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Strengthen Your Health: Interdisciplinary Intervention Program for Promoting an Active and Healthy Lifestyle Among Students

There are a number of factors that can impact ones level of physical activity. Interpersonal, intrapersonal, and environmental factors are all important when looking at how active or sedentary an individual can be. For schoolchildren, it is important to promote active behaviors that will lead to a healthy lifestyle. By creating a tool to identify factors that influence sedentary behaviors, it can help to promote interventions to encourage students to be more active and more fit. One of the factors of interest is the relationship between being overweight and screen time, and the factors that mediate this relationship. The analysis of this relationship will provide insight into how these factors are related, and hopefully how sedentary behaviors (including screen time) can be reduced.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linda Rohr

Student:

Amanda George

Partner:

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink

The politics of state-facilitated gentrification in post-socialist China: ideological domination, consumerism and exclusionary redevelopment

Using the case of Chengdu, this research is about neighbourhood redevelopment and residential relocation in post-reform cities of China. In this project, the key process is defined as state-facilitated, new-build gentrification. The thesis attempts to understand why politicaleconomic actors initiate gentrification in the inner city, how consensus building is achieved,
conflicts are mediated, and what are the social outcomes for different social groups. It intends to reveal how state intervention renders a process of gentrification seemingly legitimate and consensual between the state and the society through its ideological influence on residents, and how the outcomes of gentrification mask an essential process of marginalization of subaltern groupings from the housing system in the inner city. Empirically, the project will investigate the
decision-making processes in gentrification and the experiences of residents engaged within gentrification and their life chances before and after resettlement or displacement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Ley

Student:

Qinran Yang

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink

Brain dynamics in neurodegenerative

Degenerative brains diseases such as Parkinson?s disease (PD), are getting more common as the population ages. Ways to assess brain diseases, so that disease progression can be predicted and effects of treatment can be measured, are important. Brain imaging technologies are widely available, but extracting the important information from brain images is still a challenge. One way to extract important information from brain images is to examine how different brain networks ?talk? to one another. We have recently developed an analysis method that determines how brain networks change over time. We believe that examining how networks change over time is a valuable new way to assess brain diseases. We will work together with a group in China, which has a large number of data sets, to improve our analysis method. The end result will be a new way to assess brain diseases that will be widely available to other groups around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jane Wang

Student:

Aiping Liu

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mechanism Studies on Soil Erosion around Defective Sewer Pipes

Sinkhole and ground surface collapse frequently occur in urban areas such as highway, roads or around buildings. Usually the failure process in rather sudden without much evidence or obvious signs. This catches people by surprise and results in accidents, injuries or even death in some cases. From current studies and case analysis, most of the sinkholes in urban area are attributed to leaking of water supply lines or sewer pipes. The mechanism is summarized as the soil loss around defective sewer pipes, and this erosion void further evolved to the ground collapse or sinkhole. Through both numerical and experimental modelling, this study will be conducted to investigate the detailed mechanism of soil loss around defective sewer pipes and the quantitative effects of various factors on the sinkhole formation. Therefore the sinkhole or ground collapse can be predicted based on the combination of various influencing factors, which can provide guidelines for the practical remediation and detection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dave Chan

Student:

Yao Tang

Partner:

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink

Educational Reward Plug-In for Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) Platform

Reward is a common way to increase students’ learning motivation in traditional classroom learning. The traditional rewards, such as stamps and stickers, are usually symbolic and valueless to students and may not get students motivated. This project proposes an educational reward plug-in for massively open online course (MOOC) platform like Moodle and edX where students can receive in-game rewards while studying online. When students complete a learning activity (e.g., exercise or quiz), the MOOC reward module will deliver proper in-game items which they can use to play the game according to their performance on the learning activity. When students have better performance in terms of doing and accomplishing a learning activity, they will receive more powerful and/or rare in-game items. With these powerful in-game items’ help, students can have more fun in the game-play or even show-off the items that they have to other players. For this reason, students may put more efforts on doing their homework and may be actively participated in the online discussions in the MOOC course for getting better rewards. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maiga Chang

Student:

Cheng-Li Chen

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

Athabasca University

Program:

Globalink

Bridging the Gap Between CPUs and GPU with Out-of-Order SIMT

Most of today’s computers, from cell phones to supercomputers, are heterogeneous: they integrate processors that are optimized to quickly execute a few tasks (CPU
cores), and processors that can perform many independent tasks in parallel (GPU cores). GPU cores and CPU cores have different instruction sets: they understand
different languages. A task written for CPUs cannot run on GPUs, and vice versa. As a result, programming current heterogeneous architectures is challenging and few
applications can take advantage of the processing power offered by GPU cores. We will address this incompatibility by designing a hybrid CPU and GPU core, which presents the same instruction set as multi-core CPUs while offering the same parallel performance as GPUs.
To experiment and validate our proposition, we will model this new hardware in a software simulator mimicking the behaviour and timings of the proposed hybrid
architecture. We will develop the design using an existing CPU simulator.
This project will significantly ease the development effort required for designing applications which run efficiently on modern computers. It will also harness the
underutilized processing power available in contemporary hardware.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kaamran Raahemifar

