Afin de débloquer les artères coronaires, des tuteurs métalliques sont implantés à l’aide de fil-guides. L’OptoWire, de la compagnie québécoise OpSens Inc, est un fil-guide muni d’un capteur de pression à fibre optique qui permet de déterminer l’ampleur du bloquage dans les artères, et si un tuteur est nécessaire. Afin d’améliorer le diagnostic, un concept […]

Under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), businesses using customer data to make decisions must provide explanations in human terms on demand to the customer to explain their decision. The rise of natural language generation (NLG) and chain-of-thoughts (CoT) represents an opportunity to combine the power of deep learning, automated decision-making, and explainable AI. […]

The general objective of this project is to identify unbiased and objective plasma metabolomics signatures of milk and cheese consumption. We will leverage data and stored, unthawed, plasma samples from 4 high quality randomized, crossover, feeding trials (RCTs) and 1 cohort of 200 free-living adults (eMECA) that were conducted or implemented at INAF research center […]

L’utilisation de modèles statistiques pour décrire l’évolution du passif des polices est très recherché par l’industrie de l’assurance dommage, alors qu’il pose des problèmes théoriques extrêmement pertinents pour la science actuarielle. La dépendance entre les lignes d’affaires est un concept connu mais très complexe à quantifier. Une meilleure compréhension de cette dépendance par l’entreprise est […]

Turquoise Technology Solutions Inc. (“Turquoise”) is a Google Partner firm based in Montreal. They have been working on recommender systems for books and recipes. They are currently interested in improving the accuracy of their recommender systems. In order to improve such a system, the goal is to extract the model of customers’ preferences using both […]

The goal of this project is to examine the effect of one-time unconditional direct cash-transfer to recently homeless individuals in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Building on promising results from our research team’s ground-breaking pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 50 cash recipients, the current project seeks to confirm this preliminary evidence using a larger RCT with […]

Brain wave technologies allow researchers and clinicians to monitor the brain at work. Our team has developed a new technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to provide an online record of different brain functions in a very short period of time. The brain waves recorded by this technology may change normally as time passes and previous […]

Chinook salmon may be especially vulnerable with limited food available when they first enter the ocean and during their first winter in the Straight of Georgia. To evaluate this, researchers will use lab studies to produce a new tool, that can be used without causing harm to the fish, to see whether wild Chinook salmon […]

Le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19 a soulevé trois défis organisationnels : la récupération de la performance à la suite de la perte de productivité générée par la COVID-19, l’accélération des processus d’innovation visant à surmonter les obstacles liés à la pandémie et assurer un avantage compétitif à long terme; et la protection de […]

Downhole turbines are drilling tools that use the flow of downgoing drilling fluid inside the drillstring to turn a solid or hollow drive shaft, which can power or actuate other drilling tools such as turbodrills, electrical generators, hydraulic motors, and a variety of other mechanical, electrical or hydraulic devices. There are many versions of downhole […]

This research aims to develop a novel method for RNA-based regulation of gene expression, which would provide an alternative to existing popular and patented methods. The proposed method utilizes computationally designed trans-acting hammerhead ribozymes (taHHRzs), which would cleave a reporter gene transcript, unless special ‘anti-cleaver’ RNAs bind to a designated part of the taHHRz. This […]

Improving driving safety is an ongoing challenge with far reaching consequences for Canadians. One method of improving driving safety is by improving driver performance with hazard perception training. Hazard perception is a driver’s ability to anticipate dangers in the road environment and is predictive of the likelihood of being in a crash. Several countries including […]