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2. Trouble neurocognitif majeur et méthodes optimisant l'apprentissage
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Viscogliosi, Chantal, Dame, Nathalie, Mino-Roy, Jordan, Rahimaly, Sarah, Breton, Viviane, Déry, Jessica, Chassé, Bernard, Couturier, Yves, Giroux, Dominique, Renaud, Clémence, and Provencher, Véronique
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- 2023
3. AI4EIC Hackathon: PID with the ePIC dRICH
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Fanelli Cristiano, Giroux James, McSpadden Diana, Rajput Kishansingh, Suresh Karthik, Cisbani Evaristo, Deconinck Wouter, Walter Eric, Bressan Andrea, Diefenthaler Markus, Horn Tanja, and Wenaus Torre
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Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
The inaugural AI4EIC Hackathon unfolded as a high-point satellite event during the second AI4EIC Workshop at William & Mary. The workshop itself boasted over two hundred participants in a hybrid format and delved into the myriad applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). This workshop aimed to catalyze advancements in AI/ML with applications ranging from advancements in accelerator and detector technologies—highlighted by the ongoing work on the ePIC detector and potential development of a second detector for the EIC—to data analytics, reconstruction, and particle identification, as well as the synergies between theoretical and experimental research. Complementing the technical agenda was an enriched educational outreach program that featured tutorials from leading AI/ML experts representing academia, national laboratories, and industry. The hackathon, held on the final day, showcased international participation with ten teams from around the globe. Each team, comprising up to four members, focused on the dual-radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov (dRICH) detector, an integral part of the particle identification (PID) system in ePIC. The data for the hackathon were generated using the ePIC software suite. While the hackathon presented questions of increasing complexity, its challenges were designed with deliberate simplifications to serve as a preliminary step toward the integration of machine learning and deep learning techniques in PID with the dRICH detector. This article encapsulates the key findings and insights gained from this unique experience.
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- 2024
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4. Spartan Strategies in the Early Peloponnesian War, 431–425 B.C.E.
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Fronda, Michael P. and Giroux, Chandra
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- 2022
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5. Challenges and Strategies to Adapt the Provision of Support Services to Older Adults and Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Perspective of Community Organizations
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Poulin, Valérie, Provencher, Véronique, Nicole, Mélodie, Shea, Victoria, Aubin, Ginette, Beaulieu, Marie, Bier, Nathalie, Fortier, Julie, Giroux, Dominique, Levasseur, Mélanie, and Lord, Marie-Michèle
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- 2021
6. Paranoid Politics and the Plague of Inequality in the Age of Pandemics
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Giroux, Henry A.
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- 2021
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7. Couverture
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
8. Quatrième de couverture
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
9. Titre, Droits d'auteur
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
10. 5 La prise en charge des toxicomanes… Une chorégraphie qui s’apprend
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
11. 2 Pour ne pas perdre le nord
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
12. 4 À la rencontre d’une relation difficile avec des proches en regard de l’utilisation d’une contention: considérer avant tout le bien total de la personne
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
13. Table des matières
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
14. 1 La réalisation de la relation d’aide et ses difficultés inhérentes
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
15. Introduction
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
16. 3 Inspiration de l’éthique pour orienter le professionnel engagé dans une relation d’aide difficile
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Giroux, Michel T.
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- 2020
17. Cognitive Impairment and Length of Stay in Acute Care Hospitals: A Scoping Review of the Literature
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Plante, Jonathan, Latulippe, Karine, Kröger, Edeltraut, Giroux, Dominique, Marcotte, Martine, Nadeau, Sacha, Doyle, Elizabeth, and Rockwood, Kenneth
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- 2021
18. Near- and mid-infrared excitation of ultrafast demagnetization in a cobalt multilayer system
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Légaré, Katherine, Barrette, Guillaume, Giroux, Laurent, Parent, Jean-Michel, Haddad, Elissa, Ibrahim, Heide, Lassonde, Philippe, Jal, Emmanuelle, Vodungbo, Boris, Lüning, Jan, Boschini, Fabio, Jaouen, Nicolas, and Légaré, François
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science - Abstract
In the last few decades, ultrafast demagnetization elicited by ultrashort laser pulses has been the subject of a large body of work that aims to better understand and control this phenomenon. Although specific magnetic materials' properties play a key role in defining ultrafast demagnetization dynamics, features of the driving laser pulse such as its duration and photon energy might also contribute. Here, we report ultrafast demagnetization of a cobalt/platinum multilayer in a broad spectral range spanning from the near-infrared (near-IR) to the mid-infrared (mid-IR), with wavelengths between 0.8 and 8.7 $\mu$m. The ultrafast dynamics of the macroscopic magnetization is tracked via the time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. We show that the ultrafast demagnetization of the sample can be efficiently induced over that entire excitation spectrum with minimal dependence on the excitation wavelength. Instead, we confirm that the temporal profile of the pump excitation pulse is an important factor influencing ultrafast demagnetization dynamics.
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- 2024
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19. Iterative tomographic reconstruction with TV prior for low-dose CBCT dental imaging
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Friot-Giroux, Louise, Peyrin, Françoise, and Maxim, Voichita
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Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing - Abstract
Abstract Objective. Cone-beam computed tomography is becoming more and more popular in applications such as 3D dental imaging. Iterative methods compared to the standard Feldkamp algorithm have shown improvements in image quality of reconstruction of low-dose acquired data despite their long computing time. An interesting aspect of iterative methods is their ability to include prior information such as sparsity-constraint. While a large panel of optimization algorithms along with their adaptation to tomographic problems are available, they are mainly studied on 2D parallel or fan-beam data. The issues raised by 3D CBCT and moreover by truncated projections are still poorly understood. Approach. We compare different carefully designed optimization schemes in the context of realistic 3D dental imaging. Besides some known algorithms, SIRT-TV and MLEM, we investigate the primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) approach and a newly proposed MLEM-TV optimizer. The last one is alternating EM steps and TV-denoising, combination not yet investigated for CBCT. Experiments are performed on both simulated data from a 3D jaw phantom and data acquired with a dental clinical scanner. Main results. With some adaptations to the specificities of CBCT operators, PDHG and MLEM-TV algorithms provide the best reconstruction quality. These results were obtained by comparing the full-dose image with a low-dose image and an ultra low-dose image. Significance. The convergence speed of the original iterative methods is hampered by the conical geometry and significantly reduced compared to parallel geometries. We promote the pre-conditioned version of PDHG and we propose a pre-conditioned version of the MLEM-TV algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time PDHG and convergent MLEM-TV algorithms are evaluated on experimental dental CBCT data, where constraints such as projection truncation and presence of metal have to be jointly overcome.
