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Syntheses of novel 3,5-bis(benzylidene)-4-piperidone derivatives as potential anticancer agents

The principal objective of this proposal is to discover novel drugs to treat colon cancers. Currently colon cancer is a huge medical problem and there are many disadvantages to current drug therapies. These disadvantages include their ineffectiveness to completely eradicate cancers, causing toxic side effects and the development of multidrug resistance. A group of compounds discovered in the laboratory of the supervisor designated series 1 has significant potencies towards a number of human colon cancer cell lines. However it is unlikely that they will be effective when given orally due to their low water solubility. Thus this proposal outlines the preparation of analogs of series 1 which retain their anticancer properties but have increased water solubility thereby enabling the compounds to be given by mouth. Bertech requires novel anticancer agents in order to attach antibodies to them which are specific for colon cancers. In other words, this application is part of a long term strategy of Bertech to provide treatment for the detection and treatment of patients with colon cancer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

J. R. Dimmock

Student:

Partner:

Bertech Pharma Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Sparse Representations for Embodied AI

Understanding scenes representing real world environments is a challenging problem at the intersection of Computer Vision research and Deep Learning and a necessary pre-requisite for Embodied AI. Embodied AI is an emerging field within Machine Learning that focuses on the challenges that need to be addressed for successful deployment of edge devices such as drones and robots. In this setting estimating the semantics of an environment plays an essential role in addition to how it can be efficiently navigated to solve a variety of tasks that can involve other agents as well. The Embodiment Hypothesis states that intelligence emerges from the interaction of an agent and its perception of the environment it is embodied within. This project establishes an empirical study to validate this hypothesis for Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents trained on environments derived from simulations as well as real world data. We use DRL as a methodology to model a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) that describe optimal processes for navigation-perception problems. The embodiment hypothesis implies that an end-to-end understanding of this problem should outperform conventional methods for training computer vision models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lei Lei

Student:

Partner:

EthicalAI

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Impact d’un programme résidentiel adapté et novateur sur la qualité de vie des adultes autistes

La plupart des personnes autistes souhaitent être autonomes dans une majorité des sphères de leur vie, particulièrement dans celle de l’hébergement. Toutefois, plusieurs obstacles peuvent se présenter à eux tels que le manque de ressources résidentielles adaptées et l’arrêt des services de soutien. C’est dans cette optique que la Fondation Véro & Louis (FVL) a décidé de créer un projet de résidences novatrices et adaptées dans le but de pallier à ces lacunes. Le projet proposé servira à en apprendre davantage sur l’impact d’un milieu de vie adapté sur le niveau de stress et d’anxiété, le bien-être, le développement de l’autonomie et la participation sociale des adultes autistes. Ce stage aura comme avantages pour la FVL d’avoir l’expertise d’une stagiaire qui connait le domaine et de son superviseur qui est le chercheur qui a été invité pour les aider.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roger Godbout

Student:

Partner:

Mental Health Research Canada;Fondation Véro & Louis

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring outcomes of a virtual education and training program

The delivery of online education and training has increased significantly over recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on online course delivery has focused largely on offerings delivered by academic institutions for course credit. Little is known about learner outcomes during training courses that focus on skill development. Findings from this study will provide much needed evaluation data on one online education and training course. Recommendations for maximizing learner outcomes in online courses will be developed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rose McCloskey;Isdore Chola Shamputa

Student:

Partner:

Life Start Training Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

A framework for smart banking conversational services

Nowadays, the banking sector has undergone a massive transformation of its services from e-banking to smart banking that implements modern technologies to provide a more innovative experience for customers. This project addresses the challenge of providing a smart banking conversational service as a new-generation self-service in order to improve customer experience and satisfaction. The purpose of this research is to propose a novel framework by which a dialogue system can adapt and learn to choose an optimal and personalized dialogue strategy based on customer knowledge and interactive experience with human users. The proposed service receives the user’s questions, analyzes the requirements using machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques, and make a personalized appropriate response that may include the answer, hint, process, or recommended product and service to satisfy user needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thang Le Dinh

Student:

Partner:

Mouvement des caisses Desjardins;École Polytechnique de Montréal

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Dandelion Open Distributed Computing Platform Development – BLS

The proposed project is aimed at adding smart contract and sharding functionality to the Dandelion network, improving cryptographic efficiency with aggregable signatures under the BLS signature scheme, identifying a roadmap to a Quantum Resistant aggregable signatures, and mathematically proving the safety and liveness properties of the extended system using TLA+ proofs. This improve the platforms throughput and finalization speed, allow sophisticated transactions, and ensure the finished product is mathematically sound.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Albert Danison

