Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. These issues include changes and instability in personality and mood, depression and anxiety, withdrawal from events and activities, etc. Computational approaches, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), in the early detection of mental disorders are promising. Even though machine learning […]

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. In Canada, one in five people are dealing with a mental health disorder. The result of this is high emotional costs to those individuals and their social networks, and high economic costs to the country’s healthcare system. Refresh Wellness intends to offer a […]

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. In Canada, one in five people are dealing with a mental health disorder. The result of this is high emotional costs to those individuals and their social networks, and high economic costs to the country’s healthcare system. Refresh Wellness intends to offer a […]

Les mycotoxines contaminent principalement les céréales au champ ou au cours de leur stockage. Elles sont toxiques pour l’homme et les animaux. Avec plus de 56% d’échantillons testés positifs en alimentation animale, la zéaralenone est la mycotoxine la plus présente en Amérique du Nord après le déoxynivalenol. La présence de cette mycotoxine dans l’alimentation, même […]

Women suffer from disproportionately higher rates of dementia, and face more barriers to equitable care. To help reduce the risk of developing dementia among women, programs that primarily target women, caregivers, and those affected by dementia are imperative. In partnership with the Women’s Brain Health Initiative we intend to create and evaluate the effectiveness of […]

Le Centre d’éducation et d’action des femmes (CÉAF) définit le harcèlement de rue comme tout propos ou comportement dégradant et non-consenti, commis par des personnes inconnues, dans l’espace public, notamment la rue et les transports en commun. À Montréal comme dans d’autres villes canadiennes, il s’agit d’une pratique très fréquente, qui cible principalement les femmes […]

This research project involves the evaluation of a leadership program entitled “Contagious Resilient Leadership” for long-term continuing care and home care workers. Leadership training has been identified as extremely important in the continuing care sector, but has continued to be overlooked. The goal of these workshops is to get continuing and home care workers working […]

When we get older, we tend to experience difficulties naming people, locations, and objects around us more frequently. Word-finding difficulties like these are not only sources of frustration but also crucial indications of a general cognitive decline. The company Winterlight Labs developed a software that analyzes natural speech for detection of cognitive decline and found […]

A significant percentage of children around the world are affected by vision problems, such as lazy eye, that cannot be fixed by eyeglasses. When left untreated, vision problems may lead to learning difficulties. Vision therapy offers treatment to many of these problems where eye-trackers are tools used to diagnose and measure the progress of patients […]

To address local food system issues like loss of farmland, people without enough food, or climate change impacts, it is important to see such issues as all related. This project will assess Durham Region food system resources, like local research and policy documents, to find strengths, areas to be addressed, and areas to be studied […]

Aflatoxins (AFB1, AFB2, AFG1, AFG2) are poisonous mycotoxins that are produced by two common molds, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, in cereal grains and maize. When dairy cows ingest AFB1 toxin through contaminated feed, it is metabolized into carcinogenic AFM1 toxin, and it is transferred in milk. AFM1 contamination of milk poses a significant health […]

Cancer is a disease that involves the uncontrolled division of cells in the body. Cancer begins when the cells disobey normal cell division and cell death processes and is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. There is a type of cancer that is caused by a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor […]