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Rapport sociaux et structures de pouvoir dans lesquels s’enracine le vécu d’infirmières québécoises exerçant dans des secteurs de soins spécialisés

Le projet de recherche dont il est question entend répondre à une préoccupation de la Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ) voulant établir le portrait, des contraintes vécues par les infirmières exerçant dans des secteurs de soins spécialisés, s’enquérir de la façon dont elles souhaiteraient exercer, et connaître les idées qu’elles ont d’actions individuelles et collectives qui pourraient être mises de l’avant pour favoriser la transformation de leurs conditions d’exercice. Nous cherchons à documenter ce qu’elles ont à dire au sujet des rapports de pouvoir et des décisions qui les affectent dans l’exercice de leur rôle, leurs pratiques de soins et leur autonomie professionnelle. Enfin, nous désirons connaître leur rapport au politique en explorant avec elles leur vision d’ensemble des dominations les affectant, mais également leurs efforts de conscientisation et de solidarisation déployés en vue de transformer leur vécu en expérience dialogique, délibérative et émancipatrice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Martin

Student:

Partner:

Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Using low-cost, wearable, sensors to detect driver state: Towards development of new algorithms for real-time detection of driver fatigue

Driver drowsiness is one of the leading causes of road-based crashes. Using a driving simulator study, I plan to help with the collection of data on drowsy drivers, analysing drivers’ physiological metrics, such as eye-tracking, heart rate variability and skin conductance, using low-cost consumer grade sensors. Using sensor fusion of the physiological data, I will co-develop machine learning algorithms that can detect driver drowsiness in real-time. This type of intervention can be useful in , providing drivers with warnings about their impairment, prompting them to take a break, to reduce the likelihood of crashes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Birsen Donmez

Student:

Partner:

University of Leeds

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mise en valeur des aliments locaux : analyse et stratégie de commercialisation des coopératives d’alimentation du Québec

Depuis quelques années, la demande alimentaire pour des produits locaux connaît une forte croissance. Ces produits locaux sont souvent cultivés et transformés par des fermes de petite taille ou par des transformateurs artisanaux. De fait, la distribution de produits locaux pose divers défis organisationnels et logistiques. La concentration de la distribution alimentaire et l’optimisation de la logistique ont amené diverses pratiques d’approvisionnement très centralisées. Les centrales d’achat ont besoin de produits homogènes, standardisés et conditionner dans des formats précis, nécessitant des équipements spécifiques. Tous ces éléments constituent autant de freins à ce que de petits fournisseurs puissent avoir accès à ces marchés et les distributeurs, du fait de leurs contraintes organisationnelles et logistiques ne peuvent que marginalement se tourner directement vers les producteurs et transformateurs locaux de taille artisanale.
Les 70 coopératives alimentaires membres de la Fédération des Coopératives Alimentaires du Québec (FCAQ) souhaitent augmenter la part de produits locaux dans leurs rayons. En partenariat avec la FAQ, le projet a comme objectifs: d’identifier les enjeux liés à l’approvisionnement en produits locaux des magasins alimentaires membres de la FCAQ et d’explorer, dans une approche de développement durable, les aspects logistiques et techniques de la distribution et de la vente au détail.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Mundler;Karima Afif;Patrick Mundler

Student:

Partner:

ICI COOP

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Confessional Knowing: A critically queer reading of friendships in the letters and journals of modernist women

This project will make use of unique research knowledge and expertise (Gammel) and specialist archive collections within the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre at Ryerson University, including life writing materials such as autobiographical accounts, diaries and letters of figures, in particular Gertrude Stein and Florine Stettheimer. It aims to develop a queer/feminist methodology, through a lens of defamiliarization (Palmer) at the convergence of creative and critical scholarship (Braidotti), to analyse relevant primary texts, from the MLC archive, for moments of knowing about friendships between women within the confessional telling. The method(s) will then be extended to published confessional material of modernist figures including Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West, Violet Trefusis, Alice B. Toklas and Colette. The anticipated co-authored outputs are: a conference paper; a research paper (suitable for submission to a leading feminist publication); an account of the methodology; an open source reading list; a creative response to the material and a workshop.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irene Gammel

Student:

Partner:

Kingston University London

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of a textile-based sensor for measuring body fluid

Heart failure (HF) is the third most common reason for hospitalization in Canada, where, the direct health care costs of HF are $2.8 billion. HF affects 600,000 Canadians with median survival of only 1.5 years after diagnosis. HF patients stay longer at hospital. Even after discharge, 1 out of 5 of patients returns to the hospital within a month. The major complaint of HF patients is shortness of breath due to extra water in their body and lungs. Thus, monitoring of body water is an important challenge in HF, especially at home settings. Unfortunately, current technologies for remote monitoring/measuring of body water in HF population have low accuracy or require surgery to be implanted inside the body.
To conveniently measure body water at home, we are developing a sensor, called Heart Health Clothes (H2C), that can be embedded inside patients clothes or wearables such as watches or patches. H2C is easy for patients to use without assistance at home, and for care-providers to use in a point of care fashion. Unlike other at-home monitoring devices, this new technology provides a fully integrated system that requires no more work than putting on a piece of clothing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Azadeh Yadollahi

Student:

Partner:

BioSenseTex

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Effects of plant mix, restoration year, and management regime of urban meadows on plant-pollinator network size, structure, and diversity

The purpose of this project is to identify bees and evaluate plant-pollinator networks based on the biomonitoring surveys conducted at the Meadoway in 2020-2021 with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). The aim of these surveys is to develop a baseline understanding of bee diversity in The Meadoway and evaluate the effects of plant mix, restoration age, and management regime to improve TRCA best practices for future projects. The intern will conduct timed bee surveys at the Meadoway at sites 1-5 years post restoration and on specific flowers. Bees will be identified to species level and used to develop a synoptic collection for the Meadoway. The plant-pollinator network properties will allow the intern to rank plants present in the Meadoway based on attractiveness and value to wild bees. This information will be available to TRCA for their ongoing projects and management practices that target biodiversity conservation in public spaces.

