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Obstacle Avoidance in Intelligent Assisted Walking Devices for Improving Mobility Among Seniors with Cognitive and Visual Impairments
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)Current research in walkers and rollators with integrated intelligent computing and robotic components shows promise in treatment, management and rehabilitation of a variety of ailments and disorders such as stroke, Alzheimer ... -
Obus: Intent and Inhabitation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)First proposed by Le Corbusier for the city of Algiers in 1932 but never built, the Plan Obus is Le Corbusier’s ultimate city planning project. The forerunner of the megastructures projects of the 1960s, it sits squarely ... -
Of the River: Unraveling Imaginaries of Water & Resilience in Metro Manila
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Metro Manila, the Philippines’ capital, emerged from the river delta—bisected by an estuarine river and laced with rivulets. For a long time, the city embraced its wet geography and was adapted to the soak of torrential ... -
Off-normal solar optical property measurements using an integrating sphere
(Elsevier, 2012-01-01)Shading devices attached to windows can be used to control solar gain and hence reduce building peak load and annual energy consumption. The performance of a shading device in this regard is strongly dependent on its solar ... -
Off-Normal Solar-Optical Performance of Pleated Drapery: Simulation versus Measurement
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2016-01)In recent years, significant advances have been made in modeling fenestration with shading attachments. Most shading devices have great potential for reducing both peak building cooling load and annual energy consumption ... -
An Offshore Wind Farm Featuring Differential Power Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-22)Offshore wind farms are a rapidly growing technology used to harvest wind energy on the open seas where wind speeds are significantly higher and steadier than onshore. Current wind farms located far away from shore (e.g., ... -
Oh The Places We'll Go: The Game of Children's Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Play is inarguably an important part of human development. Through play, children as young as three years of age learn social skills and values that will form the foundation of their development in to adult life. Children ... -
Oil Adsorption Performance and Efficiency Study on Novel Silane Functionalized Graphene Polyurethane Sponge
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Oil-water separation has been vital in many aspects of our society’s operations. This is particularly highlighted during the environmental cleanups of industrial oily wastes and disasters involving petroleum oil spills. ... -
Oil Sands Bitumen Emulsion Upgrading by Using In Situ Hydrogen Generated through the Water Gas Shift Reaction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-09)Canada has a large reserve of oil sands bitumen which is highly viscous and contains high percentages of asphaltenes and heteroatoms. Currently hot water extraction or steam injection is used in recovering the bitumen as ... -
On [Re]building Downtown: Design Framework for the Core Area
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)Rapid condominium development in Toronto is consuming large areas of the ground plane in prominent corridors of the downtown core. This is the most popular development practice for Mixed-Use land use in Toronto. It is ... -
On A New Approach to Model Reference Adaptive Control
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-12)The objective of adaptive control is to design a controller that can adjust its behaviour to tolerate uncertain or time-varying parameters. An adaptive controller typically consists of a linear time-invariant (LTI) compensator ... -
On Achieving Secure Message Authentication for Vehicular Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have emerged as a new application scenario that is envisioned to revolutionize the human driving experiences, optimize traffic flow control systems, etc. Addressing security and privacy ... -
On Achieving Unconditionally Secure Communications Via the Physical Layer Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-12)Due to the broadcast nature, wireless links are open to malicious intrusions from outsiders, which makes the security issues a critical concern in the wireless communicationsover them. Physical-layer security techniques, ... -
On Capacity-Achieving Input Distributions to Additive Vector Gaussian Noise Channels Under Peak and Even Moment Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)We investigate the support of the capacity-achieving input distribution to a vector-valued Gaussian noise channel. The input is subject to a radial even-moment constraint and, in some cases, is additionally restricted ... -
On Causal Video Coding with Possible Loss of the First Encoded Frame
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Multiple Description Coding (MDC) was fi rst formulated by A. Gersho and H. Witsenhausen as a way to improve the robustness of telephony links to outages. Lots of studies have been done in this area up to now. Another ... -
On Chinese Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2006)From the four-thousand-year obsession with timber structures to the radical fascination of steel and glass in recent decades, in a Westerner's eye, Chinese architecture evolves either too slow or too fast. The current ... -
On Common Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Canada’s housing market has been unaffordable, inaccessible, and commodified for a long time. Due to the ever-increasing real-estate prices and critical housing shortages, there has been an elevated need for more alternative ... -
On Competition for Undergraduate Co-op Placement: A Graph Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)The objective of this thesis is to improve the co-operative (co-op) education process by analyzing the relationships among academic programs in the context of the co-op job market. To do this, we propose and apply a novel ... -
On Constructing Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-13)This thesis focuses on designing Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes for forward-error-correction. The target application is real-time multimedia communications over packet networks. We investigate two code design ... -
On Cyclic Delay Diversity OFDM Based Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, so called OFDM, has found a prominent place in various wireless systems and networks as a method of encoding data over multiple carrier frequencies. OFDM-based communication ...