Food Convergence and Integrity (FCI) Canada is being formed to help agri-food companies mitigate the disruptions of Covid-19, increase interactions and innovations among Canadian agrifood companies and enable new agrifood business streams. Through its member platform, it will enhance resilience and competitiveness of the Canadian agri-food sector, resulting also in increased food security for Canadians. […]

Covid 19 has deeply disrupted supply chains. Companies face profoundly changing consumer demand, the elimination of entire subsectors of industries due to forced closures, or individual suppliers due to bankruptcy or temporary plant closures due to COVID19 outbreaks. In this environment, continued operations and continued profitability depends on company’s ability to obtain real time information […]

Hospitals in Ontario are operating at congestion levels that translate into long wait times, staff burnout, and inefficiencies. Decisions coping with problems are made based on incomplete data which may be days out of date because the data is collected, processed and delivered manually in an ad hoc manner. Furthermore, these decisions may be optimal […]

Our project is part of a “Return to Work” program that allows public and private spheres to begin re-opening without increasing the threat of COVID-19. This project is focused on developing a highly intelligent surveillance solution that (1) detects and counts occupancy of an area to ensure occupancy restrictions are being followed; (2) tracks social […]

Deep mechanized mines can be harsh work environments. In addition to the dust and potential noxious gases, workers are frequently exposed to high heat and high humidity conditions for extended periods of time. Studies suggest that an individual’s ability to maintain a safe body temperature decreases with age, thereby increasing the risk of heat-related injury. […]

Environmental pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption has prompted significant worldwide activity to find effective renewable/regenerative energy solutions. Solutions where power is produced and waste heat from the exhaust is recuperated have great potential, especially for distributed (decentralized) power generation (DPG). The latter approach reduces energy losses that are caused by the […]

Concrete is a major construction material used worldwide responsible for the production of roughly 7% of total global carbon dioxide emissions. The extent of its environmental impact relates to the energy embodied in extraction and transportation of concrete aggregates with a direct link to the amount of Portland cement (PC) used to bind the raw […]

As obesity (body mass index [BMI] >=30.0kg/m2^) increases, there is also an increased risk for experiencing weight stigma (WS). WS is defined as having negative attitudes towards individuals because of weight. WS experienced in health care settings may cause poor communication with physicians, and negative health outcomes. A population that may experience WS are pregnant […]

The ever-growing demand for energy storage, especially with high density and low-cost, has both academia and industry research communities working hard to develop and optimize energy storage technologies. Among the top energy storage technologies are Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) which have an exceptionally high specific capacity (3860 mA h g?1) in comparison to that of […]

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disease that causes skeletal muscle degeneration. As the disease progresses, the affected individuals lose their ability to breathe and walk. Currently, there is no definitive cure for this disease. Previous research found CD82, a protein expressed on the surface of skeletal muscle cells, to be decreased by 2.5 […]

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’identifier et de problématiser les facteurs qui influencent l’efficacité de la politique nationale d’inclusion financière. Cette politique publique a été récemment mise en œuvre par le gouvernement mexicain pour lutter contre les inégalités d’accès aux services financiers qui affectent les individus et les entreprises. La recherche vise à établir le […]

Internationalization is a key aspect in strategic planning of most of top universities across the globe. This proposal aims to collect documents and observe (institutional ethnography methodology) two winter courses promoted by the “Universidad Nacional del Litoral” (UNL, Argentina). Winter courses are a milestone in the internationalization process of the UNL and interestingly they are […]