University of Alberta

Seismic Performance of Buckling-Restrained Braces Subjected to Subduction Interface Earthquake Demands

Abstract Five full-scale buckling-restrained brace (BRB) specimens, part of the second story of a 5-story steel buckling-restrained braced frame (BRBF), were tested experimentally to investigate their seismic response under demands imposed by long-distance subduction interface ea...

Storytelling as a public health competency: a call for training that responds to contemporary challenges

Public health has long emphasized letting quantitative data “tell the story”. Large, representative datasets allow researchers to answer questions about disease occurrence, risk, and interventions with rigor and precision. Yet, for many small, heterogeneous, historically-neglecte...

Challenging Weight Stigmatizing Perspectives in Public Health During Pregnancy by Sharing Positive Stories and Images by Those Who Have Lived Experience

Most images depicting larger bodies or obesity in pregnancy are negative, such as promoting stereotypes of being physically inactive or eating unhealthily. Constantly viewing larger bodies or obesity in a negative light will contribute to advancing weight stigmatizing perspective...

From frameworks to futures: health adaptation pathways across the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Abstract Effectively managing the rising health risks of climate change requires consideration of plausible adaptation pathways under a range of scenarios of changes in greenhouse gas emissions and socioeconomic development to systematically explore the solution space for climate...

Forest topsoil salvage and placement threshold depths for boreal forest revegetation as influenced by ecosite and substrate texture

Forest topsoil is a critical source of native vegetative propagules and seeds for boreal forest land reclamation. However, optimal handling practices for this material and its interactions with underlying substrates remain poorly defined. This field study investigated effects of...

History of worsening heart failure and outcomes with vericiguat in ambulatory HFrEF: an exploratory post-hoc analysis of VICTOR

Stefan Störk, Javed Butler, Caroline Morbach, Fabian Kerwagen, Johann Bauersachs, Ephraim B Winzer, Justin Ezekowitz, Carolyn S P Lam, Inga Bayh, Stefan He

A Regression-Based Machine Learning Approach for Rehabilitation of Corroded RC Culverts Strengthened with SMA

Box culverts are critical components of transportation infrastructure, yet their load-carrying capacity is often compromised by reinforcement corrosion and geometric deterioration. This study proposes an integrated finite element (FEM) and machine learning (ML) framework to evalu...

Consumer Perceptions and Behaviors Toward Fermented Foods: Insights From a Canadian Survey

ABSTRACT Chronic and autoimmune diseases continue to rise across Canada, demonstrating the need for sustainable dietary strategies that promote long‐term health. Fermented foods (FFs) have emerged as a potential approach, yet national data on consumption patterns and public perce...

Diversity and Carelessness in LLM-Generated Psychometric Data: Implications for Data Quality and Trust

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate synthetic, human-like data for research and applied decision-making, including synthetic responses to self-report instruments such as surveys and questionnaires. As these synthetic datasets are folded into pipelines t...

Feasibility of Real‐Time Central Risk Assignment for Children's Oncology Group Pediatric Renal Tumor Trials

BACKGROUND: The Children's Oncology Group (COG) AREN03B2 Renal Tumor Biology and Classification Study undertook real-time central reviews to enable accurate risk stratification for enrollment on therapeutic trials. The present study assessed the feasibility of the central review...

Synergistic Enhancement of Visible-Light Photocatalysis Through Controlled CdS Quantum Dot Deposition on Hierarchical TiO2

Hierarchical titanium dioxide (TiO2) has emerged as a promising photocatalytic material owing to its excellent chemical stability, environmental benignity, low cost, and high density of surface-active sites. Nevertheless, its practical application is constrained by rapid photogen...

Fully Decentralized NFT Storage through Frequency Domain Neural Network Compression

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other Web3 multimedia are typically stored off-chain because image and video assets exceed practical on-chain storage budgets, creating a gap between immutable ownership records and long-term media availability. This paper proposes a collection-leve...

Multi-modal machine learning for prediction of post-anesthesia care unit recovery time

Abstract Background Efficient recovery management in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) is important for patient safety and care coordination, yet estimating recovery duration remains challenging. Traditional regression models and discharge scoring systems have shown limited ac...

Perceived academic disruption in the event of a future pandemic among Latin American university students: a multicountry cross-sectional study

Abstract Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic substantially disrupted higher education by limiting in-person training and accelerating the transition to virtual learning. During the 2022 mpox outbreak, concerns emerged about the possibility of renewed academic disruption among univ...

Daratumumab, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone in transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma: MAIA final survival analysis

Abstract In previous analyses of MAIA, daratumumab plus lenalidomide/dexamethasone (D-Rd) significantly improved progression-free survival and overall survival (OS) versus lenalidomide/dexamethasone (Rd) in transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM). We report...

Systemic and local oxidative stress biomarkers in periodontitis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

To update and extend our previously published 2019 systematic review by evaluating oxidative stress (OS) biomarkers in saliva, gingival crevicular fluid (GCF), and blood in relation to periodontitis. We systematically searched five electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, E...

The impact and evolution of environmental/occupational, behavioural, and metabolic risk factors on CVD burdens in the Asia–Pacific region from 1990 to 2023: a secondary analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Background Understanding epidemiological trends of the cardiovascular risk factors is integral in designing effective countermeasures in tackling cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the Asia–Pacific. The study aims to examine the cardiovascular risk factor burden in the Asia–Pacific...

A Biologically Constrained B-Spline Inversion Method for Reconstructing Time-Varying Transmission Rates from Noisy and Incomplete Incidence Data

All code has been verified to run in MATLAB R2024b.

Analytical solution to the Kronig–Penney model with harmonic oscillator wells: insights to tight-binding

The celebrated Kronig–Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well potentials, and solve the model analytically....

A Biologically Constrained B-Spline Inversion Method for Reconstructing Time-Varying Transmission Rates from Noisy and Incomplete Incidence Data

All code has been verified to run in MATLAB R2024b.