Individuals that survive a stroke are left with long-term movement impairment at the affected arm that negatively impact their performance in daily activities. Robotic arm devices and virtual reality can help improve recovery following a stroke, and the optimal VR game needs to be challenging, adaptable and reflecting as closely as possible reality to support […]

This project involves developing strategies and actionable recommendations to support CP Business Solutions Inc. in transitioning its client base. As part of its long-term growth strategy, CP Business Solutions Inc. aims to work with medium and large enterprises and organizations. To achieve its goal, CP Business Solutions Inc. has selected a number of possible clients […]

CONFORMiT seeks to prevent serious injuries and fatalities and high potential events by providing administrative control solutions that can enable businesses to manage critical risks within their operations. To accomplish its main mission, the firm uses its consulting experience in the design of safety programs according to standards; the design and provision of training; identification […]

Climate change will cause increasing temperature fluctuations and longer heat waves. This will make home cooling essential, but adding and using cooling can be too expensive for low-income homeowners, including seniors. Incentive programs exist to help people make energy-efficient retrofits to their homes, but they can increase housing costs. This does not work for many […]

There is a need for customers to use a simple test method to determine if the fuel blends they are using are of the proper composition for fuel efficiency, environment- friendliness and engine cylinder compatibility. But it is difficult to determine the composition of oil/fuel/ethanol mixtures without detailed and expensive chemical analysis. It is because […]

This project’s objective is to help improve knowledge regarding consumer perspectives of conventional car mobility and transport innovations in Canada, with particular focus on fully automated vehicles (FAVs), or vehicles that can drive themselves without requiring a driver to be paying attention. Innovations can alter the transport sector’s environmental sustainability – for example, electric vehicles […]

Bolus covers patient’s skins to correct varying surface contours for desired dose distribution in cancer care. The existing method of bolus shaping is a manual process by cutting the bolus material into 2D pieces and wrapping the pieces on the targeted body area, which is inaccuracy and time-consuming. An accurate and efficient bolus shaping method […]

Upper limb rehabilitation devices mirror the skeletal structure of patients’ limbs and moves patients’ arms for recovery in rehabilitation exercises. Existing rehabilitation devices in the market have problems of adaptability and portability, which cannot meet different requirements of rehabilitation. This project will improve the design and build a prototype the device. The detail design will […]

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The multi-elemental analysis of solids typically requires their dissolution, which is time-consuming and very difficult, and sometime virtually impossible. During this project, a new method will be developed for the direct analysis of solids that are notoriously difficult to dissolve. The sample will be inserted into a small furnace whose temperature will be changed in […]

Grokvideo Inc. works on developing new technologies for extracting the best possible information from video content. This research project will provide new solutions to text-based query-video retrieval and automatic trailer generation for eventful videos such as movies and serials. Current methods seem to work well for short, non-eventful videos, say documentaries, but fail otherwise. Major […]

Research how the supply chain for Class I Medical Devices works, including distributor relations, especially for small companies with a narrow product line, and prospect the Medical Device market focusing on Class I and Class II Medical devices companies willing to file an MDEL application. By the end of the project, DECAP would have selected […]