Nunavut Fisheries Association (NFU) is doing this study that evaluates quality, handling and processing methodologies for Pandalus montagui shrimp (striped shrimp) with the aim of improving quality and yield. Montagui shrimp is typically regarded as an inferior quality product to Pandalus borealis (Northern shrimp) and as such gets a lower price in the market.

Many services including health services are now offered remotely through live 2 way communication from the practitioner’s office to the patient’s home. Community Living Society, Inclusion Langley, Richmond Society for Community Living, and Spectrum Society for Community Living, plan to see how this model might work in our programs that support individuals who have a […]

Face au manque de diversité dans les conseils d’administration, Concertation Montréal a mené un programme visant à promouvoir la diversité au sein de ces lieux de décision. L’étude vise à évaluer les impacts et retombées de ce programme et porte sur deux volets principaux : – la formation de 120 organisations de la région montréalaise […]

Poor physical recovery, especially in remote rehabilitation, is the problem that will be addressed in this project. This project is Phase I of development of Fun-exercise module. Fun-exercise system uses gamification to boost patients’ adherence to their prescribed home-exercises. To achieve this goal, Fun-exercise will use mentally stimulating and customizable games paired with a set […]

Short-term electric load forecasting for local areas is of interest to Hydro-Québec to efficiently respond to demand at the distribution level. Any significant forecasting error can result in reliability issues, loss of opportunity, or additional costs to the business. Improving short-term load forecasting can benefit both consumers and utility companies to optimize resources and costs. […]

Dandelion technology solves the speed and scalability problems of current blockchain using a new physical paradigm to build the most efficient, open distributed network, with a finalization cost of $.00001 per event. The proposed project is aimed at adding smart contract and sharing functionality to the Dandelion network, improving cryptographic efficiency with aggregable signatures under […]

Les oeuvres de bienfaisance et les organismes à but non lucratif (OSBL) au Canada peuvent bénéficier d’une subvention qui leur permet d’obtenir des crédits publicitaires. Malgré que cette subvention soit très facile d’accès, le taux d’adoption des OSBL qui en bénéficient reste très faible. Cette lacune réduit malheureusement leur efficacité et les bienfaits qu’ils peuvent […]

Bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of infant hospitalization and the costs associated with it are large. Since active treatments are mostly ineffective for bronchiolitis, supportive management (including oxygen saturation monitoring) is the main focus of inpatient management. However, ideal oxygen saturation targets for infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis have not been established. This […]

There is increasing evidence that multiple genetic variants within a patient can compound their effects, resulting in a more severe clinical phenotype in comparison with the clinical manifestations in individuals with single genetic variation. In this study, we aim to examine the clinical utility of a massively parallel sequencing technique to identify clinically relevant secondary […]

This study will investigate the volcanic and structural architecture, petrography, and alteration chemistry of a portion of the Shebandowan greenstone belt in the Wawa subprovince of Northern Ontario to better constrain the gold mineralization and to develop vectors towards mineralization. The principal methods employed in this study will be fundamental geological mapping and logging, combined […]

Using simplified language understandable to a layperson, provide a general, one-paragraph description of the proposed research project to be undertaken by the intern(s) as well as the expected benefit to the partner organization. (100-150 words) The project has been developed in concurrence with the Sinneave Foundation’s aim to improve outcomes in education, employment and housing […]

Dans un contexte de forte concurrence touristique, les destinations cherchent à se démarquer les unes des autres. Pour faire face au défi de rendre leur territoire plus attractif, les acteurs touristiques, politiques, économiques, géographiques, sociaux et culturels du milieu s’unissent pour concevoir une approche commune et partagée du développement territorial. Dans l’objectif de réussir leur […]