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Pluripartenariat et bien-être sexuel

Les dernières décennies ont vu d’importants changements dans les manières de faire couple ainsi que de vivre
les relations amoureuses et sexuelles. C’est dans ce contexte que de nouvelles formes de relations ont
progressivement gagné en visibilité notamment celles où l’exclusivité sexuelle et/ou amoureuse n’est plus de
mise ou tout du moins remise en question à l’instar du polyamour, du couple libre ou du libertinage. Mais à une
époque où le rêve d’une relation romantique et exclusive reste un idéal important, quelle est la place de ces
relations plurielles dans la société canadienne et qui sont les personnes qui les vivent ? Par le biais d’une
enquête statistique et d’entretiens, cette étude aura pour but de mettre en lumière les vécus des personnes
dans ce genre de relation, de mieux comprendre, d’un point de vue sociologique, comment se construisent ces
pluralités et de soulever les enjeux qui les entourent.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chiara Piazzesi

Student:

Partner:

Les 3 Sex*

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

La vie musicale dans l’Autriche d’après-guerre (1945-1949)

Mes travaux de recherche portent sur la vie musicale en Autriche d’après-guerre (1945-1949) et se déclinent en deux volets. D’une part, j’étudie la culture de commémoration musicale, et plus spécifiquement, les festivités organisées pour commémorer certains compositeurs considérés comme « classiques » et « nationaux » de 1945 à 1949 (Beethoven, Bruckner, Schubert, Brahms et Johann Strauss II). J’analyse la structure de ces célébrations, qui résultent d’un partenariat étroit avec le pouvoir politique, et le discours entourant ces festivités, qui sert à mettre en scène la culture musicale d’une Autriche renouvelée et démocratique.

D’autre part, j’explore la diplomatie musicale européenne à travers l’analyse des tournées du Philharmonique de Vienne en France et au Royaume-Uni en 1947, premières apparitions de l’orchestre à l’étranger depuis la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. J’étudie les efforts de diplomatie culturelle déployés pour soutenir la présentation d’une Autriche souveraine, pacifique et désormais « dénazifiée » au-delà des frontières.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis

Student:

Partner:

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; New and Digital Media; Other

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Bracelet connecté de monitoring des signes vitaux piloté par l’IA

La surveillance continue des paramètres physiologiques, tels que la température corporelle (T), la fréquence cardiaque (FC), la pression artérielle (PA), la saturation en oxygène du sang (SpO2) et la fréquence respiratoire (RR), est couramment effectuée dans les hôpitaux à l’aide d’unités de surveillance souvent très encombrantes. Des systèmes miniatures ont été conçus pour surveiller les signes vitaux des athlètes et des patients [1]. iMD Research et ses collaborateurs de trois universités canadiennes ont mis au point une plateforme portable de surveillance des signes vitaux. Initialement conçu pour détecter les complications associées au COVID-19 [2], le dispositif a été reconçu pour les personnes âgées et leurs proches aidants. La plateforme de détection, qui peut se conformer à diverses géométries, se présente sous la forme d’un bracelet. Ce système de capteurs tourne autour de l’acquisition de signaux photopléthysmographique d’oxymétrie de pouls (PPG). Grâce à un ensemble d’algorithmes d’intelligence artificielle, tous ces signes vitaux clés tels que la fréquence cardiaque, la tension artérielle, la SpO2 et le RR peuvent être dérivés efficacement à partir d’un seul capteur PPG.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Gosselin

Student:

Partner:

iMD Research

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

The Livingston fossil macroflora: reconstructing the paleoclimate and paleoecology of an ancient forest from southern Alberta

Plants closely reflect the climate where they grow as they are immobile and must interact and adapt to the conditions of their environment. Given this relationship between plants and the environment, fossil plants can be used to reconstruct past environments, and groups of fossil plants more generally provide a valuable record of ancient climates and ecosystems. The proposed project will involve research on fossil plants of early Paleocene age (~60 million years ago), recovered from sites in northeast Calgary, Alberta. The fossil plants from these sites will be analyzed in order to reconstruct the ancient climate of southern Alberta, and to better understand past ecosystems at the sites. The results of this project will improve our overall understanding of climates during past warm periods in Earth history, and will also provide valuable environmental context when studying animal fossils from the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alberto V Reyes

