GIC-1001 est un medicament en cours d’evaluation proposant un changement de pratique medical en coloscopie. A l’heure actuelle, des sedatifs sont utilises pour reduire l’inconfort et soulager la douleur causee par la coloscopie. Les sedations profonde et moderee s’averent etre des modalites couteuses tant pour l’assureur que pour le systeme de sante public, en plus […]

CHLNet identified the need for valid, reliable tools to determine the impact of these health leadership development programs. This project will develop a practical, easy to use toolkit to facilitate the measurement of program outcomes and impacts. The toolkit will be pilot tested and evaluated across the country according to defined selection criteria. The finalized […]

The proposed research project will explore how CSA can optimally engage NGOs in consensus-based standard development projects. It will culminate in a paper that will itemize ways to increase the effectiveness of NGO involvement by identifying the obstacles to effective participation in CSA standard development, providing practical recommendations on how these obstacles can be reduced […]

Parmi les nombreuses intégrations technologiques en milieu de travail, figurent les robots collaboratifs (cobots). Avec ce type de robots, la collaboration humain-robot est inévitable et ira au-delà de la simple interaction, affectant la réalité même de travail. Ainsi, la gestion optimale d’un tel changement, d’une perspective managériale, mais surtout humaine, sera explorée. Ce présent projet […]

In today’s business context, companies need to release software quickly in order to remain competitive. This requires internal teams to work closely together from the outset. Unfortunately, security is typically considered only at the very end. This means if any issues are discovered by the security team, it requires extensive rework. Typical responses are to […]

Investors, regulators, and the general public consume a wealth of textual information every day. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence make machine-reading of textual information plausible. We tackle text mining of financial conference call transcripts—calls of significant corporate events that are widely followed by investors and institutional investors. Our conference calls data include over 200,000 calls […]

Beyond job creation, entrepreneurship may hold an array of further benefits to a given community which provides support for it. This project works to define some of these additional benefits, as well as to determine some features of a community which may contribute to entrepreneur attraction and youth retention rates. The research will be conducted […]

Carsharing is a service where members have access to a fleet of shared vehicles distributed across a city. Members can book a vehicle when needed, allowing for the convenience of vehicle ownership while reducing the need to own private vehicles. The two primary forms of carsharing are a free-floating or free floating model, where users […]

Clusters are a geographically proximate group of inter-connected companies and associated institutions in a particular field, linked by commonalities and complementarities. They have long been recognized as motors of regional economic development. Numerous studies have found their positive influence on entrepreneurship and innovation compared to non-cluster regions. Indeed, there is an ample evidence explaining why […]

Our research project is to verify the effect of two psychological concepts, emotional intelligence (IE) and the Big Five, on a mentoring relationship developed in an entrepreneurial context. We collected data from 188 mentoring dyads as part of the Réseau M of the “Fondation de l’entrepreneurship du Québec”. A positive association is expected between the […]

L’incertitude et la complexité de l’environnement externe incitent les entreprises, notamment les PME à performer en innovation afin de développer un avantage concurrentiel et de rester compétitives. L’innovation requiert des idées créatrices. Toutefois, la majorité des PME ne disposent pas de ressources suffisantes pour la recherche et développement ce qui rend sa survie difficile. L’intelligence […]

Sustainable investment is an expending sector of the mainstream financial market, yet there are few studies evaluating the trends, opportunities, impacts and knowledge gaps as they relate to Canadian investors. Understanding the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues related to business operations and investment are critical to understanding trends that are driving this shift towards […]