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Research and Implementation of Accounting Processes and Technology

CV Chartered Professional Accountant is not your traditional accounting firm. We provide a variety of services on a monthly subscription style (flat fee) basis. The services are branded as Fractional CFO services but can include any one or combination of the following: full cycle accounting, payroll, financial reporting, management accounting, strategy, ideation, and HR support. By utilizing cloud based programs and integrations, we can offer prospective clients innovation, efficiency, and customized monthly support at a fraction of the cost of an accounting department. Our success is directly tied to the success of our clients. Our unique value proposition is our ability to bring that innovation to the client regardless of the industry. In order to continue to deliver on that notion of innovation and change management across an array of clients and therefore various industries, it is imperative that we invest in integrating personnel that offer a fresh set of eyes, ears, and ideas. The biggest challenge we face is being able to research and keep up with all the trends in process and technology along with implementation, training, and ongoing financial support. This project will provide us with the resources that we need to continue to make this possible for both our existing clients as well as new clients. Most importantly this project will provide both interns the opportunity to showcase what they have learned at NAIT in a real business setting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Young;Kennedy Clayton

Student:

Partner:

CV Chartered Professional Accountant

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Sites and Sights of Oil: Archival Regimes of Extraction in Iran

The archival fieldwork I will be conducting at the British Petroleum Archives will contribute to a larger doctoral dissertation, titled “Sites and Sights of oil: Archival Regimes of Extraction in Iran,” investigating the relationship between colonial archival practices of documenting the extraction of oil and the media and cultural infrastructures enabling this process. My research-creation project investigates an overlooked visual analysis of the role of photography as an embodied technology of petrocultural visuality and eradication which worked in tandem with the larger extractive industry in Iran and the larger Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By conducting a visual ethnography of oil, and with a particular focus on the historical ethnographic photographic archives produced by the British Petroleum during its early operations in Iran, I examine the visual representational regimes of oil through the nexus between colonial modernity, social history of oil, and media infrastructure. Since my doctoral stream is researchcreation, this research is also accompanied by a practice-based artistic component which is conceived as a documentary essayfilm and multimedia installation that seek to re-imagine these contested archives to creatively configure counter-narratives of petromodernity and to problematize their colonial imaginaries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Krista Lynes

Student:

Partner:

University of Warwick

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of high protein canola using MAD7 gene editing

This project targets the improvement of seed protein content in Canola seed using genome editing. The development of high protein content in canola seeds has potential to be utilized in the production of plant protein ingredients and as a source of high protein feed in the dairy and aquaculture industry. AgGene, the partner organization is an Alberta-based startup company and will benefit from MITACS support to hire a high quality intern to facilitate the development of high protein canola by leading the transformation and identification of gene edited canola plants. The intern will also have the opportunity to participate in the business strategy and planning for commercialization activities of a high protein canola variety.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcus Samuel

Student:

Partner:

AgGene

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Visuality in Nuclear Engineering

I research how film and media participate in juridical regimes stemming from the ocean space. In my doctoral thesis I analyze how the ongoing aestheticizing of the representation of the underwater nuclear weapon explosions not only invisibilizes the Indigenous experiences, but also how such visual regime is at odds with the urgencies of paradigmatic shifts needed in the attempts to work towards a different planetary juridical system. I engage with discussions on role of visuality in relation to urgencies of transition from Environmental Law to Ecological Law. I trace genealogies of conceptualizing post-World War II world order in relation to ontological structure of imaginaries that emerged together with practices of nuclear so-called tests.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Masha Salazkina

Student:

Partner:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Deconstructing the Borromean Trinity of Free/Libre and Open Source Software Development: A Case Study at Savoir-Faire Linux

Savoir Faire Linux (SFL), a leading open source software solutions provider, operates within the free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) community. SFL has been successful because it has been able to effectively adapt code developed with the contributions of the FLOSS community to the needs of its clients. At the same time, however, control over such code can considerably limit SFL’s ability to continue to provide solutions for its clients. SFL’s top management portrays the unique interdependence of SFL, its clients and the FLOSS community in terms of a Borromean Trinity – a sharing arrangement in which each of the three constituents are essential to keep SFL’s business model viable. This research aims to validate the conceptualization of the Borromean Trinity and the effect of public policies on the sustainability of SFL’s open source business model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Banik

Student:

Partner:

Savoir-Faire Linux Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Community Based Mental Health Supports for Men from Ethnoculturally Diverse Communities

This community project will train men from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds and support them in leading well-being groups with men from their communities. Evaluations from past projects have underscored the importance of engaging men in conversations of well-being, healthy relationships, and violence-prevention. This includes the need for further outreach to support men in accessing services and address intersectional and system barriers as part of an overall strategy for mens’ well-being and violence prevention. Together, our proposed study will generate knowledge on the process of creating culturally relevant community-based supports by investigating: What are the perspectives and recommendations of Latino, Pashtun, Iranian, Jewish, and Ethiopian men in developing a culturally appropriate and relevant Training Curriculum for well-being groups for men in their respective communities?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liza Lorenzetti;Aamir Jamal

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Network of Immigrant Women

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Creating a digital cultural asset platform for rural community knowledge and entrepreneurship

