Interest in the preservation of gametes (spermatozoa and eggs) by freezing has increased in the last years. In the stallion, freezing semen is a widespread technique that can assure preservation of valuable male genetics. In the mare, however, there is currently no efficient method for gamete preservation. The technique utilized is vitrification, and this has […]

Depression is a debilitating mental disorder that affects people across many cultures. However, people from different cultures may display their depressive symptoms in different ways. For example, depressed people from one culture may display their symptoms through the inability to think or concentrate. People from another culture may show their depression through poor physical health […]

L’allongement de l’espérance de vie au Québec pose d’importants défis à la société. Au-delà des enjeux économiques que posent le financement des retraites, le coût de la dépendance augmente considérablement. L’une des causes de la perte d’autonomie des aînés est liée au déclin des facultés intellectuelles. Si les maladies neurodégénératives sont, en grande partie, responsables […]

North American Indigenous and Chinese/Taiwanese Indigenous peoples have long shared an intimate relationship with water. For them, water is not only a commodity or substance for physical survival, it is closely and deeply related with their spiritual lives as well. This research project aims to explore the subtle affinities between East Asian (specifically Sinophone) and […]

Software-defined networking (SDN) technology is an approach to cloud computing that facilitates network management and enables programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring. SDN suggests centralizing network intelligence in one network component by disassociating the forwarding process of network packets (data plane) from the routing process (control plane). The control […]

What effect do urban trees have on the livability in our cities? What is the economic value of a single urban tree and which ecosystem services does it provide? Where are potential hot spots of invasion by forest invasive alien species? These and many more questions about urban trees are becoming increasingly prominent due to […]

Bumblebee species are critical for pollination of crops and wild plant species but face critical threats from many sources. Some of these threats include climate change, habitat loss, and agricultural intensification. However, these threats may also interact to accelerate extinction risks among these species, eroding their contributions to vital ecosystem services and degrading the effectiveness […]

Pharmaceutical drugs can be made in different forms such as tablets, solutions, capsules, etc. depending on ease of administration, the effect of the drug on the body, and the effect of the body on the drug. Capsules are composed of an outer gelatin shell in which the drug is packed. They are more expensive to […]

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) in humans. World Health Organization (WHO) conforms that, TB is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Mycobacterium cell wall is composed of a complex, formed by peptidoglycan, lipid mycolic acid, and polysaccharide arabinogalactan. Arabinogalactan (AG) is a heteropolysaccharide that comprises of arabinose and galactose […]

A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) that causes short-lived impairment of neurological function caused either by a direct blow to the head, face, neck, or elsewhere on the body with an impulsive force transmitted to the head that may or may not involve loss of consciousness. These injuries are increasing both in […]

Water is vital for life; it is a resource we interact with daily and rely on implicitly. Our reliance on water resources is why water pollution is a global concern. One risk to water quality is elevated levels of toxic trace metals. While metals occur naturally in aquatic environments, human activities can increase natural concentrations […]

The Endogenous retrovirus-K (ERVK) group are retroviruses which are found in human DNA and are linked to the disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Research has found that ERVK is more active in the brains and spinal cords of ALS patients. ALS is a disease that results in a patient’s gradual paralysis and for which there […]