This Mitacs proposal tackles several outstanding issues that must be addressed to complete development of a widely applicable pipeline for quantitative analysis of 3D facial shape in medicine. Here, we focus on specific applications of imaging pipelines in genetic syndrome diagnosis and facial surgery visualization and planning. The fellows will develop (a) cutting edge, deep […]

Main aim of this project is to develop a prediction model for cancer projection, with detailed information regarding incidence, mortality and other measures of cancer burden for the most common types of cancer, presented by age, sex, time and geographic locations. These data can help stimulatenew research as well as assist decision-making and priority-setting at […]

There is a growing demand when it comes to the repairing of the coke drum since most of the current in-use coke drums has been in service for decades. This study will develop a new methodology to assess the microstructure evolution and thermal mechanical properties of service-exposed coke drums. The focus of experiments of this […]

L’utilisation de méthodes d’ensemble, dont l’usage est très répandu, permet souvent d’obtenir des résultats de haute précision mais sont beaucoup plus difficilement interprétable que les modèles d’apprentissage automatique traditionnel (arbres, régressions logistique/linéaire, ect). De plus, les méthodes d’ensemble sont généralement appliquées de façon relativement naïve, avec des méthodes d’agrégations des estimateurs telle que la moyenne […]

This project targets development of applied methods and practical solutions to risk management problems where only partial observation of a system is possible. Such settings are commonplace in financial and other context but can be challenging to address due to a limited number of production-grade ready-to-use solutions. The scientific component of the project employs approaches […]

Le but du projet est d’accompagner l’entreprise CCM Hockey dans sa transformation vers l’adoption de pratiques environnementales plus vertes, en lien avec les principes du développement durable (DD) et de l’économie circulaire (ÉC). Le projet est divisé en trois étapes. Premièrement, une étude d’étalonnage (« benchmarking ») des meilleurs pratiques de circularité en milieu manufacturier […]

Three out of five Canadians with dementia wander, raising concern as to how it can be managed. Strategies, such as GPS, offer options for finding missing persons with dementia and may be a preferred strategy by police. As part of the Finding Your Way® Program with the Alzheimer Society on Ontario, a series of education […]

Abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) has been recognized as a global threat to the marine environment. The use of modern materials in the fabrication of fishing gear mean that these do not biodegrade in the marine environment and can remain intact for decades. As a result, ALDFG can continue to catch and entangle […]

The conventional utility pole design methodologies used a decade or so ago produced poles that would be considered “safe” but in most cases they were not cost-effective solutions. This is because the resulting poles were usually over-designed, mainly due to several simplifying assumptions and incorporation of various rules-of-thumbs in the design procedures. Such design practices […]

The proposed research project will develop quantitative gas migration testing techniques and regulatory thresholds that address the complex nature of the multiple interacting variables that can confuse gas migration investigations. The study will focus on the development of in-situ field measurement technologies and instrumentation to characterize the variables that impact soil gas and isotope signatures […]

Water quench of steels consists to cool heated steel by sudden immersion in water. During the quench of large steel components, the part experiences a fast drop in temperature at the surface while the center is still hot. This huge difference in temperature within the part triggers material heterogeneities that induces shape change or even […]

The chemical synthesis of lipids with defined fatty acid side chains in terms of chain length and the degree of saturation/unsaturation is important to provide high-quality products for life science research. When dyes are added to the lipids, they can be used to a variety of biomedically relevant experiments by measuring be color and amount […]