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Calcium Transport and Regulation in Male and Female Rat Kidney
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-16)Calcium is an essential mineral that plays a critical role in many biological processes, such as muscle contraction, nerve function, and bone health. However, maintaining the right balance of calcium in the body is crucial ... -
Carrot Or Stick? Modelling How Landowner Behavioural Responses Can Cause Incentive-Based Forest Governance To Backfire
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-30)Mitigating the negative impacts of declining worldwide forest cover remains a significant socio-ecological challenge, due to the dominant role of human decision-making. Here we use a Markov chain model of land-use dynamics ... -
Cerebrospinal Fluid Pulsations and Aging Effects in Mathematical Models of Hydrocephalus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-20)In this Thesis we develop mathematical models to analyze two proposed causative mechanisms for the ventricular expansion observed in hydrocephalus: cerebrospinal fluid pulsations and small transmantle pressure gradients. To ... -
Challenges in epidemiological modelling: from socio-virulence dynamics to HIV interventions in MSM populations.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)The spread of infectious diseases is one of the biggest challenges that public health faces nowadays. Their control is often not an easy task. Social behaviour plays an important role in disease prevention. However, the ... -
Characteristics of quasistationary near-wall turbulence subjected to strong stable stratification in open-channel flows
(American Physical Society, 2020-06-05)Characteristics of near-wall turbulence at quasistationarity under strong wall cooling are studied using direct numerical simulation of open-channel flow. It is shown that if turbulence reaches quasistationarity, then the ... -
Characterizing Noise in Quantum Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-26)In practice, quantum systems are not completely isolated from their environment and the resulting system-environment interaction can lead to information leakage from the system. As a result, if a quantum system is to be ... -
Clustering behaviour in networks with time delayed all-to-all coupling
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Networks of coupled oscillators arise in a variety of areas. Clustering is a type of oscillatory network behavior where elements of a network segregate into groups. Elements within a group oscillate synchronously, while ... -
Coevolution Of Risk Perception, Sexual Behaviour, And Hiv Transmission In An Agent-Based Model
(Elsevier, 2013-11-21)Risk perception shapes individual behaviour, and is in turn shaped by the consequences of that behaviour. Here we explore this dynamics in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) spread. We construct a simplified ... -
Coherent delocalization in the light-matter interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)In this thesis, we study coherent delocalization in the light-matter interaction: we investigate how the coherent center of mass delocalization of a first quantized system affects its interaction with a second quantized ... -
Combination of Chemotherapy and Antiangiogenic Therapies: A Mathematical Modelling Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-08)A brief introduction to cancer biology and treatment is presented with a focus on current clinical advances in the delivery of chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapies. Mathematical oncology is then surveyed with summaries ... -
A Comparative and Exploratory Study of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Stratified Turbulence
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)The study of turbulence in the oceans and atmosphere is far-flung and ever-reaching in the academic world with research being done theoretically, experimentally and numerically. With great strides in the increasing power ... -
Comparing Influenza Vaccine Efficacy Against Mismatched And Matched Strains: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis
(BioMed Central, 2013-06-25)Background: Influenza vaccines are most effective when the antigens in the vaccine match those of circulating strains. However, antigens contained in the vaccines do not always match circulating strains. In the present ... -
Comparing malaria surveillance with periodic spraying in the presence of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes: Should we spray regularly or based on human infections?
(Elsevier, 2016-06-01)There is an urgent need for more understanding of the effects of surveillance on malaria control. Indoor residual spraying has had beneficial effects on global malaria reduction, but resistance to the insecticide poses a ... -
Comparison of Approximation Schemes in Stochastic Simulation Methods for Stiff Chemical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-30)Interest in stochastic simulations of chemical systems is growing. One of the aspects of simulation of chemical systems that has been the prime focus over the past few years is accelerated simulation methods applicable ... -
A comparison of the Kalman filter and recurrent neural networks for state estimation of dynamical systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)The study of dynamical systems is of great interest in many fields, with a wide range of applications. In some cases, these dynamical systems may be affected by noise and the availability of measurements may be limited. ... -
Competition Between Injunctive Social Norms And Conservation Priorities Gives Rise To Complex Dynamics In A Model Of Forest Growth And Opinion Dynamics
(Elsevier, 2017-11-07)Human and environmental systems are often treated as existing in isolation from one another, whereas in fact they are often two parts of a single, coupled human-environment system. Developing theoretical models of coupled ... -
Complex Bases, Number Systems and Their Application to Fractal-Wavelet Image Coding
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis explores new approaches to the analysis of functions by combining tools from the fields of complex bases, number systems, iterated function systems (IFS) and wavelet multiresolution analyses (MRA). The ... -
Computational and Theoretical Insights into Multi-Body Quantum Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-31)In generality, perfect predictions of the structure and dynamics of multi-body quantum systems are few and far between. As experimental design advances and becomes more refined, experimentally probing the interactions of ... -
A Computational Study of Pressure Driven Flow in Waste Rock Piles
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)This thesis is motivated by problems studied as part of the Diavik Waste Rock Pile Project. Located at the Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, with academic support from the University of Waterloo, the ... -
Consensus Problems in Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)A multi-agent system (MAS) is a dynamic system that consists of a group of interacting agents distributed over a network. In the past decades, the study of distributed coordination of multi-agent systems has been widely ...