Strategies to promote immune defences against COVID-19 infection are urgently needed. The gastrointestinal tract is a potentially important route for COVID-19 infection and for generating protective anti-viral immunity against this pathogen. Certain features of COVID-19 contribute to its ability to evade and subvert our immune defences. Type I interferon is a key immune protein that […]

The proposed research is a collaboration between Vancity, the City of Victoria, and the University of Victoria to bring together the necessary information (financial, regulatory, and knowledge, respectively) to build a plan that will initiate Victoria’s Green Economy. Interns will be part of distinct interviewing panels that will research the needs, benefits, and obstacles of […]

iStandardize is an AI-powered machine learning solution that is designed to streamline the standardization of clinical order sets (i.e., forms) by using machine learning and natural language processing techniques. Currently, hospital networks use multiple versions of forms and order sets, many of them are similar in nature. The lack of standardization poses a challenge in […]

L’émergence de l’Industrie 4.0 amène les chefs d’entreprise à remettre en question leurs modèles d’affaires et à envisager de quelle façon ces technologies peuvent se combiner pour transformer les produits, les processus et les services offerts. Cette transformation numérique amène inévitablement les entreprises à identifier les fournisseurs de ces technologies et les experts qui peuvent […]

The purpose of this project is to assess the impact of a home-based education program for preschool-aged children called the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). This program aims to increase school readiness of children deemed educationally “at-risk” by reason of family poverty, parent education levels, family isolation, settlement issues, and/or English language skills. […]

Over the last decades, the moose population of New Brunswick has greatly increased, to a point where forest regeneration is locally compromised. Moose browsing can severely influence forest dynamics by altering stand structure and composition and favouring softwood species over hardwoods in mixedwood stands. Hence, it is important to understand the factors influencing moose browsing […]

This project deals with the development of new mathematical models and solution methods to optimize naval surface ship refit operations. The Naval Surface Ship Work Period Problem (NSWPP) is a highly complex resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) with many work orders that are equivalent to small projects. Planning, scheduling, and executing NSWPPs are very challenging, […]

Food manufacturers experience significant waste when transforming raw materials into refined finished products. In the food processing industries, a single line can have 50% or more of raw materials loss while simultaneously producing varying degrees of quality simply because processing equipment is not optimally configured to the characteristics of the suppliers’ raw materials. Worximity proposes […]

This project aims at developing information and knowledge that will promote public and policy support for the long-term sustainability of the agricultural system surrounding the greenbelt. Based on a preliminary research led by the Friends of Greenbelt Foundation, this research will develop a monitoring framework for the viability and protection of the agricultural system in […]

Les pharmacies au détail s’appuient principalement sur leurs propres données empiriques pour planifier et prévoir leurs stocks. Ce type de données a ses propres caractéristiques, qui peuvent être saisonnières et être affectées par des événements spéciaux et imprévus tels que les maladies pandémiques. Toutefois, à mesure que la quantité de données s’accumule, il n’est pas […]

A sustainable pavement is one that is safe, smooth, efficient, economic, and environment friendly, meeting the needs of present-day users without comprising those of future generations. Sustainable flexible (asphalt) pavements, in particular, are those that minimize environmental impacts through the reduction of fuel and energy-based materials (asphalt cement, for example) consumption, more effective use of […]

Bell Media receives content from different providers, including content it produces in-house. There are standards for tagging audio tracks with metadata however many facilities (including Bell) do not adhere to these standards. Currently Bell uses a manual approach to classify unlabeled audio tracks, which is inefficient, and time consuming for massive digital media that Bell […]