Innovative Projects Realized

Exploring the Uptake and Impact of Using the LEADS in a Caring Environment Frameworkto Enhance Leadership Capacity in Health Systems

The health system in Canada is increasingly recognized as a complex adaptive environment requiring system wide perspectives and approaches for improving outcomes. The World Health Organization has identified leadership as a key building block of systems change, yet evaluating the value of investment in leadership development is challenging. LEADS is an evidence-based leadership development framework offered through the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), complemented by four 360 LEADS© self-assessment tools. Working with a team including one of the original developers, Fenwick Leadership Explorations, Dr. Vilches will use action research with key partners and feedback data from prior LEADS implementation, exploring how complexity in health care delivery systems impact and influence leadership development outcomes. The immediate outcome will be a better understanding of how to apply the broadly adopted LEADS framework, as well as a better understanding of leadership development in complex adaptive environments, specifically in the Canadian health system.

Design and characterization of novel chemosensors for the detection of biomarkers in biofluids

Development of cementitious materials with recycled combustion slag

Research on the Face Stability for Shield Tunnelling

The role of the cerebellum for feedback processing

Fiber optical sensors and modelling for lithium-ion batteries in the aspect of battery safety

Robotics and Deep Learning – How to Cooperate via Emergent Language

Development of transfer functions to study mass transfer in porous solids by frequency response

Development of selective HDAC inhibitors targeting the CoREST protein complex

Label free, real-time imaging of tumor-immune interactions in an organ-on-chip platform

Touching Surfaces- Testing antimicrobial surfaces for spaceflight and Earth applications

Effect of Mineralogy on the Application of Sensor-based Sorting Techniques Year Two

Comminution, the process of crushing and grinding ore to liberate minerals, is the most energy intensive part of the processing flowsheet and accounts for upwards of 75% of the overall energy consumption of the processing plant. Ideally we would only crush and grind those rocks that contain economically extractable amounts of minerals. MineSense has developed sensors that can detect the level of minerals in rocks and, in particular, can detect very low levels with high accuracy. This proposal is to use MineSense’s sensing technology to pre-concentrate low grade copper ores. Based on test results, the correlation between the copper value and the sensor signals will be evaluated. An evaluation method will be proposed on the limit of the specific sorting technology. This information is critical both for MineSense to commercialize its products and for industry to accept the product.