Student:

Partner:

The Royal Tyrrell Museum Cooperating Society

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Penser le modèle d’affaires de la pharmacie communautaire au Québec, en 2035

En 2016, un rapport de l’industrie de la pharmacie communautaire au Québec rédigé par deux économistes montrait comment cette industrie vit de grandes turbulences et ce, à l’intérieur d’un système hautement régulé et normé. Le rapport faisait un appel à un renouvellement du modèle d’affaires. Récemment, l’incursion d’Amazon dans le secteur de la pharmacie — Amazon Pharmacy — et l’impact de la campagne de vaccination à grand déploiement dosl==licitant les pharmacies pour participer à l’enrayage de la pandémie COVID-19 suscitent un vériable questionnement sur les attributs porteurs de valeur dans le futur modèle d’affaires de la pharmacie communautaire. Une démarche qualitative auprès des acteurs clés sera réalisée pour comprendre les pourquoi des comment des modèles d’affaires choisis et de l’innovation de modèle d’affaires actuelle, sous une perspective prspective, dans un secteur pluraliste hautement régulé. Des groupes de discussion et des entrevues seront utilisés pour capturer la dimension prospective en dessinant des scénarios à l’aide du Business Model Canvas.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Desmarteau;Anne-Laure Saives

Student:

Partner:

L'Association Québécoise des Pharmaciens Propriétaires

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient and Resilient Smart Grid Modeling and Operation Approaches in a Smart City Environment

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc., University of Alberta, and the interns in this Mitacs project will use synthetic modelling to design, optimize and trial approaches for improving the efficiency of resilience investments in technology, grid management and infrastructure. Under many different circumstances, including both natural and human-made disasters such as earthquakes and cyberattacks, traditional grids are vulnerable and the impacts on public health, safety, and productivity are significant. Evaluating and measuring optimal ways of configuring grids that include smart city technology to minimize human impacts and time to return to normal is the general objective of this project. RUNWITHIT commercializes these models in specific region synthetic environments and the data they produce around the world for utilities, municipalities, and technology suppliers energy transition and resilience design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hao Liang

Student:

Partner:

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Topology design for robustness and performance of vehicle state estimation and control system

Vehicle reliability and safety are critical especially with the growth of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS) and automated driving. Vehicle active safety systems have advanced significantly since they were introduced in about 40 years ago. They have played an important role in making vehicles safer and reducing vehicle fatalities.
Current vehicle motion control requires a large-scale estimation system with multiple sub-functions to estimate the vehicle states and parameters that are strongly interacting with each other. The risk in this cascaded structure is if one function fails to perform as expected, the failure may propagate into the system and can cause performance degradation for the whole control system.
In this project, we intend to advance the reliability and performance of vehicle control systems by studying how the topology of estimation and control modules can be designed to optimize the robustness, reliability, and performance of vehicle control systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amir Khajepour

Student:

Partner:

General Motors of Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises; Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Learning-based Autonomous Robotic System for Package Sorting Application

With the advent of e-commerce and logistics industry, numerous goods are delivered every day. Sorting systems play a pivotal role in orders delivery practices. Advanced sorting systems are required nowadays because e-commerce retailers are usually confronted with different orders, each consisting of various items. Integrated sorting systems typically consist of a mix of conveyors tied together which are controlled by the Warehouse Management System (WMS). Traditional objects sorting lines rely on human operators to locate and pick each product by hand. Such systems are labor-consuming and error-prone, resulting in multiple counts to be done on a regular basis. To reduce labor costs and increase efficiency, large enterprises strive to replace their manual sorting systems with automated ones. The automated sorting systems are based on innovative systems such as automatic picking solutions. The main goal of this proposal is to design and develop an autonomous robotic system for sorting packages from a conveyor belt, using computer vision and deep learning techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahpour Alirezaee;Mohammed Jalal Ahamed

Student:

Partner:

VistaPrint

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Étude du développement et de la propagation dans les eaux souterraines des anomalies hydrogéochimiques des gîtes métallifères du Bouclier canadien profond; facteurs d’influence et paramètres de contrôle du continuum eau de recharge / saumures profondes.

