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13270 Completed Projects

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Mise au point d’un entraînement perceptivo-cognitif couplé à la reconnaissance tactique chez les athlètes

Le but du projet de recherche sera de développer un nouvel entraînement cérébral (perceptivo-cognitif) de pointe pour améliorer la performance des sportifs de haut niveau. Cet outil virtuel multitâche (Figure 1) combinera un exercice de traitement de scènes visuelles dynamiques complexes (NeuroTrackerTM) et un exercice de reconnaissance tactique spécifique (ex : tir ou passe). Les effets du «NeuroTrackerTM Tactical Awareness » seront évalués entre autre au sein des Académies de soccer professionnel de l’Impact de Montréal (Canada) et de l’Olympique Lyonnais (France), qui sont des clubs partenaires de Cognisens Athletics Inc. Ce produit sera un attrait pour divers clubs de sport. Il redonnera un nouvel élan à la gamme de produit développé par Cognisens Athletics Inc. en ciblant l’expertise propre à chaque sport. Pour Cognisens Athletics Inc, ce projet représente la validation d’un futur produit dont tous les clubs de sport professionnels sont en demande à l’heure actuelle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Labbé

Student:

Thomas Romeas

Partner:

CogniSens Athletics

Discipline:

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing service quality in community health care through preference-based scheduling

In this project, the intern will develop an integrated patients and care givers scheduling system for the allocation of health care resources in community health care. This system provides patients with an online preference collecting interface for them to express their preferences on time, location, and care givers when estimating their service costs and booking a service appointment. In addition, the system will also provide care givers with the opportunity to express their preferences and availability constraints in taking service appointments. The objective of the system is to enhance patients’ and care givers’ satisfaction by optimizing their preferences in the scheduling process. The system also accommodates dynamic changes from both patients and care givers during and after the scheduling process. The optimized service configuration, lowered service costs, superb user experience and time-saving benefits provided by the proposed system will attract more patients and care givers to require and provide their services through the Medialpha platform. By providing such a service to their customers, Medialpha materializes its vision of making everyone win in healthcare by providing great customer experience to the patients, clinics and other partners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chun Wang

Student:

Zhijie Xie

Partner:

Medialpha

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Characterizing fucoidan-degrading enzymes from marine bacterium

Fucoidan is a polysaccharide found in brown algae (seaweed). ARC Medical Devices Inc. markets fucoidan purified from brown algae for post-surgical veterinary use to reduce interorgan adhesion development. This product works very effectively, prompting a desire to develop a similar product for use in humans. The challenge to this, however, is that fucoidan is an extremely large molecule of heterogeneous composition, making it difficult to meet the higher standards of purity and homogeneity required of medical materials for use in human subjects. Our proposed solution is to harness naturally occurring enzymes found in marine bacteria and use these bio-processing enzymes to tailor the structure and size of fucoidan, and/or synthesize fucoidan fragments, such that the material is of more defined size and composition and can ultimately be obtained in large quantities of high purity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alisdair Boraston

Student:

Orly Salama-Alber

Partner:

ARC Medical Devices Inc

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Application of Machine Learning Methods in Vancouver Island Supply Capability Determination

This project is a feasibility study of applying Machine Learning to Vancouver Island Load Supply Capability determination. The intern is expected to apply neural networks and other machine learning methods to train a transmission operation decision making model to determine the load supply capability of Vancouver Island. An operation scenario database covering equipment status and load information will be generated as the training data to the decision making model. The proposed project will improve the transmission operation of BC Hydro by avoiding over-control, such as unnecessary generator shedding and transmission line tripping. In addition, instead of the current practice, no equations are needed anymore in the operating orders, thus it will save huge amount of human efforts for developing these equations. Furthermore, the proposed project will make it easy for engineers and operators to do sensitivity check, better understanding of system operation will be gained.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jose Marti

Student:

Zemeng Wang

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Best Practices in Aboriginal Mentorship for Entrepreneurs

