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Scale-up of Bioaugmentation Cultures and Development of Delivery Strategies and Monitoring Tools for Anaerobic Benzene and Alkylbenzene Bioremediation

The overall objective of this project is to scale up and demonstrate the utility of novel bioaugmentation cultures for BTEX compounds, and associated diagnostic tools to properly deploy the technology. The intern will lead the project team to develop gene-based biomarker tools applicable to the bioaugmentation cultures and apply these tools to samples submitted from bench scale treatability testing and real world field samples. Additional the intern will determine the applicable regulatory approvals required from Environment Canada New Substance notification program and collect and compile data required for a regulatory application.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Elizabeth Edwards

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SiREM

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Biotechnology; Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Designing a safe, non-intrusive game for children to potentially detect Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a universal problem. It produces lifelong ill effects. Children should be made aware of it and educated about protecting themselves. They need easy ways to recognize and express attempts of CSA. This project aims to design an educational game that
creates awareness in children about CSA. It will be conducted in Canada and India to study how cultural differences might influence the design. Children will not be directly involved in the research. Parents, guardians, and other interested adults in Canada and India will be surveyed
to gather requirements for the design of the game. They will also participate in the design through focus group sessions to be conducted in Toronto and Bangalore. It is hoped that the resulting game will be helpful in making children more savvy about CSA.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sambhavi Chandrashekar

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Jain University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

OCAD University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

The Symbiosis between State and Church in Text and Practice of Esoteric Buddhism in 8th Century China

The spread of Buddhism brought to encounter Indic and Sinitic cultural systems, the two of most disparate civilizations in the world. After hundreds of years of continuous contact and communication, a Buddhist sect that is most characteristically Indian and most alien to the Chinese flourished in China, which came to be known as Esoteric Buddhism or Buddhist tantra. More remarkably, it realized the closest cooperation
between the state and church that has ever seen throughout Chinese history. So far, scholarly efforts remain general and speculative to understand that phenomenon, and, although yielding some insights, the scholarship awaits verification and reassessment with historically empirical studies. In view that the primary sources have never been fully exploited and that it happened around a turning point of Chinese history, when momentous changes happened in almost every aspects of the society, the proposed project would be based on chronological examination of various primary sources and their interpretations in the specific historical context. The study extends from my doctoral research and would supplement it in discussion on related critical issues.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jinhua Chen

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Tsinghua University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Democracy in Authoritarianism: Public Participation in Biosafety, Biodiversity, and Climate Change politics in China

My dissertation looks into China’s three environmental policy domains, including climate change, biodiversity and biosafety (GMOs), to investigate how China’ environmental diplomacy, economic interest and political concerns of legitimacy and stability intersect to condition public
participation and its effectiveness in affecting policy decisions. It seeks to illuminate not only why authoritarian regime embraces deliberation and public participation, but also how much democracy an authoritarian China can take without having to resort to suppression. While trying
to map out the distribution and evolution of public opinion mobilization on the three environmental issues, my dissertation also aims to shed light on the agency of key political actors in shaping China’s environmental governance from civil society organizations, international NGOs, media (traditional and mass media), and even within the government.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yves Tiberghien

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Minzu University of China

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Large-Scale Purification of Antifungal Oxylipids via High-Speed Counter Current Chromatography (HSCCC) and Their Identification Using Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)

Phyto-pathogenic fungi are one of the main concerns threatening agriculture in Canada. Those phyto-pathogens not only affect the yield and the quality of agricultural products, but their metabolite, represented by mycotoxins, will also endanger food safety. In the pursuit of innovative environmental-friendly fungicides, oxylipid is of great research-importance because oxylipid with specific structures can act as an antifungal compound as well as a self-defense signaling molecule at the same time. Some monohydroxy fatty acid, have been proven to be very active in inhibiting foodborne pathogenic fungi in vivo and in vitro; however, their application in plants is limited by the low yield of purified products. Therefore, this project aims to explore a large-scale purification technology, i.e. high-speed counter current chromatography (HSCCC) to
purify the target antifungal oxylipid, and use liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) technology to identify those products. Large amount of purified antifungal compounds will be generated for further application in plant, and their potential usage as innovative environmentally friendly fungicide will be fully explored.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Gänzle

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Zhejiang University

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Exploring the Connections Between Traditional Chinese Martial Arts, Medicine, and Religion

Under the supervision of Dr. Jean DeBernardi my research explores the connections between traditional Chinese religion, martial arts, and medicine. I did my MA thesis on the modernization of traditional Chinese religion in Taiwan, have been practicing White Crane kung fu since 1999, and worked for the Natural Health Practitioner of Canada. I am examining the role that culture plays in creating different conceptualization of health. Particularly, I am looking at how cultural and religious concepts in Daoism and Buddhism shape perceptions and experiences of the body. For comparative purposes I am doing fieldwork at Frank Lee’s Muai Thai Kick Boxing and MMA in Edmonton and at Wudang Mountain in Hubei province, China. Wudang Mountain is world renowned as a center for Chinese martial arts and is the divine birthplace of Xuan Wu, a martial god in traditional Chinese religion.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean DeBernardi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Chinese National Academy of Arts

