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Fitness Coach Connects Program Evaluation

Shepell·fgi, a leader in Employee and Family Assistance Programs (EFAPs) in Canada, launched its Fitness Coach Connects program in June 2013. This program engages users through the use of a wireless activity tracker, personalized interactions and coaching sessions with a dedicated Fitness Coach, as well as access to an online program. This internship will support Shepell·fgi’s Clinical Services and Research department in their evaluation of the Fitness Coach Connects program’s user data and feedback. Data analysis and program evaluation will contribute to the further development of best practices for this field of service, and will serve to provide the basis for future program enhancements. The goals of the internship are to develop a comprehensive literature review on the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of EFAP programs which include customized fitness and technology-assisted components, and on the key challenges associated with the evaluation of these programs; to evaluate utilization data and user feedback regarding the key components of the Fitness Coach Connects program developed by Shepell·fgi; and to evaluate the impact of technology-assisted EFAP Fitness Coach Connects program; This project will contribute to future improvement of the Fitness Coach Connects program, strengthening the company’s position as a leader in the field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Serban Dinca-Panaitescu

Student:

Partner:

Shepell FGI

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Multicultural Women’s Organization of Newfoundland & Labrador (MWONL) Newcomer Needs Project

This project will help us build and assess our current programming. It will also develop an efficient system to collect and
understand our membership demographic and the uptake of programming offered by MWONL.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Stewart

Student:

Partner:

Multicultural Women’s Organization of Newfoundland & Labrador

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

High Frequency Beamformer Design with matched Transducer Array

It is the aim of this internship to develop and perform cost-analysis on a set of manufacturing protocols for batch production of high frequency annular ultrasound imaging arrays. To our knowledge this would represent the first time that such arrays have designed for high-volume (2000/wk) production, making the project highly novel. Once the process is developed, five of the arrays will be prototyped and their performance evaluated. The intern will test and improve on the manufacturing protocol and analyze the process for cost, yield and inter-device uniformity. He will also run a number of performance tests to evaluate the array design. The project will position Daxsonics Ultrasound to bid for an eventual production contract on the arrays.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Geoff Maksym

Student:

Partner:

Daxsonics Ultrasound Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

MYTHO: An uncharacterized FoxO-dependent gene that controls autophagy and skeletal muscle mass

Skeletal muscles make up a large proportion of total body mass and act as important energy reserves that are needed to support critical organ function. Skeletal muscle mass loss (atrophy) is a major health problem worldwide. The proposal focuses on the roles of MYTHO in regulatingskeletal muscle autophgy, fiber size and function. It will also deal with the therapeutic potentials of targeting MYTHO expression in skeletal muscles to ameliorate muscle dysfunction and atrophy in pathological conditions. Many of the procedures proposed in the proposal deal with cell physiology aspects of skeletal muscle fibers including autophagosome formation, protein-protein interactions and physiological variables such as muscle fiber size and muscle contractility. Ultimately, understanding the role of MYTHO in regulating autophagy and the proteins involved in this pathway will have a major impact on identification of innovative therapeutic targets for prevention and potential treatment of loss of skeletal muscle mass and function associated with aging, injury, and disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sabah Hussain

Student:

Partner:

University of Padua

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Understanding Native Pollinator Diversity on Quebec Cranberry Farms

Cranberry farming is a multi-million dollar industry in Quebec, but it is highly dependent on managed pollinators such as honey bees and bumble bees to adequately pollinate each year’s crop. Unfortunately, managed pollinators are becoming more expensive for farmers to rent each year, and thus cranberry farmers are facing greater costs to supply cranberries to the market. This project aims to understand how farmers can encourage more wild pollinators to live on their properties, and provide free, natural pollination services within their cranberry fields at the same time. Project results will enable farmers to make informed decisions about how they can encourage more wild pollinators to become residents of their farms, with the goal of decreasing the farmers’ reliance on expensive managed pollinators and increasing insect biodiversity in and around cranberry farms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jessica Gillung

Student:

Partner:

Association des producteurs de canneberges du Québec

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration)

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

High Performance Regular Expression Matching Using Parallel Bit Stream Technology

Regular expressions can be thought of as a mini programming language that has a general pattern notation that allows you to search texts for occurrences of string patterns. Recently, a prototype compiler for regular expressions was introduced that provided a 5x or better performance advantage over its closest competitors. The prototype implemented a novel new approach for the parallel processing of text. The project that is being proposed will build upon the lessons that were learned from this initial prototype. The compiler will be modified in order to achieve platform independence, the compilation process will be optimized, and optimizations will be applied to the search algorithms in an attempt to extend the number of use cases where the compiler has a performance advantage. Upon the successful completion of this project, International Characters, Inc. will be provided with yet another high-performance software component that can be used to meet the needs of its customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nick Sumner

Student:

Partner:

International Characters inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Creating better DEMs through targeted field sampling and aligned interpolation algorithms

