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La culture québécoise et la consommation énergétique des familles avec enfant propriétaires d’une maison avec cour : étude monographique de la socialisation, de situations, de scènes et de représentations sociales sur trois sites comparés

Une transition vers une consommation de l’énergie électrique plus sobre, efficace, flexible ou raisonnée doit notamment être pensée dans la réalité de jeunes parents manquant de temps, stressés, endettés par un premier achat immobilier. Leurs trajectoires et leurs aspirations d’établissement, ainsi que leurs manières de se déplacer, d’habiter et de s’approprier des lieux dispersés, expliquent leur propension à adopter ou pas des comportements d’achat et de consommation écoénergétiques. Avec le Laboratoire des technologies de l’énergie d’Hydro-Québec, nous proposons une enquête par entretien semi-dirigé (individuel ou de couple) visant à mieux décrire et comprendre la culture québécoise de la consommation énergétique dans les dynamiques des parcours d’établissement et des vies familiales de parents de jeunes enfants qui sont propriétaires d’une maison avec cour.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Morin

Student:

Partner:

Hydro-Quebec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Sustainability & the Environment; Green/Alternative Energy

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

La résistance aux changements organisationnels dans les entreprises pendant la pratique du management de projets

Les adaptations, transformations et changements sont nécessaires dans la vie des organisations, il est admis chez les chercheurs et praticiens que ces changements se réalisent à travers des projets et des programmes, ils servent à garder une synchronisation avec l’environnement des organisations. Les individus ont tendance à résister aux initiatives de changements, ce qui s’applique aux changements liés à la pratique du management de projet. La résistance des employés au changement menace le développement de l’entreprise et son existence sur le marché. Le but de cette recherche est d’explorer ce chez les employés et le fait modérateur de l’adoption des référentiels et bonnes pratiques de management de projet, afin de comprendre ce qui se passe réellement et détecter pourquoi les gens résistent au développement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christophe Bredillet

Student:

Partner:

Arseno Balayage

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Quel rôle pour les Pessamiulnuat dans la gestion de la réserve de biodiversité Uapishka?

Face aux lacunes des approches de conservation conventionnelles, la présente recherche sur les aires protégées et de conservation autochtones (APCA) vise les objectifs suivants :
– Définir une démarche pour la co-construction d’une vision commune de la réserve de biodiversité Uapishka, en termes de valeurs, d’objectifs et de besoins;
– Établir un cadre pour le suivi de l’intégrité socio-écologique avec la communauté innue de Pessamit;
– Identifier les facteurs facilitants et limitants le partenariat entre la communauté innue de Pessamit et la Réserve mondiale de la biosphère Manicouagan-Uapishka.
Cette recherche qualitative étudiera le territoire de la réserve de biodiversité. Ainsi, elle contribuera à la mise en place d’outils de gestion prenant en compte leurs valeurs, leur objectifs et leurs besoins autochtones ainsi qu’à favoriser l’implication autochtone dans les aires protégées. Pour les gestionnaires du réseau d’aires protégées et des parcs au Québec et au Canada, la recherche contribuera aussi à une définition plus complète des aires protégées « en santé ».

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Michel Beaudoin;Louis Bélanger

Student:

Partner:

Réserve mondiale de la biosphère Manicouagan-Uapishka

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting Perishable Field Vegetables’ Supply Using Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Imagery

Uncertainty at the upstream supply of agricultural products has been a challenge for growers. This uncertainty governs the market of non-strategic crops such as perishable field vegetables by affecting suppliers (or growers), distributors, and consumers. It causes too much or too little supply and consequently unexpected price variations. The supply chain of perishable food is a complex puzzle made up of many elements. Among these elements, this project is focused on estimating the area under harvest of specific crops using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning. Satellite images provide a wealth of information for decision-making in agriculture. This project applies Computer Vision to analyze satellite images from the vegetable fields to evaluate the area under harvest. This analysis could illustrate the concentration of farms growing a specific vegetable locally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hamidreza Mahyar

Student:

Partner:

NetProCore Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a risk-prediction model

A quantitative risk prediction model is to be constructed. We need to determine if the available data will fit an existing model and validate the results or if a new statistical model is required. Each case will be allocated into one of three categories (low, moderate and high risk). This stratification must have clinical validity and utility. The cut-offs for the stratification will be established based primarily on clinical utility and on the availability of the data. The cut-offs will be optimized to achieve optimum AUC, NPV, PPV, sensitivity and specificity values. It is expected that a minimal number of variables (2 maximum) will be used in the risk-prediction model for both over fitting and clinical action reasons. This prediction algorithm will allow proteocyte to have in hand an exploratory model to continue its work in developing a robust test that can have clinical utility in stratifying premalignat oral lesions according to the level of risk of progressing to cancer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lehana Thabane

Student:

Partner:

Proteocyte Diagnostics

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Building Capacity for Campus Suicide Prevention: A Policy Practice Partnership – Year two

Post-secondary student mental health is of great concern, with increased rates of anxiety, depression, feelings of isolation, and suicidality observed. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health stressors and concerns about campus suicides, already on the rise. In response, the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions has funded the BC Campus Suicide Prevention Initiative (CSPI), partnering with the Canadian Mental Health Association, BC division (CMHA BC) who will distribute funding and offer technical support to all 25 BC publicly funded post-secondary institutions. This HSIF project will evaluate the implementation and early impacts of the CSPI, identify where further support is needed, and provide recommendations for how the public health system can ensure long-term and sustainable impacts and national scale-up to improve post-secondary suicide prevention and overall mental health and well-being. This study has the following aims: 1. to monitor early outcomes across the CSPI program’s implementation; 2. to understand the mediating role of CMHA BC (program administrator and technical support coordinator) in the collaborative processes and outcomes of participating post-secondary institutions; and 3. to assess scalability and sustainability of the CSPI in BC and nationally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emily Jenkins

