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Comment les méthodologies de design thinking peuvent supporter l’amélioration continue des processus en commerce de détail?

Le projet de recherche est une expérimentation visant à évaluer l’intérêt de la mobilisation de la méthode du design thinking pour l’amélioration des différents processus managériaux et commerciaux d’un centre jardin. À l’aide du la boîte à outils et de la méthode du design thinking, les différents processus seront analysés. Par la suite, des recommandations seront formulées dans le but de les améliorer et de les mettre à jour toujours en suivant les principes du design thinking. Une évaluation critique de la démarche sera développée.
L’organisation partenaire tirera des recommandations spécifiques à sa situation pour l’amélioration de ses processus et sera initiée à l’approche du design thinking. Les autres commerces de détails pourront s’inspirer de ce projet de recherche pour mobiliser le design thinking dans leurs démarches d’amélioration.

Lolli 37 Designs – Junior Staff Accountant and Social Media Marketing Project – Jasmine & Neha

Loulou Lollipop is a Canadian company founded by the twin sisters Eleanor and Angel. In pursuit of better, more attractive, and safer products for every newborn adventure, we are redefining available baby products. We are one of the fastest-growing, female-led, apparels and accessories brands for children in North America. Our products are designed in Vancouver and created from the heart. We are a team with imaginative style, uncompromising safety standards, and a desire to create a better world for future generations. This internship project, led by two KPU interns, will bring innovation to both our financial practices and our digital marketing strategies. Our Junior Accountant Intern will revamp current systems, eliminate accounting inefficiencies, and collaborate with our controller to start a manual for best financial practices to be followed moving on. The Social Media Marketing Intern will work on creating a strategic plan for all of our digital media efforts, including our social media platforms, and will analyze best usage. As an active participant in data collection and analysis, the intern will consistently improve the company’s digital marketing practices, identify gaps, and provide remedies.

Évaluation des services écosystémiques associés à l’hydrologie et à la qualité de l’eau à l’échelle des bassins versants de la région d’Edmundston selon l’approche du capital Nature

La municipalité d’Edmundston souhaite se doter d’un plan de gestion des actifs naturels pour la mise en place d’une gestion intégrée de l’eau et son adaptation au changement climatique. Pour ce faire, elle vise à documenter de manière scientifique, explicite et cartographique les rôles des écosystèmes naturels (milieux humides, peuplements forestiers, bandes tampons riveraines) pour l’hydrologie et la qualité de l’eau à l’échelle des bassins versants. Plus spécifiquement, ce projet permettra d’évaluer les services écosystémiques rendus par les actifs naturels dans les conditions climatiques actuelles et futures, d’établir des scénarios d’aménagement du territoire et d’investissement dans la protection et la restauration de milieux naturels, et d’optimiser des stratégies pour le maintien, voire l’accroissement de la rétention des sédiments et la purification des eaux de surface, l’atténuation du risque d’inondation et le maintien de l’approvisionnement en eau potable durant les sécheresses estivales, malgré les impacts des changements climatiques. Ainsi, ce projet pourra contribuer à un meilleur aménagement des bassins versants et à une atténuation des impacts climatiques sur la ressource en eau.

Geometry recognition from computer-aided design drawing files

Currently, the service provided by Axya links manufacturers and buyers of manufactured goods. To find a perfect match between a manufacturer and a buyer, the files they share need to be analyzed. CAD engineering drawings represent most of the files shared. However, manual analysis of large amounts of engineering drawings is too time-consuming while requiring high engineering expertise. Based on this, it is proposed 1) to investigate ways of automating the analysis of engineering drawings with computer vision, 2) to retrieve and analyze crucial geometric features from engineering drawings, and 3) to reconstruct 3D geometry from 2D data in engineering drawings.

Valorisation des données dans les services d’urgences

Les patients dans les services d’urgences ont besoin d’accéder aux soins dans des délais spécifiques afin d’assurer le bon traitement au bon moment. Le nombre limité des ressources humaines et la mauvaise planification ne permet pas l’exploitation optimale en urgence. Le déséquilibre entre la demande d’accès aux soins et la capacité des services d’urgences devient de plus en plus important surtout avec la croissance continue de la population, ce qui influe sur la satisfaction des patients et les dépenses médicales telles que le temps supplémentaire travaillé par le personnel. Les gestionnaires des services d’urgences font face aux longues durées d’attente des patients et un budget médical limité. Donc, ils sont obligés de faire une gestion efficace des ressources en réduisant les coûts et en assurant une bonne qualité de service.

Ce projet vise essentiellement à améliorer le processus de gestion en urgence en minimisant le temps d’attentes des patients en valorisant les données opérationnelles, et en utilisant l’intelligence artificielle.

Active noise cancellation of various noisy environments, especially construction sites, using advanced deep learning.

There are many commercialized active noise cancellation (ANC) headphones and headsets that try to reduce unwanted background noise. You can simply listen to your favorite music or talking with your loved ones in crowed areas using them without any distractions. The overall working principle of them is to generate an inverse signal to unwanted noise to neutralize it inside the ear drum. These devices are specially produced for single users. But how about cancelling excessive noise in car passengers’ cabin or working places that loud machineries are working? In this research, we are going to build an ANC device suitable for open space environment to cancel any kind of undesirable noise while keeping human voice unchanged using advanced AI algorithms. The developed device can be used in factories, construction sites, libraries, hospitals and residential buildings in densely populated downtown areas.

