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Evaluation of the mechanical properties of the bone-implant interface in dental implants

Skin-penetrating bone-anchored implants are used in a variety of applications to provide tremendous functional benefits to patients. Globally, the dental implant industry has been valued at 5.08 billion USD where implants are used for replacing single teeth, for larger prostheses, and for full dental arches. The success of these implants relies on a structural integration between the implant and the living bone. Evaluation of the integrity of the bone-implant interface is important to prescribe loading, to identify the risk of failure, and to monitor the long-term health of the implant. However, the currently available approaches for monitoring dental implant stability are sensitive to the geometry of the attached components, do not adequately isolate the properties at the bone-implant interface, and cannot be used with cemented tooth crowns. The proposed research makes use of an experimental-numerical approach to provide a non-invasive measure of dental implant stability. The benefits to the partner organization will be the development of a clinically useful tool for monitoring implant stability that may potentially be commercialized and marketed world-wide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lindsey Westover

Student:

Partner:

Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Rahaf HajAhmad – Memorial University – Bounce Health Innovation

Bounce Health Innovation (Bounce) is a mini-cluster in medical technology that was launched in St. John’s in 2018 as a result of increasing interest in health innovation spurred from the local Hacking Health initiative – a series of open innovation networking events that connect frontline healthcare workers with developers, designers, patients, and entrepreneurs. It is operated by Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology and Innovation (NATI) and other industry partners, with a mission to accelerate the growth of the health innovation sector in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). Their vision is to help the province become the testbed for medical technology innovation in North America. They engage with and support medical innovators and entrepreneurs by leveraging resources within a unique health innovation ecosystem. The organization is at a point where they need to focus on developing and managing digital marketing campaigns. This role will be required to create new campaigns, monitor their progress and contribute towards long-term digital marketing strategies for Bounce.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Skanes

Student:

Partner:

Bounce Health Innovation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Gamifying Shakespeare: Theorizing and Designing Game-Based Digital Media for Stratford Festival Audience Engagement

The post-doctoral fellow will act as an academic liaison between the Stratford Festival and the University of Waterloo’s Games Institute’s joint project on a series of Shakespeare-themed video games and apps. The Festival will benefit from a development of new games. This project also offers numerous scholarly products as output, including a growing partnership between the Stratford Festival and the University of Waterloo, a collection of research articles, transferable tagging protocols and ongoing interface design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Student:

Partner:

The Stratford Festival

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Plausible Futures: What economic and labour market trends might the City see over the next 3-5 years?

The project aims to identify the plausible scenarios or outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic associated with the City of Toronto. It will provide insights into how the pandemic is to impact the labour market and organizational operations in various industrial sectors. These insights will support ongoing efforts to revive the local economy and in developing and planning efforts to deal with what the future impact on the City operations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vik Singh

Student:

Partner:

City of Toronto

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Utilities

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Densification of Heat-Sensitive Protein/Fibre Biomass II

The proposed project with will explore the feasibility of pelletizing heat-sensitive protein and fibre-rich biomass. This animal feed additive is used to improve the digestibility of the diet and improve the performance of poultry and swine. Since densification process involves heat, it is important to investigate whether lowering temperature of the process (pelleting) and reducing the biomass moisture content will form durable pellets by tests using a pilot-scale pelleting unit. After pelleting, the materials will be crumbled to produce coarse particles that are easier to mix with other feed ingredients in a feed ration. Physico-chemical quality of pellets and crumbles will be determined. The optimized variables are identified which will form the recommendation for manufacturing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lope Tabil

Student:

Partner:

GNC Bioferm

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

National Occupancy Standards and Housing Women After Violence Research Project

The research conducted will result in a policy analysis, policy recommendations and knowledge translation materials on the National Occupancy Standards and their unintended barriers to housing for women experience violence. This research will be gathered through stakeholder engagement, an environmental scan, and qualitative data gathering (interviews or focus groups) to determine the key issues, the relevant research on this topic, and the ideas and perspectives of service providers dealing with the policy. By shedding light on this issue, our hope is that policy changes can be implement and housing options can become more available for women experiencing violence.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathanael Lauster

Student:

Partner:

BC Society of Transition Houses

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Preliminary Design of Distributed Hydroponic Grow Systems in Residential Buildings as a Means of Addressing Market Interest and Food Supply Chain Disruption Due to COVID19

