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Prosthetic Landscapes: Reclaiming the Iraqi marshes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-22)Hidden within the sands of the middle eastern desert, there lies a vast aging Petropolis, occupying territories in southern Iraq through the injection of infrastructure such as mechanical drills and mobile machinery. The ... -
Protection of Direct-Current Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-30)The overwhelming advancement in power electronics converters throughout the past few decades is leading to an increasing interest in the integration of Direct-Current (DC) systems to the existing AC ones on the generation, ... -
Protection of Renewable Energy Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-22)The recent progress in renewable energy (RE) technologies has led to the erection of RE power plants (REPPs) up to the order of several hundred megawatts. Unlike their predecessors, which generally appeared in the form of ... -
The Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to DFIG-Based WTGs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Recently, many countries have proposed various plans to address the issue of climate change, and increasing the capacity of renewables is one of the major common components of such plans. The uncertainty and variability ... -
Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to IG-Based Wind Farms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Over the last few decades, renewable energy sources have been attracting great attention due to the increased cost, limited reserves, and the adverse environmental impact of fossil fuels. Among them, wind energy is one of ... -
Protein Capture by Cation Exchange Membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-13)Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are large recombinant proteins produced in CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cell culture with a multiplicity of applications such as ligands for affinity chromatography material, medical applications ... -
Proteomic Analysis and Long Term Live Cell Imaging of Primary Human Cells in Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-18)Regenerative medicine is a rapidly developing field, merging engineering and biological life sciences to create biological replacements for damaged tissue and organ function. Development of cellular based therapies has the ... -
Protocol for Usability Testing and Validation of the ISO Draft International Standard 19223 for Lung Ventilators
(JMIR, 2017-09)Background: Clinicians, such as respiratory therapists and physicians, are often required to set up pieces of medical equipment that use inconsistent terminology. Current lung ventilator terminology that is used by different ... -
Protocol for Usability Testing and Validation of the ISO Draft International Standard 19223 for Lung Ventilators
(JMIR, 2017-09-08)Background: Clinicians, such as respiratory therapists and physicians, are often required to set up pieces of medical equipment that use inconsistent terminology. Current lung ventilator terminology that is used by different ... -
Providing Context in WS-BPEL Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Business processes are increasingly used by organizations to automate their activities. Written in languages like WS-BPEL, they allow an institution to describe precisely its internal operations. As the pace of change ... -
Provision Quality-of-Service Controlled Content Distribution in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)By equipping vehicles with the on-board wireless facility, the newly emerged vehicular networking targets to provision the broadband serves to vehicles. As such, a variety of novel and exciting applications can be provided ... -
Provocation of the Non-Place [A Place for Alienation]
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-17)The “non-place” is a term used by author Marc Augé to describe a place that is itself not a destination but rather a place of everyday passing, a place of being in-between in which he critically claims we experience ... -
Provocations from #vanlife: Investigating Life and Work in a Community Extensively Using Technology Not Designed for Them
(ACM, 2021-05)Research on how lived experiences with technology intersect with home and work are core themes within HCI. Prior work has primarily focused on conventional life and work in Western countries. However, the unconventional ... -
Pseudo-online Detection and Classification for Upper-limb Movements from Scalp Electroencephalogram
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-22)Stroke has been a significant healthcare issue worldwide, leading to motor impairment and complicated rehabilitation procedures, which often last for years after lesion. In recent years, brain-computer interface (BCI) ... -
PSEUDO-TERNARY PHASE DIAGRAMS OF A DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-04)The purpose of this research was to develop the pseudo-ternary phase diagrams for a model drug delivery system consisting of vitamin E (model drug) + soybean oil + surfactant + co-surfactant (anhydrous glycerol) + water. ... -
The Psychology of Nature: Our Dwellings, Well-being, and Evolutionary Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Nature has always played a significant role in the human experience. Throughout prehistory, our early ancestors experienced life through a purely natural world. As an evolutionary mechanism aiding their survival and ... -
PTAF Polygon Tessellation to Approximate Frame. A Method for the Design and Analysis of Complex Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Complex frames are difficult to model because there are so many elements and redundant load paths. In order to explore the realm of complex frames, there needs to be a technique for approximate modelling to allow for rapid ... -
PtSe2 and HfSe2: New Transition Metal Dischalcogenides for Switching Device Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Recently, silicon-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology has been struggling in keeping the continuous improvement predicted by Moore’s Law. Hence, significant efforts have been made to find ... -
PtSe2 Field-Effect Transistors: New Opportunities for Electronic Devices
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-11-15)PtSe2, a new family of transition metal dichalcogenides, has been explored for electronic device applications using density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) within the third nearest ... -
The Public Space of LRT Boulevards: The Waterloo Region ION Corridor as an Urban Place
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)In 2018, the ION transit corridor will begin the process of linking the Tricities – Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge – into a linear metropolitan area, which will offer many economic and infrastructural development ...