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Assessing the impacts of fisheries, hydroelectric infrastructure, and temperature on Gates Creek sockeye salmon migration

The annual return of sockeye salmon to the Fraser River is a vital part of British Columbia’s environment, economy, and First Nations heritage. However, sockeye salmon can face numerous challenges during their migration including fisheries, warm water temperatures, and dams. Recent population declines in sockeye salmon have prompted concerns over the challenges salmon face during their migration and studies are needed to determine how the these challenges combine to affect salmon. In partnership with St’át’imc Eco Resources, interns from the University of British Columbia will study how one population of Fraser River sockeye salmon – Gates Creek sockeye – are
affected by fisheries encounters in the lower Fraser River, warming water temperatures, and migration past hydroelectric dams on their home stream, the Seton River. Results of this project will inform fisheries management and dam operations to benefit salmon while providing economic benefits to the community served by St’át’imc Eco Resources.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Scott Hinch

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

St'át'imc Eco Resources

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

DeepCity

DeepCity is a strategy game initially for iOS, Android and desktop that is set in a strange, fascinating near future of mega-storms and scarcity. The goal: Survive. Defend. Regenerate. DeepCity advances concepts of resilience, urban ecology, sustainable futures, and systems-thinking within urban environments for players. The DeepCity prototype research project will provide the student with an opportunity to be creatively engaged in researching and making a new game for change, benefitting from mentorship and collaboration with accomplished industry professionals and academic researchers. While collaborating on design and programming of the game prototype, the intern will focus on the research question, how does sustainable systems research and urban resilience design practice translate into a game, and what is an effective way to integrate this thinking into the game design and development process? Evergreen CityWorks will benefit from the project through the advancement of DeepCity game research and development, to make an effective and popular game that can serve to expand the public understanding of urban resilience problems and solutions.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Emma Westecott

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Evergreen (Toronto, ON)

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

OCAD University

Programme :

Accelerate

Apelinergic system as a promising target for myocardialdysfunction and shock

Cardiovascular disease and sepsis are two of the biggest public health problems in North America. Increasing evidence further suggests they are linked. Recent studies in human healthy volunteers and in chronic heart failure patients have highlighted the apelin system as a potential target for drug development. We therefore propose to fully validate pre-clinically the potential of apelin as a new target for cardiovascular disease and septic shock. By participating in cutting-edge research, the partner organization will gain further competitive advantage in the cardiovascular pharmacology market, and the joint publications will also increase the visibility of the company.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mannix Auger-Messier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

IPS Therapeutics Inc;Merck Canada Inc (Kirkland, QC);Université de Sherbrooke

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

Bridging Two Worlds: Culturally Responsive Career Development Programs and Services to Meet the Needs of Newcomer and Refugee Children in Canada

This three-year research program investigates schools and communities in Calgary, Winnipeg, Charlottetown and St. John’s to learn about their shared and disparate approaches to career development for refugee and newcomer children. This knowledge will prepare counsellors and teachers who provide career development programs and services and it will create stronger networks between community partners, universities organizations and schools throughout Canada. Interns, who contribute to this research program, will be part of a multi-agency support network to facilitate the provision of career development programs and services for newcomer/refugee youth. Interns will contribute to the development of recommendations for policy and practice and they will contribute to creating professional development activities/lessons to prepare counsellors to assist with career decision making for youth from newcomer/refugee backgrounds. The overarching goal is to contribute new knowledge to the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling and to provide
counsellors with knowledge and practical resources to help provide career counselling to middle and secondary level newcomer and refugee youth in Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Linyuan Guo;Xuemei Li;Tom Kemple;Thomas Ricento;Jan Stewart

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland; The University of British Columbia; University of Calgary; University of Prince Edward Island; University of Winnipeg

Programme :

Accelerate

Landscapes of Erasure: geographies of absence in Michoacan.

The state of Michoacan in Mexico, where most of the drug war comes from, has a long history of exploitation against indigenous people and the natural resources concentrated in the state. Michoacan’s vast system of forests has been subjected to years of illegal wood trafficking, a fact very well known but little exposed, pushing the indigenous ‘purepechas’ to become both slaves and accomplices of those crimes. Drug trafficking clashes with civil war and indigenous resistance struggles with their right for local jurisdiction of culture and natural resources. My
research attempts to investigate how violence materializes in space, producing regulated territories that otherwise would just be a natural physical environment. For example, how the drug wars in Michoacan, a crime that leaves no apparent material residue, shapes the geographical and the social?. My interdisciplinary research combines social studies with studio arts practice, usually presented at museums, galleries and research centers.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean-Claude Bustros

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

El Colegio De Michoacan

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Developing a cold weather admixture system for low temperature masonry construction

Low temperatures in cold seasons generate diverse challenges for the construction industry in many northern countries. Construction based on cementitious material suffer from the low hydration rate at low temperatures and the possible damage caused by water to ice transition at below freezing temperatures. The common solution for this problem is to heat and protect the raw and finished material until it reaches an acceptable strength. The other solution, still under exploration by many authors, and adopted in this work, is to use chemical admixtures to avoid or at least to reduce the protection time of the finished cementitious material. This project aims to explore the possibility of combining commercial admixtures and test them as antifreeze agents for mortar used in masonry construction. The other objective is to understand the chemical active process of mortar hardening at low temperature when the admixture is used.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mohamed Boulfiza

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Canada Masonry Design Centre (ON)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Construction; Manufacturing and Construction

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

The I-Score Study: The development and validation of a patient-reported measure of antiretroviral therapy’s interference with life.

