People living with IBD, grave and lifelong disease, have gut damage and pain. Fibers can improve gut health in healthy people, but they are not digested in the gut. Instead, they are broken down by gut microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) in a process called fermentation. But the types and amounts of gut microbes in IBD […]

Different industries have widely employed condition monitoring to evaluate their system’s health. For gas turbines, current methods have limitations related to certain operating and environmental conditions and are mainly based on supervised approaches requiring annotated data that is hard to acquire. This project will focus on developing an unsupervised anomaly detection mechanism that alarms users […]

Les intervenants en situations de crise sont exposés à des environnements « extrêmes » qui poussent fréquemment leurs limites physiques et mentales au maximum de leur capacité. Toutefois, des études scientifiques démontrent qu’une charge de travail trop élevée est associée à une diminution de la performance des individus. Ainsi, ces environnements extrêmes sont propices aux […]

Cette recherche sera orientée sur la diminution de la masse volumique des mycomatériaux, un composite de résidu forestier ou agricole collé grâce au mycélium de champignon (racine de champignon). Ce matériau biodégradable peut remplacer le polystyrène expansé dans plusieurs industrie telle que l’emballage et l’isolation thermique et le contrôle acoustique de bâtiment. Une densité inférieure […]

Post-consumer textile waste is a serious concern as over two thirds of the postconsumer textiles end up in landfills. More than 95% of the waste could be recycled but only 15% is actually recycled nowadays. This project will test the thermal cracking of textile wastes at high temperatures (500–550°C) in a lab unit at UBC. […]

Timber-harvesting is an important industry to Canada. At this time, the industry is predicting serious labour shortages over the coming decade. Because of this, the industry is looking to robotics and AI technologies to increase the level of autonomy of timber-harvesting machines, as well as, to make the operations more safe and environment friendly. In […]

Le problème de la maltraitance envers les aînés est un phénomène mondial pouvant revêtir deux (2) grandes formes : la violence (geste qui cause du tort à l’aîné) et la négligence (absence d’aide ou de soins qui cause du tort à l’aîné). Il peut s’agir de maltraitance physique, psychologique, financière, sexuelle, organisationnelle, de violation des […]

Les Principes pour l’investissement responsable (PRI) ont été établis en 2005 par l’Initiative financière du Programme des Nations Unies pour l’environnement dans le but de fournir un cadre permettant d’améliorer l’analyse des questions environnementales, sociales et de gouvernance (ESG) dans le processus d’investissement et d’aider les entreprises à adopter des pratiques responsables dans la gestion […]

The financial implications of time lost from work due to disability can be severe. Disability insurance coverage plans protect people from possible loss of income. We have found factors that predict the duration of disability benefit claims. However, it remains to be seen whether these associations are consistent. Improved understanding of modifiable factors associated with […]

Bloomberg recently reported that theft and embezzlement of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether, have become an annual USD $200 million business. Indeed, just between January 2021 and March 2022 investors have lost over US$1 billion in cryptocurrency scams according to the report by the US’s Federal Trade Commission. More than 46,000 people have lost […]

This proposed study is a part of a comprehensive investigation to evaluate the corrosion performance in SCC concrete structure. The full project is carried out based on the development of new SCC mixtures containing concrete materials available in Newfoundland and an investigation on the cracking behavior of full-scale SCC structure members. The main purpose of […]

The Smart Vertical Farming project will utilize smart sensor technologies and advanced computing to optimize indoor growing conditions for plants. Researchers will monitor inputs such as fertilizer levels, soil conditions, lighting, temperature, humidity and CO2 levels in real-time and make correlations to the plant growth using cameras to measure foliage density, colour and health. Advanced […]