Academic Articles & Research Papers

Socio-Demographic Factors Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Middle-Aged Adults During the Quebec's Vaccination Campaign

IntroductionThe objective of this study was to characterize the combinations of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics associated to the unwillingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccines during the 2021 Quebec's vaccination campaign.Mat...

Portable NIR Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning for Kiwi Ripeness Classification: An Approach to Precision Farming

This study aims to evaluate and classify the ripening stages of yellow-fleshed kiwifruit by integrating spectral and physicochemical data collected from the pre-harvest phase through 60 days of storage. A portable near-infrared (NIR) spectr...

Exploring the application and challenges of fNIRS technology in early detection of Parkinson’s disease

BackgroundParkinson’s disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder that significantly benefits from early diagnosis for effective disease management and intervention. Despite advancements in medical technology, there remains a cri...

Stacking Ensemble Approach for Churn Prediction: Integrating CNN and Machine Learning Models with CatBoost Meta-Learner

In the telecom industry, predicting customer churn is crucial for improving customer retention. In literature, the use of single classifiers is predominantly focused. Customer data is complex data due to class imbalance and contain multiple...

MATCHA, a novel regional hydroclimate-chemical reanalysis: System description and evaluation

We present MATCHA (Model for Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry in Asia), a 17-year (2003–2019) regional hydroclimate-chemical reanalysis for Asia (58–140° E, 4– 40° N) at 12 km resolution. MATCHA couples the Weather Research and Forecasti...

Epidemiology and Ecology of Toscana Virus Infection and Its Global Risk Distribution

Toscana virus (TOSV), a member of the Phlebovirus genus transmitted by sandflies, is acknowledged for its capacity to cause neurological infections and is widely distributed across Mediterranean countries. The potential geographic distribut...

A Numerical-Based Attention Method for Stock Market Prediction With Dual Information

Stock market prediction is of great importance for financial analysis. Traditionally, many studies only use the news or numerical data for the stock market prediction. In the recent years, in order to explore their complementary, some studi...

When more is not always better: exercise dose and children’s cognitive development from an interpretable machine learning perspective

BackgroundExercise intervention has been associated with cognitive development in children. However, current study methods have not clarified the potential nonlinear association between exercise dosage and cognitive ability, and interpretab...

Mathematics for Machine Learning

The fundamental mathematical tools needed to understand machine learning include linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability and statistics. These topics are traditionally taught in d...

Machine learning for quantum matter

Quantum matter, the research field studying phases of matter whose properties are intrinsically quantum mechanical, draws from areas as diverse as hard condensed matter physics, materials science, statistical mechanics, quantum information,...

Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Data-driven discovery is revolutionizing how we model, predict, and control complex systems. Now with Python and MATLAB®, this textbook trains mathematical scientists and engineers for the next generation of scientific discovery by offering...

Diffusion MRI processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development study: Innovations and applications.

Population pharmacokinetic model-based determination of enrofloxacin susceptibility breakpoints and dosing regimens for Salmonella in chickens.

Towards a physics informed digital twin to predict cerebral blood flow and cerebral vascular regulation

Abstract Cerebral blood flow is essential for brain function and is governed by cerebral perfusion pressure and physiological mechanisms collectively referred to as cerebral vascular regulation (CVR). Direct measurement of cerebral blood fl...

Prediction of Drug Targets for Specific Diseases Leveraging Gene Perturbation Data: A Machine Learning Approach

Identification of the correct targets is a key element for successful drug development. However, there are limited approaches for predicting drug targets for specific diseases using omics data, and few have leveraged expression profiles fro...

Trinity: In-Database Near-Data Machine Learning Acceleration Platform for Advanced Data Analytics

The ability to perform machine learning (ML) tasks in a database management system (DBMS) is a new paradigm for conventional database systems as it enables advanced data analytics on top of well-established capabilities of DBMSs. However, t...

An ensemble approach for imbalanced multiclass malware classification using 1D-CNN

Dependence on the internet and computer programs demonstrates the significance of computer programs in our day-to-day lives. Such demands motivate malware developers to create more malware, both in terms of quantity and variety. Researchers...

TRIST: TREE RECOGNITION INTELLIGENT SYSTEM

Plant recognition represents a challenging computer vision problem due to the great variations of shape and texture among plant organs, within the same species. This paper proposes a light-weight, but reasonably deep Convolutional Neural Ne...

Use of machine learning algorithms to determine the relationship between air pollution and cognitive impairment in Taiwan

Air pollution has become a major global threat to human health. Urbanization and industrialization over the past few decades have increased the air pollution. Plausible connections have been made between air pollutants and dementia. This st...

Machine Learning in Earthquake Seismology

Machine learning (ML) is a collection of methods used to develop understanding and predictive capability by learning relationships embedded in data. ML methods are becoming the dominant approaches for many tasks in seismology. ML and data m...