Many HIV-positive persons on HIV medication have trouble taking this medication as prescribed by their doctor (treatment adherence). This threatens the long-term ability of the drugs to preserve a patient’s health. For 1 in 5 in Canada, their medication does not work, in part because of adherence problems. Furthermore, doctors and their HIV-positive patients do not always discuss treatment difficulties and how to resolve them in sufficient depth. The I-Score Study is a 24-month research project that will develop a questionnaire to be filled out by patients as a part of routine HIV care. This questionnaire will concern factors that patients in France and Canada report interfere with their ability to take their HIV medication. Its aims are to ensure that care is more patient-centered and better addresses the challenges of lifelong adherence. With access to this Interference-Score, it is expected that patient-doctor communication about adherence will improve; adherence problems will be more quickly identified and addressed; treatments will be better adapted to patients’ needs and concerns;
and ultimately, adherence difficulties will be reduced.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Bertrand Lebouché

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Merck Canada Inc (Kirkland, QC)

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Programme :

Accelerate

Analysis of Corporate Digital Influence to Develop Digital Content Marketing and Strategy For A Consumer Product Based Company

The interns will use social media data-mining and network visualization tools along with qualitative assessments of digital content to develop a social media and digital content production strategy for a consumer products based company. Case studies will be performed
on successful and competitor brands in order to better inform the digital media production and strategy for the partner company moving forward. The goal will be to provide the industry partner with a social media strategy, including social media account set up and posting
strategy, blog posting strategy, video productions and a rebranded website which allows for the tracking of digital marketing efforts.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Anatoliy Gruzd

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

California Innovations Inc

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Wholesale trade

Université :

Toronto Metropolitan University

Programme :

Accelerate

Asset Management Research & User Experience Prototyping

Asset management systems are becoming essential tools that help municipalities in infrastructure planning and management decisions. Additionally, building effective user experience solutions is an important factor in the success of any solution. The project objectives will be to investigate methods for building personalized user experiences and interfaces for the core of the company’s platform for different end user’s roles. The project’s main approach is to research methodologies for user experience prototyping taking into consideration the different user’s roles. The goal is to deliver an improved version of the company’s platform with new user experience prototypes. This research experience will enrich my knowledge in the field of user experience. I will research, apply different methods in a real world scenario and have the chance to get real user’s feedback. Finally, an improved version of the company’s platform will be produced in a conducive way to the company’s end user’s needs.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Eyal de Lara

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Riva Modeling Systems

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance; Information and cultural industries

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Dimensionality, performance, and stress testing of multifactor equity models

A global multi-factor equity model had been previously developed. It employs a group of sector indices for different regions using Dow Jones, MSCI, and indices of local stock exchanges. PCA is used to produce independent factor variables, and then specific equities are regressed against the PCA factors. By transforming factors back into real world variables (indices) stress tests against movements in the original indices show their impact in a global equity portfolio. One question to be addressed is how many PCA dimensions should be selected for each equity. A systematic study of the performance of the methodology is needed, and potential changes to the methodology explored. The methodology will be extended to ETFs and mutual funds to better measure and manage investors’ risks. A systematic study will be undertaken to analyze and measure the performance, stability, and risk management utility of the approach.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David Lozinski

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

RiskGrid Technologies Inc

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

Assessing comprehensive life history and phenotypic impacts of radiation on a short-lived model of aging and free radical biology: linear versus hormetic dose responses

The goal of our proposal is to clarify the impacts of low doses of radiation on key biological aspects in a short-lived animal model (the cricket). Current assessments of radiation exposure mainly emphasize cancer. Our model will allow us to more broadly assess important features like growth, maturation, survivorship, reproduction and life span as well as specific measures related to sensory, cognitive and motor functions, stress resistance and immunity. Radiation causes damage by creating reactive molecules that can attack cells and their DNA. At low doses, however, such molecules are essential biological signals. In particular we will test a theory called “hormesis” that suggests that low-dose radiation may actually improve rather than harm biological functions. Such information will help our industry partner to better address the concerns of the public and regulatory agencies regarding radiation safety. In addition, we will examine whether antioxidant supplements can offset negative impacts of high-dose radiation and provide additional health benefits at low doses of radiation exposure.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christopher David Rollo

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bruce Power

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

Economic Outcomes and Retention Rate of BC Provincial Nominees: Comparisons with Immigrants from Other Classes

This project will analyze and research explanations for differences in economic outcomes and retention rate between immigration classes, with a special focus on the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Programs. The study will emphasize on comparisons between Provincial Nominees and other economic immigrants, and between immigrants in British Columbia and other provinces. The data that will be used is the Longitudinal Immigration Database, which links immigrant landing records to tax information. In addition to descriptive analysis, this paper will use regression methods to explore explanations for differences in economic outcomes and assimilation rates. Knowing the factors that contribute to the economic advantage or disadvantage of different classes of immigrants could help the Ministry of Regional Economic and Skills Development design better policies and programs. Such policies or programs would be more efficient in selecting nominees and in helping immigrants’ settlement and advancement within British Columbia.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Daniel Hiebert

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

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