Mental distress is common among individuals with chronic heart failure. Online wellness programming is typically more heavily subscribed to by women rather than men. As part of a larger randomized controlled trial, this project aims to evaluate the distinct recruitment and engagement needs of men and women with heart failure with online mental wellness programming. […]

L’objectif de ce projet est de mettre en place un système de calcul fonctionnant à base de l’informatique quantique, d’une série de prédiction, les performances des athlètes de baseball. Nous allons relever des données basées sur des gestes techniques et des habiletés des athlètes, sur l’aspect tactique, les données axées sur la stratégie de jeu […]

This project aims to solve the problem of how to accurately locate and orient a drone inside a hangar to acquire still images and/or video. The images and/or video will be used in conjunction with an AI/ML algorithm to efficiently identify aircraft defects. The drone-based approach to defect detection will be compared to traditional techniques […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to address workplace wellness. The Positive Workplace Framework (PWF) is used in many workplace settings to improve well-being, engagement, and productivity. This study will address the French version of the PWF and its two questionnaires, the Mental Fitness and Resiliency Inventory (MFRI) and the Positive Leadership Inventory (PLI). […]

We aim to provide companionship, distraction and engagement for seniors who would prefer social interaction to being alone. Fundamentally, the technology we intend to develop and, by the end of the grant, deploy on a trial basis in a long-term care facility, would present a conversational nurse or care provider avatar with whom the seniors […]

Women with elevated cardiovascular disease risk can improve their health by participating in interventions that encourage health promoting behaviours, such as physical activity. However, although a person may know that they will benefit from participating in a health promotion program, there are many reasons why people do not adopt healthier lifestyles. Patients with lived experience […]

VanWyn Inc., an engineering company based in Hamilton, Ontario, is developing a game-changing technology that will make possible vastly more data transfer (superior to 5G networks), along with wireless communication that cannot be intercepted by anyone other than the intended receiver, radically changing the world of cyber security. This new device will also finally make […]

CPA has noticed current issues in the recruitment process of accounting students from Post-Secondary Institutions (PSI). Because accounting firms and industry rely on PSI for most of their new employees, CPA decided that they want to design and implement new programs to help better prepare students for their future accounting career. Through this internship, we […]

Acoustic Bait Technologies (ABT) is a start-up company located in Morristown, Nova Scotia. They are developing an alternative bait system for the lobster fishery, with the goal of helping the industry switch to more sustainable bait use. They are pursuing the use of recorded acoustic lobster sounds to modify the behaviour of lobsters to attract […]

Au Canada, les études explorant la relation entre la vigne et son microbiome sont encore peu nombreuses, surtout sur les cépages hybrides cultivés dans l’Est du Canada. Ces cépages, issus de croisements entre l’espèce Vitis vinifera et des espèces Vitis indigènes à l’Amérique du Nord (V. labrusca, V. riparia), ont une biochimie particulière, qui leur […]

In order to reach the production targets, mining operations typically need to operate without a stop. Equipment maintenance planning plays an important role in ensuring the required number of mining haul trucks are available at any given time. If not planned correctly, corrective maintenance would be required, which could slow down or halt the production […]

Présentement, les modèles de tarification en assurance auto calculent les primes chargées aux assurés en tentant de prédire leur risque d’assurance grâce à plusieurs critères (âge, sexe, état-civil, expérience de conduite, caractéristiques du véhicule, etc.). Le problème auquel ce projet s’adresse est celui du point de vue éthique d’une telle approche. En effet, l’usage de […]