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Open AccessReducing wait times and avoiding unnecessary use of high-cost mental health services through a Rapid Access and Stabilization Program: protocol for a program evaluation study
Emergency psychiatric care, unplanned hospital admissions, and inpatient health care are the costliest forms of mental health care. According to Statistics Canada (2018), almost 18% (5.3 million) of Canadians ...
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Linear-Space Data Structures for Range Mode Query in Arrays
A mode of a multiset S is an element a∈S of maximum multiplicity; that is, a occurs at least as frequently as any other element in S. Given an array A[1:n] of n elements, we consider a basic problem: constructing...
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Shared Risks and Interests
Some practitioners have suggested there is a strong business case for companies to advance sustainable water management in their operations, supply chain, and society more broadly. The concept of “shared risk”...
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Global Water Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Growing pressure on the world’s water resources is having major impacts on our social and economic well-being. Even as the planet’s endowment of water is expected to remain constant, human appropriation of wat...
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Robust Nonparametric Data Approximation of Point Sets via Data Reduction
In this paper we present a novel nonparametric method for simplifying piecewise linear curves and we apply this method as a statistical approximation of structure within sequential data in the plane. We consid...
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Corporate Water Management
Water is an essential input for industries and economies around the world. It is used to cool industrial processes, to dilute contaminants, as a solvent, and as a key ingredient in many products, among other u...
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Open AccessIf you build it, they still may not come: outcomes and process of implementing a community-based integrated knowledge translation map** innovation
Maps and map** tools through geographic information systems (GIS) are highly valuable for turning data into useful information that can help inform decision-making and knowledge translation (KT) activities. ...
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Open AccessMap** as a knowledge translation tool for Ontario Early Years Centres: views from data analysts and managers
Local Ontario Early Years Centres (OEYCs) collect timely and relevant local data, but knowledge translation is needed for the data to be useful. Maps represent an ideal tool to interpret local data. While geog...
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Open AccessCorrection: Using participatory design to develop (public) health decision support systems through GIS
Organizations that collect substantial data for decision-making purposes are often characterized as being 'data rich' but 'information poor'. Maps and map** tools can be very useful for research transfer in ...
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A review and evaluation of intraurban air pollution exposure models
The development of models to assess air pollution exposures within cities for assignment to subjects in health studies has been identified as a priority area for future research. This paper reviews models for ass...
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In-Place Planar Convex Hull Algorithms
An in-place algorithm is one in which the output is given in the same location as the input and only a small amount of additional memory is used by the algorithm. In this paper we describe three in-place algor...
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The Grid Placement Problem
We consider the problem of placing a regular grid over a set of points in order to minimize (or maximize) the number of grid cells not containing any points. We give an O(nlog n) time and O(n) space algorithm for...
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A General Model of Co-evolution for Genetic Algorithms
Compared with natural systems, Genetic Algorithms have a limited adaptive capacity, i.e. they get quite frequently trapped at local optima and they are poor at tracking moving optima in dynamic environments. T...
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Maintaining genetic diversity in genetic algorithms through co-evolution
This paper presents a systematic approach to co-evolution that allows concise and unified expression of all types of symbiotic relationships studied in ecology. The resulting Linear Model of Symbiosis can be e...
