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Leading Transformational Multi-Jurisdictional Change: Managing Mental Health in the Community

Police organizations are facing increasing costs associated with an escalating number of calls to respond to persons with mental illness (PMI). The processes currently in place to manage mental health in the community contribute significantly to the costs associated with law enforcement involvement in PMIs. The existing process is driven by the Mental Health Act and requires a collaborative effort from police and healthcare services. The purpose of this project is to investigate the PMI process undertaken by the Peel Regional Police, make recommendations to the process using LEAN techniques and measure the costs and benefits associated with these changes after a one-year implementation period. Data collection will involve archival records and in-person interviews taken at three points in time (time zero, time one, one year after implementation). It is expected that Peel Police will benefit from this project by receiving a LEAN process for PMIs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linda Duxbury

Student:

Partner:

Peel Regional Police

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Effie Awards Canada “Alchemy of Effectiveness Report – A Focus on Canada”

Through this Mitacs BSI project, the intern will apply knowledge gained through the Marketing diploma program at Seneca to coordinate with multiple departments on various pieces needed for the execution of this year’s Effie Awards, including but not limited to: case studies reviews, report generation, content creation, research analysis, and data review.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Dojc

Student:

Partner:

Institute of Canadian Agencies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

BSI – Human Resources Innovation & Process Improvement – Li Jean Phua

This project aims to tackle the challenge of finding different ways Viva could optimize its existing work processes to generate maximum results, as well as innovating in the human resources & operations domain. This requires the intern to observe technical insights such as user interaction and behavior, as well as traffic across various virtual platforms. This understanding would aid in the development of new strategies Viva could implement, and work towards improving current methods of employee and customer engagement as well.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norah McRae

Student:

Partner:

Exec Viva Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

High temperature energy storage device for buildings applications

Energy storage can help address the intermittency of renewable energies (such as solar and wind power). Different methods were developed to store energy for later uses. D’Arcy Mann, the founder of TESS Research Ltd., developed a method of high temperature thermal storage that would allow surplus power from renewables to be input year-round and given off as household heat in winter. With refinement, it could also be used as an air conditioning unit not as an either/or but as a reversible heat pump. It’s a relatively small, above-ground, modular design that is being scaled for single-family dwellings but chaining them together could be used to heat or cool larger spaces from office buildings to military barracks.
With the help of USASK researchers through this internship, TESS Research Ltd. will be able to move forward to commercializing this product. More specifically, a mathematical model is required to come up with a better design, to size and optimize the product for different climate conditions and applications. The model development and optimization require a detailed literature survey market analysis that USASK researchers could help with.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carey Simonson

Student:

Partner:

TESS Research Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Research and development of an antimetastatic docetaxel-peptide conjugate (TH1902) against sortilinpositive cancers

The major aim of this research project is to accelerate the development of the SORT1+ oncology platform. This novel platform is based on a new proprietary peptide targeting Sortilin, a key scavenging receptor. Sortilin has been reported to play a role in cell survival and in the progression of human cancers. For instance, Sortilin expression has been associated with the aggressiveness of breast cancers and was observed in other highly metastatic types of cancers such as melanoma and lung cancers. Data that will be generated from this intern will further validate the antimetastatic properties of our docetaxel-peptide conjugate (TH1902) in metastatic cancer animal models and improve the value of SORT1+ technology. The achievement of milestones in this project will create significant value for the partner organization and validate SORT1+ technology as a platform. This will be a key and significant inflexing point for the value of the company that will facilitate the creation of new partnerships and the development of new research projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Borhane Annabi

Student:

Partner:

Theratechnologies

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Développement, intégration et déploiement d’un écosystème de monitoring et d’aide aux soins de santé par fauteuils motorisés instrumentés pour des personnes en situation de handicap

Les soins et services aux personnes atteintes de handicap limitant leur mobilité revêt une importance toute particulière dans notre société. Le but de ce projet est de développer un écosystème permettant un suivi de l’état de santé au quotidien de ces personnes. Pour y arriver, un fauteuil mécanisé équipé d’actuateurs et de moteurs permettant la modification du positionnement de l’usager est mis à profit. En réalisant un programme capable de collecter des données relatives à l’état de santé de l’usager et en stockant celles-ci sur une base de données sécurisée, un professionnel sera en mesure de mieux diagnostiquer l’état du patient en plus de permettre la mise en place de mesure corrective en temps réel si cela est nécessaire. Le programme permettra également la réalisation d’exercices prescrits par un clinicien grâce à la série de composantes mécaniques en place sur le fauteuil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Robichaud;Martin Lavallière

Student:

Partner:

SDP Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating sleep microarchitecture to better understand idiopathic hypersomnia pathophysiology and phenotype heterogeneity

