Water scarcity threatens more and more people in the world. Cape Town (South Africa) imposed strict water restrictions in 2018 in response to shortages. Closer to home, water restrictions were put into place in Quebec in the summer of 2020, and First Nation communities have been confronted with fresh water issues for years. Water scarcity […]

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) enable exciting experiences such as virtual tourism or participation in a live concert from home. These applications are expected to benefit the society as well as being a source of significant revenues. However, such applications are very bit rate- and computation-intensive. The recent MPEG Immersive Video (MIV) format, […]

This research has two goals to a) increase our understanding of the quantity of construction materials and embodied GHG used, in current practice, to create new housing in the City of Toronto and b) to identify opportunities to use changes in building and neighbourhood form to create more housing with less total embodied GHG. The […]

Cardiovascular disease is one of the world’s leading causes of mortality. However, due to a scarcity of heart donors, new cardiac regenerative medicine sources are desperately needed. The increasing use of biomaterials in tissue engineering has created a direct and promising platform. However, technical advancements are still needed to properly create a heart structure with […]

Community well-being is important for building housing, income, food, and health security. The COMEAI causal model is available for evaluating the risk to housing, income, food, and health security criteria. The model has a potential for improvement to account for the lack of critical practical application and evidence-based literature support. This research aims to validate […]

La production d’aluminium primaire est un processus produisant une quantité importante de gaz à effet de serre. Par souci de mieux quantifier et de réduire la quantité de GES émis, Rio Tinto a fait l’acquisition d’un appareil de mesure permettant de suivre un type précis d’émissions de GES, associée à plus de 25% des émissions […]

Over 23,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) in Canada in 2020. Focal therapy uses high energy focused heating delivered via a laser fiber to destroy the tumour and has shown promising results in controlling prostate cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows the surgeon to distinguish the cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, better customize […]

Mining generates large amounts of waste (e.g. waste rock and tailings), some of which contains sulfide minerals that oxidize and produce acid rock drainage (ARD) when exposed to oxygen. Mine waste is commonly stored on-site in storage facilities which can account for > 80% of all ARD produced. Several methods exist to address ARD potential, […]

Les CubeSats sont des satellites de petite taille qui requièrent des antennes occupant un très faible volume au lancement. Les antennes paraboliques typiquement utilisées sur de plus gros satellites ne sont pas une option dans ce cas étant donné leur réflecteur courbé et volumineux. Les antennes réseau-réflecteur (ARR) se sont positionnées ces dernières années comme […]

There is an increase in reporting of angling activities linked to environmental pollution and exploitation. Soft plastic lures (SPLs) are a major pollution source arising from recreational angling. A small portion of SPLs currently commercially available are designed to be more environmentally friendly alternatives to PVC as they are biodegradable and are manufactured using natural […]

Il existe peu de données publiées sur les propriétés des matériaux composites, notamment à cause de la complexité des essais à réaliser pour les caractériser, ce qui rend difficile la modélisation de leur comportement mécanique. Dans ce contexte, une méthode d’essai non destructive pourrait s’avérer particulièrement intéressante afin de caractériser les matériaux composites et d’en […]

Les résidus de bauxite sont des déchets générés en grande quantité lors de la production d’aluminium. Ils sont souvent déposés dans des bassins de sédimentation engendrant ainsi de sérieux impacts environnementaux et économiques. L’utilisation de ces déchets pas ou peu valorisés pour l’élaboration des produits à haute valeur ajoutée est encouragé par l’entreprise Rio Tinto […]