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Capture de microfibres provenant des lave-linges à l’aide de filtres à charpies individuels

L’objectif du projet est de caractériser le potentiel des filtres à lave-linge pour la capture des microplastiques issus des lavages de vêtements. Un projet de science citoyenne sera réalisé en collaboration avec l’organisme GRAME. 30 filtres à lave-linge seront installés chez 30 volontaires résidents dans la région du Grand-Montréal. Les participants récolteront le contenu de leur filtre pour une durée de six mois et ils noteront des informations sur leur lessive. À chaque vidange de filtre, les participants récupéreront la charpie accumulée dans le filtre. Les propriétés des charpies et leur contenu en microplastiques seront caractérisés. Les rejets de microplastiques potentiellement évités par l’emploi de filtres seront estimés à l’échelle d’une ville. Les résultats du projet permettront d’orienter les nouvelles réglementations pour lutter contre la pollution plastique, notamment par l’emploi de filtres à lave-linge chez les citoyens.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Dominique Claveau-Mallet;Abdellah Ajji

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Groupe de recommandations et d’actions pour un meilleur environnement

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Polytechnique Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of a conceptual design for a recoil separator to study radiative neutron capture reaction using a low energy ion storage ring

TRIUMF has begun the TRISR project constructing a experimental facility which is called low energy ion storage ring. The storage ring will provide unique possibilities for investigations of nuclear reactions when it is connected to a radioactive ion beam facility ISAC-I of TRIUMF. A neutron generator will be added to the facility to provide a sufficient amount of neutrons to allow a direct measurement of neutron induced reactions which play key role to investigate how heavy elements occurred after the Big Bang. Once neutron capture reaction happens, the products (reacted nuclei) and the unreacted nuclei should be separated to detect the photons emitted from the products. In order to separate them, a recoil separator using the difference of velocities should be installed in the storage ring. In this project, a recoil separator will be designed in conceptual by conducting ion beam optics calculation and Monte-Carlo particle transport simulation.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Barry Davids

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Hanyang University

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Technology; Manufacturing and Construction; Other

Université :

TRIUMF

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Are playgrounds really for everyone? Disabled children’s experiences at playgrounds designed for inclusion

negative attitudes toward disability. To address the exclusion that disabled children and their families often experience on playgrounds, inclusive playground initiatives have become increasingly common, promising accessibility, fun, and belonging for kids and families. Despite the advancement in inclusive playground design, there is recent research evidence to suggest that disabled children and their families continue to face mistreatment and exclusion at playgrounds. A deeper understanding of what makes an inclusive playground ‘inclusive’ (or not) from disabled children’s perspectives is necessary to (re)create and optimize these experiences for children across Alberta and Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shanon Phelan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Edmonton Sport Council

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

Negotiating Resource Production, Conservation and Recreation Values in Canadian Wild Food Forest Habitats

Commercial sourcing of wild foods, such as chanterelle mushrooms or wild blueberries, often requires accessing forests with competing uses. They might also be timberlands for conventional forestry, or parks for recreation or conservation. The conflicts that result illustrate how nature and natural resources are valued in different ways in different worlds: by forest managers or forest users and by wild food consumers, concerned about conservation, or wild food harvesters, concerned about production. Focusing on a case study of resource conflict in a group of forests important to the wild mushroom trade, this project uses interviews and participant-observation to document how the people involved negotiate their diverse understandings of forest values (or fail to). It then contextualizes this example in an analysis of similar conflcts elsewhere in North America. The final result is a set of guidelines for negotating divergent forest interests, of use in enhancing the social, environmental and economic value of wild products in particular and of forests and forest products in general.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shiho Satsuka

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Forbes Wild Foods

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Biosurfactants production by fermentation

The proposed project is a collaboration between InnuScience and researchers in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Western University. InnuScience uses biotechnology to replace harmful chemicals, eliminate waste, and deliver sustainable cleaning solutions for the cleaning industry. This research collaboration will experimentally optimize the production of biosurfactants by microorganisms via fermentation pathways, focusing on cleaning applications. These molecules are naturally occurring and consist of a polar group and a non-polar tail, hence acting as biosurfactants. They might be a green replacement for petrochemicals as they can be produced from renewable resources, are easily biodegradable, and exhibit low eco-toxicity. This project aims to identify promising combinations of fermentation conditions, purification methods, and product stabilization for applications relevant to InnuScience, a leader in the field of biotechnology for the cleaning industry.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Dominic Pjontek;Lars Rehmann

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

InnuScience

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

Psilocybin as a potential treatment for social behavior (SB) disorders

Impaired empathy and social skills lead to severe social consequences and influence the development and treatment of several psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, empathy has been shown to play a crucial role in moral and prosocial behavior. Recently, a revamped interest for psychedelic compounds has invested the medical research community. For instance, psilocybin is a psychedelic compound which has been demonstrated to safely relieve depression in treatment-resistant depressive patients when used in a controlled setting. Intriguingly, a recent clinical study revealed that psilocybin significantly increased emotional empathy compared with placebo. Preliminary results from our laboratory showed that repeated administration of a non-hallucinogenic dose of lysergic acid diethylamide, a psychedelic compound sharing a similar mechanism of action with psilocybin, increases social behavior in mice. Therefore, we hypothesize that psilocybin can produce a similar prosocial effect via a serotonin mechanism and that it can be used to treat behavioral deficits in genetic mutant mice models of autism.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gabriella Gobbi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Diamond Therapeutics Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Changes in soil nitrogen dynamics and crop growth by biochar and nitrification inhibitor as investigated by carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios

