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Baseline inventory of key biophysical and geomorphological features along the Lulu Island foreshore and the potential effects of sea level rise on marsh vegetation communities and restoration efforts

This research focuses on creating and implementing a sampling methodology to collect information on vegetation communities and soils along the Lulu Island foreshore in Steveston, BC. This information will be used to examine how the plant communities of natural marsh areas in this area change based on certain environmental parameters (e.g. elevation, salinity, tidal inundation) and how foreshore marsh areas may be impacted by sea level rise. Researchers and organizations may replicate these methods to monitor changes in the Lulu Island marsh vegetation community over time or project managers and agencies may wish to replicate these methods at restoration and compensation sites to adaptively manage their projects. Baseline data collected may also help to inform organizations conducting restoration in this area (e.g. Raincoast) and may help to guide future restoration efforts.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kim Ives

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

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

Université :

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Programme :

Accelerate

Intelligent Analysis of Regulatory Documents using Deep Neural Networks

The Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) documents should be deconstructed by experts to create action items to track compliance performance, audits, or for compliance certification. Modifications in the regulations, changes in the site conditions, mergers and acquisitions occur frequently and should be processed by experts. The manual processing of the text documents to extract different components of a regulatory content including tables, cover pages, etc requires a lot of effort, and is time consuming and error prone. The automation of this process helps reducing these drawbacks. The automatic extraction of these components is challenging due to non-standardized text structure and heterogeneous documents. This research project will provide solutions for automatic extraction of different components from EHS documents using machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The results of this project are new algorithms and automation tools and will benefit the ehsAI and Canadian companies in the EHS fields directly. The developed techniques are expected to be applied in other areas such as Software companies.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Luc Lamontagne

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ehsAI

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Infra-Climate Hybrid Bridge Design System

Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs) are unique structures in the sense that they are rigid compared to typical bridges that have bearing connections. Bridges are designed to withstand forces sourcing from its own weight and ongoing traffic as well as temperature forces. As the temperature varies (cyclic in nature), the bridge experiences contraction and expansion forces that result in varying internal stresses within the structure that causes the bridge to wear. As the effects of global warming include an increase in the earth’s temperature, the extent that the bridge moves increases, thus increasing the pressure in the bridge. To visualize how much these bridges are affected, a software simulation is used to help predict their behavior. The developed system is of great importance to all departments of transportation in Canada and worldwide and to practicing engineers who are actively involved in the design and management of IABs.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hany El Naggar

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Construction; Advanced Manufacturing

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Technologisation de l’entraînement de boxe et contrôle de l’anxiété: mise en relation des marqueurs biologiques et psychologiques avec l’anxiété et la charge d’entraînement

La boxe est un sport très exigeant sur les plans physique et psychologique de sorte que le boxeur doit posséder des traits de personnalité bien spécifique afin d’accéder au niveau supérieur. Bien que le caractère soit une dimension importante, le combattant aura plusieurs obstacles à confronter lors de sa carrière modifiant ainsi ces réactions à l’approche des combats. L’un des états importants pouvant nuire à la performance est celui de l’anxiété. En effet, une anxiété mal contrôlée peut nuire considérablement à la performance et à la santé de l’athlète. L’objectif de cette étude est de démontrer que l’intégration de nouvelles technologies, de points de contrôle physiologiques lors des camps d’entraînement et d’un entraînement polarisé améliora le contrôle de l’anxiété et la gestion de stress en situation de combats afin d’éviter une diminution des performances.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

François Trudeau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Club de Boxe Performance

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Université :

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Programme :

Accelerate

Sustainable Shipping – A roadmap to zero emission ambitions

Tackling climate change is a complex task, one that depends on transformation of different sectors. Maritime shipping is the transmission belt of the global economy and continues to account for the majority of imports and exports. It is recognized as an energy-efficient mode of transportation compared to road and air transport. Yet, maritime transport has increased by 250% over the past 40 years, resulting in the sector contributing to 3% of total annual man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions are expected to increase by 150%–250% by 2050 in business-as-usual scenarios, causing serious human health and environmental harm. More stringent global regulations have recently been introduced to mitigate emissions from ships. Maritime shipping is now expected to adopt innovative solutions to lower its impact on climate change. One alternative is to change fuels (i.e., a shift from the existing use of fossil fuels to clean fuels). Fuel choice is, however, uncertain, raising the critical question of which fuel is the preferable future marine transportation fuel. My research concerns improving knowledge and tools for effective corporate sustainability through collaborative decision-making.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David Gillen;Jane Lister

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Teekay

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Transportation and warehousing

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Capturing expert model in crisis managementusing SYnRGY

SYnRGY is a computational tool designed to support command and control operations in the context
of crisis management. Although SYnRGY has been designed from a user-centered perspective, some
degree of training is required to bring novice users up to a level of competence required to use the
system. The objective of the current proposal is to capture the expert model of crisis management and
design a prototype intelligent tutoring system based on that model. The objective will be achieved in
three phases. The purpose of the first phase is to develop a realistic crisis management scenario. The
second phase will involve human in-the-Ioop simulation with experts. The objective of this phase is to
capture experts’ knowledge in a formal model. Finally, the third phase is devoted to integrating the
expert’s model in a prototype intelligent tutoring system. Thales is confident that this project will
contribute to improve efficiency of training for crisis management in general and for SYnRGY
specifically.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sebastien Tremblay

