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Cannabis Access Regulations Study (CANARY)

The CANARY study is a patient-centered assessment of the impact of the regulatory changes regarding access to cannabis for medical purposes in Canada. The study is the first to offer patients’ perspectives regarding their experience of access to medical cannabis after the implementation of the new federal regulations that have created a decentralized competitive national market for medical cannabis through the licensing of commercial producers. Through a nation-wide survey and interviews, the study will shed light on who is and who is not accessing the legal system of medical cannabis, and why. This valuable data will assist health professionals, policy-makers and medical cannabis providers to be responsive to the needs of Canadians who are using cannabis to manage their health conditions. As industry stakeholders, Aphria, the CCIC and CAMCD will use the results of this study to inform the practices of their respective organizations to the benefit of patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lynda Balneaves

Student:

Partner:

Aphria Inc;Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids;Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Testing efficacy of bird deterrents for use at wind energy facilities

For this project the intern will place a predator owl deterrent at the base of a wind turbine and hang nest boxes at a distance of at least 200 m from a wind turbine. The expected result of implementing the predator owl and the nest boxes will be a decline in bird mortalities occurring at three wind-energy sites in Nova Scotia. These sites will be monitored for 12 weeks during spring and fall 2016 bird migration periods (May 16th – June 10th & August 15th – October 7th). Data collected during this time will be compared to data collected in 2015 to determine the effectiveness of implementing the owl and nest boxes. This project will benefit the partner organization by obtaining results that can be used to reduce bird mortalities during future wind-energy developments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tony Walker

Student:

Partner:

Strum Consulting

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

New Adaptive Antenna for RF Heating of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

Canada owns 13-16% of the world oil supply, but 90% of these reserves are in the form of bitumen, which is as thick as cold peanut butter. This makes bitumen extraction very difficult, if not impossible, without reducing its viscosity. The popular solution is to increase bitumen’s temperature using steam. Sadly, steam strategies can be inefficient and are not always suitable. Radio signals can be used to heat the oil instead, and this approach tends to be more flexible and efficient. Unfortunately, radio frequency heating faces several practical challenges, which stem from changes in the oil reservoir’s electrical characteristics as it is heated. With the assistance of Acceleware Ltd., the proposed project aims to design and test a prototype for new antenna system that overcomes this issue.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Nielsen;Michal Okoniewski

Student:

Partner:

Acceleware Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Technical debt in software-intensive systems

Technical debt is a metaphor used in software development to describe the price to pay now for earlier design and coding decisions that were “not quite right”. It is different from defects or bugs: the software functions correctly. But any subsequent development is progressively more and more expensive, to the point where they cannot be reasonably extended or maintained anymore. The proposed research is to investigate a form of technical debt hard to detect by source code analyzers, called structural or architectural debt, and to investigate the use of artificial intelligence techniques to analyse internal software documentation to flag potential technical debt.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Kruchten

Student:

Partner:

Istuary Innovation Labs Inc (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Characterizing the Fusarium species that affect major crops in Manitoba

Root rots caused by Fusarium species pose a significant challenge to soybean and pulse growers in Manitoba and Canada, and so does Fusarium head blight caused by F. graminearum. The potential for certain pathogen species to infect more than one crop, or crops in more than one plant family, represent a great challenge for producers in terms of finding the right rotations and the continuous disease spreading risks. Since F. graminearum, the cereals’ Fusarium Head Blight agent (FHB), was found in soybeans, many questions arise regarding transmission of these pathogens from cereals to non-cereals and vice-versa. As some of these pathogens produce toxins that can be harmful to humans and animals, the risks become even more important. We asked the question whether wheat FHB contributes to root rots in field peas and soybeans and vice versa, and if so, how crop rotation regimes affect these disease cycles. The first step in answering this question is to characterize pathogenicity of the main Fusarium species from soybeans, peas, and cereals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fouad Daayf

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the Youth Volunteer Market: An Evaluation of Professional Skills Developed through Volunteering with World University Services of Canada

WUSC is a non-profit organization in international development that works to provide education, employment, empowerment opportunities, which includes providing enhanced leadership and life skills opportunities for youth in Canada and internationally. This project will evaluate how two key programs at WUSC (Students Without Borders and the Student Refugee Program) contribute to the professional development of students volunteering in international development and; to identify the impact of WUSC’s programs on its campus-based youth volunteers. The outcomes of this project will: 1) contribute to WUSC’s objective of ensuring that its youth volunteering initiatives in international development reflect best practice in youth professional development in Canada and in our countries of intervention; 2) contribute to an enhanced understanding of the impact of leadership programs and volunteering on future employment prospects for youth in specific economic sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Tiessen

