Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of Sheridan Nurseries Farms and Greenhouses

There is very little known about the environmental impacts associated with the nursery sector globally. Therefore, the objective of the project is to quantify the environmental impacts, with a specific focus on global warming potential (herein referred to carbon footprint) associated with the operations of Sheridan Nurseries. We will use life cycle assessment (LCA), used […]

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Integration of socio-physiological sensors to estimate team functional state in mobile command and control

Teams in crisis management operate in uncertainty and time pressure conditions, which severely constrain team performance. Systems capable of detecting critical levels of cognitive functioning could help teams to adapt better to the situation they face by allowing an intelligent re-allocation of tasks across agents. Traditionally, adaptive systems are based on the operator behavioral response […]

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Methods to minimize bias in meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials with treatment switching

Our project aims to better understand how cancer research studies, specifically those that test the effectiveness of treatments, can be improved when patients switch treatments during the study. This switch, which happens often in cancer treatments, can make it difficult to tell how effective the original treatment is. Currently, the way researchers combine and analyze […]

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Flow Optimization for Disaster Recovery in Software-Defined Networks

The concept of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has recently gained significant attention as a practical and flexible way to create programmable networks, where new network services can be deployed or dynamically adjusted with ease. One application of this concept could be in enhancing the reliability and survivability of backbone communication networks. The main objective of this […]

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Renforcement de la gouvernance et changement d’échelle du Réseau Régional en Alimentation Communautaire (RRAC) : un projet innovant pour la sécurité alimentaire au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

Cette demande vise à documenter, étudier et optimiser les efforts du projet innovant de création du Réseau régional en alimentation communautaire (RRAC) au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. Les objectifs du stagiaire seront de travailler en collaboration avec la chargée de projet en développant des outils pour la réflexion et développement du modèle gouvernance du RRAC et de favoriser […]

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Process mapping and documentation at Eclipse Automation: Balancing standardization and flexibility in an engineer-to-order operation

The first phase of the project produced a detailed modeling and documentation of the Sales and Quotation phase of the partner’s business process. Interview results were combined with existing documents, database information, etc., to map and describe the business tasks in the process. The primary deliverable for the first phase was a detailed model of […]

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Word Representation Learning for Detecting Malicious Chat Messages

Communicating with peers online is an increasingly popular activity for children and teenagers, which has led to growing concerns about bullying and other forms of malicious behaviour in online chat rooms and virtual worlds. Although some online forums are patrolled by human moderators, the amount of text being generated is typically too large even for […]

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