Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide with approximately 8 million deaths in 2010. Most cancer treatments lack specificity and affect the whole body, with toxic effects on both cancerous and normal cells. Then, there is a need for an early diagnostic test to treat patients before the development of cancer. Biomark […]

Given tre extraordinary natural resources used for the construction, operation and demolition of buildings and the extensive impact that buildings have on natural cycles and the environment, there is an urgent need to shift towards greener buildings. In Canada, regulation presents obstacles to building green. This project will investigate the building code variances used in […]

Where observations of air pollution are unavailable, e.g. from emissions of future facilities or in remote areas, air pollution is simulated with computer models. These models require input of emissions from nearby sources but also of background concentrations that are caused by sources outside of the modelling domain, because the domain is limited by computational […]

This project is designed to analyze a list of insurance policies and past claims, and to determine which variables have had a significant influence on the cost of house reconstruction in the case of insurance claims. It is also planned to use a hedonic pricing model to include, where appropriate, the influence of location variables, […]

L’entreprise oeuvre dans un marché de gestionnaires d’investissements spécialisés. Le principal rôle de l’organisation est de suivre l’évolution des portefeuilles de ces gestionnaires et de rapporter lesinformations aux investisseurs soit les clients. Par la nature diversifiée et non traditionnelle des investissements, il n’existe pas beaucoup de statistiques reconnues comme étant fiables pour les décrire. Ainsi, […]

A fundamental activity of a commercial bank is the lending of capital through various credit instruments such as direct loans to consumers, mortgages, and lines of credit. Efficient lending is at the core of a well functioning economy. The risk in lending is commonly referred to as credit risk and represents the risk of loss […]

Addictive Mobility is the leading Big-Data online advertising company in Canada. It uses Real-Time Bidding (RTB) platform for online display advertising in mobile devices. In this domain, a number of companies compete with each other to display a specific Ad to a customer within a specific time. Thus, in such a competitive system, the goal […]

Farmers in Western Canada are demanding larger, higher capacity seeding equipment due to lack of available labor, economies of scale, and a limited seeding window. Typical air seeder systems are limited by the power available from current tractors. Therefore in order to increase the capacities of future units, a reduction in the power required will […]

Studies have shown that even though people with disabilities (PWD) are living longer and healthier lives their employment rate has not improved in Canada in 10 years. This poses a challenge because these individuals receive healthcare and social assistance from the government at a higher rate than the majority of the population. This leads to […]

Ce projet cherche à améliorer les méthodes d’exploration minière grâce à l’intelligence artificielle. En effet, il est de plus en plus difficile pour cette industrie de trouver de nouvelles mines. Celle-ci a accès à de larges bases de données mais l’être humain n’est capable que d’en comprendre et utiliser qu’une faible partie. Il est donc […]

Trading is increasingly moving from the human world to its electronic counterpart. In this new environment the effects need to be properly understood and analyzed. Most recently the Canadian market as other developed capital markets has experienced a reduction in direct trading costs for investors but at the cost of an increase in indirect trading […]

Universal NanoSensor Technologies (UNS-Tech) develops and commercializes microfabricated conductivity detectors. In this MITACS project, UNS-Tech will partner with Prof. Cynthia to explore new detector architectures based on nano-particle and nano-shell films. The results will be analyzed and the findings will be published in scientific journals. The intern participating in this cluster will benefit from this […]