FSO (Family Services Ottawa) is a not-for-profit social service agency whose mission is to assist individuals, to build on their strengths and to improve their mental health. FSO does so by providing counselling, education, and advocacy within a context of working to foster systemic change. Although their programs are increasingly monitored and evaluated at the […]

Salt marshes are important coastal ecosystems as they provide many services to surrounding areas. However, due to their highly productive nature, they have a long history of being converted into farmland in the Maritimes and continue to be altered for human development. Salt marsh restoration has become popular recently to mitigate the increasing societal costs […]

The intern will undertake research to develop and provide a testing and optimization platform that will accelerate the availability of smart systems for home healthcare for seniors’ and for people with disabilities. The research will contribute to more successful outcomes and useful products from early-stage innovation activities that lead to social, public and private good […]

Over the past few years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in machine learning tasks on graph data and have been widely applied to many real-world applications across different fields, such as traffic prediction, user behavior analysis, and fraud detection. However, networks in the real world are often with heterogeneous degree distributions, such […]

Digital Integration Centre Of Excellence Technology Access Centre (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SP) and Levis Media Inc. (Levis) will collaborate on the research and development of an inventory management system that targets small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in numerous industries underserved by current systems. In the space of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software whereby an […]

This project, a collaboration between the Arctic Youth Network (AYN) and Project CREATeS, is to create a virtual platform that supports suicide prevention in Arctic youth by building a virtual community, as well as to promote mental wellbeing through digital and creative media. The proposed youth-led, community-based research agenda builds upon a successful grant completed […]

Researchers in Ontario use various digital tools, technologies, and services to help with their work. This includes software, hardware, and people with technical expertise. Compute Ontario helps ensure that researchers have access to the digital resources and services that they need to complete their research. The demand for these resources is growing in Canada, and […]

Large community hospitals and teaching hospitals in Ontario operate at congestion levels most of the time. This translates into long wait times for the patients, cancelled procedures, undue stress for the clinical staff, and inefficiency in hospital operations. In order to address the bottlenecks in patient flows, decisions are made by the clinical staff based […]

La chitine est un biopolymère entrant dans la composition de la carapace des crustacés. Ce faisant, il représente un coproduit important de l’industrie de la pêche pour lequel le développement de nouveaux débouchés demeure un enjeu. Or, le chitosane (un dérivé de la chitine) pourrait représenter une matrice de choix pour le développement d’outils permettant […]

Ce projet analyse les injustices épistémiques qui entrent en jeu dans la production de connaissances archéologiques par les communautés innues de la Basse-Côte-Nord (Unamen Shipu et Pakuashipi), et propose de former des principes éthiques permettant de corriger ces injustices. Le concept de préservation fournit une base de travail auquel des principes complémentaires viendront se greffer. […]

Non-contact sensing for vital signs and human activities utilizing wireless signals has attracted a lot of attention in the last few years. Sensing using Ultra-wide-band or milli-meter wave radios is advantageous in its ability to penetrate garments or walls, operate under different lighting and weather conditions, and better preserve people’s privacy. Despite successful research demonstrations, […]

This project fits into the strategic goal to accelerate transition to digital technology in working with universities to research and analyse industry trends. The second phase will help the Ciena Documentation team test ideas and to implement them in the Component Content Management System (CCMS) and Translation Management System (TMS) in order to improve their […]