Thirty years after its landmark 1989 release, Nintendo’s Game Boy and its long line of successors continue to capture the imagination of thousands of players who harbor a nostalgic attraction to the technologies of their youth. Montreal-based Retro Modding has developed a profitable business modifying (or “modding”) old video game handhelds and selling them alongside […]

Computer-based simulation software, called hygrothermal modeling has become increasingly popular and useful to predict and evaluate heat, air, vapour, and water-related performance of buildings. This research project aims to improve such modelling for wood construction through validation using specifically measured property data and field/lab performance data. The goal is to make modelling a more reliable […]

This proposed project aims to enable computers to read and understand a document and answer questions related to the documents by using Machine Reading Comprehension technology. In other words, the goal of the project is to equip computers with a similar reading comprehension ability as human beings. The technology can be used in many contexts, […]

The main goal of this proposed project is to develop a novel bilingual topic model, which explicitly models the word co-occurrence cross-lingual in document-aligned comparable data using a novel merging and shuffling strategy, called CL-BTM. Given a document-aligned multilingual corpus, CL-BTM can be employed to extract latent cross-lingual topics that optimally describe the observed data […]

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model (SM) is complete. Experimental results, even precision tests involving higher order perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations, appear to confirm SM results. However, SM cannot be the final theory, and the quest for physics beyond the SM is very much alive. Of the beyond the SM […]

The National Engineering Research Center for E-learning in Central China Normal University is a pioneer research center in the field of education, and we have theories and tools of education and education informatization assessment in the field of learning and education. One main objective for our group is to effectively design students’ assessment criteria of […]

Carbon nanopearls are an exciting novel class of materials that present unique characteristics, and they turn out to be an excellent alternative to carbon nanotubes for different applications. Presently, they are experimented with success as material for cold cathodes for electron-beam based instrumentation applications and they can be used for the development of polymer nanocomposites […]

The recent research of producing heart rate signal from a webcam has opened the opportunity for numerous new applications. This technique uses video of the face and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to detect core physiological signals such as heart rate and respiration. We improve the correlation algorithm to make the measurement algorithm has higher fault […]

The objective of this research is to relate the language game proposed by Wittgenstein to design theory in the context of philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Wittgenstein put forward the theory of language game in his later philosophy, believing that language is a kind of game. Since the process of language game between human beings is […]

Building energy consumption prediction is becoming increasingly vital for energy management, equipment efficiency improvement, cooperation between building energy and power grid, and so on. However, it is still hard work to obtain accurate prediction results because of the complexity of the building energy behavior and the frequent undulations in the energy demand. In the building […]

Power consumption optimization, space reduction, increased mobility and safety of medical devices in health care facilities while maintaining efficiency of these devices by using rechargeable battery pack are key issues for cost saving, durability and reliability, inventory control, and environmental requirements. For these reasons, more and more medical devices powered by rechargeable battery packs are […]

The TRAPP complex is a large protein complex involved in a number of different cellular processes including membrane traffic. Individuals with mutations in the genes encoding the proteins of this complex have been increasingly identified using whole exome and whole genome sequencing methods. To date, only a single individual with a candidate (and not yet […]