This project studies a community garden as a Living Lab to support the objectives of “empowered aging.” Empowered aging encompasses the mental, social, physical and spiritual dimensions of well-being so that people can live their best lives possible. This holistic approach to aging is commensurate with sustainability defined as the need to ensure a better […]

Unmitigated climate change is expected to have catastrophic impacts on our way of life, causing governments and corporations to step in to pledge to reduce our emissions. However, to prevent warming beyond 2°C above pre-industrial levels, emissions reductions will likely not be enough, so we will need to take carbon dioxide directly out of the […]

Predicting policyholders’ claims over a year is crucial for a Property-Casualty insurance company. These expenditures, popularly called losses, are incurred by the insurer when reimbursing the policyholders’ claims. The insurance company is required to pay any legitimate claim made by a policyholder, in exchange the latter pays an amount of money, called the premium, to […]

The application of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) as a tool to understand managerial decision making has been a contentious issue over the last 35 years. Williamson (1985) founded and defended the TCE theory his entire career, eventually winning the Noble Prize in Economics in 2009. Many management scholars were either skeptical or hostile to the […]

Au Canada, en 2019, 35 000 patients ont subi un arrêt cardiaque. Le taux de survie est seulement de 10% et seulement 8% des patients auront un état neurologique leur permettant de retourner à la maison. L’objectif de notre projet global est de développer un système automatisé de gestion de la réanimation cardio-respiratoire. Le développement […]

The In-Place Technology Platform project with N. Chandolias and Alkemie Atelier, under the supervision of Dr P. Shrivastava addresses the problem of how people in everyday as well as rehearsed situations can use site-specific media to enrich public spaces: “place-making.” Alkemie will be able to develop specific projects for artist groups that can co-design meaningful […]

Within the production process of Meltblown filtration materials for facial mask manufacturing, there is a considerable generation of clean waste of Meltblown polypropylene (PP) fabric. The direct disposal of these clean PP wastes represents a significant economic loss and, moreover, poses serious environmental pollution since PP is a non-biodegradable polymer that may take hundreds of […]

The research is to develop and apply advanced data technology and modeling technology for optimal and wood manufacturing. Numerical and optimization models will be developed with effective and efficient solution methods to find optimal or Pareto optimal solutions of the studied problems. The industry partner will be strongly supported by such numerical tools in its […]

Face à la nécessité de décarboner et réduire l’impact environnemental de l’économie québécoise, le Front commun pour la transition énergétique (FCTÉ) développe un scénario de transition dont la ligne directrice est une réduction de moitié de la consommation en énergie. Une telle réduction de la consommation d’énergie, combinée à un mix adéquat de politiques publiques, […]

The use of disposable face masks as preventive measures significantly increased in the past years. Overloading landfills with disposable face mask wastes will raise certain environmental concerns. However, their degradation in landfill leachate is poorly studied. The objective of this study is to investigate the degradation process of the mask in landfill leachate and quantify […]

Turquoise Technology Solutions Inc. (“Turquoise”) is a Google Partner firm based in Montreal. They have been working on recommender systems for books and recipes. They are currently interested in improving the accuracy of their recommender systems. In order to improve such a system, the goal is to extract the model of customers’ preferences using both […]

This research aims to develop a novel method for RNA-based regulation of gene expression, which would provide an alternative to existing popular and patented methods. The proposed method utilizes computationally designed trans-acting hammerhead ribozymes (taHHRzs), which would cleave a reporter gene transcript, unless special ‘anti-cleaver’ RNAs bind to a designated part of the taHHRz. This […]