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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Purchasing: A Case Study of Avocado Co-op

In order to meet global climate change goals, it is necessary for consumers to shift their preferences for products towards more sustainable and eco-friendly options. Two common barriers that consumers experience when purchasing green products are: 1) perceived difficulty of buying green, and 2) skepticism about the quality of green brands. Avocado Co-op is attempting to address these barriers by offering a service that delivers member-tested sustainable household products direct to the consumer. This research proposes using Avocado Co-op’s business as a case study to develop a strategic plan which allows Avocado to target and overcome key barriers to purchasing sustainable products. Interviews, focus groups, and surveys will be used to talk to participants about their knowledge and experience of Avocado Co-op’s service.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sean Geobey

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Avocado Co-op

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Retail trade

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Identifying the Knowledge Gap in Sustainable Financing and Investment for Canadian Investors

Sustainable investment is an expending sector of the mainstream financial market, yet there are few studies evaluating the trends, opportunities, impacts and knowledge gaps as they relate to Canadian investors. Understanding the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues related to business operations and investment are critical to understanding trends that are driving this shift towards sustainability in financial markets. The proposed study will identify knowledge gaps in sustainable investment within a Canadian context, and strategies for addressing said gaps. The intent is to help support a better understanding of the future opportunities for the partner organization and to identify any potential trade-offs that may be required by those interested in related investment opportunities.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michelle Adams

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Addenda Capital (Toronto, ON)

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance; Sustainability & the Environment; Clean Technology

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Agent-based modeling of the strategic behavior of stakeholders in an integrated energy system

This research will (i) identify and quantify potential flexibility that is inherent in gas and heat systems (e.g. gas and thermal storage and demand response capability) across various scales (i.e. buildings, district heating system, national gas transmission systems), (ii) optimize the provision of flexibility from gas and heat systems to support the operation of a low carbon power system, and (iii) develop modeling tools and methodologies to inform energy policy and provide technical and regulatory recommendations to enable maximum exploitation of flexibility through energy systems integration.
The main tasks are: Task 1. To identify and characterize/formulate behavior/objective of key stakeholders and players in the GB and Ontario’s electricity, gas and heat systems, who in some way or another contribute to the provision/consumption of flexibility. Task 2. To develop an agent-based model drawing on game theory to simulate the interactions between key players in integrated energy system. Individual players in energy systems will be modeled as agents who try to optimize their own objectives given the regulations/market rules and in interactions with other players in the energy system.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Fowler

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Cardiff University

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Green/Alternative Energy; Sustainability & the Environment; Energy and Utilities

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Investigating Ca2+ signaling in plants using genetically encoded Ca2+ sensors

Ca2+ is a very important signaling molecules for animals and plants alike. Ca2+ signaling has been heavily studied in animals but relatively less is understood in plants. Cyclic Nucleotide Gated Ion Channels (CNGCs) are important channels that are thought to be important in regulating Ca2+ homeostasis under different conditions in plants. The goal of this project is to understand CNGC-mediated Ca2+ signaling using Ca2+ reporter systems that can be visualized using confocal microscopes. We expect to see differences in Ca2+ signaling in the CNGC mutant background that carry these Ca2+ reporter systems under various abiotic and biotic stress conditions. This will affirm the specific role of each CNGC in Ca2+ signaling. The results from this project will provide new information about CNGC signaling, a channel that has been otherwise quite challenging to study.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Keiko Yoshioka

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Saitama University

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Methane CPOX: catalyst improvement for a micro refinery unit

Participating to the Mitacs Globalink program will give me the chance to carry on research at TUM, joing the research group at the Lehrstuhl fur Technische Chemie II. I will work under the supervision of Prof. Johannes Lercher and I will learn how to combine advanced physicochemical methods to characterize the methane reaction on surfaces and in the pores of the catalyst with IR, solid state NMR spectroscopy with X-ray absorption spectroscopy. I am interested in learning this to understand the structure and electronic state of the catalyst during the reaction. I will carry on the mechanistic and kinetic studies of the carbon deposition at high pressure on the Pt catalyst correlated with the influence of the dimensions of the metal particles.
The goal of my stay at TUM is to combine the different knowledge of the research groups and to end up with an active catalyst that will allow us, at Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, to design a micro reformer.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gregory Patience

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Technical University of Munich

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Natural Resources; Oil and Gas; Environmental Science and Technology

Université :

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Molecular and Structural Investigations of a Novel Combination Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Modern molecularly targeted therapies have shown promise in treating some blood cancers, but a cure remains elusive for most acute blood cancer patients. This is largely due to the survival of some blood cancer cells that possess unique properties and can cause treatment failure or relapse, highlighting the need for new therapies. In collaboration with SLC, we aim to develop an innovative combination therapy to effectively target acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient cells that are resistant to current therapies. This pre-clinical study will evaluate the efficacy of a new AXL inhibitor (developed by SLC), alone or in combination with a BCL-2 inhibitor, in targeting primitive AML cells and their survival pathways in vitro and in vivo. We expect that this new combination strategy will be more effective in eliminating critical blood cancer cells compared to traditional drugs and provide directly proof-of-concept for a subsequent clinical trial.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Calvin Yip;Xiaoyan Jiang;Leonard Foster

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SignalChem Lifesciences Corporation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Using dance to promote physical literacy in children and youth: An examination of the Sharing Dance program

