Influenza is a burdensome and preventable infectious disease. Lack of time was the reported reason 15% of Canadians did not receive their influenza vaccine in 2016/2017. Meanwhile, emergency department (ED) wait times are ...

This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ...

The biomedical literature is expanding exponentially, generating a vast amount of knowledge that frequently goes unnoticed. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop methods to mine knowledge from published literature ...

Over the past couple of decades, the advancement and growth of digital information and communication technologies have resulted in information explosion and these technologies are profoundly changing all aspects of modern ...

In Authorship Attribution (AA), a task of identifying the author on an unseen document, it is often hard to obtain large amounts of training text written by an author. In our research, we analyze the influence of the size ...

Underwater autonomous vehicles are frequently used for deep-water ocean applications such as surveying and cable-laying, where accurate control of vehicle depth and attitude is needed. The water level in the on-board ballast ...

It is estimated that more than 1 in 10 babies are born prematurely worldwide. Babies that survive premature birth are more likely to face lifelong health-related disabilities. By monitoring uterine contractions, labour can ...

Extracting key terms from technical documents allows us to write effective documentation that is specific and clear, with minimum ambiguity and confusion caused by nearly synonymous but different terms. For instance, in ...

In the vertebrate heart the intracardiac nervous system is a common pathway for autonomic control of cardiac output, comprising a population of intracardiac neurons in ganglia embedded within nerve plexi. These neural ...