DocuSafe Systems Inc. is a Canadian-based company that provides document processing services including document authentication and notarization. This project explores the use of a so-called layer 2 blockchain-based solutions in order to make the traditional document authentication less costly. A major benefit of a layer 2 blockchain solution over the use of the layer one […]

The Town of Stony Plain is seeking an intern to create a Greenspace Plan that will establish an inventory and identify existing uses of parks and greenspaces, and outline future uses, monitoring, and management practices as they relate to recreation, active transportation, utilities, and stormwater, among others. The Town currently has some of this information […]

Digital apps represent an important avenue to promote health across individuals with chronic disease. There can be multiple data inputs about a user that come into a health app. During the course of this Mitacs project, the student will develop and evaluate a comprehensive database that is able to organize data from various health data […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of broadband and produced a series of national reports and policy recommendations on how to close connectivity gaps. While these reports provide broad policy prescriptions, developing solutions for individual rural communities requires consideration of local contexts. This project aims to (1) synthesize recent policy recommendations and (2) review […]

The development of a cheap, environmentally sustainable, protein-rich animal feed is of key interest to the growing livestock and aquaculture sectors. Cvictus is in the process of commercializing an integrated low-carbon footprint production platform that can convert coal to methanol, which can then be used to grow a single-cell protein (SCP) animal feed that would […]

Due to advanced modern technology for continuously measuring and recording data at multiple discrete locations and times, functional data are ubiquitous such as weather data and stock market data. Such kind of data usually has smoothness characteristics in the form of functions with complex structures and can be analyzed through many different techniques developed in […]

Soil contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) represents the one of the largest waste streams by mass in Alberta, where the primary method for remediating contaminated sites involves the excavation, transport, and dumping of the contaminated soil into landfill facilities. This approach leads to further complications including increased energy expenditure, emissions, and production of concentrated contaminant […]

Pork is the most consumed animal protein in the world and demand continues to increase. Significant increases in food availability worldwide have been achieved, however, there is still a major challenge to feed the growing global population. Genomic selection has been widely used in livestock animals and successfully improved genetic progress of production and reproduction […]

Enacting Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) policies is of growing interest and concern in many industries, and social and affordable housing is no exception. Currently, the social and affordable housing sector in Canada (otherwise known as the seniors and community housing sector) is undergoing a period of great change. With all levels of government taking […]

Pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) are widely used to deliver drugs to the lungs for treatment of respiratory diseases. However, targeting delivery of inhaled drugs to the lungs is not straightforward. The airways of the mouth and throat present a barrier through which inhaled particles must penetrate in order to reach their target sites in the […]

To enable economic recovery and growth by assisting Alberta small and medium-sized businesses to participate in e-commerce that is designed to meet their needs. ACC has developed a new tool to connect and support employers across a variety of sectors with an innovative e-commerce platform that not only supports SMEs in getting their products or […]

Rapid advancements in biotechnologies made possible novel studies to tackle chronic diseases such as breast cancer, or provide new insights into the role played by gut bacteria in a variety of chronic conditions. Data generated by biotechnologies comes with many analytical challenges: high number of candidate biomarkers measured compared to the number of patients, correlations […]