Cropland soils are important sources of nitrous oxide (N2O), which is one of greenhouse gases. In soils, N2O is produced through nitrification and denitrification processes. Therefore, it may be possible to reduce N2O production by using biochar and nitrification inhibitors (NI). Biochar is known to decrease N2O production through biological and physico-chemical interaction with soil N processes, and NI can directly reduce nitrification-induced N2O production. However, it is still unknown how applications of biochar and NI affect the entire soil N dynamics as well as plant growth. In this project, I will analyze stable N isotope ratios (?15N) of soil ammonium and nitrate to investigate the effects of biochar and NI on soil N process and loss. In addition, the stable C isotope ratios (?13C) of plant samples will also be analyzed to examine the effects of biochar and NI on photosynthesis. I expect that the ?15N of mineral N in soils will decrease by application of biochar and NI due to reduced N loss as soil N loss increases ?15N of N through preferential loss of 14N.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Scott Chang

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Chonnam National University

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture and Food; Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Certified Defense Framework against Patch Attacks on Images

Adversarial perturbation of all the image pixels is computationally intensive and may not be realized in practice. In contrast, an adversarial patch attack where an adversary can choose to perturb a specific subset of pixels in an image, is more practical in fooling a trained image classifier or hiding a person from an object-detection model.
In this project, we study and explore state-of-the-art adversarial patch attacks and their defences. An adversarial patch can easily fool the trained object detector to mark an image as having no object of interest, potentially leading to serious security gaps. Therefore, it is necessary to first identify and highlight images with the possible existence of adversarial patches for human verification

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Apurva Narayan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

TrojAI

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan; The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

Experimental investigation of patterning ananostructured bioadsorbable stent byfemtosecond laser ablation

The proposed project complements the current work of the partner organization with polymeric materials. The evaluation of ultrashort laser interaction with solid matter of surface textured metal-like materials would help the partner organization obtain detailed process knowledge; a distinct advantage for broadening its service offering to address a different market segment.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Rosaire Mongrain

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Plexis Precision

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Advanced Manufacturing

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Machine Learning-Aided Environmental Monitoring Solution to Identify Indoor Fungal Outbreaks

This study aims to propose a way to indirectly measure indoor fungi, which are known to be the causes of environmental diseases obtained in indoor life. For this purpose, MOFs-based multi-modal sensors for mVOCs will be developed, and machine learning algorithms to distinguish between general chemicals and mVOCs will be established. The detailed research plan is to develop MOFs-based multi-modal sensors capable of real-time measurement of mVOCs, and obtain fungal gas analysis data and indoor VOCs data. The collaborative study includes the sensor fabrication for VOCs measurement; and manufacturing technology for MOFs materials; and data integration by AI. The machine learning-aided environmental monitoring developed in this study will enable us to recognize indoor fungal outbreaks and provide a solution to protect our homes from fungal diseases.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Seonghwan Kim

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Environmental Science and Technology; Nanotechnology; Artificial Intelligence

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Development of a High-Fidelity Motion Cueing Algorithm for TMotion

High-level control strategies, commonly referred to as Motion Cueing Algorithms (MCA), are used to create realistic perception of unrestricted 6 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) motion with a motion platform that has fewer DoF and a limited workspace. For instance, such an algorithm would tilt the platform towards back to emulate forward acceleration on a platform that does not support Surge (forward/backward) motion. These algorithms are generally developed as a part of the simulation project, increasing the complexity of the simulator and its development time and cost. In the competitive market of vehicle simulation, delivering better simulation realism at a lower cost is a key to every simulator’s success. Touché Technologies is seeking to embed a novel MCA within its TMotion platform and provide a turnkey solution that can be easily adapted by various simulators without any extra effort. This project aims to develop an advanced MCA with a series of innovative solutions that improve the fidelity of motion simulation and the user experience.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amir G. Aghdam

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Touché Technologies

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Accelerate

Analytical Characterization of JZP-341 (Higher Order Structure)

York University and Jazz Pharmaceuticals are undertaking a project to accelerate development of their Leukemia drug candidate. The project will take advantage of unique technologies developed at York by Drs. Wilson and Krylov, Millisecond Hydrogen Deuterium eXchange (msHDX) mass spectrometry and Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis (KCE), to provide a high-detail picture of Jazz Pharmaceutical’s candidate, including its unique structural and functional properties. Ultimately these data will contribute to our fundamental understanding of a set of enzymes called asparaginase in blood cancers and will provide critical support for regulatory filings leading to candidate advancement to the clinic.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Derek Wilson;Sergey Krylov

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

York University

Programme :

Accelerate

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