Data Justice for the New Data: Contextualizing Data Storage and Protection in Decentralized Trust Technologies Used in Conflict Contexts

The goal of this research project is to understand how well blockchain and distributed ledger projects conducted in humanitarian settings live up to their potential for benefitting technology users. The research will consider this question through the lens of data justice, an emerging framework that looks at the storage and protection of digital data and how technology users are treated when they produce digital data. This framework is relevant to the production of the data generated by the way individuals lead their social and economic lives online. The project partners with Peer Social, an organization currently building a solution for displaced individuals in Ukraine to use this type of data to attest to their identity and ownership of homes, lands, and properties (HLP) that may have been destroyed in the war caused by Russian aggression. The project will deliver a set of recommendations for Peer Social and other technology providers working on humanitarian blockchain projects for how they might attend to data justice in their products and a scholarly research paper on the topic.

Anonymous Age Verification Using Electrocardiogram (ECG) Obtained from Smart Wearables

Age-verification mandatory procedure for delivering certain services and products. Traditionally, identification documents have been a common mechanism of age-verification. However, this current strategy is subject to certain risks regarding privacy protection and online forgery. This demonstrates the value in anonymous age verification schemes using biometrics. Considering its age-dependent attributes, Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a potential solution. Preliminary experiments have been conducted regarding age estimation- classification from ECG obtained in clinical settings. For wider implementation, it is essential to explore this technology for ECG obtained from smart wearables. This research project aims to serve that purpose. Its successful completion would contribute to determining the feasibility of ECG-based age verification systems for general use.

Analyser et utiliser un canal de propagation dans unenvironnement de haute tension

Les effets négatifs des changements climatiques d’une part et les besoins énergétiques toujours croissants d’autre part ont poussés les décideurs à mettre en place des programmes d’efficacité énergétique. Au-delà d’une prise de conscience collective, il faut fournir les outils et les informations permettant aux utilisateurs finaux et
aux producteurs, transporteurs et distributeurs d’énergie de collaborer dans cet effort d’économie d’énergie. Pour répondre à ce besoin, des réseaux de capteurs doivent être déployés et serviront à connaitre l’état réel des équipements à des fins de pérennité et d’entretien préventif et à les vérifier et à les commander à distance. Le potentiel du sans-fil dans le domaine des capteurs est énorme. Toutefois, son déploiement dans des environnements à fortes perturbations électromagnétiques comme les postes de haute tension reste un défi majeur. Il est donc essentiel de développer des techniques et des outils pour comprendre, maîtriser et rendre plus performant les réseaux de capteurs dans ce type d’environnements hostiles. C’est l’objectif de ce projet de recherche autour de la caractérisation et de la modélisation du canal de propagation dans un
environnement de haute tension.

Differentially private transfer learning for medical image generation to support open research

Our proposal will focus on data synthesis for retina-based disease diagnoses, such as Glaucoma detection. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible but preventable blindness in working-age populations. In 2013, 64.3 million people aged 40–80 years were estimated to suffer from glaucoma, while this number is expected to increase to 76 million by 2020 and 111.8 million by 2040. This project aims to generate privacy-preserving synthetic ophthalmological medical image data, i.e., fundus images, through the use of public data, differential privacy and machine learning-based generative models.

Contrôle de la marche des robots humanoïdes complexes par apprentissage par imitation

The project is part of a Master’s degree Thesis titled “Imitation Learning for Gait Similarity Optimization in Bipedal Locomotion Robots”, which aims to study the application of artificial intelligence techniques to allow humanoid robots to learn how to walk in a way as similar as possible as a human does. Specifically, the project to be developed in UQTR addresses the application of imitation learning algorithms and optimization methods, in conjunction with motion capture data of human locomotion. These motion data describe gait patterns that are compared to those of the robot, so that through a set of specific parameters, the difference is minimized. This optimization process is performed by means of multiple tests, both in a simulation environment and in a real robot (available at the host university), so that the differences between human dynamics and the humanoid robot can be studied and eventually managed.

Premier Recruitment Services – Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Intern – Chelsea

At Premier Recruitment Services (PRS), we specialize in Public Practice and Accounting recruitment across North America. Our founding partners are both designated accounting professionals and we are a team of CPAs who recruit CPAs. Our recruitment technology platform has been developed to streamline the recruitment process we use. This includes a series of resources, such as video resumes, online training content, automated online interview scheduling with a feedback system are just a few to mention. As a result, we can offer employers a unique dashboard that uses metrics for hiring performance. This recruitment strategy has supported a substantial growth in our US public accounting division and allowed us to place CPA candidates across all Canadian provinces and across the US. Our team of recruiters works with CPA accounting candidates, builds sustainable relationships, and helps them move to their next professional role. The Recruitment and Talent Acquisition intern will lead a project where our talent acquisition and sourcing methods will be reviewed and improved. In order to successfully screen and interview candidates for the available roles, we want to stay up-to-date with novel approached in this industry.