Understanding how, when and where sediment is being transported through White Sturgeon spawning area in the Nechako River is important because fine sediment greatly reduces the quality of the habitat. Accumulation of fine sediment in the spawning areas has greatly decreased fish survival by preventing eggs from adhering to gravel on the river bed and […]

Les méthodes commerciales actuelles de supervision de l’énergie ne répondent pas aux besoins de l’industrie, car elles sont trop volumineuses, trop couteuses et elles demandent un temps d’installation important. Une approche prometteuse consiste à utiliser des capteurs à effet Hall afin de mesurer l’intensité du courant électrique d’un circuit à partir du champ magnétique produit […]

PCa is the second and third leading cause of cancer death for American and Canadian men, respectively. Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) screening is an effective method to diagnose PCa at early stages, however, over-diagnosis/treatment following PSA is detrimental to life quality. Although Active Surveillance (AS) is a very appealing approach for men with early stage PCa, […]

Les designers de jeu vidéo accordent maintenant beaucoup de liberté à leurs joueurs qui coopèrent et combattent pour les différentes ressources dans de vastes univers virtuels en constante évolution. Les comportements observés dans les jeux vidéo multi-joueurs s’approchent de plus en plus à ceux des animaux dans leur écosystème. Ainsi, l’ensemble des joueurs d’un jeu […]

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a blood cancer with very poor prognosis, especially for patients older than 60 years of age. This is in part because of the severe toxicity of medicines available. Less harmful medicines are needed to better treat older patients. Therapure Biopharma Inc. has chemically linked the standard toxic chemotherapy medicine called […]

Disturbed sleep is a common feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ranking third in frequency behind shortness of breath and fatigue. Actigraphy is a non-invasive technique for monitoring sleep at patient’s own home and is an attractive alternative to expensive laboratory based tests like polysomnography. Unfortunately, no studies have tested the accuracy of actigraphs […]

Protocol amendments of clinical trials protocols in multicenter oncology clinics have a significant impact on their operations. They cause major delays on site activation and patient recruitment. The objective of this project is to evaluate the impact of protocol amendments on site activation timelines and patient recruitment in multicenter oncology clinical trials at Merck and […]

In this project, we aim to build an interactive art sculpture that is intrinsically curious. The sculpture learns by doing some action and observing the consequences. We are interested in studying how people perceive the behaviours emerged form this learning process and how different configuration might change this perception. Moreover, we aim to bring this […]

Le développement de la pharmacogénomique a permis notamment l’identification de biomarqueurs permettant de mieux cibler les patients pouvant bénéficier de certains traitements ou d’estimer le risque d’être éventuellement atteint d’une certaine maladie. Les tests pharmacogénomiques découlant de la découverte de ces biomarqueurs devront être évalués pour leur utilité clinique, mais aussi pour leur impact économique. […]

This project is a component of the Borders in Globalization initiative, an international network of academic partners which is engaged with non-academic organizations that are involved in the study and management of borders and borderlands in Canada and worldwide. The basic goal is to build excellence in the knowledge and understanding of borders. The contribution […]

Ce projet de recherche se concentre sur la conception et la mise en place d’un intranet dans une compagnie pharmaceutique à l’aide d’une approche expérience-utilisateur. « Les intranets sont des systèmes d’information basés sur la technologie du web, qui se positionnent comme des outils favorisant la productivité des employés qui les utilisent et la performance […]

The supervisors and their colleagues have discovered a number of compounds which have greater toxicity towards different tumours than normal cells. The first step in the proposal is to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the compounds in mice after which the candidate anticancer agents will be administered to a special breed of mice in […]