Attention is a key process to many daily tasks but it is characterized by limited resources. In many high-stake domains, operators must perform complex tasks for long durations, which deplete attentional resources and promote error making. Yet, previous studies have shown that exposure to nature stimuli can help recovering those resources. The current project aims […]

Families can play an important role in helping prepare their children to learn to read by engaging in activities that support pre-literacy skills. Not all parents are aware of their abilities to help their children however, and this is often especially the case in immigrant families, where cultural practices surrounding education – especially the families […]

Optical telecommunication systems are continuously facing new challenges in terms of capacity and cost as a result of everincreasing Internet traffic. The continuing traffic growth imposes challenges associate with increasing complexity and power consumption at the network nodes and data centres, which are expected to handle more and more data. As a result, the latter […]

The use of pozzolans as a supplementary cementing material (SCM) to partially replace Portland cement in concrete is well established and can lead to many benefits including improved durability and a lower carbon footprint. The concrete industry needs to find alternative sources of pozzolans to replace fly ash and slag; among the most promising alternatives […]

Au Québec, comme dans plusieurs régions et pays, la réglementation en matière de protection des sources d’eau potable se limite à la production d’un rapport de vulnérabilité pour identifier et évaluer les risques associés aux activités présentes dans le territoire. L’objectif général de ce projet est d’élaborer une méthodologie pour exploiter optimalement les données issues […]

The community-based water quality program for Halifax Regional Municipality will target 76 lakes in the region to establish a long-term monitoring program to understand the trajectory of freshwater aquatic systems under continued and expanding urbanized influence. This new program will be led by HRM’s Water Program Coordinator with support from the Environment & Climate Change […]

Subsurface dewatering is critical to the safe and economic operation of mines. Operational planning for dewatering often necessitates advanced numerical models for accurate prediction and requires a well-defined understanding of the regional geology, hydrology and hydrogeology, and how this influences infiltration of groundwater into mining pits and underground galleries as well as sources of recharge. […]

In this project, the intern will work with an expert team from the company Zapata, to compare the performances of machine learning models on classical computers and on quantum models in terms of generalization to unseen data

When Indigenous rights and leadership are prioritized, Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) like forest carbon management present an opportunity to advance reconciliation while combatting climate change and biodiversity loss. Wahkohtowin Development GP Inc. is taking steps to drive NCS in the Missinaibi Forest toward Indigenous-led climate action and social-ecological benefits for its owner First Nations (the […]

Learning technologies now exist that give students practice thinking critically and creatively, communicating and collaborating, and gaining an insight into their personal strengths and weaknesses. In the case of a technology called peerScholar, that exercise happens as students give feedback and then learn from feedback effectively. Giving effective constructive feedback and learning from the feedback […]

The Parkinson’s Remote Interactive Monitoring System (PRIMS) developed by PragmaClin Research Inc. was designed to be an easy-to-use digital system which can accurately assess motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease remotely. The problem is that a well-designed usability study has not been performed to determine the PRIMS technology’s true ease of use. This Canadian study aims […]

Cellular agriculture uses laboratory-grown cells to sustainably produce food, although high cost of growing cells currently limits widespread commercial application of this technology. Because Animals seeks to develop cat food using mouse stem cells, which can be grown indefinitely and converted into muscle and fat cells. Stem cells grow in a liquid medium that contains […]