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Deuil et covid-19: besoins et interventions possibles

Le contexte des mortalités survenues pendant la pandémie actuelle semble constituer un facteur de risque majeur de complication du deuil, d’autant que les pratiques rituelles funéraires ont été empêchées ou réduites. Pour évaluer le deuil de ces personnes et élaborer de meilleures mesures de soutien à celles-ci, l’organisme Deuil-02 du Saguenay réalisera une étude quantitative et qualitative. Ainsi, une enquête en ligne assortie d’entretiens semi-dirigés seront menés par une étudiante en travail social. Avec les résultats de ce cette étude, l’organisme partenaire sera mieux en mesure d’accompagner les personnes endeuillées dans le contexte de la pandémie. Et l’étudiante pourra utiliser ces données probantes pour ses études supérieures; elle pourra également mieux connaître la réalité de l’intervention communautaire pour soutenir les endeuillés, notamment en temps de pandémie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacques Cherblanc

Student:

Partner:

Deuil 02

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Identifying and Modeling Families of Serial Tests

Ciena is a leading corporation supplying IT products. Before delivering any product, the company makes sure all products go through a set of tests which are recorded into log files. Operating in a crowded and highly competitive market, Ciena is continuously running after innovation for remaining highly competitive. Therefore, the company wants to increase their data analytical solutions capabilities by exploring the huge amount of log data that are continuously gathered. The diversity and the time evolving aspect of the generated log information yield complex and massive data which are difficult to handle. Digging into such data pose new challenges in elaborating effective mining algorithms. The aim of this project is to devise analytical tools to fully grab the massive heterogeneous generated data. To this end, we intend developing novel datamining / machine learning models that extract useful patterns that offer insight to track the status of products tests over different time stamps. The goal is to infer the hidden inter-dependencies between test cases and thus build a dynamic multidimensional heterogeneous network structures for mimicking the logs ecosystem environment to first identify families of tests. Then, model these families to finally predict early symptoms of failure products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohamed Bouguessa

Student:

Partner:

Ciena Canada (Saint-Laurent, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

The Economic Transitions of Refugees Resettling in Rural Nova Scotia Since 2015: Learning from Refugee Newcomers, Sponsorship Groups, and Employers

The project explores the facilitators and barriers to the successful economic transitions of privately sponsored refugees resettled in rural areas of Nova Scotia since 2015. While acknowledging differences in pre-migration experiences, we seek to better understand 1) the post-migration factors shaping their economic transitions, such as gender, parental status, race, age and health; 2) how refugees’ transitions are informed by cultural, intercultural, economic, and social variables; and 3) how resettlement by private sponsors in rural settings influences refugees’ economic transitions. A qualitative research design will be used to learn from refugees resettled in rural and remote areas of Nova Scotia, the volunteers who provide/d resettlement support, and the employers who hire/d newcomers. This study will help explain why privately sponsored refugees tend to integrate into the economy more rapidly and securely compared to government-sponsored refugees. This project is done in partnership with Syria Antigonish Families Embrace, SAFE, a community-based refugee sponsorship group established in Antigonish Nova Scotia in 2015.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norine Verberg

Student:

Partner:

Syria Antigonish Families Embrace

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Autonomous Screening in Unconstrained Environments

The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly and undoubtedly changed the world as we knew at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Of particular interest to this research program is development of advanced autonomous screening (thermographic and cognitive) systems via integration of signal processing and deep learning models to address the following three requirements and challenges of the project’s industrial partner: (i) Development of an AI-empowered avatar that autonomously performs their Cognistat assessments. The objective is to convert Cognistat technician administered solution to an autonomous AI-based solution; (ii) Addressing the industrial partner’s challenges for development of thermographic screening solutions in unconstrained environments for real-life environments such as clinics and hospitals, and; (iii) Validation of duplicated medical documents, which is a general challenge faced across the scope of the project. One specific requirement is development of an autonomous and AI-driven duplicated medical record matching engine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arash Mohammadi

Student:

Partner:

Novatek International

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Closing the Gap: A Study of Implementation and Effectiveness of the Youth in Transition (YouIT) Intensive Case Management Services

The proposed research will consist of an evaluation of both the implementation and effectiveness of the YouIT program for youth and young adults with mental health and addiction problems. An implementation evaluation will be conducted to document whether the program has been implemented as intended (based on best practices) and how the program is actually implemented. The outcome evaluation will examine the outcomes of clients over the course of their participation in the YouIT program. This evaluation will provide CMHA ways to improve program delivery and will identify changes to effectively provide ICM services to youth. An outcome evaluation will help the organization understand the effectiveness of the YouIT program. Through this evaluation, the organization will have a better understanding of the demographics and needs of their clients in the program. Deliverables for the project will include two written reports and a community forum.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim Aubry;John Sylvestre

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association (Ottawa)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

A Study of Sgr A*’s X-ray variability

This project will investigate the duty cycle of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), by studying the Xray
features present in the inner regions of our Galaxy. The X-ray light emitted by Sgr A* over the last several centuries is still
propagating in the central molecular zone, generating X-ray echoes. The variability and the spectral properties of this reflected
emission reveals the existence of several short outbursts from Sgr A* over the corresponding period. Despite an increasing
precision in the description of these past events, their exact nature is still unknown. Our work will connect present-day monitoring
of Sgr A*’s flaring activity to reconstructed evidence of its past activity. This effort will help constrain the energy budget required
for each variability epoch, and its impact on the black hole’s environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daryl Haggard

