Publications

Co-developing The Canadian MPS Registry: A longitudinal rare disease patient registry
John J. Mitchell
Michal Inbar-Feigenberg
Kim Angel
Pranesh Chakraborty
Monica Lamoureux
John Adams
Beth K. Potter
Sylvia Stockler-Ipsirolgu
Alison H. Howie
Alex Pace
Nancy J. Butcher
Cheryl Greenberg
Robin Hayeems
Anne-Marie Laberge
Jeff Round
Martin Offringa
Maryam Oskoui
Chelsea Ruth
Andreas Schulze
Kathy N. Speechley … (see 4 more)
Kednapa Thavorn
Yannis Trakadis
Kumanan Wilson
Thierry Lacaze
2024-01-31
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism (published)
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Design and Application of Adaptive Sparse Deep Echo State Network
Cuili Yang
Sheng Yang
Jian Tang
Bing Li
The prediction of appliances energy consumption in building belongs to time series forecasting problem, which can be solved by echo state ne… (see more)twork (ESN). However, due to the randomly initialized inputs and reservoir, some redundant or irrelevant components are inevitably generated in original ESN. To solve this problem, the adaptive sparse deep echo state network (ASDESN) is proposed, in which the information is processed layer by layer. Firstly, the principal component analysis (PCA) layer is inserted to penalize the redundant projection transmitted between sub-reservoirs. Secondly, the coordinate descent based adaptive sparse learning method is proposed to generate the sparse output weights. Particularly, the designed adaptive threshold strategy is able to enlarge the sparsity of output weights as network depth increases. Moreover, the echo state property (ESP) of ASDESN is given to ensure its applications. The experiment results in both simulated benchmark and real appliances energy datasets illustrate that the proposed ASDESN outperforms other ESNs with higher prediction accuracy and stability.
2024-01-31
IEEE transactions on consumer electronics (published)
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Heterogeneous ensemble prediction model of CO emission concentration in municipal solid waste incineration process using virtual data and real data hybrid-driven
Runyu Zhang
Jian Tang
Heng Xia
Jiakun Chen
Wen Yu
JunFei Qiao
2024-01-31
Journal of Cleaner Production (published)
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Improving Pediatric Trauma Education by Teaching Non-technical Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Fabio Botelho
Ayla Gerk
Jason M. Harley
Dan Poenaru
2024-01-31
Journal of Pediatric Surgery (published)
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Inter- and intra-year forest change detection and monitoring of aboveground biomass dynamics using Sentinel-2 and Landsat
Flavie Pelletier
Jeffrey A. Cardille
Michael A. Wulder
Joanne C. White
Txomin Hermosilla
2024-01-31
Remote Sensing of Environment (published)
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Linking biodiversity, ecosystem function, and Nature’s contributions to people: a macroecological energy flux perspective
Ana Carolina Antunes
Emilio Berti
Ulrich Brose
Myriam R. Hirt
Dirk N. Karger
Louise M. J. O'Connor
Laura J. Pollock
Wilfried Thuiller
Benoit Gauzens
2024-01-31
Trends in Ecology & Evolution (published)
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Machine Learning Informed Diagnosis for Congenital Heart Disease in Large Claims Data Source
Ariane J. Marelli
Chao Li
Aihua Liu
Hanh Nguyen
Harry Moroz
James M. Brophy
Liming Guo
David L. Buckeridge
Jian Tang
Archer Y. Yang
Yue Li
2024-01-31
JACC: Advances (published)
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Neural semantic tagging for natural language-based search in building information models: Implications for practice
Mehrzad Shahinmoghadam
S Ebrahimi Kahou
Ali Motamedi
2024-01-31
Computers in industry (Print) (published)
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Patient-Centered Surgical Care for Children in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) - A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature
Riya Sawhney
Kacylia Roy Proulx
Ayla Gerk
Elena Guadagno
Dan Poenaru
2024-01-31
Journal of Pediatric Surgery (published)
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Properties and Styles of Software Technology Tutorials
Deeksha M. Arya
Jin L.C. Guo
Martin P. Robillard
A large number of tutorials for popular software development technologies are available online, and those about the same technology vary wid… (see more)ely in their presentation. We studied the design of tutorials in the software documentation landscape for five popular programming languages: Java, C#, Python, Javascript, and Typescript. We investigated the extent to which tutorial pages, i.e. resources, differ and report statistics of variations in resource properties. We developed a framework for characterizing resources based on their distinguishing attributes, i.e. properties that vary widely for the resource, relative to other resources. Additionally, we propose that a resource can be represented by its resource style, i.e. the combination of its distinguishing attributes. We discuss three techniques for characterizing resources based on our framework, to capture notable and relevant content and presentation properties of tutorial pages. We apply these techniques on a data set of 2551 resources to validate that our framework identifies valid and interpretable styles. We contribute this framework for reasoning about the design of resources in the online software documentation landscape.
2024-01-31
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (published)
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Recent Excavation of Nanoethosomes in Current Drug Delivery.
Sankha Bhattacharya
Aishwarya Agrawal
Aalind Joshi
In the current era, the Transdermal delivery of bioactive molecules has become an area of research interest. The transdermal route of admini… (see more)stration enables direct entry of bioactive molecules into the systemic circulation with better and easy accessibility, bypassing the hepatic metabolism and improving patient compliance. Permeation through the skin has always been a barrier. To overcome this challenge, an efficient route by the vesicular system has been adopted so as to have better skin permeation of the bioactive molecules. A novel vesicular and non-invasive drug delivery system called Nanoethosomes was developed. Nanoethosomes are lipid-based vesicular carriers that are used for deeper permeation of the bioactive agents into the skin. The main components of Nanoethosomes are Phospholipids, water, and ethanol. High ethanol concentration in Nanoethosomes distinguishes them from other nano-formulation and results in deeper permeation and smaller vesicular size. This review article gives detailed information on the formulation techniques, and characterization parameters of nanoethosomes along with the research work done by various researchers in the same field. The compiled manuscript gives detailed elaboration about the various drugs used to treat different diseases which when incorporated in nanoethosomes resulted in better permeability and enhanced bioavailability.
2024-01-31
Current Drug Delivery (published)
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The Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative: Standardized Convolutional Filters for Reproducible Radiomics and Enhanced Clinical Insights
Philip Whybra
Alex Zwanenburg
Vincent Andrearczyk
Roger Schaer
Aditya P. Apte
Alexandre Ayotte
Bhakti Baheti
Spyridon Bakas
Andrea Bettinelli
Ronald Boellaard
Luca Boldrini
Irene Buvat
Gary J. R. Cook
Florian Dietsche
Nicola Dinapoli
Hubert S. Gabryś
Vicky Goh
Matthias Guckenberger
Mathieu Hatt
Mahdi Hosseinzadeh … (see 26 more)
Aditi Iyer
Jacopo Lenkowicz
Mahdi A. L. Loutfi
Steffen Löck
Francesca Marturano
Olivier Morin
Christophe Nioche
Fanny Orlhac
Sarthak Pati
Arman Rahmim
Seyed Masoud Rezaeijo
Christopher G. Rookyard
Mohammad R. Salmanpour
Andreas Schindele
Isaac Shiri
Emiliano Spezi
Stephanie Tanadini-Lang
Florent Tixier
Taman Upadhaya
Vincenzo Valentini
Joost J. M. van Griethuysen
Fereshteh Yousefirizi
Habib Zaidi
Henning Müller
Martin Vallières
Adrien Depeursinge
2024-01-31
Radiology (published)
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