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Multi-sensor technology to safely navigate exercise in extreme temperatures

Extreme temperatures increase the risk when exercising. The early recognition of symptoms and physiological changes (i.e. heart rate alterations) can help to prevent temperature-related illnesses. Wearable devices available in the market are key to monitor health parameters but not to indicate risk exposure. Thus, we aim to identify the best combination of health parameters to determine the intensity/duration threshold that, if exceeded, would place people at risk due to extreme external temperature (heat/cold); and to validate a textile-based multi-sensor wearable technology (MWT) vest that will monitor the optimal combination of physiological parameters and alert individuals when they reach the threshold that would place them at increased risk. It will help individuals to safely navigate exercise in days of extreme or borderline extreme temperatu

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Marzolini;Shehroz Khan;Paul Oh;Shehroz Khan;Susan Marzolini

Student:

Partner:

Vee Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

An active video game for rehabilitation therapy of children with musculoskeletal disorders

Children with musculoskeletal disorders, such as Cerebral Palsy (CP), must follow regular, intensive rehabilitation to improve their movement patterns and walking ability. Often, these protocols are perceived negatively by children, who would rather play and have fun. The use of active video game based training programs could help reduce participant attrition while improving engagement and outcomes. In collaboration with Eidos-Montréal, a research team from the Centre de recherche CHU Ste-Justine, will develop and assess, using a variety of wearable sensors, a stimulating video game which integrates the latest and most effective rehabilitation protocols for children with CP. This project has the potential to improve mobility in children with CP and to democratize access to rehabilitation via a home-based, easy to use, and enjoyable active video game.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Dixon;Martin Lemay;Laurent Ballaz;Danielle Levac

Student:

Partner:

Eidos-Montréal

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine

Program:

Accelerate

Small Hydropower Solutions for Northern Remote Communities

In Ontario, the bulk of electricity is generated in the south close to the major population centres and transmission lines do not extend far into the North. This results in many off-grid communities north of the Great Lakes that rely on diesel generators to produce electricity. This region of Northern Ontario is host to many rivers that all flow north through the boreal forest into James Bay or Hudson Bay. For this project, a case study is being conducted of one of those rivers, the Albany River, to explore whether regions of the river are capable of supplying hydropower to meet all of a nearby off-grid community’s energy needs.
The theoretical contributions of this research project involve rethinking how small-scale hydropower is used in the landscape of Canadian energy: changing the limiting mindset of an intermittent grid-connected power source to the more sustainable reality as an off-grid continuous source of electricity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Warren Mabee

Student:

Partner:

Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a 3D Laser Scanning System for Generating Prototypes of Buildings and Large Scale Structures

Virtual Prototypes provide a fast and efficient way to visualize objects or products during their design phase. In architecture, engineering and various construction projects 3D models are used throughout process, from design, through construction, and into the facility management phase. An accurate 3D scan could represent a built region in a virtual world. The 3D model development has been an upcoming area, however rarely studied for improvements of this technology. The objective of the current study is to develop a methodology to conduct scans on buildings and generate 3D models that could be used to create prototype models using the 3D print technology. It is intended through the current project to develop a methodology to construct a 3D prototype model of a large scale object through laser scanning technology. The entire process involves several different stages including, scanning, point cloud generation, point cloud registration, point cloud data analysis, mesh and surface generation and rapid prototyping of the 3D model. It is also intended to demonstrate the use of existing technology to scan a complex 3D object and develop an actual prototype of this object.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas Krouglicof

Student:

Partner:

ND Dobbin

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Dietary counselling plus fish oil supplementation in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized wait-list controlled pilot trial

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has a large impact on the wellbeing of Canadians. Some people find the available treatments helpful, but some do not. There is a need for new treatment approaches. This project will provide 6 nutritional counselling sessions along with fish oil supplementation to 40 adult women with moderate to severe GAD. The study will be 12 weeks long. We will ask the participants if the program was acceptable. We will also measure changes in anxiety symptoms and eating habits. The findings of this study will provide the industry partner with information about the role of nutrition in the treatment of anxiety disorders. This information will also be used to design additional studies in this area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Monique Aucoin;Kieran Cooley

Student:

Partner:

Vivo Brands Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the fate of tin in cyanide-free bronze electrodeposition baths

The Loony is a symbol, recognized by all Canadians. While it looks golden, the Royal Canadian Mint is producing its yellow color with an alloy coating on the coin surface. Yellow bronze is a hard and esthetically pleasing material that can be used as a coating for such coins. Internationally, yellow bronze coatings are predominantly produced from cyanide-based electroplating baths. This comes with significant risks to workers and the environment, regulatory restrictions and costs for waste treatment. The Royal Canadian Mint is currently developing a yellow bronze plating bath that is free of cyanide, to be used for yellow metal coatings on Canadian and international circulation coins. This project serves to understanding better how tin binds to other chemicals in these solutions and how to make tin more available for electrodeposition. In doing so, it contributes to the development of cheaper and environmentally friendly coin production technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Kuss

Student:

