Text documents often include information pertaining to geographic locations. Mapping these place names to specific geographic locations (e.g., GIS) requires a considerable amount of human effort. This becomes challenging especially when the same place name is represented by multiple places, such as in the naming of waterbodies (e.g. lakes and rivers). In this project we […]

The Measday lab at the University of British Columbia Wine Research Centre has been collaborating with Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP) winery since 2013 to isolate native yeast strains present in OCP vineyards and winery. OCP is an organic winery and routinely carries out natural grape juice fermentations where no commercial wine strains are inoculated into […]

La recherche qui sera effectuée dans le cadre de ce stage chez Communagir vise à acquérir des connaissances sur les savoirs que les élus des petites municipalités québécoises mobilisent dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions. Sur quelles connaissances basent-ils leurs décisions? Que pensent-ils des savoirs détenus par les citoyens? Comment bénéficient-ils de l’expertise des fonctionnaires municipaux […]

Determining methods to improve nutrient utilization in pigs is critical to improving the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of pork production in Canada. The objective of this project is to examine the use of an alternative source of dietary nitrogen and its impact on amino acid requirements and utilization in growing pigs. In disseminating results […]

A verifier-prover — where a “prover” suggests an answer to a question, which is then checked by a “verifier” — is a powerful analytical tool in computer science. As an example, understanding the number of transactions required to answer a computational question in a prover-verifier setting offers insights into the difficulty of that computational problem. […]

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes dementia. Effective therapies to slow or reverse progression of AD have yet to be realized clinically, owed largely to the lack of accurate diagnosis achievable by current methods. The need for early, definitive diagnosis of AD during life is imperative for disease management, and relies heavily […]

Le mont Covey Hill au Québec recense plusieurs espèces de salamandres rares et menacées. Ces amphibiens vivent dans les sols et dans l’eau pour une partie ou la totalité de leur cycle de vie, et sont donc susceptibles d’être affectés par la présence de pesticides. Le mont Covey Hill regroupe de nombreux producteurs agricoles, parmi […]

For people with mobility impairments, such as spinal cord injury survivors, rehabilitation and at home care settings come with the possibility of costly, painful pressure ulcers and skin breakdown. Occurring at a high frequency, current practice requires constant vigilance by caretakers and individuals using self-management practices. This injury comes from a prolonged application of pressures, […]

The biggest challenge faced by structural engineers in the design of high-rise structures is to control the dynamic responses of these structures due to wind and earthquake vibrations. While the traditional techniques of stiffening and adding vibration absorbers can mitigate the vibrational response to a degree, they also increase the construction cost and result in […]

Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is a protein known to be involved in a wide array of cancers. Although there are currently 4 approved HDAC inhibitors to date, these drugs lack the selectivity to only target HDAC6, given its high structural similarities with 10 other HDAC proteins, resulting in severe side-effects in patients such as nausea, […]

The inclusion of touch and physical sensations from within Virtual Reality and other Mixed Reality experiences provides exciting opportunities from both an entertainment and academic perspective. Enhancing immersive integration within these environments is useful, beneficial and thus highly desired- whether we are looking to develop skills for use in challenging technical and medical or dangerous […]

L’industrie chimique a atteint un point tournant, depuis la fin du siècle dernier, avec le développement des piles de lithium, dans le but de diminuer la consommation des carburants fossiles. Le carbonate de lithium, soit Li2CO3, est un des nombreux exemple de composé chimique utilisé dans les cathodes de piles pour cette industrie. Le Li2CO3 […]