Browsing Science (Faculty of) by Title
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Development and application of a new Attended Field of View (AFOV) test
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Purpose: An important challenge for eye care practitioners is meeting the needs of an ever-increasing elderly population. Standard vision tests are inadequate for determining performance in real life situations. One test ... -
Development and application of needle trap devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Recently, there has been increasing interest in environmental analysis among the scientific community. Monitoring of organic and inorganic environmental pollutants and investigations into their potential to adversely affect ... -
Development and application of paleolimnological analyses to disentangle the roles of natural processes and anthropogenic activities on contaminant deposition and hydrological conditions across a northern delta
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Freshwater ecosystems across northern Canada provide important habitat for wildlife and have long supported the traditional lifestyles of Indigenous communities. Multiple potential stressors threaten the security of water ... -
Development and Application of Periphyton-Based Biomonitoring Methods to Elucidate Aquatic Ecosystem Responses of Lakes in a Water-Rich Northern Landscape (Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada) to Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-13)Shallow freshwater lakes are abundant in Arctic and subarctic regions, where they provide important wildlife habitat and sustain the cultural heritage and traditional land use of Indigenous communities. Concern over effects ... -
Development and application of plant macrofossils for paleolimnological reconstructions in the Slave River Delta, N.W.T.
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)This thesis combines detailed analyses of living plant communities with paleolimnological methods to develop the use of plant macrofossils as an effective tool to track hydroecological changes in ponds of the Slave River ... -
Development and Application of Solid-Phase Microextraction Probe Electrospray Ionization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)Ambient ionization mass spectrometry (AIMS) is a category of mass spectrometry (MS) techniques originally characterized as using ambient ionization sources to analyze samples with little to no sample preparation and no ... -
Development and application of SPME technologies for the rapid sampling and analysis of anthropogenic compounds in the environment
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)Due to the wide spread use of pharmaceuticals in both human and animal populations, the contamination of surface waters resulting from the outflow of waste water treatment facilities is of growing concern. Conventional ... -
Development and Application of the Needle Trap Device
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-08)Air is one of the most important resources in the world and is essential for life. With the development of industry, air pollution is becoming a severe problem. Air Pollution not only affects the quality of the air we ... -
Development and biomedical applications of solid phase micro-extraction (bio-SPME) chemical biopsy devices
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-22)Micro-sampling is a vital component in modern diagnostics and personalized medicine. In vivo SPME is a novel branch of biomedical applications of SPME (Bio-SPME) that offers unique advantages complementary to existing ... -
Development and characterization of a laminar aerosol flow tube
(AIP, 2006-03)We have developed a new laminar aerosol flow tube (AFT) to study transformations such as ice nucleation, deliquescence, and efflorescence in model atmospheric aerosols. The apparatus consists of four sections which can be ... -
Development and Characterization of a Regeneratively Amplified Ultrafast Laser System with an All-Glass Stretcher and Compressor
(University of Waterloo, 2006)High-peak power laser systems are defined along with a brief introduction of the technology used in their development and application to the project. A review of concepts surrounding optical pulses, focusing on the ... -
Development and characterization of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems to prevent HIV infection and the treatment of chronic wounds
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-10)Patient compliance is very important and highly depends on the drug dosage form which correlates with the success of therapy. Drug delivery systems can be adapted to different pharmaceutical ingredients and to different ... -
Development and Evaluation of a Periphytic Diatom Biomonitoring Platform of the Assessment of Cumulative Effects in Lakes of the Muskoka River Watershed, Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Anthropogenic stressors such as urban development, agricultural practices and industrial activities are a growing concern throughout the Muskoka River watershed of Ontario, Canada, because they can alter physical, chemical ... -
The Development and Evaluation of Next-Generation Metallic Nanomedicines for Oncology
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)Nanoparticles (NPs) are ultrasmall objects with profound applications in research, industry, and medicine. Next-generation nanomedicines, such as gold, hafnium, iron, and copper nanoparticles, are particularly interesting ... -
Development and optimization of coated blade spray - mass spectrometry for bioanalytical and clinical applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Bioanalysis is a sub-discipline of analytical chemistry that focuses on the identification and quantification of small and large molecules (e.g. metabolites and proteins) present in biological sample matrices (e.g. blood, ... -
Development and Study of the Microfluidic Open Interface Coupled with Solid-phase Microextraction for Rapid Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)Analytical chemistry mainly aims to identify and quantify analytes in matrices of interest. Analytical chemistry is an indispensable part of chemistry (and other scientific fields) because identification and quantification ... -
Development and Testing of a Framework for the Assessment of Health-Related Risks Among Travellers by Pharmacists in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-18)As pharmacists move away from traditional dispensary roles and towards more clinical services, a therapeutic realm that pharmacists are exploring is travel medicine. However, travel medicine can be challenging to beginners ... -
Development and validation of a fully automated solid phase microextraction high throughput method for quantitative analysis of multiresidue veterinary drugs in chicken tissue
(Elsevier, 2019-05-16)This paper presents the development and validation of a fully automated, high-throughput multiclass, multiresidue method for quantitative analysis of 77 veterinary drugs in chicken muscle via direct immersion solid phase ... -
Development and validation of eco-friendly strategies based on thin film microextraction for water analysis
(Elsevier, 2018-12-07)The aim of the current study is the establishment of Green Analytical Chemistry strategies for water analysis by elimination/reduction of hazardous chemicals, energy consumption, and waste generation throughout the entire ... -
Development of 3D Printable, Hydrophilic, and Rapidly Curing Silicone-based Ink Formulations for Various Biomedical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-18)3D printing is the use of additive manufacturing techniques to deposit materials layer-by-layer. Compared to alternative tissue fabrication methods such as casting, 3D printing is unique, because it uses CT and MRI scans ...