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Adaptation de la procédure SSFR aux exigences industrielles

Les alternateurs jouent un rôle très important dans la stabilité et la performance des réseaux électriques. Lors de la mise en service d’un alternateur, plusieurs essais doivent être effectués afin de valider la fiabilité du produit. Le transporteur d’énergie requiert que les paramètres électriques de l’alternateur soient mesurés. La procédure actuelle d’identification de paramètre consistant à provoquer des courts-circuits
brusques sur la machine comporte plusieurs désavantages. Le principal risque est d’endommager la machine. ALSTOM Énergies Renouvelables Canada Inc. souhaite proposer une procédure d’identification alternative aux producteurs d’énergie. Le potentiel la procédure SSFR (Standstill Frequency Response) a été démontré à maintes reprises. Par exemple, plusieurs essais ont été réalisés dans le cadre d’un partenariat entre Alstom Énergie Renouvelables et le laboratoire LEEPCI de l’université Laval [6], [9]. Le projet présenté a pour but l’adaptation d’une procédure SSFR, développée au LEEPCI, aux exigences du partenaire industriel. Pour ce faire, l’étudiant doit maîtriser cette procédure pour ensuite concevoir un système automatisé de mesures permettant aux techniciens d’Alstom d’effectuer des mesures SSFR.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jerome Cros

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

GE Renewable Energy

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Other services (except public administration); Utilities

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Family Ties in Monastic’s Lives: A Study of Contemporary Monasticism in Beijing

The project investigates the practices of contemporary Buddhist Monastics in relation to their interaction and communication with family members. The question to be investigated is: To what extent, if at all, do contemporary monastics maintain relationships with living family members? The research will focus, in particular, on ways that family is understood in this context and the influence, if any, that modern technology has on relationships between monastics and their families. The research will entail studying autobiographies of contemporary Chinese monastics as well as conducting in-depth interviews with five practicing Buddhist Monks residing in Beijing, China. Beyond simply illuminating the
ways that family works in religion, this project should help us to better understand the contemporary Chinese religions generally.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Susan Andrews

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Tsinghua University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Mount Allison University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Imagining the Human Interior: Religious and Medical Perspectives on the Body in Present-Day China

My research project will focus around the following question: what relationships exist between religious models of the human body—primarily Buddhist and Daoist—and medical practices and beliefs? To explore this topic I will study primary and secondary materials, participate in meetings with my host university supervisor, Chen Ming with the assistance of Dr. Susan Andrews from my home institution, and conduct on-site research in a traditional Chinese medical clinic. I will also take part in UBC’s Buddhism Summer Studies program. This research project will result in the creation of an annotated bibliography, a research paper to be written in the fall of 2016, and a presentation at a student research symposium. These outcomes will aid in sharing my new knowledge with the larger Mount Allison and larger Sackville community.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Susan Andrews

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Peking University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Mount Allison University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Identifying Fraudulent E-Commerce Behaviour via Robust Anomaly Detection

The objective is to develop a real-time fraud detection algorithm for a large E-commerce company based on construction of a robust reference model from normal multivariate data. To accomplish this, we propose to leverage machine learning techniques, such as reinforcement learning, in combination with stochastic modeling techniques such as Hidden Markov Models, to provide both a comparative study between the approaches and possibly produce an enhanced algorithm which applies both methods appropriately. The intern will be exposed to a variety of new methodologies, acquire a deep understanding of techniques in operations research and its application to fraud prevention.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Viliam Makis

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Paytm Labs Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Optimisation des aires de jeux des Salons de jeux du Québec

Par son implication dans le domaine du jeu et divertissement, les Salons de jeux du Québec est un outil indispensable au développement économique et touristique du Québec. Le projet de recherche proposé a pour but de maximiser le rendement des Salons de jeux du Québec par une refonte de ses aires de jeux. Ainsi, la revue scientifique analysera, à l’aide de modèles mathématiques, l’influence de plusieurs facteurs, comme les caractéristiques et les installations des établissements, l’activité touristique des régions et toutes autres variables externes qui peuvent influencer les revenus et les autres mesures de performances des établissements. Par la suite, cette recherche proposera aux Salons de jeux du Québec une nouvelle stratégie menant à l’optimisation de ses aires de jeux.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David Lupien St-Pierre

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Société des établissements de jeux du Québec Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Université :

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Programme :

Accelerate

Exploring ecological determinants of disease vector distributions: a multi-scalar investigation

The world’s rapidly changing climate is influencing how insects can transmit dangerous infectious diseases – from malaria to dengue fever and other previously unknown diseases – to humans. The rapid growth of new data sources from satellites to ground based sensors offer unprecedented opportunities to link these data with knowledge of the biology of insects that can transmit infectious diseases. To harness the public health value of these opportunities, a summary of knowledge pertaining to the biology of important insect populations (i.e. Aedes mosquitos) is needed to inform the development of automated models that can predict and anticipate when these diseases are most likely to affect human populations. After testing and validating these models, they could be used to guide public health education in real-time to
individuals or public health organizations around the world.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Manisha Kulkarni

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BlueDot Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Ottawa

Programme :

Accelerate