Hospitals, diagnostic laboratories and medical research organizations have witnessed an upsurge in the generation of biohazardous medical waste during the COVID-19 pandemic. This waste is potentially detrimental to the environment and public health and needs to be adequately decontaminated and disposed. Incineration is the most routinely employed technique to treat biohazardous waste but the method […]

La pratique du hockey est actuellement interdite en raison de l’absence de mesures de protection des joueurs éprouvées contre la COVID-19. La compagnie CCM souhaite ainsi développer un dispositif de protection individuelle contre la COVID-19 pour les joueurs de hockey. Les concepts actuellement à l’étude visent à éviter la projection et l’inhalation de gouttelettes qui […]

Social distancing due to COVID-19 has meant that older adults have not been as able to see their doctors. Older adults have chronic conditions, such as diabetes, that can flare up and cause emergencies. So, finding older adults who are unwell is very important. Community support services, such as those providing meals-on-wheels, are available to […]

In healthcare, communication and clear roles and responsibilities are critical in delivering care to patients. This is difficult to achieve in the best of times; during pandemics and mass casualty events, communication is the first thing to fail, leading to inefficiency, confusion, and ultimately harm to patients. This project aims to develop an automated system […]

Dans le contexte actuel de pandémie du Covid-19, de nombreux exemples d’échecs du système de soin et d’hébergement des ainées en résidences et de maltraitance furent présentés dans les médias. Or, il existe aussi plusieurs exemples de réussite où les milieux d’hébergement ont su s’adapter aux nombreux défis que pose l’actuelle crise. Cette recherche étudie […]

Automation of medical diagnosis/detection process is very important in terms of enhancing diagnostic accuracy, increasing throughput, reducing cost, and training new staff. In this project we are interested to investigate and develop a system for enhancement of automatic recognition and classification of human blood images. Smart tools for medical applications have high importance and increasing […]

This research project will investigate the sales skills that enable salesperson performance for the modern sales environment. This will help to improve recruiting practices for organizations and will enable organizations to better prepare their employees for sales-related positions, and better prepare the existing sales team by incorporating the findings of this study in their sales […]

This research project will seek to explain differences among non-profit organizations in terms of their resilience to the crisis generated by the COVID 19 pandemic. By studying 10 firms that have exhibited strong resilience and then 10 similar firms that have struggled, we will seek to better understand what might account for stronger resilience in […]

Depuis plusieurs semaines, la COVID-19 bouleverse plusieurs aspects de la société, tels que les liens sociaux ou économiques. Parmi les nombreux secteurs affectés, le domaine de la culture est particulièrement touché au Québec et partout dans le monde. Par exemple, les regroupements tels que les festivals, expositions ou spectacles sont maintenant annulés. Cela pose donc […]

Dans ce projet de recherche, l’organisme partenaire, la Fondation Jasmin Roy vise à dresser, avec le soutien de la chercheure principale et des stagiaires, un portrait du bien-être à l’école et des pratiques de soutien aux parcours d’apprentissage en contexte COVID. Le retour à l’école au printemps 2020 suivant les consignes sociosanitaires impose certaines limites […]

The detection of SARS-CoV-2, the causative of COVID-19, is challenging because the used techniques, such as nucleic amplification, cannot detect a whole virus. Instead, it amplifies nucleic acids that can be fragmented with no information about the presence of an infectious virus. We propose to use a technology based on the use of a physic […]

Le secteur des arts et de la culture est l’un plus touchés économiquement par crise de la COVID-19. Cette crise impose aux organisations culturelles de profondes transformations tant sur le plan de leur modèle d’affaires que de leur gestion. La reprise de leurs activités exigera aussi des adaptations importantes. Ce projet de recherche vise donc […]