Établissement de liens entre les changements climatiques anticipés et la classification écologique d’une portion de la forêt boréale et tempérée de l’Ouest du Québec

Cette demande porte sur les changements de végétation anticipés sous l’effet des changements climatiques, à la jonction entre le domaine de la sapinière à bouleau jaune (forêt tempérée) et celui de la sapinière à bouleau blanc (forêt boréale) (Figures 1 et 2). Nous quantifierons les différences entre le climat actuel et celui qui prévaudra dans […]

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Établissement de liens entre les changements climatiques anticipés et la classification écologique d’une portion de la forêt boréale et tempérée de l’Ouest du Québec – Year two

Cette demande porte sur les changements de végétation anticipés sous l’effet des changements climatiques, à la jonction entre le domaine de la sapinière à bouleau jaune (forêt tempérée) et celui de la sapinière à bouleau blanc (forêt boréale) (Figures 1 et 2). Nous quantifierons les différences entre le climat actuel et celui qui prévaudra dans […]

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Improving energy system planning solutions by accounting for inherent uncertainties through robust optimization

More and more distributed energy resources (smart loads, self-generation, electric vehicles, etc.) are installed directly at the customers. This causes fluctuations in the distribution network that can reverse the power flow or increase the cold pick-up effect. The infrastructures in place have not been designed for this new reality and they must be adapted accordingly, […]

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Improving energy system planning solutions by accounting for inherent uncertainties through robust optimization – Year two

More and more distributed energy resources (smart loads, self-generation, electric vehicles, etc.) are installed directly at the customers. This causes fluctuations in the distribution network that can reverse the power flow or increase the cold pick-up effect. The infrastructures in place have not been designed for this new reality and they must be adapted accordingly, […]

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Designing Soft+Stiff Haptic Interactions with Opensource Authoring Toolkits

Our sense of touch is vital to most daily activities we engage in, but is underused by most existing computing devices. Though haptics is an active research field, the main outcomes of three decades of research are limited to cost-effective vibrotactile feedback (as in mobile phones) or expensive force-feedback devices (mainly for surgical operation simulation). […]

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Évaluation d’impact en santé intégrée aux procédures d’aménagement du territoire: guide d’aide à la décision

Plusieurs municipalités dans la région de Québec visent l’innovation des pratiques pour construire des quartiers sécuritaires favorisant les saines habitudes de vie. Parallèlement, l’OSBL Vivre en Ville veut informer/sensibiliser les décideurs aux impacts de leurs décisions sur la qualité de vie citoyenne. L’objectif du projet proposé est d’intégrer l’Évaluation d’Impact sur la Santé (EIS) aux […]

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Évaluation d’impact en santé intégrée aux procédures d’aménagement du territoire: guide d’aide à la décision – Year two

Plusieurs municipalités dans la région de Québec visent l’innovation des pratiques pour construire des quartiers sécuritaires favorisant les saines habitudes de vie. Parallèlement, l’OSBL Vivre en Ville veut informer/sensibiliser les décideurs aux impacts de leurs décisions sur la qualité de vie citoyenne. L’objectif du projet proposé est d’intégrer l’Évaluation d’Impact sur la Santé (EIS) aux […]

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A Finite Element Framework for Non-linear Material Constitutive Modelling of Superalloy Additive Manufactured Parts

Due to its versatility, time and cost saving, additive manufacturing (AM) technology, and more specifically selective laser melting process (SLM), is replacing conventional manufacturing processes, particularly for producing complex geometry components. In this technology, the near net shape parts are incrementally built by fusing layers of powder material using an intensive heating source/ Structural stress […]

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Rugged Silicon Photonic Transceiver

Rugged transceivers, which can sustain harsh environments, are in high demand in the applications such as telecommunications, avionics, and space. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based transceivers have been a cost-effective approach to address the demand. However, the exponential growth in the data volume, push the technology toward higher speeds at longer reaches. Reflex Photonics has been […]

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Optimization of small-scale anaerobic digesters for on-site organic waste processing

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a microbial process where organic materials (sugars, starches, hemicellulose, etc) are broken down into renewable natural biogas and nutrient-rich biodigestate byproducts (roughly 5-10% solids in water). The performance of AD systems is heavily dependent on careful control of digester conditions, including pH, temperature, and health and proportions of the bacterial populations […]

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Development of a next-generation in vivo human gene-editing therapeutic platform

The over-arching goal of our project is to develop a robust next-generation gene-editing platform to repair the deleterious mutations that are responsible for genetic diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis and cancer. First-generation precision endonuclease technologies have been tremendous for in vitro gene disruption studies and ex vivo treatments, but there has been limited success at […]

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