KINARM Labs™ provide robust and objective measures of brain function and dysfunction by the precise measurement of human behavior with robotics. Created by neuroscientists, KINARM Labs allow clinician-scientists to detect and quantify the sensory, motor and cognitive impact of a diverse range neurological impairments caused by stroke, cardiac arrest, TIA, mTBI, concussion, MS or Parkinson’s […]

The purpose of this research project is to test the effects of an inflatable garment (vest) for providing Deep Pressure Therapy to children with autism spectrum disorders and other health disorders. The vest provides overall, evenly distributed pressure to the torso, and pressure can be adjusted through a pump and monitored through a pressure sensor. […]

The project aims at contributing to the reduction of gender-based violence amongst adolescent boys and girls attending schools in cities such as Hyderabad. To do so, the knowledge, attitudes and practices of community health nurses and school teachers will be explored in relation to gender roles, healthy relationships and gender-based violence. The way they conceive […]

L’os est le site de prédilection d’implantation des métastases de nombreux cancers, tels que le cancer du sein, et malheureusement l’environnement osseux rend l’accès aux traitements de chimiothérapie et de radiothérapie quasi-impossible. Par conséquent, plus de 50% des patients souffrant d’un cancer des os ne sont pas soulagés par les traitements antalgiques actuels. Nous proposons […]

In able-bodied individuals, increases in core temperature during exercise are controlled by the nervous system as a sweating response. However, individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) may have altered sweating responses due to autonomic dysfunction, leading to increased risk of heat stress during exercise. Currently, standard tests do not fully describe how temperature regulation is […]

Circadian rhythms are processes which allows animals to regulate their physiology based on time of day. These rhythms are controlled by the circadian clock, a group of transcription factors that form a feedback loop. Over 40% of the genome is transcribed rhythmically, implicating the clock in many physiological processes. The cell cycle is another process […]

The most critical region for winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) winter survival is the crown. Exposure to different environmental cues during cold acclimation improves the crown’s resistance to freezing. This key fact is not taken into account in the design of controlled environment experiments and may not reflect actual mechanisms of cold hardiness in the […]

Counts of birds passing a geographic location during migration to or from their breeding grounds are often used to estimate long-term population change. However, birds often stop at count sites for several days to fatten for their next migratory flight, affecting probability of detection. The migratory path followed might also vary among years. The influence […]

A plants’ ability to withstand chilling and frost damage will dictate the geography in which production can occur. Global warming is predicted to increase chilling and frost injury in crops. It is important to note that frost injury is one of the key factors limiting production. In corn, chilling injury is an ongoing constraint for […]

Les végétaux produisent une variété de molécules bioactives en réponse à un stimulus externe (intensité lumineuse, prédation, pathogènes, conditions climatiques, etc.). Ainsi, nous croyons que la flore nordique du Québec regorge de substances bioactives inédites étant donné qu’elle subit des stress environnementaux qui sont uniques au monde. L’identification de nouveaux produits naturels bioactifs issus de […]

Pressure ulcers (PUs) are a major health problem in people with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). PUs increase hospital admissions, with 25% of SCI treatment cost linked to PU management. Currently, treatment is limited and new therapeutic options are required. Wound fluid from PUs is invaluable for researchers as it allows a detailed study of the […]

Motility is an essential characteristic of many aquatic and terrestrial animals. In vertebrates, self-contained and autonomous neuronal networks in the spinal cord can produce patterned and rhythmic locomotor outputs in the absence of higher brain centres and sensory inputs. Spinal locomotor networks comprised of interneurons differentially control the outputs of respective motoneuron subtypes that exclusively […]