Since 1990, the CIHR Canadian HIV Clinical Trials Network (CTN) has advanced research to prevent, treat and manage human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), aiming to develop a cure for this disease. Over these 30 years, many clinical and research projects have been funded, generating important information and considerable data related to HIV. However, this relevant knowledge […]

A ring resonator is a waveguide that circles around to make a closed usually circle-shaped loop. The electromagnetic wave may travel within this loop and instructively interfere with itself if the travel length is a multiplicative of the wavelength of the wave. In such a situation, energy builds up in the ring and very strong […]

Ce projet porte sur la bonification des outils d’analyse des contraintes organisationnelles et psychosociales du travail du guide INSPQ pour la prévention des TMS (Stock et al, 2021), afin de mieux tenir compte du sexe et du genre en prévention des TMS. Un comité de suivi avec d’utilisateurs potentiels des outils et des experts sera […]

One in three women, including up to 58% of pregnant women and 48% of new mothers, experience a pelvic floor disorder (PFD) in their lifetime. PFD affects the everyday lives of women from urinary continence, fecal continence, painful sex and their shame in discussing these symptoms. The lack of comprehensive medical devices to provide for […]

Physical disability in Canadian adults is largely due to painful mobility impairments, with the most common cause being diseases of, and injuries to, the musculoskeletal system and connective tissues (MSK disorders). MSK disorders are generally associated with natural aging, but are also caused by occupational injuries as well as brain or spinal cord injury or […]

Au Canada, plus de 150 000 tonnes de déchets de cartes électroniques sont collectées annuellement (Circular Economy Leadership Canada, 2021). Néanmoins seulement 20 % de ces derniers sont adéquatement recyclés (World Economic Forum, 2019). Afin d’atteindre les objectifs du « plan québécois de valorisation des minéraux critiques et stratégiques » du gouvernement du Québec (Gouvernement […]

This project collects and analyzes data about third party advertisers in Canadian federal elections. Third party advertisers are permitted to accept large donations from individuals, unions, and corporations, and to use these funds to directly intervene in Canadian elections, and yet we know very little about how these organizations operate. This project compiles third party […]

Manitoba has an opportunity to transform agriculture practices through advances in sensors, robotics, and machine learn-ing. Real-time, automated methods of in-field data collection are needed to increase productivity and sustainability in production agriculture, to expedite plant breeding and research, and to further the uptake of organic farming. To this end, we are developing a self-propelled, […]

eThor is a startup company that develops applications for mobile devices in the area of e-commerce for wholesale and retail customers, initially in the restaurant industry. The internships proposed in this application relate to the expansion of data gathering, data mining and social network capabilities for the applications development. The data gathered will be transformed […]

On the former floodplain of the Mamquam River in Squamish, British Columbia are a series of side-channels that were constructed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 1983-1996. These channels were built to restore some of the side-channel habitat that was lost following the dyking of the Mamquam River mainstem for flood protection. […]

This project will use state-of-the-art advancements in artificial intelligence in order to automate and enhance the creation of virtual environments in virtual and augmented reality. By building upon previous successes incorporating artificial intelligence into the creation of 2D environments to enhance and guide the algorithmic generation process. By allowing the incorporated AI to respond and […]

In this mixed-methods study, we aim to identify specific experiences and institutional barriers that prevent recent immigrants from engaging with and participating in municipal elections in the city of Calgary, Alberta. Using a systematic literature review and data from focus groups and in-depth interviews in Calgary, we will first develop a list of the concrete […]