Ce nouveau stage propose de tester la faisabilité sur le terrain des méthodes expérimentées au laboratoire par la mise en place d’essais pilotes sur les sites d’enfouissement. On testera également la méthode qui consiste à recouvrir les sites d’enfouissement par des matériaux de recouvrement. Cette technique peut s’avérer très efficace du fait qu’elle regroupe l’ensemble […]

Intestinal ‘organoids’ refer to a miniature intestine that can be grown in a laboratory dish. This organoid can mimic the biology of the real human intestine. We developed a novel organoid which can replicate our intestine to an astounding degree. In this project, we aim to test the capacity of this novel intestinal organoid to […]

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. Although new therapies are emerging, targeting cancer cells is a challenge because of the lack of specific markers on […]

ManagingLife developed Manage My Pain, an app that lets users track and analyze their pain for better self-management of symptoms. ManagingLife aims to predict clinical outcomes (e.g. anxiety, depression, pain interference) and identify contributing factors from its 85,000 users. The goal is to create a validated, explainable machine learning model that can forecast clinically relevant […]

Web page classification is the process of assigning a web page to one or more predefined categories and it is one of the essential techniques of web mining. Web page classification identifies what type of web page we are extracting data from and can help search engines to effectively deal with and rank web pages […]

Lunanos Inc. and Ryerson University’s School of Graphic Communications Management are seeking to collaborate on a six-month project to develop an innovative colour-changing indicator label that will be used in healthcare facilities to track the cleaning of various equipment and surfaces to reduce the frequency of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). In Canada, 1 in 10 patients […]

This project will demonstrate how the ability to host overnight guests in rural hotels, as well as host events within these communities, truly impacts local economic revenue. By conducting key informant interviews with hotel staff and community/ event organizations, alongside written surveys with hotel guests, this project will highlight the importance of including accommodations with […]

Sugar beets are a vital crop for Southern Alberta farmers and are the source for sugar products from the refinery in Taber, Alberta. This is only one sugar beet processing plant in Alberta, and though it accounts for 10 per cent of the total Canadian sugar production (100,000 tons of sugar per year), it has […]

Sales-based CRM tools have given sales representatives the ability to utilize customer information and selling strategies to facilitate cross-selling and up-selling activities from inside the organization. This concept, known as “inside sales”, is a fast growing trend and its key success is reliant on how efficiently generated leads are managed. Leads are information about potential […]

Obesity is a major global epidemic and is prevalent in Canada. A growing body of prospective cohort studies has shown that dairy products may reduce the risk of weight gain and obesity as well as type 2 diabetes as outlined by Systematic Reviews (Kratz M et al., 2013; Drouin-Chartier JP et al., 2016). As well, […]

10% des patients d’arthroplastie du genou, sont sujets à des complications qui peuvent nécessiter une réopération. Pour les cas les plus complexes, les chirurgiens ont encore peu d’informations pour appuyer leurs décisions quant à l’approche opératoire. L’entreprise Philomec a développé dans les dernières années un modèle musculo-squelettique donc les capacités prédictives peuvent répondre à ce […]

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