Browsing Waterloo Research by Title
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Improving robustness against electrode shift of high density EMG for myoelectric control through common spatial patterns
(BioMed Central, 2015-12-02)Background: Most prosthetic myoelectric control studies have concentrated on low density (less than 16 electrodes, LD) electromyography (EMG) signals, due to its better clinical applicability and low computation complexity ... -
Improving the efficiency of Monte Carlo Bayesian calibration of hydrologic models via model pre-emption
(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 ... -
Impulsive observer design for a class of switched nonlinear systems with unknown inputs
(Elsevier, 2019-08)This paper investigates hybrid observer design of a class of unknown input switched nonlinear systems. The distinguishing feature of the proposed method is that the stability of all subsystems of the error switched systems ... -
In pursuit of progress: Promotion motivation and risk preference in the domain of gains
(American Psychological Association, 2014)This article examines the role of promotion motivation in decision making in the domain of gains. Using a stock investment paradigm in which individuals believed that they were making decisions that were real and consequential, ... -
In Search Of Most Complex Regular Languages
(World Scientific Publishing, 2013-09-01)Sequences (L-n vertical bar n >= k), called streams, of regular languages L-n are considered, where k is some small positive integer, n is the state complexity of L-n, and the languages in a stream differ only in the ... -
In situ compression and X-ray computed tomography of flow battery electrodes
(Elsevier, 2018-09-01)Redox flow batteries offer a potential solution to an increase in renewable energy generation on the grid by offering long-term, large-scale storage and regulation of power. However, they are currently underutilised due ... -
In Support of Open-Loop Supply Chains: Expanding the scope of environmental sustainability in reverse supply chains
(Elsevier, 2019-03-20)This study expands the environmental sustainability paradigm of reverse supply chains. The study examines the notion of closed-loop supply chains and suggests the use of the term in academia and business is too limited ... -
In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Novel Ciprofloxacin-Releasing Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lenses
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2014-08-08)Purpose.: The purpose of this study was to evaluate ciprofloxacin-releasing silicone hydrogel contact lens materials in vitro and in vivo for the treatment of microbial keratitis. Methods.: Model silicone hydrogel contact ... -
In Vitro Selection in Serum: RNA-Cleaving DNAzymes for Measuring Ca2+ and Mg2+
(American Chemical Society, 2016-05-27)RNA-cleaving DNAzymes have been attempted as in vivo analytical probes and gene silencing reagents over the past two decades. Despite progress already achieved, concerns still exist regarding the activity of DNAzymes in ... -
In Vitro Selection of a DNAzyme Cooperatively Binding Two Lanthanide Ions for RNA Cleavage
(American Chemical Society, 2016-05-03)Trivalent lanthanide ions (Ln(3+)) were recently employed to select RNA-cleaving DNAzymes, and three new DNAzymes have been reported so far. In this work, dysprosium (Dy3+) was used with a library containing 50 random ... -
In Vitro Selection of a New Lanthanide-Dependent DNAzyme for Ratiometric Sensing Lanthanides
(American Chemical Society, 2014-10-07)Developing biosensors for lanthanides is an important but challenging analytical task. To address this problem, in vitro selection of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes was carried out using a library containing a region of 35 random ... -
In Vitro Selection of Chromium-Dependent DNAzymes for Sensing Chromium(III) and Chromium(VI)
(Wiley, 2016-07-04)Chromium is a very important analyte for environmental monitoring, and developing biosensors for chromium is a long-standing analytical challenge. In this work, in vitro selection of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes was carried out ... -
In vitro ultraviolet–induced damage in human corneal, lens, and retinal pigment epithelial cells
(Molecular Vision, 2011-01-21)Purpose: The purpose was to develop suitable in vitro methods to detect ocular epithelial cell damage when exposed to UV radiation, in an effort to evaluate UV-absorbing ophthalmic biomaterials.Methods: Human corneal ... -
In vivo microsampling to capture the elusive exposome
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-03-07)Loss and/or degradation of small molecules during sampling, sample transportation and storage can adversely impact biological interpretation of metabolomics data. In this study, we performed in vivo sampling using solid-phase ... -
An in vivo study of compulsions
(Elsevier, 2021-07)Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) assume that compulsions are enacted to neutralize distress over obsessions. However, lab-based research suggests that once a compulsion starts factors other than distress ... -
In-plane and through-plane gas permeability of carbon fiber electrode backing layers
(Elsevier, 2006-11-08)The absolute gas permeability of several common gas diffusion layer (GDL) materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells was measured. Measurements were made in three perpendicular directions to investigate anisotropic ... -
In-situ chemical oxidation of chlorendic acid by persulfate: Elucidation of the roles of adsorption and oxidation on chlorendic acid removal
(Elsevier, 2019-10-15)The oxidation of chlorendic acid (CA), a polychlorinated recalcitrant contaminant, by heat-, mineral-, and base-activated persulfate was investigated. In pH 3–12 homogeneous (i.e., solid-free) solutions, CA was oxidized ... -
In-situ observation of nucleation and property evolution in films grown with an atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition system.
(IOP Science, 2020-06-01)Atmospheric pressure—spatial atomic layer deposition (AP-SALD) is a promising open-air deposition technique for high-throughput manufacturing of nanoscale films, yet the nucleation and property evolution in these films has ... -
Incentive compatibility in prediction markets: Costly actions and external incentives
(Elsevier, 2019-01)We consider a multi-round prediction market in which two agents, Alice and Bob, are trading on an event on which each may take action to influence its outcome. The existing literature assumes that there is no net difference ... -
Incentivizing evaluation with peer prediction and limited access to ground truth
(Elsevier, 2019-10)In many settings, an effective way of evaluating objects of interest is to collect evaluations from dispersed individuals and to aggregate these evaluations together. Some examples are categorizing online content and ...