In 2012, changes to provincial legislation in Ontario provided municipalities with a new market-based tool to improve the energy and water efficiency of the existing building stock; the ‘local improvement charge’ (LIC) mechanism. The City of Toronto was the first and remains the only Ontario municipality to use LICs to finance residential energy retrofits, starting […]

ROSS enables legal professionals by providing tools that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to make the research process more efficient. Advances within machine learning and natural language computing enable systems to achieve close to human performance. Many state-of-the-art methods have not been applied to the legal domain, leaving opportunity to enable development for the […]

Metabolic disorders are growing into a large health crisis worldwide. One common fact shown in these diseases is impaired function of mitochondria. Several treatments for metabolic diseases therefore aim to normalize or even boost up the activity mitochondria. The role of peroxisomes, on the other hand, is relatively neglected, despite its close connection with mitochondria. […]

Modern robots depend on numerous hardware devices and human interaction in order to perform their task. These dependencies, in addition to the distributed nature of these systems, make automated full-system testing difficult. Current testing practices are insufficient as they only test a single component of the system or require costly manual labor. Many companies have […]

Piezoresistive strain sensors respond to a mechanically induced deformation with a change in their electrical resistance. Large strain flexible strain sensors have been adopted for numerous applications including rehabilitation, health and sport performance monitoring as well as physiology and kinesiology applications. Although development of these flexible strain sensors has reached a level of maturity, design […]

Doctoral candidate Yung-Yu Lin is hoping to visit New York to conduct a complete research on George Rochberg’s 50 Caprice Variations for solo violin with Professor Janette Tilley at Lehman College, the City University of New York (CUNY). 50 Caprice Variations draws on a vast array of historical stylistic references from the Baroque to the […]

The aim of this in vitro study is to explore demineralization detection abilities and conduct a volumetric assessment of caries in extracted teeth using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), ultrasound and Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM), and x-rays imaging (micro CT). Sound and carious extracted human molars were collected under ethical approval at the Eastman Dental Institute […]

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) is a contributing member of the National DNA Data Bank Committee, which provides an annual report related to the operations regulating the National DNA Data Bank (NDDB). The NDDB holds genetic samples of individuals and is searched during the course of a criminal investigation when genetic […]

When making charitable contributions, there are several options for Canadians to consider beyond a cash donation to a charity. Well known structures include foundations, endowments, and life insurance policies. Less well known, but of increasing importance is the donor-advised fund (DAF) structure known in Australia as sub-funds. This is an account within a foundation, whereby […]

The main research theme of the project is to achieve reconfigurable assembly state of plasmonic NPs by controlling its trapping agent, LCs, under multi-stimuli system. There are two kinds of multi-stimuli LC control platform; one is static system in which anchoring, rubbing, and confinement can be modified, while the other is dynamic system which is […]

Gut microbiome stability appears to be essential for keeping health nowadays. Then, the needs to develop proper tools to modulate microbiome become important issue. In this proposal, we suggest predatory bacteria as microbiome modulator. Predatory bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and non-toxic to mammalian cells. Recent researches proved the existence of predatory bacteria inside […]

The Cape Bounty Watershed Observatory (CBAWO) is in the Canadian High Arctic, where the soil is frozen and river discharge is zero, except for the summer months (June – August). Given the higher climatic sensitivity of polar regions to climate change, understanding changes in watershed function in these locations is important for assessing land-to-sea fluxes […]