Projets novateurs réalisés

Healthy Aging Cohort Pilot: Stage 2

The Healthy Aging Cohort pilot study, aims to explore the relationship between medical fitness facility attendance and health outcomes as people age. This study will gather comprehensive data on health and lifestyle factors and the goal is to develop one of the largest studies on healthy aging, highlighting the potential benefits of medical fitness facilities and potentially reducing healthcare costs.

Digital Data: Linking rural innovation, access and resiliency through community hubs Phase 2

This research will focus on the experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ community members in Perth-Huron with specific attention to discrimination, access and use of services, and community integration. The research will support service providers to effectively target their efforts to the needs of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, to create a better sense of belonging and reduced discrimination for 2SLGBTQ+ community members in Perth-Huron.

Développement et mise en production d’une fonctionnalité d’offre collective pour une plateforme B2B d’approvisionnement en circuits courts

Amélioration d’une plateforme B2B d’approvisionnement en agroalimentaire afin de favoriser le circuit-court. En
particulier, l’ajout de fonctionnalités permettant de facilement créer et gérer des offres collectives à partir de la
plateforme Arrivage. Ces nouvelles fonctionnalités permettront aux régions, pôles alimentaires et autres organismes
collectif d’utiliser la plateforme pour créer et gérer une offre combinant les offres de leurs membres.

IMPACT (IMproved Pulmonary repair with Advanced Cell Therapy) for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

When people become critically ill, such as during severe infection, their lungs often fail – this is termed “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” (ARDS). ARDS is common, and often fatal. There is no drug therapy for ARDS and new therapies are urgently required. Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) from bone marrow offer significant hope for ARDS, and early research findings are promising. An alternative source of these cells is the tissue around the blood vessels of the umbilical cord – these umbilical cord MSCs offer potential advantages over bone marrow MSCs, including ease of isolation and enhanced therapeutic effect. Our partner organization, Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics, has developed a method for extraction of these cells. This project aims to assess the efficacy of these cells in laboratory and animal models that mimic some of the features of ARDS. In addition, this project aims to optimize the therapeutic effect of these cells by activating them to enhance their reparative potential.

Effets de l’engagement prolongé dans une tâche de dactylographie sur les performances psychomotrices, la perception d’effort et les intentions d’effort

La dactylographie se définie comme une technique d’écriture initialement développée pour la machine à écrire, c’est l’action de saisir ou taper un texte sur un clavier. Ce type d’exercice est omniprésent dans la vie des étudiants et des employés de bureau qui prennent des notes, rédigent des comptes rendus, rapports et mémoires, souvent avec une contrainte temporelle qui nécessite alors une grande capacité de concentration et de précision. Cependant, malgré l’importance qu’ont les tâches dactylographiques dans la vie quotidienne de nombreux individus, l’effet d’un engagement prolongé dans une tâche dactylographique sur les performances psychomotrices subséquentes restent non étudié. L’engagement prolongé dans une tâche exigente peut générer un état de fatigue mentale, cet état est lié à une augmentation de la perception d’effort ce qui peut engendrer une diminution des performances psychomotrices. En effet, d’après la littérature actuelle, la prise de décision, la précision et la rapidité de réponse sont négativement affectées par la fatigue mentale. Cependant ces études ont été faite en laboratoire avec des tâche spécifiques assez éloignées des conditions de vie réelles. C’est pour cette raison que la présente étude intègre la dactylographie pour étudier l’impact de la fatigue mentale sur les performances psychomotrices en conditions écologiques.

Projet ARGOS entre le LBMC (Université de Lyon) et le S2M (Université de Montréal)

Ce projet vise à améliorer l’évaluation de la fonction du membre supérieur chez les enfants atteints de paralysie cérébrale. Actuellement, les cliniciens utilisent des méthodes qui prennent du temps et ne fournissent pas toujours des informations complètes. Ce projet va développer de nouvelles technologies qui permettront d’observer les mouvements des enfants de manière plus naturelle et précise.

Ces nouvelles technologies pourraient aider les cliniciens à mieux comprendre les limitations des enfants et à leur proposer des traitements plus adaptés.

Avantages potentiels:
– Meilleure compréhension de la paralysie cérébrale
– Évaluations plus précises de la fonction du membre supérieur
– Traitements plus efficaces pour les enfants atteints de PC

A Modular and Scalable Approach to Network Management and High-Speed Traffic Processing in Satellite Communication Systems

This project presents a novel software-centric architecture for enhancing network management and traffic processing in satellite communication networks. The architecture features a standardized communication framework enabling seamless interaction between a software-based Network Management System, traffic applications, and a new high-speed hardware processing module. This module, designed with a hybrid FPGA/CPU approach, provides high-performance modulation and coding capabilities aligned with DVB-S2X standards. The modular software and hardware design ensures flexibility, scalability, and adaptability, ultimately improving the system’s agility, performance, and efficiency.

