First Nations Entrepreneurship Development, Capacity Building and Governance: Applied Perspectives

The proposed research project objectives are to enable the participating First Nations to identify strengths and weaknesses related to economic development and governance; develop policies and support for entrepreneurship; develop programs for capacity building; strengthen leadership and management skills; build trust and new networks that will inform and involve outsiders. The partners, Heiltsuk Nation, Haida […]

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Stimulating user-driven interdisciplinary co-development and adaptation of innovative technologies for populations with communication disorders.

The population is rapidly ageing worldwide. In 2030, 23% of Canadians will be 65 years or older, a demographic shift accompanied by an increase in age-related health problems bringing about social challenges requiring innovative solutions. AI driven technologies are presented as promising avenues both for individualized health monitoring and self-management and to facilitate social participation […]

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Assessment of Landfill Final Covers Employing Contaminated Soils

Proposed research is to decommission five fully instrumented experimental covers that were constructed at the St-Nicephore landfill in 2018. This project provides the unique opportunity to exhume soil in a methodical approach to: (1) develop a contaminant profile throughout the experimental covers; and (2) establish the soil characteristics in-situ to be used in computer modelling […]

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Fugitive lead emissions study for the Trail smelting operation

Teck Metals Ltd. operates one of the world’s largest integrated lead-zinc smelting operations based in Trail, British Columbia. An important part of Teck’s normal day-to-day operations is to carefully track and report on any pollutants generated on site that are released into the environment. The purpose of this internship is to assist their Company in […]

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Assessing Executive Function Through Eye Movements in Concussed Individuals

When a concussion occurs individuals can also experience several different subtle changes to eye movements and performance that is difficult to recognize. To understand how these eye-movement problems affect the recovery process the goal of the study is to investigate if these eye-movement problems are a result of executive functioning issues in the frontal lobe […]

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GWUT for Gas Diversion Detection on PE Pipes with a Steel Riser

Detection of natural gas diversion in residential pipelines is important for public safety. Detection of such diversion in a nonintrusive manner is important for customer satisfaction and the companies’ reputation. This project aims to develop non-intrusive guided-wave ultrasonic testing methods combined with machine learning to detect and locate diversions in residential gas pipes. These pipes […]

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Conception d’une trousse d’analyse d’opportunités pour l’implantation d’une solution enrichissant les systèmes de GMAO existants

Les actifs, qu’ils soient des machines industrielles, les équipements médicaux, des bâtiments, des équipements informatiques, des infrastructures de transport, etc., ont une durée de vie. Malgré la variabilité de leur performance au cours de leur cycle de vie, les gestionnaires souhaitent que ces actifs conservent leur valeur marchande au maximum tout en minimisant les coûts […]

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Improving the clinical oculomotor assessment for patients with multiple sclerosis

Clinicians’ ability to detect abnormal eye-movements has powerful implications for the diagnosis, monitoring of disease progression and evaluation of therapeutic outcomes in patients with multiple sclerosis. Despite the advantages of the oculomotor assessment, standard clinical practices are limited and do not capture the dynamic aspects of eye-movement. Sophisticated methods have been developed in the laboratory […]

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Développement et qualification d’une approche de type point-of-care (POC) pour le dosage de la ferritine plasmatique par résonance des plasmons de surface (SPR)

Chez un donneur de sang fréquent, il arrive d’observer une chute des réserves de fer1,2. La mesure du taux d’hémoglobine dans le sang des donneurs permet aux banques de sang d’éviter de prélever un individu pour qui les réserves de fer seraient considérées comme étant faibles. La ferritine est un marqueur précoce de la carence […]

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Developing implantable scaffold for bone regeneration with healing enhancement by local drug delivery and sustained drug release

Over 3 million Canadian suffer from bone disease resulted from trauma, tumor removal and cancer and the number increasing with aging population every year. We plan to use hydrogels to create bioactive scaffold using 3D bioprinting extrusion method with potential for local drug loading and slow drug release for bone regeneration. We develop bioinks with […]

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