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Contrast/modality-invariant anatomical recognition in clinical scans for multiple sclerosis study

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and progressive autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS), including the brain and the spinal cord. In MS, the immune system attacks the myelin that covers the neuronal fibers, resulting in inflammation and damage of CNS that leads to a wide range of symptoms concerning movement, sensation, and cognition. Big data analysis with multi-contrast/modality medical imaging can help improve our understanding of the disease. However, when collecting multi-centre clinical brain and spinal cord scans of MS patients, the file names are usually uninformative for the anatomy within the scan, making manual data organization for downstream analysis time-consuming. To tackle these challenges, the project will develop a new algorithm using few-shot learning to allow contrast-invariant anatomical identification. The resulting algorithm can greatly improve the efficiency of data collection and organization for the study of MS and biomarker discovery.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yiming Xiao

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

NeuroRx Solutions Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Accelerate

Numerical Study of the Tillage Forces on Soil Plows

The industrial drainage plow is a mechanized tool used for the installation of agricultural drainage and land reclamation. A large machine controls the depth and angle of the mole to determine the grade and depth of the tile for piping or cable to be installed. The plow is used for agricultural drainage, trenching, and installation of underground cable ducts. To make the industrial partner’s plow more competitive in the industry, this research aims to optimize the plow’s shape for various soil conditions to increase the tile installation speed and to reduce the drag force, which will reduce the fuel consumption. Numerical methods will be used in this study to predict the tillage forces on the plow. The numerical models will be validated by comparing the numerical results with available experimental data. Numerical simulations will be carried out for the plowing processes under different working conditions with different plow shapes. Also, the load distribution on the mole will be obtained based on the numerical results, which will allow the optimization of the structural components of the machine to make the machine more efficient and more durable.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Chao Zhang

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Wolfe Heavy Equipment

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

Dynamic In-Game Tracking and Mapping

This research proposes a way to make speed up video game testing by creating a tool that can understand how a player moves through the game without any special information. Usually, video games are tested manually to find bugs and problems, which takes a lot of time and effort. The proposed solution would use gameplay footage to automatically figure out how the player moves and remember the surrounding environment. This information would make testing easier by reducing the manual effort involved. With faster testing in place, video games can be created faster, which will be a great benefit for video game companies and the industry in general.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Igor Gilitschenski

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AMD Canada

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Picking pithy plants: pith selection by wild, white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator)

In this project, I examine the process of food selection by wild, white-faced capuchin monkeys using a novel multi-methodological approach. Capuchins are highly omnivorous, eating over 100+ fruit species as well as dozens of invertebrate prey species. However, when it comes to plant pith, the spongy interior of tree branches, capuchins are uncharacteristically picky, consuming only a handful of species of 300+ tree species available. To understand this selection process, I examine how dietary pith species differ from non-dietary pith species in multiple criteria, including mechanical hardness, relative amount of pith, macronutrient composition, and chemical profile. In my Mitacs Globalink internship, I will develop skills in chemical analysis by analyzing plant pith chemistry through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany. I will identify the chemical compounds that differentiate dietary piths from non-dietary ones, seeking ultimately to understand the chemical basis of food choice by a wild omnivorous primate.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amanda Melin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Pharmaceuticals; Life Sciences (not health); Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Social structures in Brown Bears

The research project focuses on getting new insights in the social behavior of Brown Bears. The social system of a species describes the pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups and how these are distributed across the landscape. Animal sociality can affect individual fitness, and vice-versa, and is often a crucial factor in population management and sustainable long-term conservation. As human presence, e.g., hunting, is affecting population dynamics, instable social structures within a population might strengthen this effect over time. Thus, advancing such knowledge further is paramount for the conservation and sustainable management of wildlife populations. The visit to Canada would allow the student to get in contact with renown social behavior researchers and would greatly extend his skills/understanding. By participating in symposiums, the student would be able to show his research and share his ideas with a large crowd. The stay would also make it possible to work closely with the PhD students Canadian supervisors, which will have benefits for the ongoing PhD project.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Fanie Pelletier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

