The multi-elemental analysis of solids typically requires their dissolution, which is time-consuming and very difficult, and sometime virtually impossible. During this project, a new method will be developed for the direct analysis of solids that are notoriously difficult to dissolve. The sample will be inserted into a small furnace whose temperature will be changed in […]

We are doing a series of courses/focus groups to explore the technical and marketing challenges people face when they want to create something new. The project involves asking people what they want to build, helping them understand the framework of the customer discovery process, and working with them to determine the customer needs, solution details, […]

Depression is an illness that impacts 1 in 6 people during their lifetime. While there exist a number of medications to treat this illness, half of those whom need them either do not respond or can not tolerate current medications because of side effects. Therefore there is an urgent need to develop new ways to […]

This research project will create data dashboards that measure Kingston’s economic resiliency a year into the pandemic. The data will be collected from multiple organizations and sources to create a comprehensive look at the pandemic’s impact. The data dashboards will cover the areas of business and tourism, health and community, mobility and home and employment. […]

This Digital Strategy & Sales Internship involves several business development activites along with content marketing and advertising to help bizXL Solutions, a boutique consulting firm, to constult and assist other businesses that have been impacted by COVID-19. Market development is the current focus with special attention to brand positioning, acquiring more customers through digital media […]

The technology vertical is rather fragmented. More specifically, solutions providers with offerings such as cloud platforms and managed services oftentimes only offer that one solution. This project will attempt to address the fragmentation of the industry via consolidation of key players. Consolidation and acquisitions can only be achieved by obtaining a certain amount of capital, […]

An important legal task for which natural language processing has a use-case is for assessing the risk of confusion for trademarks. By means of a thorough understanding of factors which are used by legal professionals to make decisions in this domain, we replicate the process by using state-of-the-art deep learning models for natural language processing. […]

The telecommunication industry is rapidly evolving towards providing faster services to accommodate the global surge in network demand. The next-generation (5G) network aims to increase the current network speed by more than twentyfold. This transition brings enormous benefits for the economy and society. A main challenge faced by network providers, however, is that the existing […]

Despite the numerous benefits of participating in child and youth sport, they not guaranteed. Purposeful efforts must be made to ensure that sport offerings are age appropriate, promote engagement and enjoyment, and involve quality social relationships. This project represents a partnership with the objective of finalizing and delivering a story-based positive youth development (PYD) program—The […]

This project involves researching and developing templates for heritage conservation plans and temporary protection plans to manage impacts to cultural heritage resources, such as historic buildings and landscapes. The objectives of this study are: 1) a Literature Review of best practices and background information; 2) Compare these with current Ontario legislative requirements;3) Develop analytical tables […]

Veyetals online smartphone-based application that can be downloaded through the Apple Store or the Google Play Store. It uses Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) technique to extract Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) signal from a face video captured using smart phone camera, and then applies multiple computational algorithms to measure heart rate, heart rate variability, oxygen saturation, and […]

Climate change and expansion of industrial development into the boreal zone are two, prominent stressors that Canadian boreal lakes face. This puts the quantity and quality of freshwater fish habitat at risk, and the subsequent productivity of fish populations in a given system. The objective if this work is to define the components of fish […]