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The Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance onArctic Wildlife

The exploration phase of the Agnico Eagle Meliadine Mine (AEMM) close to the community of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut overlaps with a study area where our research group has been studying the ecology of Arctic peregrine falcons since 1980. We are now taking advantage of this unique opportunity to combine a long-term, pre-disturbance data set with continual monitoring to determine the influence of mining operations on wildlife in an Arctic tundra ecosystem. One intern will continue our research on peregrine falcons, while two other interns expand the scope of our program to include rough-legged hawks and three species of fish: Arctic grayling, Arctic char, and lake trout. Agnico Eagle, our industry partner in this proposal, will benefit from our research program by obtaining ecological knowledge about the habitat in which the AEMM is located. This ecological information will provide the bases for monitoring and mitigation initiatives designed to minimize the impacts of the AEMM on Arctic wildlife. This collaboration will help to establish standards for environmental impact assessment associated with mining and other industrial activity in the Canadian Arctic, increasing the sustainability these activities.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Alastair Franke

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Agnico-Eagle Mines-Ontario

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

A dual-band optogenetic headstage

B. Gosselin and Doric Lenses Inc. have developed the first low-cost wireless head mounted optogenetic device enabling simultaneous biopotential recording and optical stimulation in the brain of freely moving rodents. This project aims at providing such a wireless optogenetic headstage system with user programmable functions, so it can address the dual nature of brain biopotentials, and become an essential tool for innovative research. Additionally, an important aspect of this project consists of making the necessary adjustments so the actual this design meets all practical requirements for in-vivo testing with small rodents. The proposed project will involve 1 MSc student who holds unique background in electronics, bioinstrumentation and wireless system design. The proposed project will allow Doric Lenses to commercializing the first optogenetic research tool to offer both electrophysiological recording and optical stimulation inside the same wireless device, which will tremendously enhance small animal brain research capability for researchers worldwide.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Benoit Gosselin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Doric Lenses Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

A wireless ring pulse oximeter with advanced signal processing

Pulse oximeters are key devices to provide early information on the respiratory and circulatory systems. In addition to be bulky and cumbersome, most commercially available systems lack a wireless connection, which cause numerous inconveniences. This project aims at designing a new wireless ring pulse oximeter which will enable to measure transmitted and reflected light from several locations around the finger to increase the quality of signal and gain more flexibility while improving comfort and ease of use. In addition to contribute to improve healthcare of Canadians, the envisioned technology will accelerate pre-competitive development of a promising technology that will give Oxy’nov Inc. an edge for capturing the huge emerging market of smart medical devices with a unique product. Finally, this project will give an intern a unique opportunity to advance his design skills, and will provide him with a relevant industrial experience in the area of biomedical engineering

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Benoit Gosselin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

OxyNov

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Biotechnology

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Urban Economic Innovation Lab – Researching Economic Alternatives for Inner City Neighbourhoods

Vancouver’s inner city is experiencing disproportionate levels of poverty and is under strong development pressure, with concern that few of the associated benefits are being captured by local communities and economies. An appetite exists for innovation in economic development but current community capacity to explore and support these ideas is limited. RADIUS SFU and Ecotrust Canada are developing a social innovation lab methodology and framework that works with community to design, test and launch new approaches to sustainable economic development. The Lab itself is an iterative process, receiving continuous feedback from interns and participants to help refine the methodologies to best fit the context. In a rapidly urbanizing world this becomes a useful asset to Ecotrust to lead in this type of work, Canada as the country grapples with these urban economic development challenges, and the world as we learn and share what works.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sarah Lubik;Thomas Hutton;Sean Geobey;Amy Hanser;Penelope Gurstein;Evert Lindquist

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ecotrust Canada

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Sustainability & the Environment; Commercial Services

Université :

Simon Fraser University; The University of British Columbia; University of Victoria; University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Modèle d’Évaluation de l’État des Transformateurs pour la Pérennité et la Maintenance

Le projet vise à établir l’état de santé des transformateurs du réseau de transport électrique dans le but de passer d’une approche systématique de maintenance à une approche basée sur la condition réelle du transformateur. Dans le cadre de ce projet, le stage consistera à établir une méthode permettant d’établir, en temps réel, le niveau de performance attendu du système de refroidissement des transformateurs afin de pouvoir détecter une dégradation de ce dernier. Les modèles physiques qui existent actuellement sont intéressants mais ils ne sont pas adaptés aux conditions nordiques dans lesquels les transformateurs sont utilisés au Canada. L’huile qui est utilisée comme isolant dans la cuve des transformateurs devient par exemple beaucoup plus visqueuse à basse température. Ce projet vise donc à corriger cette lacune avec le développement et l’application de modèles semi-physique ou numérique et non-physique tels que les réseaux de neurones.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christian Gagné

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Optimisation d’un biosenseur visant la détection de pathogènes bactériens

L’objectif du projet de recherche vise l’évaluation et l’optimisation d’un appareil de détection de bactéries pathogènes. Ces bactéries pathogènes représentent un risque important pour la santé publique, c’est pourquoi le développement d’une méthode d’analyse rapide et efficace permettrait de répondre à un besoin croissant de senseurs biologiques. À travers différentes phases de validation et de développement, le projet vise l’évaluation du potentiel commercial d’un biosenseur optique développé par l’entreprise. En somme, l’entreprise veut valider son utilisation en laboratoire et sur le terrain pour permettre l’analyse d’échantillons biologiques dans un environnement rempli de contaminants. L’entreprise bénéficiera de ces analyses, permettant de mieux caractériser son détecteur par rapport à différentes sources de contamination provenant de divers échantillons biologiques.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