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Training of sensorimotor skills in stuttering children

Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental speech motor disorder characterized by dysfluencies. There is no consensus yet on the underlying causes of this disorder, but one hypothesis suggests that people who stutter have impaired rhythmic and timing abilities. Stuttering symptoms can be reduced for example when speaking to a metronome or reading aloud with other people. This reduction in stuttering may be explained by an external rhythmization of speech which may result in improved speech fluency, and compensate for impaired internal timing mechanisms. Recent research shows that people who stutter have deficits in integrating auditory and motor information during speech production. They also show alterations of auditory-motor integration in non-verbal tasks, such as manual sensorimotor synchronization (SMS; for example tapping with the index finger to the rhythm of music or tones). However, studies regarding non-verbal SMS tasks in adults who stutter and their fluent peers reveal inconsistent findings and only a few results have been obtained with children who stutter so far. The first aim of the present project is to determine whether or not children who stutter from the ages of eight to twelve show impaired sensorimotor synchronisation abilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simone Falk

Student:

Partner:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Knowledge extraction and organization to support question-answering

The project aims at developing a question answering system for the National Bank of Canada, which can be used to answer the questions by users in the domain of banking and financial services, as well as human resources. The NBC currently uses a generic QA system from which some limitations have been observed, namely the limited coverage of domain-specific entities and concepts and low accuracy of the question answering. The project will develop and test approaches to solve these problems, by collecting more concepts in the domain and organizing them into a knowledge graph. The question answering system will then leverage the domain-specific knowledge graph.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jian-Yun Nie

Student:

Partner:

Banque Nationale du Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Wije’winen – Envisioning the New Mi’kmaw Friendship Centre through Participatory City and Principles of Reconciliation

The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia is building a new centre and is designing the space to provide programming and services that will substantiate reconciliation for urban Indigenous communities. In order to engage the diverse populations residing in the North End neighbourhoods of Kjipuktuk / Halifax, the MNFC is undertaking ground breaking community engagement activities utilizing the Participartory City platform to ensure the new centre is mafde by everyone for everyone. This research will document this approach in order to analyse and evaluate its efficacy for driving systemic change, building relationships grounded in reconciliation principles and leading to sustainable Indigenous governance in urban settings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leslie Jane McMillan

Student:

Partner:

Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

Indigenous Front Line Workers: Mapping Future Directions in the Resolution Health Support Workers and Non-Insured Health Benefits Navigator Programs in Atlantic Canada

The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have transformed healing, health and wellbeing services for Indigenous peoples who attended residential and their descendants. Working with the frontline health workers who provide the Resolution Health Support Program and the Non-Insured Health Benefits Navigator Program, this research maps the successes and challenges in providing cultural relevant healing services to address intergenerational trauma and documents the impacts of the programs for residential school survivors and their families in Atlantic Canada. This evidence will direct future policy and program developments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leslie Jane McMillan

Student:

Partner:

Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

“Peuple du ciel” de J. M. G. Le Clézio: une traduction commentée

Il s’agit d’une traduction commentée du conte “Peuple du ciel”, de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, publié en 1978 dans le livre Mondo et autres histoires. Le conte pour enfants, encore sans traduction en portugais, a une atmosphère onirique et évoque la liberté de contact avec la nature et les phénomènes mythologiques. Le texte en prose poétique a suscité l’étude de plusieurs aspects stylistiques liés au rythme créé par la ponctuation, les rimes, les allitérations, la synesthésie, etc. L’objectif de cette recherche est donc d’effectuer une traduction à la lumière d’une lecture critique du texte littéraire et de produire un commentaire critique qui démontre certaines stratégies adoptées au cours du processus de traduction du texte en portugais, bien que faire des rapports avec la théorie de la traduction littéraire. Les observations sur littérature de Antonio Candido nous a guidé aux analyses littéraires, ainsi que la méthode critique de traduction de Antoine Berman. Les réflexions sur la traduction littéraire d’œuvres, telles que Traduire le poème d’Álvaro Faleiros, Poétique de la traduction d’Henri Meschonnic et Transcriação de Haroldo de Campos seront utilisés d’appui aux commentaires de la traduction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Álvaro Echeverri

Student:

Partner:

Universidade de Brasília

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Indigenous

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Consolidation and transformation of administrative data from the Early Years Services Information System into research dataset

Ontario Early Years Centres (OEYCs) offer programming for young children (0 to 6) and their families. In Hamilton, there are five different OEYCs. The City of Hamilton helps the OEYCs with their planning and with assessing how their programs are helping families. This is complicated, because each OEYC keeps its own data. This project will develop a way to produce a single citywide set of OEYC data, on demand, out of the separate databases. This will improve the quality of the data available to support planning and local decision-making. It will also develop a way to produce a version of the data that is completely anonymous (“de-identified”), but that can be linked to other community data sources. Only by being able to follow children over time can we assess whether investments in early childhood programs are making a difference.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abigail Payne

Student:

Partner:

City of Hamilton

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

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