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Excitation Force and Frequency Effects in Wave-Based Techniques for the Characterization of Geomaterials at Different Scales
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-06)All around the world, building codes require the characterization of geomaterials as a fundamental step in the foundation design process. Specifically, in seismic design, the evaluation of dynamic properties is a key ... -
Exciton-Induced Degradation of Interfaces in Organic Light-Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)A new revolution in electronics/optoelectronics has become possible in the past two decades due to the emergence of organic semiconductors. Among all the applications based on organic semiconductors, organic light-emitting ... -
Exciton-Induced Morphological Changes in Carbazole Based PhOLEDs and the Influence of the Device Fabrication Process
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have increasingly attracted attention from both academia and industry alike in the last three decades because of their low cost, easy fabrication, light weight, and mechanical ... -
Exclusive nature: Exploring access to protected areas for minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)Protected areas (PAs) provide a wide range of benefits to visitors engaged in outdoor recreation. However, several groups are underrepresented within these natural spaces including minority ethnic communities. This inequitable ... -
Excursion Sets and Critical Points of Gaussian Random Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-02)Modeling the critical points of a Gaussian random field is an important challenge in stochastic geometry. In this thesis, we focus on stationary Gaussian random fields and study the locations and types of the critical ... -
Executable Model Synthesis and Property Validation for Message Sequence Chart Specifications
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Message sequence charts (MSC’s) are a formal language for the specification of scenarios in concurrent real-time systems. The thesis addresses the synthesis of executable object-oriented design-time models from MSC ... -
Execution of Architecture / Architecture of Execution or The Persistence of Collective Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2006)"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. " ~Franz Kafka This thesis deals with a subject matter which may be considered by some to be undesirable and taboo; that is, the architecture of capital ... -
Exemplar-based Kernel Preserving Embedding
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-02)With the rapid increase of available data, it becomes computationally harder to extract useful information, specially in the case of high-dimensional data. Choosing a representative subset of the data can be useful to ... -
Exercise, Shear Stress, and Flow-Mediated Dilation of Human Conduit Arteries
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) refers to the relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and the subsequent dilation of the vessel in response to increases in shear stress on the endothelial lining accompanying increases in blood ... -
Exergy analysis and resource accounting
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-08)The objective of this thesis is to establish the utility and limitations of using exergy (a thermodynamic measure of energy quality, or ability to perform work) as a resource consumption metric, and to investigate what ... -
An exergy-based framework for efficiency improvement for integrated oxy-fuel power generation systems with CO2 capture
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-28)The global energy and electricity demand is increasing rapidly along with the consumption of fossil fuels, more specifically coal and natural gas. This results in accelerated growth of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse ... -
An Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Video
(University of Waterloo, 1997)This M. F. A. thesis exhibition consists of painting, sculpture, and video completed over the last five months. In support of the exhibition, an artist's statement outlines my exploration of the interaction between ... -
Existence and uniqueness of attracting slow manifolds: An application of the Ważewski principle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)In this work we present some of the geometric constructs that aid the application of the Ważewski Theorem. To illustrate the procedure the Michaelis-Menten mechanism will be considered. We show that M, a slow manifold, ... -
Existence Assumptions and Logical Principles: Choice Operators in Intuitionistic Logic
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-02)Hilbert’s choice operators τ and ε, when added to intuitionistic logic, strengthen it. In the presence of certain extensionality axioms they produce classical logic, while in the presence of weaker decidability conditions ... -
The Existence of Balanced Tournament Designs and Partitioned Balanced Tournament Designs
(University of Waterloo, 2001)A balanced tournament design of order <I>n</I>, BTD(<I>n</I>), defined on a 2<I>n</I>-set<I> V</i>, is an arrangement of the all of the (2<I>n</i>2) distinct unordered pairs of elements of <I>V</I> into an <I>n</I> X ... -
exKidneyBERT: A Language Model for Kidney Transplant Pathology Reports and the Crucial Role of Extended Vocabularies
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)Background: Pathology reports contain key information about the patient’s diagno- sis as well as important gross and microscopic findings. These information-rich clinical reports offer an invaluable resource for clinical ... -
Exodermal Function and Suberin Chemistry
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)The thesis work concerns the multiseriate exodermis (MEX), an outermost cortical layer (two or more cell layers thick) characterized by Casparian bands and suberin lamellae. Diverse aspects of Iris germanica's MEX were ... -
Exogenous Cuing and Perceptual Matching Judgments of Orientation and Motion
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-03)A series of experiments is described which uses a perceptual matching approach to study the effect of exogenous visual cues on perception of static and dynamic stimuli. Analogous experiments were carried out for orientation ... -
Exotic Circuits for Enhanced Quantum Algorithms and Computation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-09)Quantum circuits play an essential role in many disciplines of quantum information science. They can not only be represented in the traditional gate-based paradigm, but also an alternative measurement-based paradigm. The ... -
Exotic Group C*-algebras, Tensor Products, and Related Constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)Recently there has been a rejuvenated interest in exotic group C*-algebras, i.e., group C*-algebras which are "intermediate" to the full and reduced group C*-algebras. This resurgence began with the introduction of the ...