Avant toute commercialisation, les industries chimiques, pharmaceutiques et cosmétiques ont l’obligation d’évaluer le risque que leurs produits induisent une réaction inflammatoire ou allergique au contact de la peau. Actuellement, des animaux sont l’objet de ces tests, qui posent d’importants problèmes éthiques. En recherche fondamentale, les mécanismes conduisant à une maladie de la peau (lupus, psoriasis) […]

In mechanically ventilated critically ill patients, sleep disruption may contribute to prolonged weaning leading to longer intensive care unit stay and hospital mortality. It was reported that sleep disruption affects the outcome of noninvasive ventilation and we hypothesize that it may also have an impact in mechanically ventilated patients on the weaning outcome. We propose […]

Next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) technologies developed in research are becoming cheap and efficient enough to be used to inform patient care. Yet, the transition of NGS technologies in the clinic is not without hurdles. Indeed, the data produced by NGS machines is large (which poses storage issues) extremely diverse and complex (interpretation issues) shared by […]

Due to the increase in class sizes, many Canadian teachers and parents have been concerned about the loss of individualized lessons to the average Canadian student. Chinese schools however, have been dealing with large volumes of students for a longer period of time. In investigating the methodologies of the average Chinese teacher within their classroom, […]

This research project is aiming to find out whether or not China’s culture has an impact upon its standardized testing and examination system in comparison it the Canadian counterpart, EQAO. The research will be conducted through first hand observation in local Chinese schools which will provide evidence to the research questions provided. The findings will […]

Historically, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – also referred to as remotely piloted aircraft or drones – have most commonly been associated with military applications. In recent years, however, there has been a shift in interest towards civilian applications and a corresponding increase in research and development in this area. UAVs typically fall into two categories: […]

The effects of temperature on the mechanical properties of geomaterials (e.g. soils, rocks) are important for the safety and life cycle of any infrastructures. The research activities in the field suggest that there is a lack of understanding due to limited experimental data. The seasonal climate change causes the variations in temperatures which may pose […]

Increasing pressure on India’s limited water resources due to population growth demands innovative and cost-effective methods of water management. One avenue of significant research is the treatment and recycling of municipal wastewater, where only about 31% of the domestic wastewater generated is treated using conventional methods. Aerobic granulation (AG) is a novel biotechnological wastewater treatment […]

A nitrogen budget evaluates the balance between the amount of nitrogen entering a field (inputs) and the amount of nitrogen exiting a field (outputs). When analyzing a nitrogen budget, the amount of nitrogen being lost to the surrounding environment can be estimated, as well as the use efficiency of selected fertilizer treatments. The proposed study […]

Acquisition and tracking of human body is a key research problem in the fields of computer vision, computer graphics, and biomechanics. We propose a system that can used to create personalized human body model in normal room environment using just a single RGB-D camera. We want our system to be robust against illumination variations and […]

Acidification of fetal blood presents one of the greatest risks to the fetus during childbirth. Current monitoring technologies focusing on recording fetal heart rate are poor indicators of fetal stress levels, and provide minimal assistance in clinical decision-making. This is due to a lack of understanding about which features of fetal heart rate best represent […]

The proposed research project is on asphalt rehabilitation materials called cold in-place recycling (CIR) and full depth reclamation (FDR). Those pavement rehabilitation techniques are gaining popularity because of their lower cost and their lower environmental footprint than conventional pavement reconstruction. In both case, asphalt pavement, and a part of the granular base for FDR, are […]