Dans le domaine de la santé, l’étude de l’immunologie et des maladies infectieuses est un sujet de recherche important, car certaines maladies, tel que le VIH et le cancer, restent incurables à ce jour. Nos recherches s’intéressent à la réponse immunitaire adaptative et plus particulièrement aux lymphocytes T CD8, un type de globule blanc. Dans […]

Les laboratoires Vaporus, une compagnie québécoise reconnue dans le marché des e-liquides et détentrice d’une certification ISO 9001 :2015, possède un strict contrôle de qualité sur les e-liquides qu’elle fabrique et commercialise. Cependant, la compagnie n’a aucun contrôle sur la fabrication des cigarettes électroniques qui se trouvent sur le marché et voudrait savoir si les […]

This research proposal aims to verify the effect of hearing loss on the social participation of Brazilian and Canadian elderly, and, in addition, this study intends to understand which personal and environmental factors influence the social participation of these participants. Will be recruited in a clinical-school of Speech Therapy accredited to SUS, located in the […]

In our experiments with semiconductor microstructures, such as those used for the fabrication of light emitting diodes (LED), our team has discovered that popular LED devices could also be used for the detection of micro-organisms that come in contact with the device. As a result of our almost 5 years of research, we have demonstrated […]

This project is addressed to conduct a full detailed airflow analysis on a 7000XR, a level D full flight simulator. Such machine is equipped with advanced electronic systems such as avionics, flight instruments and collimated visual system, where generated heat affects the user thermal comfort during training. The objective of this study is to perform […]

Querying databases without a layer of privacy protection might lead to serious privacy issues. Such issues include access patterns and communication volume patterns. By combining the state-of-the-art privacy standard (differential privacy) and encryption in provides resilience to a host of attacks on remote databases, including data reconstruction attacks. However, there is still research work needed […]

Power characteristics of CAE equipment are regularly requested by the customers (some customers are penalized by their service providers for poor power factor, etc.), but there are presently no quick and safe means of logging power at the main power distribution and motion control cabinets. The goal of the power logger, to be designed and […]

In the proposed project, we will develop a key piece of technology that will significantly improve interactive simulations of scenarios involving complex multi-body contact. For instance, the simUlation of human or robotic hand grasping of an object involves complicated chains of compliant joints combined with distributed contacts. Multi-legged robots and vehicles in general are similar. […]

This project aims at evaluating whether recent results in deep learning models, trained to exploit weak labels can serve to extract meaningful lesion localizations from image-level labels, either from individual scans or given a (longitudinal) sequence thereof. To this end, we will scale up existing models that have been shown to work on 2D images […]

Plusieurs stratégies pour restaurer la vue ont été tentées depuis les années 60 en équipant les patients d’une caméra et en stimulant directement le cerveau. Toutefois aucune de ces tentatives n’a pour l’instant pu se concrétiser et ceci est en grande partie imputable à la façon dont le cerveau est stimulé. Grâce au développement de […]

Heart failure is a prevalent disease effecting 250,000 people in North America alone. This disease can be treated by the transplant of a donor organ, but insufficient donor organs have led to the development of mechanical circulatory supports which now provide a reliable alternate treatment option for patients. Unfortunately, many patients that could be helped […]

Aux Etats-Unis, plus de 15 millions d’unités de sang sont transfusées chaque année à des patients atteints, entre autres, d’anémies ou de certains cancers. Bien que cette technique soit pratiquée depuis longtemps, plusieurs risques y demeurent associés. Le risque le plus important est l’incompatibilité entre le donneur et le receveur, pouvant résulter dans les cas […]