Featured Presentations
2014
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The main idea of the IRMACS Centre's series "SFU Research Masterclass" is to have a group of prominent SFU researchers that will, instead of an academic lecture on their research topic, tell the story of...
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Antibodies comprise the effector arm of humoral immunity in humans and thus play a central and essential role in protection against disease. It is straightforward to detect whether an individual has...
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Abstract: Approximately 2 in 5 Canadian adults have a chronic disease and this number nearly doubles in people over 65 years. With the ageing population and the coincident increases in chronic disease,...
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The main idea of the IRMACS Centre's series "SFU Research Masterclass" is to have a group of prominent SFU researchers that will, instead of an academic lecture on their research topic, tell the story of...
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Engineers and geoscientists are faced with increasingly challenging projects involving resource development at great depths beneath the ground surface and the expansion of populations into areas of high...
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Technology has been proposed as part of the solution to the challenges of a population that is getting increasingly frail, but prefers to “age in place.” A number of different sensors and sensor types...
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As part of the IRMACS Centre's traditional Pi Day celebration the audience will be asked to participate in an activity that has never been tried before, at least not in the IRMACS Centre's Presentation...
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Research into Innovation
The ageing of the population presents many challenges, not least how services can be improved in order to enhance the health and quality of life of older people in the...