Enjeux et potentiels socio-économiques de la transformation numérique dans certaines filières du secteur bioalimentaire québécois

Le secteur biolimentaire québécois doit faire face à des problématiques de concurrence internationale forte, de manque de relève, de rendements non-optimaux et d’un besoin urgent de réduire son impact environnemental. La littérature scienti-fique met en évidence l’importance d’une transition numérique du secteur, soit l’utilisation des nouvelles technologies, qui permettrait au secteur d’améliorer ou résoudre ces […]

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Testing whether southern resident killer whales are endangered because of the collapse of winter and spring Chinook populations in California that occurred over a century ago

We will test the hypothesis that southern resident killer whales have been endangered since the late 1800s when mining, logging, dams, pollution, and water diversion destroyed the Chinook populations that returned in the millions to Oregon and California. We will estimate historic run sizes of Chinook salmon available to northern and southern resident killer whales […]

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AI & Sustainable Finance: using NLP to analyze ESG disclosures of Canadian companies

Sustainable finance is a rapidly evolving discipline, where investors are in the process of acquiring and developing new tools allowing them to evaluate the sustainable impact of the companies they choose to invest in. Public companies have adopted the practice of publicly disclosing ESG-related information under the form of public reports following ESG disclosure frameworks […]

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Investigating the nutrient profile of customized pet treat products

The founder of Pawsome Concierge has worked in the Dairy industry for over 10 years and has lots of experience and knowledge in the overall food industry in Canada. When she realized there were no standards and regulations in Canada for the pet food industry, she took it upon herself to start making homemade 100% […]

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Real-time AI-based Anomaly Detection of 5G Network Latency

LatenceTech offers a cloud analytics and monetization solution for cellular networks with a special focus on ultra-low latency connectivity. Using SAAS and AI, our solution helps mobile operators, telecom vendors and advanced industries to track, predict and secure the new benefits of 5G cellular technology. This project consists in creating ML Models to perform near […]

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Climate Investment Impact AI Model

The internship project will contribute to Baastel’s overall ambition to use AI modelling techniques in the monitoring and evaluation of international development projects, specifically in its climate change and disaster risk reduction practice. Baastel’s objective is to increase the amount of public and private funds available for climate change mitigation investments, in order to help […]

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Employee Engagement Research

The internship project investigates the market feasibility of a new service/product offering and the existing organizational capacity to enable such a change to occur. Assist with the strategy and business plan development for what form this offering should take shape, either as an intrapreneurial initiative or a separate entity. The project will also adapt and […]

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Cancer treatment using drug-loaded thermosensitive liposomes with non-invasive ultrasound thermal therapy and temperature monitoring and control in an in vivo animal model

Chemotherapy is the most commonly used method for treating different cancer types that involves the delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs, leading to the death of cancer cells. However, the non-uniform distribution of chemotherapeutic drugs within the tumor and systemic toxicity has multiple side effects, and the delivery problem remains unsolved. Drug delivery carriers such as liposomes […]

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Exploring Deep Learning Models for Understanding Consumer Language

With the ultimate goal of enhancing Nexxt Intelligence’s market research SaaS platform, inca, this project will create a robust, scalable algorithm for clustering consumer utterances into groups which are useful to ad-hoc market research objectives, and interpretable via natural language descriptions to market researchers. Due to the multifaceted and nuanced nature of consumer opinions and […]

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