Shellfish aquaculture activities that occur in the intertidal environment can directly and indirectly affect the organisms that live on and within the sediment and higher trophic level organisms (e.g. fish) that utilize the habitat. These activities include the following: 1) Altered species composition and increased densities: Bivalve species compositions are altered by planting economically valuable […]

offshore oil well platforms are supported by huge guy wires. Ocean waves and motion in the control stations would cause continuous change in tension and slack in the wires. This can cause failure in internal fibers in the wire, which would be invisible. Breakage of a large number of internal fibers can lead to a […]

Concerns about future energy supply and recent advancements in technology are leading to a renewed emphasis on Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) as EOR techniques can significantly improve the recovery factors. It is estimated that Saskatchewan has approximately 40 billion barrels of oil in place that is a target for the use of Enhanced Oil Recovery […]

We will develop new computational tools that will mine and classify social media for statements that represent varying types and degrees of emotional stress. These tools will allow us to apply geospatial analysis methods to define dynamic stress landscapes, or stresscapes, that will help us to understand how stress varies from place-to-place and from time-to-time […]

The project involves constructing and evaluating mathematical algorithms for scheduling media content (TV shows, sports games, movies) in video-on-demand systems, typically on virtual machines in the cloud. Although the problem is stated as a real-world problem, it is, at heart, a mathematical one—an understanding of the real-world issues is easy enough to acquire if the […]

Obesity and insulin resistance are major risk factors for cardiovascular disease including cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy is characterized by the reduced ability of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) to contract and/or relax. Maladaptive changes in cardiomyocyte lipid signalling and energy metabolism (increased fatty acid utilization) have been implicated in obesity-induced cardiomyopathy, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely […]

Beta-lactoglobulin (?-LG) is a major whey protein found in the milk of many ruminant species. As a lipocalin, it is suspected to be involved in the transport of small hydrophobic molecules, and some evidence suggests that it can bind to vitamin A. ?-LG is an antigen in milk, causing allergic reactions in some individuals. This […]

Due to advances in low-power wireless communications, low-power analog and digital electronics, the development of low-cost and low-power sensor nodes that are small in size has received increasing attention. Sensor nodes have the ability to sense the environment nearby, perform simple computations and communicate in a small region. Although their capacities are limited, combining these […]

This project explores online real-time task scheduling and mapping on multicore systems. A software tool is being developed to create code dependency graphs, generate task sequences, and then perform real-time scheduling and mapping on multi-processor platforms. The tool will be able to handle tasks with precedence constraints and non-preemptive task executions.

Often entry into a residential care facility is a last resort, when physical and cognitive deterioration results in high level of care needs that exceed the availability of personal and community supports. Residential care facilities are increasingly becoming places where older adults receive care until death. Few transition back to the community. Although it has […]

Terahertz (THz) radiation science is expected to have an extremely significant impact on a wide variety of disciplines that are bound to shape the life of people in the 21st century. In particular, THz waves (or T-Rays), with frequency ranging from 0.1 to 10 THz, (i) can penetrate and image inside plastics, semiconductor wafers, fabrics, […]

The project proposes the preparation of innovative nanostructured photo-electrodes and their integration in high efficiency excitonic solar cells via spray pyrolysis technique. Quantum dot solar cells are based on photoexcitation of quantum dots (QDs) adsorbed onto the surface of metal oxide nanoparticles (TiO2, SnO2, ZnO). The QD harvests the incident light and injects electrons into […]