We propose to characterize idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) sleep microarchitecture and identify clinically-relevant IH subtypes based on their microarchitecture through advanced EEG signal analyses . We will analyze 601 participants including 135 IH patients, 94 healthy controls, 223 subjects with narcolepsy and 149 patients with suspected IH but who don’t reach objective sleepiness criteria. Sleep microarchitecture variables will include slow-wave activity dissipation, slow wave morphological characteristics, sleep spindle characteristics and measures of sleep-stage stability (e.g. transitions and sleep bouts). We will determine how age, sex, body mass index, and depression impact sleep microarchitecture. We will use data-driven cluster analyses to identify subgroups of IH based on their sleep macro and microarchitecture. Finally, we will compare IH patients to other central hypersomnia disorders to understand its specific microarchitecture signature. By exploiting the richness of the polysomnographic signal, this project could improve our understanding of IH pathophysiology and reveal IH subtypes, which are necessary steps before developing more targeted interventions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Desautels;Nadia Gosselin

Student:

Partner:

University of Pavia

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Price pattern detection via functional biclustering

The detection and the forecast of recurrent patterns is of utmost importance in financial time series. For example, it is useful to predict the explosion of price bubbles in advance in order to mitigate the consequences for the society. This project constitutes a further development of an existing research project on bubble detection via unsupervised learning methods (already financed by the SSHRC). Specifically, the proposed project aims to detect repetitive typical local patterns in asset price time series, such as oscillations or trends, that are crucial for portfolio managers, traders and retail investors in financial markets. We achieve this goal by adapting and applying to time series an innovative biclustering-inspired functional motif discovery algorithm which is able to capture repeated fragments in a noisy curve. In so doing, we expect to discover recurrent price anomalies and predict future price directions and unattended changes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Federico Severino

Student:

Partner:

Pennsylvania State University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Analyse de protéines par résonance des plasmons de surface – projet COVID

La stagiaire développera des méthodes d’analyses de protéines liées à l’inflammation pour la détection de la réponse immunitaire suivant une infection à la COVID. Elle procédera à l’analyse d’échantillon, la production de rapports et possiblement à la rédaction d’article. Elle utilisera des techniques de résonance des plasmons de surface.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Francois Masson

Student:

Partner:

Université Haute-Alsace

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals; Biotechnology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of a Decision Support System for FTTH Installations

In preparation for increasing its deployment of last-mile fibre, TELUS has engaged the University of Alberta to study the most efficient and cost-effective installation methods for Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment where there are no existing telecommunications rights of way. The methods we will explore are divided into two categories: 1.) Direct Buried Methods (micro-trenching, Horizontal Directional Drilling, piercing and plowing. 2.) Utility Sharing (installing optical fibre via existing utility lines). Final recommendations and know-how will be reported in a Decision Support Guide transferred to TELUS. This important research will assist the telecommunications industry in Canada with scientifically backed knowledge and procedure for optical fibre installation projects

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alireza Bayat

Student:

Partner:

TELUS (Ottawa, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

The multidimensional regulatory role of ACKR3 in the opioid network

Endogenous opioid peptides and prescription opioid drugs modulate pain, anxiety and stress by activating four classical opioid receptors (MOR, DOR, KOR and NOP). The laboratory of Immuno-Pharmacology and Interactomics has recently identified a new broad-spectrum opioid receptor: ACKR3/CXCR7, hitherto known as atypical scavenger receptor for chemokines. In contrast to classical opioid receptors, ACKR3 is a non-signalling receptor with unique scavenging functions for opioid peptides produced in the central nervous system, reducing their availability and signalling through the classical opioid receptors. The expansion of the opioid receptor family by a new non-signalling member with original regulatory functions adds an unforeseen dimension of fine-tuning to the opioid system but also opens promising alternative strategies for therapeutic intervention in opioid-related disorders, which is particularly timely in the context of the opioid crisis. However, it is now necessary to better understand the multidimensional regulatory roles that ACKR3 exerts on the opioid network.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Bouvier

Student:

Partner:

Université du Luxembourg

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Community Wealth Building in Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities

As we begin to emerge from a global pandemic, communities around the world are looking for strategies to promote economic recovery. We know that the pandemic has disproportionately impacted equity-deserving groups and that recovery strategies must be sustainable and work to advance equity and inclusion. Locally, Ontario cities and towns have begun to bring together economic development and community-building strategies rooted in shared principles. Individually, these strategies serve as a promising alternative to the current model of economic development. Taken together, they offer a cohesive, intentional approach to Community Wealth Building (CWB) that benefits communities, while unlocking local investment, and spurring job growth with a particular focus on equity deserving groups. This research looks at how “Community Wealth Building in Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities” has been applied and examines the benefits, challenges, and opportunities available for public servants, community members, and corporations to build equitable and sustainable communities while shifting systems for lasting impact.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Audrey Jamal

Student:

Partner:

Social Innovation Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

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