Projets novateurs réalisés

Advancing female nutrition and reproduction management, with emphasis on embryo transfer in swine

Distribution of elite germplasm is currently achieved through the transport of gilts and boars by toad or plane. The practice is associated with an increased biosecurity risk and has animal welfare concerns. The transport of the same elite genetics through embryos offers significant advantages: biosecurity is more secure and there are no animal welfare risks during transport.
Historically, embryo transfer (ET) programs were inefficient. Improvements in the technology to perform non-surgical embryo collections are on the horizon, making the routine use of embryos to disseminate full germplasm a possibilty.
In anticipation of when this time arises, it is important that knowledge for how to manage embryo donor sows is gained. The objectives of these studies are to establish nutritional programs over several cycles to optimize reproductive performance of gilts, as embryo donors, whilst controlling mature body weight and o establish embryo donor management practice.

Evaluating effectiveness of consolidated software development productivity measures

Approximately 70% of software projects do not achieve their goals. The project team offers Conflux, a productivity tool for software project managers, to monitor their projects’ productivity, health, and quality. Conflux helps the development team to be productive, motivated, and quality-oriented and provides early signs to project management to help them avoid project failure.

P2P Social Money Exchange Platform

Designing a P2P Money Exchange platform application that creates a social network based on mutual trust will help individuals trust each other and participate in deals for Peer-to-Peer money exchange. This idea focuses on eliminating the need to use escrow mechanisms and the complexities of handling extra electronic payment and money transfer transactions and mandatory authentication in existing platforms. In addition, because of the nature of Peer-to-Peer, there is no need for intermediaries, so the transactions deploy with simple direct money transfer with minimum fees and in the least time possible.

Vibration Monitoring of the Mactaquac Dam

Mactaquac Generating Station, the largest hydroelectric power plant in the Maritime provinces, is located near the capital city of Fredericton, on the Saint John River. In the mid-1970s, concrete structures at Mactaquac began to show signs of distress due to Alkali-silica reaction (ASR), resulting in cracks and leakage. The goal of this research project is to develop a continuous ambient vibration monitoring and damage detection system for the intake structure of the Mactaquac dam. The proposed structural health monitoring system can identify the dynamic properties of the structure and monitor their evolution over time. The vibration data will also be used for calibration of the dam structure models and to evaluate the effect of ASR on the mechanical properties of the intake structure. The findings in this project and recommendations for future research will be shared with NB Power and the engineering and research communities using final reports and peer-reviewed articles.

Evaluating the effectiveness of perturbation-based training programs on the development of postural responses to continuous multidirectional perturbations

Slips, trips, and falls (STFs) are a major concern in occupational environments, accounting for a significant portion of all reported work-related injuries in Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore petroleum industry. Perturbation-based training has been shown as an effective measure in developing appropriate postural responses for young and older adults. This proposed research aims to address the industry’s STF concerns through the development of a perturbation-based training program that will help prepare new workers to better adapt to motion-induced stressors of their work environments. This training program will be delivered as a part of framework for a comprehensive research-based offshore specific STF training program, that will take into consideration the unique challenges and stressors associated with the offshore industry. This work will be accomplished by one research project lasting eight months and taking place in a laboratory setting. Through this work the partner industry will gain expertise and a service that can delivery to their partners that can be used to address the immediate STF-related concerns of the company, and may assist them in developing strategies for other human performance related concerns in the offshore industry.

How much room for the river? Balancing societal and environmental targets in river management and restoration

River management aims to balance environmental needs such as habitat against the protection of infrastructure (e.g. roads, pipelines, property) from flooding, erosion, and other geohazards. The ability to effectively navigate this trade-off stems from a fundamental understanding of how rivers function. However, management projects often rely on highly simplified models of river processes (such as sediment transport) that are subject to significant uncertainties, and subsequently, these projects are often ineffective. The proposed research aims to improve upon our understanding of river processes through scaled physical models and numerical simulations. The project provides a broad scope for scientific publications surrounding river processes and will contribute practical tools that may help to improve the management of environmental and economic assets.

Effects of conifer sustained quenching on sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence emission

Conifers retain their leaves in winter and downregulate photosynthesis. Remote sensing of coniferous forests based on measurements of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) seems a suitable tool to estimate forest photosynthesis, but little is known about the effects of downregulation of photosynthesis on the SIF signal. By installing a novel FloX field spectrometer at a coniferous forest research site in Canada, I will study the effects of downregulation of photosynthesis on the SIF signal. I hypothesize that the transition to sustained quenching in winter, which is a protective mechanism of conifers in adaptation to cold, reduces the emission of the SIF signal, and more specifically, affects its two features F760 and F687. The study will contribute to a better understanding of the F760 and F687 signals and thus bring forward remote sensing estimations of forest photosynthetic capacity, which is relevant for monitoring of forest productivity and global carbon cycling.

