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  • Zirconia-titania-doped tantala optical coatings for low mechanical loss Bragg mirrors 

    Lalande, Émile; Lussier, Alexandre W.; Lévesque, Carl; Ward, Marianne; Baloukas, Bill; Martinu, Ludvik; Gabriele, Vajente; Billingsley, Garilynn; Ananyeva, Alena; Bassiri, Riccardo; Fejer, Martin M.; Schiettekatte, François (American Vacuum Society, 2021-06-10)
    The noise caused by internal mechanical dissipation in the high refractive index amorphous thin films in dielectric mirrors is an important limitation for gravitational wave detection. The objective of this study is to decrease this noise spectral ...

  • Modeling treatment effect modification in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in an individual patient data meta-analysis 

    Liu, Yan; Schnitzer, Mireille; Wang, Guanbo; Kennedy, Edward; Viiklepp, Piret; Vargas, Mario H.; Sotgiu, Giovanni; Menzies, Dick; Benedetti, Andrea (SAGE, 2021)
    Effect modification occurs while the effect of the treatment is not homogeneous across the different strata of patient characteristics. When the effect of treatment may vary from individual to individual, precision medicine can be improved by identifying ...

  • High postoperative portal venous flow pulsatility indicates right ventricular dysfunction and predicts complications in cardiac surgery patients 

    Eljaiek Urzola, Roberto Antonio; Cavayas, Yiorgos Alexandros; Rodrigue, E.; Desjardins, Georges; Lamarche, Yoan; Toupin, F.; Denault, André; Beaubien-Souligny, William (Elsevier, 2018-11-28)
    Background Right ventricular failure after cardiac surgery is associated with morbidity and mortality. Right ventricular dysfunction results in hepatic venous congestion, which impacts the portal circulation. We aimed to determine whether an increased ...

  • The role of point-of-care ultrasound monitoring in cardiac surgical patients with acute kidney injury 

    Beaubien-Souligny, William; Denault, André; Robillard, Pierre; Desjardins, Georges (Elsevier, 2018-11-03)
    The approach to the patient with acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery involves multiple aspects. These include the rapid recognition of reversible causes, the accurate identification of patients who will progress to severe stages of AKI and ...

  • Connected speech markers of amyloid burden in primary progressive aphasia 

    Slegers, Antoine; Chafouleas, Geneviève; Montembeault, Maxime; Bedetti, Christophe; Welch, Ariane E.; Rabinovici, Gil D.; Langlais, Philippe; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa; Brambati, Simona Maria (Elsevier, 2021-10-07)
    INTRODUCTION Positron emission tomography (PET) amyloid imaging has become an important part of the diagnostic workup for patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and uncertain underlying pathology. Here, we employ a semi-automated analysis of ...

  • Mécanismes d'entraide en ligne des victimes de fraude amoureuse 

    Cantin, Pascale-Marie (2021-08-31)
    Le développement de nouvelles technologies de communication se conjugue avec l’essor des crimes facilités au moyen d’Internet. Partie intégrante des sociétés occidentales, le cybermonde simplifie la vie et le travail des particuliers et des entreprises. ...

  • De "skid" à hacker compétent : l’apprentissage social chez les pirates informatiques 

    Ahmad, Jessie Wala (2021-08)
    La criminalité informatique n’est plus un nouveau phénomène. Toutefois, plusieurs auteurs s’entendent pour dire que le concept de pirate informatique est en constante transformation, ce qui contribue sans doute à la crainte et la fascination que ces ...

  • Prior history of feeding–swallowing difficulties in children with language impairment 

    Malas, Kathy; Trudeau, Natacha; Giroux, Marie-Claude; Gauthier, Lisanne; Poulin, Simone; McFarland, David H. (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2017-02-01)
    Purpose This study updated and extended our previous investigation (Malas et al., 2015) of feeding–swallowing difficulties and concerns (FSCs) in children with language impairments (LI) by using more stringent inclusion criteria and targeting children ...

  • Risk factors associated with driving after cannabis use among Canadian young adults 

    Huỳnh, Christophe; Beaulieu-Thibodeau, Alexis; Fallu, Jean-Sébastien; Bergeron, Jacques; Flores-Aranda, Jorge; Jacques, Alain; Brochu, Serge (SAGE, 2021-10-11)
    This study identifid the most prominent risk factors associated with driving after cannabis use (DACU). 1,126 Canadian drivers (17–35 years old) who have used cannabis in the past 12 months completed an online questionnaire about sociodemographic ...

  • The Plan S Rights Retention Strategy is an administrative and legal burden, not a sustainable open access solution 

    Khoo, Shaun Yon-Seng (Ubiquity Press, 2021)
    The Plan S Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) requires authors who are submitting to subscription journals to inform publishers that the author accepted manuscript (AAM) will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. The ...

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