Chirps for thought

The global meat demand is expected to roughly double by 2050. While the livestock sector monopolizes a lot of land, food and water, edible insects constitute as an interesting alternative to lower environmental stress. Even though almost a quarter of the world population regularly eat insects, their widespread adoption is impeded by the disgust factor […]

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Applying Deep Learning to Optimize 3D Pose Estimation from Monocular Video

REP is an athlete development platform for building better, and healthier athletes. Inside the REP platform are computer algorithms that can “see” how people move, and the accurately estimate how they are moving in three dimensions. The REP platform can then compare models of how you move, to models of how experts move. This comparison […]

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Développement d’une méthode de conception des sols ciments et des fondations stabilisées au ciment pour routes à l’aide de l’essai de plaque française

Afin d’obtenir une infrastructure efficace et durable, il est primordial que ses composants résistent aux intempéries et à l’usure des usagers. L’amélioration des sols d’infrastructures et des fondations routières peut se faire de différentes manières, notamment en y ajoutant un liant hydraulique. On décrit alors le résultat comme étant « stabilisé » ou en d’autres […]

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Développement d’un procédé novateur de traitement des lixiviats hautement chargés issus du procédé de compostage

Ce projet de recherche vise à développer un procédé innovant pour répondre à une problématique de traitement des eaux usées à laquelle font face les centres de traitement en Amérique du nord. Les variations climatiques saisonnières limitent les capacités de traitement du procédé conventionnel de lagunage en termes de volume de traitement et de réduction […]

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Achieving quality control during veneer drying by using big data statistics

Veneer drying has traditionally been done using a qualitative approach. Although it is effective in assessing how any modification in parameters impacts veneer quality, it often yields a significant loss in quality due to delays involved in reaching the kiln’s steady state following parameter modification. However, kilns are now being equipped with various sensors that […]

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Novel formulation for the treatment of interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis is an inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder and is recognized as a serious medical condition associated with a profoundly negative impact on patients’ quality of life. Currently, there are no widely acknowledged causes of this disorder and no effective treatments available. Panag is a Halifax based drug company which focuses on development […]

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Evaluation and Identification of Gaps and Technical Challenges in Candidate Carbon Capture/CO2 Conversion Technologies Part 2

In the wake of the Paris meeting on global climate change in December of 2015 (COP21), commitments to drive down greenhouse gas emissions have escalated around the world. Man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are accepted as the largest contributor to climate change. Promising next-generation technologies for decreasing CO2 emissions are being investigated at the lab […]

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Variable selection for uplift modeling

Insurance companies heavily fund marketing campaigns such as, for instance, customer retention or cross-sell initiatives. Uplift modeling aims at predicting the causal effect of an action such as medical treatment or a marketing campaign on a particular individual by taking into consideration the response to an action. Typically, the result of an uplift model is […]

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Development of a spectroscopy light transport simulation software for absorption, fluorescence, elastic & inelastic scattering optical contrast in biological tissue

In this project a software will be developed to model the propagation of light in biological tissues and different types of events that may occur while light is interacting with the medium. The modelling is based on tracing a large number of photons launched in the tissue and applying a stochastic model for the possible […]

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Challenge for Change (C4C) Listening Projects

Building on Canada’s rich history as a participatory media producer, the project partners aim to use the democratic power and potential of media to help build a stronger, more inclusive Canada by creating opportunities for Canadians to talk and especially listen to each other: one-on-one, with friends, mothers, daughters, neighbours and strangers. In partnership with […]

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