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Real-time fault diagnosis and prediction in structures under earthquake excitation

A large number of civil engineering structures in North America have long survived their expected service life. As they continue to age, there is a significant demand to minimize damage under severe environmental impacts such as earthquake. The main objective of this project is to develop and validate vibration-based monitoring and control strategies using modern sensing technologies. During the course of this research, the testing facilities and the large shaking table at the IIT Kanpur will be extensively used by the applicant with the supervision of the academic supervisor of host university (Dr. Samit Ray Chaudhuri) and home university (Dr. Ayan Sadhu).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ayan Sadhu

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The impact of hypernasality on the perception of prosody

Hypernasality is a speech disorders that results from excessive sound coming through the nose during speech. A speaker afflicted with hypernasality may be perceived as sounding flat and monotonous because the nasal murmur masks the inflections of the fundamental frequency (Kummer, 2008). However, the masking of prosody by the nasal murmur has not been investigated systematically. The first goal of the proposed study is to investigate how the presence of hypernasality affects the listener’s perception of prosodic pitch inflections. My second goal is to find out whether speakers of Brazilian Portuguese are more successful than speakers of English at differentiating prosodic variation in the presence of hypernasality, since Brazilian Portuguese contains more nasal vowels. The resulting knowledge of this study will have practical applications in speech-language pathology related to the counseling of hypernasal individuals with conditions such as cleft palate or dysarthria and may help develop approaches for speech therapy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim Bressmann

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Classical Ayurveda, textual and critical studies

My proposed research deals with the traditional Indian medical system called Ayurveda. Ayurveda not only played a major role in the healthcare of ancient and medieval India, but it also plays a major role as a Government-supported health care system in contemporary South Asian societies. Furthermore, internationally, ayurveda therapies and practices (which are manifold) have been integrated in general wellness applications and also, in some cases, in medical use. I shall participate in daily Sanskrit reading classes with local expert scholars, focussing on major classical works on Indian traditional medicine. I shall also learn the Malayalam script which is one of the major language scripts of India. The Malayalam language is spoken in the southern state of Kerala, and the script is used for Sanskrit books and especially manuscripts. These studies will support my textual and critical studies of Indian traditional medicine. The expected outcome of the project will be tremendous for me because this project will offer me the chance to work in situ with medieval manuscripts, and will offer guidance in handling and reading manuscripts, and in metadata generation. Furthermore, it will deepen my ideas on textual criticism and editorial technique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominik Wujastyk

Student:

Partner:

Chinmaya University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

New amines for CO2 absorption: Experiments, modeling and simulation

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anastasia Startseva

Student:

Partner:

RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Children Privacy Protection Engine for Smart Anthropomorphic Toys

A smart anthropomorphic toy is defined as a device consisting of a physical toy component in a humanoid form that connects to a computing system with online services through networking and sensory technologies to enhance the functionality of a traditional toy such as Mattel’s Hello Barbie and Cognitoys Dino. Many studies found that anthropomorphic toys serve a purpose, as children trusted such designs and felt at ease disclosing private information. Online privacy for children has been a great concern in this environment, particularly when the child’s private information is involved and can be potentially shared with other parties. Privacy can result in physical safety of child user, e.g., child predators. While parents strive to ensure their child’s physical and online safety and privacy, there is no standardized child protection engine for parental control in this paradigm. Parental control is a feature in a smart toy for the parents to restrict the content the children can provide to the toy. The main objective of this research is on developing a privacy-aware context data model for smart toys to support a standardized child protection framework with parental controls.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Hung

Student:

Partner:

Universidade de São Paulo

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Treatment of Pulp and Paper Wastewater Using Aerobic Granulation Technology

The pollutants from pulp and paper mill effluents are toxic to plant/marine life. Harsh plans on tackling this issue by treating wastewater that comes out of these mills before it has a chance to affect the aquatic life in fresh water resources. Pulp and paper mill effluent, much like any other industrial wastewater, contains trace contaminants in large amounts that are extremely difficult to remove with traditional physical or chemical methods. Aerobic granulation is a great solution to deal with this problem as the microorganisms in the granules are tuned to tackle these pollutants. The biogranules contain a mixed and diverse microbial community; therefore, it is a much better solution than traditional biotreatment technologies used in industry today. Because of the granules’ ability to simultaneously remove contaminants that are organic and inorganic in nature, Harsh’s theory is that pulp mill effluent can be treated much more efficiently with the use of this technology. Partnering with IIT Bombay, he plans on implementing this innovative technology into current treatment practices. The ultimate goal of Harsh’s research is to highlight the benefits of aerobic granulation technology in improving water quality around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Tay

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Investigation of antioxidant and cardioprotective effects of melatonin in diabetic animals

