Innovation Cluster (Canada)

Engineering visual realism in pureed foods for dysphagia care

While texture modification ensures safe swallowing in dysphagia, homogeneous purees often compromise visual appeal. Treating shaping as the core design objective, this review evaluates established methods for engineering visual realism in pureed foods against available evidence,...

Lithium Makes the Difference─Evolution of Lithium Vacancy Disorder during Temperature-Induced Phase Transitions of the Li-Ion Conductor Li4SnS4

Abstract Sulfide-based lithium-ion solid electrolytes are promising candidates for solid-state batteries due to their high ionic conductivities, although they typically exhibit high moisture sensitivity. Li4SnS4 has recently attracted scientific interest because it exhibits highe...

Four-Sphere Multiphysical Coupling and OMP Wave Dynamics in Major Earthquake Forecasting (MADRE Project — Paper 5)

Paper 5 of the MADRE Project / EUREKA 1719. Expands the deterministic formulation of Paper 4 (v_OMP = 316.4 km/day, Δt = 2.74 h) through a coupled four-sphere geophysical framework: (1) Lithosphere (Real GNSS): 49 continuous geodetic stations from the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory (...

Four-Sphere Multiphysical Coupling and OMP Wave Dynamics in Major Earthquake Forecasting (MADRE Project — Paper 5)

Paper 5 of the MADRE Project / EUREKA 1719. Expands the deterministic formulation of Paper 4 (v_OMP = 316.4 km/day, Δt = 2.74 h) through a coupled four-sphere geophysical framework: (1) Lithosphere (Real GNSS): 49 continuous geodetic stations from the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory (...

Superconductivity in epitaxial PtSb(0001) thin films

Building on earlier reports of superconductivity in bulk PtSb, we present a systematic study of superconductivity in epitaxial PtSb(0001) thin films grown on SrF 2 ( 111 ) . Electrical transport measurements reveal a superconducting transition at T c = 1.72 K . The field-induced...

Social information quality and environmental volatility shape collective foraging behaviour

Abstract Collective foraging is widespread across the animal kingdom, allowing animals to more effectively discover resources. However, collective foragers need to balance a key trade-off between private exploration and using social information. Social information can come in ver...