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Use of the Halifax Consciousness Scanner in the diagnosis andmanagement of mild traumatic brain injury / concussion

This project will evaluate whether an innovative approach to looking at consciousness allows
for the diagnosis and management of concussion. The device, cali-ed the Halifax
Consciousness Scanner (HCS), reads the brain waves of a person while listening to a special
sound recording, and uses this information to determine a score for their level of
consciousness. Athletes from both amateur and professional sports teams will be tested
before the season, after the season, and also during the season if they suffer a concussion.
Concussed athletes will be tested periodically to see how fast their HiS score recovers. The
sponsor, Mindful Scientific, will use this information to inform new products in the area of
concussion management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan D'Arcy

Student:

Partner:

Mindful Scientific Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Using Food Bank Client Data to Better Understand the Impacts of COVID-19 in Saskatoon

The SFBLC has been collecting detailed information on their clients and their socio-demographic and economics characteristics for more than five years. However, apart from collating overall summary numbers on things like user counts, which they report annually to Food Banks Canada, they largely lack the internal capacity to do a detailed analysis of this data and explore ways that it can inform their operations and planning. They have even fewer resources that they can allocate for exploring ways that the organization’s data can be used to inform questions of wider concern to the community or to social research in Canada generally. This lack of capacity has become particularly acute in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The primary value of the internship will be to begin to fill these gaps. It will also lay a foundation for future collaborative work between the SFBLC and the academic research community. Additionally, the knowledge produced from this work, can be used to inform wider-policy in Canada. This project will also provide an adaptable framework and methodology for which organizations and researchers across the country may use for in their own social support efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachel Engler-Stringer;Charles Plante

Student:

Partner:

Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Model for assessment of risks of going missing in persons living with dementia during and post COVID-19 pandemic

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the number of global deaths and disabilities related to mental health conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, has risen in recent years. This applies to Canada in the same way, causing premature deaths and disabilities. The general objective of this project is to define, validate and apply a quantitative model that can capture data and generate numerical indicators of risks of going missing, injury and death for people living with dementia, based on the multiple factors identified in the conceptual model proposed by Neubauer and Liu (2020). In this project we will use a transdisciplinary approach of applied research, we will apply exploratory research with an observational design, that includes a critical literature review and a correlational and predictive study with Factor Analysis and Multilevel and Multivariate Linear Regression models. This will help us to understand and determinate the relation between factors and outcomes, and ultimately that will help to assess the risk of a person for going missing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lili Liu;Antonio Miguel Cruz

Student:

Partner:

Clinisys EMR Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

COVID-19 related Research and Solutions; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Informing Socially Conscious GSNAs : A Collaboration with Bumble

Geo-social networking applications (GSNAs) are quickly and radically impacting our cultural landscape in terms of gender identities, sexual practices, use of public space, commerce, and quality of life. GSNAs, like Bumble, use cell phones and satellites to create computer-mediated communication whereby users exchange a series of electronic messages and participate in different relational activities via cyberspace, often leading to in-person meet-ups for dates, sexual hookups, etc. Despite their immense popularity, scant research has explored the impact of GSNAs on individual and cultural influence. This project uses a cyberqueer theoretical framework and employs appnographic methodology to conduct qualitative interviews and focus groups in order to assess how GSNAs impact gender and sexual identities, ideologies, and sexual social practices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Corey W. Johnson;Diana C. Parry

Student:

Partner:

Bumble Canada Enterprises Ltd

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Active deep learning for coding medical notes with applications to infectious diseases

We are building a machine learning system to help clinical experts accurately label medical notes with diagnosis codes. This will make it faster and cheaper to train machine learning models to identify important codes, including those related to infectious diseases and COVID, in large amounts of medical notes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Evangelos Milios;Fernando Paulovich

Student:

Partner:

Semantic Health Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Supporting the mental health of Canadians in times of pandemic: Exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on wellbeing and validating context-appropriate e-mental health interventions

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions in multiple spheres of life and increased psychological distress, depression, and anxiety in many Canadians. With practices of social distancing implemented by the governments combined with an increased demand for psychological support, mental health agencies are forced to be creative and develop e-mental health interventions and tools. The current project has two primary aims: 1) to better understand the longitudinal impacts of the COVID-19 on Canadians’ mental health to identify what helps (or hinders) coping with the current situation; and to 2) guide the development of e-mental health tools adapted to the needs of the population. Seven interns from three universities will contribute to the research activities in partnership with Revivre, an organization offering support to people struggling with anxiety, depression, and bipolarity symptoms. This partnership will provide Revivre with evidence about the needs of Canadians and ways to support them through validated online interventions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Coulombe;Sylvain Luc;Janie Houle;Charles Fleury;Simon Coulombe

Student:

Partner:

Revivre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal; Université Laval; Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancement of methane oxidation in bio-based landfill covers by increasing aeration

Organic waste disposal in landfills can produce a massive amount of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Once the landfill is filled, it is usually capped by a clay cover or geomembrane that can trap methane but not reduce it. Changing a part of the conventional cover by compost to make a biocover provides appropriate conditions for methane consumption by methane-oxidizing bacteria. In the landfill environment, oxygen can diffuse into the biocover from the atmosphere and be used by bacteria; however, it cannot penetrate the compost deeply. Therefore, oxygen supply to deeper layers can increase the efficiency of the biocover in methane removal. This project will enhance the aeration of biocovers by (1) increasing the porosity of the compost and (2) air injection from the bottom of the biocover. This will be done through laboratory experiments with columns filled by composts collected from a biocover.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiuyan Yuan

