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chapters
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conferences
- Report From a Forum on US Heart Allocation Policy. American Journal of Transplantation. 55-63. 2015
- AIR QUALITY HEALTH INDEX MAPPING: A DATA DRIVEN MODELLING APPROACH. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 2013
- OPTIMIZED MONITOR REDUCTION FOR AN INDUSTRIAL AIR POLLUTION MONITORING NETWORK. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 2013
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journal articles
- Capturing the vertical distribution of near-highway nitrogen dioxide using UAV-based measurements. Geomatica. 77:100043. 2025
- Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region.. Social Science and Medicine. 376:118026. 2025
- Practical validation of unmodified handheld monitors for UAV-based air quality measurements. Geomatica. 77:100044. 2025
- Mobile monitoring of air pollution - a position paper on use cases, good practices, challenges, and opportunities.. Environment International. 202:109582. 2025
- Evaluating the reliability of UAV-based carbon dioxide measurements in the lower troposphere. Geomatica. 76:100032. 2024
- From urban heat islands to intra-urban heat islands: Role of urban fabric in redefining microclimates of tomorrow's compact cities. Energy and Buildings. 324:114900. 2024
- Examining the impacts of school bus travel on students' academic performance in two major cities. Canadian Geographer. 68:603-614. 2024
- Modelling the microscale spatial distribution of urban air temperature in suburban sprawl. Urban Climate. 58. 2024
- A meta-analysis of the carcinogenic effects of particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Environmental Pollution. 351:123941-123941. 2024
- Landscapes of inequities, structural racism, and disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of immigrant and racialized populations in Canada. Health & Place. 87:103214-103214. 2024
- Estimation of daily NO2 with explainable machine learning model in China, 2007–2020. Atmospheric Environment. 314:120111-120111. 2023
- Are at-risk sociodemographic attributes stable across COVID-19 transmission waves?. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 45:100586-100586. 2023
- Examining the effects of green space accessibility on school performance for 3421 elementary schools. Landscape and Urban Planning. 234:104731-104731. 2023
- Validating the Perceived Active School Travel Enablers and Barriers–Parent (PASTEB–P) Questionnaire to Support Intervention Programming and Research. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20:5874-5874. 2023
- The impact of wildfires on air pollution and health across land use categories in Brazil over a 16-year period. Environmental Research. 224:115522-115522. 2023
- Children's exposure to indoor and outdoor black carbon and particulate matter air pollution at school in Rwanda, Central-East Africa. Environmental Advances. 11:100334-100334. 2023
- Corrigendum to “The impact of long-term weather changes on air quality in Brazil” [J. Atmos. Environ. 283 (2022) 119182]. Atmospheric Environment. 294:119505-119505. 2023
- Distribution patterns and influencing factors of population exposure risk to particulate matters based on cell phone signaling data. Sustainable Cities and Society. 89:104346-104346. 2023
- Natural and human factors influencing urban particulate matter concentrations in central heating areas with long-term wearable monitoring devices. Environmental Research. 215:114393-114393. 2022
- Population-scale COVID-19 curfew effects on urban black carbon concentrations and sources in Kigali, Rwanda. Urban Climate. 46:101312-101312. 2022
- The impact of weather changes on air quality and health in Brazil. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2022. 2022
- A preliminary investigation comparing high-volume and low-volume air samplers for measurement of PAHs, NPAHs and airborne bacterial communities in atmospheric particulate matter. Environmental Science: Atmospheres. 2:1120-1131. 2022
- Green areas and students’ academic performance in the Federal District, Brazil: An assessment of three greenness metrics. Environmental Research. 211:113027-113027. 2022
- The impact of long-term weather changes on air quality in Brazil. Atmospheric Environment. 283:119182-119182. 2022
- Birth weight following pregnancy wildfire smoke exposure in more than 1.5 million newborns in Brazil: A nationwide case-control study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 11:100229-100229. 2022
- Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment. Biological Conservation. 263:109175-109175. 2021
- Near-road air quality modelling that incorporates input variability and model uncertainty. Environmental Pollution. 284:117145-117145. 2021
- Associations between socioeconomic status and ultrafine particulate exposure in the school commute: An environmental inequality study for Toronto, Canada. Environmental Research. 192:110224-110224. 2021
- Air pollution in Ontario, Canada during the COVID-19 State of Emergency. Science of the Total Environment. 742:140516-140516. 2020
- A gradient boost approach for predicting near-road ultrafine particle concentrations using detailed traffic characterization. Environmental Pollution. 265:114777-114777. 2020
- Effects of spatial sampling density and spatial extent on linear land use regression modelling of NO2 estimates in an automobile-oriented city. Atmospheric Environment. 238:117735-117735. 2020
- Risk of the Brazilian health care system over 5572 municipalities to exceed health care capacity due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Science of the Total Environment. 730:139144-139144. 2020
- Spatial modelling of particulate matter air pollution sensor measurements collected by community scientists while cycling, land use regression with spatial cross-validation, and applications of machine learning for data correction. Atmospheric Environment. 230:117479-117479. 2020
