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Utilisation de bois raméal fragmenté pour faciliter la recolonisation forestière sur roches stériles d’une mine d’or

Pour rétablir l’écosystème forestier sur roches stériles minières, la recolonisation naturelle à partir de la forêt environnante présente plusieurs avantages. Mais l’établissement des essences forestières requiert des conditions qui font défaut aux roches stériles. Du fait de leur manque en matière organique, ces substrats dégradés manquent de nutriments, d’eau, et d’organismes du sol. L’utilisation d’un amendement organique sous forme de paillis de bois raméal fragmenté ou BRF peut diminuer les extrêmes de température du sol, augmenter l’humidité, stimuler la présence de champignons et la libération des nutriments nécessaires à la croissance des plantes, et diminuer la compétition herbacée. L’objectif général de ce projet de maîtrise consistera à tester la capacité d’un paillis de BRF à favoriser la recolonisation naturelle des essences forestières environnant un site minier sur des roches stériles compactées avec et sans sol. Les résultats permettront d’établir des recommandations concrètes relatives aux substrats à utiliser en région boréale pour faciliter la réinstallation de l’écosystème forestier naturel. Pour le partenaire, les résultats du projet lui permettront de choisir la technique la plus adaptée à la restauration de son site à grande échelle afin de l’intégrer dans le paysage forestier environnant.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie Guittonny-Larchevêque

Student:

Partner:

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining; Natural Resources; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Multi-agent Quadrotor Control and Distributed Intelligence in GPS Denied Environments

Networks are ubiquitous in our world. In broad terms, a networked control system consists of sensors, actuators and controllers interconnected and coordinated through a communication network. Networked control with distributed intelligence can open new directions in the industry of robotic entertainment allowing for pursuer-evader games to be played with multiple robots. The research proposed here will give a first step in this direction. More especifically, it will address the control of multiple quadrotor drones communicating over a wireless network to track a group of robotic cars in response to real-time mission commands operating in environments without GPS (for example inside buildings). The proposed research combines networked control theory, distributed intelligence, and robotics and is supported on BLE technology to implement a robotic real-time pursuer-evader game using quadrotor UAVs as the pursuers and robotic cars as the evaders.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luis Rodrigues

Student:

Partner:

Echoer Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the prospective benefits of physical demands description (PDD) data created from job simulations

Every job at Ford Motor Company should have an associated document describing the physical demands (i.e., lifting, climbing, pushing, etc.) required in that job. This information is important to select job candidates with the right blend of capabilities to be able to safely meet these demands. Perhaps more importantly, this information also provides a benchmark to guide health care providers in helping injured workers rehabilitate their capabilities so that they can again return to their job, safely meeting the job’s demands. However, it is very time consuming to generate these reports and many health care providers often wish they had more details. With advances in the ability to simulate work using computer programs, there is a new opportunity to more quickly generate very detailed physical demand summary reports. This project will evaluate health care provider’s preferences regarding the usefulness of reports generated from work simulations compared to the traditional reports.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Fischer

Student:

Partner:

Ford Motor Company

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing inter-device interaction in Drone-Aided Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (DA-MANET) for Humanitarian Mission deployment

Every year, people suffer the consequences natural disasters descend upon them. When these unfortunate events occur, emergency response teams are deployed and need to deal with a multitude of challenges. In this scenario, the communication infrastructure is a key element that can contribute to the success of the mission. Considering the case of a Drone-Aided Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (DA-MANET), where devices such as drones and cell phones are available, it is imperative to investigate how their interaction must occur in a way to optimize the humanitarian mission. In this context several aspects need to be considered, such as device placement, energy consumption, overall network throughput, fairness between connections, and balance in use of short- and long-range connections. In this project we propose the creation of an optimization framework that deals with the multiobjective exploration for this specific type of network aiming to improve its performance for humanitarian mission deployment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriela Nicolescu

Student:

Partner:

Humanitas Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

An analysis of Delivra LivSport PreWorkout Cream combined with oral creatine to improve muscular performance and alter arterial stiffness

Creatine is a supplement known to improve performance over repeated high intensity exercise, seen in most sports. Typical creatine supplementation involves ingesting large amounts of the supplement, leading to side effects of weight gain and GI distress. Delivra™has formulated a new way to supplement creatine through a topical cream applied to the legs, which can potentially eliminate these side effects. This research will test this new creatine cream compared to oral ingestion to determine if it can improve high intensity performance, by generating more power and reducing fatigue. It will also research how this new method of creatine supplementation can improve vascular health associated with high intensity exercise. This will benefit Delivra™, as this product may be a new method by which athletes can supplement to improve in their sport as well as improve health of certain at risk populations who participate in exercise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Travis Saunders;Philip Chilibeck;Jamie Burr;Adam Johnston

Student:

Partner:

Delivra Corp

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph; University of Prince Edward Island; University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Automated Generation of Software Tools to Support Data Ingestion for Environmental Modelling and Monitoring

