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Expérience de Recherche Franco-Canadienne

Sujet du stage :
L’étudiant effectuera un stage de recherche portant sur l’exploration de l’adéquation des besoins exprimés par les personnes vivant avec de la douleur chronique face aux soins de physiothérapie et les politiques cliniques et organisationnels des milieux de soins privés et publics de physiothérapie au Québec.
Des soins éthiques reposent sur la prémisse que les besoins des personnes qui requièrent les soins sont rencontrés par les institutions et les professionnels qui offrent ces soins. Le projet auquel va contribuer l’étudiant vise à mieux comprendre les besoins réels et concrets des personnes vivant avec de la douleur chronique afin de déterminer dans une phase subséquente du projet, si ces besoins sont véritablement pris en compte et répondus par les milieux publics et privés offrant de la physiothérapie au Québec.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Hudon

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Delineation of Soil Management Zones for Variable-Rate Subsoiling to Mitigate Soil Compaction

The proposed research investigates the presence of sub-surface soil hardpans is one of the impacting factors. These are dense subsoil layers impervious to water and leading to soil structure degradation as well as a reduction in yield of most crops as they restrict plant available water. The project objective is to relate apparent soil electrical conductivity (ECa) with soil properties specific to soil compaction to delineate soil management zones (MZs) for subsoiling to mitigate soil compaction effects on soil properties.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aitazaz Farooque

Student:

Partner:

Prince Edward Island Potato Board

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Accelerate

Revealing the mechanism behind word-finding difficulties in older adults as detected by speech analysis software

When we get older, we tend to experience difficulties naming people, locations, and objects around us more frequently. Word-finding difficulties like these are not only sources of frustration but also crucial indications of a general cognitive decline. The company Winterlight Labs developed a software that analyzes natural speech for detection of cognitive decline and found that word-finding difficulties can be important cognitive indications. The proposed project aims at understanding the factors behind word-finding difficulties in aging while evaluating an online word-finding game as a cognitive assessment. The validation of the novel assessment can facilitate early detection of cognitive decline and support Winterlight Labs’ speech analysis technology as a fast, easy, and objective tool for detecting cognitive impairments. (118)

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jed Meltzer

Student:

Partner:

WinterLight Labs Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Homomorphically Encrypted FSM

Finite State Machine (FSM) is an essential part of any Intrusion Detection System. FSM is typically used to detect binary sequences that can represent virus signatures and traffic rules. In this project, we are working on an Oblivious Intrusion Detection System (Oblivious-IDS) which can work in cloud setting under a non-trusted system administrator with honest-butcurious adversarial model. A trusted server is responsible for designing the Oblivious-IDS using tools from Homomorphic Encryption libraries, while a cloud system administrator should be able to run the IDS without being able to know virus signatures and traffic rules that are being used. Since FSM is an essential part of any modern IDS, a homomorphically
encrypted version of the FSM is required.
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is used to enable regular mathematical operations on encrypted data. The typical convection is that HE is used to protect the data, but not the circuit. Since FSM is essentially a circuit that was designed to detect data pattern, the circuit itself is not directly protected by HE. In this project, we will propose and study different methodologies to enable the design of secure, homomorphically encrypted FSM.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mostafa Taha

Student:

Partner:

Solana Networks

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

A Guide to Government Grant Applications

The Canadian Government offers many forms of support to start-up businesses and entrepreneurs. However there is no single, easily accessible source of information available to entrepreneurs to be able to determine which funding programs they are eligible for and which programs fit closest to their business. This research, in conjunction with Twothirds Water Inc. and the Sauder School of Business, aims to analyse the Government Funding Landscape, particularly in British Columbia as well as the experiences of current entrepreneurs who have been through the process of researching and applying for Government funding. The end goal of the research is to develop a conceptual framework for approaching Government Funding opportunities which takes into consideration the trade-offs between costs, the probability of success, application timing and the value of each grant.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Hellmann

Student:

Partner:

Twothirds Water Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Contagious Resilient Leadership in Home Support

This research project involves the evaluation of a leadership program entitled “Contagious Resilient Leadership” for long-term continuing care and home care workers. Leadership training has been identified as extremely important in the continuing care sector, but has continued to be overlooked. The goal of these workshops is to get continuing and home care workers working better, embracing change and becoming more creative and innovative at an individual level, organization level and community level. Katie Wagar will be focusing on creating an evaluation program to assess the impact of the pilot program. This project will benefit the Health Care Human Resource Sector Council (HCHRSC) by taking a new approach to professional/ personal development by investigating how leaders in the continuing care sector can inspire innovation and decrease burnout.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heidi Weigand

Student:

Partner:

Health Care Human Resource Sector Council

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Comprendre l’expérience du harcèlement de rue chez les jeunes: de la recherche à l’action

