The control tower of the future

In our vision, each human operator participating to an emergency response mission should equipped with a portable mobile command center that collects, elaborates and displays the meaningful information generated within the area of operations. In such scenario, the availability of a reliable network able to offer the required performance and reliability to an heterogeneous set […]

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A Deep Learning Approach to Soft Sensor Design and Process Optimization for an Industrial Nickel Extraction Process

The objective of this project is to use artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to solve complex industrial problems. The two biggest advantages of AI-based approaches are the ability to continuously learn and also learn adequately from historical data. Traditionally, many process information are unmeasurable during live operations because of instrumentation limitations. Also, plants are not sufficiently […]

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Energy Simulation and Lifecycle Costing of Advanced Glazing Systems

Highly efficient glazing, such as those offered by ECO-Insulating Glass, provide a significant opportunity to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. This project quantifies the energy savings, cost savings and reduction in heating and cooling demand resulting from using ECO glazing in five major Canadian cities for a typical medium sized office building, a home […]

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Development and validation of BRET-based biosensors for drug candidate profiling

G protein coupled receptors (GCPRs) are proteins found at the surface of cells are responsible for activating numerous intracellular signaling pathways and thus are involved in regulating about every physiological response. Activation of GPCRs occurs by compounds as varied as photons, lipids, ions, small hormonal or neurotransmitter compounds or larger peptidic and protein molecules. As […]

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Portrait régional et provincial de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques

Le projet vise à dresser un portrait régional et provincial de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques (ACC) au Québec et d’identifier le niveau de mobilisation et les acteurs actifs ou intéressés à l’ACC. L’étude se situe dans le cadre du programme Par notre propre énergie (2017-2020), mené par le Regroupement national des conseils régionaux de l’environnement […]

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LED Radiation Pattern Modelling

Display technology is ever improving; a current display technology being researched and created includes the use of LED arrays. One array could be used to produce a low quality image with minimal energy, while another more energy intensive array would be used for the sharper aspects of the image. Knowing exactly how these LED’s behave […]

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Effets des pratiques d’organisation spatiale de la récolte forestière sur la performance financière via une approche de benchmarking

Ce projet de recherche vise à identifier et documenter les meilleurs pratiques de gestion et d’exploitation de la ressource forestière par le biais d’une approche de benchmarking (approche de performance comparé) afin d’améliorer la compétitivité de certains Unités d’aménagement (UA) forestières et de contribuer à assurer la pérennité de l’industrie forestière. Le projet vise à […]

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Modélisation numérique de l’érosion éolienne sur le parc à résidus de la mine Éléonore et dispersion atmosphérique des poussières

La mine Éléonore est une mine souterraine en cours d’exploitation par Goldcorp Inc. (Baie James, Québec). Cette dernière produit d’importantes quantités de résidus miniers filtrés, en partie stockés en surface dans des parcs à résidus. L’érosion éolienne est un phénomène naturel entrainant le déplacement de particules, fines et grossières, et donc la perte de sol […]

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In Vitro Screening and Validation of Phyto-Cannabinoids in Glaucoma

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, mainly induced by increased pressure in the eye. Marijuana has been shown to reduce such pressure, thus benefit glaucoma patients. In this project, we test several components from marijuana extracts that are unlikely to cause psychoactive symptoms, for their therapeutic effects on glaucoma. This […]

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Advanced Anode Materials for Next-Generation All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

Advanced batteries are critical for achieving high-performance electric vehicles (EVs) and supporting goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The prevailing rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using liquid electrolytes, are the major choice for current EVs. However, these LIBs still suffer from safety, lifespan, and energy density issues. Solid-state lithium batteries (SSLBs) have recently emerged as alternative […]

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Detection of Fights in Crowd Video

Detection of fights and anomalous behavior of individuals in a crowd is a common problem in computer vision. Some tools that currently exist rely on optical flow of tracked features is a sequence of video frames. These motion algorithms are sensitive to independently moving objects in the frame. What constitutes an “anomaly” is context (eg. […]

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A Care Management Use Case: Correlation Detection between Dental Claiming Patterns and Overall Cost of Care by Participant

Green Shield Canada (GSC) is going to achieve the capability of data analytics in order to make data-driven decisions in various care management use case scenarios. One of these use cases is to detect specific patterns and associations between dental hygiene and health care costs of the individuals covered by them, predict points of intervention […]

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