3D Printed Bioreactor System for Analysis of Trabecular Bone Remodelling

Osteoporosis is a prevailing skeletal disease that was diagnosed in over 2.3 million Canadians as of 2016-2017, with 80% of this population being women. Osteoporosis imposes many health complications such as increased likelihood of bone fractures and implant failures. Since bone is a dynamic material that is constantly remodelling, it’s important to understand how osteoporotic bone remodels and how different factors such as mechanical or biochemical stimuli affect this remodelling. Previous studies have successfully implemented a polycarbonate bioreactor system which can keep bone alive for up to seven weeks for long-term observation of trabecular bone remodelling. Studies in the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) have implemented a 3D printed bioreactor which is significantly less expensive than the polycarbonate bioreactor, and increases the possible bone core size to meet mechanical compression testing standards. The present study aims to validate this 3D printed bioreactor system in the Centro de Bioingeniería lab in Viña Del Mar, Chile. Bovine bone cores 10 mm x 10 mm will be maintained and observed over a 21-day period for bone mineralization while being subjected to mechanical and biochemical stimuli.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Heidi-Lynn Ploeg

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Queen's University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Cyberentrepreuneur profiles based on the vulnerabilities they exploit and sell

The project aims to distinguish profiles of software vendors that allow the exploitation of computer security vulnerabilities. Data about the vendors and the vulnerabilities they exploit in their software will be collected from illicit software sales forums. The vulnerabilities will be classified according to what they can do when exploited. Then profiles will be developed based on the different types of vulnerabilities sold by each vendor. The profiles will be developed using artificial intelligence and interpreted with a criminological perspective. The creation of profiles allows the production of cyber security intelligence and contributes to the prevention of cyber attacks. The advantage for the partner organization lies in the integration of a criminological perspective to the technical analyses. Through this research, high-value cyber threat intelligence will be integrated in the product, thus better protecting the partner’s clients, including Canadian enterprises.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Masarah Paquet-Clouston

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Secureworks

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Postharvest changes in cannabis volatile terpenes under nitrogen packaging

EastCann, a small group of legacy cannabis growers, uses nitrogen packages for postharvest storage of dried cannabis. There is concern that nitrogen packaging adversely affects volatile terpenes and cannibinoids, each of which are important to cannabis products. This project will examine postharvest changes in terpenes and cannabinoids over time in nitrogen packaging compared to ambient atmospheric packaging. If nitrogen packaging significantly decreases postharvest quality, then the industry may elect to pursue alternative forms of preservation.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mason MacDonald

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

EastCann Cannabis

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Évaluation automatique de la véracité du texte produit par les grands modèles de langage (en anglais, Large Language Models, ou LLM)

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Mila

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

L’attractivité des territoires par les productions cinématographiques

Ce projet se concentre sur l’attractivité des territoires (économiques, touristiques, résidentiels…) en relation avec l’activité générée par les productions cinématographiques. L’objectif est d’analyser comment les institutions publiques abordent les impacts associés aux productions cinématographiques sur leur territoire (dimension comparative France-Québec), les comprendre et d’étudier les différentes stratégies utilisées par les institutions publiques pour stimuler cette attractivité. Des rencontres avec des professionnels du tourisme, cinéma et autres acteurs clés, ainsi que des universitaires seront nécessaires. Les résultats de cette étude pourraient donc être utiles pour les acteurs publics et privés impliqués dans la planification et la promotion de leur territoire, notamment dans les secteurs de l’industrie cinématographique et du tourisme.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Laurent Bourdeau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Aix-Marseille Université

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe

This project aims to reexamine the relationship between representative institutions, property rights, and long-run economic growth in preindustrial Europe. We argue that (some) early parliaments contributed to growth not so much by restraining the sovereign from violating his subjects’ property rights as by facilitating the elimination of obsolete, anti-developmental property rights. Through comparative case studies of eighteenth-century agrarian reform in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia, the Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and Prussian Silesia, we identify which forms of parliamentary organization and procedure made the retirement of “bad” property rights possible, and which, contrariwise, hindered it. Our findings promise to have significant implications for the study of political economy of development.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brendan McElroy

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Public Service, Policy, and Governance

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Worldwide Trends in Brain Research: A Bibliom Analysis

Brain research has advanced our understanding of the biological substrates of human behavior and its perturbation across a variety of neurophysiological states and disorders. Over the last 80 years, Brain Research has gained a lot of traction, culminating in the 1990s which was named “The Decade of the Brain” to enhance the visibility of brain research. Bibliometrics methods have allowed researchers to assess the popularity of brain research through the ever-growing number of brain-related research papers in various bibliographic databases. While many topics of brain research have been covered by previous studies, there is no comprehensive overview of the evolution of brain research and its various specialties and funding practices over a long period of time. Using new techniques from Natural Language Processing, research topics can be inferred from abstract and titles of Brain Research papers, which can be used to infer new scientific trends. This project aims to determine (1) how brain research has evolved over time in terms of papers, (2) country rankings in terms of papers and impact, (3) how research topics vary by country and year.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Vincent Larivière

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Fondation Brain Canada

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Elevate

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