Attractivité globale et innovation collaborative. Reconfigurer les capacités stratégiques d’un territoire en contexte de rupture

Dans un contexte de forte concurrence touristique, les destinations cherchent à se démarquer les unes des autres. Pour faire face au défi de rendre leur territoire plus attractif, les acteurs touristiques, politiques, économiques, géographiques, sociaux et culturels du milieu s’unissent pour concevoir une approche commune et partagée du développement territorial. Dans l’objectif de réussir leur […]

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Data Visualization of GIS Data for Managing Land Access

Access to private or leased land is currently not a simple problem. Landowners would like to know who is on their land, when, and for what purpose. Getting permissions from landowners to use their land is often not straight forward; often leading to bypassing obtaining permission. Some landowners do not want hunters, but do not […]

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Design and implementation of an automatic security response mechanism for cloud services based on trust attributes.

Cloud computing offers virtually unlimited resources in CPU, memory, and bandwidth, under a service agreement scheme. Operators leverage on this model to achieve economies of scale, by hosting as much customers as possible on such infrastructure. The detected gap is that the Communication Service Providers (CSP) must take into consideration trust as a parameter into […]

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Evaluating the Current and Future Capacity for Natural Climate Solutions in Canada’s Oceans

Climate change is rapidly altering the planet, and solutions are urgently required to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limit further warming. Blue carbon ecosystems (salt marshes, seagrass meadows, kelp forests, marine soft sediments) are important carbon reservoirs that could contribute to Canada’s climate change solutions. Yet, despite having the world’s longest coastline, Canada has […]

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Characterization of stem cell-derived human dopaminergic neuron subtypes

The goals of this proposal are to develop methods to identify cell subgroups in dopaminergic (DA) neuron cultures obtained by differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC), and to exploit this information to improve existing DA neuron differentiation protocols. To realize these goals, we will leverage expertise at STEMCELL Technologies in hPSC differentiation and Simon […]

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The effects of AI empathic music therapy on psychosocial and cognitive functions of older adults: a pilot and validation study

Music therapy is an evidence-based effective intervention to promote psychological, social and emotional health, and it is specifically favored by older adults. However, little is known on the efficacy of the AI-assisted empathic music therapy in which the music is continuously adapted to individuals’ mood. To fill this gap, the proposed project will assess the […]

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Attack Detection for 5G Networks using AI/ML

The roadmap for 5G networks is already taking shape due to several industrial and academic research efforts. 5G networks are expected to support more diversified services, which should create exciting business opportunities in many vertical sectors. Achieving this requires improving the technologies behind the evolution of 5G and leveraging machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) techniques […]

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2021 – Beauceron – Project Flex – BSI

To support their continued growth Beauceron Security is seeking to adopt innovative practices across all areas of their business to support their mission to develop world class cyber security solutions that enhance the ability of organizations to recognize, respond to and avoid cyberattacks. The NBCC interns will bring skills and expertise that can support a […]

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Estimation of long-term COVID-19 health state utility values

IHE has a variety of relevant work for MPH students with a quantiative background. In addition to work examining cost effectiveness of health interventions, IHE has ongoing work on long COVID, on the integration of infectious disease models with other domains of modelling, and other topics where the student and IHE can collaboratively define a […]

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Smart contracts’ governance: A new order for economic activity?

Recently, a new form of organization—a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)—has emerged as a novel form of governance. DAO is an organization represented by programmed operating rules that determine who can execute changes to the rules of applications built on blockchains. Through ownership of governance tokens, DAO grants its stakeholders such as users, developers, and contributors […]

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