The Modular and Integrated Data Assimilation System at Environment and Climate Change Canada (MIDAS v3.9.1) by M. Buehner, J.-F. Caron, E. Lapalme, A. Caya, P. Du, Y. Rochon, S. Skachko, M. Bani Shahabadi, S. Heilliette, M. Deshaies-Jacques, W. Chang, M. Sitwell

“…The modular software design also allows the code that implements high-level components (e.g. observation operators, error covariance matrices, state vectors) to easily be used in many different ways depending on the application, such as for both variational and ensemble DA algorithms, for estimating the observation impact on short-term forecasts, and for performing various observation pre-processing procedures. …”
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Living with Parkinson’s and the Emerging Role of Occupational Therapy by Jelka Jansa, Ana Aragon

“…The framework employed allows the flexibility to reflect the pragmatic occupational therapy intervention process and so enables the illustration of the individually tailored approach required to accommodate to the complex pathology and personal, domestic, and social impacts, affecting the functioning of Parkinson’s disease patients on a daily basis.…”
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Improving daily reference evapotranspiration forecasts: Designing AI-enabled recurrent neural networks based long short-term memory by Mumtaz Ali, Jesu Vedha Nayahi, Erfan Abdi, Mohammad Ali Ghorbani, Farzan Mohajeri, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Salman Alamery

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Estime de soi, sentiment d’autoefficacité et intention de décrocher au collégial by Stéphane Thibodeau, Elisabeth Giguère, Sonia Lefebvre, Éric Frenette

“…Three hundred and ninety-one (391) students from three colleges (two public and one private) participated in the research. The French Canadian version of Bouffard et al. (2002) of Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents (SPPA, Harter, 1988), the teenager’s adaptation by Suldo and Shaffer (2007) of the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (SEQ-C, Muris, 2001) and the translation of the three items proposed by Hardre and Reeve (2003) allow to measure self-esteem, self-efficacy, and intent to drop out, respectively. …”
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Impact Evaluation of Assimilating Surface Sensitive Infrared Radiance Observations over Land and Sea Ice from Observing System Simulation Experiments by S. K. Dutta, L. Garand, S. Heilliette

“…A control simulation was generated excluding the new data source, but including all data assimilated operationally at the Canadian Meteorological Center. Experiments were conducted allowing surface sensitive channels to be assimilated over all surfaces or excluding Polar Regions. …”
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Evolution of U.S. Policy Approaches to Ensuring Cybersecurity and Defense of Critical Information Infrastructure by M. V. Smekalova

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The U.S.-China Rivalry in Africa: Challenges and Prospects by V. K. Parkhomenko

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French and English Phonologies in Contact: The Case of Montreal English by Julie Rouaud

“…Therefore, there is reason to wonder about a potential influence of French on varieties of Canadian English that are in contact with French, from a lexical as well as a phonological point of view. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Image Classification Modules in the MUN-ABSAI Ice Risk Management Architecture by Ravindu G. Thalagala, Oscar De Silva, Dan Oldford, David Molyneux

“…A comprehensive dataset of 15,000 ice images was created using public sources and contributions from the Canadian Coast Guard, and it was used to support the development and evaluation of the system. …”
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CAECENET: An automatic system processing photometer and ceilometer data from different networks to provide columnar and vertically-resolved aerosol properties. by Celia Herrero Del Barrio, Roberto Román, Ramiro González, Alberto Cazorla, Marcos Herreras-Giralda, Juan Carlos Antuña-Sánchez, Francisco Molero, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Antonio Serrano, María Ángeles Obregón, Yolanda Sola, Marco Pandolfi, Sara Herrero-Anta, Daniel González-Fernández, Jorge Muñiz-Rosado, David Mateos, Abel Calle, Carlos Toledano, Victoria E Cachorro, Ángel M de Frutos