The growing prevalence of diabetes mellitus, a group of metabolic diseases, is evident worldwide. Diabetes causes a number of acute complications, many leading to cardiovascular disease, which can be partly attributed to the presence of reactive oxygen species (ROS), leading to oxidative stress in the hyperglycemic state. The circadian hormone melatonin has been recognized as having strong antioxidant effects; thus the objective of this study is to evaluate the cardioprotective effect of melatonin on diabetic animals. The main hypothesis is these properties of melatonin will be important to modulate heart tissue oxidative stress (increasing the antioxidant system and decreasing oxidative damages), with a consequent improvement in cardiac metabolism and remodeling. An acute high intensity exercise will be used to challenge animals’ cardiovascular metabolism, function and antioxidant system, in order to clearly evaluate all benefits of melatonin treatment. Unravelling the key effects of melatonin in this respect will provide new knowledge on its potential as a part of the therapeutic repertoire of drugs for cardiomyopathy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Sweeney

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The mobile application market in developing country

The research project I propose concerns the mobile application market in a developing country. In order to provide a complete analysis, I must define what makes Curitiba city favourable to a mobile application market and what people are seeking through mobile applications on the market. Furthermore, this project must reveal how the demand meets the offer concerning mobile applications in terms of price, interrelationship, logistics by obtaining the requirements to create a mobile application in Curitiba. In addition, I want to analyze if the growing economy of Curitiba influences the growth of the mobile application industry. Most of the existing studies concern the mobile phone use but not mobile applications while it could contribute to increase the economic growth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zandra Balbinot

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Connectivité hydrologique et biogéochimique dans le continuum aquifère-rivière

Les budgets globaux de carbone considèrent que les rivières transportent passivement le carbone terrigène vers les océans. Seulement, les rivières sont un lieu de transformation biologique et de transfert vertical du carbone du sédiment à l’atmosphère. Des échanges avec les eaux souterraines y ont également été mis en évidence mais sont encore peu ou mal quantifiés. L’objectif principale de ce projet est de déterminer le rôle de la morphologie des cours d’eau à la fois dans le continuum aquifère-rivière et dans les échanges de CO2 en milieu tropical humide. Ce projet mettra plus particulièrement l’accent sur le rôle d’un paramètre particulier lié à la morphologie des cours d’eau : le débit. Pour répondre à cet objectif, une méthodologie innovante combinant des analyses du 222Rn (traceur des eaux souterraines) et de la pression partielle en CO2 sera mise en place sur deux rivières : le Rio Solimões et le Rio Negro.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gwenaelle Chaillou

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal Fluminense

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Youth Usage of Comude Sports Units in Guadalajara, Mexico

The vast number of positive outcomes associated with participation in sport and physical activity (PA) has led to community initiatives to enhance youth participation in sport and PA. In Guadalajara Mexico, municipalities are offering free sport and PA programs and spaces, but uptake by youth in some areas of the city remains quite poor. Thus, the question my research will address is: what are the barriers and facilitators to youth usage of Comude sports units in Guadalajara, Mexico? I will use a community based participatory research (CBPR) framework, which ensures social and cultural relevance and scientific rigour by involving community members in all stages of the research process. Phase one will involve assembling a local advisory committee by building on currently established connections at the University of Guadalajara. Phase two will engage youth (14-18 years) participating at approximately 12 local sport units through focus groups in which they can share their personal experiences regarding the barriers and facilitators to engaging in sport and PA at the centers. TO BE CONT.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lucie Lévesque

Student:

Partner:

Universidad de Guadalajara

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mixed Ni-Fe-oxide cathodes for hydrogen production by water electrolysis

Traditional energy sources, such as fossil fuels, are rapidly being depleted. Furthermore, CO2, one of the byproducts of burning these fuels, increases environmental risk such as climate change. Therefore, novel renewable energy paths are being developed to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. Hydrogen, a clean energy carrier, is considered to be the best alternative to the current fossil fuel energy economy. Hydrogen can be produced by electrolysis of water applying energy which split the water molecule and forms hydrogen on the cathode surface. Taking into account this information, the goal of this project is to develop new materials for the cathode, in this case particularly, nickel-iron oxides, in other to achieve a higher hydrogen production by water electrolysis at a lower cost, since the materials currently use are very expensive. In addition, these new cathodes are expected to have a better long-term stability and to perform well in the alkaline and acidic media, and seawater.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sasha Omanovic

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Longitudinal Weak Labeling for Lung Cancer Prognosis and Treatment Response Prediction

This project aims at evaluating whether recent results in deep learning models, trained to exploit weak labels (Hwang, 2016) can serve to extract meaningful lesion localizations from image-level labels, either from individual scans or given a (longitudinal) sequence thereof. To this end, we will scale up existing models that have been shown to work on 2D images to a 3D context, studying labeling performance as the dataset size grows. If successful, this work will assert the usefulness of DCNNs to provide a general modeling framework to integrate imaging with other clinical patient data into a predictive system that could help support clinical decisions and ultimately improve patient care. The proposed research project fits within the partner’s scientific roadmap, which is to develop deep learning models suitable to processing clinical data that arises in a sequential fashion at the patient level (longitudinal data), wherein the set of available clinical modalities can be highly variable (heteromodality). The industrial partner has an existing team of full-time researchers dedicated to studying these questions; the intern will attack complementary questions with the help of the team. TO BE CONT.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yoshua Bengio

Student:

Partner:

Imagia

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Pharmaceuticals; Biotechnology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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