- Neighbourhood scale nitrogen dioxide land use regression modelling with regression kriging in an urban transportation corridor. Atmospheric Environment. 223:117218-117218. 2020
- Geospatial datasets describing route geometry and ultrafine particulate matter dosage for children during shortest-distance and lowest-dosage school commutes in Toronto, Canada. Genomics Data. 27:104792-104792. 2019
- Exposure to ultrafine particulate air pollution in the school commute: Examining low-dose route optimization with terrain-enforced dosage modelling. Environmental Research. 178:108674-108674. 2019
- Urban forest fragments as unexpected sanctuaries for the rare endemic ghost butterfly from the Atlantic forest. Ecology and Evolution. 9:10767-10776. 2019
- Assessing the accuracy of long-term air pollution estimates produced with temporally adjusted short-term observations from unstructured sampling. Journal of Environmental Management. 240:249-258. 2019
- Accessibility, air pollution, and congestion: Capturing spatial trade-offs from agglomeration in the property market. Land Use Policy. 84:177-191. 2019
- Improving long-term air pollution estimates with incomplete data: A method-fusion approach. MethodsX. 6:1489-1495. 2019
- A Mobile Air Pollution Monitoring Data Set. Data. 4:2-2. 2018
- LiDAR—A Technology to Assist with Smart Cities and Climate Change Resilience: A Case Study in an Urban Metropolis. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 7:161-161. 2018
- Global Association of Air Pollution and Cardiorespiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Investigation of Modifier Variables. American Journal of Public Health. 108:S123-S130. 2018
- The health impacts of weekday traffic: A health risk assessment of PM2.5 emissions during congested periods. Environment International. 111:164-176. 2018
- Particulate matter intake fractions for vehicular emissions at elementary schools in Hamilton, Canada: an assessment of outdoor and indoor exposure. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health. 10:1259-1267. 2017
- Spatio-temporal analysis of particulate matter intake fractions for vehicular emissions: Hourly variation by micro-environments in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. Science of the Total Environment. 599-600:1813-1822. 2017
- Carbon dioxide emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles: A life-cycle analysis in eight Canadian cities. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 78:1390-1396. 2017
- How private vehicle use increases ambient air pollution concentrations at schools during the morning drop-off of children. Atmospheric Environment. 165:264-273. 2017
- Modeling spatial patterns of link-based PM2.5 emissions and subsequent human exposure in a large canadian metropolitan area. Atmospheric Environment. 158:172-180. 2017
- Association of PM2.5 with diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure incidence in Canada: A spatiotemporal analysis of the impacts of the energy generation and fuel sales. Science of the Total Environment. 584-585:1077-1083. 2017
- Modeling spatial patterns of traffic emissions across 5570 municipal districts in Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production. 148:845-853. 2017
- Spatiotemporal analysis of traffic emissions in over 5000 municipal districts in Brazil. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 66:1284-1293. 2016
- Mapping distance-decay of cardiorespiratory disease risk related to neighborhood environments. Environmental Research. 151:203-215. 2016
- Association between vehicular emissions and cardiorespiratory disease risk in Brazil and its variation by spatial clustering of socio-economic factors. Environmental Research. 150:452-460. 2016
- Air pollution exposure: An activity pattern approach for active transportation. Atmospheric Environment. 140:52-59. 2016
- Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC pp collision data at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2016. 2016
- Transcriptome and Secretome Analyses of the Wood Decay Fungus Wolfiporia cocos Support Alternative Mechanisms of Lignocellulose Conversion. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82:3979-3987. 2016
- A criticality index for air pollution monitors. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 7:482-487. 2016
- Mapping real-time air pollution health risk for environmental management: Combining mobile and stationary air pollution monitoring with neural network models. Journal of Environmental Management. 168:133-141. 2016
- Spatially constrained clustering of ecological units to facilitate the design of integrated water monitoring networks in the St. Lawrence Basin. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). 30:390-404. 2016
- Observation of the rare Bs0 →µ+µ− decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data. Nature. 522:68-72. 2015
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- QF‐PCR rapid aneuploidy screen and aCGH analysis of cell free fetal (cff) DNA in supernatant of compromised amniotic fluids (AF). Prenatal Diagnosis. 34:970-976. 2014
- Estimation of sulfur dioxide air pollution concentrations with a spatial autoregressive model. Atmospheric Environment. 79:421-427. 2013
- Baseline patient characteristics as predictors of remission in interpersonal psychotherapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research. 23:190-200. 2013
- Genetic loci associated with delayed clearance of Plasmodium falciparum following artemisinin treatment in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110:240-245. 2013
- Mobile Air Monitoring: Measuring Change in Air Quality in the City of Hamilton, 2005–2010. Social Indicators Research. 108:351-364. 2012
- Measuring lichen specimen characteristics to reduce relative local uncertainties for trace element biomonitoring. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 3:325-330. 2012
- Effects of recreational rock climbing and environmental variation on a sandstone cliff-face lichen community. Botany. 90:253-259. 2012
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