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In-vitro evaluation of hypervalent antimicrobial agents on epidermal cell susceptibility, proliferation, and migration

Inorganic elements, such as silver and copper, have long been used as effective antimicrobial and antifungal agents. Although the introduction of antibiotics in the early 20th century diminished the use of inorganic antimicrobials, increasing incidence and prevalence of antibiotic resistance has led to a resurgence of interest in alternative antimicrobial technologies. However, valid concern over the potential toxicity of inorganic antimicrobial that have resulted in skepticism and limited clinical adoption. Drawing upon the positive outcome of higher oxidation state silver to combat resistant organisms, here we evaluate the impact of these active ingredients on wound healing factors including cell migration, differentiation, and inflammation. Working with a multidisciplinary team, the outcomes from this study will translate directly from bench to bedside ensuring the development of novel medical devices to, not only combat antimicrobial resistance, but facilitate wound healing and benefit patient safety.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Katalin Szaszi

Student:

Partner:

Exciton Technologies Inc (ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Promoting Equity in Online Learning through Understanding and Supporting Cognitive Needs

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) enable schools to offer education online. This is helpful during the current COVID times. It is important that every learner is able to participate in the online learning experience. For this, the needs of learners with disabilities must be supported. Many of these are cognitive needs; they involve thinking, feeling, focusing, and understanding. Such needs are not understood as much as the needs around seeing, hearing, and operating a computer.
To address this gap, the University of Toronto and D2L Corporation (makers of Brightspace LMS) are jointly undertaking this research project. The goal of the project is to make online learning more inclusive through gaining a better understanding of the cognitive needs of online learners and the possible mechanisms for supporting those needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colin Furness

Student:

Partner:

D2L Corporation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing Regenerative Energy Technologies for Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicle (EV) is the future of sustainable transportation to phase out the reliance on petroleum fuels. Despite the multibillion-dollar market potential, wide deployment of EV is challenging due to limited energy storage. Regenerative energy generation can be implemented to compensate for the energy consumption in EV to provide the much-needed extra mileage. Apart from regenerative braking, other energy harvesting options such as solar panels, wind turbines, and vibration/shock energy harvesting have yet to be implemented at larger
scales. This research focuses on systematic evaluation and engineering of regenerative energy harvesting systems with computational approach, leading to market analysis and cost performance index comparison of hybrid energy harvesting systems, thus proposing a feasible high-performing regenerative energy harvesting system that is projected to worth at least $37.5B within the next 5 years for an annual sale of 350,000 EV units when successfully implemented in a leading EV company (Tesla) market alone.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kirk H Bevan

Student:

Partner:

Mega Range Extender

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Building Information Modeling for Facility Operations

The goal of this research is to explore the extent to which building information models (BIM) can be extended into the operations, maintenance and continuous optimization of CIRS, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, and the most high-performance building on the UBC campus. The project team will develop and implement a BIM of the CIRS basement to apply BuiltSpace software for tracking and interacting with key infrastructure assets. This project intends to research and demonstrate innovative methods for operating, maintaining, and interacting with building systems to improve operational efficiency and the cost-effectiveness of facility management. Further, opportunities to engage building inhabitants in the continuous optimization of CIRS, including voting and engagement processes, will also be explored. The CIRS mandate to advance sustainability through research, partnerships and education aligns strongly with the BuiltSpace mission to enable changes to how people address the sustainability of our building stock.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sheryl Staub-French

Student:

Partner:

BuiltSpace Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Diagnostic d’un programme de renforcement de capacités?organisationnelles : le cas de Philagora de la Fondation J. Armand Bombardier

Les organismes à but non lucratif du Québec vivent depuis de nombreuses décennies des problématiques importantes, notamment liées aux financements, au recrutement et à la rétention des bénévoles. La pandémie mondiale a mis ces organisations dans des situations de gestion de grande complexité, entre le besoin urgent de livrer des services à la communauté et la nécessité de s’adapter pour survivre. Dans ce contexte, la Fondation J. Armand Bombardier offre un programme d’accompagnement et de développement des compétences aux gestionnaires de ces organismes à but non lucratif depuis maintenant une décennie. Ayant vu le jours en 2011, le programme Philagora propose plusieurs ateliers de renforcement des capacités organisationnelles aux organismes sociaux financés par la Fondation. Dans un contexte de pandémie et après une décennie d’existence, ce programme de renforcement de capacités doit probablement évoluer afin de s’adapter aux nouvelles réalités des OSBL. C’est précisément l’objet de cette recherche-intervention qui vise à effectuer un diagnostic du programme Philagora afin de le perfectionner à la lumière d’une analyse minutieuse des besoins, attentes et défis vécus par les OSBL québécois.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sofiane Baba

Student:

Partner:

Fondation J. Armand Bombardier

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

The impact of a novel plant-based protein blend on aminoacidemia and muscle protein synthesis

There is no plant-based protein (PBP) that compares to whey protein isolate (WPI) on the growth and maintenance of muscle mass, as WPI contains all the building blocks of protein, known as amino acids (AA). The most important AA when it comes to muscle growth is leucine, which is not as high in PBPs. In order to close this gap, we will be comparing a new PBP blend with sufficient leucine to WPI in 2 studies to confirm the new PBP blend’s safety and tolerability and its impact on muscle growth. Results from these studies will be used to advance knowledge on the impact of PBP blends on muscle health while guiding the development and application of PBP blends in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stuart Phillips