Hydroponics is a farming method that does not require soil, but rather utilizes a porous medium to hold plants so that waste of irrigation solution is minimized. This type of farming is considered more expensive than traditional open-field agriculture. However, it has been found to function well in enclosed spaces with a controlled environment, especially in cold climates where open-field agriculture is challenging. This project aims to assess the feasibility to perform such farming inside of residential units by having all of the necessary equipment, such as the utility elements of a system reservoir, fertigation, and irrigation components, be located with other household utility equipment (e.g. laundry, furnace, central vacuum). Meanwhile, the medium or components for growing, tending, or aesthetics would be located within living areas (e.g. kitchen, foyer, breakfast nook).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lexuan Zhong

Student:

Partner:

ColdAcre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamic Deep Generative Graph Models for Financial Forecasting

Borealis AI has access to a huge amount of financial data related to the stock market and is interested in leveraging recent developments in machine learning to better understand this data. Some potential questions emerging from this data are: (1) Given the closing price of a stock in the recent months, can we predict the stock returns within the next month? (2) If a stock crisis occurs, can we predict and control the spread of the crisis? (3) Given the current stock’s history, can we help reduce the risk of investment?. To answer such questions, we propose a network of related stocks based on their correlated returns. Multivariate statistical models that use tabular representations of time series can capture basic correlative structure, but we believe that innovations in machine learning known as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) will be able to exploit this with more explicit network representation. We propose to develop a novel GNN-based algorithm on network-structured data to efficiently capture its complex structure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Graham Taylor

Student:

Partner:

Royal Bank of Canada (Borealis)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology; Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Effet de l’agilité et de l’Industrie 4.0 sur la performance des PME manufacturières au Québec : Étude de cas

Dans le contexte actuel, de plus en plus de nouvelles technologies voient le jour toujours plus rapidement. Les entreprises doivent réagir face à la demande en constante variation, autant au niveau de la quantité qu’au niveau de la conception du produit demandé. L’agilité des petites et moyennes entreprises manufacturières du Québec est mise à rude épreuve alors qu’elle est un élément important pour assurer leur pérennité. L’augmentation de l’agilité réalisée grâce à des outils de l’Industrie 4.0 est certainement bénéfique pour celles-ci. Mais, quels sont les bénéfices de l’augmentation de l’agilité et de ces solutions technologiques sur la rentabilité, la flexibilité et la productivité de ces entreprises? L’utilisation des cellules dynamiques et d’une conception de produit par modules agencée à des technologies connectées entre elles sont des moyens d’augmenter l’agilité d’une entreprise. Les impacts de ces solutions seront mesurés afin de déterminer quels sont les bénéfices de l’augmentation de l’agilité.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Georges Abdul-Nour

Student:

Partner:

Robovic

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Structural and thermal performance of optimum 3D printed parts from continuous carbon fiber-Poly Ether Ether Ketone composites

Additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, of composites can manufacture final parts with high strength and stiffness. In this project, carbon fiber composites with a high temperature polymer
are used for 3D printing. A custom 3D printing head installed on a robotic arm is used for manufacturing. Specimens are 3D printed to evaluate structural and thermal properties of final parts. Automated manufacturing of composites using robotic 3D printing is efficient for fabricating small-scale parts with low volume and can open new opportunities for composites. In addition, robotic 3D printing can simplify and shorten the research and development activities on raw material optimization for automated manufacturing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kazem Fayazbakhsh

Student:

Partner:

Teijin Carbon America, Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the Scope and Cost of Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Across the Continuum of Care

This project focuses on identifying models of care that improve patient outcomes while reducing costs on the system. The project, in partnership with a large pharmaceutical company, evaluates the economic burden of Alzheimer’s in Ontario, looking at the current utilization, costs and scope of home care services, the gaps in service, the reliance on alternative sources (privately or NGO funded) of support for individuals, budget planning and home care management related to Alzheimer’s care from the perspective of families and the health system more broadly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Snowdon

Student:

Partner:

Lilly Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

The Adoption of Electronic Personal Health Records and Ontario Healthcare Practice Environments

The Centre is working with a health industry-funded global start-up company in the Health ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Sector to empirically examine innovation adoption during the implementation of the company’s personal health record application into different health systems and practices within Canada. This comprehensive study will enable a detailed examination of the utility and impact of the company’s personal health record application in advancing health professional practice, in actively engaging distinct patient or health consumer populations more directly in managing their own health and wellness, and in strengthening the dynamic of the patient-health provider relationship. With key analyses being performed across distinct health care systems and patient-consumer populations, the findings of this project will create and offer to the global start-up company, and the Health ICT Sector more broadly, the evidence of the processes and factors necessary for the adoption of personal health record applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Snowdon

Student:

Partner:

Mihealth Global Systems Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

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