Community dynamics in restored salt marshes

Salt marshes are important coastal ecosystems because they provide many services to surrounding areas. Due to the high fertility of salt marsh soil, they have a long history of being converted to farmland in Maritime Canada. In recent years, there has been growing interest in restoring salt marshes to protect against coastal erosion, mitigate sea […]

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Optimization of Conventional and Novel Methods for Removing Carbon Dioxide from Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are land based fish farms that recycle the water from the fish tanks using multiple water treatment processes. Fish produce large amounts of carbon dioxide, through respiration, that needs to be removed during the water treatment process since high levels of carbon dioxide are hazardous to fish. Currently the most common […]

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Application des algorithmes intelligents pour la classification des flux de données (RSS, Alertes Gmail) : Une étude de cas de l’autisme

L’exploration de données est le processus d’acquérir des modèles, des connaissances et des informations à partir d’un ensemble de données et les transformer en une structure compréhensible et explicable pour une utilisation à l’avance. Dans notre application, un algorithme intelligent nous aide á gagner du temps et bien s’assurer de la concordance de l’article au […]

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Évaluation des méthodes diagnostiques actuelles dans la création de nouvelles applications pronostiques

En 2016, 25 700 Canadiennes développeront un cancer du sein, représentant 26.1% de tous les cancers diagnostiqués et on estime que 5000 femmes en décèderont cette année. Contrairement à un diagnostique, un pronostique nous permet de prédire l’évolution d’une maladie. La recherche de nouvelles méthodes de pronostic non invasive d’un cancer est importante pour déterminer […]

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Toxicity of nanomaterials to Amazonian fish in different water types

The Negro and Solimoes rivers in the Amazon Basin house an incredible diversity of fish, up to 3000 species, and are critical to the economies and cultures of the communities through which they run. The waters of the Rio Negro are clear and black, with a high concentration of dissolved organic material but almost no […]

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Exploring home range and habitat use during the breeding season of the Bicknell’s thrush (Catharus bicknelli) in New Brunswick Clear-cuts

The Bicknell’s thrush (Cathurs bicknelli) is a rare songbird with the most restrictive breeding range in North America. The Bicknell’s thrush spends its summer months breeding in high elevation, stunted growth forests – a habitat that the species specializes in. In New Brunswick, there has been a documented population decline of 11.5% per year since […]

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Development of Natural Antimicrobial Formulations for Food Safety

An increasing number of consumers favor minimally processed products from natural ingredients for reducing the intake of chemical additives from food products. One of the major problem for the food industry is the lack of natural additives. The main objective for this research is to develop and optimize natural, safe, effective and affordable antimicrobial additives […]

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Early Childhood Education project

Early Learning is an impotant undertaking in Canadian society and supporting young children as they move from home to early learning centres onto kindergarten classes is of particular interest and value to educators, helping us to ensure we provide the right environments and supports for all young children. This research will help us to provide […]

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Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Moderating Visual Content

Two Hat Security is a company that develops next generation moderation tools for social networking apps. Since visual content (e.g. images, videos) is one of the most important types of data shared by social networking apps, an important problem for the company is to identify images/videos that are offensive or inappropriate. For example, certain images/videos […]

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