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The Role of Interactive Visualization in Fostering Trust in AI
(IEEE, 2021-12-10)The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across application domains has prompted our society to pay closer attention to AI's trustworthiness, fairness, interpretability, and accountability. In order ... -
The role of interprofessional collaboration on the discharge planning in the neonatal intensive unit
(2011-10-01)Rationale: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) occurs when “multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, careers and communities to deliver the highest quality ... -
The role of nurse navigators indiagnostic phase of adult patients with lung cancer
(2013-07-01)Cancer is a major concern in today’s health care field, especially in Canadian adults. The diagnostic phase is a clinical process that involves mapping the patient journey, identifying and prioritizing the symptoms, and ... -
The role of technology in the prevention and intervention of youth suicide: a literature review
(2022-08-01)As a result of the increase in youth mental health problems and suicide risks, there is a significant need to develop effective intervention and prevention programs for youth. An area lacking attention, and the goal of ... -
The role of urban wetland diversity and function in contaminant fate
(2011-08-01)It is recognized that microbial transformations are the primary mechanism of organic contaminant removal in natural and constructed wetland systems. However, not much is known about urban wetland microbial communities or ... -
Saliency Deficit and Motion Outlier Detection in Animated Scatterplots
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-05-04)We report the results of a crowdsourced experiment that measured the accuracy of motion outlier detection in multivariate, animated scatterplots. The targets were outliers either in speed or direction of motion, and were ... -
Scalable immersive audio for virtual environments
(2018-05-01)This thesis discusses the history of game sound and how it developed to become increasingly more immersive and realistic by accounting for the spatial aspects of sound. It then compares several 3D sound technologies before ... -
Scalable subgraph representation learning through simplification
(2023-06-01)Link prediction on graphs is a fundamental problem. Subgraph representation learning approaches (SGRLs), by transforming link prediction to graph classification on the subgraphs around the links, have achieved state-of-the-art ... -
School resource officers: interrogation training, developmental knowledge, and questioning practices
(2020-09-01)Given the prevalence of School Resource Officers (SROs) in American schools, it is surprising that relatively little is known empirically about SRO training, including with regard to their questioning of students suspected ... -
SDTDMn0 : a multidimensional distributed data mining framework supporting time series data analysis for critical care research
(2011-04-01)Premature birth is one of the major perinatal health issues across the world. In 2007, the estimated Canadian preterm birth rate was 8.1 % (CIHI, 2009). Recent research has shown that conditions, such as nosocomial infections ... -
Seasonal changes in functional fitness and neurocognitive performance in youth ice hockey players
(2017-07-01)Changes in functional fitness and concussion status were evaluated over the course of a competitive season in youth ice hockey players, and relationships between these variables and injury incidence were examined. Thirty-six ... -
Second law analysis of a liquid cooled battery thermal management system for hybrid and electric vehicles
(2010-08-01)As hybrid and electric vehicles continue to evolve there is a need for better battery thermal management systems (BTMS), which maintain uniformity of operating temperature of the batteries in the vehicles. This thesis ... -
Secure and compromise-resilient architecture for advanced metering infrastructure
(2011-03-01)In recent years, the Smart Grid has grown to be the solution for future electrical energy that promises to avoid blackouts as well as to be energy efficient, environmentally and customer-friendly. In Smart Grid, the ... -
Secure and privacy-preserving fog-assisted vehicular crowdsensing
(2018-08-01)Vehicular crowdsensing (VCS) is an emerging paradigm where vehicles use onboard sensors to collect and share data with the aim of measuring phenomena of common interest. VCS has allowed for automated control as well as ... -
A secure and privacy-preserving incentive framework for vehicular cloud
(2018-04-01)Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) plays a critical role in data generation where a large number of vehicles collect various kinds of sensing resources with large-volume features. While the information that should be collected ... -
Security Analysis of Onos Software-Defined Network Platform
(2016-10-12)Software Defined Networking (SDN) enables organizations strengthen their network architectures, reduce running costs and enable sophisticated network functions. The adoption of software defined networks by top industry ... -
Sedentary time and hospitalization in Canada's middle-aged and older adults
(2021-04-01)Sedentary Time (ST) is a widespread behaviour in all age groups, especially in older adults. It is associated with chronic conditions, falls and poor physical function. Our purpose was to investigate the association between ... -
SegmentPerturb: effective black-box hidden voice attack on commercial ASR systems via selective deletion
(2021-08-01)Voice control systems continue becoming more pervasive as they are deployed in mobile phones, smart home devices, automobiles, etc. Commonly, voice control systems have high privileges on the device, such as making a call ... -
Segregation similarity loss in morphological ranking of image search in histopathology
(2022-04-01)Histopathology is the study of changes in tissue caused by diseases such as cancer. It plays an important role to diagnose the cancers. Regarding the large variation of many cancers types, and the large size of Whole Slide ... -
Self-healing solutions for LTE evolved packet core
(2012-10-01)The 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) is considered as a dominant future cellular wireless technology in terms of performance and user experience. With technological advancement of the wireless networks, dependencies and ...