The objective of this project is to optimize a novel agricultural-based approach for producing high levels of stearidonic acid (SDA)-containing seed oil in the plant Buglossoides arvensis using co-cultivation with Pseudomonas p. LBUM677. Production of seed oil enriched in SDA, a dietary product possessing proven health benefits, is promising for use as animal and human […]

The proposed project deals with a novel idea of combining lightweight design and synthesis of metallic nanostructured materials and their use as feedstcok in the development of high-strength thin layered coatings. The engineered design of particles holds the key to accommodate both strength and toughness in the derived coatings due to the very nature of […]

Despite the improvements in cancer diagnostic and treatment, cancer is still a leading cause of death in Canada with 30% of all deaths. Some cancers, like pancreatic cancer (PC), still have poor survival rates due to the lack of early diagnosis and good prognostics markers. The Atlantic Cancer Research Institute (ACRI) has developed a proprietary […]

Despite the improvements in cancer diagnostic and treatment, cancer is still a leading cause of death in Canada with 30% of all deaths. Some cancers, like pancreatic cancer (PC), still have poor survival rates due to the lack of early diagnosis and good prognostics markers. The Atlantic Cancer Research Institute (ACRI) has developed a proprietary […]

Security is a huge concern in our digital society, especially with distributed systems like the Internet. Services deployed on such systems are frequently subject to malicious attacks; thus, verifying and enforcing its security is essential. One way of doing this is by using models like finite state automata. Past literature has explored how a system […]

This project aims to conduct a comparative analysis of portfolio performance using various models with different portfolio constraints in an optimization framework that is a modified version of the classical Markovitz mean-variance optimization model. Despite the breakthrough of the Markovitz mean-variance optimization model, its empirical implementation produces extreme portfolio weights and poor real-time performance. The […]

The goal of the project is to build an internal risk measurement system for Vestcor that combines two types of risk models. One type is fundamental risk models, which is what Vestcor’s current risk system built upon – these types of risk model use variables such as currency, style, market or country, sector or industry […]

New Brunswick Power Corporation (NB power) is required to file a 10 Year Financial Plan to the EUB every year as part of the general rate application; and this plan must include a scenario analysis in order to demonstrate the potential effect on forecasted financial outcomes of reasonable variations in terms of some key factors/variables. […]

This research aims to conduct transaction cost analysis (TCA) of popular factor investment strategies (value, momentum, size) using intraday tick data. While trading over short-term and investment over long-term has been separate operations historically, the implementation trading cost can be a huge drag on the long-term investment performance. Therefore we would want to simultaneously consider […]

Salt marshes are important coastal ecosystems that provide many services. Due to their high soil fertility, they have a long history of being converted to farmland. There is now growing interest in restoring salt marshes to protect against coastal erosion, mitigate sea level rise, and provide increased habitat for birds, fish, etc. Ducks Unlimited Canada […]

This project consists of archival work on the lecture notes taken by Winthrop Pickard Bell at Universität Göttingen in the beginning of the twentieth-century. Bell was a Canadian philosopher who taught at Harvard University in the 1920’s after completing his doctorate with Edmund Husserl, a prominent German philosopher, at Universität Göttingen. Bell took meticulous notes […]

This project is a data collection project; the collected data will be part of a greater project that will aim to demonstrate using microchemistry that commercially important fish stocks of Caranx caninus, Lutjanus argentiventris and Lutjanus novemfasciatus that are regularly fished from Bahía de Navidad use Barra de Navidad lagoon as a nursery area. Adults […]