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Light Rail Transit in the Region of Waterloo: A qualitative examination of urban rail’s effects on real estate, development and urban identities
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Transit oriented development has become a staple of contemporary planning practice that is applied in cities throughout the world to help guide the development of sustainable, economic, and social outcomes in urban regions. ... -
Development of a predictive model for the VAPEX process.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Heavy oil in-situ recovery in Canada is largely achieved through energy intensive and en- vironmentally detrimental steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). By exchanging steam for a vapour solvent, it has been shown ... -
Marginal Causal Sub-Group Analysis with Incomplete Covariate Data
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Incomplete data arises frequently in health research studies designed to investigate the causal relationship between a treatment or exposure, and a response of interest. Statistical methods for conditional causal effect ... -
Displace and Urbanized: Or Why We Build
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)I embarked on this research with the aim to study the relationship between the city and the flood, understanding the waterfront as some blurred edge where wild and human forces mix. My hope was to propose a design strategy ... -
Discretize and Conquer: Scalable Agglomerative Clustering in Hamming Space
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in many machine learning and information retrieval applications. Roughly speaking, the goal is to partition data instances such that similar instances end up in the same group ... -
Dimensionality Reduction of the Chemical Master Equation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)The dynamics of biochemical systems show significant variability when the reactant populations are small. Standard approaches via deterministic modeling exclude such variability. A well established stochastic model, the ... -
ACL Strain During Single-Leg Jump Landing: An Experimental and Computational Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a commonly-injured ligament in the human knee joint. ACL injury repair is a costly procedure; however, left unrepaired, ACL injuries can lead to complications later in life. In ... -
Quantum Walks on Oriented Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)This thesis extends results about periodicity and perfect state transfer to oriented graphs. We prove that if a vertex a is periodic, then elements of the eigenvalue support lie in Z √∆ for some squarefree negative ... -
Participant-Specific Modelling of the Proximal Femur during Lateral Falls: A Mechanistic Evaluation of Risk Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-10)Falls among older adults are a common occurrence with the potential to result in substantial injury. Hip fractures are among the most frequent and devastating fall induced injuries, resulting in increased morbidity and ... -
Gold nanoparticle self-assembly as means for making electrocatalysts and magnetic nanonets and their application for oxygen evolution reaction and water purification
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are widely researched materials in nanotechnology due to their distinct properties like surface plasmon resonance and ability to self-assemble. Citrate capped gold nanoparticles assembled into ... -
Mesoscale modeling and direct simulation of explosively dispersed granular materials
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Explosively dispersed granular materials frequently exhibit macroscale coherent particle clustering and jetting structures. The underlying mechanism is of significant interest to study instability and mixing in high-speed ... -
Leveraging Machine Learning to Improve Software Reliability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Finding software faults is a critical task during the lifecycle of a software system. While traditional software quality control practices such as statistical defect prediction, static bug detection, regression test, and ... -
Mercury Exposure Analysis of Mercury Amongst the Dene and Métis Communities of Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Background: Fish is an important food source for many Indigenous communities within the Dehcho and Sahtú regions of Northwest Territories (NWT). However, environmental toxicants, such as mercury (Hg), can bioaccumulate and ... -
Probing Accretion Turbulence in the Galactic Centre with EHT Polarimetry
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)We explore the origin and the influence of the interstellar scattering on the observation of Sgr A*, and the method to mitigate this scattering via Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) polarimetry. Interstellar scattering is due ... -
Protein Structure Elastic Network Models and the Rank 3 Positive Semidefinite Matrix Manifold
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)This thesis is a contribution to the study of protein dynamics using elastic network models (ENMs). An ENM is an abstraction of a protein structure where inter-atomic interactions are assumed to be modelled by a Hookean ... -
The Economics of Waste Clean-Up from Resource Extraction Projects: Environmental Bonds versus Strict Liability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)This thesis contains three essays spanning the fields of environmental economics and investment in a non-renewable resource under uncertainty. All essays relate to the analysis of the clean-up of hazardous waste resulting ... -
90 Minutes with the Machine
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)Cremation, or the incineration of human remains, unites two fundamental elements of human existence: fire and death. This unity is today facilitated by the cremator, a machine that burns bodies as efficiently as modern ... -
Effect of Martensite-Austenite (MA) on Mechanical Properties of X80 Linepipe Steel
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)The aim of the present work is to dispel some of the controversy involving Martensite-Austenite (MA) in pipeline steel welds. The fraction, size, morphology and distribution of Martensite-Austenite can have considerable ... -
An Affine Semi-Lagrangian Advection Method
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)In computer graphics, the standard semi-Lagrangian advection as in the work of Stam (1999) is a widespread unconditionally stable transport scheme used in incompressible fluid solvers. Due to its stability, which disconnects ... -
The Fabrication and Characterization of a Superconducting Birdcage Resonator
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)In this thesis we presents the fabrication and characterization of a superconducting Birdcage style radiofrequency (RF) coil, a commonly used coil design in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers. The Birdcage was ...