The harmful effects of smoking on fetal development, child health, and maternal wellbeing are well described, making smoking cessation during pregnancy and the postpartum period a global health priority. Although a large proportion of expecting mothers will spontaneously quit smoking during pregnancy, the majority will restart smoking within 6 months post-pregnancy. Efforts to reduce smoking […]

Collision avoidance can be described as a whole-body movement control problem in which visual information is used to elicit accurate movement adaptations. Age-related visuomotor degradation is a potential factor contributing to mobility difficulties in older adults. However, there remains a gap in understanding what age-related visuomotor changes are causing older adults to be more susceptible […]

During human navigation, vision plays a key role in efficiently guiding movements towards a goal by taking into account the interaction between the environment and the observer. Collision avoidance is comprised of two main aspects: visually perceived information, and behavioral adaptations. Previous research has demonstrated that humans alter their collision avoidance behaviours depending on situational […]

Treatment of metastatic breast cancer is often unsuccessful and lead to 5000 deaths in Canada each year. Therefore, there is an unmet need for new drugs for prevention and/or treatment of metastatic disease. Ezrin is a protein marker commonly over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. Preclinical studies show that blocking ezrin can significantly reduce metastasis in […]

Electric power distribution systems physically connect the newer active transactive energy (TE) elements such as energy storage, demand response, electric vehicles, and renewables to customer loads and electric supply from the transmission system. The proposal outlines a Transactive Electric Distribution System (TEDS) framework which enables the creation of a robust distribution system market in Canada […]

In Martian history, asteroids have continuously collided with Mars. The catastrophic activity (impact) can produce high pressure, and finally affected properties of minerals in meteorites, which means the minerals were shocked. The force of impact for ejecting Martian meteorites can be 60 GPa, about 600,000 times of the atmosphere pressure on Earth surface. When the […]

This project will experimentally establish a completely new method for accessing enantiopure materials starting from racemic substrates: stereoretentive-enantioconvergent catalysis. The ability to synthesize chiral molecules in enantiopure form is vitally important, most recognizably for the pharmaceutical industry. This is because the molecules of life are chiral (e.g., D-sugars and L-amino acids) and enantiomers often interact […]

Copper has long been proposed to have important biological properties. Designed to deliver the health benefits of copper, CuTEC yarn is a USPTO|EPO patent pending, bio-engineered copper-based yarn that can be produced as products such as clothing and mattress ticking. Although many believe in the positive properties of copper for well-being, many remain retiscent to […]

The Mottled Duskywing is an endangered butterfly species in Canada. In order to reverse the decline of this species, research is required to fill in knowledge gaps regarding the species biology and life history. There are currently no data available on population size, survival rates of adult or juvenile life stages, dispersal, or optimal habitat […]

Electrochemical technologies, such as fuel cells and electrolysers, could play an important role in the attempt to diversify the energy market. These devices can be used to produce clean, renewable energy and fuels. However, the technology cost is still far too high, preventing their large-scale implementation. A significant portion of the production cost comes from […]

Safely prolonging the life cyle of turbomachinery components, which would be replaced through scheduled overhauling, not only reduce the costs of operation but may also contribute to better sustainability of the life cycle management. XactLIFE is a prognostic software developed by LPTi (Life Prediction Technologies Inc., Ottawa, ON) to predict the life cycle of turbomachinery […]

Artificial Neural Networks are powerful tools used in the field of artificial intelligence. Inspired by the human brain, they have shown very good results in certain tasks, such as image classification and even in the generation of new images. The problem with neural networks is that we do not understand why they are working so […]