Mentorship programs are integral to the success of startup businesses. However, there are currently no mentorship programs designed specifically for Aboriginal entrepreneurs. This internship aims to create a guide for a successful Aboriginal mentorship program that emphasizes a productive relationship between mentor and mentee. To this end, the project will examine: successful non-Aboriginal youth mentorship programs, including the Canadian Youth Business Foundation’s mentorship program; successful Aboriginal mentorship programs for established entrepreneurs, such as the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business’ Aboriginal Business Mentorship Program; and the non-business mentorship provided by First Nations Elders to Aboriginal youth. The project intends to culminate with a specific process manual that includes suggested points of mentorship engagement, principles for engagement, and tools for evaluation. As Nesika Management Ltd. aims to help Aboriginal entrepreneurs achieve prosperity and self-reliance in their entrepreneurial ventures, the company will benefit through the Aboriginal entrepreneurs who achieve success as a result of a culturally sensitive mentorship program.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent Mainprize

Student:

Abdullah Saadan Ahmad Qureshi

Partner:

Nesika Management Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Nutrition for Two: development of interactive nutrition research tools and a pretrial for food and nutrition intake trend among the First Nation’s pregnant women

Prenatal alcohol exposure results in a vast spectrum of teratogenic effects and lifelong implications for a child, called fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Since FASD is not genetic-related and there is no treatment to reverse damage caused to the brain, earlier nutrition intervention to pregnant mothers may be a key to prevent or mitigate the severity of FASD. Although First Nations women in Canada are at higher risk for consuming alcohol during pregnancy, there is no information available on their nutritional status, which could provide the justification for the quantity and quality of nutrition provision. This project will identify the nutritional status of drinking pregnant women throughout their pregnancy in relation to the birth parameters of the newborn infants using a novel culturally-appropriate, web-based interactive nutrition research tool. Ultimately, this research project will provide the basis of a nutritional case management system, to facilitate early nutritional interventions for maternal child health and help mitigate the effects of early childhood developmental disorders such as FASD.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Miyoung Suh

Student:

Karlee Dyck, Olena Kloss, Heather Giesbrecht

Partner:

Function Four

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

The I-Score Study: The development and validation of a patient-reported measure of antiretroviral therapy’s interference with life.

Many HIV-positive persons on HIV medication have trouble taking this medication as prescribed by their doctor (treatment adherence). This threatens the long-term ability of the drugs to preserve a patient’s health. For 1 in 5 in Canada, their medication does not work, in part because of adherence problems. Furthermore, doctors and their HIV-positive patients do not always discuss treatment difficulties and how to resolve them in sufficient depth. The I-Score Study is a 24-month research project that will develop a questionnaire to be filled out by patients as a part of routine HIV care. This questionnaire will concern factors that patients in France and Canada report interfere with their ability to take their HIV medication. Its aims are to ensure that care is more patient-centered and better addresses the challenges of lifelong adherence. With access to this Interference-Score, it is expected that patient-doctor communication about adherence will improve; adherence problems will be more quickly identified and addressed; treatments will be better adapted to patients’ needs and concerns;
and ultimately, adherence difficulties will be reduced.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bertrand Lebouché

Student:

Andras Lenart, Isabelle Toupin, David Lessard

Partner:

Merck Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Validation of a microRNA signature prognostic of metastasis in soft-tissue sarcomas

Soft tissue sarcoma is a disease that affects patients of all ages and have profound societal impact. On average 17 life years per patients are lost due to sarcoma, which is 2-3 times more than bowel, lung, prostate or breast cancer. Patients with soft-tissue sarcoma represents one the top 5 most important cancer cause of average percent lifespan lost. Patient die of this cancer from distant metastasis. There are currently no method to determine who may benefit from chemotherapy to reduce the chance of developing metastasis. Using patient biopsy tumor samples, we had previously developed and validated a biological signature that can predict a patient’s risk of developing metastasis. For this signature to be used in clinics, it needs to be validated using samples from other sources and from different sarcomas. This project will assess the signature’s accuracy using sarcoma samples obtained from 4 different academic centers in Canada and US. At the completion of the study, we will know whether this biological signature can be used as a clinical tool to select certain patients to receive aggressive chemotherapy to reduce their risk of developing and dying of sarcoma metastasis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Gervais

