Celiac disease is an autoimmune dysfunction that requires strict adherence to a gluten-free (GF) diet in order to prevent detrimental health outcomes. Following a strict GF diet is difficult given that gluten is added as a preservative or binding agent to many foods. Findings from a review suggest strict adherence to a gluten-free diet is […]

CO2 is a greenhouse gas that impacts climate change. The Carbon Upcycling Technologies has developed a technique to attach gaseous CO2 molecules to graphite. In this project, this graphite will be converted to graphene using chemical oxidation methods. The one-atom thin monolayer graphene oxide will have potential applications in variety of industries, such as waste […]

Bones undergo a renewal process by replenishing calcium mineral through a cellular process known as remodeling. Usually, it happens in a balanced manner, but in many bone diseases, the remodeling process is increased with regional bone metabolism. Bisphosphonate (BP) drugs selectivity and strongly bind to bone mineral and become incorporated at active sites of bone […]

Bones undergo a renewal process by replenishing calcium mineral through a cellular process known as remodeling. Usually, it happens in a balanced manner, but in many bone diseases, the remodeling process is increased with regional bone metabolism. Bisphosphonate (BP) drugs selectivity and strongly bind to bone mineral and become incorporated at active sites of bone […]

Automation of medical diagnosis/detection process is very important in terms of enhancing diagnostic accuracy, increasing throughput, reducing costs, and training new staff. Our current goal is to go from the proof of concept stage (automatic recognition and classification of human blood images) to a complete working and optimized prototype and to start testing it in […]

ALFA Upgrades recently developed a system for buried pipelines, referred to as “Displacement Buffering System (DBS)”, to redistribute the stress and strain concentrations in a pipe and limit the allowable lateral displacement of the pipe in the incidence of large ground movement. The scope of this project includes performing experimental tests and consequently developing equations […]

This proposed research and development project is intended to create an Integrated Approach to Recovery of Mature Oil and Gas Asset Production and to achieve Strategic Lifecycle Liability Discharges in the oil & gas industries. Tansley Associates Environmental Sciences (TAES) and Athabasca University (AU) each have excellent talent pools and facilities with specific strengths in […]

The project will deal with the identification of the mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of a series of untested composite materials manufactured by Zerocor. By undergoing rigorous mechanical, thermal, and electrical testing, a database of properties for these materials can be constructed. Comparing these properties with the materials’ microscopic internal structure, one can establish structure-property […]

Aimed to improve productivity and performance of construction projects, the project applied unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect the data of the construction site periodically. Images of the site will be captured with cameras carried on the UAV platform. The construction site will be monitored with the images and the 3D information recovered from the […]

A zinc coating is commonly used on structural steels to prevent corrosion. The structure is dipped in a hot bath of liquid zinc, which when cooled, provides to protective layer. However, after the coating process, cracking has been found in the welded joints of the structural steel. The proposed research aims to determine the cause […]

The main objective of this work is to identify and evaluate technologies which capture water from natural gas combustion flue gas from oilsands steam generators, as well as recover energy from the hot flue gas. This includes classification of technologies to evaluate their fundamentals and technical viability (1), feasibility for a particular SAGD scheme with […]

With the rapid development of computing and sensing technologies, such as ubiquitous wireless sensor networks, the amount of data from dissimilar sensors and social media have has been increasing at a rate beyond using traditional tools to analyze. Big data poses interesting information and requires different tools in various layers of the multi-sensor decision support […]