Student:

Partner:

Dandelion Networks Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Monitoring Kingston’s Third Crossing Bridge

Bridges are critical infrastructure assets, which connect transportation networks for the delivery of goods and services and are vital links for first responders. The goal of this research is to advance the state-of-the-art in innovative and cost-effective solutions to monitor the condition of bridge infrastructure using a low-cost sensor network and an intelligent robotic machine, which will be installed on Kingston’s Third Crossing bridge. The project will develop a novel online platform to visualize collected data and automatically inform the user if anomalies are detected. This will have significant benefits for the City of Kingston, who will be able to use the platform to ensure the Third Crossing bridge is behaving as intended and inform any maintenance needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joshua Woods;Neil Hoult

Student:

Partner:

City of Kingston;Hatch Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Cloud-based Reengineering and Interoperability of a Primary Care EMR

Computer-supported Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems are increasingly replacing conventional paper-based information management in primary health care clinics. Recently, there has been a trend to make these EMR systems available in a Cloud-based, interoperable and network-centric architecture. The internship will research ways to increase the interoperability of an existing EMR product, with respect to emerging health information interchange standards and protocols.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jens Weber

Student:

Partner:

Osler Systems Management Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Unveiling the nature of cavitation suppression in mantis shrimp appendage strikes

In our proposed research we will be performing numerical simulations of cavitation occurring around mantis shrimp appendages.
The simulation results will serve to answer how evolutionary diversification in the species has enabled appendages to selectively
cavitate only upon impact, and not during forward rotation, despite the appendage-acceleration being comparable with that of a
bullet. Moreover, insight into the effects of appendage-surface topology on the cavitation field will be produced and can create
new avenues of bio-inspired research in cavitation suppression in industrial pumps and marine propellers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joshua Brinkerhoff

Student:

Partner:

California Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of kinetics and recipes of the neutral sulfite semi-chemical (NSSC) pulping for the production of high-quality corrugating medium

Lake Utopia Paper is interested in developing and improving the birch NSSC pulping process for the production of corrugating medium. The primary objective of this project is to develop delignification and sulfonation models for process control of NSSC pulping of birch. In addition, the relationship between the NSSC pulping process and the properties of the final product (pulping efficiency, yield and pulp properties) will be established. Through further development of the NSSC pulping process, it will improve the economic performance of the company and allow them to remain competitive in the international market. The result from this research project will not only benefit the Lake Utopia Paper, but also other Canadian Pulp and paper industries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yonghao Ni

Student:

Partner:

J.D. Irving, Limited

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Advancement of biosensor technologies for use in healthcare/cancer research and detection

The detection of specific carbohydrates is critical for several processes including biofuel production, textile finishing, food production and human health. These carbohydrates play roles in human health including stem cell differentiation, genetic diseases, and viral infection (i.e., COVID-19). Presently, the largest barrier to understanding the role carbohydrates play in human health is the lack of suitable tools to study them. Biosensors are devices that are used to detect and quantify the concentration of biomolecules or microorganisms. Protein-based biosensors, like those described in this proposal, are composed of one or more fluorescently labelled proteins that interact with a target molecule in solution. The interaction of the target molecule with the biosensor induces a change in the protein, which in turn, alters the position/ environment of the fluorescent dye. This change results in an altered fluorescence output, which can be measured. The challenge for developing new protein-based biosensors is that often multiple rounds of the design, build, and test cycles are required to find labeling positions that provide a change in fluorescence upon binding the target molecule yet do not disrupt the binding properties of the protein.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Trushar Patel

Student:

Partner:

Allos Bioscience Ltd.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Redefining Success in Livelihood Development: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Work Practices based on its Historical Roots in Slavery, Colonialism, and Individualism

The popular idea of a successful career or livelihood is defined by the amount of money or fame earned. Most of the popular motivational books/speeches put forward the idea that a successful career can be achieved through personal hard work, resilience, and maximizing productivity. But the role of historical and socio-economic factors is not discussed while talking about success. For example, the issues of race, gender, class, and the historical contexts of colonialism and slavery are not generally discussed while talking about making a successful career. This project attempts to reimagine the idea of a successful career or livelihood by including the issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tara Mayer

Student:

Partner:

Groundswell Alternative Business School

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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