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- 2024
20. Records from the S-Matrix Marathon: Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables
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Curry, Sean N., Lebl, Jiří, Giroux, Mathieu, Hannesdottir, Holmfridur S., Mizera, Sebastian, and Pasiecznik, Celina
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High Energy Physics - Theory ,Mathematics - Complex Variables - Abstract
We will cover the basics of several complex variables in 4 lectures: Basic properties of holomorphic functions in several variables, the notion of pseudoconvexity, CR functions and CR geometry, and the $\bar\partial$-problem. The main underlying idea is to connect various characterizations of domains of holomorphy, that is, the natural domains of definition for holomorphic functions. In the process we will connect the function theory on the domain to geometric properties of the boundary, and discuss the relationship between the boundary values and the functions themselves and extension of holomorphic functions from subspaces. These notes are based on a series of lectures held during the S-Matrix Marathon workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study on 11-22 March 2024., Comment: A chapter to be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Physics
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- 2024
21. The ionization yield in a methane-filled spherical proportional counter
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Arora, M. M., Balogh, L., Beaufort, C., Brossard, A., Chapellier, M., Clarke, J., Corcoran, E. C., Coquillat, J. -M., Dastgheibi-Fard, A., Deng, Y., Durnford, D., Garrah, C., Gerbier, G., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Gorel, P., Gros, M., Gros, P., Guillaudin, O., Hoppe, E. W., Katsioulas, I., Kelly, F., Knights, P., Lautridou, P., Makowski, A., Manthos, I., Martin, R. D., Matthews, J., McCallum, H. M., Meadows, H., Millins, L., Muraz, J. -F., Neep, T., Nikolopoulos, K., Panchal, N., Piro, M. -C., Rowe, N., Santos, D., Savvidis, G., Savvidis, I., Spathara, D., Fernandez, F. Vazquez de Sola, and Ward, R.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Spherical proportional counters (SPCs) are gaseous particle detectors sensitive to single ionization electrons in their target media, with large detector volumes and low background rates. The $\mbox{NEWS-G}$ collaboration employs this technology to search for low-mass dark matter, having previously performed searches with detectors at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM), including a recent campaign with a 135 cm diameter SPC filled with methane. While in situ calibrations of the detector response were carried out at the LSM, measurements of the mean ionization yield and fluctuations of methane gas in SPCs were performed using a 30 cm diameter detector. The results of multiple measurements taken at different operating voltages are presented. A UV laser system was used to measure the mean gas gain of the SPC, along with $\mathrm{^{37}Ar}$ and aluminum-fluorescence calibration sources. These measurements will inform the energy response model of future operating detectors., Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures
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- 2024
22. Interpolation-Free Deep Learning for Meteorological Downscaling on Unaligned Grids Across Multiple Domains with Application to Wind Power
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Giroux, Jean-Sébastien, Breton, Simon-Philippe, and Carreau, Julie
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Computer Science - Machine Learning ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Abstract
As climate change intensifies, the shift to cleaner energy sources becomes increasingly urgent. With wind energy production set to accelerate, reliable wind probabilistic forecasts are essential to ensure its efficient use. However, since numerical weather prediction models are computationally expensive, probabilistic forecasts are produced at resolutions too coarse to capture all mesoscale wind behaviors. Statistical downscaling, typically applied to enchance the resolution of climate model simulations, presents a viable solution with lower computational costs by learning a mapping from low-resolution (LR) variables to high-resolution (HR) meteorological variables. Leveraging deep learning, we evaluate a downscaling model based on a state-of-the-art U-Net architecture, applied to an ensemble member from a coarse-scale probabilistic forecast of wind velocity. The architecture is modified to incorporate (1) a learned grid alignment strategy to resolve LR-HR grid mismatches and (2) a processing module for multi-level atmospheric predictors. To extend the downscaling model's applicability from fixed spatial domains to the entire Canadian region, we assess a transfer learning approach. Our results show that the learned grid alignment strategy performs as well as conventional pre-processing interpolation steps and that LR wind speed at multiple levels is sufficient as a predictor, enabling a more compact architecture. Additionally, they suggest that extending to new spatial domains using transfer learning is promising, and that downscaled wind velocities demonstrate potential in improving the detection of wind power ramps, a critical phenomenon for wind energy.
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- 2024
23. Uncertainty Quantification with Bayesian Higher Order ReLU KANs
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Giroux, James and Fanelli, Cristiano
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Computer Science - Machine Learning ,Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ,Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability - Abstract
We introduce the first method of uncertainty quantification in the domain of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, specifically focusing on (Higher Order) ReLUKANs to enhance computational efficiency given the computational demands of Bayesian methods. The method we propose is general in nature, providing access to both epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties. It is also capable of generalization to other various basis functions. We validate our method through a series of closure tests, including simple one-dimensional functions and application to the domain of (Stochastic) Partial Differential Equations. Referring to the latter, we demonstrate the method's ability to correctly identify functional dependencies introduced through the inclusion of a stochastic term. The code supporting this work can be found at https://github.com/wmdataphys/Bayesian-HR-KAN, Comment: 13 pages, 7 Figures
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- 2024
24. American Fascism: Fourteen Deadly Principles of Contemporary Politics
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Evans, Brad and Giroux, Henry A.
