Browsing Waterloo Research by Title
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Impacts on Metabolism and Gill Physiology of Darter Species (Etheostoma spp.) That Are Attributed to Wastewater Effluent in the Grand River
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-11-25)The effluent from municipal wastewater treatment plants is a major point source of contamination in Canadian waterways. The improvement of effluent quality to reduce contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care ... -
Implant delivering hydroxychloroquine attenuates vaginal T lymphocyte activation and inflammation
(Elsevier, 2018-05-10)Evidence suggests that women who are naturally resistant to HIV infection exhibit low baseline immune activation at the female genital tract (FGT). This “immune quiescent” state is associated with lower expression of T-cell ... -
Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Thin porous media are present in multiple electrochemical energy devices, where they provide key transport and structural functions. The prototypical example is gas diffusion layers (GDLs) in polymer-electrolyte fuel cells ... -
Implications of irradiance exposure and non-photochemical quenching for multi-wavelength (bbe FluoroProbe) fluorometry
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)Multi-wavelength fluorometers, such as the bbe FluoroProbe (FP), measure excitation spectra of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) fluorescence to infer the abundance and composition of phytoplankton communities as well as the concentration ... -
Implicit Theories of Attraction
(Guilford Press, 2015-08-01)Sexual satisfaction is an important component of relationship well-being within romantic relationships. Yet, relatively little is known about the psychological factors that predict responses to the inevitable sexual ... -
Importance of asymmetry and anisotropy in predicting cortical bone response and fracture using human body model femur in three-point bending and axial rotation
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Modeling of cortical bone response and failure is critical for the prediction of Crash Induced Injuries (CII) using advanced finite element (FE) Human Body Models (HBM). Although cortical bone is anisotropic and asymmetric ... -
Importance of regional variation in conservation planning: a rangewide example of the Greater Sage‐Grouse
(Ecological Society of America, 2016-10-13)Abstract We developed rangewide population and habitat models for Greater Sage?Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) that account for regional variation in habitat selection and relative densities of birds for use in conservation ... -
Importance of the Cervical Capsular Joint Cartilage Geometry on Head and Facet Joint Kinematics Assessed in a Finite Element Neck Model.
(Elsevier, 2021-06-23)Finite element human neck models (NMs) aim to predict neck response and injury at the tissue level; however, contemporary models are most often assessed using global response such as head kinematics. Additionally, many NM ... -
Importance Sampling and Stratification for Copula Models
(Springer, 2018)An importance sampling approach for sampling from copula models is introduced. The proposed algorithm improves Monte Carlo estimators when the functional of interest depends mainly on the behaviour of the underlying random ... -
Impression Cytology of the Lid Wiper Area
(Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016-09-08)Few reports on the cellular anatomy of the lid wiper (LW) area of the inner eyelid exist and only one report makes use of cytological methods. The optimization of a method of collecting, staining and imaging cells from the ... -
Improved convergence in block copolymer self-consistent field theory by Anderson mixing
(American Institute of Physics, 2004)A modification to real space polymeric self-consistent field theory algorithms that greatly improves the convergence properties is presented. The method is based on Anderson mixing (D. G. Anderson, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. ... -
Improved Heterojunction Quality in Cu2O-based Solar Cells Through the Optimization of Atmospheric Pressure Spatial Atomic Layer Deposited Zn1-xMgxO
(Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016-07-01)Atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition (AP-SALD) was used to deposit n-type ZnO and Zn1-xMgxO thin films onto p-type thermally oxidized Cu2O substrates outside vacuum at low temperature. The performance of ... -
Improved performance of the rechargeable hybrid aqueous battery at near full state-of-charge
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)For the first time, a green lignin/silica nanocomposite (LSC) is introduced to the rechargeable hybrid aqueous Zn/LiMn2O4 battery (ReHAB) as additive in the cathode formulation. Lignin acts as a key role to regulate and ... -
Improving Load Calculations for Fenestration with Shading Devices
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2009-10)Activities and findings arising from ASHRAE Research Project 1311-RP are summarized. This project included three main goals, (a) development of models for pleated drapes, venetian blinds, roller blinds and insect screens, ... -
Improving molecularly imprinted nanogels by pH modulation
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015-10-16)Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are polymerized in the presence of a template molecule. After removing the template, the polymer scaffold can selectively rebind the template. The imprinting factor (IF) refers to the ... -
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 ...