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The use of whole-body kinematic technology for optimizing current steering deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease patients

Patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) may develop motor complications caused by Levodopa, the current drug used for treatment. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an alternative surgical treatment where electrodes are implanted in a specific brain region to deliver current to surrounding brain tissue which helps to alleviate motor symptoms of PD. Presently, there is a limitation to how the current is being delivered to the targeted brain region. Current steering (CS) is a novel DBS technique, unique to Boston Scientific systems, that accounts for this limitation. CS allows the ability to divide the current between electrodes to manipulate the shape of the electric field in the targeted brain region. With the help of Boston Scientific, we intend to validate the application of CS to DBS to improve motor symptoms effectively and efficiently. A motion capture suit will quantitatively assess changes in motor symptoms. TO BE CON’T

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mandar Jog

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Boston Scientific Ltd.

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Lawson Health Research Institute; Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

Développement d’outils pour l’évaluation opérationnelle des flux de nutriments dans les petits bassins versants alimentés par les eaux souterraines

La qualité des eaux souterraines au Canada se dégrade et impacte la qualité des eaux de surface qui leur sont connectées. Étudier l’eau souterraine est complexe. La recherche universitaire a développé des méthodes efficaces pour comprendre d’où viennent l’eau et les pollutions et quels sont leurs parcours, mais elles ne sont presque jamais appliquées aux études environnementales standards.
Ce projet propose d’établir une passerelle entre le monde académique et les besoins du terrain, en faisant collaborer une université (UQAM) et un organisme de bassin (OBV) (COBAMIL). Il permettra de créer des outils opérationnels d’aide à la compréhension des systèmes lacs-eaux souterraines, utilisables par un OBV pour mettre en place des politiques de protection et de gestion. Ces outils pourront être réutilisés par d’autres OBV pour d’autres systèmes lacs-eaux souterraines. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Florent BARBECOT;Paul Baudron

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Conseil des bassins versants des Mille-Îles

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

Université du Québec à Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Salmon Early Marine Survival Research Program

Salmon are inarguably one of the most culturally, ecologically, and economically important fish in British Columbia, however, their stocks have been declining since the 1990’s. The Cohen Commission of Enquiry expert panel emphasized that juvenile mortality during the first months at sea was the most likely cause of fishery declines. The two leading agents of mortality are hypothesised to be food availability for growth and pathogen / parasite infection. The Hakai Institute Juvenile Salmon Program is explicitly addressing these two hypotheses. The interns recruited to the program will research the food-webs that support juvenile salmon, sea lice prevalence, and the impacts of both of these on fish health and mortality. The wide spatial and temporal coverage of the Hakai programs and incorporation of new technologies makes this program well placed to meet these fisheries research needs, while contributing significantly to intern training.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brian Hunt;Jonathan Moore;John Reynolds

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

The Hakai Institute, part of the Tula Foundation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Sustainability & the Environment; Aquaculture and Fishing; Technology

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Creating moments for shoppers: Impact of time on effectiveness of notifications

Over the last recent years, internet usage through mobile devices has grown rapidly and today, majority of the online traffic is coming from mobiles. This means that most of the time, a user uses his/her mobile to view the retailer website, review items or finish a purchase. Accord ingly, reta ilers have come to the idea of building a platform that would engage and re-engage users through pushing notification. However, there are multiple factors such as time of a day that a retailer would takes into account to send out notific.ation. A retailer requires to carefully analyze its users to avoid sending out spammy notifications. In this project, we aim to design a model that would recommend an optimal time to reach out different users in order to most effectively engage them.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sara Mostafavi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Mobify Research and Development Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of a validated model allowing strategic positioning of early-stage therapies in the pharmaceutical market

The proposed project consists of developing a validated Excel model allowing strategic positioning of early-stage therapies in the pharmaceutical market according to their attractiveness. This model can be used by investors or researchers and will allow them to see how their drug compares to other molecules already marketed, having failed, or in development, in a specific indication. Ultimately, this model will guide investors and researchers in making decisions based on the potential attractiveness of the molecule in the selected market. Results of the project will be used internally by AmorChem Financial Inc. to analyze future investment opportunities, but the strategic positioning model can be also used by different investors, researchers, and consultants interested in market access analysis.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michelle Savoie

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AmorChem Financial Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Comprendre les structures d’innovation au CHU Ste-Justine pour favoriser le développement de Hacking Health: recherche-enquête sur l’état actuel en vue d’un centre d’innovation

L’une des missions de Hacking Health est d’encourager le changement des façons de faire dans les institutions de santé pour favoriser le développement et l’adoption de nouvelles technologies. Le CHU Ste-Justine, en tant que première institution de santé partenaire de Hacking Health, est une pionnière dans le codéveloppement de structures d’innovation en collaboration avec Hacking Health. Ces nouvelles structures visent à ouvrir les processus d’innovation aux membres de l’hôpital ainsi qu’aux acteurs externes (par exemple, les spécialistes en programmation et les entrepreneurs numériques) pour améliorer en continu la performance, l’efficience, la pertinence et la qualité des services offerts à la population. Hacking Health souhaite faire l’état de la situation des structures et des outils qui ont été construits sur des initiatives locales pour les diffuser auprès de ses autres partenaires hospitaliers canadiens. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Réal Jacob