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- 2020
25. Artificial Intelligence for the Electron Ion Collider (AI4EIC)
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Allaire, C, Ammendola, R, Aschenauer, E-C, Balandat, M, Battaglieri, M, Bernauer, J, Bondì, M, Branson, N, Britton, T, Butter, A, Chahrour, I, Chatagnon, P, Cisbani, E, Cline, EW, Dash, S, Dean, C, Deconinck, W, Deshpande, A, Diefenthaler, M, Ent, R, Fanelli, C, Finger, M, Fol, E, Furletov, S, Gao, Y, Giroux, J, Waduge, NC Gunawardhana, Hassan, O, Hegde, PL, Hernández-Pinto, RJ, Blin, A Hiller, Horn, T, Huang, J, Jalotra, A, Jayakodige, D, Joo, B, Junaid, M, Kalantarians, N, Karande, P, Kriesten, B, Elayavalli, R Kunnawalkam, Li, Y, Lin, M, Liu, F, Liuti, S, Matousek, G, McEneaney, M, McSpadden, D, Menzo, T, Miceli, T, Mikuni, V, Montgomery, R, Nachman, B, Nair, RR, Niestroy, J, Oregon, SA Ochoa, Oleniacz, J, Osborn, JD, Paudel, C, Pecar, C, Peng, C, Perdue, GN, Phelps, W, Purschke, ML, Rajendran, H, Rajput, K, Ren, Y, Renteria-Estrada, DF, Richford, D, Roy, BJ, Roy, D, Saini, A, Sato, N, Satogata, T, Sborlini, G, Schram, M, Shih, D, Singh, J, Singh, R, Siodmok, A, Stevens, J, Stone, P, Suarez, L, Suresh, K, Tawfik, A-N, Acosta, F Torales, Tran, N, Trotta, R, Twagirayezu, FJ, Tyson, R, Volkova, S, Vossen, A, Walter, E, Whiteson, D, Williams, M, Wu, S, Zachariou, N, and Zurita, P
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Information and Computing Sciences ,Human-Centred Computing - Abstract
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a state-of-the-art facility for studying the strong force, is expected to begin commissioning its first experiments in 2028. This is an opportune time for artificial intelligence (AI) to be included from the start at this facility and in all phases that lead up to the experiments. The second annual workshop organized by the AI4EIC working group, which recently took place, centered on exploring all current and prospective application areas of AI for the EIC. This workshop is not only beneficial for the EIC, but also provides valuable insights for the newly established ePIC collaboration at EIC. This paper summarizes the different activities and R&D projects covered across the sessions of the workshop and provides an overview of the goals, approaches and strategies regarding AI/ML in the EIC community, as well as cutting-edge techniques currently studied in other experiments.
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- 2024
26. Records from the S-Matrix Marathon: A Timeless History of Time
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Lee, Mang Hei Gordon, Pajer, Enrico, Giroux, Mathieu, Hannesdottir, Holmfridur S., Mizera, Sebastian, and Pasiecznik, Celina
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High Energy Physics - Theory - Abstract
By directly probing the initial conditions of our universe, cosmological surveys offer us a unique observational handle on quantum field theory in curved spacetime with dynamical gravity and might even allow us to glean information about a full theory of quantum gravity. Here we report on recent progress to study the natural observables in the problem, namely cosmological correlators. After setting the stage, we review results from three different approaches. First, we present the in-out formalism as an interesting alternative to the well-known in-in formalism and stress some of its advantages, such as the derivation of recursion relations, correlators cutting rules and a proposal for a de Sitter scattering matrix. Second, we tackle the important open problem of constructing effective theories in curved spacetime, which generally requires an open quantum system approach. Third, we provide an executive summary of general properties of the field-theoretic wavefunction that follow from symmetries, unitarity, causality and locality. We describe how these properties can be leveraged to bootstrap all tree-level results and we discuss loop contributions. These notes are based on a series of lectures held during the S-Matrix Marathon workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study on 11-22 March 2024., Comment: A chapter to be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Physics
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- 2024
27. Records from the S-Matrix Marathon: Observables in Expanding Universes
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Benincasa, Paolo, Giroux, Mathieu, Hannesdottir, Holmfridur S., Mizera, Sebastian, Pasiecznik, Celina, and Vazão, Francisco
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High Energy Physics - Theory - Abstract
Observables in expanding universes are crucial to understand the physics of the early universe. In these lectures, we review some recent progress in understanding their mathematical structure and extract the physics encoded in them. After discussing the most salient features of an expanding background and their consequences for defining an observable, we focus on the so-called Bunch--Davies wavefunctional. We analyze its analytic properties on general grounds and introduce an integral representation for it in perturbation theory for a special class of scalar toy models. We discuss both the diagrammatics associated to the usual Feynman rules and combinatorial rules on the graphs, which generate a representation free of spurious poles. Such combinatorial rules find their origin in the combinatorics of the cosmological polytopes of which we provide a gentle introduction to its definition and its main features. Finally, the combinatorics of the cosmological polytopes turns out to determine the combinatorics of a special class of nestohedra that encode the asymptotic behaviour of the cosmological integrals. We provide a general description of such structures and behaviour, which is of crucial importance to understand the infrared divergences which plague observables in an expanding background. These notes are based on a series of lectures held during the S-Matrix Marathon workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study on 11--22 March 2024., Comment: 32 pages. A chapter to be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Physics