Impact de stratégies d’additifs alimentaire sur le microbiote intestinal du poulet à griller

La gastro-entérite chez les humains est souvent causée par Campylobacter jejuni, une bactérie microaérophile Gram négative. En raison d’une forte charge de Campylobacter dans les intestins des poulets, atteignant jusqu’à 10? UFC/g, la campylobactériose est principalement attribuée à la consommation et à la manipulation de produits de volaille contaminés tels que différentes découpes de viande et les foies. De plus, dans de rares cas, l’infection peut entraîner des troubles chroniques, tels que le syndrome de Guillain-Barré, qui provoque une paralysie neuromusculaire et même la mort chez 4 à 15 % des patients. Pour limiter le risque de campylobactériose pour la santé humaine, une stratégie consiste à réduire la concentration de C. jejuni dans l’intestin des poulets de chair avant l’abattage.

Une de ces stratégie et l’emploie de phytodérivés pour contrôler la bactérie tout en modulant positivement le microbiote intestinal des oiseaux.

Les HE sont connues pour leur action antimicrobienne. À faible dose, elle ne semble pas efficace. Par contre, personne n’a encore testé chez les oiseaux si l’ajout d’huile essentielles encapsulées à très forte dose pouvait réduire la colonisation des intestins des oiseaux par Campylobacter et comment ceci impact les autres populations bactériennes du tractus digestif.

Canadian Scientist Speakers Network (CSSN)

Building on the success of version 1.0, the Canadian Scientist Network (CSN) 2.0 project aims to significantly impact the national landscape of science in Canada by amplifying the voices and profiles of diverse Canadian scientists. Under the leadership of Dr. Imogen Coe, a recognized authority in the field of inclusive excellence in science, this project seeks to elevate the visibility and accessibility of underrepresented scientists and engineers across the country.
Dr. Coe, in collaboration with a team of interns from a partnering academic institution and academic partners Dr. Mustafiz and Dr. Borden, will apply an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and accessibility lens to the development of the CSN platform. The platform will serve as a dynamic resource for highlighting diverse Canadian scientist speakers, providing them with opportunities to share their expertise on a broader scale.
The enhanced CSN platform will be instrumental in facilitating connections between these experts and a range of organizations seeking diverse perspectives in science and engineering. This initiative reflects a commitment to fostering a more inclusive and representative national scientific community, ensuring that the voices of all Canadian scientists are heard and valued.

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring via contact lens platform

Medella Health is developing contact lenses that continuously detect blood glucose levels to better manage diabetes and improve the quality of life for diabetic patients. Patients have a difficult time monitoring and maintaining their blood glucose levels because current systems are invasive, discontinuous and do not generate the continuous feedback necessary for patients to take immediate action. This mismanagement can lead to serious immediate effects (such as seizures, fainting) and long-term effects (such as kidney failure, cardiovascular diseases and blindness), thus significantly increasing costs for the healthcare system. The IT system in the mobile device will be able to run data analytics on blood glucose data, transfer information to health care providers and most importantly, send push notifications to patients in a state of diabetic emergency (i.e. if blood glucose levels reaches a certain threshold).

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Business Analysis for Advocacy-focused, AI-Enabled, Stakeholder Relationship Management System

Legislation is a messy process, with important information generally not available to all stakeholders, a number of critical influencers and processes that are manual, and indeed “heroic” efforts required to get anything significant done. Gnowit (the partner organization) makes this much easier by tracking millions of sources of policy, legislative, regulatory and media information and automatically generating briefing for regulatory analysis and public affairs experts. However, monitoring is only one part of the process, and the partner organization would like to bring a higher level of automation to the process via the provision of central systems of records and standardized workflows. The goal of this project is to essentially design, prototype and test an advocacy focused stakeholder relationship management system, and the Interns will be tasked to carry out business analyst requirement gathering, working with real-life clients to determine key information artefacts that are critical to lobbying success, and then propose how automation and artificial intelligence can be used to support these efforts. These information artefacts can include entities such as Government/academic/trade/non-profit/media organizations, key representatives of these organization, legislation, compliance requirements, policy changes, stakeholder positions, and lobbying activities. The Intern will work with the partner organization’s team to propose automation that can capture, store and report on this information (via media monitoring, Government policy monitoring, legislative + regulation monitoring, email client integration, etc) to bring the same efficiency to GR and advocacy focused firms, that Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms have brought to sales and business development focused organizations. The Intern will need to be an expert in both business analytics as well having a deep understanding of the software engineering process to be able to carry out the required customer interviews, customer validation, requirements documentation work as well as developing an early prototype.