The fundamental challenge when reclaiming oil sands areas is to ensure not only survival, but vigorous growth of the plant material. Finding plants suitable for high salt conditions has offered the opportunity for Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. to investigate the potential role of using native balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) as a key reclamation species for […]

Children’s treatment centres provide specialized services to support children and youth with special needs to live life at their full potential. The design of these spaces significantly impacts the experience and well-being of the children that they serve. Children with special needs include individuals with challenges or delays in their physical, intellectual, emotional, social, verbal, […]

Canada is one of the largest canola producing countries. The industry contributes about $20 billion revenue to the Canadian economy. Currently, canola farmers rely on the weather forecast (temperature, moisture, etc.) to decide whether to apply a fungicide. As the Internet-of-Things and sensor technologies get more advanced, farmers are deserved to have better technologies for […]

Ce projet consiste à recenser les effets secondaires et à caractériser le profil d’innocuité d’une nouvelle formulation d’un médicament bien connu et efficace dans le traitement de l’addiction aux opioïdes : SublocadeTM (buprénorphine à libération prolongée). Tout en agissant sur l’humeur, les opioïdes génèrent un sentiment d’euphorie et c’est pourquoi ils peuvent comporter un risque […]

Le DeLeaves est un outil qui permet récolter des branches au sommet des arbres, peu importe leur hauteur, l’espèce ou la densité de la végétation avoisinante. Il décolle de la route ou d’éclaircies en forêt et se dirige de façon autonome vers un arbre présélectionné. L’opérateur procède ensuite à la récolte de la branche et […]

The increasing need for environmental protection together with the concerns over the future availability of petrochemical feedstock have led to the design and development of new bio-based chemicals and materials using renewable resources. Lignin is the second most abundant natural renewable polymer after cellulose. The lignin content in woody stem various between 15%-40% and it […]

Le monde de l’économie de la santé est en constante évolution entre autres en raison des nouvelles sortes de traitements et de l’importance, qui peut s’avérer parfois urgente, de l’accès aux médicaments. Ainsi les agences d’évaluation des technologies de la santé essayent de s’adapter au mieux à ces changements. En juillet 2018, l’INESSS a apporté […]

Recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of medical cannabis (MC) to treat certain conditions like chronic pain. However, surveys conducted before 2018 have revealed that physicians were more reluctant than patients to use MC. According to physicians, a major barrier to the use of MC was insufficient information. In this project, we want to describe […]

Recently, machine learning has been used in every possible field to leverage its amazing power. In this project we employ and advance machine learning algorithms for analysis of networks log data due to extraction of informative features. These data, which are recorded every millisecond, are usually high dimensional and imbalanced where no class label is […]

There are several drugs on the market whose overall safety may not be fully known. Drug safety monitoring is important in identifying previously unknown side effects. This activity is not exclusive to drugs, but also applies to natural health products. Patient awareness of product safety is a major concern in Canada. Only about 5% of […]

Edge computing is expected to play a transformative role for future AI applications in 5G networks by bringing cloud-style resource provisioning closer to the devices that have the data. Instead of running resource-intensive AI applications at the end devices, we can consolidate their execution at the edge, which brings many benefits, such as eliminating the […]

Dans ce projet de recherche, l’organisme partenaire, le Regroupement des Maisons de Jeunes du Québec vise à dresser, avec le soutien de la chercheure principale et de la stagiaire, un portrait des instances régionales de gouvernance dans les 16 régions desservies et à qualifier l’intervention qui se déroule dans les maisons de jeunes afin de […]