Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "Model"
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Calculating Center-Glass Performance Indices of Windows
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 1998)Building envelope performance is strongly influenced by solar gain and heat transfer through windows. The majority of this energy gain or loss passes through the center-glass area of the glazing system. Various methods ... -
Continuum Foam: A Material Point Method for Shear-Dependent Flows
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015-10-01)We consider the simulation of dense foams composed of microscopic bubbles, such as shaving cream and whipped cream. We represent foam not as a collection of discrete bubbles, but instead as a continuum. We employ the ... -
Effects of molecular crowding and confinement on the spatial organization of a biopolymer
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-10-25)A chain molecule can be entropically collapsed in a crowded medium in a free or confined space. Here, we present a unified view of how molecular crowding collapses a flexible polymer in three distinct spaces: free, ... -
Examining the Hospital Elder Life Program in a rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-18)Background: The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) has been shown to effectively prevent delirium and functional decline in older patients in acute care, but has not been examined in a rehabilitation setting. This pilot ... -
Glassy States in Asymmetric Mixtures of Soft and Hard Colloids
(APS Physics, 2013-11-14)By employing rheological experiments, mode coupling theory, and computer simulations based on realistic coarse-grained models, we investigate the effects of small, hard colloids on the glassy states formed by large, soft ... -
Long-Range, Polymer Chain Dynamics of a "Stiff" Polymer. Fluorescence from Poly(isobutylene-alt-maleic anhydride) with N-(1-Pyrenylmethyl)succinimide Groups
(American Chemical Society, 2017-04-25)The steady-state fluorescence (SSF) spectra and time resolved fluorescence (TRF) decays of five poly(isobutylene-alt-maleic anhydride) copolymers (PIMA), randomly labeled with N-(1-pyrenyl methyl)succinimide groups (Py-PIMA), ... -
Membrane binding and oligomer formation by the calcium-dependent lipopeptide antibiotic A54145: a quantitative study with pyrene excimer fluorescence
(Elsevier, 2016-09-20)A54145 is a lipopeptide antibiotic related to daptomycin that permeabilizes bacterial cell membranes. Its action requires both calcium and phosphatidylglycerol in the target membrane, and it is accompanied by the formation ... -
A method for determining the effective longwave radiative properties of pleated draperies
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-10-01)Draperies, attached to fenestration, offer a cost-effective strategy in controlling solar gain since draperies have the potential to reduce building peak load and annual energy consumption. The performance of a drapery is ... -
Methods for Calculating the Effective Longwave Radiative Properties of a Venetian Blind Layer
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2004)Window solar gain can strongly influence building energy consumption, peak loads, and comfort. Shading devices are routinely used to control solar gain. The use of venetian blinds is particularly common. There is a strong ... -
Methods for Calculating the Effective Solar-Optical Properties of a Venetian Blind Layer
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2005)Window solar gain can strongly influence building energy consumption, peak loads, and comfort. Shading devices are routinely used to control solar gain. The use of venetian blinds is particularly common. There is a strong ... -
Nine Challenges In Incorporating The Dynamics Of Behaviour In Infectious Diseases Models
(Elsevier, 2015-03-01)Traditionally, the spread of infectious diseases in human populations has been modelled with static parameters. These parameters, however, can change when individuals change their behaviour. If these changes are themselves ... -
Sexual Behavior, Risk Perception, And Hiv Transmission Can Respond To Hiv Antiviral Drugs And Vaccines Through Multiple Pathways
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-10-28)There has been growing use of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) for HIV and significant progress in developing prophylactic HIV vaccines. The simplest theories of counterproductive behavioral responses to such ... -
Socio-Ecological Dynamics Of Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems And Conservation Opinion Propagation
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-02-07)The Caribbean coral reef ecosystem has experienced a long history of deterioration due to various stressors. For instance, over-fishing of parrotfish - an important grazer of macroalgae that can prevent destructive overgrowth ... -
Solar Absorption by Each Element in a Glazing/Shading Layer Array
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2006)Window solar gain can strongly influence building energy consumption and peak cooling load. Shading devices such as venetian blinds, roller blinds, and drapes are routinely used to control solar gain. There is a strong ... -
A survey of mathematics-based equivalent-circuit and electrochemical battery models for hybrid and electric vehicle simulation
(Elsevier, 2014-06)In this paper, we survey two kinds of mathematics-based battery models intended for use in hybrid and electric vehicle simulation. The first is circuit-based, which is founded upon the electrical behaviour of the battery, ...