Innovative Use of Compost at Brady Road Resource Management Facility

The proposed research aims to develop general design parameters needed to optimize a large-scale landfill biocover for countering landfill methane emissions at Brady Road Resource Management Facility (BRRMF). The intern will conduct column studies aimed at determining the optimum combination of yard waste and leaf compost and biosolids compost for facilitating the growth of methane […]

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Visualization of Facial Trajectories for Fast Adjudication in Watchlist Screening

Public security organizations have deployed video surveillance at many security checkpoints, at e.g., airport inspection lanes and border crossings. Face4 Systems provides solutions for watchlist screening based on state-of-the-art commercial technologies. Although automated still-to-video FR is a valuable function in video surveillance, screening for threatening individuals is largely limited to the FR abilities of a […]

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Nutrition for Two: development of interactive nutrition research tools and a pretrial for food and nutrition intake trend among the First Nation’s pregnant women

Prenatal alcohol exposure results in a vast spectrum of teratogenic effects and lifelong implications for a child, called fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Since FASD is not genetic-related and there is no treatment to reverse damage caused to the brain, earlier nutrition intervention to pregnant mothers may be a key to prevent or mitigate the […]

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From Data Collection, Cleaning, Integration and Management to Analytics, Prediction and Recommendation

Individuals (donors) wishing to donate funds to non-profit and/or charitable organizations want to know how the organizations operate and how effectively their donations are used. Dexterity has developed an online service called Place2Give which aims to answer those questions. The research project aims to employ social network analysis and data mining to enhance the data […]

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Optimisation d’un biosenseur visant la détection de pathogènes bactériens

L’objectif du projet de recherche vise l’évaluation et l’optimisation d’un appareil de détection de bactéries pathogènes. Ces bactéries pathogènes représentent un risque important pour la santé publique, c’est pourquoi le développement d’une méthode d’analyse rapide et efficace permettrait de répondre à un besoin croissant de senseurs biologiques. À travers différentes phases de validation et de […]

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Urban Economic Innovation Lab – Researching Economic Alternatives for Inner City Neighbourhoods

Vancouver’s inner city is experiencing disproportionate levels of poverty and is under strong development pressure, with concern that few of the associated benefits are being captured by local communities and economies. An appetite exists for innovation in economic development but current community capacity to explore and support these ideas is limited. RADIUS SFU and Ecotrust […]

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A wireless ring pulse oximeter with advanced signal processing

Pulse oximeters are key devices to provide early information on the respiratory and circulatory systems. In addition to be bulky and cumbersome, most commercially available systems lack a wireless connection, which cause numerous inconveniences. This project aims at designing a new wireless ring pulse oximeter which will enable to measure transmitted and reflected light from […]

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A dual-band optogenetic headstage

B. Gosselin and Doric Lenses Inc. have developed the first low-cost wireless head mounted optogenetic device enabling simultaneous biopotential recording and optical stimulation in the brain of freely moving rodents. This project aims at providing such a wireless optogenetic headstage system with user programmable functions, so it can address the dual nature of brain biopotentials, […]

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The Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance onArctic Wildlife

The exploration phase of the Agnico Eagle Meliadine Mine (AEMM) close to the community of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut overlaps with a study area where our research group has been studying the ecology of Arctic peregrine falcons since 1980. We are now taking advantage of this unique opportunity to combine a long-term, pre-disturbance data set with […]

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Végétalisation de résidus miniers avec char

Le site minier Doyon possède des centaines d’hectares couverts de tonnes de résidus miniers. Vu l’impact majeur des déchets miniers sur l’environnement, le MDDEP oblige, par des lois, la restauration de ces sites. Le Centre Jardin Lac Pelletier (CJLP) et le CTRI ont développé des techniques de restauration de sites miniers en valorisant la MOR […]

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