Hardwood tree species provide many ecological and economic benefits to New Brunswick and across Canada. These benefits relate to biodiversity and habitat, high-quality timber products, and of course maple syrup. Understanding where these species thrive provincially will be necessary to help New Brunswick forests to withstand the challenges posed by climate change. Using relevant and […]

The research problem of interest to EssilorLuxottica and to be addressed in this Mitacs Accelerate project with two M.Sc interns is the user experience of people who wear glasses in dynamic mobile contexts. Its significance for Canadians who wear glasses is due to the reality that smartphones have become an essential tool for interacting with […]

The partner company (AMD) is a major innovator in the field of computer graphics and visualization, they manufacture Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) which are used by many gamers around the world. While playing video games, gamers tend to perform out-of-band actions such as saving the last few minutes of gameplay after a challenging fight in […]

This project will outline step-by-step how to make fair financial models that do not depend on a person’s private information such as age, gender and race. It is aimed to be a guide to use machine-learning tools and adding defendable mathematical theory to improve previously existing models that have problems with producing biased results. As […]

Multiple municipalities in Metro Vancouver have committed to making their communities dementia- friendly. This includes ensuring that streets and outdoor spaces in the communities are easy to access and help people living with dementia be out and about and perform activities outside their homes. To help municipalities achieve their vision of dementia-friendly streets and outdoor […]

The Government of Canada considers lithium as a critical element because it is a major component of rechargable batteries in, for example, electric vehicles, but it is also used in lubricants, ceramics, and glasses. Many pegmatites have been subjected to metasomatism but the origin of this and effect on the critical element contents are subjects […]

Design of many new products, including transportation vehicles to wind turbines to artificial heart valves, relies on simulation of fluid flow through and around objects. With advances in computational hardware and software, such simulations have become increasingly accurate and reliable. However, these simulations can still be very slow, or even completely fail to produce a […]

Mentoring is one identified way to support young adults as they transition out of care and are faced with the many demands of adulthood. Young adults transitioning out of care have unique mentoring needs. In recognition of these distinctive needs, a specialized mentor program manual will be developed after consulting with a variety of key […]

Of the five mass extinction events preserved in the fossil record, the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction (the so-called “first mass extinction”) is unique in that it had extremely limited long-term impacts. Despite eliminating over 50% of all species on Earth at the time, shallow marine communities around the globe rapidly recovered, providing scientists a unique opportunity […]

In order to navigate the world, an autonomous agent must build a causal model to understand the effects of its actions. In many tasks (automated car driving, automated medicine), collecting causal data, by performing arbitrary actions for the sake of measuring their effect (interventions), can be impractical, expensive and even unethical. On the other hand, […]

Dans le cadre de la démarche Bien vieillir chez soi, cette recherche-action vise à implanter et mesurer les effets d’innovations articulées autour de deux applications que sont Hygiène 2.0 et MapIt. D’une part, Hygiène 2.0 offre une structure systématique de questionnement utilisable par la personne aînée elle-même ou ses proches conduisant à identifier soit des […]

This proposed research project will be performed to understand the influence of female apparel on running biomechanics, soft tissue vibrations, and responses to neuromuscular fatigue in prolonged running. There is an emerging and growing need in sporting goods research and development departments to study female-specific running patterns in order to create products that ensure comfort, […]