Innovative Projects Realized

Gowganda-hosted deformation veins as source of indicator minerals for underlying mineralization at the Young-Davidson Mine

Terahertz material characterization of organic semiconductors using terahertz time-domain systems

A context-aware topic analysis framework

3D Conformal thermal therapy of the soft tissues for treatment of localized cancer using MRI-controlled ultrasound therapy

Sustainable community development in London, ON

Sustainable engineering design audit

Improving the capability, precision, and durability of the Ignition Quality Tester (IQT) in the renewable diesels Cetane number range

This proposal aims to improve the capability, precision, and durability of the Ignition Quality Tester (IQT™). This project includes an experimental investigation of the following areas; Testing of new primary reference fuels, PRFs, and Check fuels, CFs to expand the range of ASTM D6890-11a standard from (33 to 65 DCN) to (15‐100 DCN); Investigate experimentally the impact of the oxygen concentration in the charge air on the response of a fuel sample in the IQT™ system. The study also covers the characterization of renewable diesels (HDRDs) and their petroleum diesel blends using the IQT™; Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the IQT™ fuel injection system performance under different test conditions with different fuels will be conducted utilizing the IQT™ combustion visualization system (AVL-Visio-Scope system). The ultimate goal of this project is to establish a world class research Centre at Carleton University in renewable fuels and fuel atomization, exploring fundamental issues and solving technical industrial problems. 

A Modified Fully Haptics-Enabled Master-Slave Teleoperated Setup for Minimally Invasive Surgery

The inter-language reliability of BrainScreen in co-ordinate bilinguals

Secure multiuser distributed storage allowing collaboration

Net-shape manufacturing of fins for high efficiency heat exchangers

Continuity of care in children’s mental health: Finalizing a new measure

In Senator Kirby’s 2006 report, Out of the Shadows at Last, children’s mental health was labeled the “orphan’s orphan” of Canada’s health care system. For over two decades, the systems-of-care philosophy in children’s mental health has recognized the need to respond to a fragmented service system through greater integration and coordination. Continuity of care, which is how a patient experiences care over time as coherent and linked, has been identified as an indicator of health system performance and is considered an ethical principle of care. Yet, no instrument exists to measure continuity of care as experienced by families receiving services through the children’s mental health system. This deficiency limits efforts to understand, and ultimately improve, continuity of mental health care for children. The development of the Continuity of Care Scale for Children’s Mental Health, which is the goal of the proposed research, is an important step in measuring the integration and coordination of services from the perspective of parents. This research will bring us closer to “adopting” children’s mental health care into the larger mental health care system, in which continuity of care is better understood and measured.