Understanding river water quality is critical for various purposes such as ensuring drinking water safety, protecting public health and aquatic habitat, monitoring pollution, and disease control. The traditional approach to investigating water quality is by acquiring water samples at fixed-locations, which is time and cost consuming and cannot discover spatial distribution of water quality over […]

Automated object detection and tracking in videos is still one of the challenging problems in computer vision. Generally, it is a very challenging problem due to the loss of information caused by the projection of the 3D world on a 2D image, noise in images, cluttered background, complex object motion, partial or full occlusions, changes […]

À l’automne 2014, le gouvernement du Québec déposait le projet de loi no 28, entraînant notamment la fermeture des Conférences régionales des élus (CRÉ) qui étaient investies de certaines responsabilités en matière de forêt. Dans ce contexte, les acteurs territoriaux doivent se réorganiser afin de faire avancer les différents dossiers touchant l’exploitation et la gestion […]

Recent consumer interest in controlling and preventing chronic diseases through improved diet has promoted research on the bioactive components of agricultural products. Wheat is an important component of the human diet, providing energy, due to its high content of carbohydrate, and protein. In addition, wheat contains high levels of secondary metabolite (bioactive) compounds such as […]

The purpose of this project is to research and develop a business & technical model for a webbased geo-authenticated public consultation service. Combining methodologies from social media, e-commerce & community consultation, the project will analyze best practices in each area to determine the most appropriate model for a scalable platform for targeted community engagement. Qualitative […]

Canada owns the largest heavy oil and bitumen reserves in the world. Unfortunately, extracting these hydrocarbons is difficult due to their high viscosity. Currently, the most popular strategy is to heat the bitumen using steam, but steam injection can be inefficient and is not suitable for all reservoirs. Radio frequency heating offers a flexible and […]

In North America, more than 75 percent of the population is served by wastewater collection systems and treatment plants for which concrete is a key construction material. Unfortunately, thousands km of lines must be removed each year for replacement suffering from corrosion which caused by prolonged exposure of concrete surface to highly aggressive environments. Concrete […]

La plus grande partie de l’or exploitée par l’humanité se retrouve dans des roches anciennes qui ont été enfuies et chauffées à des conditions métamorphiques modeste (schistes verts). Le modèle classique repose sur la production de fluides aurifères par la déshydratation métamorphique au faciès amphibolite, soit sous la zone de formation des gisements. Néanmoins, des […]

In agricultural watersheds, many meandering rivers were straightened and several rectilinear ditches were added to the drainage network in order to evacuate water as quickly as possible in the spring to improve farm productivity. The design of these modified channels was not based on natural river dynamic concepts, which include both discharge capacity and sediment […]

Le contrôle de qualité de comprimés pharmaceutiques implique habituellement des analyses requérant une préparation laborieuse des échantillons, ce qui occasionne des coûts élevés et des délais considérables. À ce jour, peu de technologies permettent une analyse rapide et/ou en ligne d’ingrédients actifs à de très faible concentration massique (sous 1% massique). L’objectif général de ce […]

With technology advancements, specifically, the development of cloud technologies has created a new delivery method of applications to businesses. The traditional model of physical installing software on a per machine basis is shifting to a centralized hardware/software model accessible through the internet. The current software delivery model is dominated by primary market vendors such as […]

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and treatment of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from […]