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DeepSarc: A deep learning-based methodology for assessing sarcopenia and frailty in hospitalized older adults

Frailty is becoming more frequent for patients and the healthcare system as the Canadian population ages. Frailty is defined by a reduction in physiological reserves, which is linked to an increased risk of mortality. Sarcopenia, or age-related loss of muscle mass and function, is a key component of frailty that can be measured. Sarcopenia can also be treated in clinical settings to help older patients with acute and chronic illnesses to avoid the harmful implications of frailty. Unfortunately, diagnostic methods for sarcopenia are not always readily available or userfriendly for clinicians. Therefore, the proposed project establishes a novel methodology based on recently developed artificial intelligence techniques with the focus on older patients who have been admitted to the hospital with various forms of cardiovascular illness. This project will allow physicians to quickly assess their patients’ frailty, even while they are acutely unwell and bedbound, and guide decision-making so that they receive potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding those that are costly and futile.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hassan Rivaz

Student:

Partner:

Jewish General Hospital

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Modélisation d’électrolyseur en régime transitoire par circuit équivalent

Le projet a pour objectif de prédire le comportement d’un électrolyseur d’eau comme charge intelligente dans le réseau de puissance d’Hydro-Québec. Cela permettra de faciliter l’implantation d’électrolyseurs afin de produire de l’hydrogène vert au Québec dans le cadre du plan stratégique de transition énergétique du Québec. L’utilisation d’électrolyseurs comme charge intelligente aurait aussi comme effet de stabiliser le réseau d’Hydro-Québec afin d’intégrer une plus grande variété d’énergies renouvelables, qui sont souvent intermittentes. L’hydrogène vert permettrait de desservir en énergie verte les régions éloignées et de décarboner des secteurs de l’industrie chimique qui utilisent actuellement de l’hydrogène produit à partir de gaz naturel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frederic Sirois

Student:

Partner:

Hydro-Quebec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Traitement passif du drainage minier neutre contaminé par l’As provenant des résidus miniers aurifères en climat froid

L’exploitation minière peut entraîner le rejet d’arsenic (As) dans les eaux naturelles. À l’étape de la restauration, le traitement passif est une pratique courante pour les sites miniers actifs, fermés et abandonnés générateurs de drainage minier acide (DMA). Cependant, il existe un manque de connaissances sur le drainage neutre contaminé (DNC), en particulier sur l’efficacité du traitement de l’As dans les climats froids (basse température et forte salinité). L’objectif général du projet est de générer de nouvelles connaissances et de nouveaux outils pour améliorer le traitement passif du DNC-As. L’accent est mis sur l’étude d’un système de traitement passif de DNC-As et d’évaluer l’efficacité de différents matériaux utilisés pour ces types de systèmes de traitement. Les résultats sur l’efficacité des matériaux sélectionnés et les coûts associés profiteront aux sociétés minières canadiennes et aux gouvernements confrontés à des problèmes de contamination similaires afin d’améliorer la sélection des matériaux dans les climats froids et d’appréhender les éventuels ajustements des systèmes de traitement dans le cadre de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carmen Mihaela Neculita

Student:

Partner:

Newmont

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Integration of microbial, stable isotope, and modeling tools to identify natural and enhanced pollutant bioattenuation processes at complex contaminated sites

The project will significantly advance and integrate three sophisticated contaminated site characterization tools: stable isotope analysis, microbial community profiles, and 3D reactive transport modeling. These three tools will be applied to a series of poorly studied semi volatile compounds, including (di)chloronitrobenzenes and (di)chloroanilines, and incorporated in a conceptual site model along with concentration profiles and hydrogeological data to identify cost-effective remediation strategies. The results of this project will be applicable to many other complex sites to quantify and mechanistically define actual biotransformation reactions and identify areas where remediation actions are required.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elodie Passeport;Elizabeth Edwards;Brent Sleep;Brent Sleep;Elizabeth Edwards;Elodie Passeport

Student:

Partner:

Geosyntec Consultants Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Trans-mitting Care: Increasing Access to Gender-affirming Healthcare in Saskatchewan

“Trans-mitting Care: Increasing Access to Gender-affirming Healthcare in Saskatchewan” aims to address the gap that exists in accessing gender-affirming healthcare by trans, Two-Spirit, non-binary, and gender diverse people and communities in Saskatchewan. The project will create a business plan for trans health clinic as well as policy recommendations for key decision makers concerning gender-affirming access to healthcare and will create advocacy tools to guide individual and health system-level advocacy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachel Loewen Walker

Student:

Partner:

Saskatoon Sexual Health

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Conception d’un dispositif de protection pourporteur de colonne humaine

Le Cirque du Soleil dispose d’une expertise pratique importante pour la conception d’equipements de performance. Toutefois, due a l’absence de donnees approfondies, cette expertise repose sur peu d’evidence scientifique, rendant difficile notamment la conception d’un nouvel equipement de protection pour les porteurs de colonne humaine. Le stage propose vise a developper un nouvel equipement de protection et a definir de nouveaux outils d’evaluation de ce type d’equipement en se basant sur des aspects biomecaniques, artistiques et acrobatiques. La solution proposee a la fin de ce stage permettra de reduire la vulnerabilite et faciliter l’apprentissage des artistes. Les donnees recueillies et le protocole d’evaluation etablit faciliteront les futurs developpements concernant la protection des porteurs de colonne humaines. Les principaux resultats seront exposes aux gestionnaires, aux concepteurs, aux entraineurs et aux therapeutes du Cirque dans le cadre de reunions. Le projet de recherche permettra aussi au Cirque d’etablir ou de maintenir des collaborations de recherche etlou commerciales et de profiter d’une ressource technique specialisee en biomecanique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yvan Petit

