Browsing Theses by Title
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Turning Point for Transformation? Investigating a Local Decarbonization Initiative in Waterloo Region, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Canada is a world leader - in burning fossil fuels. Canadians produce more tonnes of CO2 per capita than almost any nation on earth. Canada’s GHG emissions are part of a global problem. There is international consensus ... -
Turning to the Source: Assessing the Evidence Sources Used to Describe the Potential Human Health Impacts of Wind Turbines by Public Health Organization Websites and Community Group Websites Using a Social Network Analysis Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-11)Introduction: Wind turbines are a source of renewable energy that has become more common in Canada in the past decades. Concerns have been raised over potential adverse health effects from exposure to wind turbines, ... -
Turnpike Property for Generalized Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)The turnpike phenomenon describes the long time behavior of optimally controlled systems whose optimal trajectories over a sufficiently large time horizon stay for most of the time close to a prescribed trajectory of the ... -
Twinning: An Exhibition of Video and Sculpture
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-05)Marianne Burlew’s installation Twinning affords space for contemplating our body’s unique sensory knowledge and its role in mediating perception. The exhibition consists of four stations that present sculpture in the form ... -
Twisted Holography: The Examples of 4d and 5d Chern-Simons Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)Twisted holography is a duality between a twisted supergravity, and a twisted supersymmetric gauge theory living on the D-branes in the supergravity. The main objectives of this duality is the comparison between the algebra ... -
TwitSong: A current events computer poet and the thorny problem of assessment.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-29)This thesis is driven by the question of how computers can generate poetry, and how that poetry can be evaluated. We survey existing work on computer-generated poetry and interdisciplinary work on how to evaluate this type ... -
Two Affine Scaling Methods for Solving Optimization Problems Regularized with an L1-norm
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)In finance, the implied volatility surface is plotted against strike price and time to maturity. The shape of this volatility surface can be identified by fitting the model to what is actually observed in the market. The ... -
Two Coalitional Models for Network Formation and Matching Games
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-23)This thesis comprises of two separate game theoretic models that fall under the general umbrella of network formation games. The first is a coalitional model of interaction in social networks that is based on the idea ... -
Two combinatorial problems from craniosynostosis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)The art of cranial vault remodelling surgery is amazing and fascinating, but remains much of that, an art, to this day. In this thesis, we provide two mathematical approaches to tackle cranial vault remodelling surgery, ... -
Two Degrees Celsius, Assessing the Potential of Urban Commercial Buildings in Canada to Reach the 2°C Climate Change Target
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-12)To avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change, scientific consensus and international convention have determined that the mean rise in global temperatures must be limited to between 1.5°C and 2.0°C. The Intergovernmental ... -
Two Dimensional Genetic Approach to the Development of a Controllable Lytic Phage Display System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Bacteriophage Lambda (λ) has played a historical role as an essential model contributing to our current understanding of molecular genetics. Lambda’s major capsid protein “gpD” occurs on each capsid at 405 to 420 copies ... -
Two of the Mechanims Used by Bacteria to Modify the Environment: Quorum Sensing and ACC Deaminase
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-27)Quorum sensing (QS) cell-cell communication systems are utilized by bacteria to coordinate their behaviour according to cell density. Several different types of QS signal molecules have been identified, among which ... -
Two Port Network Theory Based Design Method of Broadband Doherty Power Amplifier
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) is a widely used communication standard and it mainly features Carrier aggregation (CA). CA increases the user data rate and efficiently exploits the fragmented spectrum by combining various carrier ... -
Two results on words
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)The study of combinatorial patterns of words has raised great interest since the early 20th century. In this master's thesis presentation we study two combinatorial patterns. The first pattern is “abelian k-th power free” ... -
Two- and Three-Dimensional Coding Schemes for Wavelet and Fractal-Wavelet Image Compression
(University of Waterloo, 2001)This thesis presents two novel coding schemes and applications to both two- and three-dimensional image compression. Image compression can be viewed as methods of functional approximation under a constraint on the amount ... -
A Two-Armed Forward Dynamic Model of a Golf Drive: A Simulation and Optimization Tool for Golf Equipment and Biomechanics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Golf club manufacturers and golf’s governing bodies both have clear interests in understanding how equipment design changes affect the performance of a golfer. Traditionally, to capture this interaction it was necessary ... -
Two-Class M/M/1 Make-to-Stock Queueing Systems with Both Backlogs and Lost Sales
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)We introduce a new simple allocation policy which is a very good approximation of the optimal allocation policy in an inventory system with a single product and two priority classes of customers. A production facility ... -
Two-Color Chirped-Pulse Amplification Fiber Amplifier, for Mid-Infrared Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)The goal of this thesis is developing a two-color Ytterbium (Yb) fiber amplifier system that can be used for generation of mid-infrared radiation. Previously, our group reported generating 20 µW of average power, at a ... -
Two-Color Ultrafast Yb:Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplifier for Mid-Infrared Generation and Sensitive Mid-Infrared Detector Based on Extreme Non-Degenerate Two Photon Absorption in GaAs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)This thesis outlines the development and optimization of a two-color three-stage ultrafast Yb:fiber chirped pulse amplifier for the generation of mid-infrared (MIR) radiation and a novel sensitive mid-infrared detector by ... -
Two-Colour Nonlinear Amplification for Mid-infrared Generation by Difference Frequency Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-16)In this thesis, I discuss the development of a two-colour laser system which uses an all-normal dispersion fiber laser in combination with a gain-managed nonlinear amplifier as its broadband source. The goal is to develop ...