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Understanding changes in corticospinal excitability due to chronic resistance training and fatigue

The proposed research will allow us to determine how the human central nervous system (i.e. brain and spinal cord) functions to produce different intensities of muscle contractions with and without fatigue. We will use a variety of stimulation technics to determine how active the brain and spinal cord are during the arm contractions. We do not currently have a detailed understanding of how the brain and spinal work together during force production. Before we try to determine how the functional connections between brain and spinal cord are altered in persons with spinal cord injuries, however, we need to determine how they work in non-injured persons. The industry partner included in this proposal employs medical professionals that are interested in understanding basic nervous system function in humans. An enhanced understanding of how the nervous system works before and following fatigue in addition to increased physical activity may lead to new developments in their treatment of patients with upper and lower body injuries.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Duane Button

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Lewisporte Medical Clinic

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Accelerate

Appropriate Neuromuscular Rolling Intensities and Applications

Prior research has shown that rolling muscles can increase flexibility without performance decreases. These studies have used a variety of rolling pressures (intensities). It is not known whether higher or lower rolling pressures are better for improving flexibility. Thus one of the studies will examine different pressures of rolling on flexibility and muscle performance. On the other hand, it is not known whether the rolling effects are improved when combined with stretching. It is also not known what the duration of these effects might be. Thus in the second experiment, two sessions will have a warm-up including static stretching, one of which will have subsequent bouts of roller massage every 5-minutes continuing for 20-minutes. The other two sessions will have a warm-up including both static stretching and roller massage, again with one session having bouts of roller massage at 5-minute intervals for 20-minutes. Flexibility, strength and power will be tested pre- and post warm-up, as well as 25-minutes post-intervention.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David Behm

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ProActive Physiotherapy Inc;Performance Health

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Accelerate

Engineering fucoidan synthesis

Surgical adhesions can form after many kinds of surgery, and affect millions of patients every year, hindering healing and causing pain and infertility. ARC Medical Devices has shown that treating a surgical site with fucoidan, a polysaccharide extracted from some types of seaweed, greatly reduces surgical adhesions in animals, but a source of pure fucoidan is needed to try the technique in humans. We propose to use methods developed in our lab to engineer enzymes to provide an easy way to assemble the units that make up fucoidan. This will then provide a route to artificial fucoidan, which can be used by ARC for clinical trials to test its benefit in human surgery.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Stephen Withers

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ARC Medical Devices Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Developing Prediction Models on S&P 500 Index using Social Sentiment and News Events

Project is to import ten year’s of historical data on news events, public sentiment metrics and the price movement of S&P 500 related equities for study and analysis through the latest Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques. The goal is to uncover correlation and causality between events and price movement of global markets in multiple timeframes (three hours, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly). Specifically, the research would answer the question which features (metrics) generated from initial news and sentiment data have predictive power and which don’t. Predictive models based on the studies will be developed, compared, and evaluated.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Fred Popowich

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

EOTPRO Developments Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

Integrating high resolution remote sensing of multi-scale hydrogeomorphology into long-term river management – Year two

Large northward-flowing boreal rivers are an important hydroelectric resource, but effects of river regulation on downstream geomorphology and aquatic ecosystems are difficult to predict. Peace River, BC presents an ideal case study of river response to regulation, with continuous monitoring since dam construction in 1967. However, current understanding of system changes is based mainly on periodic ground-based measurements that may be less sensitive to characterize complexity at the scales at which the river responds. This project aims to incorporate recently developed fluvial remote sensing methods into the ongoing research and monitoring of Peace River through investigation of three specific questions (1) how does geomorphic change affect in-stream hydraulics and aquatic habitat? (2) how can unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing and photogrammetry be used to characterize the stability and function of constructed habitat compensation features under changing flow conditions? TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brett Eaton

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BC Hydro (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Elevate

Integrating high resolution remote sensing of multi-scale hydrogeomorphology into long-term river management

Large northward-flowing boreal rivers are an important hydroelectric resource, but effects of river regulation on downstream geomorphology and aquatic ecosystems are difficult to predict. Peace River, BC presents an ideal case study of river response to regulation, with continuous monitoring since dam construction in 1967. However, current understanding of system changes is based mainly on periodic ground-based measurements that may be less sensitive to characterize complexity at the scales at which the river responds. This project aims to incorporate recently developed fluvial remote sensing methods into the ongoing research and monitoring of Peace River through investigation of three specific questions (1) how does geomorphic change affect in-stream hydraulics and aquatic habitat? (2) how can unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing and photogrammetry be used to characterize the stability and function of constructed habitat compensation features under changing flow conditions? and (3) how do flow regulation and geomorphic change alter riparian vegetation succession? The proposed research will involve the development of automated image processing workflows for the derivation of fluvial features of interest at appropriate scales for each question, providing a flexible framework that will be set up to accommodate incoming remote sensing data and complement field based studies.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brett Eaton

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BC Hydro (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Elevate

Design, optimization and testing of baffle-type parallel-channel flow field plates within a 200-cm2 fuel cell short stack with a highly-active catalyst – Year two

