Several classes of psychotropic compounds have been increasingly shown to possess antimicrobial properties with possible implication in microbiota-gut-brain axis. For instance, sertraline and paroxetine are efflux inhibitors in bacteria cell walls and are effective on gram-positive bacteria such as Enterococcus and Staphylococcus. Therefore, a comprehensive assessment of the antimicrobial effect of these chemicals on gut […]

Family Services / Services à la famille Ottawa’s (FSFO) long term counselling program is delivered to individuals living with severe and persistent mental illness. Although their counsellors anecdotally report improvement in clients, FSFO has not evaluated the results for this client group as a result of their work with FSFO. Since 2015, FSFO had been […]

This project will investigate the impact of foreign accent on native listener’s semantic processing in Spanish. As such, participants will listen to Spanish words that are produced by native Spanish speakers or native Chinese speakers. Stimuli will include commonly mispronounced words in Spanish (e.g. pelo, ‘hair’) and words that are non-commonly mispronounced in Spanish (e.g. […]

In March of 2018, the Jaque Group of the Autonomous University of Madrid reported for the first time the development of lightactivated, remote-controlled microrotors for potential applications in temperature sensing, i.e., microparticles exhibiting rotational motion upon irradiation with near-infrared light, from which the temperature of a liquid medium can be inferred. This novelty opens the […]

Ovarian cancer (OVCA) causes more death than any female cancer in the world. Although patients respond to treatment initially, 70% of them relapse and do not succumb to treatment. Up-to-date, there is no established treatment for such patients. There is therefore the need to investigate the tumor microenvironment for novel targets to enhance treatment. Although […]

Léger-Marie Deschamps est un philosophe français du XVIIIe siècle ayant correspondu avec les plus grands philosophes de son temps : Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, etc. Dans l’histoire des études menées sur cet homme, la majorité des commentateurs y ont vu un philosophe extrêmement rationaliste et intellectualiste, un philosophe affirmant que seule la vérité peut mener au […]

CHLNet identified the need for valid, reliable tools to determine the impact of these health leadership development programs. This project will develop a practical, easy to use toolkit to facilitate the measurement of program outcomes and impacts. The toolkit will be pilot tested and evaluated across the country according to defined selection criteria. The finalized […]

Bell’s Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team is collaborating with academic institutions in order to further research and develop cyber security analytics for the protection of critical infrastructure and data. The focus of this research is to create and leverage a traffic classification project specifically for network security purposes. This research to design distributed algorithms fast […]

Northern Canada presents favorable conditions for bifacial solar installations due to typically higher albedo, caused by a high degree of snow cover, and low temperature, which is ideal for PV module efficiency. In addition, many northern and remote Canadian communities, including Iqaluit and Cambridge Bay, rely on diesel power. Bifacial solar presents a clean and […]

Structuré par un partenariat étroit entre des chercheurs de l’Université d’Ottawa et de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, ce projet a pour objectif de comprendre la pratique de l’adoubement, le rituel par lequel un individu était fait chevalier, dans les sociétés médiévales de l’Europe Occidentale du XIIIe siècle. Il s’agit d’un défi de taille, puisque les textes […]

The phenomenon of near-limit detonation propagation, where detonations have been experimentally observed to propagate at average speeds smaller than the ideal Chapman-Jouguet (CJ) detonation speeds, has attracted extensive efforts on determining the influencing mechanisms through application of simple models for predicting such velocity deficits. Despite the large number of attempts to experimentally investigate the dynamics […]

The proposed research aims to develop methods for efficiently computing visually realistic turbulent flows around solid objects for graphical applications in the film and video game industries. These methods would extend traditional techniques employed in aerodynamics to compute flows around airfoils. The extended method would address general solid objects in cases where the traditional techniques […]