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Citizen science for agricultural land management

Grassland habitat and agricultural activities go hand in hand on the Ontario landscape. The project will develop citizen science monitoring tools for agricultural producers in southwest Ontario. The purpose of the project is to engage participants in monitoring environmental change by documenting observations farming activities throughout the farming season. Many producers are cognizant of the natural partnership between the environment and economic productivity, and regularly look for opportunities to further their support for sensitive species relying on these critical habitats. OSCIA envisions the development of a web-based citizen science project to collect spatial data about farm practices that impact (positively or negatively) grassland bird conservation and recovery through farmer reported data.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Colin Robertson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ontario Crop and Soil Improvement Association

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Wilfrid Laurier University

Programme :

Accelerate

Challenges for drug-using mothers with children in the care of family members

The purpose of the study is to identify and respond to experiences of and potential challenges faced by drug-using mothers when their children are placed in the care of family members (otherwise known as “kinship care”) as an alternative to a formal foster care placement. As an outcome, we will develop an information package for drug-using mothers whose children may be, or already are, placed with relatives. This information kit will include birth mothers’ rights pertaining to access and custody; legal and therapeutic support services; and options available in respect to kinship care arrangements. This research proposal stems directly from the concerns of VANDU members. VANDU Empowerment Consulting Inc. will benefit as participation of VANDU members in this qualitative research projects will facilitate the ability of VANDU members to articulate their situations, thus increasing their ability to participate in the Presentations and Public Speaking division of VANDU Empowerment Consulting Inc.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Paule McNicoll

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Caractérisation fonctionnelle de gènes candidats contrôlant le guidage du tube pollinique chez le genre Solanum

Chez les plantes à fleurs, la reproduction sexuée fait intervenir une cellule mobile, le tube pollinique, sorte de « spermatozoïde végétal », qui doit se déplacer jusqu’à un ovule pour le féconder. Pour l’assister dans cette tâche, l’ovule sécrète de petites molécules attractives que le tube pollinique perçoit grâce à des récepteurs. Bien que ce phénomène présente un intérêt majeur pour les biologistes et les agronomes, il est encore mal compris. Notre projet consiste à identifier les molécules attractives ovulaires et leurs récepteurs polliniques chez les plantes du genre Solanum (qui regroupe notamment la pomme de terre et la tomate). Nous avons isolé une liste de gènes candidats qui ont de fortes chances de coder pour des attractants ou des récepteurs. Ce stage va consister à tester ces candidats en utilisant une technique de croissance contrôlée des tubes polliniques combinée à une méthode d’inhibition transcriptionnelle spécialement développée pour le pollen.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Daniel Matton

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Nagoya University

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Methane Tri-Reforming: Process Modeling,Thermodynamic Analysis and ProcessOptimization

This has been a proposal for myself, Stephen Collins, to participate in the FASESP – BG Brazil Research Centre for Gas Innovation project. If awarded via the Mitacs Globalink program, I will be presented the opportunity to work alongside the research staff of The University of Sao Paulo, as well as members of other academic institutions and industry. The project itself has been in various stages of planning for the past several years: and was approved after being peer-reviewed by an international committee. While the Research Centre will host professionals in the fields of economics and various types of engineering, my proposed position will be alongside those of the Physical-Chemistry program: more specifically the Conversion to Chemicals team. Essentially this team is responsible for the following task: to determine the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly methods of producing value-added products from natural gas, such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas. This research will examine existing chemical processes, and determine the optimal equipment, reaction properties, and catalysts to help establish natural gas as a viable and competitive source of chemical feedstock in Brazil and beyond. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kelly Hawboldt

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidade de São Paulo

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Stories of Japanese Independent Game Developers: Between Motif and Narreme?

Although it is commonly accepted that the videogame was invented in North America, it gained many of the elements we associate with contemporary games, such as narrative and graphical fidelity, via Japan. The purpose of this research is to develop a sense of the ways that Japanese independent videogame developers conceive of and utilize narrative in their games in order to understand the possible implications for Aboriginal artists, developers and researchers in North America who seek to use videogames to convey both traditional stories as well as participate critically in popular videogame culture. Conducted primarily through field research in the form of interviews with developers in Kyoto, Japan and surrounding areas, and supplemented by focused research into the theory and practice of crafting game narrative this project aims to draw out relevant and transferable practices and theoretical tools for understanding and creating Aboriginal narratives in games.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jason Lewis

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ristumeikan University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Promouvoir le développement durable des forêts : coopération entre communautés autochtones et entreprises forestières

Au Canada, la durabilité de la foresterie est une condition obligatoire pour les entreprises qui désirent opérer sur les territoires publics. Les entreprises reconnaissent de plus en plus que la participation autochtone au développement économique peut favoriser une intégration harmonieuse de deux cultures souvent différentes l’une de l’autre, la culture d’entreprise ne séant pas nécessairement aux attentes de tous les Autochtones. La question économique est cruciale pour plusieurs communautés autochtones, dont la population est jeune et en croissance. Plusieurs de ces communautés ont choisi la forêt comme milieu de travail. Toutefois, il faut reconnaitre que nous en savons très peu sur les intérêts des jeunes autochtones envers les emplois en forêt, les obstacles relatifs à leur intégration au marché du travail dans le secteur forestier et les stratégies à mettre en place pour que ces jeunes saisissent les opportunités d’emplois dans le secteur forestier.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean-Michel Beaudoin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Conseil de l'Industrie Forestière du Québec;Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Agriculture; Manufacturing

