Organic matter controls on radium removal via barite coprecipitation

Radium is a radioactive element often found in wastewater from uranium mining and oil and gas industries. One common approach to remove radium from wastewater is to add barium and sulfate to form the mineral barite. The barite traps the radium and can then be disposed of safely. However, chemicals released by decaying plants into […]

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Evaluating the Winter Economy in Saskatoon

This study examines best practices for winter economic opportunities with the desired outcome of increased economic activity during the winter months. This study will employ a social impact lens to evaluate the policies and programs in place which support economic activity in winter in Saskatoon. Adopting a social impact lens allows the research team to […]

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Assessing detection limits for x-ray absorption spectroscopic analyses

This internship conducted in partnership with the Canadian Light Source (CLS) BioXAS Main Spectroscopy beamline (Saskatoon, SK) is a research project to develop and test a procedure to determine the detection limits (lowest analyzable concentrations) for chemical analyses of samples containing three elements of interest (copper, cobalt, and uranium) over a wide range of concentrations. […]

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BetterPaws AI Data

BetterPaws has goals to create a community of pet lovers who are passionate about pet health and wellness. BetterPaws wants to provide tools and services to pet lovers to ensure their pet’s overall well-being. With this in mind, BetterPaws is developing AI models that will be used to launch services for our community. This project […]

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Force Finder – Bringing Force Time Characteristics Into Real-World Gym Settings

Ignite Athletics Inc. is the partner organization and works with thousands of athletes every year as Coaches in the strength and conditioning field. The goal of the project is to bring together Engineers, Sports Scientists and Strength and Conditioning Coaches to create a device that can easily measure force-time characteristics in a real-world setting. Collection […]

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Analyzing gamma-ray spectra and mapping them to corresponding isotopes

This research project aims to program a hand-held spectrometer to identify and analyze gamma radiation peaks emitted from isotopes. Based on the detected peaks, the device will identify the specific isotope from the gamma ray that was emitted. The partner organization will be able to commercialize such a device to be used in different areas […]

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Effective enrichments for piglets: effects of early enrichment on development and reduction of damaging behaviours

Information on effective environmental enrichments for young pigs is needed to promote pig health and welfare and to support Canadian producers in meeting the Code of Practice requirement for enrichment provision. Most environmental enrichment studies have focused on market pigs as they are prone to damaging behaviours such as tail biting. However, studies suggest that […]

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RWA Market Launch and Brand Strategy

While the Refresh Wellness App (RWA) is in the research and development phase, Refresh has begun to build a marketing strategy that will aid in the launch and distribution of the app to ensure a positive impact on society as a whole. While the RWA will eventually be available to the public, Refresh plans to […]

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Resources Module Strategy

Research is currently underway to develop evidence-based resources that will populate the resource section. In the meantime, a robust infrastructure must be established within the app to adequately support an extensive selection of resources for a variety of users and environments. Because not all of the resources will be relevant to all users, a dynamic […]

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ML-based link prediction algorithm for RWA

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are key technologies in the development of a new recommendation framework that is able to identify the association between users and items with greater accuracy. This link prediction algorithm can be used in economics, marketing, networking, and social media. It would decrease the rate of mispredictions and would […]

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Precision AI Mitacs – Kathryn Aldridge

The agronomy intern will be an important member of our growing agronomy AI team. Precision AI now needs more agronomy expertise to achieve our growth objectives. The intern will help us accelerate our artificial intelligence model development by applying his/her expertise to more quickly identify crop and weed plants in the images we have collected. […]

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