The Center of Change

The research project proposed will be used to improve the financial feasibility of an urban agricultural greenhouse. The first objective of this project is to create a business model that will supplement revenue to a greenhouse by offering mental health services. The second objective of this project is to test and assess the performance of […]

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Printing Ideas: Prototyping Interior Design Solutions with 3D Printers

This research attempts to find the best 3D printing technology and 3D printing material (filament) that matches with a local urban community’s demand for customized interior design solutions, including furniture, tailored walls, personalized partitions, lamps and decorative elements. By investigating proper hardware and technology for public use, this research will foster the culture of creativity […]

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Exploring the Facilitators and Barriers to using Food Industry-Initiated Knowledge Translation Activities among Registered Dietitians: A Qualitative Study

Research continues to suggest that there is a strong association between literacy and health. Health literacy requires writing and reading skills, as well as general health knowledge. Unfortunately, printed patient education materials are often written at higher reading levels with technical and/or dense texts that are not easily understood by people with low literacy levels. […]

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Immersive experience with object recognition at the Museum of fine arts

To discover how art connects us to our cultural heritage is to understand the world and our place in it. Our content platform, Cilia, is designed to allow visitors to use artificial intelligence (A.I.) based object recognition in order to obtain content about an artwork or artifact. A prototype has been successfully tested with visitors, […]

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Operations & Communications Lead – MVP Development

Lifeguard.org (URL: www.joinlifeguard.org) is a unique ESG venture that represents the first ever effort to provide the infrastructure, collaboration tools, and incentives needed to enable and encourage peer-reviewed science, focused on complex public health and environmental issues, on a massive scale. Our vision is to create a world where multi-disciplinary teams of scientists and subject-matter […]

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Quantification of dental wear by Optical Coherence Tomography

Tooth wear is an irreversible loss of the enamel, which over time, leads to the exposure of the dentine and this makes the tooth very sensitive to hot or cold foods. The choice of food of the person suffering from severe tooth becomes very limited and this sometimes threatens the survival of the individual. Our […]

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Tools for monitoring the establishment and impacts of two biological control agents on introduced Phragmites australis in Ontario

Introduced Phragmites australis (common reed) is one of the most invasive plants in North America. The weed reduces native plant and animal diversity, disrupts ecosystem processes, and poses a threat to the native North American subspecies of common reed, P. australis ssp. americanus. Conventional methods for controlling introduced P. australis such as herbicides, cutting, and […]

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Development of an intelligent ball bearing with self-sensing and self-powering capabilities

Bearings are typically located in the heart of all rotating applications, with rotational speeds, forces, and vibrations impacting them somehow. Due to various reasons, such as fatigue, bearings encounter abrupt operation failure that damages surrounding components. In some applications, such as wind turbines and high-speed trains, it is expensive to replace the bearing and other […]

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Knowledge generation based on cloud-native technology data sources

Peritus.ai, a leading company in community knowledge for developer success, offers a search engine specialized in technical questions about cloud native technologies, and analytics to help vendors augment the health and efficiency of their online community. With the academic partners from Polytechnique Montreal, Peritus.ai wants to leverage public data from technical forum questions and answers, […]

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Programming Efficiencies into Integrated Communications at Bannikin Travel and Tourism

The project will entail researching, and developing an integrated communications program with and for Bannikin Travel and Tourism that incorporates new technologies and/or processes, leverages organizational expertise and experience, aligns with current market trends, and responds to the needs of the company’s clients. This will result in an enhanced and more innovative stream of business […]

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Shear Strength Mechanisms in Prestressed Concrete

Preliminary data analysis has indicated that many prestressed concrete elements have experimentally determined shear strengths which are substantially higher than the shear strengths predicted by the related provisions in the Canadian concrete design code. While these results represent no risk to public safety, actual strengths which are significantly higher than predicted strengths result in considerably […]

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Define the best omega-3 fatty acid to fight prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the more common cancer affected men in developed countries. Epidemiological data suggest that omega-3 fatty acids may prevent prostate cancer initiation and progression. However, these data do not decipher which omega-3 fatty acid presents the more potent anticancer properties. SCF Pharma has developed pure and highly bioavailable omega-3 fatty acids monoglycerides. Interestingly, […]

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