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Levelling the Playing Fields: An Evaluation of Play Street and School Street Initiatives in Kingston, Ontario

Compared to previous generations, Canadian children today spend considerably less time playing freely outside and are much more likely to be driven to school on a daily basis. This trend can be explained by various issues, including parents’ concerns about strangers and traffic, and a lack of safe places for children to play and move around outdoors. This project will involve the implementation and evaluation of two types of initiatives, Play Streets and School Streets, from September 2021 to August 2022. These initiatives are intended to make it easier for children to play outside, and to walk or roll to school safely on their own. The intern will provide assistance to the groups who will be implementing these initiatives, the Kingston Coalition for Active Transportation, and to the researcher who will be evaluating these initiatives in Kingston. The findings from this research will offer valuable lessons to municipalities across the country that are testing out similar initiatives in their communities.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Patricia Collins

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Kingston Coalition for Active Transportation;Ontario Professional Planners Institute

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

Queen's University

Programme :

Accelerate

Deep learning models for compound design

Traditional drug development strategy is costly, tiresome, and labor-intensive. In the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have shown promising results to overcome some of these limitations. However, these computational technologies still cannot efficiently generate novel drugs with expected properties for treating specific diseases. Here we will apply new generation of AI frameworks to design novel compounds with predefined properties. We will collect and analyze the publicly available data from peer-reviewed publications and in-house data to build the AI models. This research will help both the company to address some of its pressing needs and improve the interns’ skills for their future career development.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Pingzhao Hu

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Servier

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Eco-efficiency Evaluation of Cybersecurity Solutions

Industries around the world have been leaning towards cleaner solutions to mitigate their environmental footprint. IT is one industry that has been rapidly growing during the recent past. Hence, it is important to enhance the environmental performance of IT solutions through a life cycle thinking lens. Eco-efficiency evaluation enables analyzing the environmental and economic performance of a product in focus and has been a popular ratio for comparing alternative products. This research performs eco-efficiency assessment for cybersecurity solutions. The operational and embodied carbon footprint of cybersecurity solutions will be estimated using ISO standards. Life cycle costing and carbon footprint will be used for calculating the eco-efficiency of a cybersecurity solution. The findings of this research support identifying environmentally acceptable and economically viable cybersecurity solutions.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Rajeev Ruparathna;Ikjot Saini

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Crypto4A Technologies

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Windsor

Programme :

Accelerate

Building the Durham Region Food System Report Card: Assessing the opportunities and gaps in attaining a sustainable and just regional food system

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. (100 – 150 words)
To address local food system issues like loss of farmland, people without enough food, or climate change impacts, it is important to see such issues as all related. This project will assess Durham Region food system resources, like local research and policy documents, to find strengths, areas to be addressed, and areas to be studied more. It will develop a more comprehensive picture of the local food system. This, along with the input of people who play various roles in the food system and people whose voices may not often be heard, will help in developing outlines for report cards to show the health of food system components in all of Durham’s municipalities. This project will help Durham’s residents better understand what is going well in the food system and what needs to change. The lead community organization partner will learn how to better help its community and how to advocate for change with other food system actors.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sara Edge

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

The Nourish and Develop Foundation

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Toronto Metropolitan University

Programme :

Accelerate

Exploring tourism strategies to drive economic development of Pinawa and build the necessary infrastructure

Travel Manitoba and media promoted the Pinawa Channel Float as a summer tourist destination in 2020 during COVID-19, resulting in more tourists visiting the area. One thousand tourists visited during the week, and up to two thousand during the weekends (Pinawa Proposal to Manitoba Infrastructure, 2020). This matched or doubled the resident population of this community of approximately one thousand and five hundred members. The amount of tourism created economic opportunities, which could not always be fully capitalized on, and limited parking combined with the popularity of the channel attraction created some logistical challenges. This research will support Pinawa’s planning goals by exploring and developing tourism strategies according to economic development goals and residents’ desires. Greater levels of tourism create new opportunities for strategic growth, new products and services for residents and will help to address Pinawa’s desire for more infrastructure which supports new opportunities for employment. Planning is needed to anticipate needs. The research work of Uriel Jelin will focus on meetings and interviews with key stakeholders, and Parinaz Shariat Zadeh will focus on green design for parking, traffic, and potentially other tourist infrastructure to develop a strategic tourist plan with Pinawa.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shirley Thompson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Pinawa Community Development Corporation

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Public administration

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of a microbiome relevant image-capture food analysis tool.