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- 2024
28. Unmasking Social Bots: How Confident Are We?
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Giroux, James, Gangani, Ariyarathne, Nwala, Alexander C., and Fanelli, Cristiano
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Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ,Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
Social bots remain a major vector for spreading disinformation on social media and a menace to the public. Despite the progress made in developing multiple sophisticated social bot detection algorithms and tools, bot detection remains a challenging, unsolved problem that is fraught with uncertainty due to the heterogeneity of bot behaviors, training data, and detection algorithms. Detection models often disagree on whether to label the same account as bot or human-controlled. However, they do not provide any measure of uncertainty to indicate how much we should trust their results. We propose to address both bot detection and the quantification of uncertainty at the account level - a novel feature of this research. This dual focus is crucial as it allows us to leverage additional information related to the quantified uncertainty of each prediction, thereby enhancing decision-making and improving the reliability of bot classifications. Specifically, our approach facilitates targeted interventions for bots when predictions are made with high confidence and suggests caution (e.g., gathering more data) when predictions are uncertain., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures
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- 2024
29. Search for light dark matter with NEWS-G at the LSM using a methane target
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Arora, M. M., Balogh, L., Beaufort, C., Brossard, A., Chapellier, M., Clarke, J., Corcoran, E. C., Coquillat, J. -M., Dastgheibi-Fard, A., Deng, Y., Durnford, D., Garrah, C., Gerbier, G., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Gorel, P., Gros, M., Gros, P., Guillaudin, O., Hoppe, E. W., Katsioulas, I., Kelly, F., Knights, P., Lautridou, P., Makowski, A., Manthos, I., Martin, R. D., Matthews, J., McCallum, H. M., Meadows, H., Millins, L., Muraz, J. -F., Neep, T., Nikolopoulos, K., Panchal, N., Piro, M. -C., Rowe, N., Santos, D., Savvidis, G., Savvidis, I., Spathara, D., Fernandez, F. Vazquez de Sola, and Ward, R.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
The NEWS-G direct detection experiment uses spherical proportional counters to search for light dark matter candidates. New results from a 10 day physics run with a $135\,\mathrm{cm}$ in diameter spherical proportional counter at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane are reported. The target consists of $114\,\mathrm{g}$ of methane, providing sensitivity to dark matter spin-dependent coupling to protons. New constraints are presented in the mass range $0.17$ to $1.2\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$, with a 90% confidence level cross-section upper limit of $30.9\,\mathrm{pb}$ for a mass of $0.76\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
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- 2024
30. Deep(er) Reconstruction of Imaging Cherenkov Detectors with Swin Transformers and Normalizing Flow Models
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Fanelli, Cristiano, Giroux, James, and Stevens, Justin
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Computer Science - Machine Learning ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability - Abstract
Imaging Cherenkov detectors are crucial for particle identification (PID) in nuclear and particle physics experiments. Fast reconstruction algorithms are essential for near real-time alignment, calibration, data quality control, and efficient analysis. At the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), the ePIC detector will feature a dual Ring Imaging Cherenkov (dual-RICH) detector in the hadron direction, a Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov (DIRC) in the barrel, and a proximity focus RICH in the electron direction. This paper focuses on the DIRC detector, which presents complex hit patterns and is also used for PID of pions and kaons in the GlueX experiment at JLab. We present Deep(er)RICH, an extension of the seminal DeepRICH work, offering improved and faster PID compared to traditional methods and, for the first time, fast and accurate simulation. This advancement addresses a major bottleneck in Cherenkov detector simulations involving photon tracking through complex optical elements. Our results leverage advancements in Vision Transformers, specifically hierarchical Swin Transformer and normalizing flows. These methods enable direct learning from real data and the reconstruction of complex topologies. We conclude by discussing the implications and future extensions of this work, which can offer capabilities for PID for multiple cutting-edge experiments like the future EIC., Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures
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- 2024
31. An Exploratory Study of Research Data Governance in the U.S.
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Kouper Inna, Raymond Anjanette H, and Giroux Stacey
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data governance ,knowledge commons ,research community ,Bibliography. Library science. Information resources - Abstract
Making decisions regarding data and the overall credibility of research constitutes research data governance. In this paper, we present results of an exploratory study of the stakeholders of research data governance. The study was conducted among individuals who work in academic and research institutions in the US, with the goal of understanding what entities are perceived as making decisions regarding data and who researchers believe should be responsible for governing research data. Our results show that there is considerable diversity and complexity across stakeholders, both in terms of who they are and their ideas about data governance. To account for this diversity, we propose to frame research data governance in the context of polycentric governance of a knowledge commons. We argue that approaching research data from the commons perspective will allow for a governance framework that can balance the goals of science and society, allow us to shift the discussion toward protection from enclosure and knowledge resilience, and help to ensure that multiple voices are included in all levels of decision-making.
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32. Social Media as a Mechanism of Dissemination and Knowledge Translation among Health Professions Educators: A Scoping Review
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Catherine M. Giroux, Sungha Kim, Lindsey Sikora, André Bussières, and Aliki Thomas
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Health professions educators often use social media to share knowledge; however, it is unclear what specific dissemination and knowledge translation (KT) processes are occurring and the implications of this sharing for health professions education (HPE). This study explored how educators have used social media as a mechanism of dissemination and KT in the literature. A critical scoping review methodology, informed by Engeström's Activity Theory, was employed. Twelve databases were searched and studies that: (a) addressed health professions educators; (b) described the use of social media for dissemination or KT; (c) focused on a regulated health profession; (d) focused on undergraduate or graduate education; and (e) were published in English or French between 2011 and 2021 were included. Data were analyzed using numerical and qualitative content analyses. Of the 4859 articles screened, 37 were eligible for inclusion. Social media may facilitate knowledge sharing in HPE, but there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what is meant by 'dissemination' and 'KT'. Who is responsible for sharing knowledge, what knowledge is being shared, and the target audiences are not always clear. Multiple factors (e.g., affordances, opportunity costs) influence how social media is used as a mechanism of dissemination, and it remains unclear whether and how it is used as a mechanism of KT. Concepts like KT and dissemination, which are often borrowed from other disciplines, must be critically evaluated for their relevance and suitability if they are to be appropriately applied to HPE and in particular to social media. Educators looking to use social media to teach students about KT should consider whether this use of technology truly aligns with their stated learning outcomes.
