Porous Rubber Pavement (PRP) is a new type of permeable pavement in North America. It consists of stone aggregates, crumb rubber from recycled tires, and polyurethane as a binder. Due to a higher percentage of air voids (27% to 29%) and flexible nature, it offers extensive environmental and safety benefits, including improved stormwater management, reduced […]

This work will develop a high voltage power supply that is lower cost than currently available systems and has the unique feature of being electrically isolated from the input, meaning that multiple supplies can be stacked to increase the output voltage. This work will be used for fusion research but may find many uses in […]

Les technologies à semi-conducteurs de puissance évoluent rapidement. Ces technologies se retrouvent dans différentes applications telles l’aéronautique et le transport terrestre. Elles permettent d’obtenir des rendements élevés et permettent de minimiser le poids des divers composants des convertisseurs d’énergie. Toutefois, afin d’optimiser les bénéfices apportés par ces nouvelles technologies, il est important de bien comprendre […]

While buying a property, a professional home inspection is one of the single-most important “checks” the buyer should conduct to make sure that the home is safe and secure to live in. In order to enhance public safety and confidence, the home inspector should possess sufficient knowledge, skill and ability to perform the inspection competently. […]

Wastewater treatment lagoons are practical and cost-effective systems for smaller towns across Canada to prevent wastewater seepage into the environment. Essentially all structures over permafrost that disrupt the natural winter temperatures contacting the ground surface initiates permafrost thawing over the long-term and this includes lagoons.KGS Group has been developing the concept of using conventional closed-loop […]

As Covid-19 Pandemic shows that we are surrounded by global unforeseen risks. Housing and housing financing are significant parts of people’s life and global crises may always put people’s right to housing in danger. For this very reason, it is a necessity to look for alternative financing models for housing as affordability would decrease the […]

Our research will assess the degree to which variation in migratory behavior in Loggerhead Shrike is altered due to sustained periods of captivity. Information will be obtained from a captive population of Loggerhead Shrike. Behaviour of captive birds will be recorded on video cameras and analyzed to determine the level of migratoriness displayed by differently […]

The project will conduct applied research on how to modernize medical practice software to a “cloud-based” service paradigm. Cloud-based software delivery uses a secure part of the Internet to deliver services. It has many advantages over the traditional model of installing and maintaining software products on local computer workstations. For example, the cost of ownership, […]

Food waste is a multibillion-dollar problem in Canada and around the world. Some level of waste may be unavoidable, but large amounts of safe food are lost every year because of the arbitrary nature of measuring food spoilage. This is especially true at the wholesale and retail level for meat products. Food typically spoil in […]

The project will conduct applied research on how to assure security and privacy in a “cloudbased” mobile messaging system in the health care domain. Cloud-based software delivery uses a secure part of the Internet to deliver services. It has many advantages over the traditional model of installing and maintaining software products on local computer workstations. […]

The proposed research project is to create a nanoparticle capable of labeling stem cells to ultimately track their localization and biodistribution in small animal models. This probe will be unique in that it will possess multimodal imaging properties to allow visualization with Positron Emision Tomography (PET), Single-Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT) and other clinical imaging […]

Plant oils are attractive renewable feedstocks for the synthesis of biobased resins. However, the current bioresin technologies are unable to address certain challenges including (1) achieving a sufficiently high biocontent in the final product, (2) the synthesis of bioresins via green chemistry, and (3) a commercially feasible bioresin cost. In this research, the MITACS intern […]