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Using Engaged Philosophical Inquiry in Drug Education – Year Two

Research has shown that “no use” drug education programs, with the objective of scaring or shaming youth into abstinence, have not been effective in addressing problematic substance use. The ineffectiveness of such scare tactic approaches has led program developers to focus on prevention and harm reduction associated with drug use, or in general, health literacy promotion. While significant ‘discussion-based’ drug education programs have been developed over the past decade and has encouraged students to be expressive and critical thinkers about their drug use ideas, their effective implementation has been a challenge. This project proposes using a ‘philosophical inquiry’ approach both as the content and means of professional development for teachers to help them develop skills related to effective techniques and tools, while simultaneously re-shaping the deep structures that operate on their attitudes and behaviours. The results will assist the partner organization to provide optimal prevention supports to help children and youth with substance misuse.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Barbara Weber

Student:

Mahboubeh Asgari

Partner:

ARC Programs Ltd.

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Investigations in real-time spinal magnetometry using magnetoencephalography (MEG) for therapeutic biofeedback

Oscillatory neuronal activity can be quantified to help diagnose states of health and disease in the brain. These activities change on a fast time scale of milliseconds, which can only be captured by direct measurement of the brain’s electromagnetic activity. This is accomplished utilizing MEG and EEG technology, which can measure non-invasively these fast changes on the scalp surface. Moreover, using MEG, these signals can be observed within the brain volume through a localization process. The transition of MEG/EEG as a predominantly research tool to a modality used in a clinical setting has not been fully realized. In order for MEG/EEG to transition commercially to larger scale production, it is necessary to expand its relevance in a clinical setting. The proposed research will enable advancement into the clinical setting on two fronts: through development of real-time capabilities and by extending applications to the spine from predominantly brain based applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Teresa Cheung

Student:

Matthew James Courtemanche

Partner:

MEG International Services Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Casual Storytelling – How theme, story and setting affect level of engagement in mobile games

Mobile games have been dominating the Canadian video game industry over the past few years. However, the growing number of game releases creates an increased necessity to focus on quality in order to stick out of the mass. While storytelling has proven to greatly increase user
engagement in PC and console games, it is rarely used in mobile games. This creates an opportunity to explore if and how storytelling can be used in mobile games to achieve a similar effect. By analyzing the impact that narrative, theme and setting have on players, we seek to deepen the understanding how these components can be used to create more enjoyable user experiences. This research will be applied to a range of V2 Games projects to improve their product quality.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Fracchia

Student:

Philipp Reith

Partner:

Victory Square Games

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Imaging brain fuel metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major challenge for the individual affected, society at large and there only modest effective drug treatment. We believe that a central problem in AD is the deteriorating fuel supply to the brain (mostly the sugar, glucose) and this impairment appears long before the onset of memory and cognitive problems emerge. We believe that attempting to correct this fuel problem will be part of any successful therapy for AD. We are developing an alternative fuel to glucose for the brain in the form of a ‘ketogenic supplement’ based on medium chain triglycerides such as those present in coconut oil. We will measure brain ketone metabolism in AD and how it responds to a ketogenic drink. Hight brain ketone uptake is expected to improve global brain energy metabolism, thereby helping memory and cognitive problems. We have cutting-edge brain imaging methods with which to better understand how the AD brain responds to an improved brain fuel supply provide by ketones.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Cunnane

Student:

Etienne Croteau

Partner:

Fondation Vitae

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Heap leaching of refractory gold ore by integrating enhanced bio-oxidation of pyrite and chloride-based gold leaching

Gold occurs in association with pyrite and arsenopyrite in the Carlin-type gold deposit, with little gold being contained in carbonaceous materials. Extracting this gold requires pretreatment, such as pressure oxidation or roasting, to remove carbonaceous materials and sulphides, followed by the application of alkali cyanide or thiosulphate solution to leach gold. These processes are energy-intensive and may generate potentially harmful substances to the environment. With decreasing ore grade and more stringent environmental regulations, these processes may become financially and environmentally unviable. The proposed research project aims to develop a heap leaching process as an alternative to treat this type of refractory gold ore. This process involves bio-oxidation of pyrite as pretreatment to expose gold, followed by chloride-based leaching of gold. This project will bring both economic and environmental benefits to Barrick, given that the proposed process involves neither energy-intensive unit operations nor chemicals of significant environment concern.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wenying Liu

Student:

Monserrat Rebolledo

Partner:

Barrick Gold Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamic clustering of temporally incremental energy consumption patterns in a knowledge cloud

This project will develop a new mechanism for grouping objects in a dynamic environment, where new objects are regularly added with limited or incomplete information. Furthermore, the information about the existing and new objects increases over time. This new grouping mechanism will be called dynamic clustering of temporally incremental patterns. The proposal will be tested using energy consumption patterns for a large number of buildings. The types of the buildings will vary based on their usage such as office buildings, warehouse, shopping malls, hospitals, educational institutes, etc. The buildings will further differ from each other in terms of size, occupancy, and hours of operations. These buildings will also be situated in geographically diverse locations and climatic conditions. The data stored in the cloud will be analysed using a number of statistical and artificial intelligence techniques to create a knowledge repository. The knowledge will provide the system abilities to:
• predict energy consumption for any given day depending on date, time, and weather conditions for any one of the buildings stored in the cloud
• optimize the energy management system to provide comfortable operating conditions with minimum energy consumption
• accommodate new buildings without knowing their history of energy management

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pawan Lingras

Student:

Ilia Pavlovski

Partner:

Green Power Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Operational Interoperability for Information Exchange in the Pork Industry

