Evidence-informed Evaluation of Community Transitions: Impact on Health and Quality of Life (Phase III)

Many of St.Amant’s services are shifting to provide the most inclusive, supportive, community-based services with the intention of enhancing health, accessing to healthcare, and improving the quality of life of persons supported and that of their families and caregivers. As part of its vision statement, St.Amant is supporting a number of persons with intellectual and […]

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Assessment of a manure additive in reducing GHG emissions from liquid hog manure

Livestock manure represent a significant source of GHG emissions in agriculture section of Canada. This project aims to assess the effectiveness of a manure additive in reducing N20 and CH4 emissions during the storage of liquid hog manure, as well as the carry-on effect on soil GHG emissions after the additive-treated manure being applied to […]

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A transformative vision for Winnipeg’s inner city

Inner-city organizations in Winnipeg have long called for transformation of the policies and practices that created injustice for inner-city residents. This year’s State of the Inner City report uses precedent studies to identify funding models that foreground community leadership, and knowledge translation and community development events to celebrate the people and community organizations of the […]

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Investigating astrocyte responses in brain metastasis of HER2-positive breast cancer

Brain metastasis of breast cancer has a very poor prognosis in patients. Treatment options are limited because the blood-brain-barrier prevents drugs from entering the brain. Importantly, we are lacking information on how brain cells are supporting the growth of metastatic breast cancer cells. Using HER2-positive breast cancer cells isolated from a patient brain metastasis the […]

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Soil-reinforcement interaction of a novel type of geogrid-geotextile composite for road applications: Experimental and numerical studies

Incorporating geosynthetic layers on top of the subgrade layer provides more stability and serviceability. That becomes a must when the subgrade layer is classified as a problematic soil. With the traditional method, two layers of geosynthetic are adopted: a geogrid for reinforcement and a geotextile for filtration. Placing these two materials in this manner is […]

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Development in the fabrication of oxide nanowires used in biosensors

Detection and quantification of biological species are critical to many areas of healthcare and life science, either intending to diagnose diseases or discover and screen new medicine molecules. Central to detection are the biosensors that generate a signal associated with the selective recognition of a species of interest. Nanostructures, such as oxide nanowires with large […]

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A soft magnetic small-scaled robot for biomedical applications

This study aims to develop a soft and flexible magnetic millirobot based on elastic and biocompatible polymers that can generate voltage as it moves. By using this proposed millirobot, locomotion efficiency can be increased with a decrease in resistance under challenging and harsh conditions in stomachs and digestion systems. In addition, it can serve as […]

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Performance Analysis of Northern Infrastructure Affected by Climate Change

In this project, considering the rate-dependent behavior of permafrost, a multiphysics-based hazard ??assessment tool will be developed to investigate the life-cycle performance of infrastructure subject ?to ?different seasonal climate projections and climate change scenarios. For this purpose, first, an ?advanced thermo-elasto-viscoplastic (TEVP) constitutive model is being developed based ?on the ?framework of critical state soil […]

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Pathology and disease diagnosis using artificial intelligence and machine learning: Supervised and unsupervised deep-learning based methods on data from medical imaging procedures and patient chart analysis

Machine learning applications in healthcare have shown excellent inroads in medical imaging sciences in recent years. Our research aims to improve upon and open up doors into several different pathology diagnosis applications using artificial intelligence. Contemporary research into some of these applications has shown better diagnostic capacity than expert-level clinicians. Our research into artificial intelligence […]

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Guideline for Empirically-Based, Integrated Design Process Oriented Sustainable Architecture in Zone 2b (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

This research project proposes to gather sustainability strategies from different building-performance certification strategies and apply them in combination with climate data for the specific, and extreme zone in which Winnipeg is classified. This localized lens will allow refinement of strategies, which will be tested through digitally modelling 3D case studies to analyze different approaches to […]

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