This project will focus on creating a strategy for Indigenous women entrepreneurs in tourism in Canada’s North. It will focus on developing a skills based training strategy and related supports to reduce barriers to entrepreneurship for Indigenous women in tourism. The expected benefit is to overcome barriers and increase the benefits to entrepreneurial activity for […]

The pandemic has had a devastating impact on mental health, substance use and homelessness in Canada. The pandemic has also made visible the current patchwork system of care provided in the private, public. It is expected that the medium-long term mental health and substance use impacts of the pandemic will be significant at both the […]

Cultural Planning encourages recognition of a community’s network of interrelated assets, and maintains that it is beneficial to conserve built cultural heritage resources. Many municipalities, including the City of Guelph, have undertaken cultural mapping initiatives, which are considered an initial step and a defining feature of this vein of planning. Guelph’s mapping initiative identifies the […]

Falls are the leading cause of injuries in older adults. Identifying older adults with risk for falls prior to discharge home from the Emergency Department (ED) could help direct fall prevention interventions, yet ED-based tools to assist risk stratification are under-developed. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of our proposed machine […]

Crystal shape and size are among the most important features of crystalline product that are prevalent in the pharmaceutical industry. Extremely fine and needle-like crystals pose various problems in the downstream processes including filtration, tableting, handling, and storage. Rufinamide is an anticonvulsant medication, and its most stable and therapeutically advantageous crystalline form shows notoriously undesirable […]

Here at Mastercard, we have a transaction data where an account (card holder) transacts at a merchant, this data can be viewed as a Bipartite Graph of account and merchant nodes, where each edge represent a transaction between them. We have multiple models/tasks that provide predictive intelligence at an account level, e.g., predicting an account […]

Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to the health of Canadians. The spread of antibiotic resistance organisms and lead to inappropriate antibiotic treatment and adverse health outcomes. With this project, one intern will be supported to learn and develop approaches for rapid bacterial diagnostics and surveillance, with direct relevance for knowledge translation and knowledge generation. […]

The financial implications of time lost from work due to disability can be severe. Disability insurance coverage plans protect people from possible loss of income. We have found factors that predict the duration of disability benefit claims. However, it remains to be seen whether these associations are consistent. Improved understanding of modifiable factors associated with […]

At present, networks for the studying of fashion exist globally in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others. Canada, too, is home to some of these collaborative sites, for example the Canadian Fashion Scholars and the Canadian Arts & Fashion Awards. Many of these networks have flourished through the publishing of an […]

Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2014 after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. A larger invasion took place on February 24, 2022. Both conflicts have caused the displacement of 8 million Ukrainians to date. This is the largest humanitarian crisis in history since World War II. A significant percentage of these Ukrainian refugees have […]

Being physically active is associated with many health benefits. To help guide people on how much activity they need for optimal health, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology developed new Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for all age groups. Specifically, this work will look at assessment, awareness, and uptake of the new guidelines as it relates […]

This research aims at investigating the structural performance of engineered bamboo composites (EBCs), namely Dragonwood, to replace traditional Canadian and tropical hardwoods used in jacking applications. Key mechanical properties and failure modes will be documented. The durability and flammability of all three materials will also be evaluated. Despite the obvious environmental advantages of EBCs (e.g., […]