Cannabis products are being used for a variety of conditions. In Canada, there are no cannabis products approved for use in children. Without evidence from clinical trials doctors are hesitant to recommend cannabis products for children. In order for doctors to feel confident in advising parents on medical cannabis they need better information on if […]

The emerging technology company is in a dynamic environment where everything is changing turbulently, not only the actors but also the environment itself. For such emerging companies it is crucial to rely on local innovation communities in order to build and maintain a competitive advantage while balancing a number of paradoxes relater to their involvement […]

The project will investigate data mining techniques and software to support and enhance the activities of ubiquitous sporting competitions. Such support includes but is not limited to feedback on a participant’s activities as well as identification of regions of interest using a custom built wearable computer – the Recon MOD Live, a mobile phone, and […]

Next generation preclinical development (caspase inhibitors, stem cell evaluation) and islet metabolic engraftment efficiency in a Phase I/II clinical study of the Cell Pouch™ for islet transplantation in Type 1 diabetes. (The Cell Pouch System™ is a proprietary non-biodegradable polymer device designed by biologists, scientists and engineers which unobtrusively fits under the skin, rapidly incorporating […]

In this project, we will devleop various demodulation and encoding techniques to enhance the performance of receiving data in the EM telemetry process. In EM Telemetry process, a ‘measuring information and data while drilling’ application, transmit and communicate wirelessly from downhole to the surface. Due to the challenge of the earth behavior, low frequency communication […]

Le projet consiste à développer un nouveau type de traitement pour une maladie liée à la croissance osseuse du bassin, nommé la dysplasie de la hanche. Présentement, cette maladie est souvent traitée en effectuant une chirurgie où le bassin est scié, réorienté et fixé en place. Alternativement, le traitement proposé serait d’installer une prothèse sur […]

Municipalities are facing significant challenges related to water treatment, including aging infrastructure, increasingly more stringent water quality limits (for drinking water) and discharge requirements (for wastewater), climate change and extreme weather events, constrained plant space, municipal budget stress, etc. Summer interns in this Mitacs project will be conducting research on novel bioreactors for UV disinfection […]

Les technologies de simulation numérique permettent de prédire le comportement de matériaux et de pièces dans des cadres de plus en plus vastes et ces simulations permettent sont maintenant utilisées dans de nombreux secteurs industriels afin d’éviter ou de minimiser le recours au prototypage et à des tests sur bancs d’essais physiques. C’est particulièrement le […]

EcoPliance is a Cleantech startup company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that aims to produce reusable and technology-enhanced food and beverage containers that reward consumers for using environmentally friendly products. Each container is collapsible for easy carrying and has a near field communication (NFC) tag with a unique identifier. This will allow users to scan […]

La production mondiale annuelle de plastiques est estimée à plus de 335 millions de tonnes et risque de doubler d’ici 20 ans. De cette production, moins de 26 % est actuellement recyclé; plus de 74 % de ces plastiques sont donc redirigés à l’enfouissement ou relargués dans l’environnement. Il est clair que l’accumulation des plastiques […]

UVIC and UBC, in collaboration with industry will be developing the Earth Data Store, to provide unparalleled access to standardized temporal and spatial earth observation data and develop industry-specific applications that will allow end-users to see how a region evolves over time using visual interactive maps and running deep learning algorithms. The Earth Data Store […]

The objective of this project is to optimize a novel agricultural-based approach for producing high levels of stearidonic acid (SDA)-containing seed oil in the plant Buglossoides arvensis using co-cultivation with Pseudomonas p. LBUM677. Production of seed oil enriched in SDA, a dietary product possessing proven health benefits, is promising for use as animal and human […]