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33. New Directions and Revisionist Histories in Métis Studies
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Giroux, Monique
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34. Higher Education and the Plague of Authoritarianism
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Giroux, Henry A.
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- 2018
35. War Culture and the Politics of Violence
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Giroux, Henry A.
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- 2018
36. Recursive Landau Analysis
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Caron-Huot, Simon, Correia, Miguel, and Giroux, Mathieu
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High Energy Physics - Theory - Abstract
We propose a recursive method that makes use of the basic principle of unitarity to calculate the Landau singularities of n-point scattering amplitudes directly in kinematic space. For a vast class of Feynman diagrams, the method enables rapid analytic computation of Landau singularities beyond current state-of-the-art technology. This includes new predictions relevant for two- and higher-loop processes in the Standard Model involving both massive quarks and electroweak particles., Comment: 5 pages + 1 appendix
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- 2024
37. Detection and characterization of detached tidal dwarf galaxies
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Zaragoza-Cardiel, Javier, Smith, Beverly J., Jones, Mark G., Giroux, Mark L., Toner, Shawn, Alzate, Jairo A., Fernández-Arenas, David, Mayya, Yalia D., Ortiz-León, Gisela, and Portilla, Mauricio
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
Tidal interactions between galaxies often give rise to tidal tails, which can harbor concentrations of stars and interstellar gas resembling dwarf galaxies. Some of these tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) have the potential to detach from their parent galaxies and become independent entities, but their long-term survival is uncertain. In this study, we conducted a search for detached TDGs associated with a sample of 39 interacting galaxy pairs in the local Universe using infrared, ultraviolet, and optical images. We employed IR colors and UV/optical/IR spectral energy distributions to identify potential interlopers, such as foreground stars or background quasars. Through spectroscopic observations using the Boller and Chivens spectrograph at San Pedro M\'artir Observatory, we confirmed that six candidate TDGs are at the same redshift as their putative parent galaxy pairs. We identified and measured emission lines in the optical spectra and calculated nebular oxygen abundances, which range from log(O/H) = 8.10 $\pm$ 0.01 to 8.51 $\pm$ 0.02. We have serendipitously discovered an additional detached TDG candidate in Arp72 using available spectra from SDSS. Utilizing the photometric data and the CIGALE code for stellar population and dust emission fitting, we derived the stellar masses, stellar population ages, and stellar metallicities for these detached TDGs. Compared to standard mass-metallicity relations for dwarf galaxies, five of the seven candidates have higher than expected metallicities, confirming their tidal origins. One of the seven candidates remains unclear due to large uncertainties in metallicity, and another has stellar and nebular metallicities compatible with those of a preexisting dwarf galaxy. The latter object is relatively compact in the optical relative to its stellar mass, in contrast to the other candidate TDGs [abridged]., Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 15 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables
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- 2024
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38. Grand Design vs. Multi-Armed Spiral Galaxies: Dependence on Galaxy Structure
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Smith, Beverly J., Watson, Matthew, Giroux, Mark L., and Struck, Curtis
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
We developed an algorithm to use Galaxy Zoo 3D spiral arm masks produced by citizen scientist volunteers to semi-automatically classify spiral galaxies as either multi-armed or grand design spirals. Our final sample consists of 299 multi-armed and 245 grand design galaxies. On average, the grand design galaxies have smaller stellar masses than the multi-armed galaxies. For a given stellar mass, the grand design galaxies have larger concentrations, earlier Hubble types, smaller half-light radii, and larger central surface mass densities than the multi-armed galaxies. Lower mass galaxies of both arm classes have later Hubble types and lower concentrations than higher mass galaxies. In our sample, a higher fraction of grand design galaxies have classical bulges rather than pseudo-bulges, compared to multi-armed galaxies. These results are consistent with theoretical models and simulations which suggest that dense classical bulges support the development and/or longevity of 2-armed spiral patterns. Similar specific star formation rates are found in multi-armed and grand design galaxies with similar stellar masses and concentrations. This implies that the specific star formation rates in spiral galaxies is a function of concentration and stellar mass, but independent of the number of spiral arms. Our classifications are consistent with arm counts from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project and published m=3 Fourier amplitudes., Comment: Astronomical Journal, in press, 31 pages, 17 figures
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39. A fine-tuning workflow for automatic first-break picking with deep learning
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Mardan, Amir, Blouin, Martin, Fabien-Ouellet, Gabriel, Bernard-Giroux, Vergniault, Christophe, and Gendreau, Jeremy
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Physics - Geophysics - Abstract
First-break picking is an essential step in seismic data processing. First arrivals should be picked by an expert. This is a time-consuming procedure and subjective to a certain degree, leading to different results for different operators. In this study, we used a U-Net architecture with residual blocks to perform automatic first-break picking based on deep learning. Focusing on the effects of weight initialization on this process, we conduct this research by using the weights of a pretrained network that is used for object detection on the ImageNet dataset. The efficiency of the proposed method is tested on two real datasets. For both datasets, we pick manually the first breaks for less than 10% of the seismic shots. The pretrained network is fine-tuned on the picked shots and the rest of the shots are automatically picked by the neural network. It is shown that this strategy allows to reduce the size of the training set, requiring fine tuning with only a few picked shots per survey. Using random weights and more training epochs can lead to a lower training loss, but such a strategy leads to overfitting as the test error is higher than the one of the pretrained network. We also assess the possibility of using a general dataset by training a network with data from three different projects that are acquired with different equipment and at different locations. This study shows that if the general dataset is created carefully it can lead to more accurate first-break picking, otherwise the general dataset can decrease the accuracy. Focusing on near-surface geophysics, we perform traveltime tomography and compare the inverted velocity models based on different first-break picking methodologies. The results of the inversion show that the first breaks obtained by the pretrained network lead to a velocity model that is closer to the one obtained from the inversion of expert-picked first breaks.
