The use of ionic liquids (ILs) in enhanced oil recovery is considered a new and promising technology as it has never been tested in any pilot plant or reservoir field. ILs are very similar to surfactants as they help reduce the interfacial tension, change the wettability of the reservoir, and some have strong viscous effect, […]

According to Statistics Canada, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for 72,338 or 32% of all Canadian deaths in 2004. To further reduce the mortality and morbidity rate of heart disease, significant improvements in the extraction of the clinical heart parameters, such as the change in shape and motion patterns […]

The most successful computer vision approaches are based on deep learning architectures, which typically require a large amount of labeled data. This can be impractical or expensive to acquire. Therefore, few-shot learning techniques were proposed to learn new concepts with just one or few annotated examples. However, unsupervised methods such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) […]

Depuis des milliers d’années, les déplacements des humains ont introduit des espèces exotiques dans des milieux où elles ne se retrouvaient pas naturellement. Une de ces espèces, le nerprun, a été introduite en Amérique du nord vers la fin des années 1800. Elle prend aujourd’hui de plus en plus de place dans nos environnements forestiers, […]

Vaccination is a widely accepted public health intervention, yet public confidence in vaccines is affected by misinformation about vaccine safety shared mainly on Facebook. This project aims to increase availability of credible information about HPV vaccines and influenza vaccines on Facebook. It includessix phases: 1) identify the most relevant approaches for marketing campaigns; 2) conduct […]

Just like the idiom says, to not put all your eggs in one basket, insurance and reinsurance are founded on diversification. Pooling among policyholders, lines of businesses, perils, etc., are typical ways to achieve an adequate level of diversification to lower required capital. However, there are several factors that can act to hamper diversification, even […]

Une composante importante de l’alimentation durable, dans le contexte du développement durable, est de mettre le consommateur beaucoup plus près, psychologiquement et physiquement, de la production de sa nourriture quotidienne. En particulier, la culture en serre en climat nordique (ex. Québec, Canada) diminue la distance entre le consommateur et le producteur d’aliments à haute teneur […]

The project targets the design and implementation of a residential solar system on the roof-top of a student residence near the UBC Okanagan campus to determine actual performance and cost data for the region of Kelowna and its unique environmental conditions. Theoretical modelling will be conducted to maximize both the profitability and energy output of […]

Geophysical electromagnetic techniques are used to scan the Earth’s subsurface and can be used to help find buried materials of economic, environmental and societal importance. They are especially widely used in mineral exploration. DIAS Geophysical is developing a new geophysical electromagnetic system that will be flown under a helicopter that should be more effective than […]

Aquaculture now accounts for approximately half of all fish and shellfish consumed worldwide. With increasing production costs and public concern over emitted wastes, there is much effort towards increasing the efficiency of operations, namely that of feed use. However, assessing the effects of the many factors contributing to productivity and efficiency, (eg. various feed types, […]

En forêt boréale, les coupes partielles se présentent comme une alternative aux coupes totales pour assurer le compromis entre conservation de la biodiversité et récolte durable de la ressource ligneuse. Bien que les coupes partielles soient des traitements sylvicoles classiques en Europe, leur utilisation demeure marginale et inadaptée aux conditions de la forêt boréale Québécoise. […]

Pacific salmon spend most of their life in the open ocean, where we know little about the factors influencing their health and abundance. Last year, we participated in the first expedition to explore the winter habitat of salmon the Gulf of Alaska. We collect samples to inform ongoing research projects focusing on salmon health and […]