Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Han, Huawei, Thesis advisor (ths): Burr, Wesley, Degree committee member (dgc): Parker, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Shin, Hwashin, Degree committee member (dgc): Chan-Reynolds, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis develops an Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network model to assess the relationship between ambient air pollutant exposure and public health risks, accommodating both linear and nonlinear associations with distributed lags.The research makes three key contributions. First, Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC) methods identify the most relevant air pollutants and their… more Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Medication used to treat human illness is one of the greatest developments in human history. In Canada, prescription drugs have been developed and made available to treat a wide variety of illnesses, from infections to heart disease and so on. Records of prescription drug fulfillment at coarse Canadian geographic scales were obtained from Health Canada in order to track the use of these… more Full Text: Prescription Drugs: From Paper to Database with Application to Air Pollution-Related Public Health Risk A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty …
