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The Walk Home: Re-imagining the Ontario Greenbelt’s Commuter Rail Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Dominated by a low-density urban sprawl growth model post-World War II, the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) has expanded rapidly without limitation resulting in extensive exhaustion of its open space, greenfield lands, and ... -
Walking City: The transformative role of pedestrians in public space
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)Vancouver’s downtown peninsula symbolically describes the sense of place unique to the city as a whole. It is a livable city with a strong connection to its natural surroundings, witnessed in its very active population. ... -
Walls of Air: A Retrofit for Equitable Indoor Air Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-04)Poor indoor air quality and lack of space for adequate isolation within postwar towers increase the risk of negative effects on resident health leaving them more vulnerable to infectious diseases. The unequal ability to ... -
Walmart 2.0
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Processes of industry and economic exchange have significantly and continually defined the underlying structure and formal characteristics of the American city. Contemporary ‘distributed’ systems of economy and industry ... -
Warm Forming Behaviour of ZEK100 and AZ31B Magnesium Alloy Sheet
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)The current research addresses the formability of two magnesium sheet alloys, a conventional AZ31B and a rare earth alloyed ZEK100. Both alloys had a nominal thickness of 1.6 mm. Both Limiting Dome Height (LDH) and Cylindrical ... -
Warm Forming of Aluminum Brazing Sheet. Experiments and Numerical Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-25)Warm forming of aluminum alloys of has shown promising results for increasing the formability of aluminum alloy sheet. Warm forming is a term that is generally used to describe a sheet metal forming process, where part or ... -
WasmWalker: Path-based Code Representations for Improved WebAssembly Program Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-05)WebAssembly, or Wasm, is a low-level binary language that enables execution of near-native-performance code in web browsers. Wasm has proven to be useful in applications including gaming, audio and video processing, and ... -
Waste as Resource: Recycling housing components in the informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)Amidst rapid urbanization, large self-built settlements such as Kibera in the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, confront numerous environmental crises like flooding, alongside critical issues like limited nutrition, overall ... -
Waste to Energy (WTE): Conventional and Plasma-assisted Gasification - Experimental and Modeling Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-26)Ever-increasing amounts of industrial and residential wastes and their environmental footprint dictates the need for effective Waste Management practices. Thermal waste processing technologies play an important role in ... -
Wasted Water: Returning to the Fishpond Latrine Amidst Modernity, Pollution, and Stigma
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Since 1990, Vietnam has made significant efforts to eradicate open defecation in rural areas. With modernized systems and increasing severity of pollution within its rural provinces, local practices for managing human waste ... -
Water as Agent: Restoring Displaced Communities in Gulu, Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-17)Disasters due to war and conflict or natural forces are responsible for the 26 million people displaced across the world today. The crisis extends into the temporary, yet indefinite, displacement camps where people live ... -
Water Based Polyurethane Multi-Functional Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)Polyurethanes (PUs) are a class of versatile polymers that exhibit various mechanical, physical, chemical and biological properties depending on their structure and morphology. Polyurethanes (PUs) have been employed in a ... -
Water Detection Framework for Industrial Electric Arc Furnaces
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-23)This thesis develops a framework for water detection in an industrial electric arc furnace. The objective of the framework is to prevent water leak furnace explosions. This framework consists of a hybrid algorithm and a ... -
Water Main Life Cycle Analysis Framework for the Economic Evaluation of OM&R (Operation, Maintenance and Renovation) Strategies.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)Municipal water systems deliver potable water to residents, businesses, and industries. The potable water infrastructure was mostly laid in 1880-1970`s in North America. Being a buried asset i.e. an out of sight network, ... -
Water pricing conflict in British Columbia
(Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, 2017)The Water Sustainability Act in British Columbia, Canada is a source of conflict among citizens, the provincial government, and industrial groundwater users. The water extraction fees stipulated in the act highlight the ... -
A Watermarking-Based Framework for Protecting Deep Image Classifiers Against Adversarial Attacks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)Although deep learning-based models have achieved tremendous success in image-related tasks, they are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples---inputs with imperceptible, but subtly crafted perturbation which fool ... -
WaterWoven: Living on the margins in the Roncador River region, Brazil
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)Informal settlements located on river edges in impoverished Brazilian urban peripheries, such as the Roncador River region in Duque de Caxias city, have been increasingly suffering from the effects of more intense urban ... -
WatkeRR - Robotic Research Platform and Machine Vision System: Design, Development and Construction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Rollators/wheeled walkers are a commonly used mobility aid that is utilized by people with a wide array of mobility challenges such as Alzheimer ’s disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and general loss of stability and ... -
Wavelet Filter Banks in Perceptual Audio Coding
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This thesis studies the application of the wavelet filter bank (WFB) in perceptual audio coding by providing brief overviews of perceptual coding, psychoacoustics, wavelet theory, and existing wavelet coding algorithms. ... -
Wavelet Shrinkage Based Image Denoising using Soft Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-22)Noise reduction is an open problem and has received considerable attention in the literature for several decades. Over the last two decades, wavelet based methods have been applied to the problem of noise reduction and ...