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40. Physics Event Classification Using Large Language Models
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Fanelli, Cristiano, Giroux, James, Moran, Patrick, Nayak, Hemalata, Suresh, Karthik, and Walter, Eric
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Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability ,Computer Science - Machine Learning ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The 2023 AI4EIC hackathon was the culmination of the third annual AI4EIC workshop at The Catholic University of America. This workshop brought together researchers from physics, data science and computer science to discuss the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for the Electron Ion Collider (EIC), including applications for detectors, accelerators, and experimental control. The hackathon, held on the final day of the workshop, involved using a chatbot powered by a Large Language Model, ChatGPT-3.5, to train a binary classifier neutrons and photons in simulated data from the \textsc{GlueX} Barrel Calorimeter. In total, six teams of up to four participants from all over the world took part in this intense educational and research event. This article highlights the hackathon challenge, the resources and methodology used, and the results and insights gained from analyzing physics data using the most cutting-edge tools in AI/ML., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures
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41. Reconstructing Robust Background IFU spectra using Machine Learning
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Rhea, Carter Lee, Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie, Giroux, Justine, Thilloy, Auriane, Choi, Hyunseop, Rousseau-Nepton, Laurie, Gendron-Marsolais, Marie-Lou, Pasquato, Mario, and Prunet, Simon
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
In astronomy, spectroscopy consists of observing an astrophysical source and extracting its spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. Once extracted, a model is fit to the spectra to measure the observables, leading to an understanding of the underlying physics of the emission mechanism. One crucial, and often overlooked, aspect of this model is the background emission, which contains foreground and background astrophysical sources, intervening atmospheric emission, and artifacts related to the instrument such as noise. This paper proposes an algorithmic approach to constructing a background model for SITELLE observations using statistical tools and supervised machine learning algorithms. We apply a segmentation algorithm implemented in photutils to divide the data cube into background and source spaxels. After applying a principal component analysis (PCA) on the background spaxels, we train an artificial neural network to interpolate from the background to the source spaxels in the PCA coefficient space, which allows us to generate a local background model over the entire data cube. We highlight the performance of this methodology by applying it to SITELLE observations obtained of a SIGNALS galaxy, \NGC4449, and the Perseus galaxy cluster of galaxies, NGC 1275. We discuss the physical interpretation of the principal components and noise reduction in the resulting PCA-based reconstructions. Additionally, we compare the fit results using our new background modeling approach to standard methods used in the literature and find that our method better captures the emission from HII regions in NGC 4449 and the faint emission regions in NGC 1275. These methods also demonstrate that the background does change as a function of the position of the datacube., Comment: Accepted to RASTI
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42. Co-Design to Support the Development of Inclusive eHealth Tools for Caregivers of Functionally Dependent Older Persons: Social Justice Design
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Latulippe, Karine, Hamel, Christine, and Giroux, Dominique
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Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,R858-859.7 ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
BackgroundeHealth can help reduce social health inequalities (SHIs) as much as it can exacerbate them. Taking a co-design approach to the development of eHealth tools has the potential to ensure that these tools are inclusive. Although the importance of involving future users in the development of eHealth tools to reduce SHIs is highlighted in the scientific literature, the challenges associated with their participation question the benefits of this involvement as co-designers in a real-world context. ObjectiveOn the basis of Amartya Sen’s theoretical framework of social justice, the aim of this study is to explore how co-design can support the development of an inclusive eHealth tool for caregivers of functionally dependent older persons. MethodsThis study is based on a social justice design and participant observation as part of a large-scale research project funded by the Ministry of Families as part of the Age-Friendly Quebec Program (Québec Ami des Aînés). The analysis was based on the method developed by Miles and Huberman and on Paillé’s analytical questioning method. ResultsA total of 78 people participated in 11 co-design sessions in 11 Quebec regions. A total of 24 preparatory meetings and 11 debriefing sessions were required to complete this process. Co-designers participated in the creation of a prototype to support the search for formal services for caregivers. The majority of participants (except for 2) significantly contributed to the tool’s designing. They also incorporated conversion factors to ensure the inclusiveness of the eHealth tool, such as an adequate level of digital literacy and respect for the caregiver’s help-seeking process. In the course of the experiment, the research team’s position regarding its role in co-design evolved from a neutral posture and promoting co-designer participation to one that was more pragmatic. ConclusionsThe use of co-design involving participants at risk of SHIs does not guarantee innovation, but it does guarantee that the tool developed will comply with their process of help-seeking and their literacy level. Time issues interfere with efforts to carry out a democratic process in its ideal form. It would be useful to single out some key issues to guide researchers on what should be addressed in co-design discussions and what can be left out to make optimal use of this approach in a real-world context.
