Innovative Projects Realized

Contenu pédagogique en optique quantique

Novatic Solutions inc. cherche à étendre sa notoriété en solutions technopédagogiques, au niveau post-secondaire, en science et ce à l’échelle internationale. Pour ce faire, Novatic compte saisir une opportunité actuellement présente de dans le marché : il existe très peu de contenu rigoureux, vulgarisé et divertissant en mécanique quantique. En effet, d’un côté se trouve les publications scientifiques et les textbooks beaucoup trop arides, et de l’autre, de brèves vidéos YouTube grand publique, qui survolent en moins de 15 minutes des expériences telle que la double fentes de Young, avec un gros côté sensationnel qui invite à tirer des conclusions parfois loufoques. Bref, pour une personne normale et éduquée qui se questionne sur la nature de la réalité, il est très difficile de s’informer réellement sur la mécanique quantique, ses interprétations et ses applications.

Novatic Solutions inc. compte donc développer du contenu technopédagogiques rigoureux et divertissant, sous forme d’un site web interactif gratuit (sous licence Creative Common), regroupant du contenu multimédia (vidéo, images, texte, animations, etc.). Ce site aura pour objectifs de vulgariser les principes de la mécanique quantique au travers d’expériences d’optiques quantiques détaillées.

Mise en place de stratégie de Marketing entrant

Uluumy est une plateforme de formation et de coaching qui aide les professionnel.le.s à améliorer leurs compétences et à se perfectionner à l’ère de l’IA et des transformations numériques.
Le projet consiste à mettre en place une stratégie pour le marketing entrant (inbound marketing) .
Vous aurez à contribuer à créer les fondations du marketing entrant.

Les trois étapes types du markéting entrant sont :
• Attirer de nouveaux visiteurs avec du contenu gratuit : articles, webinaires, cours;
• Engager les utilisateurs et générer un intérêt pour nos offres payantes de cours-cohorte;
• Offrir une expérience utilisateur exceptionnelle à nos clients pour les fidéliser et les convertir en ambassadeurs.

Cette stratégie nous permet de :
• Mieux cerner les besoins des utilisateurs ;
• Réduire les coûts d’acquisition de nouveaux clients.

The Definitive, Needle-Free Heart Scan – A Collaborative Effort Towards the Montreal Cardiac MR Protocol

and quantitative clinical assessment of the cardiovascular system. However, the clinical utility of CMR is impaired by the need for local expertise, the technical complexity, and time requirements required to perform it.
Recently, several new techniques have radically changed the spectrum of CMR applications. The major pivotal change of CMR acquisition techniques has been the introduction of techniques that allow for a simultaneous acquisition of multiple “dimensions”, or the acquisition of images using an endogenous contrast in the human body (Oxygenation – Sensitive CMR), instead of exogenous pharmaceutical agents. Advanced data mining approaches can then extract this information and become familiar with patterns exhibited by different image types, or even recognize which biomarkers are most important in a patient to understand or classify underlying pathology.
This research collaboration will use novel acquisition techniques, image reconstruction, and analysis methodologies to reduce the local expertise and time required to acquire CMR images, and subsequently increase the overall clinical utility of CMR. The partner organizations for this collaboration will be provided a clinical research platform through which to test novel sequences, software tools, or predictive algorithms they have developed.

Social and Economic Governance in Alberta’s Seniors and Community Housing Sector

Enacting Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) policies is of growing interest and concern in many industries, and social and affordable housing is no exception. Currently, the social and affordable housing sector in Canada (otherwise known as the seniors and community housing sector) is undergoing a period of great change. With all levels of government taking a vested interest in housing policy, there is a greater desire in many jurisdictions, including Alberta, for the seniors and community housing sector to undergo business transformation. This internship would be focused on assisting the Alberta Seniors and Community Housing Association (ASCHA), in crafting appropriate, fulsome, and timely ESG policy to shape their future decisions surrounding alternative forms of funding.

The Role of Sport and Physical Activity in the Recovery of Youth Mental Health Following COVID-19 Restrictions

The purpose of this research is to understand the role that community sport programming plays in enhancing northern and urban youth physical and mental health as sport returns from COVID-19 restrictions. Specifically, the research will longitudinally track changes to social identity, mental health, and physical activity among 300 children and youth (6-14 years old). The participants will be enrolled in comparable sport-based programs at MLSE LaunchPad in Toronto and YMCA Northeastern Ontario (North Bay and Sudbury). Given the negative implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on activity levels and mental health of children and youth, innovative strategies are urgently needed to monitor and understand how the return of sport participation can be vital for the promotion of mental health and physical activity. Enhanced social identity can help foster a sense of ‘us’ within a community sport organization, which can be a key driver of greater mental health and physical activity.

BetterPaws AI Data

BetterPaws has goals to create a community of pet lovers who are passionate about pet health and wellness. BetterPaws wants to provide tools and services to pet lovers to ensure their pet’s overall well-being. With this in mind, BetterPaws is developing AI models that will be used to launch services for our community. This project will help develop the data models that can be used to build the AI algorithm. The AI algorithm will be able to predict certain cancer tendencies in pets. There will also be a focus on marketing framework and strategies to reach our target market of pet lovers.

