Smart Phones are fast becoming ever-present personal assistants – personal assistants which become more useful and productive with the inclusion of Natural Language Processing power. For many users, smart phones have become their go-to-device for industry news feeds, checking email and scheduling their agenda. The sheer quantity of text which is read on these devices, […]

The Freshwater Oil Spill Remediation Study (FOReST) project will use small contained oil spills in enclosed environments within a lake to study examine the effectiveness of shoreline cleanup procedures and potential ecological impacts of oil spills. The resilience of freshwater aquatic ecosystems to recover from a spill will also be examined. We will examine the […]

The diagnosis of Parkinson disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the developed world, is based entirely on clinical criteria which are labour-intensive to apply and often inconclusive. Based on promising initial data from our laboratory, we will determine whether biochemical measurement of the enzyme, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in saliva samples distinguishes PD […]

Diphtheria is still a disease causing significant morbidity and mortality in people worldwide that did not received vaccination or suffer from incomplete immunization. The disease is due to a powerful toxin produced by the pathogenic bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheria. A good vaccine already exists but its production is rather complex and involves several steps: cultivation of […]

The goal of this research project is to develop novel techniques to solve different tasks for character animation using deep neural networks and generative modeling. Namely, we wish propose a novel approach for transitions generation, in which clips of character animation can be linked together with a novel clip. This transition will be generated by […]

This project focuses on the energy consumption of modern virtual reality applications. The target devices are virtual-reality-glasses that can be worn on the head and that simulate a virtual 3D environment to users. Most modern devices are still rather heavy, uncomfortable to wear, and attached to a powerline such that the user experience can still […]

La professionnalisation des répondants résultant du recours aux panels web dans les sondages entraine un intérêt accru pour contrôler les erreurs de réponses. Une récente étude révèle que jusqu’à 25 % des questionnaires sont rejetés pour d’apparents motifs d’erreurs de réponses. Ce constat représente un épineux problème, car il mine la confiance envers les résultats […]

This research aims in utilizing agriculture wastes in production of sustainable eco-friendly construction materials for farms building. The mechanical and durability performance of the proposed eco-friendly construction material exposed to the aggressive agriculture environment will be evaluated. The research will investigate the effects of different factors mainly related to physical properties of used wastes and […]

Although life cycle assessment (LCA) is a robust eco-design tool, its capacity to inspire creative ideas among designers is unclear. LCA is often used as a portrait of a product’s environmental hotspots, which are then addressed as design compromises. This highly technical design method usually leads to incremental improvements of products, and appears to do […]

Corrosion is a phenomenon that can be only mitigated, not stop. Usually, paint is applied to the surface that needs to be protected from the environment. Sooner or later, it peals off or wear, leaving the surface unprotected. Besides protection from corrosion, the paint or coating rarely has other properties like being electrically conductive. Another […]

Tourisme Laurentides et l’UQAM s’associent dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche sur l’adaptation des PME touristiques aux changements climatiques. Les partenaires réunis dans le cadre de cette étude ont pour objectif d’identifier, de développer et d’expérimenter des solutions en adaptation aux changements climatiques et en réduction des gaz à effet de serre au travers […]

The goal of this proposal is to make the most advantage of the recently developed technique of Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification (FOPA) by pushing this technology to unprecedented levels. The IP has been protected by the group of prof. François Légaré from INRS-EMT. The main inventor, Bruno Schmidt, has founded few-cycle Inc. to commercialize […]