Le projet de recherche d’Olivier Séguin-Brault comporte trois volets : 1) un stage de formation en édition où il s’initiera et collaborera activement à toutes les étapes de la production, de l’impression et de la diffusion de la revue scientifique “L’Année rabelaisienne”; 2) un stage de recherche dans les archives de sept bibliothèques spécialisées de […]

Recent neurophysiological studies using the so-called frequency tagging methodology have shown that the human brain is able to track the grammatical structure of spoken sentences even if low-level acoustic (intonational) cues marking phrase boundaries are removed from the speech signal. These results opened a window towards naturalistic investigation of grammar processing and learning. However, currently […]

NLP techniques have been used and tested for several years in different environments and for different applications/domains. The performances of the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) toolbox are closely related to the quality of the text but also on the specific knowledge-domain. Social Media content typically use short sentences with simple grammar and tend to include […]

The Soundskrit group at TandemLaunch is working to revolutionize microphone design by using fibers to sense sound instead of membranes. Fibers respond to the velocity of sound waves and are therefore inherently directional, as opposed to membranes, which respond to sound pressure. Fibers can therefore pick up directional sounds such as human speech more effectively […]

The partner organization in this project has recently developed a new imaging technology that is a potentially suitable platform for the development of miniaturized imaging spectrometer instruments that can provide rapid qualitative analysis of diverse types of samples without use of any chemicals. These instruments have numerous potential practical applications in the agricultural, food, clinical, […]

In many parts of the world, especially in developing countries, untreated or partially-treated municipal and industrial wastewater is directly discharged into natural water bodies and streams. The wastewater may contain many organic as well as inorganic contaminants which may be then introduced to rural communities downstream. The contaminated water may be used for washing, drinking […]

Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat into electricity. The conventional method of fabrication for this type of application is to first compress the powder form of the material with heat followed by machining into rectangular prisms. Using two different compositions in the method described, one of negative-type and one of positive-type is to […]

In this research project a device is being developed and tested for its ability to permit the analysis of growing human tissues. Recently scientist have started to believe that cells need to be grown in 3D just like they are in our bodies. Similar to a cup, this device can be used to contain growing […]

The diagnosis of Parkinson disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the developed world, is based entirely on clinical criteria which are labour-intensive to apply and often inconclusive. Based on promising initial data from our laboratory, we will determine whether biochemical measurement of the enzyme, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in saliva samples distinguishes PD […]

Time Series is a sequence of records and observations ordered in time. For instance, feedback from a sensor with timestamps can be considered a time series set. Studying Time Series can help with the predicting and understanding of a system and its behaviour. It can also be used to control the mechanism. In the past, […]

Oxide materials have many interesting properties, in particular in the field of sustainability sciences. The Hosono group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is world leading in synthesizing novel oxide materials with very interesting electronic properties with potential applications in the fields of superconductivity, catalysis and optically transparent electrodes for photovoltaics or displays. I will […]

According to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada produced 1.2 billion kilograms of chicken with chicken products worth $2.5 billion. Domestic consumption of chicken in 2016 was 32.5 kilograms per person. Canada exported over 5.3 million chicks worth over $13.4 million, mainly to the United States. That same year, 134.1 million kilograms of chicken meat […]