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43. Using Ambient Assisted Living to Monitor Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease: Single-Case Study to Validate the Monitoring Report
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Lussier, Maxime, Aboujaoudé, Aline, Couture, Mélanie, Moreau, Maxim, Laliberté, Catherine, Giroux, Sylvain, Pigot, Hélène, Gaboury, Sébastien, Bouchard, Kévin, Belchior, Patricia, Bottari, Carolina, Paré, Guy, Consel, Charles, and Bier, Nathalie
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Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,R858-859.7 - Abstract
BackgroundMany older adults choose to live independently in their homes for as long as possible, despite psychosocial and medical conditions that compromise their independence in daily living and safety. Faced with unprecedented challenges in allocating resources, home care administrators are increasingly open to using monitoring technologies known as ambient assisted living (AAL) to better support care recipients. To be effective, these technologies should be able to report clinically relevant changes to support decision making at an individual level. ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to examine the concurrent validity of AAL monitoring reports and information gathered by care professionals using triangulation. MethodsThis longitudinal single-case study spans over 490 days of monitoring a 90-year-old woman with Alzheimer disease receiving support from local health care services. A clinical nurse in charge of her health and social care was interviewed 3 times during the project. Linear mixed models for repeated measures were used to analyze each daily activity (ie, sleep, outing activities, periods of low mobility, cooking-related activities, hygiene-related activities). Significant changes observed in data from monitoring reports were compared with information gathered by the care professional to explore concurrent validity. ResultsOver time, the monitoring reports showed evolving trends in the care recipient’s daily activities. Significant activity changes occurred over time regarding sleep, outings, cooking, mobility, and hygiene-related activities. Although the nurse observed some trends, the monitoring reports highlighted information that the nurse had not yet identified. Most trends detected in the monitoring reports were consistent with the clinical information gathered by the nurse. In addition, the AAL system detected changes in daily trends following an intervention specific to meal preparation. ConclusionsOverall, trends identified by AAL monitoring are consistent with clinical reports. They help answer the nurse’s questions and help the nurse develop interventions to maintain the care recipient at home. These findings suggest the vast potential of AAL technologies to support health care services and aging in place by providing valid and clinically relevant information over time regarding activities of daily living. Such data are essential when other sources yield incomplete information for decision making.
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44. Self-Selection of Bathroom-Assistive Technology: Development of an Electronic Decision Support System (Hygiene 2.0)
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Guay, Manon, Latulippe, Karine, Auger, Claudine, Giroux, Dominique, Séguin-Tremblay, Noémie, Gauthier, Josée, Genest, Catherine, Morales, Ernesto, and Vincent, Claude
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Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,R858-859.7 ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
BackgroundA clinical algorithm (Algo) in paper form is used in Quebec, Canada, to allow health care workers other than occupational therapists (OTs) to make bathroom adaptation recommendations for older adults. An integrated knowledge transfer process around Algo suggested an electronic version of this decision support system (electronic decision support system [e-DSS]) to be used by older adults and their caregivers in search of information and solutions for their autonomy and safety in the bathroom. ObjectiveThis study aims to (1) create an e-DSS for the self-selection of bathroom-assistive technology by community-dwelling older adults and their caregivers and (2) assess usability with lay users and experts to improve the design accordingly. MethodsOn the basis of a user-centered design approach, the process started with content identification for the prototype through 7 semistructured interviews with key informants of various backgrounds (health care providers, assistive technology providers, and community services) and 4 focus groups (2 with older adults and 2 with caregivers). A thematic content transcript analysis was carried out and used during the creation of the prototype. The prototype was refined iteratively using think-aloud and observation methods with a clinical expert (n=1), researchers (n=3), OTs (n=3), older adults (n=3), and caregivers (n=3), who provided information on the usability of the e-DSS. ResultsOverall, 4 themes served as the criteria for the prototype of the electronic Algo (Hygiene 2.0 [H2.0]): focus (safety, confidentiality, well-being, and autonomy), engage, facilitate (simplify, clarify, and illustrate), and access. For example, users first pay attention to the images (engage and illustrate) that can be used to depict safe postures (safety), illustrate questions embedded in the decision support tool (clarify and illustrate), and demonstrate the context of the use of assistive technology (safety and clarify). ConclusionsThe user-centered design of H2.0 allowed the cocreation of an e-DSS in the form of a website, in line with the needs of community-dwelling older adults and their caregivers seeking bathroom-assistive technology that enables personal hygiene. Each iteration improved usability and brought more insight into the users’ realities, tailoring the e-DSS to the implementation context.
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45. Integration of Conversion Factors for the Development of an Inclusive eHealth Tool With Caregivers of Functionally Dependent Older Persons: Social Justice Design
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Latulippe, Karine, Hamel, Christine, and Giroux, Dominique
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Medical technology ,R855-855.5 - Abstract
BackgroundeHealth can help reduce social health inequalities (SHIs); at the same time, it also has the potential to increase them. Several conversion factors can be integrated into the development of an eHealth tool to make it inclusive: (1) providing physical, technical, and financial access to eHealth; (2) enabling the integration of people at risk of SHIs into the research and development of digital projects targeting such populations (co-design or participatory research); (3) promoting consistency between the digital health literacy level of future users (FUs) and the eHealth tool; (4) developing an eHealth tool that is consistent with the technological skills of FUs; (5) ensuring that the eHealth tool is consistent with the help-seeking process of FUs; (6) respecting the learning capacities of FUs; and (7) being sensitive to FUs’ cultural context. However, only little empirical evidence pointing out how these conversion factors can be integrated into an effective eHealth tool is available. ObjectiveOn the basis of Amartya Sen’s theoretical framework of social justice, the objective of this study was to explore how these 7 conversion factors can be integrated into an eHealth tool for caregivers of functionally dependent older persons. MethodsThis study was based on a social justice design and participant observation as part of a large-scale research project funded by the Ministère de la Famille through the Quebec Ami des Aînés Program. Data were collected by recording the preparation sessions, the co-design and advisory committee sessions, as well as the debriefing sessions. The results were analyzed using Miles and Huberman’s method. ResultsA total of 78 co-designers participated in 11 co-design sessions, 24 preparation sessions, and 11 debriefing sessions. Of the 7 conversion factors, 5 could be explored in this experiment. The integration of conversion factors has been uneven. The participation of FUs in the development of the tool supports other conversion factors. Respecting the eHealth literacy level of FUs means that their learning abilities and technological skills are also respected because they are closely related to one another and are therefore practically difficult to be distinguished. ConclusionsConversion factors can be integrated into the development of eHealth tools that are intended to be inclusive and contribute to curbing SHIs by integrating FU participation into the tool design process.
