Drug use in older persons is a major public health concern. Even though therapeutic drugs are beneficial for patients’ health in terms of survival or quality of life, patients aged >65 years have a greater risk of developing drug-related complications. Such complications may be fatal because of the high frequency of both multiple pathologies andpolypharmacy […]

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive technology for examining functional activity in the brain. It is widely used in research, but is not yet part of routine patient care in clinics. To date, most of the fMRI applications collect imaging data at a single time point. This has limited the potential of the […]

Youth are tomorrow’s leaders, parents, professionals, and workers, as well as today’s assets. However, the disengagement and out-migration of rural youth are critical challenges for rural communities and regions. In the Lower Columbia and surrounding West Kootenay-Boundary region these challenges are compounded by struggles to meet existing labour force needs. This project will review, summarize, […]

The need for more and more data rates is significantly increasing due to the newly introduced wireless/mobile applications and services. Traditional modulation schemes cannot provide satisfactory long-term solution to this problem. That said, non-traditional modulation (spiral-based modulation) comes into play as a strong candidate to solve the increasing data rate requirements problem. Spiral-based modulation exploits […]

Ce projet a pour but de proposer aux gestionnaires des centrales hydro-électriques d’Hydro-Québec des solutions d’organisation de la maintenance de turbine hydro-électrique à partir d’un indice prédisant l’état futur de la turbine. Cette organisation prendra en compte plusieurs aspects tels que la problématique liée à la demande en énergie (certaines périodes sont plus propices que […]

Les logiciels actuels de DHM (Digital Human Modeling ou d’ergonomie virtuelle) destinés à la conception ergonomique de situations de travail et de produits demeurent difficiles à utiliser ce qui en limite grandement l’utilisation par les concepteurs et les ergonomes. Pourtant, l’utilisation plus répandue de DHM permettrait d’en arriver à des environnements de travail plus sécuritaires […]

The proposed research will investigate how to improve the performance and economic sustainability of Orius insidiosus as a biological control against Western Flower Thrips in greenhouse ornamental crops. New strategies to increase the efficiency of O. insidious will be investigated through the use of banker plants, supplemental food, and the use of lures. The project […]

Parents suffering from toxic stress (depression, addictions, and/or family violence) are often unable to respond sensitively and appropriately to their infants, putting the health and development of their infants at risk. My research evaluates a new parenting program called ATTACH. In ATTACH, parents learn to reflect on how they parent and to better understand their […]

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) emerges after the exposure to an event that elicits horror or helplessness, including threat of injury or death to one’s self or another person. Community-based studies have evaluated its occurrence with a lifetime prevalence of 9.2% in the Canadian population. This research project aims to develop innovative, neural-substrate based, and novel […]

Future broadband cellular systems will require very high throughput data transmission to satisfy ever increasing demands of mobile users for high speed multimedia services. Using innovative approaches to multiantenna transmission/reception and to cooperation of network nodes the achievable data rates can be greatly increased. Two significant obstacles to achieving very high data rates are interference […]

Non-small cell lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Resistance to treatments results in a very poor long-term prognosis. VAL-083 is a chemotherapeutic drug that has activity against lung cancer in cell-studies and in clinical trials. It may be an effective treatment option for drug-resistant lung cancer. However, the detailed mechanism of […]

L’industrie cosmétique s’intéresse de plus en plus à des molécules naturelles pour le développement de nouvelles formules cosmétiques. Le présent projet vise à mieux comprendre les propriétés cosmétiques du thé du Labrador qui est utilisé il est préconisé l’utilisation de certains de ces actifs naturels avec un fort potentiel anti-inflammatoire dans des applications cosmétologiques. Depuis […]