Développement de rapports d’inspections automobiles dynamiques, utilisant la donnée disponible sur le marché dans un but de précision

Développement de rapports d’inspections automobiles dynamiques, utilisant la donnée disponible sur le marché dans un but de précision.

Media Shop Collective Graphic Designer Internship

The Media Shop Collective is a female founded and fueled, full-service design and digital marketing agency located in Central Alberta. As a full service agency, we provide in-house branding, strategy, website design, and social media management, along with SEO and digital advertising, aligning with a brand’s strategy and desired outcomes.

Media Shop Collective recognizes a need to enhance our processes for digital marketing design and development including but not limited to improving project management with a multitude of agency partners and streamlining both operational and project workflows.

At this time, Media Shop Collective requires additional capacity to address these operational needs and challenges. As a small team handling many partnerships and projects, our ability to review and revise processes, workflows, and higher level operational/business opportunities is stretched thin. Through this internship, the student will have an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge gained at NAIT to MSC’s current challenges, providing them real-world, hands-on business experience in the digital marketing industry.

Adaptation d’un cadre d’accompagnement pour la stratégie et la mesure d’impact pour des organisations qui accélèrent la transition socio-écologique

Rhizome a développé et structuré progressivement son offre de soutien et sa propre méthodologie d’accompagnement pour amener des organisations en phase de croissance dans une réflexion plus poussée sur leur stratégie d’impact. Rhizome prépare aujourd’hui le lancement de sa deuxième “Super Cohorte en Action Climatique”, en partenariat avec L’Esplanade et Cycle Momentum. Ce projet impliquera une douzaine de startups innovantes qui contribuent à accélérer la transition socio-écologique et à réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre à Montréal. Les thématiques de cette cohorte peuvent être très variées (gestion des matières résiduelles, bâtiments verts, mobilité durable, urbanisme, etc.) et impliquent que les organisations vont mettre en place des stratégies très différentes pour maximiser leur impact social et environnemental. L’objectif de ce projet pour la stagiaire est de standardiser et d’homogénéiser la structure de soutien preparé dans le stage précédent, et de la tester dans un contexte avec plus d’organisations (12) et dans de différents secteurs. Le cadre d’accompagnement dans l’agroalimentaire ayant déjà été préparé et testé dans ce secteur, et ayant été monté pour pouvoir être utilisé dans d’autres secteurs, l’objectif est maintenant de confirmer que ce cadre peut être adapté et appliqué dans des contextes de groupe, avec des entreprises qui n’ont pas nécessairement le même type d’activités et le même stade de maturité. La réflexion consiste maintenant à décider s’il est effectivement possible de travailler simultanément avec des équipes dans des secteurs et des activités différents et de trouver des indicateurs et des réflexions similaires.

Operations Process Restructure and Implementation

When combining River Oak Imports with The Fort Distillery, many different CRM systems and client management tools were being used. When we combined, we were entering our busy season and they were combined in a temporary way that would work to get us through until the end of 2022. Student will assist in cleaning up and organizing to use one program throughout the organization and assisting in entering information from other systems to make it clean and sleek.

Overall, the student will assist in making sure all current data is accurate and help enter in new sales data to ensure system is most up to date in the most efficient and effective way, will take previous sales data from many different systems and analyze for market trends, will present sales and data trends to upper management, will assist in the creation of automated systems to populate charts and sales data, will ensure data is entered accurately for usage by other departments, and will create different sets of data for different products.

Demande SSE | William Nigel Moss – Élaboration de la structure analytique d’un modèle marketing non-linéaire

Le projet est davantage axé sur la recherche et le développement puisque William sera chargé de développer tous les processus internes / stratégies / méthodologies en lien avec la mise en place d’une structure analytique basée sur le modèle marketing non-linéaire de Google (2020). Le projet aura une grande valeur pour l’agence et nos clients. En effet, il s’agit clairement de stratégies / méthodologies sous-exploitées qui viendraient compléter à merveille l’offre de service de notre département data. Compte tenu de la forte demande pour nos services, il est difficile pour nos équipes d’effectuer le travail de recherche et développement pour la création de cette solution. La rigueur académique et l’accompagnement professoral saura certainement pallier ce défi de croissance. Nous voulons aussi étendre cette structure analytique à tous nos clients importants dans un avenir proche.