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Thales Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

A Sustainability Evaluation of Post-harvest Fisheries Opportunities for First Nations in Nova Scotia

Many First Nation communities are now exploring and developing post-harvest livelihood activities related to the purchase, transformation, and sale of catch from band harvesters. This research will assess post-harvest businesses currently operating within NS Mi’kmaq communities, and new livelihood opportunities currently being considered by Mi’kmaq Band Councils and entrepreneurs. This assessment will focus on the overall sustainability of the fishery operations, including social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors, among others. The aim of this work is to determine what post-harvest activities are currently being explored and help in weighing the potential positive and negative implications on the economy, environment, culture, and other aspects of NS Mi’kmaq communities. This work is significant as it will assist NS Mi’kmaq communities in further developing post-harvest livelihood activities to support new business developments and sustainable livelihoods.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jerry Bannister

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

NEXUS Coastal Resource Management Ltd.

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Indigenous Affairs; Aquaculture and Fishing; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Examining the effectiveness of a feminist framed transformational leadership development program for young female coaches in university/college athletics

The project aims to examine the effectiveness of a leadership development program to increase competence and confidence of Female Apprentice Coaches to lead in sport in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association. Th leadership development program looks to increase knowledge and practice of effective leadership skills while addressing common barriers women face in sport and sport leadership. The process also engages key sport leaders in the FAC environment including respective mentor coaches and athletic directors. The program has the capacity to be a successful tool to help the CCAA recruit and retain female head coaches in its national championship sports. The research also has the potential to drive organizational change in university sport programs to support effective leadership development for FACs and current female student-athletes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jennifer Walinga

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Université :

Royal Roads University

Programme :

Accelerate

Designing Asymmetric structures to Generate Oblique Surf Waves in Rivers

Recreational river waves are gaining more and more popularity, but there is not enough academic research to support them and a few companies around the globe can artificially create them by adjustable structures in rivers. Surf Anywhere, the Calgary-based partner organization in this research, is one of those few companies which has completed and is working on many wave projects in Canada, USA and Europe. Our team investigated, and tried to provide a technical instruction for design of adjustable wave structure that can generate wave in every river condition and on a horizontal bed (unlike common technologies, this does not need a drop!). In previous season of this research, a symmetric structure was investigated (through computer simulations) to generate perpendicular waves. In this season, the asymmetric arrangement of the structure would be investigated (through physical modeling in a hydraulic laboratory) to create oblique complex waves resembling more to attractive ocean waves. The ultimate purpose of this research is to facilitate design of ideal structures that could provide most attractive and safe waves with minimum cost.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Colin Rennie

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Surf Anywhere

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Ottawa

Programme :

Accelerate

Reconfigurable Legged Robot for Structural Inspection with Confined Spaces

This project is motivated by the demands for automation of industrial structure inspection. An autonomous re-configurable robot system is proposed to facilitate the inspection of structures with confined spaces, like airframes or ship hulls. The robot will be able to realize various types of legged locomotion by means of configuration changes. The general objective of this project is to develop a legged robot system that is fully autonomous and adaptable to the structures under operation. We believe that the proposed system will have significant potentials for commercial applications as a lot of industries are calling for an autonomous robotic inspection. Therefore, the partner organizations are driving new technology in Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ting Zou

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Aerospace

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Accelerate

Beyond processing waste of sea cucumber: cosmeceutical potential of North Atlantic sea cucumber (Cucumaria frondosa)

Orange-footed sea cucumber (Cucumaria frondosa) is the most common sea cucumber found in the North Atlantic Ocean. This species is mainly fished for its edible body wall and other remaining body parts are discarded as processing waste. However, all the body parts are rich in protein and production of protein hydrolysates is identified as an efficient method to upgrade the by-products. The protein hydrolysates and peptides so produced exhibit excellent functional and biological properties. These properties show great potential for utilizing as functional ingredients in the cosmetic industry. The cosmetic industry’s current interest is moving towards natural cosmetics with added health benefits, particularly, it has become the emerging trend in skincare products. Therefore, proper incorporation of sea cucumber biologically active molecules into cosmetic products will enhance the full utilization of Atlantic sea cucumber while promoting skin health.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Deepika Dave

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Aquaculture and Fishing; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Accelerate

Investigating the Role of Novel Fatty Acid-Binding Protein (FABP) Inhibitors as Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders and chronic stress represent major healthcare and economic burdens worldwide. Approximately 75% of Canadians who use health services for a mental illness present with anxiety disorders which may affect up to 10% of the population in terms of lifetime occurrence. Despite the large prevalence of anxiety-related disorders in Canada, there are currently a limited range of effective pharmacotherapeutic interventions. In addition, all currently effective anti-anxiety medications are linked to serious side-effects, including drug dependence and withdrawal, cognitive impairments and metabolic symptoms. Our project is characterizing novel pharmacological compounds that inhibit a protein called FAB-P. This can modulate the brain’s own naturally occurring cannabinoid system. This compound displays strong potential as an effective anti-anxiety medication with fewer side-effects than traditional anxiolytic drugs. Remarkably, these compounds can bypass cannabinoid receptors in the brain and produce anti-anxiety effects without the unwanted side-effects associated with other cannabis drugs and formulations.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Steven Laviolette;Walter Rushlow

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Artelo Biosciences

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of Western Ontario

Programme :

Accelerate

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