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Computer Simulation of Window Condensation Potential
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 1998-12)Condensation on windows creates obscured view, can cause building damage, and may lead to mold growth and poor indoor air quality. The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has developed new procedures to evaluate window ... -
Computing lower rank approximations of matrix polynomials
(Elsevier, 2020-05)Given an input matrix polynomial whose coefficients are floating point numbers, we consider the problem of finding the nearest matrix polynomial which has rank at most a specified value. This generalizes the problem of ... -
Concatenating Bipartite Graphs
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2022)Let x, y E (0, 1], and let A, B, C be disjoint nonempty stable subsets of a graph G, where every vertex in A has at least x |B| neighbors in B, and every vertex in B has at least y|C| neighbors in C, and there are no edges ... -
Concentrations of docosahexaenoic acid are reduced in maternal liver, adipose, and heart in rats fed high-fat diets without docosahexaenoic acid throughout pregnancy
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Fetal accretion for DHA is high during late pregnancy due to the brain growth spurt. Prior evidence suggests that DHA is mobilized from maternal liver and adipose to meet fetal accretion and physiological requirements. ... -
A conceptual IoT-based early-warning architecture for remote monitoring of COVID-19 patients in wards and at home
(Elsevier, 2022-05)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, health services around the globe are struggling. An effective system for monitoring patients can improve healthcare delivery by avoiding in-person contacts, enabling early-detection of severe ... -
Concurrent photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants and photocathodic protection of steel Ag–TiO2 composites
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)In this study, coupled titanium dioxide-silver composite and steel electrode pairs were investigated for their use in cathodic protection under illuminated and dark conditions to prevent corrosion and enhance contaminant ... -
Confirming the need for virus disinfection in municipal subsurface drinking water supplies
(Elsevier, 2019-06)Enteric viruses pose the greatest acute human health risks associated with subsurface drinking water supplies, yet quantitative risk assessment tools have rarely been used to develop health-based targets for virus treatment ... -
Conflicts and Agreements: Canada’s Foundations and Their Consequences, 1865-1949
(The Confederation Debates, 2017-06)In response to curiosity about Confederation during this sesquicentennial year, historians Patrice Dutil, Daniel Heidt, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Marcel Martel, Robert Wardhaugh, and political scientist Jacqueline Krikorian ... -
Conformation of Pyrene-Labeled Amylose in DMSO Characterized with the Fluorescence Blob Model
(American Chemical Society, 2016-10-25)Amylose and poly(methyl acrylate) were randomly labeled with pyrene to yield a series of Py-Amylose and Py-PMA constructs, and their ability to form excimer in DMSO was characterized quantitatively by steady-state and ... -
Connecting the Dots in the Sky: Website Fingerprinting in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Internet
(Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024-03-01)Despite the implementation of encrypted channels, such as those offered by anonymity networks like Tor, network adversaries have demonstrated the ability to compromise users’ browsing privacy through website fingerprinting ... -
Consequences of cytochrome c oxidase assembly defects for the yeast stationary phase
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)The assembly of cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is essential for a functional mitochondrial respiratory chain, although the consequences of a loss of assembled COX at yeast stationary phase, an excellent model for terminally ... -
Conservative Economic Nationalism and the National Policy: Rae, Buchanan and Early Canadian Protectionist Thought
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-09)Two distinct strands of conservative Canadian economic nationalism—associated with the ideas of John Rae and Isaac Buchanan—helped to inform the country’s protectionist National Policy of 1879. These strands of nationalism ... -
Considerations for Dietary Assessment in the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project
(Alberta's Tomorrow Project, 2018-04)Dietary factors are leading contributors to chronic disease and mortality globally and in Canada (1–3), and have been recognized as modifiable risk factors for certain cancers (4). However, much remains to be learned about ... -
Considerations of Varied Thermoregulatory Expressions in Migration Theory
(Wiley, 2021-10)Optimal migration theory has been used for 3 decades to generate predictions of stopover behavior and understand migration ecology. Yet, to date, there have been no attempts to understand the impacts of thermoregulation ... -
Consistency between verbal and non-verbal affective cues: a clue to speaker credibility
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-02-19)Listeners are exposed to inconsistencies in communication; for example, when speakers’ words (i.e. verbal) are discrepant with their demonstrated emotions (i.e. non-verbal). Such inconsistencies introduce ambiguity, which ... -
Constitutive characterization of a rare-earth magnesium alloy sheet (ZEK100-O) in shear loading: Studies of anisotropy and rate sensitivity
(Elsevier, 2017-08-01)Rare-earth magnesium alloys such as ZEK100-O offer improved ductility over other conventional magnesium alloys at room temperature; however, they exhibit significant anisotropy and complex yield behaviour. In this work, a ... -
Constrained-CNN losses for weakly supervised segmentation
(Elsevier, 2019-05)Weakly-supervised learning based on, e.g., partially labelled images or image-tags, is currently attracting significant attention in CNN segmentation as it can mitigate the need for full and laborious pixel/voxel annotations. ... -
Constraint bubbles and affine regions: reduced fluid models for efficient immersed bubbles and flexible spatial coarsening
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2020-07)We propose to enhance the capability of standard free-surface flow simulators with efficient support for immersed bubbles through two new models: constraint-based bubbles and affine fluid regions. Unlike its predecessors, ... -
Constructing cascade bloom filters for efficient access enforcement
(Elsevier, 2019-03-01)We address access enforcement — the process of determining whether a request for access to a resource by a principal should be granted. While access enforcement is essential to security, it must not unduly impact performance. ... -
Constructing pristine and modified cellulose nanocrystals based cured polychloroprene nanocomposite films for dipped goods application
(Elsevier, 2020-08)In this work, polychloroprene rubber (CR) nanocomposite films reinforced with native and modified cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were evaluated for dipped goods applications. The CNC modification, with a goal of enhancing ...