François Boudreau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SPI Biosensing

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

From Data Collection, Cleaning, Integration and Management to Analytics, Prediction and Recommendation

Individuals (donors) wishing to donate funds to non-profit and/or charitable organizations want to know how the organizations operate and how effectively their donations are used. Dexterity has developed an online service called Place2Give which aims to answer those questions. The research project aims to employ social network analysis and data mining to enhance the data introduced into the databases used by Place2Give from which the data for the analysis of the charitable organizations behavior is extracted on a case by case basis.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Reda Alhajj

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Dexterity Consulting

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Nutrition for Two: development of interactive nutrition research tools and a pretrial for food and nutrition intake trend among the First Nation’s pregnant women

Prenatal alcohol exposure results in a vast spectrum of teratogenic effects and lifelong implications for a child, called fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Since FASD is not genetic-related and there is no treatment to reverse damage caused to the brain, earlier nutrition intervention to pregnant mothers may be a key to prevent or mitigate the severity of FASD. Although First Nations women in Canada are at higher risk for consuming alcohol during pregnancy, there is no information available on their nutritional status, which could provide the justification for the quantity and quality of nutrition provision. This project will identify the nutritional status of drinking pregnant women throughout their pregnancy in relation to the birth parameters of the newborn infants using a novel culturally-appropriate, web-based interactive nutrition research tool. Ultimately, this research project will provide the basis of a nutritional case management system, to facilitate early nutritional interventions for maternal child health and help mitigate the effects of early childhood developmental disorders such as FASD.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Miyoung Suh

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Function Four Ltd

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Visualization of Facial Trajectories for Fast Adjudication in Watchlist Screening

Public security organizations have deployed video surveillance at many security checkpoints, at e.g., airport inspection lanes and border crossings. Face4 Systems provides solutions for watchlist screening based on state-of-the-art commercial technologies. Although automated still-to-video FR is a valuable function in video surveillance, screening for threatening individuals is largely limited to the FR abilities of a human operator. FR systems suffer from the effects of pose, illumination, resolution, blur, etc. With current technologies, watchlist screening may yield several false matches and nonmatches errors. Fast adjudication is therefore needed to limit the number of costly false matches. The objective of this project is to develop and evaluate algorithms that are suitable to support fast adjudication of faces match reports (produced by an automated FR system) in real-world watchlist screening applications. Given a set of facial captures (trajectory) linked face match, two specific types of visualisation functions are considered to facilitate adjudication – (1) quality assessment for analysis, ranking and selection of probe ROIs; and (2) super-resolution for enhancement appearance of probe face captures. A specialized target-based evaluation methodology will be developed to assess the benefit of proposed visualisation functions for fast adjudication using publicly-available and operational videos collected with Face4 Systems.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Éric Granger

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Face4 Systems Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Feasibility Study of a New Fully Flexible Hydraulic Variable Valve Actuation System for Engines

Recently, due to stringent emission regulations such as US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and CARB (California Air Resource Board), improvement in fuel economy and reduction in the exhaust gas emissions have become the two major challenges for engine manufacturers. To meet the new emission standards, new innovative technologies are needed to improve the performance of existing IC engines. Incorporating a reliable and cost effective fully flexible valvetrain in commercial IC engines is one of the most effective ways to improve the performance of these engines. This research project is intended to do a feasibility study on a new fully hydraulic variable valve system that could significantly improve the efficiency of combustion engines. The outcome of the research will enable the prototyping and implementation of the design on a real engine.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amir Khajepour

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Hunan University

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Dispersal in bromeliad macroivertebrate communities

Dispersal, or the movement of individuals, is very important in order to maintain natural populations. However, dispersal is often difficult to study. New technological developments now allow us to infer dispersal from genetic data. We will use naturally occurring communities of insects that live in small pools of water in order to study how dispersal allows communities of several species to coexist together. In order to do this we must collect insects from these pools of water (that are present in some plants), to then sequence parts of their genomes. We expect that larger insects, higher in the trophic chain will disperse further and therefore will stabilize the community. Whereas smaller insects that use other methods of dispersal will have smaller dispersal distances. Overall this project will help us increase our understanding of dispersal in patchy habitats, which is very important for our management of fragmented forests and nature reserves.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Diane Srivastava

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

HTML5 Integrity and Performance

The research involved in this internship focuses on the performance and integrity of HTML5. In terms of performance, the intern will design and implement a set of tests that will be used to analyze the performance of HTML5 applications. These tests will focus on measuring the computational performance, network performance, as well as rendering performance of such applications. The results of this research will allow Irdeto to make informed decisions about security and performance tradeoffs in their HTML5 protection activities. In terms of integrity, the research aims to provide a certain level of assurance/confidence to advertisers that inject their advertisements on HTML5 pages. Essentially, we want to be able to guarantee that the user-detector JavaScript code injected by the advertiser has not been tampered with. We also want to make sure that it is not being displayed by websites that are not expected/approved, and finally, we want to ensure that the JavaScript code is not being manipulated by other code in the same context. The results of this research will provide means to improve the security and integrity of HTML5 applications.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Carlisle Adams

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Irdeto Canada (Kanata, ON)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Ottawa

Programme :

Accelerate

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