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Improving child and youth well-being in the COVID-19 recovery phase in British Columbia

The project is a mixed-methods study with the primary aim of recommending evidence-based interventions to support child and youth mental health and well-being in BC during the COVID-19 pandemic/recovery phase. Existing data collected through three BC-based surveys will be used: Personal Impacts of COVID-19 Survey (PICS), Youth Development Instrument (YDI), and BC COVID-19 Survey on Population Experience, Action and Knowledge (BC SPEAK). This data will be supplemented by data collected through reviews of academic and grey literature as well as deliberative dialogue sessions with researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers in BC to collect qualitative input. Findings will be disseminated through an open-access report providing at least three evidence-based interventions to support children and youth as well as two research manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. As a leading pediatric research institute, this project will contribute to BCCHRI’s aim of improving health care and health outcomes for children and youth.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hasina Samji

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

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

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

The kinematic and kinetic effects of walking in textured foot orthoses: An investigation into normal and pathological populations

Recently, a new foot orthotic design which adds texture between the skin at the bottom of feet and the top of an orthotic has gained
academic attention. Adding this texture is intentional to activate the receptors in foot sole skin, to send this added stimulus into the spinal
cord, and target changes in muscle activity while people walk. Interestingly, although research has demonstrated a successful connection
between foot sole skin and lower leg and foot muscles, the biomechanical effects of textured foot orthotics remain to be investigated. The
purpose of this research is to grow this understanding and study the immediate changes in foot mechanics while healthy individuals walk
in different styles of textured insoles. In combining these results with our current understanding of textured insoles, we intend to study
this intervention on a clinical population and subsequently make the technology available for commercialization to the foot care industry.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Stephen Perry

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Kintec Footlabs

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Wilfrid Laurier University

Programme :

Accelerate

La santé et la sécurité du travail (SST) dans les systèmes complexes : Développement d’une expertise sur les spécificités fonctionnelles des systèmes complexes en lien avec la performance en SST

La santé et la sécurité du travail (SST) est devenu depuis quelques décennies une composante essentielle des entreprises qui témoigne de la bonne gestion et qui représente un des principaux indicateurs de performance. L’évaluation de la performance en SST des systèmes complexes nécessite un outil novateur, intégré et adapté afin de mieux prévenir, réduire et contrôler les lésions professionnelles. Un bon outil d’évaluation et d’aide à la décision repose essentiellement sur un ensemble d’indicateurs mieux adaptés aux systèmes complexes. Depuis 2011, les entreprises, spécialement manufacturières, vivent une quatrième révolution industrielle, appelée aussi l’Industrie 4.0, due à l’intégration croissante des nouvelles technologies en milieu de travail. Ce changement a ses avantages, mais peut aussi avoir des inconvénients. Dans le cadre de ce stage de recherche, le but principal sera de développer une expertise pratique concernant les spécificités fonctionnelles des systèmes complexes, en consultant et discutant avec des experts du domaine en Europe, et en profitant des équipements du Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN) de l’Université de Lorraine.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Adel Badri

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Université de Lorraine

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Enzymatic Improvement of Kraft Dissolving Pulp Reactivity: Mill Trials

AV Nackawic is part of a new and innovative group of companies (AV Group), which are focused on producing specialty pulp products to service the textile and paper industry. The pulp produced is the raw material for the rayon production process, where reactivity of pulp is an important parameter determining the quality of the product. In the first phase of this internship, improving pulp reactivity by enzyme treatment was studied and the best enzyme type was found, with reactivity improvements of up to two times of the untreated pulp achieved. In the extended phase of this internship, mill trials will be conducted to evaluate the feasibility of scaling up the enzymatic treatment. Successful implementation of enzymatic treatment will increase the pulp reactivity and better its processability and improve the quality and market demand of the final product, and also decrease the load of bleaching chemicals, reducing costs and environmental impacts of the process. It will also look at the improvement of ?-cellulose purity through cold alkali treatment. This internship aims knowledge-based optimization and improvement of an industrial plant, providing AV Nackawic Inc. with greater access to knowledge, research and development found at the University of New Brunswick.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yonghao Ni

