For Indigenous communities, emergency management involves adopting community strategies and activities that meet the health and safety requirements of citizens while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the community infrastructure and resources that will be needed in the future. This research project will consider recent developments that resulted from the COVID-19 global pandemic and will explore how […]

Cost-effective clean energy production is one of the most urgent economic and societal issues facing Canada today. Hydro-Québec is a world-leader in clean hydro-electric energy production – an essentially carbon-free source of energy. However, the repair and replacement of hydraulic turbines utilized in hydro-electric power production has two important consequences on clean energy production: (1) […]

Notre partenaire Synapse C se spécialise dans la compilation de données culturelles en relation avec leur impact sur l’économie et notamment pour ce qui est des arts de la scène. À l’occasion de la crise causée par la COVID-19, il convient de s’intéresser au monde du spectacle, qui est parmi les plus touchés du secteur […]

Conception et développement de 3 plateformes intégrées pour commercialisation dans l’intérêt d’augmenter la productivité des nutritionnistes au travers d’une prise de données accélérée, une analyse de données améliorant la précision de la note au dossier, une aide au diagnostic alimentaire pour améliorer l’intervention client-patient, et la création de statistiques professionnelles liées aux résultats des interventions. […]

La participation des peuples autochtones à la création d’aires protégées (AP) a connu un tournant majeur avec l’engagement du gouvernement du Canada à l’égard de relations renouvelées dans un contexte de réconciliation. Les aires protégées et de conservation autochtones sont des lieux où les gouvernements autochtones jouent un rôle primordial dans la protection et la […]

Ce projet consiste à optimiser les débarquements des croisiéristes au Grand Quai de Montréal afin de minimiser les attentes des passages et de réduire la pollution.

The current COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges to healthcare professionals as they deal with managing the primary disease and it many complications. The proposal aims to develop, test, and validate an assay to detect quickly immune checkpoint targets in T cells in peripheral blood with high specificity and sensitivity using a diagnostic device, CytoFind, […]

Electric buses have achieved first demonstration deployments in Canada. As bus fleet operators ramp up their implementation over the next 5-10 years, with many planning to fully convert their fleets to electric, charging capacity will become a challenge. This project will build up tools to examine the efficacy of energy storage located on the power […]

A frequently occurring problem in face verification in Jumio is that stock face detectors find multiple faces in the input image. The decision which one should be selected for the face verification step is not clear. Common reasons being, users submitting a single image with both selfie and document id. There can be other people, […]

COVID-19 is a highly infectious respiratory disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. RT-qPCR is a nucleic acid testing that is widely adapted to confirm the infection. Point-of-care IgM/IgG testing strips have been adopted in some countries for screening and surveillance. However, these antibody testing strips are restricted to a positive/negative testing result. Because […]

Correction of misaligned teeth requires orthodontic braces treatment. Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been routinely used in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning in recent years. Its three-dimensional capability to view images has a significant advantage over traditional 2D X-rays. However, CBCT typically delivers more radiation than conventional dental 2D X-rays. As children and adolescents are […]

The overall objective for this project is to support the research of two master’s students who would help advance the methods for modelling energy-climate policies, a field in which EMRG in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU is one of the leading research units in the country and in which Navius Research […]