Le partenaire industriel CONSOREM détient actuellement une base de données unique contenant plus de 200 analyses chimiques d’eau souterraine prélevée dans des forages d’exploration jusqu’à de grandes profondeurs (> 1 000 m), dans l’environnement de six gîtes minéraux (métaux de base et métaux précieux) de l’Abitibi. Ces données de très haute résolution analytique ont permis de révéler l’existence d’une empreinte géochimique singulière dans l’eau souterraine. Les mécanismes d’acquisition de cette signature chimique particulière demeurent cependant largement incompris, ce qui restreint l’application de la méthode à plus large échelle. Ce projet postdoctoral consiste donc à valoriser la base de données du CONSOREM, en vue d’examiner les modalités chimiques de la formation et de l’évolution des halos anomaliques. Les nouvelles connaissances générées par ce projet permettront d’étendre le potentiel de découvertes dans des secteurs peu explorés, c’est-à-dire sous des couvertures épaisses de dépôts meubles, et en profondeur dans le socle rocheux.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julien Walter

Student:

Partner:

Consortium de recherche en exploration minérale

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Digital Workflows for Adaptive Reuse of Historic Houses in Ottawa’s downtown (Canada)

Digital Workflows for Adaptive Reuse of Historic Houses in Ottawa’s downtown (Canada) will explore new
applications of emerging digital technologies for the rehabilitation of our built heritage, especially in producing
records relevant for the understanding of the historic fabric of residential buildings in Ottawa. Good decision in
heritage conservation relay on accurate and precise information about the building’s fabric and structure. This
project will foster interdisciplinary and collaboration in producing an integrated digital workflow for emerging tools
in digitisation, building information modelling (BIM), and digital storytelling.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mario Santana-Quintero

Student:

Partner:

Alexander Fleck House Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Control of plant fungal and bacterial diseases using photodynamic inactivation (PDI) compounds

The goal of the research is to develop and optimize in-planta assays for evaluating low-risk disease suppression compounds/formulations produced by Suncor and Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) techniques. The screening projects will be conducted in controlled environment growth facilities, with the goal of eventually moving the trials into a greenhouse environment. Current agriculturally important plant pathogens that assays are being developed and optimized with our research partner, Suncor, are for Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci,and Colletotrichum orbiculare. Lower-risk alternatives to pesticides, antibiotics and other chemical options are favourable, as the Agricultural industry is moving towards reduced inputs and Integrated Pest Management as best management practices. The assay and screening program described will help to select the best lower-risk disease control options for field trials that are specific to agriculturally significant pathogens, with emphasis on further expansion to screening other agriculturally significant plant pathogens in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Katerina Jordan

Student:

Partner:

Suncor Energy Inc (Mississauga, ON);Nutrien Ag Solutions (Calgary, AB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Conveniently Green Marketing Development and New Market Expansion

Conveniently Green (CG) is a start-up that strives for sustainability. We offer products for consumers to become more Earth-conscious in their everyday lives. Our products replace single-use plastics with alternatives that are made from biodegradable materials. All products are sustainable, accessible, and convenient.

As consumers become more informed about climate change, they are researching and making decisions towards changes to lead a greener lifestyle. Furthermore, the Candian Government is implementing a ban on single-use plastics in the near future, resulting in a large number of disposable plastic consumables being replaced with greener alternatives. Making these changes can be difficult for the consumer. “Going green” can take time to find suitable alternatives that fit in with their lifestyle. CG wants to make it convenient for customers to go green.

Our focus is to develop and distribute environmentally-friendly consumer goods that are easily accessible and convenient to use. The intern’s challenge is to bring our products to the identified target markets using innovative, creative, and unique strategies in the areas of digital and physical marketing. Furthermore, she will be involved in the processes of creating new products through applied market research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Cooper

Student:

Partner:

Dyall Holdings Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship