The rehabilitative measures in place within Canadian Correctional centres include opportunities for incarcerated individuals to change and grow through educational interventions specifically designed to increase skills sets and overall self-confidence. Given the challenging environment of correctional facilities, opportunities to provide efficient and enhanced processes for learning with the potential are sought as they are considered to equip incarcerated persons for life after incarceration and reduce recidivism.

The project will investigate the relationship between Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and temperature. The intern will use researched knowledge and thermal metrics to design a simulated trial to gather data (acquiring and processing several images), analyze (reviewing data and performing analytics), model (create specific DVT data models) and validate the simulated data with real data (human trial phase) for the thermal imaging of DVT. The intern will carry out this experiment using a novel 3d thermal imaginer.

Arthropods such as bees, beetles and spiders provide ecosystem services to crops in Alberta. This nature’s contribution to people has economic value to farmers. The arthropods can control crop pests, pollinate crops, and help to improve the overall health and quality of the crop. These natural services are freely available to farmers. However, to take advantage of them, changes to land in the vicinity of crop fields may be necessary.

This 3-year international partnership project between Canada and China will facilitate knowledge exchange and advancement through active engagement of academic and non-academic partners in both countries. The overarching goal is to develop user-focused initiatives to promote and intervene on mental wellness among children and youth (age 12 – 17) in both Canada and China. One of objectives of this CYMH project is to develop a gamified website to address child and youth mental health issue.

One purpose of the proposed research project is to contribute to the My Normative (MyN) app development by increasing the number of users on the app and maintaining long-term app usage. The second purpose is to verify the accuracy of the app’s menstrual cycle prediction in female persons of varying cycles less than or greater than 28-days, with or without ovulation. The project and MyN will initially target female persons in their reproductive years (18-35 years) with the bigger picture of representing all female persons of diverse backgrounds.

Small businesses and start-ups typically have difficulties with finance at their businesses early stages. To solve this matter, Equity Crowdfunding (EC) has been used as a helpful method to raise funds from people (crowd) in the recent decade. People help a new business in terms of the fund; instead, the company provides its share. But there are many potential risks that are unclear for people interested in investing. This research wants to provide a network model of potential risks to give investors a better understanding of risks and their interrelationship.

We will be working closely with people experiencing Covid19 symptoms that linger beyond weeks or months after getting sick, or those struggling with their mental health, especially if they are a part of the immigrant/refugee (newcomer) population in Alberta. We will be creating a virtual platform to do some music therapy and breathing exercises to improve our mental health and to focus on our overall wellbeing. We will work together and seeking feedback from our participants.

This research project aims at developing an integrated navigation system that combines many technologies to enhance the positioning and tracking capabilities of the system. The navigation system to be developed is for use with UAV systems that require high precision and reliable navigation systems to provide continuous location information to the operator when the UAV is operated remotely or autonomous.

Calgary Reads is a not-for-profit community literacy organization that seeks to improve children’s lives by helping them become confident, joyful readers. The role of the intern is to create two knowledge mobilization products to share the science of reading with volunteers, parents, teachers, and other collaborators. Calgary Reads facilitated delivery of a tutoring program for 20 years. However, the program needs to be updated in the science of reading and available as a deliverable for training of volunteers both in person and online.

The fit and design of sporting equipment influences an athlete’s comfort, performance, and risk of injury. However, individual differences in an athlete’s body morphology can affect how well a piece of sporting equipment satisfies the athlete’s needs. Further, in sports such as hockey that require athletes to execute a diverse set of movements, it can be challenging to optimize equipment design to serve such a variety of functions. In collaboration with CCM Hockey, we plan to optimize skate fit by developing algorithms that utilize an individual’s foot shape.