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) adoption in livestock production landscape has been transformative and has led to a fundamental need for sophisticated data management and exchange solutions. Building an interoperable data management system requires an understanding of data context, stakeholders’ needs, data usage conditions, as well as contractual and legal requirements. Only through understanding the data and business management ecosystem, we can develop a proactive plan that ensures appropriate data usage, addresses business goals, and creates shared values. The goal of this research is to systematically examine Ontario Pork’s existing data exchange and sharing solutions as well as challenges and propose frameworks, methodologies, and procedures that enhance interoperability of data and systems in the pork industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rozita Dara

Student:

Dhiren Audich

Partner:

Ontario Pork

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Habitat selection by Common Nighthawks in Canada’s boreal forest

The boreal forest is an essential breeding ground for hundreds of North America’s bird species, yet it is poorly studied. Many of these birds are rapidly declining, including a group of birds called the aerial insectivores. These birds are not necessarily related to each other, but instead they share a behaviour: they all catch insects in the air. No one knows just why they are declining, but they are disappearing faster than any other bird group in North America. Their shared feeding behaviour suggests that it is related to changes in insect populations. Unfortunately, it is difficult to test this theory because little is known about many of these birds, including how they respond to changes in their habitat. One of these aerial insectivores is called the Common Nighthawk. It eats insects in evening and early in the morning, and then sits on the ground during the day, hidden by its exceptional camouflage. These birds are so hard to find that little is known about them, except that there are fewer now than there have been historically. They are found all over North America, including boreal forest in northern Canada, but there has been no research in the boreal forest.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Brigham

Student:

Gabriel Foley

Partner:

Goldcorp Inc.

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

The Economic and Social Impact of Non-Motorized Outdoor Activity in Public Spaces in Alberta

The purpose of this research is to create a model for evaluating the socio-economic contributions of human-powered outdoor activities to Alberta.
This model will be used to help inform/educate policy makers at the municipal and provincial level to influence debate around the use, management and the allocation of government resources to public spaces.
The Alberta Minister of Environment and Parks has requested this research, to ensure that organizations representing non-motorized outdoor activity in public spaces and on Crown lands receive equal representation and provide a more robust input into the policy making process governing land use.
The absence of this group from discussion tables of such policies, has allowed more organized groups, particularly motorized groups, to gain a less regulated access public spaces and resources.
After studying prior research on this topic, an Alberta specific model will be created. Data gathered from representatives, stakeholders and the outcome will be quantitative and qualitative analysis and benefits of non-motorized recreation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irene Herremans

Student:

Sameer Moghe

Partner:

Outdoor Council of Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Estimating reservoir changes in a heavy oil reservoir through application of anelasticity and rock physics analysis to time-lapse seismic data

Oil-sands reservoirs offer huge resource potential with very low decline rates compared to other unconventional exploration targets. Unfortunately, this comes with the trade-off of requiring high initial investment as well as high operating costs. In order for such projects to be economic in the long-term, it is essential that we monitor changes in the reservoir to maximize production and by extension, return.
Time-lapse (4D) seismic monitoring is a common, cost-effective means of monitoring changes in reservoir due to production. Using amplitude vs. offset (AVO) inversion, we are able to estimate changes in elastic and petro-physical parameters in addition to the spatial mapping of reservoir changes. Unfortunately, the complex properties of viscous oil-sands outlines deficiencies in most commonly applied AVO inversion techniques. These algorithmic deficiencies cause errors in our elastic and petro-physical estimations. The purpose of this proposed project is to model the effect of viscous fluids on seismic data in order to either account for, or remove its effects to obtain a more accurate AVO inversion result. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kristopher Innanen

Student:

Evan Mutual

Partner:

Qeye Labs Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Development and improvement of design manuals and analysis tools for Polymer Matrix Composites (PMC’s) in gas turbine engine applications

Non-metallic technologies, including composite materials, have the potential to improve aircraft engines performances and fuel efficiency, and therefore gained a lot of popularity in the aerospace sector in the past decades. Therefore, the overall objective of this research project is to develop an understanding of all available non-metallic technologies, their maturity and value proposition when applied to Pratt & Whitney Canada engines. The intern will contribute to accelerate the development and incorporation of specific non-metallic components in Pratt & Whitney engines. The intern will also identify design system updates necessary for non-metallic materials and technologies. Finally, the project will lead to the elaboration of design guidelines and protocols for the design, manufacturing and testing of non-metallic components specifically for P&WC products. The project will allow a focused approach to leverage the capability of non-metallic technologies that will improve product competitiveness and support of long term sustainability goals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Hubert

Student:

Gilles-Philippe Picher-Martel

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Regional predictive mapping of paludification black spruce forests in the north eastern Canada using remote sensing and statistical modeling

As researchers at the UQAT we are currently undertaking with our partner, Tembec, a project on the regional mapping of the extent of the organic layer accumulation over time on the forest floor of the boreal black spruce forests (paludification) in the Abitibi and North of Quebec regions. Gaps that this project will address include exploring for the first time new remote sensing imagery (i.e., Landsat-8 and Sentinel) and alternate image analysis statistical approaches. This project builds on exiting UQAT and UQAM projects that dealt with different aspect of paludification that have been undertaken during the last 15 years; and will be using this 15-years extensive ground soil/vegetation data to produce the first predictive paludification map at the regional scale north of the 49th parallel. By using a broader range and combination of alternatives there is greater likelihood of finding a feasible (economic and practical) method that could be sustained for paludification management assessment using remote sensing methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Osvaldo Valeria

Student:

Ahmed Laamrani

Partner:

Tembec Inc.

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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