In nature, animals must make decisions about where to find food. Looking for food, however, exposes animals to the risk of being eaten by predators and forces them to compete with other animals for food. This combination of risk and competition is stressful, and animals respond by releasing hormones help them cope. Initially, a common […]

In this fast-growing world, customer satisfaction and service quality are the two important concepts that companies must understand to withstand the market and grow. In today’s competitive environment, delivering high-quality service is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. Our company is proposing a model that will help improve customer satisfaction, which will impact the customer’s […]

The goal of this research is to give an effectively unsupervised financial fraud detection method, in which low rank recovery method is used to exploit intrinsic relationship of data samples. The benefits of our methods have several folds: (1) compared with classification-based methods, our methods can deal with the imbalance problem effectively; (2) by using […]

SmartICE Sea-Ice Monitoring & Information Inc., or simply “SmartICE”, is the proprietor of the world’s first climate change adaptation tool to integrate Inuit knowledge of sea ice with advanced data acquisition and remote monitoring technology. This project focuses on: • Developing an internal data collection and management strategy for the purposes of strengthening or improving […]

Research has repeatedly shown that increasing housing stability for vulnerable individuals consistently improves other outcomes in their lives. Choices For Youth (CFY) is a leader in the province of NL in providing comprehensive supports to vulnerable youth experiencing homelessness in order to secure better outcomes for housing, employment, and other health factors. This research aims […]

This project is focused on the development of import modules to bring publicly available corporate communications within the Cometrics database. This project will help deliver consistent and correct ESG Theme information to subscribers and partners.

The proposed project will carry out the initial steps of building an augmented reality experience for cultural tourism on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador. The proposed interns will work closely with the partner organization, which is a network of 13 cultural heritage sites in the region, including traveling to the region to […]

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is currently experiencing a financial crisis. Along with other initiatives to help grow and strengthen the economy, the province has three business incubators to help young companies grow and be successful. However, the incubators are not specifically focused on business co-operatives. Globally, co-operatives have been very powerful economic drivers […]

Oil and gas pipelines generally traverse over a large distance through various ground conditions, from relatively flat areas to sloping grounds such as crossing hills, mountain ridges and rivers. Ground deformation/slope failure and upheaval buckling during operation pose a major threat to the structural integrity, safety and operability of the pipelines. In the proposed project, […]

The carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has been increasing continuously due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, which causes global climate change. Conventional CO2 capture strategies are practical, but they are costly and only lower the rate of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. To decrease the global concentration of CO2 in […]

To harvest renewable energy from ocean waves, in this research we propose to study innovative triboelectric nanogenerators, a new type of energy harvesters especially good at converting small-scale mechanical motions into electricity. Although ocean wave energy is one of the most abundant and widely distributed renewable energy resources, it has not yet been extensively used […]

The partner organization, C-CORE, conducts medium- and large-scale experiments on ice fracture. The goal is to estimate the mechanical loads involved in the interaction of icebergs and subsea cables/pipelines. While the ice fracture tests provide the most valuable data, numerical models may help estimate the loads at custom geometries and conditions the test apparatus cannot […]