The performance of non-precious metal catalysts (NPMCs) for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has now reached a stage at which they can be considered as possible alternatives to expensive Pt, especially for low power applications. However, despite significant efforts on catalyst development in the past, only limited studies have been performed on NPMC-based electrode […]

Cellphones get notifications from different companies every day, but we do not know whether these notifications have a significant impact on customers’ behaviour. Knowing the impact of these notifications would provide useful insights to marketing strategists. Since user behaviour will determine the efficacy of push notifications, this project initially aims to build a behavioural model, […]

Aluminium smelter are energy intensive and not particularly energy efficient, as most of the energy required to produce aluminium is lost along the production line. This is the reason why it is mandatory to perform a detailed analysis of the thermal wastes produced in these factories. The main objective of this project is to investigate […]

Mobile health (mHealth) apps allow patients to practice self-care and manage their chronic diseases. Common functions in mHealth tools allow users to monitor their symptoms and mood, keep a thought diary, track medication use and trend information; this provides data that can be used to better understand patient behaviour to ensure that patient needs are […]

The Government of Canada is in the process of reviewing legislation and procedures related to environmental processes, e.g. the Canadian Environmental Assessment process (CEAA) and the National Energy Board process (NEB). Indigenous groups across Canada have participated in engagement sessions, and made formal written submissions which have been made publically available. This research project will […]

Based on 7 years of R&D, Secodix has developed a processor, the XPU, that is faster by two orders of magnitudes compared to existing processors. To leverage the technology, we need to provide software programmers the ability to use existing programming languages (in particular, C++) while benefiting from XPU performance. To enable that, we need […]

This project proposes to explore and implement a method of storing and retrieving data relating to genetic variation across a population of individuals. Due to the large amount of genetic information each person possesses, such a database requires special attention to minimize the amount of data stored and to create efficient methods of accessing the […]

Peu d’outils sont présentement disponibles pour éclairer les professionnels du droit au sujet de l’état du marché des services juridiques, les concurrents en place, les tendances, les stratégies de mise en marché et de fixation des prix, les besoins de la population en matière de services juridiques, etc. Ce projet consiste à effectuer une veille […]

The primary goal of this project is to explore a variety of new and existing Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to improve the performance, and further the automation of, Knote’s text analysis software – specifically with entity recognition. Entity recognition is the process of identifying all groupings of words in a collection of documents that […]

For many mobile heavy oil reserves in Western Canada, thermal-based enhanced oil recovery methods are not economically applicable due to the thin payzone thickness. Alkaline flooding, one of chemical recovery methods, has great potential for enhancing oil recovery. In this process, alkali-containing fluid is injected into the heavy oil reservoir and reacted with the saponifiable […]

La majorité de la population des pays développés vivra en ville, ce qui, malgré les possibilités que la vie urbaine entraine, provoquera plusieurs problèmes reliés au trafic, au bruit et à la criminalité. Le présent programme de recherche a pour objectif de développer de nouvelles expertises et technologies visant à réconcilier la croissance rapide de […]

La présente demande concerne le chantier de recherche sur le « plumitif accessible » lequel s’inscrit dans l’axe Connaissance et conscience du droit du projet ADAJ (Accès au droit et à la justice) financé par le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines (CRSH) en partenariat. En effet comprendre le contenu des plumitifs est un défi […]