Children in Canada have become less physically active; in fact, only 9% of Canadian children meet the guidelines that are recommended. A number of different programs have been created to help children move better and feel more confident with their movement skills. Sharing Dance is a community program that uses dance to help children become healthier and more physically active. We are interested in seeing if it also helps children move better and feel more confident with their movement skills. We will do this by looking at two different groups of children – those taking part in the Sharing Dance program and those who are not – and seeing if there are any differences in their movement skills and their confidence in their movement skills. We will also talk to the children taking part in the Sharing Dance program to learn about their experiences in the program.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

John Cairney

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Canada’s National Ballet School

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Medium and Macro Scale Editing for the Synthesis of Facial Meshes for Video Game Applications

Ubisoft has an extensive database of 3D scanned heads. It would be convenient to use it to mix-and-match parts of characters to create new human-like character heads. Let’s say we want to adjust medium-scale features of the face, such as replacing the nose of one character with another nose. We will design an editing workflow allowing the artist to create a new nose from mixtures of noses found in the database. Also, we want to derive a workflow to edit the macro features of the face, for example to change a head from “oblong” to “square” or to adjust large regions such as the cheeks and forehead. This macro feature editing should not interfere with the medium scale features: changing the chin and jaw should preserve the shape of the mouth. We will derive approaches to ease both types of editing.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Eric Paquette

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Elaboration of a Phase II clinical study protocol for the treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using AB-16B5, an epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) inhibitor, in combination with docetaxel

The molecular mechanisms responsible for the occurrence of metastatic cancer are beginning to be elucidated with the identification of key regulators. Increasing evidence points to tumor cell epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) as an important contributing process to metastatic evolution. The identification of factors that are stimulated during EMT might provide the means to develop new drugs required to increase the effectiveness of current regimens and improve patient outcome. Alethia Biotherapeutics is developing its AB-16B5, a humanized monoclonal antibody that targets secreted clusterin, a protein that is stimulated during EMT and contributes to invasion of tumors cells. The treatment with a true inhibitor of EMT is predicted to increase the effectiveness of current therapy and decrease metastasis, which should result in improved patient survival. Alethia Biotherapeutics has recently completed a first-in-human Phase I study with AB-16B5 in patients with advanced carcinomas. The primary objective of the proposed project is to elaborate a Phase II clinical trial protocol to test the hypothesis that treatment with AB-16B5 in combination with docetaxel, a cytotoxic agent, will result in an increased response rate. To be continued

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Grégoire Leclair;Caroline Boisvert

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Alethia Biotherapeutics Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Numerical modeling and evaluation of mixing behavior and grinding efficiency in FLSmidth VXP vertical stirred mill

Stirred mill grinding is a complex and energy-intensive process that involves multiple phases. Multi-scale phenomena that drive hydrodynamic and particle breakage processes in the stirred mill are still not fully understood, due to a number of operating and design parameters that affect mill performance, including disk and barrel geometry, agitation rate, grinding media size and fill volume, and slurry properties, which are further limiting our abilities to monitor, model, and predict this complex operation. To this end, the proposed study will focus on the development and validation of high-performance (GPU- and MIC-accelerated) multiscale numerical models that will allow evaluation of mill design and process state parameters for a range of FLSmidth VXPmills (with different geometries) running over different operating conditions. The primary goal of this research is to develop a better understanding of the effects of operating and design parameters on grinding efficiency, specific power consumption, and level of mixing (residence time) in existing and new VXPmills. Obtained results will help development of new scale-up rules and power models, which will capture parametric dependences between operating and design variables and help optimize VXPmill grinding performance and energy consumption

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sanja Miskovic;Ilija Miskovic

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FLSmidth Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Secrecy enhancement of linear and non-linear multihop relaying networks

The deployment of WSN in various field actually boost the quality of our daily life. Unfortunately, with the increasingly exponential growth of devices and vulnerability of wireless transmission being exposed to the air, secure transmission of WSN has drawn plenty of attention both in the community of communication and signal processing. For the sake of providing some analytical basis and optimal secure transmission scheme, considering the randomly distributed eavesdropper, the secrecy issue of linear and non-linear multihop relaying network is primarily investigated in this project. This project is divided into two major steps: secrecy analysis and secrecy enhancement. The fulfillment of this project is in high requirement of knowledge on the physical layer transmission and V2X application. As anticipated, the expected results of this project correspondingly includes one conference paper and one journal paper, which are targeted to be published in IEEE high quality conference and journals.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Georges Kaddoum

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of Oulu

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

RLCapture: A deep reinforcement learning based control strategy forswitching between motion capture inspired controllers.

Making robots walk and balance as well as humans is extremely difficult. New techniques involving machine learning have shown promise in getting robots to mimic the movements of humans recorded using motion capture
technology widely used for videogames and movies. While these techniques show promise, they are still in development, and have difficulty switching between behaviours. It’s still very difficult for robots to go from standing still to running. They also fall over very easily when pushed or tripped, since they don’t have a concept of reacting to pushes in the same way that people do. This research aims to solve this problem by training robots to switch between mimicked behaviours as they move, so that they can learn how to react from human examples. Ubisoft will benefit by utilizing this technology to create more realistic games where characters can react, move, and fall more like real people do.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

James Richard Forbes

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

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