Globally, obesity continues to be a growing public health challenge and has been associated with cardiometabolic diseases including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Current strategies aimed at reducing these cardiometabolic diseases include treatments aimed at controlling hypertension, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. In more severe cases, bariatric surgery is used to decrease […]

The proposed research project will be to provide an understanding and overview of Inuit women’s concerns, feelings, and thoughts regarding how their day to day lives are changing due to climate change and increased development in Nunavut. The partner organization (Sapujiyiit Society) will have the role of guiding the HQP through formulation of the research […]

Modern mobile phones have become the dominant photography device in recent years. However, their users are often not professional photographers. Thus, they lack the skills of choosing proper lighting, proper shot framing, and proper settings on the camera. In particular, photographs are often taken in unfavourable conditions where the scene of interest is obstructed by […]

Road safety affects everyone, not just Geotab customers. With several years of driving and environmental data from over 2 million connected vehicles we have an opportunity to make our customers safer, as well as our communities and cities. To reduce accidents, we need to understand both the driving behavioural patterns that are predictive of accidents, […]

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada has set out four high-level pillars for a nationwide campaign to improve response and outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Heart and Stroke in Atlantic Canada, which covers the provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, requires a process that will translate the high-level pillars […]

Knee osteoarthritis is a disabling disease affecting millions of people worldwide. Knee braces have been adopted as a treatment strategy to help manage osteoarthritis pain. These braces apply a force to the knee, which, in theory, reduces the joint loads in the knee. They also however change the way people walk, which can also reduce […]

“Social and Community Economic Development Planning” is a BSI project is comprised of four internships associated with four non-profit partner organizations engaged in organizing, advocacy and planning for affordable housing and community supports in low-income, racialized and marginalized neighborhoods. The shared context for this work is the ongoing gentrification in downtown Toronto , coupled with […]

With the ultimate goal of enhancing Nexxt Intelligence’s market research SaaS platform, inca, this project will create a flexible framework for facilitating conversations with consumers using an agent powered by natural language processing and deep learning models. This ‘discourse representation framework’ will be capable of engaging with consumers in fluent English, and is designed to […]

This project aims to propose a decision support tool for Nucleus Independent Living that optimizes the scheduling of clients visits, the assignment of PSWs to clients, and the routing of the daily visits of each PSW while trying to minimize the traveling distances for the PSWs, the number of different PSWs visiting a client, and […]

Humanity is dependent on a sustainable future yet fails to mobilize adoption of sustainability initiatives. If current trends continue, we may not meet the 2030 UN Sustainable Develop Goals until 2082– more than half a century late. Humanity’s insufficient response to the global lack of sustainability is a grand challenge driven by a moral imperative […]

This project will investigate the usability and feasibility of implementing physiological monitoring approaches to Bruce Power heat-stress management program. The project will involve personnel working in hot environments at Bruce Power conducting work as per normal in addition to peer monitoring using perceptual measures (ratings of perceived exertion and thermal sensation), and wearing a physiological […]

The Energy potential of water has been successfully harnessed to produce electricity since the late 19th century. In 2018, hydropower production accounts for approximately 61 % of the total electricity produced in Canada. To exploit this source of energy, water is stored in dams and is strategically used based on hydrological cycles. Over the years, […]