Producers and farm workers are exposed to whole-body vibration (WBV) on a regular basis when operating farm machinery. The short-term effect of WBV include cognitive impairment and musculoskeletal disorders, such as low back pain. To aid in promoting worker cognitive and musculoskeletal health, rest and/or activity breaks may provide relief from these hazards and can […]

To further the speed and efficiency of knowledge acquisition from academic works, it would be useful to know, at quick glance, key information from the text. In academic works, key information would include named entities and their relationships, arguments, event descriptions, and topics contained in the text. We propose an automated system to extract the […]

This project investigates the use of Web Standards to enhance performance of HTML5 & JavaScript applications as a means to ensure rich engaging interactions for remote clients that are using low bandwidth connections with high latency and frequent interruptions.

While Android is a very popular platform and represents the fastest growing segment in the smartphone and tablet space, we see all kinds of different android platforms emerging. Thus, we not only have the problem of having different android operating systems, we also have the problem that vendors are able to customize the android operating […]

Flax seed is of interest as a health food product with high omega-3 fatty acid, protein and fiber content. The seeds naturally contain compound that are anti-nutritive and have a bitter flavor. We have developed a process to safely and cheaply remove these compounds from whole flax seed. We intend to investigate the nutritive qualities, […]

Contamination of soils and groundwater with gasoline often results in the development of anaerobic zones. Benzene is particularly persistent under anaerobic conditions even in the enhanced anaerobic biodegradation (EAB) process. Degradation of benzene has been demonstrated under nitratereducing condition, and sulphate-reducing condition. However, information of dominant indigenous species within the microorganisms for degrading benzene is […]

With the growth in demand for electric vehicles and mobile devices powered by rechargeable lithium batteries, demand for lithium is expected to increase by over 200% in the next decade. Current lithium production comes primarily from Australia, South America and China. There are significant lithium reserves in the same Saskatchewan aquifers currently being exploited for […]

Acid mine drainage (AMO) is a significant environmental concern at many hard rock mines. Laboratory-based predictive tests are used to determine if AMO will be generated by mine wastes, but these tests do not generally examine the role of microbes in acid-generating processes. This study will extend the capabilities of the advanced customizable leaching columns […]

The proposed project with GNC Bioferm Inc. will explore the feasibility of pelletizing heat-sensitive protein and fibre-rich biomass containing feed enzyme. The enzyme is used to improve the digestibility of the diet and improve animal performance of poultry and swine. Since the densification process involves heat, it is worthy to investigate whether lowering temperature of […]

Web based application framework is a popular topic for solving mobile development on different type of devices. This project aims to compare popular web based application frameworks, and their performance in native APIs in large amount of data storage, NFC, Bluetooth for inter device communication and HTTP (e.g. long polling, comet, websocket) and push protocols […]

Natural Canadian zeolite is an attractive mineral for the restoration of lands disturbed by the extraction of natural resources such as metals, oil and gas. Dr. Wonjae Chang’s Environmental Engineering Lab developed a dualmineral prototype, using Canadian zeolites, for the desalination of potash brine-impacted water. Dr. Chang also demonstrated the significant accumulation of residual potassium […]

The intern will enhance the functionality of a hand-held gamma spectrometer produced by Environmental Instrument Canada (EIC). In order to improve the performance of the spectrometer, the control board will be switched to a higher spec microcontroller, and the firmware source code will be re-written from interpreted Javascript to C code. New functionality, including energy […]