Student:

Partner:

KGS Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Participatory Cities Every One, Every Day: Toronto

This proposal details an approach for evaluating a planned project led by SII called Participatory Cities: a new inclusive, system-based approach to stimulating and supporting dense networks of practical ‘participation culture’ in cities around the world. With proof of concept developed and tested in London, UK, by the Participatory City Foundation, the model will now be implemented in Montreal and Halifax, as well as the two Toronto communities at the centre of this proposal: Alexandra Park and Regent Park. Developmental evaluation of the kind proposed, shaped and iteratively applied through processes of co-production, is an ideal mechanism for fostering the learning needed to build connected and productive neighbourhoods in which people find novel ways to come together, share and support one another in this moment shaped by the coronavirus crisis to ultimately co-create their vision and action plan for a resilient future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Robinson

Student:

Partner:

Social Innovation Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Other; COVID-19 related Research and Solutions

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

LOGISTICAM – Solution technologique pour répondre aux impératifs de distanciation physique qu’imposent la Covid-19 aux entreprises canadiennes

Dans le cadre de ce projet, les stagiaires Mitacs collaboreront avec une équipe de recherche du cégep André-Laurendeau et une entreprise québécoise pour développer un instrument de mesure de la distance entre les personnes. Cet instrument contribuera à une reprise économique dans le respect des normes de santé publique liées à la prévention de la propagation de la COVID-19. En identifiant les zones et les périodes où la distanciation physique est plus difficile à respecter, nous serons en mesure de proposer des solutions d’optimisation d’utilisation des espaces et des déplacements conformes aux impératifs de distanciation, que ce soit lors de déplacements communs, dans les gares, les aéroports, les autobus, le métro, ou dans les services de garde, les écoles, les salles communes et les salles d’attente, ou encore dans les espaces de travail sur les chantiers de construction et les usines, etc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Beaulieu

Student:

Partner:

Connect&Go;Institut d’Innovation en Logistique du Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Cégep André-Laurendeau

Program:

Accelerate

Impacts de la crise de la COVID-19 sur le secteur des arts et de la culture et la transformation des organisations culturelles

Le secteur des arts et de la culture est l’un plus touchés économiquement par crise de la COVID-19. Cette crise impose aux organisations culturelles de profondes transformations tant sur le plan de leur modèle d’affaires que de leur gestion. La reprise de leurs activités exigera aussi des adaptations importantes. Ce projet de recherche vise donc à mettre en oeuvre une grande enquête auprès du secteur des arts et de la culture afin de documenter et analyser 1) l’impact économique de la crise sur le secteur des arts et de la culture; 2) les actions entreprises par les organisations et les acteurs du milieu culturel en réponse à la crise actuelle; 3) les réflexions du milieu quant aux moyens et aux capacités permettant de reprendre leurs activités sous une forme ou sous une autre, en respect des règles sanitaires

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Laurin

Student:

Partner:

Synapse C

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Bio-Stream COVID test

The detection of SARS-CoV-2, the causative of COVID-19, is challenging because the used techniques, such as nucleic amplification, cannot detect a whole virus. Instead, it amplifies nucleic acids that can be fragmented with no information about the presence of an infectious virus. We propose to use a technology based on the use of a physic characteristic of molecules called Raman spectroscopy, a non-destructive technique capable of identifying samples on a molecular level. The sample of interest is exposed to laser light, producing Raman waves. Results are processed very fast, and the signature of the virus can be detected in 30 sec. This system can be placed in hospitals and point-of-care places with a fast diagnosis, triaging the patients quickly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Horacio Bach

Student:

Partner:

Stream.ML

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Parcours d’apprentissage et bien-être à l’école en contexte COVID

Dans ce projet de recherche, l’organisme partenaire, la Fondation Jasmin Roy vise à dresser, avec le soutien de la chercheure principale et des stagiaires, un portrait du bien-être à l’école et des pratiques de soutien aux parcours d’apprentissage en contexte COVID. Le retour à l’école au printemps 2020 suivant les consignes sociosanitaires impose certaines limites aux interactions en classe. Alors que certaines pratiques impliquant notamment la proximité physique étaient utilisées par les enseignants pour établir la relation de confiance avec l’élève, le contexte actuel oblige de repenser les pratiques de soutien. Quel impact ce contexte a-t-il sur le bien-être à l’école? Quelles sont les pratiques de soutien aux apprentissage offertes par les enseignants, les parents et les intervenants communautaires? Quels sont les besoins des adolescents et les solutions à envisager pour combler ces besoins? Ce sont les questions qui motivent ce projet. Les réponses viendront de sondages effectués auprès des enseignants, des parents et des intervenants communautaires. Une enquête sera aussi menée auprès des élèves (secondaire) pour qu’ils partagent leurs besoins afin qu’on envisage des solutions en réponse à ces besoins.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Lessard

Student:

Partner:

Fondation Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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