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Deal Dash Expansion into eCommerce and Amazon Platforms

Deal Dash Expansion into eCommerce and Amazon Platforms is our proposed project. Deal Dash Inc. is a new liquidation and retail business that is located in central Newfoundland. We research and source popular products in today’s market, inspect these products once shipped to us, and then display them for resale to consumers at discounted prices. Although we initially began exclusively online via our website, we have since concentrated our focus on our store-front located in Gander, NL. This project is aimed to establish and accentuate our business into the eCommerce realm. We will be renovating our website and increasing marketing tactics and strategies to increase consumer traffic from outside of central Newfoundland, and also introducing our business into the Amazon sales business.
This is an opportunity for us to expand our business and enter new markets using new platforms to aid in economic benefit for our business.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Skanes

Student:

Partner:

Deal Dash INC

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Evolving a system for effective communication with non-speaking patients in situations of medical emergency I hospital intensive care

Individuals with cerebral palsy generally use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to help them interact socially. The vocabularies provided in these systems are not specifically helpful in communicating during medical emergency or hospital intensive care. This project involves user-centered design and development of a software module for use in such situations, based on a vocabulary set for medical situations derived through earlier research with MC users, caregivers, speech language pathologists and medical care professionals. The module will be implemented as part of an iPad-based MC product (TalkRocket Go) marketed by MyVoice Inc. By helping improve the quality of life of individuals with cerebral palsy who are MC users, this research will serve the mandate of the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy. Designed to be easy-to-Iearn and easy-to-use, the system will help medical professionals provide better care to any patient who is unable to speak due to temporary medical conditions

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jutta Treviranus

Student:

Partner:

Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy;MyVoice Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

New and Digital Media; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

OCAD University

Program:

Accelerate

Soutenir le développement de la recherche collaborative : des milieux académiques vers une pratique professionnelle intégrée et socialement responsable

Les discussions sur les questions identitaires et de justice sociale (Réconciliation avec les Premières Nations, des mouvements comme Black Lives Matter, etc.) sont omniprésentes dans le contexte québécois actuel. En reconnaissant l’importance de ces enjeux, les universités changent aussi leurs pratiques en recherche auprès des sujets humains, mais il faut encore que ces pratiques soient transférables aux milieux professionnels.
Dans ce contexte, il est nécessaire de fournir aux personnes diplômées en sciences humaines et sociales des outils pour une meilleure intégration des leur activité professionnelle hors université, qui prennent en compte ces nouveaux défis réels.
Le projet vise ainsi à consolider le pont professionnel entre la philosophie universitaire (l’éthique, la théorie de la connaissance et le raisonnement critique) et le marché de travail hors université. Il s’agit ainsi d’un travail de mise en pratique de connaissances académiques. La stagiaire contribuera à développer, au sein de l’entreprise partenaire (qui une entreprise québécoise), une offre de services en recherche qualitative intégrée, collaborative, interdisciplinaire et socialement responsable, offerte aux entreprises et particuliers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Melissa Thériault

Student:

Partner:

Recherche intégrée en science

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of dietary macronutrient content on energy balance and metabolism in lean and obese cats

Obesity is a detrimental disease that affects up to 60 % of domestic cats in North America. It is generally accepted that diet plays a fundamental role in the development of obesity in cats. However, few research studies investigate the role of macronutrients, protein, carbohydrates, and fats, in obesity. The aim of the present study is to evaluate how a low carbohydrate diet may benefit both lean and obese cats compared to both a low protein and a low fat diet, which each have a higher carbohydrate content. These results will deepen the understanding of the role of carbohydrates in feline physiology and energy metabolism in cats. The results of this study may help the petfood industry in designing diet formulations that can benefit the health of cats. Importantly, the results of this study may be used by veterinarians to make evidence-based recommendations aiming at feline obesity prevention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adronie Verbrugghe

Student:

Partner:

Champion Petfoods LP

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Combating money laundering networks with the firefighting problem

The Firefighter Problem is a deterministic, discrete-time model of the spread of a fire on the nodes of a graph. If a graph is a network where bank accounts are nodes, then an edge between two accounts is a transaction between one bank account and another. Imagine we have a suspicious bank account with suspicious transactions possibly tied to money laundering. We view this suspicious bank account as a place a fire breaks out. Then, those accounts that receive money from the suspicious bank account are considered suspect. Continuing transactions, the whole network will be involved with this suspicious account and fall under suspicion. We want to apply a strategy to contain the suspicious transactions to as few accounts as possible and identify which accounts are compromised. Although the research focuses on strong grids, it will develop techniques that may be applicable in more general graphs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Danny Dyer;Andrea Burgess

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

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

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Séjour de rédaction et de recherche auprès de Stéphane Chaudier

Mon séjour de recherche s’organise autour de ma thèse de doctorat, en cours de rédaction, qui interroge l’oeuvre de l’écrivain
français Pierre Michon en tant que fabrique de la transcendance, dans le rapport qu’entretient cette transcendance avec l’art du
XIXe siècle. Le premier volet du séjour sera consacré à la rédaction de mon deuxième chapitre de thèse, qui concerne l’enjeu
central de la transcendance. L’appui de mon superviseur de stage, Stéphane Chaudier, dont certains de ses travaux portent sur
le langage religieux, me permettra non seulement de faire progresser la rédaction de mon deuxième, mais également d’affiner la
définition et la place de transcendance dans mes travaux. Le second volet de mon stage est composé de différentes activités de
recherche, qui contribueront au développement et à la diffusion des mes travaux académiques. À côté d’un entretien avec Pierre
Michon (dont je pourrai tirer un article publiable dans une revue au Québec), une journée d’études est prévue, dont je serai coorganisateur
et coéditeur des actes: « Le XIXe siècle de Michon ». J’aurai l’occasion, lors d’une communication, d’y soumettre
mes principales hypothèses de thèse, qui bénéficieront des discussions avec les spécialistes de l’oeuvre de Michon et du XIXe
siècle qui seront présents à la journée d’études.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Daunais

