The net 5-year survival rate for patients suffering from liver cancer is less then 20 percent and the number of cases is rapidly increasing in Canada. Unfortunately, currently available oral chemotherapies can only extend median survival by 3 – 4 months making the development of new and effective drug treatments critical. The proposed study aims […]

L’objectif principal du présent projet de recherche doctorale est de développer et de valider une approche globale et intégrée de l’analyse de la stabilité des pentes minières en milieu arctique. Le cas d’étude du projet minier Meliadine d’Agnico Eagle Mines Ltée sera utilisé. Quatre stages sont prévus. Ils porteront sur les sujets suivants : travaux […]

Automatic analysis of sport videos is an attractive research area in computer vision that is driving the sport analytics towards a more technological edge. By automatically analyzing sport videos, lots of information could be drawn that benefits the teams, coaches, referees, players and even the fans, such as: extracting strategy of the game, technique and […]

Electric motors for traction applications come in many types, but in-hub induction motor with concentrated winding is not one of them. This specific configuration is of high interest for Nordresa – an electric truck manufacturer based in Montréal, Canada. In effect, this motor type presents numerous advantages: because of the concentrated winding and the absence […]

Existing methods and techniques for process mapping will be considered to develop a process framework which will be adapted to perform analysis and provide improvements to the process. Analysis techniques will be applied to detect redundant, duplicated or misaligned process activities. Results will provide means to assess and evaluate the discrepancies between the actual and […]

Pela, incorporated under Open Mind Development Corporation (OMDC), manufactures environmentally sustainable products, such as compostable smartphone and laptop cases. Pela aims to lead the industry in taking complete responsibility for its manufactured products and continuously improve their lifecycle so that they have the most renewable and sustainable beginning of life, and the most graceful end […]

Le projet-pilote de navette autonome (et électrique) de la ville de Candiac représente une opportunité intéressante pour étudier les effets de la présence d’une navette autonome sur le réseau routier. C’est précisément ce que nous proposons avec ce projet de recherche, qui compte trois objectifs : le premier vise à connaître les perceptions et pratiques […]

The Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics (CCAB) is working with Empirica Therapeutics (Empirica), a Canadian start-up company focused on developing data-driven treatments for cancer, to address the unmet medical needs of glioblastoma (GBM), the most common adult malignant primary brain tumor. Current therapies are only partly effective, with frequent relapse and poor […]

There is a desperate need for a fast, non-contact, non-invasive, safe and accurate technique that can measure oxygen saturation, oxygen metabolic activity and multilayered histology-like information. Oxygen saturation and oxygen metabolic activity play a vital role in understanding several diseases including early tumour and vision loss diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, when the oncologic care team […]

Au Québec, les fermes marines ayant un intérêt pour l’algoculture sont situées aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine, en Basse-Côte-Nord et en Gaspésie, sur des sites dont les caractéristiques sont très différentes. À cet effet, une entreprise maricole de la Gaspésie, Ferme Marine du Québec, produit commercialement des plantules sur cordes et vend des collecteurs d’algues à des aquaculteurs […]

An ongoing study in Winnipeg is investigating the possibility of using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to help treat the cognitive and memory declines in Alzheimer’s disease. The objective of this project is to analyze in detail the current results of this study. We will look for connections between MRI scans of the participants and their […]

La société Enercon, produit des éoliennes et par la suite opère les centrales qui ont été installés, pour garantir le bon fonctionnement de celles-ci. L’un des enjeux à surmonter pour la maintenance d’une centrale éolienne est la prédiction des défaillances, afin d’intervenir le plus rapidement possible et de limiter le temps d’arrêt des turbines. La […]