Clayoquot Sound Chinook and Sockeye Acoustic Smolt Monitoring & Zooplankton Assessment – Ha‘uukmin (Kennedy) Watershed

Suu?aa (Chinook salmon) and mi?aat (sockeye salmon) populations have been in decline due to climate change and other human-caused impacts. However, managing these populations and associated fishing activities is often complicated by a lack of information. This purpose of this project is to gather more information on suu?aa and mi?aat populations in the Ha’uukmin (Kennedy) […]

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Self-Sovereign Identity Based on Blockchain – Implementation in IoT

Over the past years, Internet of Things (IoT) has been gradually making up essential parts of our life whether as autonomous vehicles, smart homes or other forms. The main job of IoT devices is data collection. Data collection can be considered as the building block of IoT. In the current IoT architecture, the data collected […]

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Indoor Object Detection for Blind People

Since 2003, Humanware develops a GPS-based dedicated device that helps blind people to orient themselves and guides them to their destination. In this project, we want to enhance the user experience by providing a better understanding of the environment and interacting with the device in a more natural way. This project specifically addresses how the […]

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Effets de combinaisons des fusariotoxines: la zéaralénone (ZEN), le déoxynivalénol (DON) et la fumonisine B1 (FB1) sur le fonctionnement cellulaire et les voies de signalisation : Étude préventive

Les conditions climatiques et géographiques et les particularités socio-économiques de la population ont fait du Canada un pays propice au développement d’une flore fongique sécrétrice de toxines naturelles, les mycotoxines. Ces mycotoxines s’avèrent de puissants contaminants de l’environnement et particulièrement de la chaîne alimentaire. A l’heure actuelle, la situation est davantage aggravée par la multi-contamination […]

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Follow the Money: Investigating Political Donations in Canada

We leverage a new, original dataset containing all recorded political donations made in all 14 Canadian jurisdictions since 1993 to map patterns in political donations and to measure the effects of donations laws. We ask: which types of individuals are more likely to make donations? What can the recipients and the timing of donations tell […]

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Large Scan Area Nanometer Resolution AFM Imaging

Atomic Force Microscopes have gained wide acceptance as a robust tool for metrology of nanometer and atomic scale surfaces. Nonetheless, AFMs lack some key capabilities that would benefit the industries and the scientific community at large. In this project, the limited scan range (1000×1000 um2), bringing the (sub-)nano resolution AFM images into the millimeter range. […]

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Evaluating the protective effects of electrical muscle stimulation with and without blood flow restriction during periods of short-term inactivity

Physical inactivity is associated with impaired removal of sugar from the blood after a meal, or insulin-resistance and a reduced muscle mass and fitness. While exercise is well-established to prevent these impairments, it may not be feasible in some clinical conditions. Therefore, passive interventions that mimick the stressors and elicit the benefits of exercise may […]

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Genome-wide association study provides an opportunity to identify genetic resistance in canola varieties against Leptosphaeria maculans

Our intention is to find excellent resistance sources in the Canadian canola cultivars, and other available genotypes through field, greenhouse and lab research to enhance resistance. This will supplement the new resistance sources including novel R gene and quantitative resistance in canola against blackleg disease in Canada. It will also reduce it to become endemic […]

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Locally based surface extraction techniques for handheld imaging technologies

The research aims to develop a device technology and software to recover surface information from a handheld scanner. The idea is to combine pre-existing object analysis technologies with a local device capable of reconstructing an objects shape from data collected by simple (shelf component) electronics as the device is passed over the object in the […]

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Development of a novel liquid fertilizer from distillery stillage

Distillery stillage is a liquid waste produced during the fermentation of milk permeate to yield alcohol. Stillage is an environmental liability due to its potential to create anoxic dead zones in aquatic ecosystems. Nevertheless, stillage also is rich in vital nutrients that can support plant growth. The goal of the proposed research is to reformulate […]

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Centrifugal spinning and thermal processing of glass fibres

Currently, our commercial borate-based “Cobra rod” glass is being used to preserve utility poles, doubling or trebling the lifetime and is a key to enhancing lifetimes of wood distribution and transmission power poles. Our main objective is to successfully process our glass into fibres, beads, and glass fibre mats like those used in the insulation […]

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