Transportation of oil and gas through pipeline networks remain a crucial infrastructure for sustainable economic growth in Canada. Pipeline wear and damage will remain a major concern as it can lead to catastrophic failures causing environmental and economic damage if undetected. For easier detection of damage on a large network of pipelines, an array of […]

ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is an incurable neurodegenerative characterized by the dysfunction and then death of motor neurons due to misfolded proteins. While healthy cells are equipped with a defence mechanism against protein misfolding known as protein quality control, it is possible that some neurons in ALS lose this mechanism. It is unknown why TDP-43 […]

In a historic United Nations (UN) summit, world leaders adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a universal call to action to address the global challenges we face by the year 2030, including those related to poverty, inequity, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. Together, the UN and their partners have underscored the importance […]

Operant chambers equipped with touchscreens are a new technology that has been used for the mass behavioural phenotyping of rodent models of neurological disease. These chambers have the potential to make behavioural testing more reliable, faster, and translationally valid to human cognitive testing. To further increase the utility of these systems, technology capable of tracking […]

The one-to-Zero (OTZ) Tension Adjustment is a chiropractic technique which corrects articular dysfunction of the articulation between the skull and the top vertebrae of the neck, also called the atlas. The goal of this study is to determine whether correcting dysfunction using OTZ affects brain processes and overall health and well-being. Participants will complete questionnaires […]

Community Sport Organizations (CSOs) exist to provide opportunities for sport participation for youth and adults in many countries around the world. These nonprofit, voluntary organizations face many challenges in an increasingly complex environment due to their diverse stakeholders, scarce resources, volunteer turnover among other issues (Allison, 2001; Hoye & Cuskelly, 2007). Interorganizational partnerships have been […]

“Bohemian matrices and applications” is a new and growing field in computational mathematics invented at Western University. The name “Bohemian” is a mnemonic for “Bounded Height Matrix of Integers”, which means that the entries of these matrices are drawn from a small set of numbers, such as {-1, 0, 1}. The original motivation for starting […]

Bubbly flows are ubiquitous in many systems and also fascinating from a fundamental perspective. Injecting bubbles into a liquid is often used to enhance mixing which leads to improvement in heat and/or mass transfer characteristics of the flow. This finds many applications in chemical industry, energy sector, and even biomedical engineering. This internship provides an […]

Traditional chemical separations, such as water filtration for example, are often energy intensive and require large amounts heat to achieve success. In an age with a growing need for clean technology, there has been increased demand for membranes capable of achieving these separations, without the traditional downfalls. These so called super-membranes are capable of producing […]

After leaving the hospital, about 65% of older adults go back into the hospital because of mobility problems. Mobility problems are caused by many factors such as cognitive (e.g. dementia) psychological (e.g. depression), physical (e.g. medical conditions), environmental (e.g. bad roads), financial (e.g. low income), social (e.g. relatives/friends) and personal (e.g. age). Usually, these mobility […]

Aerosol deposition (AD) is a modification of low pressure cold spray technology which allows the deposit of ceramic based coatings. AD technology in a vacuum allows the formation of dense and well adhering ceramic films from sub-micro and nanoparticles directly at room temperature. The AD technology is still under development to cover more applications and […]

A person’s risk of experiencing a bony fracture increases with age. In addition to simply the loss of bone volume that occurs due to aging, there are also microstructural changes that contribute to the increased risk. The latter have been poorly studied to date. Trabecular packets (also known as hemiosteons) are the microstructural constituents of […]