Recent clinical trials demonstrated the capacity to partially restore vision of blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa or age-related macular degeneration by electrically stimulating the remaining neurons based on an image captured by an external camera. However, these implants transmit the data and power through percutaneous cables traversing the eyeball. Although these implants have the promising […]

This project involves the design and characterization of Novel Thermal Storage Materials for Human Thermoregulation involving low-melting polymers in a highly crystalline polymer matrix. These materials when incorporated into fibers or coated on fabric can absorb excess body heat in hot weather thus promoting thermal comfort and reducing heat stress. This 4-month project will involve […]

Study of the core of ancient mountain belts is key to the understanding of current tectonic processes. In Canada and Sweden, the Grenvillian and Sveconorwegian orogenies are the relict of a major tectonic event, similar to the continent-continent collision between India and Eurasia. In both locations, a major tectonic boundary i.e. the Allochthonous Boundary Thrust […]

Le projet chercherait donc à établir si l’achat de biens et services locaux par les organismes de la ville tels que le Centre Hospitalier, l’Université de Sherbrooke, la mairie, entre autres, serait juridiquement possible et économiquement intéressant. L’intérêt économique pourrait concerner les organismes eux-mêmes : est-il plus intéressant pour l’acheteur de s’approvisionner localement plutôt qu’avoir […]

Le centre d’escalade Vertige développe présentement un système de gestion de centres sportifs. Ce système se voudrait être combiné avec une technologie sportive innovante servant à analyser les performances de grimpeurs et/ou de sauteurs dans plusieurs optiques. Pour le grimpeur ou le sauteur, cela servira à améliorer la rétroaction aux entrainements, à quantifier les séances […]

Hydro-Québec has data acquisition systems for a multitude of sensors, some of which have been installed since almost 20 years in its electrical generation equipment (turbine-generator units – TGU). The collected data is primarily used to ensure that the information is adequate in the event of an equipment breakdown or for specific behavioral studies. Data […]

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Heat stress, defined as temperature and humidity above the threshold of animal comfort, is experienced in Canadian dairy farms each year despite the improvements in cooling conditions and results in important reductions in production of milk and of milk components. Such reductions represent lower production efficiency and therefore higher environmental impact per unit of product […]

The project aims to facilitate the research and development of new drugs by exploring Machine Learning methodology useful for both the generation of new molecules and the prediction of molecule properties. Doing so will involve training deep learning models on a large number of small, heterogeneous datasets, with the objective of transferring learned representations quickly […]

Brain MRI scans are a critical component in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders. However, there is a wide diversity in terms of the image quality and resolution obtained from different MRI scanner. In particular, it is common to find coarse resolution MRI scans (e.g. every axial slice is 3-5 mm thick), which limit the type […]

Machine-transcription of speech into text is very helpful in many scenarios. Consider the case of machine-transcription of conversation between a Doctor and a patient. If we are able partition and identify the segments of patient’s speech from those of doctor’s, then the transcribed text is more structured and can be more helpful for further use. […]

By virtualizing all the various appliances in the network, Virtual Network Functions (VNF) became a key enabler for the coming 5G infrastructure and nowadays a major shift is under way bringing an evolution to cloud-native VNF. In the latter operational model, applications are decomposed into microservices running inside containers to enable automated installation, configuration and […]