This project will explore cultural asset mapping on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, a region with rich cultural heritage but which also faces challenges with supporting entrepreneurship and promoting new economic opportunities. The project will explore options for the creation of a cultural asset mapping tool on the GNP through a community engagement process that will involve both traditional knowledge-holders and cultural entrepreneurs. The intern will work with the partner organization to identify a sub-region, compile existing cultural asset data, conduct interviews with local stakeholders, and work with a web designer to create a prototype online platform for displaying cultural assets in these communities. Intended as the first phase in a larger collaboration, the project’s outcomes will include a preliminary online cultural map co-designed with partner communities, an inventory of cultural entrepreneurship opportunities, and recommendations for developing supports for current and aspiring cultural entrepreneurs in the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kelly Vodden

Student:

Partner:

CBDC NORTIP

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Study of the permeability of dendrimers as vectors of active ingredients intended for topical applications

Three decades ago, science saw a major revolution in the nanomedicine field. The invention changed the dynamics of drug delivery and ever since, numerous studies have been done to help in delivering drugs with the aid of nanomedicines. Dendrimers are new generation of vectors used in skin drug delivery mostly because of their small size, molecular symmetry, and highly functional surface that could be modified. Dendrimers can modify drug release by enhancing drug dissolution, stability, drug release, targeting and pharmacokinetics of various drugs and could be tailored to penetrate the skin.
This project would be divided in 2 parts:
1- Synthesis and characterization of fluorescent dendrimers: realization of chemical coupling; manipulation of characterization by NMR, DSC, SEC, fluorometry; analysis and interpretation of results.
2- In vitro study of the permeability and biocompatibility of fluorescent vectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Valerie Gaelle Roullin

Student:

Partner:

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Nanotechnology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Cooperative Model Predictive Control in the Coastal Incident Management System (CIMS)

Marine oil spills without rapid and effective response may cause a series of severe hazards such as destroying the ocean ecological environments or even impacting human welfares. Conventional responders lack the in-time response capability for these time-sensitive incidents. To this end, SHIFT Environmental Technologies Ltd., are developing a promising solution called the Coastal Incident Management System (CIMS). This solution relies on the intelligence development of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where the USV is controlled to the incident regions and the UAV plays a role of the Eye of the USV in the Sky for an enhanced perception capability. A unified cooperative model predictive control framework will be designed, which comprehensively involves the objectives (path planning for the two agents, the total energy consumption, etc.), the constraints (the connection between the two agents, the fixed/mobile obstacles, etc.), the uncertainties (the wind, wave, current, illumination conditions, and the modeling errors, etc.) together, to allow for coordinated optimal actions at each control period. The above functionalities will be integrated and embedded into the system software.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yang Shi

Student:

Partner:

Shift Coastal Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Ocean Tech; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating novel hearing aid technologies for communication in noise: establishing benchmarks and benefit

This project has two main themes:
The first involves measuring the benefit BiCROS hearing aid users gain from their hearing aids in challenging listening environments. Then, a statistically based qualitative process will be followed to investigate user attitudes towards their hearing aids and what contributes to their successful use. This information will be used to create a questionnaire aimed at measuring user satisfaction towards their hearing aids.
The second theme is focused on ActiveVentTM, a technology used to automatically open and close the venting of a hearing aid, providing access to the benefits of both. We intend to conduct testing on the hearing aids fitted with this technology to evaluate their performance using a multitude of measures across different test laboratory scenarios. We will then collect behavioral outcome measures to assess actual user benefit from ActiveVentTM.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Scollie;Vijay Parsa;Paula Folkeard

Student:

Partner:

Unitron Hearing

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

A household-scale granular activated carbon-membrane bioreactor (GAC-MBR) system for water resource recovery in the Prairies region

Inadequate wastewater treatment and reuse in off-grid communities, such as many Indigenous communities, has been a challenge to the environment and hurdle to sustainable development of Canada. Although septic tanks and lagoons have been widely used, they are ineffective in removing nutrients, emerging pollutants, and pathogens, which poses serious threat to the natural water bodies. Through the lens of circular economy, innovative technologies for wastewater treatment and reuse are highly desirable. The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid system for household-scale wastewater treatment and reuse. To optimize the system design and operation conditions and to systematically evaluate the feasibility of the technology, both laboratory and on-site operation will be conducted over the two-year duration. The resultant knowledge and technology will not only benefit the two partners, NACO Technology Inc. and Buffalo Pound Eco Lodge but also shed light on the resolution of inadequate wastewater management remote communities in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinkai Xue

Student:

Partner:

NACO Technology Inc.;Buffalo Pound Eco Lodge Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Improving wicking properties for nonwoven geotextiles

Geosynthetics are rolls of man-made products that are used in roads and earthworks. These are often used to improve drainage and work very well in many instances. In some cases such as silt soils or silt-sized mine tailings, geosynthetic drainage doesn’t work well because of the naturally hydrophobic nature of the synthetic fibres. This project will look at ways to enhance the drainage performance in silt soils by modifying the properties of the geosynthetic product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Fleming

Student:

Partner:

Afitex-Texel Géosynthétiques Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

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