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association (British Columbia)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Building Capacity for Campus Suicide Prevention: A Policy Practice Partnership

Post-secondary student mental health is of great concern, with increased rates of anxiety, depression, feelings of isolation, and suicidality observed. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health stressors and concerns about campus suicides, already on the rise. In response, the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions has funded the BC Campus Suicide Prevention Initiative (CSPI), partnering with the Canadian Mental Health Association, BC division (CMHA BC) who will distribute funding and offer technical support to all 25 BC publicly funded post-secondary institutions. This HSIF project will evaluate the implementation and early impacts of the CSPI, identify where further support is needed, and provide recommendations for how the public health system can ensure long-term and sustainable impacts and national scale-up to improve post-secondary suicide prevention and overall mental health and well-being. This study has the following aims: 1. to monitor early outcomes across the CSPI program’s implementation; 2. to understand the mediating role of CMHA BC (program administrator and technical support coordinator) in the collaborative processes and outcomes of participating post-secondary institutions; and 3. to assess scalability and sustainability of the CSPI in BC and nationally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emily Jenkins

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association (British Columbia)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

The potential role of vertical agriculture in sustainable and resilient community food systems

Vertical agriculture could play a strong role in sustainable food systems, as it can be used to produce year-round supplies of nutritious foods with low environmental footprints. Vertical farming could be a valuable strategy for developing urban agriculture and local food systems, thereby contributing to sustainable community development and resilience. This research explores this potential by (1) experimenting with growing conditions for a vertical farm (e.g., lighting, nutrient inputs) to determine how to increase yield and nutrition while reducing costs and carbon footprint, and (2) using a map-based online tool to map different vertical agriculture scenarios in a BC city (e.g., distributed small farms, centralized large farms) to examine the social, economic, and environmental outcomes of the scenarios (e.g., local food access, supply chains, GHG emissions, economic viability, etc.). The research involves a collaboration between the University of the Fraser Valley, QuantoTech Solutions (vertical farming specialists), and iOpen Technologies (GIS tools specialists).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Newell;Lenore Newman;Lenore Newman;Robert Newell;Stefania Pizzirani

Student:

Partner:

QuantoTech;i-Open Technologies

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of the Fraser Valley

Program:

Accelerate

Building a Mindfulness-Based Community of Inquiry to Educate for Regenerative and Sustainable Living in Times of Crisis

The COVID pandemic and looming climate crisis have pushed people to become aware of our vulnerability and rethink our lives/lifestyles. This proposed research sees mindfulness as important in supporting school educators to educate for sustainable living in environmental crises. Mindfulness has gained a mainstream status in school-based programs for its benefits on teachers and students’ wellbeing. Despite growing research on the positive role of mindfulness in education, few studies exist to examine K-12 educators’ personal and practical experiences of engaging mindfulness in educating for environmental sustainability during times of emergency.
This research will develop a knowledge base for understanding how teachers engage mindfulness in their life and work to cultivate their capacity to educate for sustainable living. Findings from this study will contribute to True Peace Sangha’s effort to develop a mindful and sustainable living centre for the common good in Ontario.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shijing Xu

Student:

Partner:

True Peace Sangha of Toronto;Kawartha World Issues Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

QT and BIPOC volunteer rider experiences with The Bike Brigade

The Bike Brigade serves vulnerable communities by signing up volunteer cyclists to deliver food and other resources to individuals in need. In collaboration with The Bike Brigade, this project is meant to highlight the experiences of QT and BIPOC volunteer bicyclists, in order to increase The Bike Brigade’s capacity and inform their anti-oppression and equity framework. Research participants will engage in arts-based methods in addition to interviews to discuss the ways in which they use the bicycle to contribute to anti-racism, gender-based violence prevention, and environmental justice, particularly within the context of COVID-19. This project provides space for volunteers to share their stories, and contribute to increasing equity and access to The Bike Brigade’s program, as well as bicycling more broadly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lyndsay Hayhurst

Student:

Partner:

The Bike Brigade

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

The Characterization of Novel and Traditional Plant Proteins

There has been recent scientific and public interest in the development of plant- based proteins as alternate sources to animal protein. With the popularity of vegetarianism and veganism, the demand for plant-based products has significantly increased. Meat being rich in proteins not only makes it nutritionally rich, but also significantly contributes to its texture and palatability. This property, however, has not be achieved in plant- based meat analogues yet. Therefore, this study aims to texturize and test various plant-based protein powders and analyse them at the molecular level. This would help food processors optimize their production parameters and render nutrition-rich plant protein products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ashutosh Singh

Student:

Partner:

Griffith Foods Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Designing global event sets of floods and tropical cyclones under future climates for underwriting, capital management and regulatory purposes

With mounting pressure coming from regulators and other bodies worldwide, the financial services industry (banks, insurers, and reinsurers) will soon need to disclose and stress test their solvency and profitability to various climate scenarios. The work from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) thus provides guidance as to how it should be accomplished. Physical risk assessment of the impacts of climate change remains however an important challenge for the global reinsurance industry requiring catastrophe models to be connected to climate models. The general objective of the research project is to build global event sets of floods and tropical cyclones that are consistent with future climate and socioeconomic scenarios to support financial risk management for insurers and reinsurers, climate-related financial disclosures and stress tests, as well as strategic long-term decision-making.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mathieu Boudreault

Student:

Partner:

AXA XL;AXA XL (UK)

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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