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    Scoring Ontologies for Reuse: An Approach for Fitting Semantic Requirements

    The process of reusing ontologies is still challenging for the ontological community. One of the challenging efforts is to select the most relevant ontology from a set of candidates that needs a deep considera...

    Sabrina Azzi, Ali Assi, Stéphane Gagnon in Metadata and Semantic Research (2023)

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    Transition to endemic: acceptance of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses among Canadian adults in a national cross-sectional survey

    Additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been proposed as solutions to waning immunity and decreased effectiveness of primary doses against infection with new SARS-CoV-2 variants. However, the effectiveness o...

    Laura Reifferscheid, Janet Sau Wun Lee, Noni E. MacDonald in BMC Public Health (2022)

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    Using Health Economics to Inform Immunization Policy Across All Levels of Government

    Publicly funded immunization programs have grown in both complexity and scope, resulting in increased costs and more complex programmatic decision making. Economic evaluations can provide crucial information t...

    Ellen Rafferty, Laura Reifferscheid, Ali Assi in PharmacoEconomics - Open (2022)

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    Authors’ response: Re: Reifferscheid et al., “COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada”

    Shannon E. MacDonald, Laura Reifferscheid in Canadian Journal of Public Health (2022)

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    COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada

    To investigate COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intent among pregnant people in Canada, and determine associated factors.

    Laura Reifferscheid, Emmanuel Marfo, Ali Assi in Canadian Journal of Public Health (2022)

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    Studying the effects of suberythemal UV doses on the human stratum corneum by in vivo confocal Raman spectroscopy

    The stratum corneum (SC) plays an important role in skin barrier function. it acts as a protective barrier against water loss, eliminates foreign substances and micro-organisms and acts against harmful effects...

    Ali Assi, Sana Tfaili, Alessia Quatela, Franck Bonnier in European Journal of Dermatology (2022)

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    Comprehensive characterization and simultaneous analysis of overall lipids in reconstructed human epidermis using NPLC/HR-MSn: 1-O-E (EO) Cer, a new ceramide subclass

    Stratum corneum lipids are responsible for the skin’s barrier function. They are the final product of epidermis lipid biosynthesis. During this process, lipids evolve from simple to complex structures in three ma...

    Ali Assi, Joudi Bakar, Danielle Libong in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2020)

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    Context-Aware Instance Matching Through Graph Embedding in Lexical Semantic Space

    Instance matching is one of the processes that facilitate the integration of independently designed knowledge bases. It aims to link co-referent instances with an owl:sameAs connection to allow knowledge bases to...

    Ali Assi, Hamid Mcheick, Wajdi Dhifli in Advances and Trends in Artificial Intellig… (2019)

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    Low Cost Controller for Wave Energy Converter

    This study addresses a low computation cost controller for maximizing energy absorption of a point absorber in wave energy converters (WEC). The objective can be achieved by ensuring the perfect tracking betwe...

    Addy Wahyudie, Mohammed Jama, Omsalama Said in ICREGA’14 - Renewable Energy: Generation a… (2014)

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    Function-Based Model Predictive Control Approach for Maximum Power Capture of Heaving Wave Energy Converters

    This paper investigates the application of function based model predictive control (MPC) approach to control the movement of single-body heaving wave energy converter (WEC). The proposed controller is designed...

    Mohammed Jama, Addy Wahyudie, Ali Assi in ICREGA’14 - Renewable Energy: Generation a… (2014)

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    Programmable monolithic Gm-C band-pass filter: design and experimental results

    We propose in this paper a programmable band-pass filter based on an array of fully differential transconductance circuits that controls the filter parameters. The signal path does not contain any switch, and ...

    Eric Lebel, Ali Assi, Mohamad Sawan in Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (2008)

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    Binary Decision Diagrams and neural networks

    This paper describes a neural network approach that gives an estimation method for the space complexity of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). A model has been developed to predict the complexity of digital circ...

    P. W. C. Prasad, Ali Assi, Azam Beg in The Journal of Supercomputing (2007)

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    High Performance CMOS Transconductor for Mixed-Signal Analog-Digital Applications

    This paper describes a CMOS building block dedicated to high performance mixed analog-digital circuits and systems. The circuit consists of six MOS transistors realizing a new wideband and tunable transconduct...

    Ali Assi, Mohamad Sawan in Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (1999)