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Investing has never been easier, but the majority of individuals still are reluctant to invest and those that do still face a fundamental problem. “What should I invest in?” It’s because the investment journey for a retail investor is broken and Utradea is proven to solve it. For an average investor, prior to making an […]

Le vieillissement des systèmes de production hydroélectrique nécessite la réfection des groupes turboalternateurs dans les centrales. Considérant que l’arrêt de turbines pour des périodes de maintenance impacte directement la production hydroélectrique, il est nécessaire de considérer ces maintenances dans les plans de production. Actuellement, les modèles d’optimisation de la production hydroélectrique et les modèles de […]

Le projet de recherche s’inscrit dans le contexte précis du besoin d’Hydro-Québec de mieux estimer la probabilité de manifestation de vents de forces dites extrêmes et potentiellement dommageables pour le réseau d’infrastructures électriques. Il aura pour objectif de développer des modèles statistiques permettant de corriger les biais dans les prévisions de vents afin de mieux […]

Thickness and surface roughness are the two main veneer quality criteria affecting material recovery, plywood glue bond quality, and glue consumption. At present, on-line green veneer thickness and surface roughness are generally not measured, which causes difficulty in assessing overall veneer quality for a better control of log conditioning and veneer peeling process. In this […]

Cryptocurrencies are a new asset class that are emerging in importance and adoption in global markets. Public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum offer access to an unprecedented amount of financial and technical data. With the increasing amount of blockchain data, it is important that investors and policy makers can access standardized methods of financial […]

Business industries are either experiencing or expected to face the challenge of big data. Big data brings trouble to traditional data mining algorithms. Building a machine learning credit scoring algorithm under the big data scenario, offers ATB financial the framework which improve the efficiency and the running speed compared with traditional data mining algorithms, especially […]

Desjardins General Insurance proposes different types of P&C (property and casualty) coverage to its clients. Properly rating an insurance premium to cover for P&C losses requires complex modelling that uses variables that are both at the individual and at the spatial level. In general, including a spatial component in the modelling is challenging. At Desjardins, […]

Like most living organisms, the life cycle of a business can be divided into distinct, complex phases. These life stages are determined by various internal and external factors such as financial resource availability, managerial ability, and market conditions. The ability to model firm life stages would help financial institutions (FIs) such as ATB identify and […]

An ongoing interdisciplinary project conducted in Argentina looks to understand how the population dynamics of sheep, and therefore livestock production, depends on individual behavior, climate, landscape structure and management in order to improve the design of sustainable management strategies aimed at solving real problems of animal production and conservation of natural resources. Data from a […]

Screening spontaneous reporting (SR) or electronic health records (EHR) data sets for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) has become an important component of drug safety. Much methodological work has been historically done on SR data, however, novel approaches are continually being suggested which merit critical review. Thus, we will first investigate some of these approaches as […]

Soil contamination by petroleum and other heavy hydrocarbons is a major environmental concern. One way to address it is the in situ thermal remediation technology: the contaminated soil is heated up with an array of large heating devices, thus accelerating evaporation of the contaminants and cleaning the soil in a matter of months. The goal […]