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La bioaugmentation pour la réduction des volumes et la valorisation des boues dans les étangs aérés de traitement des eaux usées.

Le partenaire de ce projet, Nordikeau, est souvent approché par ses clients et partenaires qui souhaitent avoir une expertise et des recommandations en lien avec les sollicitations et offres de service qu’elles reçoivent de la part de compagnies de biotechnologie pour des mandats de bioaugmentation visant principalement le traitement des eaux usées et la réduction des volumes de boues dans les étangs aérés. Au terme du projet, l’entreprise pourra dégager des recommandations claires et réalistes afin de guider ses clients existants et nouveaux dans leurs prises de décisions quant aux pratiques de bioaugmentation.
Pour y arriver, ce projet vise l’utilisation, à des fins de bioaugmentation de stations de traitement des eaux usées, de microorganismes permettant un traitement efficace des eaux usées, une génération plus faible des volumes de boues et la production concomitante de biopesticides. Ce projet a pour objectif principal de déterminer les capacités souches bactériennes commerciales et appartenant à des collections de microorganismes de traiter les eaux usées afin de respecter les objectifs environnementaux de rejets, de minimiser la quantité de boues produites et de maximiser la production de biopesticides, et ce, dans des conditions contrôlées de laboratoire. Ce projet sera réalisé en trois phases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hubert Cabana

Student:

Partner:

NORDIKeau Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Bioréparation des fissures du béton – Amélioration de la robustesse et validation sur des ouvrages en service

La bioréparation d’une fissure d’un béton a pour but de la colmater pour empêcher le passage de l’eau. Actuellement, deux types d’ouvrages sont principalement ciblés : les ouvrages hydrauliques et les voutes des tunnels en béton. Le colmatage est accompli en injectant, dans la fissure, un liquide nutritif contenant des bactéries. Ces bactéries produisent du carbonate de calcium (CaCO3). Le milieu liquide nutritif injecté contient du carbone et du calcium métabolisables qui sont les matières premières pour produire le carbonate de calcium. Le principal travail des bactéries est de transformer ce milieu nutritif en carbonate de calcium. Le projet de postdoctorat a pour but de perfectionner la technique de bioréparation (augmentation de la robustesse) par l’amélioration de la performance des bactéries, par l’optimisation des méthodes d’injection et par des essais de validation sur des ouvrages réels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Gagné

Student:

Partner:

Euclid Canada;Soconex entrepreneur général inc.;CERACQ

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction; Sustainability & the Environment; Biotechnology

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Brain wave investigation of the neural monitoring measurement stability

Brain wave technologies allow researchers and clinicians to monitor the brain at work. Our team has developed a new technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to provide an online record of different brain functions in a very short period of time. The brain waves recorded by this technology may change normally as time passes and we first need to understand how this happens in a healthy individual. Thus, it is the purpose of this project to determine how the brain responses elicited by our technology change over time in order to determine which brain wave changes are within normal limits. Once we know the normal limits of brain wave changes for this technology, we can monitor individuals with brain injuries in order to see how the injury affects their brain waves (e.g., concussion). The ability to monitor the changes in brain function after injury will be critical in guiding the best treatment for recovery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carolyn Sparrey

Student:

Partner:

NeuroCatch Inc.;NeuroCatch

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

An Application of Machine Learning to Mortgage Prepayment Modeling

The business partner is interested in expanding its understanding of prepayment. Specifically the goal is to predict prepayment risk for mortgages as a function of mortgagors’ characteristics (including data from previous interactions with the bank), and the local economy. In recent years, with the improvement in efficient computing and data storage, the relying on a wide range of mortgagors’ characteristics to predict prepayment risk has become more prevalent in the industry. Given the large amount of data collected by financial institutions for mortgages, extracting information that can be used to predict prepayments requires appropriate statistical techniques to perform big-data analysis

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Faculty Supervisor:

Valentina Galvani;Sebastian Fossati Pereira

Student:

Partner:

ATB Financial

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Guide to Establishing an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA) Innovation Centre

This project aims to document the process that was undertaken to establish the first Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) Innovation Centre. This documentation will serve as a roadmap and assist in the establishment of future IPCA innovation centres across Canada and internationally. The establishment of IPCAs are essential if Canada hopes to protect biodiversity and ultimately achieve Target 1. Innovation Centres play a key role in providing Indigenous peoples with the support and resources needed to ensure the successful establishment, governance, and management of these areas. The proposed project will assist the partner organization in the development of future IPCA Innovation Centres because it will summarize the steps taken and lessons learnt from establishing the first IPCA Innovation Centre, thus making the process more efficient for future projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pamela Shaw

Student:

Partner:

IISAAK OLAM Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program:

Accelerate

Systems-level geohazard risk assessment in southwestern British Columbia

Geohazard risk assessments are performed when there is a known threat to humans, critical infrastructure, and the environment from natural hazards. In southwestern BC, these natural hazards include debris flows, debris floods, floods, and wildfires. These hazards are closely related to weather conditions, and with the effects of climate change, we may observe these hazards at higher frequencies and intensities. The proposed research, which will be carried out in partnership with BGC Engineering Inc., aims to integrate assessments done at a larger regional scale and local scale detailed assessments to better understand the risk at a systems level. The results of this research will help groups in communities, transportation (highways & railways), and pipeline sectors better assess and proactively manage impacts of geohazards, such as the November 2021 atmospheric river even that devastated BC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