Student:

Bishnubrata Patra

Partner:

Institut du cancer de Montréal

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a simulation-based tool to predict the aerodynamic loads on heavy duty trucks

Agility Fuel Systems manufactures fuel systems for converting heavy-duty trucks from diesel fuel to compressed natural gas. The system components are typically situated between the cab and the trailer or along the sides of the truck. Because natural-gas components are typically larger than their conventional counterparts, the converted trucks may experience a larger aerodynamic drag, which decreases its fuel efficiency. The proposed research project will provide Agility Fuel Systems a simulation-based tool to predict the aerodynamic footprint of a truck equipped with a natural-gas fuel system. Interns will develop a three-dimensional parameterized computer model of the vehicle and a numerical simulation tool to predict the aerodynamic loads. The tool will be used to gauge the performance of such trucks and optimize the shape and placement of Agility Fuel Systems’ components. The project will improve the cost-effectiveness of Agility’s natural-gas conversion system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen O'Leary

Student:

Behzad Baghapour

Partner:

Agility Fuel Systems

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

The development of DPIS and associated dopant chemistry for use in standalone IMS systems

Scintrex Trace Corp. is a company that designs and manufactures systems that detect trace amounts of explosives, narcotics, and other chemicals. Due to the economic and regulatory challenges facing their current systems, they want to develop a new system that can better detect these chemicals without the regulatory and economic burdens. Scintrex is partnering with Professor Jeffrey Smith at Carleton University, and expert in the field of chemical spectroscopy, to develop a new trace detection system. They will use a new, non-radioactive ion source in this new system and will develop the appropriate chemistry required for the optimal use of this system. This will allow Scintrex to produce a new product for security and law enforcement agencies to detect a variety of different chemicals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Smith

Student:

Peter Jackson Pallister

Partner:

Scintrex Trace Corp

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Chemicals

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Hybrid Power Systems for Integrated Energy and Food Production in Autonomous Communities

Community integrated energy and food systems bring production and management to the local scale in order to increase autonomy and resiliency. These are particularly expedient in the face of global climate change, more frequent and severe extreme weather, geopolitical instability and peak oil. Bioenergy systems offer enormous potential for such applications because they stand at the nexus between food and energy security; specifically, food waste is an input to bioenergy systems, and bioenergy effluent is an agricultural input. The proposed research will examine energy flows in closed-loop power and food production systems. The potential for bioenergy to provide controllable heat and power in hybrid with other renewables (in this case, solar) and thereby avoid energy storage devices will also be evaluated. The expected output and benefit to the partner organization is a viable model for community integrated energy and food production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Lefsrud

Student:

Jonathan Maisonneuve

Partner:

Montréal ZERO Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Sensory Characteristics and Metabolomics for Flavour Selection in Pork

The hog industry in Manitoba is a very efficient means of converting grains and pulses into high quality protein. Fresh pork is a healthy and nutritious source of protein, yet demand remains static. One of the main reasons cited by consumers for not choosing pork is the absence of good taste in modern pork. The objective of this project is to get fresh pork back on the dinner table by restoring its flavour. The process in which to achieve this goal will include the use of sensory analysis to test the flavour of 1,350 pork tenderloin samples from an array of breeds supplied by Maple Leaf. With the additional use of a metabolomics approach, we will correlate sensory results with metabolites to determine which samples result in the most naturally flavorful meat samples. Maple Leaf already owns or controls about 80,000 sows mainly in Manitoba, producing 1.8 million market hogs annually. Improving the pork flavour will further increase profitability for Maple Leaf and the hog industry, increase sales volume and revenue for the meat industry, and expand the choice of healthy protein for the consumer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Aliani

Student:

Erin Goldberg

Partner:

Maple Leaf Foods

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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