The research will review of best-practices in green business directories and identify key opportunities for deployment of a localized listings directory of green businesses in the GTA.

The federal non-refundable Disability Tax Credit (DTC) is an important benefit for people with disabilities as it can provide funding to offset some of the additional costs associated with living with a disability. DTC recipients are also eligible for other federal benefits that can provide an important source of income for people living with disabilities. […]

When we get older, we tend to experience difficulties naming people, locations, and objects around us more frequently. Word-finding difficulties like these are not only sources of frustration but also crucial indications of a general cognitive decline. The company Winterlight Labs developed a software that analyzes natural speech for detection of cognitive decline and found […]

This research project aims to develop an integrated geostatistical-geomechanical approach to address the spatial distribution of rock mass mechanical properties, for use in optimization of Mont-Wirght open pit mine planning and design. This approach allows a better understanding of rock mass conditions based on limited sampling locations. The methodology would allow the inherent heterogeneity of […]

Healthy freshwater ecosystem plays a vital role in every Canadian’s daily life as primary drinking water source and sustains the social and economic status of Canada. However, Canada’s freshwater ecosystem has been negatively impacted by population growth, urbanization, industrialization, agriculture, and climate changes. The 2017 national assessment by World Wildlife Fund-Canada found that 60 among […]

The general objective of this MITACS project is to introduce RespirAct (TM) as a unique device that provides a precise, repeatable vasoactive stimulus to extend the capabilities of imaging modalitites such as PET, CT, MRI and ultrasound. In the first project, the development and standardization of the cerebrovascular stress test will provde a means to […]

Heat exchangers, used in building heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to transfer heat from hot to cold fluids, are designed to operate under ideal conditions. However, in practice operating conditions may vary with ambient temperature or humidity. HVAC system efficiency can be improved significantly if fluid flow rates are adjusted in response to […]

Financial variables modelling plays an essential role in computational finance and risk management. Recent research has shown that public sentiment and other information expressed in the natural text such as news articles are important factors correlated with financial variables. The main purpose of this project is to better model financial variables such as market indices […]

Collaborative filtering is a product recommendation technique for making automated product suggestions to a user based on the preference information from similar users. Traditional recommendation algorithms drive personalized recommendations using the data from user purchases and ratings. For e-book retailers, besides user purchases and ratings, product features such as book content and metadata also provide […]

Luna Nanotech is in the process of developing an automated portable device for diagnosis of infectious pathogens. As part of his PhD project the intern has participated in the development of a rapid multiplex benchtop serological test for Covid-19. In this project the intern will work with Luna Nanotech scientists and engineers to adapt this […]

Trocars are specialized medical devices which are commonly used in laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure used to examine and/or operate inside the abdominal cavity. While morbidity and complications using this approach are significantly lower than open procedures, over half of all laparoscopic complications are attributed to trocar-related injuries during entry into the body. Additional […]

Cancer cells can travel to distant sites through the lymphatic system; this system is similar to a network of pipes within the body that carries fluids and cells to all organs. The metastatic spread of cancer cells through this network is one of the reasons why this disease is so difficult to stop. We are […]