Many cities around the world and specifically Latin America are now being forced to relocate due to the effects of climate change. This is the case of La Barra, a small village located on Colombia’s Pacific coast. Due to its destruction by rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and increased erosion, the village is in […]

In contemporary city building, large sports venues are seen as a means to prompt urban development. Despite a plethora of studies suggesting sport events and stadium construction have little appreciable effect on income, employment and economic development at a municipal scale, governments continue to promote them, often in partnership with higher levels of government and […]

Deep neural networks are a valuable machine learning method that is at the heart of many technological innovations. From self-driving cars to automatic translations and image recognition, etc. it seems that deep neural networks are a great tool that can adapt to different problematics. However, defining the right network for the right application is a […]

The interest in reliable Terahertz (THz) source has been increasing in the last decade since THz frequencies are recognized to be suitable in several applications spanning from pump-probe experiments to spatial and terrestrial wireless communication. However, for the case of solid-state THz source relying on optical down conversion, two main issues still affect the performance, […]

Social embodiment is the process of how environment and social experiences get under the skin early in life in biological ways that affect human physiological and social development. For children exposed daily to adversity in their family environment, childcare attendance (i.e., regular non-parental childcare services) might be a protective factor for children social development. Childcare […]

Les drones de petite taille sont de plus en plus considérés pour des applications civiles. Un exemple particulier de ces applications serait à des fins de livraison. Un des scénarios proposés serait de couvrir la plus grande partie de la distance de livraison par moyen de transport conventionnel (camion, train, etc.) et de faire le […]

The “CLiC” microscopy technique was invented and developed by Prof. Sabrina Leslie and her lab at McGill. It is ideal for formatting and visualizing single molecules, like DNA and proteins, with advantages that overcome the limitations of other single-molecule techniques. Due to the increasing interest in the technique from academic and industrial researchers, Prof. Leslie […]

Les PME sont des acteurs essentiels pour répondre aux défis que posent les enjeux climatiques qui nous confrontent. Elles représentent 99% des entreprises au Québec et génèrent des effets négatifs importants sur l’environnement. C’est pourtant le segment de marché le moins connu en matière de culture et de pratiques énergétiques. C’est donc dans l’intérêt commun […]

Le stagiaire devra comprendre la problematique a modeliser (Ia severite des montants reclames pour chaque type de reclamation) et proposer Ie ou les techniques a explorer pendant Ie stage. Ensuite, il programmera Ie ou les techniques choisies et en evaluera la performance versus nos modeles de reference dans Ie but d’ameliorer les modeles de prevision […]

The present project combines an experimental and numerical approach to be able to model the condensation and the frost formation in air-to-air counterflow plate heat exchangers. An optimized geometry will be proposed as well as frost prevention and defrosting strategies for air exchangers used in North America climate. The sensible heat recovery requirements in building […]

Fortement controversée, la chasse aux phoques est une question ancienne mais toujours épidermique dans les pays concernés et au-delà. À la controverse scientifique et morale se sont imbriqués des enjeux polysémiques. Historiquement inscrite dans les pratiques aux îles de la Madeleine, la chasse aux phoques apparaît pour certains comme une solution environnementale et économique, notamment […]

Évaluer la valeur d’un véhicule usagé n’est pas chose facile. Présentement, c’est surtout le livre noir (Black Book) qui est utilisé, et la valeur estimée à partir de cette ressource n’est pas très précise puisqu’elle ne tient compte que de quelques caractéristiques du véhicule. Notre projet propose d’intégrer dans un logiciel un algorithme permettant d’évaluer […]