Impact des modifications de la politique d’aide sociale sur la santé des nouveau-nés au Québec

En 2013, le gouvernement du Québec abolissait le supplément d’aide sociale pour contraintes temporaires à l’emploi chez les familles biparentales d’enfants de moins de 5 ans. Ces familles déjà assez vulnérables (avec un revenu se situant nettement sous le seuil de pauvreté) perdaient ainsi 12% de leur budget habituel. Cette recherche vise à évaluer l’impact […]

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Advanced Recommender Systems for Ecommerce

Numerous studies have recently proposed and highlighted novel techniques for recommendation, motivating the project of building the next generation of recommender systems for ecommerce platforms. This proposal aims at experimenting with one high-potential technique for modelling the recommendation problem, that makes great usage of the complexity of ecommerce data: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). GNNs are […]

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Impacts des bureaux de projets (PMO) dans la transformation des organisations publiques dans les pays en voie de développement : cas de la Zambie et de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC)

Dans les pays en voie de développement, le budget national repose sur des projets financés par des bailleurs de fonds internationaux. Une saine gestion de projets est donc une condition essentielle au succès des stratégies de développement national. Actuellement, la gestion de projets se fait en silo, malgré l’existence de la déclaration de Paris : […]

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Forecasting prices of mobile plans in Canada

In order to assess the current state of competition in the Canadian mobile telecommunications industry, we propose different models to estimate and to predict the evolution of plans offered by wireless service providers in Quebec and in Ontario. The models are estimated using data collected by Planhub which frequently updates and compares the prices and […]

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Making cannabinoids in microalgae factories

Algae-C is a company specialized in algal biomass production. It enables on-site production of algae for a wide variety of sectors (aquaculture, nutraceutical, cosmetic and biofuel). To date, many fuels, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products are extracted from plants. These valuable plant natural products (PNPs) are often produced in low quantities in plants and extraction methods […]

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Autonomous navigation of a mobile platform in construction sites using a-priori map information to collect 3D point cloud data

In recent years, the construction industry has adopted a new management methodology called Building Information Modeling (BIM), which integrates a large amount of information from different steps in the construction process in order to guide planning and decision making. An essential part in this process is the acquisition of data directly from the construction sites […]

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Efficacy and mechanism of action of CB1R inverse agonists for enhancing insulin secretion and for preventing metabolic stress and cytokine-induced ?-cell death in human islets

Inversago and the Prentki Laboratory at CR-CHUM will collaborate to evaluate new generation Cannabinoid-1 receptor (CB1) blockers for the treatment and/or prevention of type-1 and type-2 diabetes. Previous generations of CB1 blockers have shown their promise in treating several features of the metabolic syndrome, including obesity, type-2 diabetes and liver diseases. However, they were plagued […]

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Solution of Complementarity Problems Arisingfrom Rigid Body Dynamics Simulations

Modeling and simulation of realistic motion is one of the important topics in mechanical engineering and related areas. Such simulations become much more challenging when rigid body dynamics with frictional contacts appears. The total number of contact points is very important and is a key element to determine the difficulty level of the simulation, meaning […]

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Analyse et conception d’un circuit d’extraction des caractéristiques dynamiques des transistors SiC et GaN avec optimisation des éléments parasites

Les technologies à semi-conducteurs de puissance évoluent rapidement. Ces technologies se retrouvent dans différentes applications telles l’aéronautique et le transport terrestre. Elles permettent d’obtenir des rendements élevés et permettent de minimiser le poids des divers composants des convertisseurs d’énergie. Toutefois, afin d’optimiser les bénéfices apportés par ces nouvelles technologies, il est important de bien comprendre […]

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Multimodal imaging of EPCs in animal models using dendrimer based nanoparticle

The proposed research project is to create a nanoparticle capable of labeling stem cells to ultimately track their localization and biodistribution in small animal models. This probe will be unique in that it will possess multimodal imaging properties to allow visualization with Positron Emision Tomography (PET), Single-Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT) and other clinical imaging […]

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Les effets des Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) sur les citoyens prévotants

Ma recherche vise à évaluer l’utilisation d’un outil de Système d’aide au vote, tel que le Test électoral, en Belgique francophone, ou la Boussole électorale, sa version canadienne, sur le sentiment d’efficacité politique des jeunes citoyens prévotants. Ces outils permettent à l’utilisateur de confronter son opinion sur une série d’enjeux politiques avec celles des partis […]

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