Student:

Anita Tino

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Globalink

A new method for educational assessment: measuring association via LOC index

Our objective is to develop the new technics, based on the pioneers’ work, especially the Qoyyimi and Zitikis’s (2015) extension, which can have a good performance on measuring some kinds of relationship between students’ marks of subjects. In order to understand the relationship between students’ marks on different study subjects, many studies apply some kinds of indices, such as the Pearson correlation to measuring association between variables of interest in a variety of research areas, including education. We do some extension on this route. Our partner organization, Gemei Culture and Education Technology, is a company who supply many education products to customers. The good understanding of the relationship between students’ marks on different study subjects can help the company to design and develop proper subjects for more potential customers and give them better learning experience in the company. We inspired by their current demands, and tried to find a technic to serve for the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ricardas Zitikis

Student:

Jiang Wu

Partner:

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink

Broadband Internet Policy and Farmers’ Collective Agency in Vietnam

Vietnam approved the national rural information and communication plan in 2011 that includes the building of a 420 million CAD broadband network infrastructure intended to link all smallest administrative units by 2015. However, the country has not achieved this goal yet. Vietnam has experienced countless failures in rolling out Information Communication Technology systems mainly because of a top-down diffusion approach which sees users as passive recipients. To
avoid those common pitfalls, the project – a part of my dissertation – views that farmers are active agents whose collective agency has a say in shaping the Internet policy that works and responds to their needs; erases undemocratic practices; and expands their political, economic, social, and personal freedoms. In this project, I plan to gather broadband Internet development information and travel across the country to select representative villages for public consultations about the technology policy when broadband Internet is still in the making and has not got entrenched.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maria Bakardjieva

Student:

Trang Pham

Partner:

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink

Biomimetic Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: A New Quorum Sensing Capturing Agent to Prevent Bacterial Biofilm Formation

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative pathogen that is frequently related to nosocomial infections. The bacterial biofilm controlled by quorum sensing system allows P. aeruginosa to adhere to any surface and protect it from antibacterial treatments, such as antibiotics and heat treatment. The novel invention strategy developed in this project is to inhibit P. aeruginosa biofilm formation by developing molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) to capture quorum sensing signal molecules (i.e, N-3-oxo-dodecanoyl-L-Homoserine lactone (C12-AHL)). MIPs are synthesized by bulk- and precipitation-polymerization with the presence of C12-AHL as template. The adsorption capacity of MIPs and the corresponding blank polymer toward C12-AHL will be tested. Biofilm formation in the presence and absence of MIPs will be studied using scanning confocal laser microscopy and crystal violet staining assay. Our developed MIPs is expected to show better binding capacity towards signal molecules and effectively inhibit biofilm formation compared to the control group.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaonan Lu

Student:

Luyao Ma

Partner:

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink

Development of a Quantitative Lab and Field-Based Microbial Tool to Determine Arsenic Speciation in Seawater

Arsenic (As) is a contaminant found in ecosystems and drinking water throughout the world; it is a potent human carcinogen. Arsenic levels and speciation are controlled by a series of abiotic and microbial processes. Arsenic toxicity depends on its speciation and proper risk management is linked to predicting As speciation in various environmental matrices. Laboratory speciation of arsenic is expensive and requires tedious collection methods to preserve in-situ conditions. Marine ecosystems are affected by As contamination but few tools are adapted to its detection. Our goal is to develop a novel arsenic biosensor capable of determining the speciation of inorganic arsenic in seawater while rapidly estimating the quantity of bioavailable arsenic at concentrations regulated by the World Health Organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Poulain

Student:

Martin Pothier

Partner:

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Evaluation of apoptosis and proliferation rates in juvenilerat tissues

During maturation, juvenile rats have dramatic histomorphometric changes within their tissues, including marked proliferation and cell death. These background changes should not be mistaken with drug-induced pathologic features. This is critical for optimal drug toxicity studies. The main objective of this study is to build a database on apoptosis and proliferation at different time points in juvenile rats. Both the data on juvenile tissues and the development of optimized techniques will be a strong commercial asset to the private partner.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Odile Benoit Biancamano

Student:

Vanessa Vrolyk

Partner:

CitoxLAB

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

What is a farmed salmon? Understanding the life of a seafood commodity from ocean to table

Farmed Atlantic salmon is one of the world’s most valuable and widely traded seafood commodities. It is a significant component of Canada’s agrifood sector, and is BC’s largest agricultural commodity. It provides much needed employment in rural, remote and sometimes aboriginal communities in BC. However in BC, the sector has been consistently challenged by social license; a constraint that reflects the diverse perspectives about farmed salmon. This research project is aimed at better understanding these perspectives by following the fish along the commodity chain from its production in BC to consumption in California, and documenting the values and meanings, both positive and negative of people who touch it along the way. This may improve dialogue contributing to social license as the sector pursues new and increased market opportunities in Canada and abroad for this globally traded species.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rosaline Canessa

Student:

Michele Patterson

Partner:

Grieg Seafood

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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