Phyla’s vision is to be the world’s first integrated solution for gut health through a digital health platform for those affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Phyla’s platform combines an at-home gut microbiome (intestinal bacteria) stool testing subscription and a mobile application for self-reported disease and lifestyle parameter tracking.
It is well known that nutrition and the microbiome have a large impact on disease activity and patient wellbeing in IBS and IBD. Through therapeutic approaches and nutrition changes, patients are able to reduce disease activity and improve their quality of life. Research continues to show that our diets do not only feed our own bodies but also our gut microbiome, the trillions of bacteria in our intestine. With the microbiome’s heavy implication in disease activity in IBD and IBS, it is therefore important to understand at a more granular level what exactly is being fed to the bacteria in our gut. Phyla aims to develop machine learning models that analyze a user’s microbiome and lifestyle data in order to provide personalized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations to help with disease management.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Phyla

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Loss Given Default Estimation Methods

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for loss allowances are changing, and financial institutions are proactively adapting existing methodologies and developing new ones to remain compliant. The main ingredient in the myriad of evaluations that banks are required to perform for compliance is risk assessment. The first goal of this research project is to review best practice risk models, with a special focus on modeling the evolution of changes in creditworthiness for industry sectors. In particular the project aims to estimate and forecast the probability a portfolio of loans’ changes in creditworthiness, and thus becomes more or less risky. State of the arts machine learning and time-series techniques are used to improve forecasting abilities of the existing models and allow for model validation using different forecasting samples.

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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

Investigating Agricultural Methods to Improve Crop Yield and Identify Cost Effective Practices Across Different Soil Types.

This research project will investigate cost effective methods for agricultural production. Specficially, soil will be classified as high expected yield and high yield variability, high expected yield and low yield variability, low expected yield and high yield variability, and low expected yield and low yield variability using appropriate statistical methods. Different seed and fertilization rates will be applied to each of four soil types. Harvest values will be used to determine the most effective seed and fertilization combination to maximize yield, while minimizing costs, within each soil type. The results of this project, including the methods used, are important as they could be used to help other Canadian farmers to improve the cost-effectiveness of their agricultural practices.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Daniel Gillis

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

James and Ryan Marshall

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Agriculture and Food

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Accelerate

Local Racism & Marginalization Study in the Cowichan Valley

While there are national and provincial data assessing issues involving marginalization, racism and discrimination, smaller regions require local data to develop strategies that benefit them directly. The current project aims to develop an anti-racism strategy for the Cowichan Valley region by assessing the attitudes towards marginalized groups, specifically ethnic and racial minorities, and the experiences of racism and discrimination. The project will provide the Cowichan Intercultural Society with a baseline understanding of these local challenges and enable them to conduct follow-up evaluations in the subsequent years. The project will also provide an evidence-base that will help guide community initiatives promoting an inclusive and welcoming community.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Victoria Esses

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Cowichan Intercultural Society

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

The effect of acute breathing interventions on physical, emotional and behavioural responses to a stressful situation.

Athletes who regularly use relaxation strategies have been are better able to interpret stress and anxiety symptoms as beneficial to performance. Intentional breathing is a relaxation strategy that applies positive and quick effects on the body physiological and perceived stress response, such as reducing heart rate and anxiety. The goal of this study is to explore the effect of intentional short breathing strategies in a known anxiety-inducing scenario to decrease symptoms of stress and anxiety under conditions of pressure and threat. Specifically, compared to a control condition, we are aiming to measure how the known physiological effects of intentional breathing strategies can help athletes compared to non-athletes control and regulate physical, psychological, and behavioural reactions to stressful conditions. The findings from this research will be used to curate proven acute breathing strategies for athlete and on-athletes to use in stressful situations. This work will position Canada’s leading universities and corporations at the cutting edge of our understanding of the human physiological and perceptual response to stress and provide effectie strategies to implement in stress-inducing situations.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mark Carpenter

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Lululemon

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Retail trade

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Philanthropy and Seniors: Exploring Current Practices, Key Challenges, and Paths Forward

Prominent Canadian philanthropic foundations are instituting significant reforms in grantmaking policy and practice in order to meet the needs of socially and economically marginalized communities. However, the sector has largely ignored the social and economic issues faced by one growing subset of the population: senior citizens. This absence of aging as a lens through which to understand philanthropic policy and practice is particularly concerning within a COVID-19 context that has highlighted an ongoing crisis in seniors’ programs and care. This exploratory research project seeks to address this gap at the intersection of philanthropy and aging by: (1) exploring the unique social and economic challenges and barriers faced by vulnerable seniors in Canada; (2) documenting the current state of philanthropic practice around seniors’ issues in Canada; and (3) developing a resource/guide for grantmaking foundations interested in incorporating seniors’ issues into their work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean-Marc Fontan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Fondation Mirella et Lino Saputo

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Public Service, Policy, and Governance

Université :

Université du Québec à Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Développement de méthodes de culture in vitro pour des plants de noisetier

Le projet de recherche permettra de d’améliorer les techniques de culture en laboratoire pour des plants de noisetiers adaptés au climat canadien. Ce type d’arbre à noix est déjà présent au Canada, mais il n’est pas adapté pour produire des noisettes correspondant aux demandes de l’industrie et des consommateurs. Les variétés européennes qui sont cultivées présentement pour la production de noisette ne tolèrent pas le climat canadien. Il est possible de croiser des variétés canadiennes avec des variétés européennes pour produire un hybride adapté au climat nordique du Canada. Cependant, les techniques actuelles pour multiplier ces nouvelles variétés ne sont pas efficaces. Le projet de recherche permettra à Phytoclone de développer de nouvelles méthodes de culture adaptées aux nouvelles variétés de noisetiers afin de permettre la production de noisettes au Québec et au Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hugo Germain

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Phytoclone Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Programme :

Accelerate

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