Environmental modelling and monitoring software systems, which are very important in assessing the effects of climate change, require open data from a large number of sources including all levels of government, NGOs such as watershed management authorities, consultants and business. This data needs to be brought together into internal databases and to be kept up-to-date to perform the required underlying computations. Collecting this data manually and keeping it current requires an incredible amount of error-prone manual labour. The goal of this project is to create a software system that will automatically collect and maintain the data and aggregate the data into the internal databases thereby removing the need for human intervention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Donald Cowan

Student:

Partner:

Centre for Community Mapping

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Devulcanization of Scrap Rubber and Incorporation of Devulcanized Rubber in Virgin Rubber Compounds

The main focus of this project is to develope and optimize a rubber recycling technology in which the scrap rubber, such as scrap tires and automotive parts, can be recycled and incorporated in a new rubber product compound. Tyromer Inc. (www.tyromer.com) is created to commercialize a rubber devulcanization technology utilizing supercritical fluid and extrusion. The company product is a devulcanized rubber that can be reused in rubber goods manufacturing. As the company’s focus is to qualify its Tyromer product for tire application, it will be in a much stronger position to optimize product performance with a more in depth understanding of some of the factors affecting material properties. The key focus for company is to produce a product suitable for incorporation into new rubber compound for tire and automotive industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexander Penlidis

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Capacité de régénération suite aux feux/coupes, de remise en production et de croissance des peuplements juvéniles/immatures en pessière dans un contexte de changement climatique

Les changements climatiques auront des effets marqués dans la forêt, une source importante de fibre pour l’industrie et un réservoir significatif de carbone. Dans sa partie nord, la forêt devient de plus en plus ouverte; on y observe une augmentation des superficies sans arbres. Ce projet vise à mieux comprendre les facteurs qui affectent la densité et la croissance des peuplements, notamment ceux situés aux limites de la forêt boréale. A l’aide de données récoltées sur le terrain et des données d’archives, les stagiaires comparerons la croissance et la régénération après coupes et après feux afin d’évaluer les facteurs responsables de la résilience des forêts. Ceci permettra d’anticiper les conséquences des climatiques sur notre capacité d’aménager la forêt de manière durable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron;Frédéric Raulier;Olivier Blarquez

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc;Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C.

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université de Montréal; Université du Québec à Montréal; Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Comparing and Improving Approaches to Topic Modeling

The proposed research project aims at evaluating and improving a technique in Statistical Natural Processing called Topic Modelling in order to apply it to real-life scenarios. Topic modeling is a techniques that allows the quick discovery of what the main topics of a document collection are, and thus automatically answers the question “What do these documents talk about?”.
Several approaches have been proposed to implement topic modeling, but their evaluation have rarely taken the end-use into account. In addition, the topics identified by such techniques are often based on single words and seen as the end-result.
In this research, we wish to address two main issues: 1) the evaluation of methods in topic modeling based on a social validity assessment when applied to real-life applications, and 2) the improvement of the extracted topics based on other linguistic units, other than single words.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leila Kosseim

Student:

Partner:

Provalis Research Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Topological Network Analysis for Transportation and Water Management Systems

The main goal of this project is to develop a general set of computational solutions that could be used to prevent and manage emergency situations in transportation and water management networks by developing a monitoring and predictive model. This monitoring and predictive model will be based on topological data analysis (TDA) in a fashion similar to the model used in systems biology but here applied to Big Data provided by transportation, communication and water management systems. The TDA thanks to its proactive approach – utilizing different sources and their correlations and generating data interpretation and association – will evolve towards creating “business intelligence” and will improve transportation and water management safety at a system level and crisis management. This methodology is based on the study of dynamic predictive models related to individual and / or collective behavior as well, especially inspired by the models produced by systems biology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jack Tuszynski

Student:

Partner:

Mowat Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Precast Concrete Carbonation under Ambient Conditions

This project seeks to explore the practical viability of curing concrete via carbonation at ambient pressure conditions, thereby omitting the technique’s current dependency on elevated pressures. A vacuum pre-setting step and regimented CO2 injections highlight the proposed technique. Experiments will initially be carried out at the laboratory scale at the university, and then scaled up to pilot trials to be conducted at the partner’s industrial site. Tests and analyses include compressive strength, absorption, porosity, surface resistivity, mineralogy, microscopy, and thermal analysis. Promising outcomes will help the industrial partner expand on its commercial implementation of carbonation curing, and promote further adoption by the concrete precast industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yixin Shao

Student:

Partner:

Boehmers

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Enteroids and enteroid derived monolayer cultures: Using primary intestinal epithelial cell cultures to define the mechanisms underlying epithelial intrinsic innate defenses

Using growth media available from Stemcell technologies, along with our own tools and techniques, we can isolate and grow intestinal stem cells from mice or human patient donors into enteroid cultures. Enteroids are 3D cell cultures that replicate many of the structures and types of cells found in the intestinal lining. We propose to work with Stemcell technologies to continue to develop their growth media for enteroid culture and apply these new media and techniques to further or understanding of how these cells help the body defend against infection. We will study how the goblet cells within the enteroids respond to infectious bacteria to produce protective mucus and how the other cells of the enteroid produce antimicrobial factors to kill the invading bacteria, defend themselves from attack and produce factors to recruit immune cells to the site of infection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Vallance

Student:

Partner:

STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Life Sciences (not health); Pharmaceuticals

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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