Student:

Partner:

Cirque du Soleil

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating movement-hormone feedbacks as a basis for habitat specialization

In nature, animals must make decisions about where to find food. Looking for food, however, exposes animals to the risk of being eaten by predators and forces them to compete with other animals for food. This combination of risk and competition is stressful, and animals respond by releasing hormones help them cope. Initially, a common coping mechanism is to move from stressful habitats to safer habitats with fewer predators and competitors. However, safer habitats often provide less food, which also causes stress, and eventually animals must move from safer habitats back to stressful habitats to find food. How much time an animal spends in either habitat affects the hormones they produce, which habitats they move to next, and the levels of stress they experience, potentially creating feedbacks between hormones and habitat use that could cause animals to specialize on different habitats. We will be testing these feedback relationships to understand how animals respond differently to stress, and whether these individual responses affect the different decisions they make about where to find food. This initial research question will seed future collaborations between my home and host institutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Vander Wal

Student:

Partner:

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Performance Evaluation and Design Optimization of Micro Combined Heat & Power (mCHP) System for Mixed-use Buildings

The carbon intensity of Alberta’s grid electricity is the highest in Canada. The partner, BM Homes Ltd, designed and is building a low carbon solution for small mixed-use commercial buildings using advanced micro combined heat & power (mCHP) technology, aiming to reduce annual energy consumption by 22.7% compared to a reference building, designed according to the current building code requirements, and reduce GHC emissions by 43%. The purpose of this research is to monitor and evaluate the actual energy performance of the mCHP system and provide potential system optimizations. The outcome of this research will provide Alberta’s building industry with an example of mCHP application and help to develop a mCHP design procedure and a feasibility assessment tool for mCHP implementation in Alberta and will facilitate future adoption of mCHP technology in small commercial buildings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuxiang Chen

Student:

Partner:

BM Homes Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Application of protein fibers in plant-based meat analogues to improve mechanical and textural properties

Plenty of conclusive evidence points to the association of meat consumption with negative environmental outcomes resulting in climate change. These findings show the importance of reducing meat consumption and developing efficient strategies such as production of meat alternatives to alleviate the associated environmental and health issues. However, the production of plant-based meat analogues that can mimic whole muscle cut, as opposed to processed meat such as ground beef, is still far from market launch. In particular, the main barrier to produce an acceptable meat analogue is texture, which is a challenging attribute to achieve due to difficulties associated with the development of highly anisotropic fibrillar structures from globular plant proteins. To address this problem, in current study, we will apply electrospun protein fibers (EPF) from gelatin and zein in plant-based meat analogues, using tween screw extruder and investigate the thermal, rheological, structural, textural, and mechanical properties of final meat alternatives. We expect that the texture and mechanical properties will be improved upon using EPF due to the rearrangement of protein molecules around protein fibers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Dutcher

Student:

Partner:

Aarhus University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Advanced Manufacturing; Nanotechnology

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Expression of cytokines and other biomarkers for the prediction of severe disease in COVID-19 patients

Infection by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) results in COVID-19, a highly heterogeneous disease ranging from being asymptomatic and mild to severe and causing death. Early screening and effective intervention for COVID-19 patients who will develop severe disease are essential to reduce the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients. Various groups have published prognostic markers that can be used to predict which patients will progress to severe or life-threatening disease. However, these studies were done prior to the Omicron SARS-CoV2 virus variant becoming the dominant strain, and prior to large scale vaccination programs. We propose to collect blood samples and clinical information from the current population of COVID19 patients at Vancouver General Hospital to determine whether previously defined diagnostic markers can be used, and to develop a new panel specific for the current period in the pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alice Mui

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver Coastal Health

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Managing Nova Scotia Woodlands in a Changing Climate

Using a jurisdictional scan, literature review, and consultation with woodland owners and groups in Nova Scotia, the intern will develop an education module for woodland owners on how to manage a Nova Scotia Acadian Forest woodlot in the face of a changing climate. Both adaptation – managing so trees can thrive through a changing climate – and mitigation managing so that woodland can capture and store more carbon – will be covered in the module. The results will assist Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute in its programs to assist woodland owners in achieving their land management goals and overall sustainability of the forest landscape.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Duinker;James Steenberg

Student:

Partner:

Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Cancer Nanomedicine: Addition of a unique combination of radiosensitizers to exploit the full potential of current radiotherapy

Currently, we are using the optimum RT dose and cannot increase any further due to the toxicity associated with surrounding normal tissue. Therefore, our approach is to introduce radiosensitizing agents to tumor cells to enhance the RT dose. Recent clinical trials show better survival in prostate cancer patients with a combined treatment of radiotherapy (RT) and docetaxel. Addition of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) to this current DTX/RT protocol is expected to improve therapeutic benefits remarkably. Therefore, this proposed project is designed to find nanotechnology based solutions to overcome barriers in cancer radiotherapy (RT). We will optimize this approach in two- and three-dimensional tissue models before testing them in animal models. Overall, the outcome of this proposed project will highlight the benefits of using DTX combined with GNPs and lay the groundwork for the translation of the triple combination of RT, GNPs, and DTX to the clinic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Devika Chithrani

Student:

Partner:

Integrated Nanotherapeutics Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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