Deep learning has the potential to increase efficiency of many routine tasks in medical image analysis. For instance, segmentation, the detection of the boundaries of specific target structures like organs or tumors, is a tedious and time-consuming chore for clinicians. Robust deep learning models could assist medical personnel for this type of task. However, automatic […]

L’épuration des eaux usées par biofiltration est de plus en plus fréquente en raison de la compacité et des performances épuratoires de ce procédé. L’implantation en usine de ce type de traitement est bien connue, mais la manière de l’opérer reste à perfectionner. C’est au niveau des pertes de charge que le bât blesse; la […]

Temporal management and speech fluency in discourse can be impaired in individuals with speech and language disorders. To date, it is unclear how temporal organisation of speech is influenced by higher-order language functions like discourse planning abilities, as well as exterior communication demands (e.g., conversation partners). Studies on different populations with discourse impairments (e.g., traumatic […]

The project is aimed at exploring how the assembly of bacterial communities is determined due to interactions between individuals, spatial distribution, movement constraints and secretion of substances that affect bacterial growth. To do this, we will combine both a mathematical and an ecological approach. The mathematical approach will make use of abstract tools in mathematical […]

The research project that will be conducted by the intern will enable the creation of a questionnaire that will later be deployed to the indigenous researcher (and graduate student) community. Most of the activities will involve gathering and analysis information from databases (i.e., Aboriginal People’s Survey) and interviews (and focus groups) to ensure that we […]

Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental speech motor disorder characterized by dysfluencies. There is no consensus yet on the underlying causes of this disorder, but one hypothesis suggests that people who stutter have impaired rhythmic and timing abilities. Stuttering symptoms can be reduced for example when speaking to a metronome or reading aloud with other people. This […]

This project will investigate the duty cycle of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), by studying the Xray features present in the inner regions of our Galaxy. The X-ray light emitted by Sgr A* over the last several centuries is still propagating in the central molecular zone, generating X-ray echoes. The […]

Vast amounts of new data, including sequencing data from microbiome, generated by researchers and industry present challenging problems for extracting meaningful information. The main goal of this project is to develop a convenient software package to reduce the complexity of microbiome data, and more generally any kind of datasets showing similar properties. As this tool […]

New bacterial culture and sequencing techniques have allowed better characterization of the microbiota. Microbiota profiles containing high diversity are associated with better intestinal health, immune system and protection against pathogens. In nature, each animal species is naturally selected and hosts a very specific and diverse microbiota. However, current animal production systems impose factors that reduce […]

The theory of real Hardy spaces, denoted by Hp, and its local version hp, has been extensively developed since the 1960s. Among the countless important properties of these spaces, one can make note the atomic and molecular decomposition, which allows to describe a distribution on this space in terms of particular functions called atoms and […]

Le 11 mars 2020, l’Organisation mondiale pour la Santé déclare que l’éclosion de la COVID-19 est désormais une pandémie. Face à la propagation du virus et à la mortalité qui l’accompagne, le gouvernement Québécois met en place les mesures de confinement strict. Les premières études établissent que l’adaptation globale des enfants est peu compromise par […]

This is the second phase of a oral history project. Interns will assist in coding and analyzing over 100 hours of recorded interviews (transcribed) with more than 30 Indigenous Elder activists. In addition, they will conduct and record additional interviews in areas where knowledge gaps have been determined. They will work with project team to […]