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Florasol Extraction Process Development of Essential Oil

This project will be with ANPI Canada Inc., a Canadian company focused on essential oil extract from softwood in Bolton, Ontario. Presently, ANPI uses various extraction techniques for isolation of essential oils particularly cedar oil from cedar leaves, branches, and mulch. These essential oils have applications in the food, flavor, fragrances, and pharmaceutical industries. ANPI have found that their current extraction methods do not provide a suitable yield of cedar oil. This project will investigate the continuous florasol extraction process of cedar essential oil using green solvents within different range of
temperatures and pressures. Effect of extraction time, flow rate, moisture content, and particle size of the starting material will be investigated for development and optimization of the extraction process. The form (seed, leave, fresh flowers, roots, etc.), state (whole material dried or fresh), and treatment (ground, chopped, sliced, etc.) of starting material will also be examined which will have an effect on the extraction yield. This project will provide tremendous advantage to ANPI providing new opportunities to extract the maximum value from our low valued Canadian based softwood products.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Paul Charpentier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ANPI Canada Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

Optimized Extraction of Onion and Garlic Oils Using Green Solvents

This project will be with All Natural Products Inc. (ANPI), who is a Canadian company focused on essential oil extract from natural herbal resources in Bolton, Ontario. These essential oils have applications in the food, flavor, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries. ANPI have found that their current extraction methods do not provide a suitable yield of essential oils. This project will investigate the batch florasol extraction process of onion and garlic essential oil using green solvents within different range of temperatures and pressures.
Effect of extraction time, temperature, pressure, modifiers, flow rate, moisture content, shelf time, and particle size of the starting material will be investigated for development and optimization of the extraction process in batch and continues systems. The type, state (whole material dried or fresh), and treatment (ground, chopped, sliced, etc.) of starting material will also be examined which will have an effect on the extraction yield. This project will provide tremendous advantage to ANPI providing new opportunities to extract the maximum value from our low valued Canadian based natural herbal products.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Paul Charpentier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ANPI Canada Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

Ultra high throughput selection of enzymes by Terahertz Chemical Microscope

Enzymes are becoming important industrial catalysts, especially for “green” manufacturing. As a consequence, much interest currently exists in identifying ways to optimize the catalytic properties of enzymes to make the manufacturing process more efficient. One way to do this is to create many variants of the original enzyme, each differing slightly in structure, and then screening the efficiency with which they catalyze the desired reaction. This, however, is a very labor intensive approach that limits the number of individual variants that can be tested, ultimately lowering the chances of identifying very reactive enzymes. This project will evaluate a recent Japanese invention, the THz Chemical Microscope (TCM), as a means of simultaneously measuring the activity of many individual enzymes. Should the proof-of-concept sought out in this project be obtained, the TCM could dramatically increase the number of enzyme variants that can be analyzed in a day. This would pave the way for creating new high performance enzymes for future “green” manufacturing processes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Marc André Gauthier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Okayama University

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Université :

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

INTEGRATED POWER-MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR CLASS D AUDIO AMPLIFIERS

This proposal targets a fully-integrated power management circuit for a high efficiency class D audio amplifier in a standard CMOS process. The project will focus on optimizing efficiency, reducing cost, and enabling wide input voltage and load current handling well-suited for battery driven applications. The converter will operate directly from a battery to provide the optimum voltage level for the audio amplifier and the proposed solutions will be able to exceed the voltage rating of the technology.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Stefano Gregori

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Accelerate

Identification of CAGE Transcriptome Signatures that Influence Chromosome Structure

The three-dimensional (3D) structure of the genome is known to play an important role in the regulatory activities of a cell. The genome itself may be vast (~3.2 billion nucleotides), but only a small fraction (approximately 1.5%) encodes for proteins. In the last decade, non-coding regions of the genome have been shown to produce molecules (expression of “transcripts”) that impact the regulation of proteins. In this project, we explore the effect that these molecules have on regulatory events within the cell by identifying patterns (“signatures”) of expression linked to changes in genomic structure. This study is made possible by integrating two powerful techniques for studying both the expression and conformation of the genome. We believe this
work represents the most advanced approach to understanding how changes in chromatin structure are influence by gene regulation.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mathieu Blanchette

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

RIKEN (Center for Life Science Technologies)

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Oil and lipid improvements in field pea to develop a non-traditional oilseedcrop

It has been noted in recent studies that provided an increase in the lipid content of the field pea (Pisum Sativum L.) through genetic manipulation, it can be used as a viable commercial alternative to conventional oilseed crops, which include canola and soybean. Genetic transformants with high lipid content can be created in the McGill University laboratories but its commercial viability needs to be tested with an industry partner. For this purpose, this research proposal aims to accelerate the commercial deployment of an oilseed pea through industrial field-testing with Agrocentre Belcan to identify natural variations created by genetic modifications and creating a business model that will lead to a profitable commercial venture for the company, if it were to act as a commercial vendor for the oilseed pea.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mark Lefsrud

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Agrocentre Belcan

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

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