D. Jean Hutchinson

Student:

Partner:

BGC Engineering Inc (BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Effects of pain experience on fixed perceived effort motor tasks

Whilst, perceptions of effort have received increasing attention, the perception of pain has received much less attention despite its inherent role during voluntary activities such as exercise. Pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage”. As such, pain is a regular feature of many voluntary tasks that humans undertake. Importantly, there are many crossovers in the underlying ways in which pain and effort perceptions are generated. However, the small number who have investigated the influences of perception of pain on perception of effort, have failed to properly assess pain and effort responses. Therefore, this project will aim to conduct a study which properly assesses the pain and effort phenomena during a voluntary physical task.
The work will factor into the candidate’s doctoral studies and Viva Voce preparation, the host supervisors current NSERC Discovery grant, and the home supervisors research portfolios and future grant applications for collaboration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benjamin Pageaux

Student:

Partner:

University of Kent

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Développement d’un jumeau numérique pour ville : cadre stratégique et organisationnel dans le domaine des actifs des infrastructures urbaines

Avec la nouvelle ère numérique, quelques activités de gestion des actifs des infrastructures urbaines sont réorganisées au niveau des villes avec la mise en œuvre d’une panoplie de technologies. Ceci touche aléatoirement quelques activités, il manque une vision systémique et une compréhension holistique des besoins. Il existe un manque de bases théoriques soutenant le déploiement du numérique pour une gestion intégrée des actifs. C’est ainsi que la présente recherche examine comment les villes canadiennes bénéficieront d’une transformation numérique menant à l’intégration des sources d’information et de la mise en œuvre des jumeaux numériques afin de mieux répondre aux besoins des citoyens et de maintenir un bon niveau de service sur le long terme.
Ce projet de recherche vise l’élaboration d’un cadre qui fédère les initiatives de TN. Il est mené en coordination avec les différents départements de la ville (gestion des immeubles, travaux publics, gestion de l’eau, etc.).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michèle St-Jacques

Student:

Partner:

Ville de Beaconsfield

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Public administration

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Forex data gathering and analysis acceleration and trend prediction

A prototype Forex currency trading system has demonstrated a proof of concept on a static data set. The current project proposes to implement the trading system for real-time applications using the tools of predictive analysis, As data arrives in the trading system it will automatically update the buy/sell recommendations with estimates of probability of success. Multiple predictors will be integrated to make the best possible prediction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jon Rokne

Student:

Partner:

Winsor Global Financial Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Working for a Member of Parliament: Understanding the Role of Political Staff in the Representation Process

This research project investigates the role of political staffers in Canada’s representative democracy. Working with the leading expert on political representation, Dr. Sarah Childs (University of Edinburgh), this project explores how political staffers contribute to the process of political representation. Political staff are the first, if not only, point of contact for constituents. This project investigates how political staff act as representational mediators —or gatekeepers—of Members of Parliament (MPs) for the public, and how political staffers communicate constituent concerns to the MPs. My previous research found that most political staff are women, therefore the current project focuses on the gendered dimensions of political staffers’ work. Overall, this project aims to improve our understanding of how parliament could be a more equitable workplace for staffers, which in turn will improve the representation process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Melanee Thomas

Student:

Partner:

University of Edinburgh

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of a Biocatalytic Process for the Endogenous Biogeneration of Functional Ingredients in Dairy Products: Lactosucrose, Kestose and Levan

Levansucrase (LS) is an enzyme that can catalyse reactions converting sugars, alkyl and phenolic compounds to complex oligosaccharides. In-depth studies are still needed regarding the reactions with alkyl and phenolic compounds which show high potential in increasing their antioxidant properties. In addition, further work is necessary to investigate the ability of LS to produce functional oligosaccharide prebiotics and their phenolated derivatives from high-sugar foods. High lactose milk and chocolate milk are of particular interest due to their high sugar content and interesting phenolic compounds profiles. This project will first explore the different compounds that can undergo an enzymatic reaction with LS. Then the enzyme will be incorporated in high lactose milk and chocolate milk which will result in functional sugar-reduced beverages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Salwa Karboune

Student:

Partner:

Agropur Coopérative

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Projet supervisé : Développement de techniques et outils visant l’amélioration de la cyber résilience au sein des entreprises québécoises.

Accélérer la mise en œuvre et la maintenance des pratiques quant à la protection des renseignements personnels en organisation et assurer l’accès aux techniques d’anonymisation respectant les normes de confidentialité et sécurité.
À la lumière des nouvelles réglementations et normes sur la confidentialité des données personnelles, Videns Analytics est en constant progrès pour mettre à disposition des organisations des solutions innovantes afin d’accélérer et fortifier leurs pratiques de gestion et de gouvernance de renseignements personnels. De nos jours, le volume de données croît exponentiellement, d’où la difficulté des entreprises de répondre à cette croissance d’information et la multiplicité de ses sources, et ce, avec un nombre de ressources limitées.
Afin de répondre à cette problématique, les outils détection des renseignements personnels permettraient de balayer un grand volume de données et de documents et localiser les données potentiellement à risque qu’elles soient connues ou inconnues de l’organisation.
Pour ce faire, l’objectif du projet supervisé sera d’expérimenter à échelle restreinte les fonctionnalités d’un ou des outils de détection des renseignements personnels sous forme de preuves de concept.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-François Plante

Student:

Partner:

Videns Analytics

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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