The project will quantify spatial variation in food web quality associated with round goby / dreissenid mussel invasion and terrestrial dissolved organic carbon to understand how it may mediate the nutritional state (fatty acid content), body size, and Hg contaminant load of sportfish. We will work across existing spatial aquatic gradients in historical inorganic Hg […]

The Concordia Design Lab is a pioneer research center in the field of design science. Development of the Environment Based Design (EBD) methodology is one of its most significant achievements and many publications demonstrated the efficiency of EBD in solving complex problems. One main objective for universities and teaching institutions is to develop students’ individual […]

The proposed project seeks to develop a transit terminal assessment tool that can be used to provide safer and more efficient service to passengers. The objective is to provide the industrial partner with a specifically designed and calibrated analysis tool that can be used estimate the impact of passenger movements around the terminal platforms on […]

While the fact that social media, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat, are changing our lives is undeniable, management scholars are only beginning to understand their effects on social interaction and societal inequality. One area of great importance is the effect of social media on how people look for jobs. While some see social media […]

Les abatteuses-façonneuses modernes sont munies d’un ordinateur embarqué pour gérer la tête d’abattage-façonnage. Aujourd’hui, ces ordinateurs ne sont pas utilisés à leur plein potentiel. Pour l’être, les instruments de mesure de la tête doivent être calibrés. Ce projet vise à réaliser une étude de type « coûts-bénéfices » pour déterminer dans quels contextes la calibration […]

Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite of development of arsenal of medications to treat cancer, the efficiency of marketed medications has been drastically compromised by their unwanted and uncomfortable side effects. To address this problem, we have developed new nano-sized drug transportation carriers to deliver the drugs to the tumor tissue and […]

Passive Action (PA) has established know-how and technology to finish metal parts for a wide range of applications (e.g. storage racks for the pharmaceutical industry). They use an electropolishing to achieve this finish of metal parts. This technology has shown its economic advantages over other conventional techniques for surface smoothening and deburring (remove sharp edges). […]

Le projet de recherche consiste en l’analyse de performance d’une nouvelle architecture d’éolienne à axe verticale de petite puissance. L’objectif de ce nouveau concept proposé par le partenaire est d’être en mesure de produire de l’électricité avec des vitesses de vent réduites afin de réduire les coûts de production d’électricité en milieux éloignées. Dans un […]

The degree of brain cell injury and death may be associated with disability and problems with memory and thinking skills in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). This is most frequently measured by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to calculate shrinkage of brain volume. In fact, MS patients suffer more rapid shrinkage of brain volume […]

Design problems need creative solving method, solution and specific knowledge and experience. Design problems and solution methodologies have been studied for many decades. Environment-Based Design (EBD) method is one of the modern and comprehensive methods which reflects the state of art in the design methodologies. In this project EBD technics including environment analysis, right-questions presentation, […]

La réalité augmentée consiste à superposer des éléments virtuels à notre réalité, soit au niveau visuel ou auditif. En réalité augmentée, l’ajout d’un avatar à un environnement virtuel comporte plusieurs défis jusqu’alors non présents pour d’autres médias comme les écrans 2D ou la réalité virtuelle. En effet, l’avatar est exposé au monde réel de l’utilisateur […]

Due to the importance of energy production cost, it is critical to reduce unnecessary or unpredicted halts of power generation equipment. Hydro-Québec as a major power generation company uses models to estimate the service life of turbine runners to avoid the aforementioned halts. For these models, possessing several input parameters, to be accurate, the inputs […]