Au Québec, 5 000 tonnes de homard sont pêchées annuellement en Gaspésie et aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Les risques pour les pêches maritimes liés au transport de matières dangereuses, tels que les hydrocarbures, augmentent. Notre projet vise à optimiser le suivi en usine de la qualité du homard vivant, par trois biotests...

Traditional breeding of agricultural plants is based on repeated self fertilization of large number of parental plants followed by screening larger offspring populations to uncover random natural or induced genetic variants with a desired trait. This approach can take many years and considerable resources to complete. This approach cannot directly...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are expressive function approximators that play an important role in solving modern computer vision tasks, such as object recognition, and even summarizing images in natural language. Given their broad utility, CNNs have already been deployed in performance-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicles. Unfortunately, these models are...

Studies have indicated a positive correlation between teaching robotic programming using a virtual platform with speed of learning and deeper level understanding. We will study how students learn when provided with just physical robots, just virtual robotics software, and both in conjunction with each other. This study will also attempt...

This project will assess the value in measuring sustainability outcomes according to place-specific baselines rather than universal thresholds set by rating systems and frameworks. It seeks a stronger foundation for sustainable design that can acknowledge place-specific factors. Ultimately, this work will lead to the establishment of a decision-making protocol about...

In 2012, changes to provincial legislation in Ontario provided municipalities with a new market-based tool to improve the energy and water efficiency of the existing building stock; the ‘local improvement charge’ (LIC) mechanism.
The City of Toronto was the first and remains the only Ontario municipality to use LICs...

This research aims to learn more about the way that homeless and street-involved evaluate information regarding substance use from their peers. To this end, this research team will work with Operation Come Home, a non-profit organization supporting homeless and at-risk youth in downtown Ottawa. The research team will recruit and...