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Evaluation of digital x-ray imaging technologies for tuberculosis screening
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-10)Tuberculosis is a major concern in low- and middle-income countries, but may be diagnosed using standard chest x-rays. Conventional film-screen x-ray detectors require more maintenance than digital x-ray detectors and need ... -
An Evaluation of Smartphone Resources Used by Web Advertisements
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-17)With the rapid advancement of mobile devices, people have become more attached to them than ever. This rapid growth combined with millions of applications (apps) make smartphones a favourite means of communication among ... -
Evidential Reasoning for Multimodal Fusion in Human Computer Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Fusion of information from multiple modalities in Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) has gained a lot of attention in recent years, and has far reaching implications in many areas of human-machine interaction. However, a ... -
Evolving Software Systems for Self-Adaptation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-25)There is a strong synergy between the concepts of evolution and adaptation in software engineering: software adaptation refers to both the current software being adapted and to the evolution process that leads to the new ... -
Exciton-Induced Degradation of Interfaces in Organic Light-Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)A new revolution in electronics/optoelectronics has become possible in the past two decades due to the emergence of organic semiconductors. Among all the applications based on organic semiconductors, organic light-emitting ... -
Exciton-Induced Morphological Changes in Carbazole Based PhOLEDs and the Influence of the Device Fabrication Process
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have increasingly attracted attention from both academia and industry alike in the last three decades because of their low cost, easy fabrication, light weight, and mechanical ... -
Executable Model Synthesis and Property Validation for Message Sequence Chart Specifications
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Message sequence charts (MSC’s) are a formal language for the specification of scenarios in concurrent real-time systems. The thesis addresses the synthesis of executable object-oriented design-time models from MSC ... -
Exemplar-based Kernel Preserving Embedding
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-02)With the rapid increase of available data, it becomes computationally harder to extract useful information, specially in the case of high-dimensional data. Choosing a representative subset of the data can be useful to ... -
Expanding the Microfluidic Design Automation Capabilities of Manifold: Electrophoretic Cross and Time-Domain Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Lab-on-a-chip devices are finding applications in several different fields, from point-of-care diagnostics to genome sequencing. However, lab-on-a-chip is a multidimensional field that makes it difficult for designers to ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Power Amplifiers’ Nonlinearity using a 3.5 GHz 2×2 RF Front-end Prototype
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Next generation communication systems will demand extremely high system capacity. Ap-proaches such as complex digital modulation schemes, widening of the instantaneous band-width and massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) ... -
Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bit-Rate Selection Algorithms in Multi-Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)IEEE 802.11 PHY supports multiple transmission rates according to multiple different modulations and coding schemes. Each WiFi station selects its own transmission rate according to its own algorithm; in particular, the ... -
Exploiting Mobile Energy Storages for Overload Mitigation in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)The advancement of battery and electronic technologies pushes forward transportation electrification, accelerating the commercialization and prevalence of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The development of PEVs is closely ... -
Exploring Microfluidic Design Automation: Thin-wall Membrane Regulator
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip are a growing technology, influential in many areas of engineering. This project focuses on the necessity for better computer aided design tools for this area. Specifically, it focuses on ... -
Exploring the Tight Asymptotic Bounds of the Trade-off Between Query Anonymity & Communication Cost in Wireless Sensor Network
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-18)We address query-anonymity in the context of wireless sensor networks. Query-anonymity is the property that the destination of a client’s query is indistinguishable from other potential destinations. Prior work has established ... -
Exploring the Usage of U-Net-based Deep Learning Networks for Reduction of Brain PET Scan Time in Alzheimer's Disease Patients
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)In medical imaging, positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging technique that uses radiotracers to tag and investigate biological processes. A high-quality PET scan requires a high dosage of such tracers and/or a ... -
Exploring the Use of Assistive Robotics in Play and Education for Children with Disabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)Assistive technologies in general, and assistive robots in particular, are being studied extensively to maintain and increase the capabilities of individuals with disabilities. However, there are aspects in this field that ... -
Exploring the Use of Social Robots in Promoting University Students’ Mental Well-Being
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-12)Mental health problems within university student populations are a growing concern. In recent years, university students have reported increased symptoms of stress and anxiety, which can negatively impact their mental ... -
Expressive and Efficient Memory Representation for Bounded Model Checking of C programs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-13)Ensuring memory safety in programs has been an important yet difficult topic of research. Most static analysis approaches rely on the theory of arrays to model memory access. The limitation of the theory of arrays in terms ... -
Extended Bandwidth Doherty Power Amplifier for Carrier Aggregated Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)In the conventional classes of power amplifiers the efficiency drops at power back-off, whereas in order to maximize the spectral efficiency and data rate, wireless communication standards employ signals with high peak to ... -
Extensible Architecture for Superconducting Quantum Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-09)Quantum computing architectures with ten or more quantum bits (qubits) have been implemented using trapped ions and superconducting devices. The next milestone in the quest for a quantum computer is the realization of ...