En 2016, 25 700 Canadiennes développeront un cancer du sein, représentant 26.1% de tous les cancers diagnostiqués et on estime que 5000 femmes en décèderont cette année. Contrairement à un diagnostique, un pronostique nous permet de prédire l’évolution d’une maladie. La recherche de nouvelles méthodes de pronostic non invasive d’un cancer est importante pour déterminer […]

Les systèmes informationnels sont désormais au centre des décisions en santé. Ainsi, les dispositifs médicaux, les dossiers cliniques et sociaux, la recherche, etc. génèrent un très grand volume de données chaque jour associé à des évènements interreliés temporellement. Les établissements de santé désirent réutiliser ces données pour différents types d’analyse et les partager d’une façon […]

As individuals age, there is not only a decrease in physical fitness and health, but mental fitness and health as well. Therefore, certain measures must be taken in order to slow down this mental health decrease, as it can lead to devastating life events, such as dementia, Alzheimer’s and strokes. Oxidants are normally found in […]

Aujourd’hui, l’utilisation de drones dans différents secteurs d’activités tels que l’agriculture et la surveillance est en train de s’implanter. Depuis quelques années, les entreprises privées s’intéressent vivement au potentiel de ces machines volantes afin d’effectuer des livraisons. Toutefois, la majorité de ces drones possède une autonomie limitée allant de 30 à 60 minutes et ils […]

Recently, new development of 3D printing and patterning technologies offering advantages such as low cost, rapid prototyping, and high resolution have captured the attention of consumers, producers, and scientists alike. Although 3D printing and structuring methods have evolved over time, the materials used have not. Cellulose is a natural material that exists all around us […]

Le projet proposé s’inscrit dans un contexte de préservation de la qualité de l’eau en misant initialement sur une approche préventive basée sur une mise en valeur des rejets altérant les milieux récepteurs plutôt que sur une approche curative (traitement). L’étude portera sur le cas de la municipalité de Miahuatlán (région de Xalapa, Mexique). Le […]

Kidney cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. The number of patients with kidney cancer is increasing every year due to aging of the population, obesity, diet, and lifestyle. The death rate due to kidney cancer is also increasing despite the introduction of new and advanced detection devices; also these methods are expensive, […]

Recent natural disasters, such as the 2005 Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami, have increased focus on the resilient design of coastal communities to these devastating large-scale hydraulic events. The loads from these events can be separated into hydraulic and debris loads. Debris loads, in particular, are difficult to evaluate in the field and […]

Improving the durability of superhydrophobic surfaces is of significant interest in the surface engineering community. We have recently developed a novel superhydrophobic coating with a hard nanocrystalline nickel matrix and embedded hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) particles. To further improve the mechanical robustness of the non-wetting coating, the soft polymeric PTFE particles were replaced with hard, hydrophobic […]

Circadian rhythms are processes which allows animals to regulate their physiology based on time of day. These rhythms are controlled by the circadian clock, a group of transcription factors that form a feedback loop. Over 40% of the genome is transcribed rhythmically, implicating the clock in many physiological processes. The cell cycle is another process […]

The most critical region for winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) winter survival is the crown. Exposure to different environmental cues during cold acclimation improves the crown’s resistance to freezing. This key fact is not taken into account in the design of controlled environment experiments and may not reflect actual mechanisms of cold hardiness in the […]

The proposed research seeks to examine and constrain possible theoretical extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM). The SM is a theory which successfully describes almost all known particle interactions. With the discovery of the Higgs boson, which is responsible for the mass of elementary particles via electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB), all the […]