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AV Nackawic Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of New Brunswick

Programme :

Accelerate

Distributed Data-driven Model Predictive Control for Air-ring Systems with Application to the Blown Film Industry

The blown plastic film industry is constantly evolving, and the simpler products of just a few years ago are being displaced by new technical films. Market pressures have demanded a lower cost of plastic film with higher quality and thinner gauges. As a result of these trends, the demand for improvements in gauge control of the film increases dramatically, especially for manufacturers with older generations of equipment. The proposed MITACS project named “Thickness AI” will develop a distributed learning-based model predictive control (MPC) algorithm to improve film quality and save energy consumption. More precisely, this project will develop a data-driven method to learn the system model of the air-ring system in the blown film product line based on the offline collected input-output trajectories. Then, the distributed MPC (DMPC) algorithm is designed for the air-ring system to improve the gauge and uniformity of the film. The success of this project will not only fulfill the control objectives of the film but also extend the life of the manufacturing equipment.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yang Shi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Victoria

Programme :

Accelerate

L’attention à autrui chez Adorno : une perspective féministe

Mon projet de recherche consiste à retracer ce qui, dans la pensée du théoricien de l’École de Francfort T. W. Adorno, forge un concept d’attention ou de souci pour autrui, afin de démontrer que certains aspects de son œuvre sont à même de nourrir une critique sociale féministe. Je m’intéresserai particulièrement aux descriptions des mécanismes sociaux propres au capitalisme qui neutralisent, selon Adorno, toute possibilité d’une attention réelle à la souffrance ou aux besoins des autres. Ces recherches visent à constituer un chapitre de mon mémoire de maîtrise, qui porte sur l’idée d’attention à autrui chez Adorno ainsi que chez différentes théoriciennes de l’éthique du care et entend ainsi démontrer les liens complémentaires et féconds entre les deux corpus. Elles fourniront aussi le matériau de base à une communication scientifique (écrite ou orale) traitant de la portée féministe de la pensée d’Adorno. Ces recherches se dérouleront grâce à l’aide précieuse que procureront l’accès aux archives Adorno de Berlin ainsi que l’accès aux différentes activités du centre Humanities and Social Change et les échanges intellectuels enrichissants qui s’y dérouleront.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Iain Macdonald

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Factors influencing differential migration in Chinook Salmon

The goal of the study is to track Chinook Salmon migrations and determine the factors that influence an individual’s migration decisions. We will catch juvenile Chinook Salmon and release them back into the ocean after placing small electronic devices inside their bodies that will allow us to track their migrations. As a result, we will be able to detect when a tagged fish migrates to the open ocean, or if it remains resident in the Strait of Georgia for its entire marine life. One goal is to determine when migration out of the Strait of Georgia occurs. We will also compare migration decisions to individual body size and prior growth rates to identify factors that influence the decision to migrate out of the Salish Sea or remain resident. Migration decisions may affect survival and reproductive success, so it is important to understand why some fish migrate much further than others.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Francis Juanes

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

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

Université :

University of Victoria

Programme :

Accelerate

Experimentally Tuned Airframe Hybrid Stick Model Employing Digital Image Correlation for Ground Vibration Testing

This research presents a new experimentally tuned reduced-order modeling methodology employing a hybrid stick model representation. Digital image correlation (DIC) is used to synthesize mode shapes within a frequency range of interest during Ground Vibration Testing (GVT). Experimental mode shapes
are augmented into the Guyan Reduced Order Model (ROM) to develop a corresponding Craig-Bampton ROM. The latter is used to compute residual mass and stiffness matrices to supplement a traditional stick model developed through a unitary loading method; this accounts for the dynamic imparity between the stick model and the global finite element model as the simplified stick model generally ignores degree of freedom coupling. The new method proposes retaining the handling flexibilities of the conventional stick model while adding experimental dynamic accuracy of the matrix-based Craig-Bampton condensation technique in conjunction with the full-field vibration characteristics. A case study is proposed to evaluate the dynamic fidelity of an experimentally tuned hybrid stick model where the modal fidelity of the proposed hybrid stick model is compared against that of the experimental model.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mostafa El Sayed

