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Developing internal data collection and evaluation strategies

SmartICE Sea-Ice Monitoring & Information Inc., or simply “SmartICE”, is the proprietor of the world’s first climate change adaptation tool to integrate Inuit knowledge of sea ice with advanced data acquisition and remote monitoring technology. This project focuses on:
• Developing an internal data collection and management strategy for the purposes of strengthening or improving programs
• Determine whether programs are meeting their intended outcomes.
• Development of methods for overcoming barriers to product/service reach
• Offering new perspectives and potential solutions for community and societal issues

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Thomas Cooper

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SmartICE Inc

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Developing an analytical framework to identify best practices on needs for social innovation in not-for-profit organizations

Using simplified language understandable to a layperson, provide a general, one-paragraph description of the proposed research project to be undertaken by the intern(s) as well as the expected benefit to the partner organization.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sandra Lapointe;Brent McKnight

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

United Way Halton and Hamilton

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

Using Social Network Analysis in Marketing

Customers usually get confused buying an item online. Therefore, they consult with their friends, use their past experience, and survey reviews from other customers. Some of the main findings from a survey conducted by eMarketer, in which each participant could choose multiple answers are as follows: a friend’s recommendation (76%), previous experiences you had with this company (68%), a recommendation in a newspaper/magazine (22%), advertisements (15%), and the company’s website (8%) [1].
The survey indicates that a significant proportion of customers trust their “friendship” network before deciding on a particular purchase. This communication between friends is mostly done via some form of social networks.
Thus, analyzing social networks to discover and utilize useful “patterns” from the data can yield effective marketing tactics which can save companies millions of dollars for marketing.
This project first recognizes relevant social networks within the potential customer base, and then it detects tightly bound cohesive subgraphs representing local “friendship” of “important” actors. Finally, we need to identify important community members using “ranking,” where the highly ranked individuals are likely the first to make purchasing decisions.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shahadat Hossain

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

North Forge

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Lethbridge

Programme :

Accelerate

Towards Sustainable Pharmaceutical Research and Development: A Life Cycle Approach

significant environmental impacts associated with pharmaceutical processes. In pharmaceutical industries, amount of waste generated to the amount of product is several times higher compared to oil refining and bulk chemical industries. This is due to complexity of API production and purification. Therefore, these industries strive toward innovative products and technologies to reduce the amount of generated waste and mitigate its subsequent adverse environmental and health impacts. In pharmaceutical industries, crystallization is often used for isolation and purification of solid APIs. Several crystallization techniques are commonly implemented for purification of APIs at commercial scale, most of which involve the use of variety of organic solvents, resulting in generating significant amount of waste.
The objective of this project is to perform environmental impact and cost analysis for the most common crystallization processes implemented in pharmaceutical industries. The potential of solvent recycling as an alternative to waste incineration to reduce the environmental impact and their associated costs will be investigated.
Our goal is to develop a framework, which provide comparative assessment of environmental impact and cost of various crystallization technologies in pharmaceutical industries and inform designing more sustainable processes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Azadeh Kermanshahi-pour

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Solid State Pharma Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Create digital twins of local sites of interest and other locations

FluidPlanet.org is a non-profit organization that builds and runs gaming-based interactive digital twins (virtual versions of real places) with other non-profit organizations (e.g., universities, communities, etc.) to support the understanding and study of public environments. In this project, FluidPlanet.org will work with the University of Lethbridge and the University of Calgary to develop digital twins of parks in Alberta and other areas to create accessible educational experiences for learning about the parks and their history in an engaging and entertaining way, as well as to facilitate environmental research. Five university interns will participate in this project, each with special expertise, namely game development, cloud deployment, subject matter research, game design and testing. The interns will work collaboratively with each other as well as with faculty and industry veterans from relevant technology backgrounds and gain experience with the latest technologies from various fields. This gives students valuable exposure to both the tools and people who work on these types of problems commercially. Another expected benefit of this project will be to establish a repeatable process that can be shared across universities as a potential best practice. For example, once this project is successfully completed, it will be a model to follow for similar projects at other universities that focus on the regions and sites of interest around them.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Benedikt Hallgrimsson;Christopher Hopkinson;Christopher Hopkinson;Benedikt Hallgrimsson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FluidPlanet.org

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Education; Technology; Tourism

Université :

University of Calgary; University of Lethbridge

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

FundSustain Inc – Radia Rahman

This project will have the Marketing and Communications intern using their existing, and new skills to develop marketing content and campaigns, as well as communication connections between our partners. This internship will be vital to getting our name into the Charitable market, and provide valuable insight into our growth strategy for 2022.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Martin Halek

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FundSustain Inc

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Enhancing community engagement in marine ecosystem health assessments through environmental DNA

The oceans today are under a variety of stressors including warming, acidification, eutrophication, and deoxygenation. Due to their increasing impacts on marine environments, there is a huge push for new monitoring and environmental assessment techniques to understand and mitigate change. Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to the tiny pieces of DNA shed by all living things that remain in the surrounding environment. Using specially designed molecular tests, eDNA can be detected and provide important information regarding the health of marine ecosystems. The proposed research aims to enhance community-based monitoring by applying eDNA tests to four distinct marine scenarios that each reveal a different way that eDNA can provide valuable ecosystem information. This partnership provides a novel outreach opportunity to share eDNA monitoring techniques with community members and youth so they can learn about these amazing molecular tools that can inform us on the health of the oceans.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Caren Helbing