Partner:

Royal Canadian Mint

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Stagiaire Marketing

Le stagiaire marketing sera responsable de développer tous les outils marketing de l’entreprise afin de supporter l’équipe dans le développement d’un nouveau marché américain. De plus, il sera également responsable de supporter l’avancement des projets marketing sur le marché canadien afin de soutenir la croissance d’Écolopharm.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rafael Ziegler

Student:

Partner:

Écolopharm

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Integrating Reservoir System Information for Cyclic Solvent Injection Process to Support Post-CHOPS Field Development

Heavy oil (high viscosity oil) is trapped underground. Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is an enabling technology to extract heavy oil through wormholes forming around wellbore. There are thousands of CHOPS wells in Saskatchewan and Alberta with low primary oil recovery. Cyclic solvent injection (CSI) enhanced oil recovery process stands out as one of the most promising post-CHOPS methods. As the post CHOPS technology with cyclic solvent injection has been advanced into field operation stage, it is essential to focus on understanding and implementing the information embedded in field data of well performance using CSI. This project could identify the highly productive and less productive CSI wells and provide an optimal operation strategy to improve the field post-CHOPS CSI process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gang Zhao;Yee-chung Jin

Student:

Partner:

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Development and validation of SafeSleep, a smart, accessible, and convenient textile-based technology for remote monitoring of sleep apnea in high-risk population at home

Sleep apnea, which affects 10% of adults, is a disorder that causes breathing to repeatedly stop during sleep, leading to reduced blood oxygen and fragmented sleep. It increases the risk of HF by four times, of hypertension or stroke by three times, and doubles the risk of car accidents. Health care utilization is doubled in sleep apnea patients, and untreated sleep apnea doubles HF mortality and triples COPD mortality. Despite the grave implications of this disorder, 85-90% of individuals with sleep apnea are not aware that they have it and are undiagnosed. One reason for the high rate of underdiagnosed sleep apnea is the reference sleep test requires overnight in-laboratory screening with attachments of >20 sensors on the body. Therefore, it is inconvenient, costly, with long waiting list. Current portable home sleep monitoring devices are either expensive, or inconvenient. The goal of this research is to develop a textile-based sleep screening wearable, called SafeSleep, in the form of a shirt.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Azadeh Yadollahi;Joseph Cafazzo;Yasbanoo Moayedi;Quynh Pham

Student:

Partner:

Vee Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Améliorer l’accès aux médicaments en maladies orphelines dans un contexte canadien: s’inspirer des meilleures pratiques à l’internationale

Chaque maladie orpheline n’affecte qu’un nombre restreint de personnes, soit environ 1 sur 100 000 selon l’Agence canadienne des médicaments et des technologies de la santé. On estime toutefois qu’entre 1 et 3 millions de citoyens canadiens en sont atteints. Ces derniers font face à divers enjeux d’accessibilité aux traitements pour leur maladie (délais, peu d’options médicamenteuses, négociations au cas par cas, etc). Le contexte canadien est présentement favorable à une prise de décision concertée au sujet d’une stratégie nationale pour les maladies orphelines. Ce projet vise à identifier les meilleures pratiques d’évaluation des technologies en santé et de remboursement, employées ailleurs dans le monde, dont le Canada peut s’inspirer afin d’amélioration l’accès aux traitements. L’organisme partenaire pourra bénéficier d’une meilleure compréhension de pratiques innovantes, et de leur impact potentiel au niveau de l’accès. Ils pourront également poser un regard plus éclairé sur les décisions de remboursement et l’accès prises par ces autres juridictions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Beauchemin

Student:

Partner:

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Application of 3D Pose Similarity in Molecular Docking on Ensemble of Crystal-Structures for Accurate Prediction of Activity

This project aims to develop a method for accurately assessing the enzymatic activity of large libraries of compounds. To do this we will employ computational modeling of small molecules in an ensemble of protein crystal structures. The results of this work will lead to a better understanding of the relationship between docked poses and crystal poses, and of the relationship between docked poses and pharmacological activity. The results of this work will help Variational AI understand how to effectively leverage docked poses to more accurately predict and optimize pharmacological activity, facilitating Variational AI’s drug discovery efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Davis

Student:

Partner:

Variational AI

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

A Prospective Model for Predicting Driver Workload, and Safety Related Distraction, using Heterogeneous Data and Machine Learning

There is an increasing amount of potentially distracting information being made available to drivers. However, applications (e.g., for navigation, work, entertainment, etc.) need to be aware of driver workload so that they don’t create unsafe distraction. This work is important because distracted driving is a major risk factor for road accidents and the threat of distraction is slowing down the implementation of entertainment and productivity applications in vehicles. The goal of this research will be to develop a system that can predict driver workload. This type of prediction is needed so that future AI systems can schedule the availability of technology interactions (e.g., reading out text messages) so that they do not distract the driver at a dangerous time. This research will differ from previous research in that it will focus on predicting future, rather than current workload, to support planning of travel paths and scheduled activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Chignell

Student:

Partner:

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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