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Dorval, QC)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

Université :

Carleton University

Programme :

Accelerate

The Evaluation and Improvement of VCOs Designed for IEEE 802.11ad (WIGig) Applications

During the proposed Mitacs Accelerate program time period, the intern (student researcher) will electrically evaluate, revise, and improve the integrated circuits himself designed for Peraso Technologies in winter 2013. This project will also include the design and implementation of a die package that hosts Peraso’s wireless communication systems including the integrated circuits designed by the intern. This project is part of Peraso’s R&D effort to improve the performance of its existing wireless communication system. The results from this project have strong potential to be implemented in its future commercial products. In the same time, the research carried out will lead to the successful completion of the intern’s thesis report. Therefore, this project is beneficial to both the industrial partner (Peraso Technologies) and the intern (Yin Fei Meng).

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brian Frank

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Peraso Technologies Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Advanced Manufacturing; Information and Communications Technology

Université :

Queen's University

Programme :

Accelerate

Characterization, Modelling and AI-Monitoring of Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing of Biomedical and Aerospace Components

Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained significant interest of aerospace and biomedical industries to produce light weight components with complex geometries. Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology is an AM, process which can improve the productivity and the material efficiency of low volume-high variety manufacturing. After the AM process, the parts usually require a certain level of post-processing subtractive manufacturing (machining) to achieve the desired surface finish and dimensional and geometric accuracies.
The terminal objective of the proposed research is to characterize and optimize the hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing (ASM) process to improve and control the quality of the manufactured parts for aerospace and bio-medical applications.
In this project, the following three tasks were identified: 1) Optimization of the Hybrid Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing ASM of Aerospace and Biomedical Components; 2) Modelling and Simulation of Additive Manufacturing Process to Minimize Part Distortion; and 3) Artificial Intelligence – Based Process Monitoring and Adaptive Control.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Helmi Attia

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SECO Tools Canada Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Retail trade

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Prediction of Spatio-temporal Permeability in Granular Suffusive Soils Using Discrete Element Modeling

Water retaining structures such as earth dams hold majority of country’s water resources, and are the lifeblood of our community and agricultural economy. An unseen and yet critical phenomenon threatening the stability of these structures is internal erosion, which is responsible for about 46% of all embankment dam failures. The risk management related to volumetric erosion, named suffusion, calls the development of a numerical model that allows the prediction of the transient evolution of erosion. Such model requires the development of a new relationship that can describe the evolution of the local permeability during the suffusion process including the evolutions of the particle size distribution and the constriction size distribution that describe the soil’s micro-structure. The improved fundamental understanding of internal erosion will also help improve the state of the art in designing granular filters in dams.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Wenbo Zheng

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

The University of Queensland

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Northern British Columbia

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Mutual avoidance between young and older adults when passing through an aperture #2

The ability to perceive the motion of approaching person and to make appropriate adjustments to avoid collisions is an essential component of safe locomotion through the environment. The proposed project will investigate young and older adults’ collision avoidance behaviours with an approaching young adult in order to understand the visual information used to accomplish the task. The proposed research project will have two individuals approach an open doorway from opposite sides and pass through without colliding with each other. Both individuals’ movements will be tracked as they approach and pass through the doorway. The project will determine whether individuals use optical information, such as Time-to-Contact (TTC), to determine who will pass through the doorway first and avoid colliding with the other individual. TTC is amount of time that remains before each individual will reach the doorway and if used, will not only determine the arriving order, but also preserve this crossing order. It is believed that young adults will be in-tune with this optical information and use it to guide their actions whereas older adults may not use this information.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Cinelli

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes 2

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Wilfrid Laurier University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

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