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Effects of forest harvest on population dynamics, distribution, and stoichiometry in lynx-hare-plant food webs in Newfoundland

The research team will investigate how plants and animals are affected by forestry. We will measure nutrients in the plants (specifically carbon and nitrogen) in areas with forest harvest and nearby Terra Nova National Park. We will collect plant samples to analyse in the lab for carbon and nitrogen content. We will also live-trap and mark snowshoe hares (which feed on plants) and live-trap lynx (which feed on the hares) and fit them with radio-collars. By tracking where the animals travel, we can relate that to the available nutrients and the effect of forest activity on animal movement. We will use this information to build predictive models to project how animals might be affected by forest activity and changes in available food and nutrients in other parts of the boreal forest. This will help our partner (Corner Brook Pulp and Paper) more effectively manage their forests to minimize impacts on the ecosystem.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yolanda Wiersma;Shawn Leroux;Eric Vander Wal

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Accelerate

Culture and Nongovernmental Organizations in China

In a country which emphasizes authority and collectivism in their culture, how can an organization with strongly egalitarian and individualistic culture fit in and survive? The existing independent NGOs and government-organized NGOs (GONGOs) in China provide us a great platform to examine different cultures of these two types of organizations and their interaction with national culture. People talk about culture everyday, but as a researcher, I would unpack this whole concept into different dimensions to examine. So the first thing I want to do is to measure the cultural dimensions in different organizations – independent NGOs and GONGOs in this study. Second, I will compare different organizational cultures with the national culture and examine how they fit into the big context and legitimate themselves in an authoritarian country. This project aims at revealing a hidden and specific picture of China’s civil society and the living condition of nongovernmental organizations

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Anton Oleinik

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Peking University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

3D object detection and pose estimation using RGBD cameras

3D object detection and pose estimation (ODPE) is an important area in computer vision, which has many real world applications such as robotics and augmented reality. Estimating an accurate pose from RGB cameras alone is challenging. Given the increased popularity of RGBD sensors, such as Microsoft Kinect, we propose a hybrid method for ODPE based on both RGB and depth (3D surface) information. The additional depth information is expected to provide significant improvements in both speed and
accuracy of the resulting system. The system will be evaluated on robotics and augmented reality applications, which are areas of strategic importance for Epson and as well as areas of active research in academia.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sven Dickinson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Epson Canada Ltd

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Quantitative Brain PET/MRI

Recently, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been successfully combined into a single system that can collect clinical PET/MRI data simultaneously (Siemens Biograph mMR). With PET, a wide variety of tracers have been developed that can measure energy usage and concentrations of disease-specific features in the brain. In collaboration with Siemens Canada, we will develop and test an MRI method called chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) that is sensitive to the concentration of metabolites that supply energy and facilitate communication between cells in the brain. We believe CEST will complement the capabilities of PET and provide new insight into the living brain. In addition, we will develop MRI methods that can improve quantitative PET image reconstruction and analysis in the brain. The ability to acquire simultaneous PET and MRI information enables new research and improves our capability to diagnose and guide treatments for a wide variety of disorders, from Alzheimer’s disease to schizophrenia.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jonathan Thiessen

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Siemens Healthcare Limited

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

Growth, characterization and performance evolution of nitridenanowire photocatalyst for energy conversion

The splitting of water into its constituents i.e. hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight is one of the key sustainable energy technologies to enable clean, storable and renewable source of energy. Additionally, the more efficient oxidation of such fuels in lower cost fuel cells enable the broader potential use of such solar fuels in many applications. Here we propose to develop high quality group III-nitride nanowire photocatalyst for efficient and stable solar water splitting using advanced growth, structural and optical characterization techniques. Additionally, we propose to use the same nanowire platform to develop highly active cocatalyst for efficient fuel oxidation. Because of the extremely high surface area, such nanowires will further be investigated to achieve highly sensitive detection of various physical, biological and chemical activities.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Zetian Mi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

LUMENFAB Nanotechnologies Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Évaluation d’une méthode de traitement de l’azote ammoniacal d’eaux d’industries minières par voie de fixation sur un média zéolitique

Dans le but de traiter des eaux usées issues de l’activité minière, différentes techniques doivent être soumises à des essais-pilotes étant donné la nature de la contamination – à savoir, des hauts débits et très chargée en divers polluants. Le projet permettra d’évaluer la
faisabilité technique et économique de l’enlèvement de l’azote ammoniacal à l’aide d’une méthode d’échange ionique, déjà connue mais qui doit être optimisé pour le contexte des mines. Sanexen cherche à se familiariser avec des techniques de traitement pour les effluents miniers, un marché émergent au Canada. De plus, étant donné l’importance des quantités d’azote ammoniacal à traiter, une valorisation du produit récupéré sera à l’étude, l’ammoniac ayant de multiples applications industrielles. De ce fait, des retombées financières seraient envisageables pour l’entreprise par la revente du déchet.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Frédéric Monette

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Sanexen Services Environnementaux Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