Earth elevation data is an important tool that helps scientists predict how rivers will respond to large floods and increased inputs of rocks and sand. Recent technological advances in elevation data collection are very effective for dry land, but much less effective for the wetted parts of the river. This causes gaps in the elevation data, which researchers generally fill by either 1) collecting underwater elevations or 2) using math equations to predict elevations. Collecting underwater data is time consuming and expensive, whereas estimating elevations using math equations can miss important features. The goal of this project is to find out how to best combine underwater data collection with estimating underwater elevations using math so that the resulting dataset is both of high quality and cheaply collected.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marwan Hassan

Student:

Partner:

Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Terrorist Hostage-Taking in Civil War

Between 1975 and 2018, 30% of rebel organizations active in civil wars kidnapped hostages. There is also significant variation in attacks across time and space, within and across civil wars. My project seeks to explain this variation and examines the logic, lethality, and efficacy of its usage in civil war. It is divided into three distinct papers, which answer the following questions: (1) Why do some rebel organizations resort to kidnapping in civil war while others do not? What explains variation in kidnapping over space and time? (2) Why and when do organizations kill hostages? (3) Why and when do governments negotiate with terrorist organizations for the release of hostage victims? The final paper will be the main focus during this research award. With original event-level data on hostage negotiations in the Philippines from 1975 to 2018, I will perform a quantitative analysis across two stages. First, I will consider the likelihood of negotiations in specific cases with a causal exact matching technique. Next, I will investigate the time it takes to enter negotiations in a survival model framework.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lee Seymour

Student:

Partner:

University of Essex

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Other

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of total consumption systems for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in single particle and single cell modes

Metal nanoparticles are increasingly used in cosmetics, food packaging, textiles, toothpaste, and other ubiquitous products. Yet, their impact on our environment, food, and health is largely unknown because measuring nanoparticles in environmental and biological systems is very difficult. Similarly, measuring the uptake of metal-containing drugs by cells to develop smart therapeutics targeting tumors is also difficult because it requires analysis of numerous individual cells to assess the selectivity of the drug uptake by diseased cells versus healthy cells. This partnership aims to develop sample introduction systems (one for nanoparticles, one for cells) allowing the quick analysis of every nanoparticle or cell in each sample, which is not currently possible, to provide a complete picture. The intention is to patent the resulting systems and allow Burgener Research, a Canadian manufacturer of sample introduction systems, to sell them. Canada would then become a world leader in the measurement of nanoparticles and cells.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diane Beauchemin

Student:

Partner:

Burgener Research Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing marine mammal presence in and near the FORCE Lease Area during winter and early spring – addressing baseline data gaps and sensor performance

The collection of baseline data on marine mammal use of tidal energy sites prior to Tidal In stream Energy Conversion (TISEC) deployments is considered vital in any subsequent post-deployment assessment of changes in marine mammal activity levels or spatial use. The proposed project involves the deployment of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) devices (hydrophones) for an assessment of marine mammal presence in the Minas Passage and FORCE test area during the winter and early spring period of 2013/2014. All prior acoustic surveys of marine mammals in the Minas Passage (2010-2012) have been conducted during late spring, summer and fall. Recent statistical tests and modeling of PAM datasets predict that peaks in porpoise presence are likely to occur during the late winter/early spring (Wood et al., 2013). This modeled result requires confirmation with field assessment. Addressing the detection range limitations and the seasonal data gaps in marine mammal presence will provide essential acoustic data towards an understanding of year-round patterns in marine mammal movements, especially those of Harbour porpoise, in and near the FORCE test area, for later use in turbine impact assessments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anna Redden

Student:

Partner:

Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy;Ocean Sonics Ltd

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

Generation of synthetic images of chest radiography with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using artificial intelligence techniques

The main purpose of this research is to propose a strategy to generate synthetic chest x-ray images from data of clinical interest. The generated images should visually reproduce lung disease based on the selected input characteristics. This requires the processing and analysis of images using algorithms that identify the most relevant characteristics and variables to represent the lung disease, in contrasted with the information available in clinical practice.
Thereafter, a computational model will be implemented and assessed to generate synthetic images using artificial intelligence techniques. The results of this research can be applied to the generation of tools which facilitate the processes of clinical training and research, for the interpretation of physiological and pathological phenomena.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luc Duong

Student:

Partner:

Universidad EIA

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Study of delta Scuti stars with probable magnetic field

Four cycles of observations with the space telescope TESS have provided high-quality photometric data and have led to discovery of a group of delta Scuti stars that show pulsations at high frequencies (nu> 40 c/d) which are similar to the pulsations of roAp stars. Recent discovery of magnetic field in delta Scuti star HD41641 suggests that there should be more delta Scuti + roAp hybrids. We plan to use high resolution and high SNR polarimetric spectra of delta Scuti stars obtained recently by our team with the spectropolarimeter ESPaDOnS at the CFHT to measure their mean longitudinal magnetic field and to determine their Teff, log(g) and metallicity from analysis of Balmer line profiles. The code ZEEMAN2 will be used to carry out an abundance analysis with the aim of defining features of chemical peculiarity in delta Scuti+roAp hybrid candidates and to study the origin of their chemical peculiarity. The new results will help to establish link between the delta Scuti and roAp pulsators and to better understand their stellar evolution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Viktor Khalack

Student:

Partner:

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Aerospace; Education; Artificial Intelligence

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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