Enhancing the current and power density in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is one of the main challenges to their large-scale commercialization and hence in tune with the pending needs of the PEMFC industry. The volumetric power density in PEMFC stacks is strongly affected by the flow field plates due to their critical impact on the reactants distribution over the electrodes and their bulky size. In the proposed research, baffle-type parallel-channel cathode, anode and cooling flow field plates are designed with a small thickness. The flow distributions over these thin plates are optimized through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations combined with experimental verifications and flow visualization. Since the flow field plates in stacks behave differently than in single cells, both original and optimized plates are tested within a fabricated 200-cm2 short stack. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Xiaotao Tony Bi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Vancouver International CleanTech Research Institute

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Elevate

Design, optimization and testing of baffle-type parallel-channel flow field plates within a 200-cm2 fuel cell short stack with a highly-active catalyst

Enhancing the current and power density in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is one of the main challenges to their large-scale commercialization and hence in tune with the pending needs of the PEMFC industry. The volumetric power density in PEMFC stacks is strongly affected by the flow field plates due to their critical impact on the reactants distribution over the electrodes and their bulky size. In the proposed research, baffle-type parallel-channel cathode, anode and cooling flow field plates are designed with a small thickness. The flow distributions over these thin plates are optimized through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations combined with experimental verifications and flow visualization. Since the flow field plates in stacks behave differently than in single cells, both original and optimized plates are tested within a fabricated 200-cm2 short stack. Comparative study of the polarization curves for the two original and optimized plates provides an in-depth understanding of the impact of the flow field design on the stack performance. An in-house high activity core-shell catalyst is tested with the optimized plates within the fabricated stack in the hope of achieving a current density as high as 1.5 A/cm2.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Xiaotao Bi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Vancouver International CleanTech Research Institute

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Elevate

Impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals – Year two

Canada’s coastal regions are an excellent source of marine renewable energy. These regions are also popular with marine mammals, providing good feeding opportunities. However little is known about how marine mammals will be affected by tidal energy developments. Concerns include the impacts of sound on animals’ ability to find food and navigate, the indirect effects of changes in prey distribution and abundance, and the direct impacts of collision with tidal energy structures in the water column. The objectives of this project are to better understand how marine mammals interact with tidal energy devices using a combination of traditional passive acoustic monitoring and novel sonar imaging methods. This study will improve our understanding of environmental effects and will contribute to the development of crucial collision risk models. This project will allow SMRU Canada to help move marine renewables forward into a cleaner future, both in Canada and elsewhere in the world.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Isabelle Cote

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SMRU Canada Ltd

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Elevate

Impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals

Canada’s coastal regions are an excellent source of marine renewable energy. These regions are also popular with marine mammals, providing good feeding opportunities. However little is known about how marine mammals will be affected by tidal energy developments. Concerns include the impacts of sound on animals’ ability to find food and navigate, the indirect effects of changes in prey distribution and abundance, and the direct impacts of collision with tidal energy structures in the water column. The objectives of this project are to better understand how marine mammals interact with tidal energy devices using a combination of traditional passive acoustic monitoring and novel sonar imaging methods. This study will improve our understanding of environmental effects and will contribute to the development of crucial collision risk models. This project will allow SMRU Canada to help move marine renewables forward into a cleaner future, both in Canada and elsewhere in the world.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Isabelle Cote

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SMRU Canada Ltd

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Elevate

Mechanisms and Application of MFD Catalyst on the Leaching of Secondary Copper Sulfide – Year two

Cu and Ni minerals that have great economic value mostly exist in the form of sulfides, making them difficult to extract using hydrometallurgical processes. Currently, heap leaching is the most economical way to extract these metals from low grade ores. Copper recoveries of many chalcocite heap leaches report around 70% copper recovery. However, the chalcocite leaching reaction has several stages. The first stage leach is characterized by 50% copper extraction and the conversion of chalcocite into a second stage of covellite (CuS) which is very difficult to leach at ambient temperature. In our preliminary test using acidic ferric sulfate as lixivant, addition of MFD catalyst increased the rate of chalcocite leaching by 5 times in the first 8 hours of reaction in stirred reactors. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Edouard Asselin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Jetti Services Canada Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Elevate

Mechanisms and Application of MFD Catalyst on the Leaching of Secondary Copper Sulfide

Cu and Ni minerals that have great economic value mostly exist in the form of sulfides, making them difficult to extract using hydrometallurgical processes. Currently, heap leaching is the most economical way to extract these metals from low grade ores. Copper recoveries of many chalcocite heap leaches report around 70% copper recovery. However, the chalcocite leaching reaction has several stages. The first stage leach is characterized by 50% copper extraction and the conversion of chalcocite into a second stage of covellite (CuS) which is very difficult to leach at ambient temperature. In our preliminary test using acidic ferric sulfate as lixivant, addition of MFD catalyst increased the rate of chalcocite leaching by 5 times in the first 8 hours of reaction in stirred reactors. A similar test using a stirred reactor was also performed on pure covellite, improving its leaching rate by 36 times in the first 8 hours. Therefore, there will be imminent application for MFD catalyst in heap and dump leaching of copper sulfides.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Edouard Asselin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Jetti Services Canada Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Elevate

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