This study brings together plot-scale growing season fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from six Canadian peatlands restored by the moss layer transfer technique (MLTT) and compares them with fluxes from ... -
Convective flow reversal in self-powered enzyme micropumps
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016-02-22)Surface-bound enzymes can act as pumps that drive large-scale fluid flows in the presence of their substrates or promoters. Thus, enzymatic catalysis can be harnessed for "on demand" pumping in nano-and microfluidic devices ... -
Convective Heat Transfer In Hydrodynamically-Developed Laminar Flow In Asymmetrically-Heated Annuli: A Three-Temperature Problem
(2016-07)Heat transfer in hydrodynamically-developed flow in asymmetrically-heated channels and annuli has been studied extensively. This study is an extension of earlier work where heat transfer in an asymmetrically-heated ... -
Convenient characterization of polymers grafted on cellulose nanocrystals via SI-ATRP without chain cleavage
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Cleaving is usually required to characterize the molecular weight of grafted polymers on substrates. Here, we report on a technique to estimate the molecular weight of grafted polystyrene (PS) (Mngrafted PS) in PS-grafted ... -
Convergence of socio-ecological dynamics in disparate ecological systems under strong coupling to human social systems
(2018-04-06)It is widely recognized that coupled socio-ecological dynamics can be qualitatively different from the dynamics of social or ecological systems in isolation from one another. The influence of the type of ecological dynamics ... -
Cooperative Least Square Parameter Identification by Consensus within the Network of Autonomous Vehicles
(SAE International, 2016-04-05)In this paper, a consensus framework for cooperative parameter estimation within the vehicular network is presented. It is assumed that each vehicle is equipped with a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) device and ... -
Coordinated path following of unicycles : A nested invariant sets approach
(Elsevier, 2015)We formulate a coordinated path following problem for N unicycle mobile robots as an instance of a nested set stabilization problem. Stabilization of the first set corresponds to driving the unicycles to their assigned ... -
Coping with negative mental images in social anxiety disorder: Investigating the potential benefits of image morphing
(Sage, 2019-01-31)Negative mental imagery contributes to symptom maintenance in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Here, we investigated the effects of image morphing, a brief mental strategy designed to facilitate access to positive images. ... -
A copula model for marked point processes
(Springer, 2013)Many chronic diseases feature recurring clinically important events. In addition, however, there often exists a random variable which is realized upon the occurrence of each event reflecting the severity of the event, a ... -
Corneal sensitivity after ocular surgery
(Wolters Kluwer, 2019-07-01)The cornea is densely innervated with free nerve endings to provide a high level of sensitivity to foreign bodies or noxious substances. They also provide trophic support to the tissues of the cornea and facilitate their ... -
Corneal Swelling with Cosmetic etafilcon A Lenses versus No Lens Wear:
(Wolters & Kluwer, 2016-06)Purpose: To determine if the use of pigments or adding polyvinyl pyrrolidone during the fabrication of 1-DAY ACUVUE DEFINE (AD) brand contact lenses impacts open-eye corneal swelling compared with no lens wear (NLW). ... -
Corner-based estimation of tire forces and vehicle velocities robust to road conditions
(Elsevier, 2017-04)Recent developments in vehicle stability control and active safety systems have led to an interest in reliable vehicle state estimation on various road conditions. This paper presents a novel method for tire force and ... -
A correction method for systematic error in 1H-NMR time-course data validated through stochastic cell culture simulation
(BioMed Central, 2015-09-04)Background: The growing ubiquity of metabolomic techniques has facilitated high frequency time-course data collection for an increasing number of applications. While the concentration trends of individual metabolites can ...