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Faculty Supervisor:

J. Scott MacIvor

Student:

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (Vaughan, ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

outil innovant, supportant l’amélioration continuelle, sur le plancher des opérations dans le domaine médical et hospitalier

Ce projet, réalisé en collaboration avec Polytechnique et la société FLEXGROUPS. Le projet MITACS, vise la production d’un outil pour supporter et favoriser les démarches type Kaizen dans les organisations. Il propose de mettre en oeuvre une démarche outillée permettant une gestion simplifiée en utilisant les technologies modernes, de collecte de données (capteurs), d’enregistrements ergonomiques (tablettes tactiles) et de traitement automatisé (production de synthèses pour la direction) et mise à disposition multi-médias (sms, e-book, tablettes, internet). L’objectif de ce projet est de développer cette plateforme, de la tester en environnement de laboratoire pour pouvoir ensuite la proposer aux structures hospitalières comme support à l’amélioration continuelle au sein de leurs départements. Il vise également la levée du verrou de l’implication des personnels, notamment par la remontée automatique d’alertes liés à des capteurs positionnés dans l’environnement de travail.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samuel-Jean Bassetto

Student:

Partner:

Flex Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Commercial Services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Calcul d’indicateurs en lien avec le modèle de complexité économique

MCD inc est une entreprise qui supporte les différentes régions du Québec en soulevant des opportunités d’affaires actuelles et futures pour les entreprises de production de biens. Elle contribue ainsi à la planification stratégique pour l’augmentation de la richesse des régions. Environ 25% des MRC du Québec utilise ses services pour le développement économique de leurs territoires, et MCD inc. est en discussion avec d’autres provinces canadiennes pour le déploiement de sa solution partout à travers le Canada. L’objectif du stage est d’améliorer l’outil de décision et conseil de MCD inc. sur les opportunités d’affaires et de marchés des biens produits, mais aussi d’élargir l’activité de MDC inc. vers l’identification des opportunités d’affaires et de marchés des produits verts (l’économie verte). Ceci permettra MCD inc. de renforcer sa contribution non seulement à l’augmentation de la richesse des régions, mais aussi à contribuer à l’amélioration de la qualité de l’environnement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jie He

Student:

Partner:

LinkkiSolution

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the relationship between tick abundance on pastures and on cattle, and the risk ticks represent to cattle and livestock workers

The two most common tick species in Manitoba are the American dog tick and the blacklegged tick. American dog ticks can infect cattle with a bacterium that causes bovine anaplasmosis, a blood-borne disease that can severely affect animal health and production. Blacklegged ticks can transmit several tick-borne infections like Lyme disease, granulocytic anaplasmosis, and babesiosis to humans and horses. Blacklegged ticks are a relatively recent addition to the Manitoba tick fauna, and there is no information on the importance of their relationship with cattle in the Prairies. Also, the relationship between the abundance of ticks in a pasture and the number of ticks infesting the animals is not well established. We propose to sample pastures and animals to define the relationship between habitat and exposure of livestock and workers to two species of ticks and help us evaluate the health and economic risks associated with ticks on pastures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kateryn Rochon

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Cattle Producers Association

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Research an intelligent framework for conversational AI software with the ability of financial advisors’ market insight

From simple transactions to complex investment strategies and wealth management, the customers want instant, intelligent answers to their questions, comprehensive financial knowledge education, and connection to a financial advisor on social media. To provide enhanced user experiences, we are researching an intelligent framework for conversational AI software with the ability to deliver financial advisors’ market insight. Furthermore, an AI Robo financial advisor that is robust enough to communicate and smart enough to facilitate customers with the financial knowledge, decent enough with portfolio management model, and extensible enough to meet new financial market development. The company sponsoring this project aims to evaluate different frameworks and find a quality machine learning model that produces an effective outcome.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michal Aibin

Student:

Partner:

SPECTADROID B.C. TECHNOLOGIES

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Mapping High-Level Workflows to Low-Level Robotic Actions

We are developing a robotic platform and agent that is able to translate instructions (e.g. “bring me the newspaper”) into a series of low-level programs (moving between rooms, locating objects, interacting with objects) and executing these autonomously. Traditionally, in hierarchical reinforcement learning, tasks are executed sequentially, but we would like to focus on parallelization and parameterization of low-level skills.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liam Paull

Student:

Partner:

ServiceNow Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Developing new drawing techniques to create believable Black hair in 2D Animation, and its role in increasing representation of African heritage in mainstream kids media.

Through iterative design and experimentation, this research aims to overcome the technical challenge of creating an authentic and respectful representation of African American hairstyles in mainstream 2D Animation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Glenn Sylvester;Juan Carlos Lopez de la Torre

Student:

Partner:

Atomic Cartoons

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Capilano University

Program:

Accelerate

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