Le Centre d’éducation et d’action des femmes (CÉAF) définit le harcèlement de rue comme tout propos ou comportement dégradant et non-consenti, commis par des personnes inconnues, dans l’espace public, notamment la rue et les transports en commun. À Montréal comme dans d’autres villes canadiennes, il s’agit d’une pratique très fréquente, qui cible principalement les femmes et les personnes des minorités sexuelles et de genre et parmi elles, les jeunes de 15 à 24 ans en particulier (Cotter et Savage, 2019). Cette forme de violence est généralement vécue très tôt, dès l’adolescence sinon dès l’enfance et a des impacts majeurs et durables sur la vie des femmes et des filles (Blais, Dumerchat et Simard, 2021). Malgré les nombreux témoignages reçus par le CÉAF à ce propos, la recherche sur le harcèlement de rue est récente au Québec et les expériences qu’en font les jeunes sont relativement méconnues. Cette recherche-action vise donc 1) à combler cette lacune dans la littérature scientifique et 2) à produire des outils de sensibilisation à destination des jeunes et de leurs parents. Pour ce faire, une série de focus group rassemblera des jeunes à Montréal, afin de recueillir leurs témoignages tout en les sensibilisant à ce phénomène.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elsa Galerand

Student:

Partner:

Centre d'éducation et d'action des femmes de Montréal

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Design for Versatility and its Application in Medical Devices

Most of the cost of a product is determined by its design. Among current design theories and methods, there lacks a formal design method to support the design of a product that can be used as two or more products, an example of which is a sofa bed. Design for Versatility (DFV), as a design theory and methodology, will be developed to help designers to design a product that can perform functions of two or more products. As decreasing waste and surgery time is of high importance in medical fields, DFV will be tested and applied in the design of medical devices that have multiple functions and can be used in multiple times and on people of different physical build. Two case studies in medical devices are chosen to be designed using DFV. Prototypes of new designs will be produced to investigate the efficiency of DFV. Finally, a software tool will be developed to help designers apply DFV to their designs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Wang

Student:

Partner:

DRJ MED INC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Methods for Time Series Data Augmentation

Modern machine learning methods are data-intensive processes, requiring massive amounts of training data to achieve a high level of performance. As such, these techniques are challenging to deploy on tasks where datasets are especially difficult or expensive to obtain or where edge cases and other rare events are most relevant and worth learning. In such occasions, data augmentation techniques offer enormous benefits to alleviate the issue of limited training data. However, unlike in image data, this situation becomes challenging when dealing with sequential one-dimensional data, where straightforward methods for data augmentation fail to fully capture the properties of underlying processes. Our proposed research will investigate the most recent advances in artificial intelligence with the objective of building a multi-purpose time-series data augmentation engine. This project is expected to develop new or improved augmentation techniques that will ease the data requirements of existing methods and expand their applicability to a wide range of applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ayan Sadhu

Student:

Partner:

Lockheed Martin Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Mind over matter: A comprehensive brain health awareness campaign

Women suffer from disproportionately higher rates of dementia, and face more barriers to equitable care. To help reduce the risk of developing dementia among women, programs that primarily target women, caregivers, and those affected by dementia are imperative. In partnership with the Women’s Brain Health Initiative we intend to create and evaluate the effectiveness of a new mobile digital application. The main goal of this application is to encourage users to modify their behaviour to prevent, or delay, cognitive decline. Specifically, the app will encourage users to increase their amount of exercise, improve nutrition, engage in mentally stimulating activities, take part in social activities, improve sleep, and reduce stress.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lora Appel

Student:

Partner:

Women’s Brain Health Initiative

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Who can Access the Canadian Non-Refundable Disability Tax Credit?: Perspectives Across Canada

The federal non-refundable Disability Tax Credit (DTC) is an important benefit for people with disabilities as it can provide funding to offset some of the additional costs associated with living with a disability. DTC recipients are also eligible for other federal benefits that can provide an important source of income for people living with disabilities. However, there are concerns about the restrictiveness of the eligibility criteria and the complexity of the application process, which may create barriers to accessing financial support for individuals with disabilities. The aim of this project is to explore how people living with disabilities access the DTC. We will describe the impact the DTC application process and eligibility has on the lives of people with disabilities. Through a review of existing policies and literature, analysis of public use data, and key informant interviews, the findings from this work can inform ongoing disability policy in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Gewurtz;Emile Tompa;Robin Whitaker;Emile Tompa

Student:

Partner:

Public Interest Law Centre;Legal Aid Manitoba

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University; Memorial University of Newfoundland; University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

An urban digital twin platform for urban sustainability and climate change mitigation

The world has experienced rapid urbanization and population growth in recent years, which resulted in increased energy consumption, GHG emission, and climate change. To avoid dangerous climate change, different countries such as Canada developed plans to achieve net-zero emission by 2050. Technology plays an essential role in achieving these objectives. Planete GreenLeaves is a web-based platform to reduce city energy consumption and carbon emission by optimizing the energy performance of buildings. We will accomplish this goal by integrating City scale simulation engines, AI techniques, and massive urban datasets in collaboration with universities and municipalities. By combining available public datasets, such as buildings geometry and information, weather data, etc., we create the initial digital twin of each building in the city. We model all buildings and create a user dashboard with several services such as detailed information about a building and recommendations and optimized solutions for optimizing the building’s energy performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paula Wood-Adams;Ursula Eicker

Student:

Partner:

V1 Studio

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

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