Student:

Partner:

World University Service of Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Emulsion Breaker/Reverse Emulsion Breaker (EB/REB) for Oil Sands Production

Heavy oil production by oil sands surface mining and/or steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) processes presents many challenges, but oil and water separation is among the most critical within the industry. The crude oil coming out of reservoir normally carries significant concentration of bitumen and other surface-active species (e.g., asphaltenes, naphthenic acid and even solid particles) which mediate at the oil and water interface to create very stable or tight emulsions in the form of water-in-oil or water-in-oil-in-water. In this project, commercial emulsion breakers/reverse emulsion breakers (EB/REB) will be evaluated based on their performance on emulsion separation, and structure/performance correlation will be developed. The research could provide scientific guidance for the partner company on developing high performance emulsion breaking products for oil sands production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hongbo Zeng

Student:

Partner:

Nalco Champion ULC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced anti-debug for web applications

Web based anti-debug is a critical technology prevent dynamic attacks to web applications within browser environments. Irdeto has developed a set of essential anti-debug techniques that are used for projects of POC and products for protecting web applications. The research is to understand anti-debug techniques from the public domain, is developed in house, and will develop new and more advanced anti-debug techniques to make dynamic attacks to protected web applications more difficult. This kind of anti-debug technique must be realtime, just-in-time, agile and associated with user behavior.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vijay Ganesh

Student:

Partner:

Irdeto Canada (Kanata, ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Supporting Sustainable Architectural Conservation Practices

The proposed internship project deals with the compilation and preparation of relevant scientific content for the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation, which is currently developing an innovative “Online Sustainable Conservation Assistance Resource.” Also known as OSCAR, this tool is aimed at becoming an “interactive resource that establishes a clear process and aids in the making of optimal decisions necessary for the sustainable treatment of historic buildings”. The compilation of the relevant material, based on proposed interventions to building components, will be conducted by identifying applicable existing bibliographic material, as well, as conducting applied research work on the use of sustainable approaches for current preservation projects undertaken by MTBA Architects. The intern will assist in project work by conducting applied research thus contributing to the work of the firm as well as the intern’s academic and career goals. Furthermore, her work will be used to foster knowledge at the international stage using the APT OSCAR application.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mario Santana-Quintero

Student:

Partner:

Mark Thompson Brandt Architect & Associates Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Community land-use planning on First Nations reserves and the influence of land tenure: A case study with the Penticton Indian Band.

Tenure, the distribution of resource rights and responsibilities, is a central issue for First Nations’ management of lands and resources. The focus of this research project is the historical and contemporary land management implications of policy that created individualized land tenures on First Nations reserves. This project is in partnership with the Penticton Indian Band community land-use planning process and will support the Penticton Indian Band Development Corporation’s participation in land-use planning and sustainable community economic development decisions. The goal of this collaboration is to contribute to First Nations’ efforts to develop their own sustainable and effective land management systems within contemporary jurisdictional and policy settings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Murray Rutherford

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Enquête ethnographique de terrain en Tunisie sur la circulation des images de Street art exprimant les tensions arabo-occidentales

Dans le cadre de ce stage qui s’inscrit dans une recherche empirique doctorale, nous voulons compléter le terrain physique et numérique de la scène visuelle tunisienne du Street art exprimant des tensions arabo-occidentales. Dans ce contexte, nous voulons déterminer les pratiques de gouvernance de la culture visuelle urbaine tunisienne. Nous visons à analyser les pratiques physiques et numériques des oeuvres et des images de Street art à Tunis, Gabès et Djerba.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Roberge

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l'Information

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Profit de la génération future de la technologie de panneaux en métalpour l’enveloppe du bâtiment

Dans les domaines technologiques, la modification d’un objet, l’amélioration de la fonction d’un outil, la combinaison de deux produits sont des exemples de l’innovation. Mais dans certains cas, le changement est radical et le nouvel objet technique est si différent de ceux qui existaient auparavant qu’on peut parler de l’émergence d’une nouvelle génération de cet objet. En fait, l’évolution des objets techniques n’est pas hasardeuse, mais suit certaines tendances. Les concepteurs utilisent un ensemble des outils et méthodes pour prévoir les changements qui pourraient se réaliser. Ainsi, il est possible de décrire des caractéristiques de la nouvelle génération d’un objet technique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mickaël Gardoni

Student:

Partner:

Farmor Architecture Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

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