Out-dated culverts are the most numerous barriers to fish movement and habitat connectivity in British Columbia, barring juvenile salmonids from thousands of kilometers of freshwater rearing habitat. The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has untaken an initiative to strategically remediate culverts in B.C. for improved juvenile salmon habitat access. However, the impacts and restoration requirements of […]

Le bien-être est un sujet d’actualité dans les entreprises : ce serait le meilleur prédicteur de l’engagement et de la performance au travail. Plusieurs critères servent à l’évaluer, comme la satisfaction au travail. Ces critères ne sont toutefois pas équivalents à la santé au sens de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé : ce n’est pas […]

Jusqu’à 40% des patients hospitalisés pour évènement cardio-vasculaire majeur (infarctus du myocarde, insuffisance cardiaque, chirurgie cardiaque) sont diabétiques. Au décours de cet épisode de soins, de nouveaux objectifs de traitement et de prévention cardio-vasculaire sont fixés généralement au patient en accord avec les recommandations canadiennes en cardiologie et en diabète. Ces objectifs sont malheureusement rarement […]

With the increasing requirements for smart vehicles in recent years, driving activity recognition in vehicles becomes a promising direction given its unique advantages in safe driving and human-car interaction. It can not only alert the driver when there exist distracted driving behaviors but also enable novel human-car interactions with gesture-based control. Most state-of-the-art systems use […]

Intensive harvesting practices in British Columbia coastal rain forest, particularly adjacent to streams, result to ecological simplifications that alter the structure, composition and function of ecosystems and may provide limited habitat quality for many vertebrate species. Small mammals are known to respond to these disturbances depending on the harvesting intensity and how often their home […]

Aluminum smelting is a high energy consuming industrial process. The process generates a large amount of the heat that leaves through the exhaust gas. The exhaust gas must be scrubbed of its contaminants before releasing to the atmosphere at the gas treatment unit exit. The scrubbing process is more effective if this gas is cooled […]

Over 200,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in Canada each year. With imaging using an appropriate modality, many types of cancer that manifest as solid tumors can be detected, treated or managed effectively. Positron emission tomography (PET) combined with computed tomography (CT) is the primary imaging modality in a range of cancer types. Scientific studies […]

Scriptam, a sub-company of Compagnie Canadienne de Tableaux Noirs Ltée (CCTN), produces high-end whiteboards, made out of an assembly of tempered glass, paint, tape and steel. For the last 3 years, they have had an issue with around 4% of their production. Their whiteboards, which are under a 50-year warranty, undergo color degradation in the […]

Dans les pays en développement, les libertés d’action des femmes sont très limitées comparativement à celles hommes. Leur capacité à définir des objectifs et à faire des choix passe par de nombreux moyens présentés dans la littérature scientifique. À Baguineda au Mali, les femmes productrices d’oignons ont bénéficié d’appuis sur l’éducation financière, les services financiers […]

The proposed project proposes design solutions for a Multi-camera vehicle identification, tracking and geo-localization system. The systems is constrained to use video streams from inexpensive surveillance cameras, and leverages image recognition software trained to detect and track vehicles in a controlled area. This will allow apps to pinpoint vehicles easily and reliably. Such technology works […]

The internship project involves performance improvement in current cellular networks through wireless backhaul interference mitigation. In particular, the problem of RBM to hub assignment and resource allocation amongst the hubs are tackled in the uplink transmission of wireless backhaul networks. The intern is expected to investigate current developed algorithm at BLiNQ Wireless Inc. as well […]

Les municipalités ont de plus en plus de difficulté à respecter les normes sur le rejet des contaminants. Cela est dû en partie au resserrement des normes gouvernementales sur le rejet de certains contaminants. Afin d’adresser ce problème, le partenaire industriel du projet souhaite développer un produit efficace pour le traitement des eaux usées municipales. […]