Recent estimates of agricultural land on the Canadian prairies suggest that 1 million ha are affected by moderate to severe soil salinity. These areas are not suitable for seeding annual grain crops. Perennial forages have the potential to remediate saline soils through salt ion uptake, lowering the water table, improved soil biological activity, and weed […]

This research project will be focused on the development of a new software technology in order to model and map maximum solar energy potential on the rooftops and facades of buildings with high spatiotemporal resolution, with particular emphasis on optimal community design for smart net-zero energy solar communities. The goal of this project is to […]

A central venous access device (CVAD) is a thin, silicone tube that a doctor may insert into the vein of a patient to deliver medications directly into their bloodstream. If the patient does not need constant medication, nurses fill the CVAD with salt water or citrate to keep the tube open. This is called ‘locking’ […]

Poor water-solubility limits the total use of the drug in the human body of many recently discovered drugs. Recently, Amorphous Solid Dispersion (ASD) technique is being used as an efficient way to enhance solubility of poorly soluble drugs which are prevalent in pharmaceutical industry while providing sustained release, however the instability of ASD may cause […]

A disturbing number of aggregate pop-out cases have recently been observed in newly poured concrete throughout the City of Saskatoon. A “pop-out” is a small, often cone-shaped void in a horizontal concrete surface left after a near-surface aggregate particle has fractured. Aggregate pop-outs can accelerate the deterioration of concrete sidewalks and can result in safety […]

The intern is expected to develop a pipeline for training large machine learning models on drug-like molecules to learn a broad understanding of biochemistry. This pipeline involves developing a model that can learn on many biological and quantum mechanical tasks concurrently while evaluating and improving the structure of the model using low-cost approaches from recent […]

The Ophthalmology department of CHUM receives almost 400 patients per day, each of which needs to go through different tests and consultations. Scheduling those appointments is a complicated task as it involves multiple shared resources, precedent constraints between tests, and uncertainty in tests’ durations, cancellations, emergency patients, etc. The current manual scheduling at the department […]

Every year in the United States alone, over 30 million surgical incisions are performed, and another 7 million wounds are causes by trauma. Most of those wounds will heal on their own, but nonetheless always lead to scarring no matter what kind of material is used to close the wound. There are a range of […]

Considerable growth in the global population and economy leads to an increase in fuel demand. This requires production of clean fuels with minimum CO2 emissions to maintain climate, energy, political, and social security. Hydrogen is a promising carbon-free fuel that can be produced from various renewable sources such as wind and biological systems. The microalgal […]

Le projet vise à utiliser l’intelligence artificielle pour en venir, à terme, à analyser les données boursières pertinentes en lien avec une stratégie d’investissement de type “Qualité” et en extraire des indicateurs de cause à effet ayant un pouvoir prédictif par l’utilisation d’une approche de « Machine Learning » (« Deep Neural Network », « […]

D’ici les trente prochaines années, il est anticipé que les deux tiers de la population mondiale résideront en milieu urbain. Cette statistique presse les villes à organiser leurs infrastructures dans une logique sans précédent afin de conserver ou d’améliorer la qualité de vie des citoyens. La rapidité avec laquelle la population croît et l’indisponibilité des […]

Heart transplantation depends on being able to move a donor heart from the location of harvest to the hospital where it will be implanted, and having the heart work once it is implanted. The time between excision and implantation is called the ischemic time. The safe ischemic time is about 4 to 6 hrs; hearts […]