Mining has been a major, invaluable source of wealth and employment for Canada. However, mining activities involve the release of heavy metals into the environment through its process tailings. These metals are highly toxic to the environment, but they are also recoverable and have high market value for other applications. There are various treatments to […]

Body movements are an important biomedical parameter that can be measured using wearable devices. Notable applications of wearable sensors range from monitoring individuals suffering from loss of autonomy to monitoring athletes’ performance. These movements can include breathing, speech, limb motion as well as heartbeat. Accurate measurement of these movements requires precise and sensitive strain and […]

The successful agronomic strategy relies on nutrient detection and estimation. Adequate management of nutrients is an important concern for the whole growth period of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivation. In this work, we try to analyze the situation of potential harmful elements for potato production such as Aluminium (Al) and Manganese (Mn) in soil and […]

The organization and control of swarm systems have been either completely decentralized where all the robots use only local observation and simple rules for coordination and cooperation which leads to emergent behavior. There are advantages to using this decentralized paradigm such as redundancy, scalability, and simplicity, but such systems tend to be slow and difficult […]

Numerous Machine Learning (ML) tasks are forecasting problems, used to make downstream decisions. Acting on ML forecasts however can changes the distribution of observations relevant to the forecast. The implication is downstream decision optimization procedures implicitly expect the ML model to generalize outside of the observational distribution. Unfortunately, this is often not the case, and […]

The project tests musicians and non-musicians with auditory feedback perturbation paradigms in speech and music. In auditory feedback perturbation studies, speakers speak or sing a sequence into a microphone and hear their own productions via special in-ear headphones, while specific parameters in the feedback signal are altered in real-time. In the two speech conditions, parts […]

Ce projet de collaboration vise à développer de nouveaux procédés à flux continu pour produire des dérivés organothiocyanates. Ces motifs sont importants en chimie organique, notamment dans les principes actifs agrochimiques et pharmaceutiques. L’objectif spécifique du projet est de développer des stratégies durables pour synthétiser des cibles contenant des SCN méta-substitués. Ces avancées scientifiques permettront […]

The goal of this proposal is we aim to develop an injectable drug delivery system for intratumoral delivery of a combination of an AXL-inhibitor and FDA-approved chemotherapy drug (e.g.Dox). AXL inhibitors in combination with chemotherapies that target the DNA of cancer cells is a promising approach for treating cancers. The device is integrable to a […]

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has shown great potential in cancer detection, tissue characterization, and therapeutic applications. Laser diode-based PA imaging is a new development in this field that can be used for image guidance, nerve or cancer imaging, and the localization of a needle target during biopsy procedures. The PA imaging requires very accurate time synchronization […]

In grain processing, milling usually plays a key role. The efficiency of the milling process is key to the profitability of the process and is decisive for the quality of the final product. However, milling is often subject to wear problems. Indeed, the degradation of the rolls varies over time depending on factors that are […]

A partir d’un corpus d’articles de presse publiés au Québec en français, nous cherchons à comprendre les mécanismes linguistiques de la subjectivité dans les textes journalistiques. Notre objectif est de confronter l’efficacité des méthodes statistiques d’analyse de la subjectivité, basées sur la théorie linguistique, avec les performances inégalées mais peu transparentes des approches utilisant l’apprentissage […]

Brain metastasis of breast cancer has a very poor prognosis in patients. Treatment options are limited because the blood-brain-barrier prevents drugs from entering the brain. Importantly, we are lacking information on how brain cells are supporting the growth of metastatic breast cancer cells. Using HER2-positive breast cancer cells isolated from a patient brain metastasis the […]