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2021-06-02

Sheplawy, Samantha, McNally, Michael B., Adams, Cathy

This presentation provides a case study in the design of a set of openly licensed, interactive, instructional videos on copyright in the K-12 Canadian context. Knowledge of copyright is important for teachers in the K-12 context given the multiple ways copyright protected works may be used. The...

2021-02-10

Guy, Julia, McNally, Michael B

This presentation will provide an introduction to the process of making videos. Examining the three stages of video creation (pre-production, production/recording, and post-production) the aim will be to provide an understanding of what is required to make videos with a focus on...

2021-01-01

Bourdages, Lauren

This OLA Super Conference 2021 Tech Talk comparatively analyzed the viewing data for the Opening Up Copyright instructional module videos before and during the COVID-19 pandemic to see if the pandemic caused a spike in interest in copyright education.

2021

Eng, K., Hindle, Abram

Docker is becoming ubiquitous with containerization for developing and deploying applications. Previous studies have analyzed Dockerfiles that are used to create container images in order to better understand how to improve Docker tooling. These studies obtain Dockerfiles using either Docker Hub...

2021

Wong, A.W., Salimi, A., Hindle, Abram, Kalmady, S.V., Kaul, P.

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) measures the electrical activity of the heart for physicians to use in diagnosing cardiac disorders. This paper investigates the multi-label, multi-class classification of ECG records into one or more of 27 possible medical diagnoses. Our multi-step approach...

2021

Sun, W., Kalmady, S.V., Salimi, A.S., Sepehrvand, N., Ly, E., Hindle, Abram, Greiner, R., Kaul, P.

Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities are linked to cardiovascular diseases, but may also occur in other non-cardiovascular conditions such as mental, neurological, metabolic and infectious conditions. However, most of the recent success of deep learning (DL) based diagnostic predictions in...

2021-11-01

Hussain, Akhtar, Musilek, Petr

Instead of using a dedicated backup power source to fulfill the energy needs of buildings during contingencies, a reward mechanism for providing reliability-as-a-service (RaaS) via electric vehicles (EVs) is proposed in this study. The proposed positive reward mechanism comprises an upfront...

2021-11-06

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

The notion of acoustic distance figures into many aspects of phonetics, including phonological neighborhoods. A measurement of word-level acoustic distance useful for cognitive modeling must account for two aspects of perception: listener sensitivity to acoustic differences and the duration...

2021-12-03

Matthew C. Kelley, Scott James Perry, Benjamin V. Tucker

Forced alignment is increasingly used in phonetics to automatically produce boundaries between words and phones. These boundaries can have significant errors and are often only placed at some predetermined time interval, like every 10 ms. We discuss some potential remedies to these difficulties...

2021-01-01

Abed Soleymani, Ali Akbar Sadat Asl, Mojtaba Yeganejou, Scott Dick, Mahdi Tavakoli, Xingyu Li

Quality and safety are critical elements in the performance of surgeries. Therefore, surgical trainees need to obtain the required degrees of expertise before operating on patients. Conventionally, a trainee’s performance is evaluated by qualitative methods that are time-consuming and prone...