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

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Designing a healthy lifestyle platform : Investigating theuse of gamification to promote enduring healthy lifestyle choices

Past research has examined whether game mechanics can be used to motivate people to change their behaviour in the short-term. However, it is currently unclear how game mechanics can be used to motivate behaviour that persists long after people have stopped playing a game. This research project will explore how game mechanics, such as narrative and avatar creation, can be hamessed by a game-based health intervention to create meaningful experiences and memories in order to promote long-tenn healthy lifestyle choices. This research will contribute to the scientific community by providing insights into how game mechanics can be used to promote positive long-tenn behaviour outside of game environments, and will also allow the industry partner to develop a more effective healthy lifestyle platform.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Neil Randall

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ikkuma Inc

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Examining how maternal stress and rearing environment enrichment influence offspring performance in commercially-farmed Chinook salmon

Handling practices commonly used in aquaculture can be stressful for spawning fish. When a fish is repeatedly exposed to stressors, circulating levels of the hormone cortisol are chronically elevated, which can cause elevations in egg cortisol. When egg cortisol levels are increased, offspring quality is reduced. Compounded with these intergenerational effects is the influence of rearing environment on
offspring survival traits. Performance of juveniles reared in barren tanks is inferior to juveniles reared in tanks enriched with physical structures and substrate. In collaboration with Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd, the independent and cumulative impacts of maternally-induced stress and rearing environment on commercially-farmed Chinook salmon offspring survival, growth, flesh quality, behaviour and immune function will be examined. A diagnostic tool of maternal stress will be developed and will help aquaculturists design and implement handling and rearing strategies that produce the highest quality animal while minimizing costs and ensuring animal welfare.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christina Semeniuk

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

University of Windsor

Programme :

Accelerate

Developing Guidelines for Building Information Modelling in theContext of Adaptive Reuse.

The growing demand to establish comprehensive BIM standards is demonstrated by a proliferation of both national (BIM Task Group in the United Kingdom and BIMForum in the United States) and international (buildingSMART Alliance) organizations working to that end. Adding to the sense of urgency is pending legislation in the United Kingdom (2016) that will require a BIM for all government building contracts over £5 million. While these organizations are working to standardize BIM for new construction within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, their work to date has not addressed the particular challenges for BIM in the context architectural conservation, rehabilitation, or adaptive reuse. Through “Integrated Digital Technologies fro Adaptive Reuse”, we will compare BIM standards now being developed in Canada (AEC), the United Kingdom (BSI) and the United States (NBIMS) and test them within the context of the adaptive reuse of one Ottawa’s most significant heritage sites.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Stephen Fai

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Windmill Greenfund LPV

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Construction and infrastructure

Université :

Carleton University

Programme :

Accelerate

Quality Assurance of Biosand Filters: Production and Distribution

The Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) is a non-profit organization promoting appropriate technologies in water and sanitation for the developing world. An example is the biosand filter, currently manufactured by hundreds of organizations in 55 countries, and used by 650,000+ families. Ensuring filter quality will accelerate its dissemination worldwide. In this project, the quality assurance (QA) procedures are developed for (1) biosand filters (2) their construction processes, and (3) the distribution network, using Nepal as a case study. Besides verifying the quality requirements, the QA procedures will diagnose the causes and effects of poor quality, such as skills and knowledge of filter construction technicians, and determine ways for continual improvements. This project is expected to contribute towards developing a validation system that is locally owned, adaptive and sustainable, motivating continual improvements rather than pass/fail, and transferable to other countries, resulting in better health and livelihood worldwide.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Simon Li

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Research and test of the full waveform inversion method

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an inversion technique that uses least squares theory to compute a velocity model of the Earth that minimizes the difference between an acquired shot and a synthetic shot. The technique proved to be of hard usage in industry and the goal of the project is to research for solutions that allow the application on real seismic data. The gradient (direction of the model update) will be computed with the PSPI migration and the scale factor (for proper update) will be computed by least squares. The final implement is to apply it on elastic waves (real data). The partner will have the opportunity to have a FWI experienced worker in the group and will be able to
research a new processing product to be part of a selected group of companies that offer such kind of seismic inversion.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Larry Lines

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Orthogonal Geophysics

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Domestic dog population dynamics in Villa de Tezontepec, Hidalgo, Mexico:towards improved canine population and rabies control.

Developing countries are faced with finding novel and humane ways to permanently reduce and control their dog populations. This is especially important for the sustainability of canine disease control and public health programs. Understanding the demography of domestic dog populations is central to the design of effective dog population management and zoonotic disease control interventions, particularly for canine-mediated rabies. This research project will determine the size, density and structure of the owned and unowned dog populations in the city of Villa de Tezontepec, Hidalgo. Furthermore, this research project will aggregate 5 years of data regarding the prevalence of canine rabies, existing canine control and vaccination programs, and their associated costs. Together, these data will be used as a Mexican case
study for the development of a mathematical model that will help to inform evidence-based decision-making for dog population control and the prevention of canine rabies.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amy Greer

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

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