Author(s): Tian M; Mohammadzadeh A; Taghavifar H; Sakthivel R; Zhang C;

In this paper, a new control approach is proposed for the synchronization and stabilization of a class of chaotic systems with unknown dynamics and input nonlinearities. Type-3 fuzzy logic systems (T3-FLSs) are developed to adaptively model the dynamics of both master and slave systems in real time. The input is affected by sector-bounded hysteresis and q ...

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Author(s): Dewan K; Mulrennan ME; Georgekish E;

Community-based monitoring (CBM) programs are increasingly recognized as essential for adaptive environmental stewardship. Yet, the CBM literature often highlights successful cases and privileges evaluations by external experts over those of community members themselves. To address this gap, we drew on insights from 23 semistructured interviews with Cree ...

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Author(s): Plante C; Datta Gupta S; Bandara T; Beland D; Blaser C; Camillo CA; Villa E; Dutton D; Fuller D; Hasselback J; Lix LM; Marouzi A; Muhajarine N; Notten G; Reimer B; Wolfson M; Young M; Concha DY; Neudorf C;

Background: Two decades of research have highlighted persistent income-related health inequities in Canada across municipal, provincial, and national levels. While there is broad consensus among researchers, advocates, and health professionals that social determinants are the primary drivers of h ...

Article GUID: 41313634

Author(s): Zhang Y; Lahmiri S;

Crude oil price forecasting is an important task in energy management and storage. In this regard, deep learning has been applied in the literature to generate accurate forecasts. The main purpose of this study is to design an ensemble prediction system based on various deep learning systems. Specifically, in the first stage of our proposed ensemble syste ...

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Author(s): Lahmiri S; Tadj C; Gargour C;

Voice analysis and classification for biomedical diagnosis purpose is receiving a growing attention to assist physicians in the decision-making process in clinical milieu. In this study, we develop and test deep feedforward neural networks (DFFNN) to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy newborns. The DFFNN are trained with acoustic features measured ...

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Author(s): Anna Sheftel

This article argues for social class and socioeconomic inequality as neglected forms of analysis when studying the memories and narratives of Holocaust survivors. Based primarily in oral histories conducted with Holocaust survivors in Montreal, this argument is elaborated in two ways. First, the author demonstrates stories that have been left out of Holoc ...

Article GUID: 41281595

Author(s): Fu N; Zhang R; Haghighat F; Kumar P; Cao SJ;

Climate change is reshaping indoor-outdoor pollution dynamics, yet current building standards rarely reflect this shift. In rapidly urbanizing regions with high ambient PM2.5 levels, building airtightness offers an underutilized strategy to mitigate indoor exposure and associated health burdens. An analysis of 36 major Chinese cities across five climate z ...

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Author(s): Chebib N; Rotzinger S; Maccarone-Ruetsche N; Sioufi R; Mojon P; Müller F;

Background: This RCT aimed to test the impact of an educational intervention, supported by a Personalized Oral Health Instruction Form (POIF), on oral health indices in institutionalized older adults. Methods: Older adults aged 65 years and above living in a long-term care facility were recruited. Baseline oral health indices were recorded for all partic ...

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Author(s): Spence DS; Painter KJ; Nazemi A; Venkiteswaran JJ; Baulch HM;

Drinking water treatability is defined by multiple parameters that are strongly impacted by climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Working in a shallow reservoir in the Canadian Prairies, generalized additive models (GAMs) were applied to a 33-year dataset to identify drivers of interannual variability in multiple indicators of drinking water treatability. I ...

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Author(s): Jibb LA; Hashemi E; Sivaratnam S; Hildenbrand AK; Nathan PC; Chartrand J; Alberts NM; Masama T; Pease HG; Torres LB; Cortes HG; Zworth M; Kuczynski S; Fortier MA;

Background: Pain is a prevalent and distressing symptom for children with cancer, negatively affecting quality of life and family functioning. While most research focuses on hospital-based care, many pain episodes occur at home, where parents act as primary caregivers with limited access to evide ...

Article GUID: 41149458

Author(s): Haghighi R; Farhadloo M;

Background: The quality of health information on social media is a major concern, especially during the early stages of public health crises. While the quality of the results of the popular search engines related to particular diseases has been analyzed in the literature, the quality of health-related information on social media, such as X (formerly Twitt ...

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