Student:

Partner:

Université de Lille

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

An Holistic Approach to Complex UX Design

As the scope of design has become more complex – designers have moved from designing products, to technology, experiences, environments and more recently services. This progression in design, its implications, serves the need for the exploration of more holistic approaches to leverage designers’ understanding of these complex problems. Furthermore it identifies the need for designers to utilize and adopt new methodologies to better understand their users and support the plural perspective in designing for multi-channel experiences. In this internship, the research expertise and focuse aattention of a graduate-level interaction designer and researcher will assist the industry partner in identifying some of the key issues impacting end-user experience, and will collaborate with the UX Team to explore new directions and methodologies in user experience design to advance the company’s processes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steve DiPaolo

Student:

Partner:

Function Point Productivity Software Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of the accuracy of the office-based virtual surgical planning for Orthognathic and Implant surgery

Orthognathic surgery is a procedure used to correct facial deformities and is a mainstay treatment in the oral
and maxillofacial surgery field. Another common procedure in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery is dental
implant surgery that is used to replace missing teeth. Currently, dental implants are one of the most preferred
treatment options for recreating tooth form and function.
The surgical procedure is complex and requires extensive planning and accuracy to obtain a successful
outcome. For this reason, computer-aided 3D virtual surgical planning has been adopted to improve the
efficiency and accuracy of the procedure. This is most commonly done through a third party company who uses
software to manipulate the data as per the surgeons’ operative plan, which requires significant resource and
time as well as high cost for patients. The purpose of this study is to establish a workflow for an office-based
approach to virtually plan orthognathic and implant surgeries that can be implemented at the surgical facilities.
The proposal develops the methods for evaluation of the accuracy of the office-based virtual surgical planning
for Orthognathic and Implant surgery and helps to better assess the plausibility of the new workflow.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hong Gu

Student:

Partner:

Nova Scotia Health

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic AI based detection of cranial deformity in infants

Positional plagiocephaly is an increasingly common form of cranial deformity in infants, affecting approximately 40% of infants under the age of 1. While it is not associated with developmental defects or learning impairments, there can be long term aesthetic implications for deformity that is not appropriately addressed early in life. Early identification of plagiocephaly and initiation of treatment is a key step in ensuring positive outcomes, but accurately monitoring the development of head shape is difficult when primary care physicians manage ever larger patient loads. To support physicians in the diagnosis of head deformities, the current project aims to validate an AI-based mobile application to automatically track head shape and diagnose infantile head shape deformities. The intern will conduct a clinical validation study to measure the AI algorithms diagnostic accuracy, and will build an anonymous database of infant head photos for refinement of the partner organisations current algorithm.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mirko Gilardino

Student:

Partner:

Little Angel Medical

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Program:

Accelerate

Balises acoustiques pour un système de détection d’intrusion par les airs pour des périmètres de sécurité

L’entreprise DARE-IT Technologies fabrique des matrices de microphone IP pour des applications de
surveillance. Les centres carcéraux cherchent une solution abordable afin de faire la détection, la
localisation, la classification et le suivi de potentielles intrusions dans les airs (par l’usage de drones) pour
permettre l’interception de colis illicites. À cette fin, DARE-IT réalisera une preuve de concept d’un tel
système de surveillance. La réalisation d’un prototype complet implique la conception de balises
acoustiques optimisées au niveau de l’électronique et du traitement pour maximiser la portée et les
capacités de détection du système. Le projet servira donc de levier à l’organisme partenaire pour
développer une balise acoustique peu coûteuse et facilement déployable. Ceci permettra à l’entreprise
de mettre son premier produit sur le marché dans un horizon de deux ans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Grondin

Student:

Partner:

DARE-IT Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

International Business Development Intern

The goal of this project is to develop and implement a digital sales and marketing strategy that leverages the followers and networks of our bulk customers to increase sales for our organic, fair trade honey products in the B2C and B2B digital channels. During COVID, the company was able to develop relationships with bulk buyers with huge reach. This project is to build on that success. The key responsibilities for the intern will be working with external marketing experts and our internal teams to develop and execute a clear and effective digital marketing and sales strategy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Howard Nemiroff

Student:

Partner:

African Bronze Honey

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing; Wholesale trade

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Du plan a la mise en muvre : etude exploratoire sur les opportunites et les obstacles a I’implantation de mesures d’apaisement de lacirculation

Plusieurs organismes et entreprises travaillent presentement au Quebec dans la production de plans pour reamenager les rues et encourager les de placements a pied et a velo. La mise en ceuvre de ces plans demeure toutefois difficile dans plusieurs cas. Pourquoi ? Le projet ici propose se penche sur cette question en examinant differentes demarches menees dans la province dans Ie cadre des programmes « Mon ecole a pied, a veto! » et « A pied, a veto, ville active» afin de degager les conditions gagnantes a la realisation d’interventions en faveur des pietons et des cyclistes. II comporte la production d’un repertoire de realisations et une quinzaine d’etudes de cas appuyees notamment sur des entrevues aupres des parties prenantes. Le projet permettra aux acteurs concernes par la realisation de projets d’amenagement en faveur de la marche et du velo d’adapter leurs strategies d’intervention pour des operations plus efficaces.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Juan Torres

Student:

Partner:

Eco-Compteur;Vélo Québec Association;École de technologie supérieure

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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