• Emerging Advances of Nanotechnology in Drug and Vaccine Delivery against Viral Associated Respiratory Infectious Diseases (VARID) 

  Seyfoori, Amir; Shokrollahi Barough, Mahdieh; Mokarram, Pooneh; Ahmadi, Mazaher; Mehrbod, Parvaneh; Sheidary, Alireza; Madrakian, Tayyebeh; Kiumarsi, Mohammad; Walsh, Tavia; MvAlinden, Kielan D.; Ghosh, Chandra C.; Sharma, Pawan; Zeki, Amir A.; Ghavami, Saeid; Akbari, Mohsen (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021)

  Viral-associated respiratory infectious diseases are one of the most prominent subsets of respiratory failures, known as viral respiratory infections (VRI). VRIs are proceeded by an infection caused by viruses infecting ...
• Investigating student experiences with GitHub and Stack Overflow: an exploratory study 

  Bhasin, Trishala (2021-07-29)

  Programmers who want to improve their skills and background in software development rely heavily on developer social platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow to enhance their learning. Stack Overflow provides answers ...
• Computational and communication complexity of geometric problems 

  Hajiaghaei Shanjani, Sima (2021-07-26)

  In this dissertation, we investigate a number of geometric problems in different settings. We present lower bounds and approximation algorithms for geometric problems in sequential and distributed settings. For the ...
• A macroscopic traffic model based on relaxation time 

  Khan, Zawar Hussain; Gulliver, Thomas Aaron; Imran, Waheed; Khattak, Khurram Shehzad; Altamimi, Ahmed B.; Qazi, Azhar (Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2021)

  A macroscopic model based on analogies with Little’s Law is proposed. The relaxation time is employed to characterize changes in density. This change is large for a small relaxation time and large interactions between ...
• Biofouling detection methods that are widely applicable and useful across disciplines: a mini-review 

  Curtin, Anna M.; Buckley, Heather L. (Biofouling, 2021)

  Biofouling, or the build-up of microorganisms in a biofilm at the solid-water or water-air interface, is an interdisciplinary problem. Biofouling causes various issues including clogging systems, contaminating devices, ...
• Numerical modelling and metallurgical characterization of Cr-Mo steels processed by directed energy deposition 

  Cooke, Shaun (2021-07-09)

  Additive manufacturing (AM) provides unique opportunities to push the boundaries of material properties and free form fabrication. However with this novel manufacturing technique a number of defects not commonly found in ...
• Behaviour and design of direct-formed hollow structural section members 

  Tayyebi, Kamran (2021-07-06)

  In North America, cold-formed square and rectangular hollow sections (collectively referred to as RHS hereinafter) of commonly specified cross-sectional dimensions are produced using either the indirect-forming approach ...
• Integrated climate-land-energy-water solutions: modelling and assessment of sustainability policy options 

  Vinca, Adriano (2021-07-06)

  This dissertation reviews the progress in climate, land, energy and water (CLEW) multi-scale models and proposes a framework for quantitative assessment of multi-sector long-term policies. The so-called CLEW nexus ...
• Log message anomaly detection using machine learning 

  Farzad, Amir (2021-07-05)

  Log messages are one of the most valuable sources of information in the cloud and other software systems. These logs can be used for audits and ensuring system security. Many millions of log messages are produced each day ...
• Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Credit Card Fraudulent Transaction Detection: A Comparative survey 

  Rahman, Rizwana (2021-06-30)

  Credit cards play a vital role in our day to day lives all over the world. Credit cards contain sensitive data and credit card frauds can affect not only the owner of the card but banks, government, and all type of ...
• Impacts of Fly Ash on Time-Dependent Properties of Agro-Waste Lightweight Aggregate Concrete 

  Maghfouri, Mehdi; Alimohammadi, Vahid; Azarsa, Pejman; Asadi, Iman; Doroudi, Yashar; Balakrishnan, Balamohan (Journal of Composites Science, 2021)

  The utilization of by-products and waste materials to substitute for the natural or manufactured resources is considered as a practical way to obtain green building materials. In concrete mixtures, amongst the many ...
• Performance of Conventional and Innovative Single U-Tube Pipe Configuration in Vertical Ground Heat Exchanger (VGHE) 

  Eswiasi, Adel; Mukhopadhyaya, Phalguni (Sustainability, 2021)

  A ground source heat pump system (GSHP) with a ground heat exchanger (GHE) is a renewable and green technology used for heating and cooling residential and commercial buildings. An innovative U-Tube pipe configuration ...
• Evaluation and Lessons Learned from a Campus as a Living Lab Program to Promote Sustainable Practices 

  Save, Paul; Cavka, Belgin Terim; Froese, Thomas (Sustainability, 2021)

  Any group that creates challenging goals also requires a strategy to achieve them and a process to review and improve this strategy over time. The University of British Columbia (UBC) set ambitious campus sustainability ...
• Natural Biomaterials and Their Use as Bioinks for Printing Tissues 

  Benwood, Claire; Chrenek, Josie; Kirsch, Rebecca L.; Masri, Nadia Z.; Richards, Hannah; Teetzen, Kyra; Willerth, Stephanie M. (Bioengineering, 2021)

  The most prevalent form of bioprinting—extrusion bioprinting—can generate structures from a diverse range of materials and viscosities. It can create personalized tissues that aid in drug testing and cancer research when ...
• Development of a Finite Element Analysis Workflow for Studying Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty 

  Shirzadi, Hooman (2021-06-13)

  The primary articulation of the shoulder joint is a multi-axis synovial ball and socket joint. By having a loose connection, it provides a wide range of motion; however, this means the joint lacks robustness and is prone ...
• Hunting for torus obstructions 

  Chambers, John (2021-06-03)

  A torus is a sphere with one handle. A graph is toroidal if it embeds in the torus with no crossing edges. A topological obstruction for the torus is a graph G with minimum vertex degree three that is not embeddable in the ...
• An Investigation of Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Modeling for Spatial Prediction with Sparsely Distributed Geospatial Data 

  Thomas, Robert; Khan, Usman T.; Valeo, Caterina; Talebzadeh, Fatima (Environments, 2021)

  Fuzzy set theory has shown potential for reducing uncertainty as a result of data sparsity and also provides advantages for quantifying gradational changes like those of pollutant concentrations through fuzzy clustering ...
• A Conditional Generative adversarial Network for energy use in multiple buildings using scarce data 

  Baasch, Gaby; Rousseau, Guillaume; Evins, Ralph (Energy and AI, 2021)

  Building consumption data is integral to numerous applications including retrofit analysis, Smart Grid integration and optimization, and load forecasting. Still, due to technical limitations, privacy concerns and the ...
• Fragility analysis of pile-supported wharves in the Cascadia Subduction Zone 

  Sepehri Sefidab, Ahmad (2021-05-27)

  In this study, incremental dynamic analyses were carried out to investigate the damage risk of a typical pile-supported wharf under three types of ground motions that may happen in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, i.e., the ...
• Cement-based stabilization/solidification of zinc-contaminated kaolin clay with graphene nanoplatelets 

  Wu, Randall (2021-05-19)

  Heavy-metal contamination in soils has become a serious environmental problem. Among all metals, excessive amount of zinc was released to soils over the years. Zinc is not only toxic to human being, but also to plants. ...

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