Germicidal Robotic Systems

Coronavirus is highly contagious. It can remain active and infectious on cardboard, fabric, and paper for up to 24 hours, on plastic, stainless steel, and countertops for up to three days. Decontamination, sterilization, and disinfection are standard procedures to prevent and reduce the spreads of COVID-19. The conventional method of decontamination and disinfection is through […]

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Developing Customizable and Affordable Medical Simulation Solutions by Facilitating the Transfer of Research Driven Products into the Simulation Market.

The goal of the proposed research project is to design and develop an application called 3DCrowdGo that uses crowdsourcing to fill the COVID-19-induced gap in health professions simulation training via community-based 3D printing. Since COVID-19 has pushed simulation labs to be held virtually, learners are in need of affordable and portable simulators. 3DCrowdGo will connect […]

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Applications Of Data-Driven Analytics and Decision-Making Optimization for Solar-powered Energy Hubs Integrated With Electrical Vehicles

The worldwide urge to seek solutions for global warming and its negative environmental impacts, has driven the increased adoption of renewable energy resources and electric vehicles (EVs). This increase in the share of renewable energy generation and EV users has widened the implementation of distributed energy resources (DERs) systems and encouraged the move towards developing […]

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Nighttime Bed Occupancy Pilot Project

The care and safety of Persons Living with Dementia (PLWD) within assisted living and other communal living models is extremely important. One key symptom of dementia is disorientation for time and/or place and this can lead to wandering behaviours for residents. Overnight in care homes, the limited is focused on required resident care cannot watch […]

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Development of deep neural networks for analyzing the prospectivity of Nova Scotia offshore basins

Unlocking the energy potential of offshore basins is key to fully evaluate Canada’s ability to satisfy its future energy demand while respecting UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, Affordable and Clean Energy. In frontier basins, including offshore Nova Scotia, deep-water exploration entails various risks due to uncertain geological settings, thus requiring comprehensive prospect analyses and risk […]

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Risk of Confusion for Trademarks

An important legal task for which natural language processing has a use-case is for assessing the risk of confusion for trademarks. By means of a thorough understanding of factors which are used by legal professionals to make decisions in this domain, we replicate the process by using state-of-the-art deep learning models for natural language processing. […]

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Autonomous Micro-Cell Multilevel Inverter for Utility Scale PV Farms

The proposed product “autonomous three-phase micro-cell multilevel inverter” comes to offer scalable and “plug and power-up” solution for both large scale photovoltaic PV farms and small-scale residential installations. These three phase micro-cells can be scaled in any direction (parallel or series) to increase output power or voltage. Furthermore, each micro-cell is small light weighted dc-ac […]

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Develop a broader understanding of the bacterial diversity in nearshore areas of the St. Lawrence River and the understand the influence of anthropogenic inputs.

For this project we will better understand the health of the St Lawrence River through the lens of bacterial diversity. The ability of natural waterways to process anthropogenic inputs is dependant on the bacterial health of the ecosystem. This study will help to characterise the bacterial community and allow us to better understand the processes […]

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Investigation of the Transient Performance Caused by Supply Pressure Changes in the Supersonic Fluidic Oscillator Driven Superplastic Forming Process

The Superplastic Forming process involves gas injection from a variable pressure supply, to form a heated metallic sheet into a complex automotive body panel shape. The current process involves excessive forming times which allow residual stresses to relax thus avoiding cracks and tearing. Research shows that pressure pulsations of the gas supply increase the allowable […]

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Impact of human activities on seabirds: the case of declining Leach’s storm petrels in Atlantic Canada

Leach’s storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) are long-lived seabirds that spend most of the year on the open ocean and return from overwinter grounds in the southern hemisphere to breed in large colonies in Atlantic Canada. Since the 1990s, breeding colonies have severely declined and Leach’s storm-petrels are listed as Threatened in the COSEWIC registry of species […]

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Impact of human activities on seabirds: the case of declining Leach’s storm petrels in Atlantic Canada – Year Two

Leach’s storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) are long-lived seabirds that spend most of the year on the open ocean and return from overwinter grounds in the southern hemisphere to breed in large colonies in Atlantic Canada. Since the 1990s, breeding colonies have severely declined and Leach’s storm-petrels are listed as Threatened in the COSEWIC registry of species […]

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