Student:

Partner:

Enhanced Medical Nutrition

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Wholesale trade

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

High-fidelity, Directable Animation Transfer for Dubbing

The entertainment industry delivers media products around the world to people speaking a large number of distinct languages. To accommodate different languages, the producers typically re-generate the sound stream in different languages in a post-production step, but they leave the same video footage resulting in the desynchronization between the audio and video content, creating an unnatural effect. In this project we are developing and extending a set of tools and techniques to naturally synthesize the video footage to match the audio track eliminating the visual artifacts. Such methods and tools will help create higher quality video and audio content that can be easier “translated” to any language increasing the competitive edge of the company as well as the dubbing industry as a whole.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tiberiu Popa;Eric Paquette

Student:

Partner:

Productions Audio Z Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Multi modal information extraction for visually rich documents

The main objective of this project is to extract information from documents (Name, issue date, address, account number, etc.) that have diverse set of layouts (bank statements, utility bills, credit card statements, etc.). This problem is challenging because of diversity in layouts, variety of languages and complexity of template structures, which makes traditional NLP approaches difficult to use. The goal is to develop a solution that can make use of not only textual but visual layout information to extract information. Intern will be involved in reading research paper pertaining the problem, analysing image datasets and write code to run experiments on public and proprietary datasets to improve the accuracy of the system. This project is part of Jumio’s Document Verification product, that provides companies with services that verifies customer information through the analysis of their documents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Jumio

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

INO : Détection automatique de menaces dans des images issues d’une caméra térahertz (THz).

INO est en train de développer un dispositif «?see-through?» permettant d’inspecter sans contact une zone prédéfinie sur une personne. Ce genre de dispositif serait déployé aux endroits où un contrôle des personnes est requis afin de déterminer s’ils transportent des articles menaçants sous leurs vêtements. Citons à titre d’exemple les aéroports. L’utilité de ce dispositif est de résoudre différents enjeux reliés à la fouille corporelle (parties intimes, signes religieux, risques sanitaires, etc.).
Dans le but d’accélérer et rendre plus efficace la procédure de contrôle, INO veut explorer les possibilités d’automatiser la détection de menaces. La portée du projet de stage est donc de développer une ou plusieurs approches basées sur l’intelligence artificielle qui permettront de classifier les données issues des scans en menace (couteau, fusil, etc.) ou non-menace (monnaie, montre, collier, etc.).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Xavier Maldague

Student:

Partner:

Institut national d'optique

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Histoire des paléo-îles du lac proglaciaire Ojibway (partie 2)

L’Amérique du Nord était recouverte de glace durant le maximum glaciaire il y a de cela 18 000 ans. Par la suite, le climat s’est réchauffé et les glaciers se sont progressivement retirés. Ce retrait des glaciers a été associé au développement d’un gigantesque lac couvrant la région actuelle de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Ce lac dénommé Ojibway, était peu profond et présentait des îles, devenues aujourd’hui des collines comme les collines Abijevis du Parc National d’Aiguebelle. Les travaux de recherche entrepris en collaboration avec le Parc visent à reconstituer le paysage de ces îles à l’époque où le reste de la région était recouvert par le lac Ojibway. Les résultats permettront de mieux caractériser l’évolution de l’environnement de la région et d’alimenter les stratégies de gestion et de conservation des massifs forestiers du Parc national d’Aiguebelle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hugo Asselin;Yves Bergeron

Student:

Partner:

Parc national d'Aiguebelle

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Parking Occupancy Inference With LiDAR Sensors

Parking is a cumbersome part of auto travel in urban areas, primarily due to lack of information on the location of available spots. Sensors can be deployed to detect occupancy, but they often fail due to their high costs and detection inefficiencies in outdoor spaces. This project pursues a feasibility study of using LIDAR sensors, which overcome some deficiencies, for parking detection. LIDARs have a wide field of view, are robust to outdoor disturbances, and can be provided at cost given the recent advancements in the autonomous vehicle industry. The steps of the project include: (i) review types of LIDARS and their properties, (ii) process data collected from LIDARS, and (iii) develop data analytics solutions for interpreting LIDAR data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mehdi Nourinejad

Student:

Partner:

CurbLab Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Validation d’une plateforme numérique intégrée de sensibilisation Grand Public à la cyber-sécurité

Le présent projet vise le développement de modules de formation et d’éducation novateurs ayant pour objectifs d’améliorer les habitudes cyber-hygiéniques. Le but premier de ces modules de formation est de développer un sens de cyber-responsabilité, ainsi que des habitudes numériques sécuritaires. Ces modules de formation seront ludiques, conviviales et adaptées à la réalité des usagers afin de soutenir l’engagement des utilisateurs durant le visionnement et ainsi favoriser une meilleure rétention du message à travers le temps. L’objectif étant que les utilisateurs retiennent le message et utilisent les connaissances et les compétences acquises en comportement observable dans la vie de tous les jours afin de diminuer les risques de fraudes et réduire les risques financiers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sebastien Tremblay

Student:

Partner:

Awee Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

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