“…This was an intense event, with AOD at 440 nm values around 0.5 in Madrid and Valladolid, and reaching 1.55 in Granada. Transport from the Canadian wildfires at the end of June 2023 is also studied. …”
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Enriched cocoa pod composts and their fertilizing effects on hybrid cocoa seedlings by Chris Fidelis, B. K. Rajashekhar Rao

“…Quality parameters for all the manure composts conformed to the Canadian Compost Guidelines indicating satisfactory standards. …”
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Implementation and evaluation of a complex outpatient oral antimicrobial therapy program (COpAT) in Canada by Maggie Wong, Davie Wong

“…Compared to outpatient intravenous therapy, the total cost savings from COpAT were estimated to be $255,000 Canadian dollars (CAD), which translated to an average cost savings of $2500 CAD per patient per year. …”
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Engaging primary care physicians in system change – an interpretive qualitative study in a remote and rural health region in Northern British Columbia, Canada by David Snadden, Trish Reay, Neil Hanlon, Martha MacLeod

“…Divisions helped to build trust between various groups through allowing constructive conversations to surface and deal with tensions. …”
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Long-term engagement in smoking cessation campaign: A mixed methods randomized trial. by Robert Schwartz, Tracey Borland, Maaz Shahid, Karen Kuzmich, Michael Chaiton

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>A long-term engagement (LTE) intervention was embedded in a social marketing campaign aimed at motivating quit attempts among Canadian adult commercial tobacco users 35 to 64 years of age. …”
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An alternative to the straddle-arm technique for a conscious infant who is choking: Towards a more universal skill by Ada Chan, Adam Gesicki

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Cohort profile: health effects monitoring programme in Ndilǫ, Dettah and Yellowknife (YKHEMP) by Hing Man Chan, Xue Feng Hu, Janet S. Cheung, Rajendra Prasad Parajuli, Renata Rosol, Emmanuel Yumvihoze, Linna Williams, Asish Mohapatra

“…Participants also provided consent to have their medical records reviewed by the research team for the past 5 years to allow for the investigation between exposure and health outcomes.Findings to date The adult YKHEMP participants had lower urinary total arsenic but the children had higher inorganic arsenic than the general Canadian population. …”
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Burden and Determinants of Anemia in a Rural Population in South India: A Cross-Sectional Study by Matthew Little, Chloe Zivot, Sally Humphries, Warren Dodd, Kirit Patel, Cate Dewey

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«Talgenism» in the Digital Age: A Domestic History of cMOOC by M. A. Babaeva, E. B. Golubev

“…Both technologies are presented as effective practical implementations of the new education paradigm, which allows us to carefully and comprehensively study its elements. …”
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Learning to build low-field MRIs for remote northern communities by Gordon E. Sarty, Logi Vidarsson, Christopher Hansen, Christopher Hansen, Keifer Corrigal, Lionel Sutherland, Millie Jamieson, Micheal Hogue, Haile Kassahun, William Greyeyes, David Teixeira, Lawrence Goertzen, Jonathan McEvoy, Mark Pollard

“…This approach not only ensures that the MRIs remain operational but will also allow the youth from the communities to pursue technical careers at home. …”
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Assessment of heavy metal contamination in surface sediments: Seasonal influence in the Majes-Camaná basin of the Arequipa region, Peru by María Claudia Cáceres Obada, María Eduarda Fernanda Zegarra Oliveira, Naysha Yamelit Meza Elguera, Stephanie Elena Sosa Pulcha, Abdel Alejandro Portocarrero Banda, Jhon Alfredo Quispe Ortiz, Verónica Salinas Murillo, Hugo Guillermo Jiménez Pacheco

“…A comparison was made with the values proposed by the Interim Freshwater Sediment Quality Guidelines (ISQGs) and Probable Effect Levels (PELs) from the Canadian Sediment Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life, allowing a quantitative evaluation of the environmental impact of 07 heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni, As, Pb, and Cd) along the study points, and to distinguish the possible sources of contamination using box and whisker concentration profiles, mining registries, and vegetation cover by anthropogenic activities. …”
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