This project examines human rights impacts of natural resource development in Western Canada from the perspective of women and girls, especially Indigenous women and girls. The research will identify gaps between Canada’s relevant international human rights and environmental agreements, domestic law, policies and practises, and the lived realities of women and girls. In partnership with […]

Semiconductor materials are essential for today’s fast growing electro-optic and computer industries and semiconductor crystal growth is a key stage in the manufacturing process. There is constant market pressure to increase the size and quality of crystals so that more and better devices can be put on a single wafer. The most widely used crystal […]

Medication non-compliance is associated with poor outcomes in patients. Although different methods are currently used to measure compliance, the ability to translate this measure into a meaningful metric, which is interpretable for both methodologists and clinicians, has not yet been realized. Medication compliance has become an increasingly important area of research as policy makers perceive […]

Rogers Communications, a diversified communications and media company, wanted to investigate the kinds of strategies that it should employ to attract new customers and meet customer demands thus maintaining a profitable market share. To develop these strategies, the client needed new efficient tools that could extract useful patterns, which was representative of actual customer behaviour, […]

NRC-IIT creates and commercializes software and systems technology to help Canada prosper in the knowledge economy. The institute in Fredericton has been working with rule systems, semantic web standards and social networking since its inception. Web-based Social Networking is emerging as a major application area for semantic web metadata. Most social networking sites are based […]

ApSTAT Technologies Inc. provides insurance companies with analytical systems based on exclusive data mining technologies, enabling insurers to maximize the profitability of their operations. The company is working with a large financial institution to develop new financial products based on statistical learning techniques. The research team based at l’Université de Montréal had two objectives. The […]

Axonwave Software Inc. of Burnaby, BC, is a leader in the field of unstructured data analysis and processing. The company provides solutions that enhance business intelligence and improve the efficiency of business processes through the ability to analyze and extract information from text-based information sources. In collaboration with Axonwave, the project involves unifying a number […]

Teck Cominco Ltd. is a diversified mining, smelting and refining group, a world leader in the production of metallurgical coal and zinc and a major producer of copper and gold. The company was interested in investigating the dispersion of particulate matter from its Trail facility into the surrounding area under the influence of diffusion, advection […]

Microtubules are a key constituent of the cell’s structural framework and are responsible for a diverse range of functions within the cell. They are cylindrical polymers, 25 nm in diameter and can grow to be several hundred micrometers in length. Tubulin, the protein which is the main component of microtubules, self-assembles to form the walls […]

Highly efficient and environmentally clean energy conversion in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells is driven by electrochemical reactions that convert hydrogen and oxygen molecules into water. Water, the product of the overall reaction, is involved in all essential processes in the cell. Water management is, thus, a critical issue for fuel cell operation. It […]

Detecting ovarian cancer is, in general, difficult because of the lack of effective screening tests. If the disease is discovered when confined to the ovaries, surgery alone is curative in more than 90% of patients – however, in most patients, diagnosis only occurs after dissemination beyond the ovaries. In these cases, a combined treatment of […]

The partner company, ENMAX Energy Corporation, is a leading electricity and natural gas supplier in Alberta. Modern techniques from stochastic processes and numerical analysis are widely used in energy risk management and trading. The intern research project involved the development of an optimal portfolio of products in the energy industry as well as the study […]