Application of Health Statistics for Proactive Care Planning in Long Term Care

Shannex wishes to maximize use of its various data sources to generate key insights for health care teams when it comes to care planning/ general care of residents. What is missing from Shannex’s existing resources is a professional who is capable of identifying, and executing on, various statistical/mathematical manipulations to generate/ automate these meaningful insights. […]

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Improving early feed intake of newly hatched broiler chicks raised without antibiotics using light during incubation

Traditionally commercial poultry is incubated and hatched in the dark. There are indications that significant benefits could be realized from providing light to developing chicken embryos during incubation. These indications include chicks that eat and drink more upon arrival at the farm. This early feeding behavior should improve the health and survival of baby chicks […]

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Toward Restorative Sport in Nova Scotia

Taking a restorative approach to sport reimagines how we can respond to the crisis of maltreatment in sport and athletes experiencing harm. This project will be an extension of restorative justice work on going in Nova Scotia which sees justice as concerned with securing and sustaining just relations. A restorative approach to justice supports responses […]

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Improving Human-Robot Interaction Interfaces for Intelligent Mobile Service Robots in Indoor Environment

There are significant increases in the need of using service robots to adopt the roles of delivery vehicles and personal assistants. Atlantic Business Express is looking at bring the service robots to Canada, starting in Nova Scotia through working with Dalhousie University. The project is to improve the intelligent human-robot interaction interfaces for mobile service […]

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Encrypted IoT Network Traffic Analysis for Cybersecurity

Use of clear-text for network communication is quickly becoming obsolete. End-to-end encryption of mobile applications and proliferation of TLS based encrypted traffic are fueling the growth of encrypted traffic on the Internet. Many applications tunnel traffic over HTTPS. Today, over 80% of Internet traffic is encrypted. With the recent advancement of TLS handshake, traditional mechanisms […]

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Chemical and biological conversion of mussel processing by-products into new value streams in agriculture

Atlantic Canada’s fishery industries have been identified as key sectors where market demand is expected to increase. PEI mussel and shellfish production employ over a thousand employees, and contributes in excess of CAD$60 million to PEI’s coastal and rural communities. Production of Atlantic Canadian shellfish has tripled since 1995 and is expected to continue growing […]

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Conducting Indigenous Mentorship Program with IndegenousTech.ai

IndigenousTech.ai Corporation (IndigenousTech.ai) is part of a consortium including Forrest Green Resource Management Corp. (Forrest Green RMC). Forrest Green RMC is one of the entities inside of the Forrest Green Group of Companies which specializes in credit data and analytics. IndigenousTech.ai has completed the application process in Ontario to become Canada’s first Indigenous controlled consumer […]

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Offloading Data Fusion to Programmable Data Planes

Big data refers to a class of applications that operate on large amounts of data. One paradigm that fits the big data applications category is the Internet of Things (IoT). Millions of IoT devices continuously produce data and exchange information to support critical applications in different scenarios, such as smart cities and smart homes. As […]

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Community-based water quality monitoring program for Halifax Regional Municipality

The community-based water quality program for Halifax Regional Municipality will target 76 lakes in the region to establish a long-term monitoring program to understand the trajectory of freshwater aquatic systems under continued and expanding urbanized influence. This new program will be led by HRM’s Water Program Coordinator with support from the Environment & Climate Change […]

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Investigate the long-term corrosion under insulation and moisture retention behaviors of various thermal insulations with and without moisture removal systems for pipelines and process equipment

Corrosion under insulation (CUI) a prominent material damage mechanisms in the process industries and pipelines which has reportedly caused countless failure events. Absorbed moisture in thermal insulation is the key reason behind CUI which also causes heat dissipation thereby posing the increased carbon footprint and reduced thermal efficiencies. The soaked thermal insulations have always been […]

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