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SOI Foundation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Environmental Science and Technology; Ocean Tech; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

University of Victoria

Programme :

Accelerate

Retaining observational information when transmitting markerless motion capture data

Recent advances in 3D camera technology and associated software is enabling clinical assessments of function to be undertaken in real world clinical settings, rather than in specialized bio-mechanics laboratories. Working in collaboration with Kinetisense Inc, an SME from Medicine Hat Alberta, a patented markerless motion capture technology has been developed to support a wide
range of rehabilitation assessments for patients in rural and remote settings. PROMote is a platform developed at University of Alberta to support more complex clinic-to-clinic assessments incorporating virtual health technologies. Privacy restrictions prohibit storage of identifiable video images of patients in centralized electronic medical records. Although technologies such as facial
blurring are feasible they are not currently acceptable. Another challenge when transferring video images is limited bandwidth, clinician time for file transfers and large file storage requirements. Instead the Kinetisense software generates a spreadsheet of marker locations at 30 frames a second in csv format. Therefore no patient identifiable data is retained. This project will take
typical datasets, remove artifacts through filtering, and reconstruct the movements in the form of a realistic avatar of the patient. A large library of data is already available and consented by patients for analysis.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Martin Ferguson-Pell

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

PSG College of Technology

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology; New and Digital Media

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Étude de faisabilité d’un protocole de supplémentation avec les probiotiques Bio-K+ chez des enfants autistes

Des modifications du contenu en bactéries intestinales (flore intestinale) pourraient contribuer à la sévérité des symptômes des troubles du spectre de l’autisme. Le déséquilibre entre ‘bonnes’ et ‘mauvaises’ bactéries pourrait influencer les symptômes gastrointestinaux et le fonctionnement du cerveau. La prise de probiotiques est une façon pouvant permettre de modifier la flore intestinale. Nous voulons tester les effets des probiotiques Bio-K+ sur les symptômes des enfants autistes. Pour se faire, nous devons d’abord procéder à une étude de faisabilité pour évaluer la capacité des enfants autistes : i) de prendre de manière quotidienne des probiotiques Bio-K+ et ii) de compléter tous les tests que nous avons prévu au protocole. Nous allons recruter 30 enfants avec un autisme léger à modéré qui recevront les probiotique pendant 3 mois. Dix enfants ne présentant pas de troubles du spectre de l’autisme et ne prenant pas de probiotiques seront les contrôles de l’étude. Cette étude nous permettra d’évaluer la faisabilité de notre protocole auprès d’enfants autistes et nous aidera à planifier une étude clinique pour évaluer les impacts de la supplémentation sur les symptômes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Valérie Marcil;Eric Deziel

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bio-K Plus International Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Credit Scores Based on Deposit Account Data

The business partner is interested in finding ways to further automate small business lending and annual renewals. In recent years, with the improvement in efficient computing and data storage and movement, the use of deposit data in lending has become more prevalent in the industry. Within industry risk managers, it is widely accepted that deposit account information has a strong predictive ability for predicting borrower risk level. However, there are no widespread industry tools similar to credit scores making use of deposit data. This project aims to employ machines techniques to develop credit scores based on deposit lending data.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Valentina Galvani

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ATB Financial

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of Slow Release Carbon Control Technology (CCT) Fertilizer Using Waste Biomass

The goal of the project is to develop a slow-release fertilizer in a chemical reaction wherein salts are impregnated into the pores of a feedstock material; either biomass or biochar. This will not only allow for prolonged nutrient retention and absorption by plants in the soil, but it will also act to sequester carbon in the soil, thus reducing global greenhouse gases. Additionally, the stability and porosity of the material will help to retain water in the soil helping to mitigate water depletion and desertification. The benefits to the partner company include proving the technique by which the feedstock is impregnated works chemically, and can be scaled to a commercial level at which point, the technology will be distributed worldwide.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Franco Berruti

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Sulvaris Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Agriculture; Manufacturing

Université :

The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

Examining the effects of psilocybin on sensory perception in active micro-dosers

Psilocybin is a promising pharmaceutical compound that is currently undergoing development for therapeutical use in Canada. Many people who take psilocybin report heightened sensation, improved perception, and better focus after taking a micro-dose (e.g., 10-20% of the full clinical dose). Atlhough micro-dosing has gain popularity in neuro-hacking circles and in some popular literature, very few studies quantified the effects of microdosing on sensory perception. The goal of this study is to explore if people who actively engage in micro-dosing perfrom differently on multisensory and time-related perceptual tasks after taking a microdose. The goal of this research is to understand the dosing protocols in current users and the if the qualitative effects of micro-dosing can be
captured. This research will provide LTG with critical data for their psilocybin supplement development and provide the intern with a rich experience in applied psychological research.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gerome Manson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

LongTermGevity Inc.

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Queen's University

Programme :

Accelerate

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