Heat stress is a deadly occupational hazard that is projected to increase in severity with global warming. While upper limits for heat stress designed to protect all workers have been recommended by occupational safety institutes for some time, heat stress continues to compromise health and productivity. The continuing detrimental effects of heat stress may be […]

Fusion energy has the potential to revolutionize how we generate electricity, and pave our path towards a netzero carbon future. Most fusion fuels are hydrogen isotopes, which are heated and compressed into a plasma state. This process is very difficult – if the plasma degrades or behaves poorly, fusion won’t be able to occur. One […]

Deep brain stimulation is a treatment method for Parkinson’s Disease, involving implanting an electrode deep into the brain. This procedure has a small but serious risk of complications such as hemorrhage and infection. However, a new stimulation technique, called temporal interference stimulation, may circumvent these risks, and allow for non-invasive deep brain stimulation. Temporal interference […]

3D object reconstruction is a crucial task for autonomous driving. Many important fields in autonomous driving such as prediction, planning, and motion control generally require a faithful representation of the 3D space around the ego vehicle. Reliable and accurate 3D reconstruction with one RGB video alone in autonomous driving is the goal of this project. […]

Steroid drugs and creatine are treatments for muscle weakness in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Steroid drugs can also cause problems like weakening mitochondria which are the energy producing parts of muscle cells. Duchenne also makes it harder for mitochondria to use creatine for energy. This means that both treatments may not be doing the […]

This project is developing new tools to explore for mineral deposits buried in locations where they are difficult to identify using traditional techniques. The tools are based on electronic devices that are relatively inexpensive to produce so that multiple devices can be used and hence the quality of the data will improve. This will make […]

COVID, remote work, remote learning and the accelerated adoption of technology globally has shifted the ways of how we live, learn, and our future lifestyles going forward. The 90% of society face challenges of how best to simplify their navigation and access to knowledge – those who may not have high value networks, and the […]

The utility service providers calculate the peak demand charges based on the highest level of power consumption that a facility uses in any interval (usually 15 mins) during the billing cycle. The peak demand charges in facilities such as supermarkets could represent nearly up to 40% of the total utility bill. In supermarkets, besides the […]

The proposed project intends to make an evaluation of the Canadian public sector’s use of technology in budget tracking operations. The purpose is to make a recommendation on a technological “future state” to address the discovered shortcomings and to mitigate future operational failures, as well as evaluating the impact of adopting such innovative technology. The […]

Chronic Kideney Disease can require patients to undergo dialysis or transplantation as treatment options. Ontario Renal Network (ORN) is responsible for setting the strategic direction of services, their aim is to improve the quality of life of every patients. The project will try to define suitability criteria for home dialysis patients by analyzing historic patient […]

In customized healtchare systems, the service providers tailor the health services based on the different types of patients. However, the actual type of a patient is hidden from the decision-maker. The observed signals form a partial picture that is an estimate of the actual state of the subject. The decision maker’s knowledge about the actual […]

Accurate, reproducible endoscopic reports that provide standardized data on the nature and location of GI tract lesions are critical to quality improvement in endoscopy, particularly with respect to colonoscopy performed for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance. In addition, accurate, verifiable performance-enhancing feedback is essential for training future endoscopists and for supporting continued skills enhancement for […]