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46. A Replication of Waugh and Norman (1965) Primary Memory study
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Poitras, Marilou, Péléja, Lucie, Lavertu, Gardy, Langlois, Anouck, Boulerice, Katia, Berthelot, Pauline, Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe, Beaulieu, Sandy, Bournival, Vanessa, Brault, Laurence, Charlebois, Jenna, Galloway, Eve Camille, Gauthier, Ariane, Gibeau, Rose-Marie, and Giroux, Nicolas
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short-term memory ,interference theory ,decay theory ,replication study ,Psychology ,BF1-990 - Abstract
Waugh & Norman's experiment (1965) is among the most influential studies in the field of cognitive psychology. Using a probe digit memory test, they proposed that the proportion of correctly remembered items, digits in this case, depends on the number of interfering items shown between the recall item and the signal, or probe, identifying the recall target. This indicates that interference alone accounts for forgetting in short-term memory. The following study aimed to replicate these results with greater statistical power as the original study used a small sample of 4 participants. In a second study, we used shorter lists to examine potential effects of the relative difficulty of the task. Both studies' results partially support Waugh & Norman's claim, as participants were more likely to recall a digit that was followed by fewer interfering items. Additionally, we observed an interaction involving presentation rate and interference, as participants performed best with a low amount of interfering items presented at 1 item per second. However, lists with a higher number of interfering items (7 and above) had similar correct recall proportion regardless of the presentation rate. These findings further support the prevalence of interference theory over the decay theory but also call for a closer look at the possible interaction between the two. Future studies should examine the latter as well as the possible effect of cognitive fatigue due to the difficulty of the task, underlining the importance of replication studies.
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47. CCWSIM: An Efficient and Fast Wavelet-Based CCSIM for Categorical Characterization of Large-Scale
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Bavandsavadkoohi, Mojtaba, Gloaguen, Erwan, Tokhmechi, Behzad, Arab-Amiri, Alireza, and Giroux, Bernard
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Computer Science - Graphics - Abstract
Over the last couple of decades, there has been a surge in various approaches to multiple-point statistics simulation, commonly referred to as MPS. These methods have aimed to improve several critical aspects of realism in the results, including spatial continuity, conditioning, stochasticity, and computational efficiency. Nevertheless, achieving a simultaneous enhancement of these crucial factors has presented challenges to researchers. In the approach that we propose, CCSIM is combined with the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to address some of these concerns. The primary step in the method involves the computation of the DWT for both the Training Image (TI) and a region shared with previously simulated grids at a specific level of wavelet decomposition. Then, the degree of similarity between the wavelet approximation coefficients is measured using a Cross-Correlation Function (CCF). These approximation coefficients offer a compressed representation of the pattern while capturing its primary variations and essential characteristics, thereby expediting the search for the best-matched pattern. Once the best-matched pattern in the wavelet approximation coefficients is identified, the original pattern can be perfectly reconstructed by integrating the DWT detail coefficients through an Inverse-DWT transformation. Experiments conducted across diverse categorical TIs demonstrate simulations comparable to multi-scale CCSIM (MS-CCSIM), accompanied by an enhancement in facies connectivity and pattern reproduction. The source code implementations are available at https://github.com/MBS1984/CCWSIM.
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48. A gallery of maximum-entropy distributions: 14 and 21 moments
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Boccelli, Stefano, Giroux, Fabien, and McDonald, James G.
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Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics ,Mathematical Physics - Abstract
This work explores the different shapes that can be realized by the one-particle velocity distribution functions (VDFs) associated with the fourth-order maximum-entropy moment method. These distributions take the form of an exponential of a polynomial of the particle velocity, with terms up to the fourth-order. The 14- and 21-moment approximations are investigated. Various non-equilibrium gas states are probed throughout moment space. The resulting maximum-entropy distributions deviate strongly from the equilibrium VDF, and show a number of lobes and branches. The Maxwellian and the anisotropic Gaussian distributions are recovered as special cases. The eigenvalues associated with the maximum-entropy system of transport equations are also illustrated for some selected gas states. Anisotropic and/or asymmetric non-equilibrium states are seen to be associated with a non-uniform spacial propagation of perturbations.
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49. Investigating Neutron Scattering in a Spherical Proportional Counter: A Tabletop Experiment
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Panchal, N., Balogh, L., Caron, J. -F., Giroux, G., and Gros, P.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors - Abstract
In this paper, we report on a tabletop experiment studying neutron scattering in a Spherical Proportional Counter using an Am-Be source. Systematic studies were carried out to investigate the effect of gas mixture, pressure, operating voltage, and sphere size on the drift time-rise time relationship of the signal in a spherical proportional counter. Our experimental results showed good agreement with MagBoltz simulations. These findings are a crucial step towards measuring the quenching factor in gases using a neutron beam for the New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) experiment and has important implications for the development of neutron detection techniques and their potential applications in nuclear and particle physics.
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50. High detectivity terahertz radiation sensing using frequency-noise-optimized nanomechanical resonators
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Zhang, Chang, Yalavarthi, Eeswar K., Giroux, Mathieu, Cui, Wei, Stephan, Michel, Maleki, Ali, Weck, Arnaud, Ménard, Jean-Michel, and St-Gelais, Raphael
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Physics - Optics ,Physics - Applied Physics - Abstract
We achieve high detectivity terahertz sensing using a silicon nitride nanomechanical resonator functionalized with a metasurface absorber. High performances are achieved by striking a fine balance between the frequency stability of the resonator, and its responsivity to absorbed radiation. Using this approach, we demonstrate a detectivity $D^*=3.4\times10^9~\mathrm{cm\cdot\sqrt{Hz}/W}$ and a noise equivalent power $\mathrm{NEP}=36~\mathrm{pW/\sqrt{Hz}}$ that outperform the best room-temperature on-chip THz detectors (i.e., pyroelectrics). Our optical absorber consists of a 1-mm diameter metasurface, which currently enables a 0.5-3 THz detection range but can easily be scaled to other frequencies in the THz and infrared ranges. In addition to demonstrating high-performance terahertz sensing, our work unveils an important fundamental trade-off between high frequency stability and high responsivity in thermal-based nanomechanical radiation sensors.
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