Flexural bending analysis of mycelium structural beams

The main goal of this project is to improve the sustainability of building materials. To work towards this goal, the
research project turns towards biology as a source of inspiration for the next generation of building materials.
Natural fibres (i.e. hemp, straw, agricultural residues) have great potential in the building industry, but currently
still need to use fossil-fuel based binding agents. This project will research the capacity for mycelium as an
alternative binding agent for natural fibre construction materials. The intern will complete bending moment capacity
and compressive strength of mycelium beams and stub-columns and analyze results to evaluate their significance
Tooketree Passive Homes focuses on building homes that help to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon
in each building. Tooketree is anxious to sequester more carbon in each building in a way that is not dependent
on the heavy use of our forest products or fossil-fuel-based binding agents.Identifying a viable new building such
as mycelium is directly related to the goals of Tooketree.

Stratégies nutritionnelles alternatives pour favoriser la santé métabolique des poulets nourris avec des régimes à faible teneur en protéines brutes

L’objectif général de ce projet est de réduire les apports en protéine brute (PB) en optimisant son utilisation par les animaux, en ajustant, aussi précisément que possible, les apports aux besoins des animaux afin d’éviter une réduction des performances lors de la baisse de PB. Cela permettra de réduire les rejets d’azote, mais pourrait également améliorer la santé des animaux et favoriser la réduction de l’utilisation d’antibiotiques et donc la durabilité de ces productions. Deux objectifs seront développés: 1) étudier l’effet de la baisse de protéines chez les poulets en croissance en termes de performances et de santé et 2) étudier la réponse des porcelets et des porcs en croissance à la valine en fonction des autres acides aminés à chaîne ramifiée par méta-analyse et essai in vivo. La réalisation de ces objectifs se fera par la formation de deux étudiants postdoctoraux et d’un étudiant à la maîtrise.

Intelligent sensing devices for automatized non-invasive breath-based diagnosis

There is a permanent demand for technological advances in the automotive sector that allow the timely detection of drivers under the influence of alcohol. Although there are technologies to estimate alcohol in blood such as breathalyzers with a mouthpiece, the suspect individual needs to breathe through the mouthpiece as enough to reach the sensor threshold. This is inconvenient for people. Tools to reliably assess the state of sobriety of the individual behind the wheel and timely identify alcoholized ones are still missing. This project aims to build the prototype hardware of a digital multisensory system for automated non-invasive analysis of exhaled breath to detect volatile organic compounds (VOC) signature of alcoholized person. The prototype will be based on an array
of commercial volatile sensors. The prototype hardware developed in the project will be integrated with intelligent data processing software developed by AntiSense to build the intelligent breath analyzer. The intelligent breath analyzer is designed to predict alcoholized state of the person trained on data generated from the multisensory array. As use case, the technology is intended to enable cars to sense by smell when a driver is under influence of alcohol.

Optimizing medical marijuana: developing genetic and chemical resources to improve thequality and quantity of cannabinoid metabolites in Cannabis sativa L strains Year Two

Determine how cannabinoid metabolites and their relative abundances differ among marijuana strains. Post Doctoral Fellow Name: Teagen D Quilichini Cannabinoids are synthesized and accumulate in Cannabis plant hairs called glandular trichomes, which are particularly abundant on female flower buds. Cannabinoid content and composition vary dramatically among Cannabis strains, with two general groupings distinguished: marijuana strains, defined by high THC and low CBD levels, and hemp strains containing low THC and high CBD (or low total cannabinoid content). Marijuana breeding efforts have increased the cannabinoid potency and profiles of cannabis strains, and have produced marijuana strains with highly variable chemical phenotypes (chemotypes). While these breeding efforts have been successful in dramatically increasing THC levels, they commonly have reduced the content of other pharmaceutically valuable cannabinoids that compete for overlapping starter substrates (4). Many cannabinoids are known to have important pharmacological properties, and the relative abundance of the major cannabinoids (THC, CBD and CBC), minor cannabinoids and terpenoids can alter the therapeutic effects of marijuana strains. For instance, the presence of CBC augments some of the pharmacological effects of THC, while CBD has the ability to reduce THC side effects (5, 6).

Skills for Living: Adult Autism Peer/Skills Intervention and Evaluation

Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) struggle with social outcomes in friendship, life, and career domains yet programming to address these barriers to work and life outcomes are limited for adults. To address some of these needs, the Principal Investigator and a student team developed a consumer-driven program) to provide Winnipeg adults with ASD an opportunity to enhance social- emotional awareness and develop important life skills. The program provides knowledge and skill training in ASD, emotional intelligence, social communication, non-verbal cues and body language, conversation skills, dealing with frustration and anxiety, building and maintaining friendships, dating and romantic relationships, dealing with school/family demands, and employment skills. Preliminary analysis from the past showed significant increases in (some areas of) quality of life and emotional intelligence as a result of this intervention. The goal of the current project is to revive and redevelop this program and deliver it to youth and adults in Manitoba and evaluate outcomes. It will be adapted for both in person and remote learning and address the ongoing skills gaps that youth and adults continue to confront in their lives.

Artificial Neural Networks for Low-Dose Computed Tomography (CT) Image Denoising

Computed Tomography (CT) scans are commonly used in the medical field to diagnose diseases such as cancer. It uses X-rays to capture human structures without invading the body. Although it has a been widely used and provide great benefit for patient diagnosis, the cumulative exposure to X-ray radiation can cause health risks. For this reason, researchers have been developing ways to minimize the X-ray dose. However, lowering the radiation dosage in commercial CT scanners also affects the quality of CT images which leads to inaccurate diagnosis. Therefore, we utilize the low-dose CT (LDCT) images and proposing a denoising algorithm to enhance their quality. The industry and partner organization will benefit from this by integrating this algorithm into products that can be marketed towards radiologists.