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Fondation Hacking Health

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

HEC Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Shoppers Persona Analysis: Statistical Learning of Shoppers’ Behaviour

The project is to break down shoppers into different groups. Shoppers have different preferences, for instance some shoppers tend to buy online in the morning, some might prefer purchasing online at night. If one could group together shoppers based on their different shopping behaviours, one would then be able to come up with personalized sales strategy that could better serve the customers, for example the retailer could send push notification in the morning to the group whose shoppers tend to buy in the morning. In return, this will provide advanced algorithms to help to generate more profit for the retail company. In this sense, this is a win-win project that will benefit both the retailers and the shoppers.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

William J Welch

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Mobify Research and Development Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Geologically-constrained geophysical inversions for resource expansion of the diamondiferous Renard kimberlite property

Diamond-bearing kimberlites are enigmatic deposits due to their complex volcanic plumbing systems and variable preservation. Although geophysical methods are well established and effective exploration techniques, they require independent and costly constraints (e.g., drilling) to limit the number of plausible targets. There is thus a clear need to enhance interpretation of geophysical data to optimize target determination. Two earlier projects showed that 3D geologically-constrained geophysical modeling, with even simple pipe geometries, effectively reproduces the observed anomalies above Stornoway Diamond’s Renard kimberlite pipes. To further optimise this methodology, we propose to evaluate and prioritize for drilling all untested geophysical anomalies in a 320 km2 block of the Renard property. This will coincide with an extensive exploration drilling campaign throughout the property. This study will thus put into practice a novel, cost effective methodology in a real-time exploration setting with the goal of expanding the resource of the Renard property.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Glyn Williams-Jones

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Stornoway Diamond Corporation (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of an Innovative Penning Ion Source Optimized for He++ Production

D-Pace, Inc. supplies high-quality precision equipment and services to the particle accelerator industry. D-Pace has identified a market for positively-charged helium ion sources. Cyclotrons require positive helium ions to generate radioisotopes as such as Astatine-211 for radioimmunotherapy, and Sn-117m for imaging and therapy. Complex and costly Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources are currently used for this purpose. D-Pace has determined that Penning ion source technology, a simpler and more compact approach than ECR sources, may be suitable to meet the needs of this market segment. This would bring radio-pharmaceutical costs down and improve the availability of these agents.
Penning ion sources currently do not have sufficient positive helium ion current, kinetic energy, and beam quality to compete with ECR sources. The scope of this project will include a thorough review of the scientific literature, followed by the application of modern computer modeling techniques to optimize the Penning source design.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Reiner Kruecken

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

D-Pace Inc

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Investigating How Teachers Learn and Customize Digital Classroom Tools

Our proposed research investigates how K-12 teachers learn and customize digital classroom tools and learning management systems and how they share this information with each other. In particular, we will be working with our partner Microsoft to investigate the use and customization of the recently developed OneNote Class Notebooks software that is increasingly being used by teachers for various content delivery and content management tasks. We will carry out semi-structured interviews with K-12 teachers and do content analysis of online forums and blogs to synthesize gaps in retrieving and applying community-created customizations and how the customization-sharing process could be improved. We expect these findings to help inform the design of new tools that can, for example, help a teacher who is new to using an application such as the Class Notebooks accelerate her course set-up process by using a customization created and shared by another instructor teaching a similar course.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Parmit Chilana;Joanna McGrenere

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Microsoft Canada

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Information and Communications Technology; Education; Entertainment and Media

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

Étude comparative sur la numérisation des PME en France et au Québec

L’objectif de cette recherche est de dresser un portrait global des règles internationales qui régissent la commercialisation des services numériques. De ce point de vue, quatre grands axes seront présentés dans le cadre de cette recherche. Tout d’abord, une synthèse de la revue de la littérature qui traite des normes commerciales internationales à l’égard de la numérisation sera présentée. Ensuite, ce sont les études et les sondages effectués sur les pratiques et usages du numérique dans les PME françaises et québécoises qui seront abordées et un portrait global de la situation en France et au Québec sera dressé. Puis les politiques publiques visant le développement numérique des PME seront présentées.
Cette recherche exploratoire va donc permettre à l’organisme partenaire (Les Conseillers d’Affaires) de mieux comprendre les règles qui régissent la commercialisation des services numériques et des possibilités du marché français dans le domaine numérique.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mathieu Arès

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Les Conseillers d'Affaires Plus Inc

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

Examining Best Practices of Engineers Who Have Commercialized Technologies

Entrepreneurship is the embodiment of innovation and its presence is a significant indicator of the power of an economy. Engineering is an essential sector for production of high technology products, services, and jobs, and is often at the forefront of innovation. This research aims to strengthen the current understanding of entrepreneurial success of engineers in Ontario. Data will be gathered from several academic, and business sources, as well as practicing entrepreneurs with engineering backgrounds. This data is expected to yield quantifiable and qualifiable metrics that are linked to engineering entrepreneurs’ success, and will be summarized in a report. Select businesses will also contribute to a success-cases document. A best-practices document will be produced from a combination of the research and the in-depth case studies. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tamer El-Diraby

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ontario Society of Professional Engineers

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Real estate and rental and leasing

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

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