Fifty thousand Canadians undergo open-chest heart surgery every year. Albeit effective at fixing heart disease, half of these patients slip into an abnormal heart rhythm called “atrial fibrillation”. Because atrial fibrillation increases the risk of heart failure and stroke, doctors are eager for therapies to keep post-operative patients in normal rhythm. Recently, we found that […]

A significant portion of the population in Newfoundland live in rural areas. Housing presents a number of challenges to this populace including, but not limited to, the high cost of rent, low vacancy rate, the high cost of utilities, and the deteriorating nature of some rentals. Housing challenges also affect the mental state of renters […]

Reinforced concrete (RC) is widely used due to its ease of construction, accessibility of raw materials, and excellent integrity. However, severe breakdown of RC structures due to mechanical and environmental loads may result in the need for strengthening to increase functionality and extend the service life of such structures. The use of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) […]

Green stormwater infrastructure (GI) is an approach to land development that attempts to retain and clean stormwater as close to the source as possible to reduce flooding and improve the water quality of urbanized watersheds. The objective of this study is to provide a field-based evaluation of how GI reduces peak flow and improves the […]

House crickets are a promising sustainable source of protein for human food and animal feed in a changing world. A current focus is to scale up and automate cricket production, and to optimise production for specific outcomes (e.g. maximise biomass production or protein content). Insect growth rate, nutrient content and survival are all dependent on […]

Our modern society can no longer be thought without image and media technologies, these technologies holding a central place in our everyday life. Progresses of display devices in conjunction with the capabilities of modern GPUs result in an ever-increasing demand for producing rich and detailed 3D graphical contents, i.e., geometric objects augmented with textures for […]

AGT Robotique est un leader de l’automatisation et de la robotique industrielle spécialisée dans la robotique flexible pour des productions à faible volume / haute diversité et dans le soudage robotisé. Le calcul des mouvements du robot soudeur pour appliquer la procédure de soudage est une étape cruciale qui doit minimiser les trajectoires de la […]

Cryptocurrencies are changing the way we conduct business and how we pay for products and services. Investors are increasingly looking to adopt cryptocurrencies in their practices. However, cryptocurrency trading can be perilous, as many risks are present, ranging from technical and legal risks to market risks. Understanding the concepts around cryptocurrency, like their mining and […]

IRISNDT deploys customized workflow productivity enhancement apps that are used by technicians in the field when performing Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and mechanical work. This project will leverage expertise in AI at the University of Alberta to develop and deploy a suite of Data Science and Analytics tools to complement IRISNDT existing capabilities. The project will […]

The Archaic Period (8,000 BC to 1,000 BC) is the longest occupation of the Niagara Peninsula in southern Ontario, but the least understood and studied. Approximately 1,000 previously unknown archaeological and extraction sites have been identified in this region, mainly in Haldimand and Norfolk Counties. The proposed research project will use a combination of analytical […]

The objective of this proposal is to do energy assessment and cost-benefits analyses among selected industrial and commercial Enbridge Gas Distribution (EGD) customers, engaging Ryerson faculty and students. EGD operates defamed side management (DSM) programs to encourage its industrial customers to adopt energy saving equipment and strategies to reduce the natural gas consumption. As a […]

Grouping images into different themes is a non-trivial step in the photobook curation. In this work, we aim to propose a novel image theme recognition method, and find unique attributes related with theme in given images.