Ticks contain many different disease-causing bacteria and viruses, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Multiple infections with these other pathogens in addition to Borrelia cause more severe illness. For many of these pathogens there are no or limited diagnostic tools available to detect the pathogen. This project includes production of a new product, “a […]

UAV-based data analytics is an emerging technology with a high degree potential to replace or compensate traditional airborne-based mapping for infrastructure risk analysis. However, current development does still not reach to its maturity, allowing its immediate application to practical operations due to the complexity of flying dynamic and object understanding. This project aims to investigate […]

The NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures is a five-year partnership between Canadian industry, universities, researchers, research and education (R&E) networks, and high performance computing centres to investigate the design of future application platforms that will deliver software applications of greater capability and intelligence. These application platforms will be supported by an […]

Les services de soins et de maintien à domicile comptaient sur un budget de 5,9 milliards de dollars en 2010, soit environ 4% des budgets publics en santé et sont en pleine expansion puisque qu’en 2011, 1,4 million de Canadiens en bénéficiaient, soit 55% de plus qu’en 2008. Le modèle de revenu pour la prestation […]

The intern will analyze blood samples of patients with high-risk prostate cancer. The cancer cells will be isolated from the blood sample and the genetic material will be stained and then imaged by a high-intensity-high-focus 3D microscope. Next, the telomeres (ends of genes) will be studied and compared. The point is to see the progression […]

Biopolymers, large molecules produced by living organisms such as cellulose, are gaining potential in several industries. Plastics, electronics, and pharmaceutical industries are just few examples of the applications of biopolymers. Development of a reliable, accurate, and fast analytical tool to characterize biopolymers is one of the main challenges facing their large scale production, application, and […]

Greases are highly structured suspensions consisting of a thickener dispersed in lubricating liquid and additives. LB Foster has recently started developing railroad greases that have exceptional product performance. The main objective of this project is to study different grease formulations on a molecular level, using rheological testing and molecular imaging techniques. A fundamental understanding of […]

Ce projet va chercher à identifier les facteurs liés aux travailleurs, à l’environnement immédiat de travail et au contexte organisationnel qui peuvent augmenter la probabilité qu’un incident ou accident survienne avec des conducteurs. Une approche multidisciplinaire de la SST (incluant, l’ergonomie, la psychologie des comportements humains, l’ingénierie des facteurs humains et le management de la […]

The objective of this project is to improve the communication between architects and wind engineers so that affects associated with wind such as pedestrian comfort, building strength and ventilation may be considered earlier on within the design phase of a project. By documenting the development of the invisible yet extremely prominent winds that flow through […]

This research would determine the costs of securing and restoring drained wetland areas on private lands in the Wintering Hills area of Alberta, Canada, through the use of an approach called a “reverse auction.” Collaborating with Ducks Unlimited Canada, the project would pay farmers to allow wetlands to be restored on their property. The payment […]

The objective of the proposed research is to apply the models of Markov decision processes for better practice of agriculture insurance and reinsurance. The goal is to explore optimal reinsurance models and risk management approaches that address the tradeoff between risk retaining and risk spreading, in a dynamic, multi-period setting. The focus is on seeking […]

Hydroelectric dams are hallmarks of colonization in Canada, as they destroy food sources, homeland, habitation, and natural resources of Indigenous peoples. O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (OPCN), an Indigenous community in northern Manitoba, Canada, was flooded and forced to relocate from ancestral lands to a nearby settlement under such circumstances. Regaining strength from their inherent cultural values […]