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Appropriate Neuromuscular Rolling Intensities and Applications

Prior research has shown that rolling muscles can increase flexibility without performance decreases. These studies have used a variety of rolling pressures (intensities). It is not known whether higher or lower rolling pressures are better for improving flexibility. Thus one of the studies will examine different pressures of rolling on flexibility and muscle performance. On the other hand, it is not known whether the rolling effects are improved when combined with stretching. It is also not known what the duration of these effects might be. Thus in the second experiment, two sessions will have a warm-up including static stretching, one of which will have subsequent bouts of roller massage every 5-minutes continuing for 20-minutes. The other two sessions will have a warm-up including both static stretching and roller massage, again with one session having bouts of roller massage at 5-minute intervals for 20-minutes. Flexibility, strength and power will be tested pre- and post warm-up, as well as 25-minutes post-intervention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Behm

Student:

Partner:

ProActive Physiotherapy Inc;Performance Health

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Engineering fucoidan synthesis

Surgical adhesions can form after many kinds of surgery, and affect millions of patients every year, hindering healing and causing pain and infertility. ARC Medical Devices has shown that treating a surgical site with fucoidan, a polysaccharide extracted from some types of seaweed, greatly reduces surgical adhesions in animals, but a source of pure fucoidan is needed to try the technique in humans. We propose to use methods developed in our lab to engineer enzymes to provide an easy way to assemble the units that make up fucoidan. This will then provide a route to artificial fucoidan, which can be used by ARC for clinical trials to test its benefit in human surgery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Withers

Student:

Partner:

ARC Medical Devices Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Prediction Models on S&P 500 Index using Social Sentiment and News Events

Project is to import ten year’s of historical data on news events, public sentiment metrics and the price movement of S&P 500 related equities for study and analysis through the latest Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques. The goal is to uncover correlation and causality between events and price movement of global markets in multiple timeframes (three hours, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly). Specifically, the research would answer the question which features (metrics) generated from initial news and sentiment data have predictive power and which don’t. Predictive models based on the studies will be developed, compared, and evaluated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fred Popowich

Student:

Partner:

EOTPRO Developments Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Integrating high resolution remote sensing of multi-scale hydrogeomorphology into long-term river management – Year two

Large northward-flowing boreal rivers are an important hydroelectric resource, but effects of river regulation on downstream geomorphology and aquatic ecosystems are difficult to predict. Peace River, BC presents an ideal case study of river response to regulation, with continuous monitoring since dam construction in 1967. However, current understanding of system changes is based mainly on periodic ground-based measurements that may be less sensitive to characterize complexity at the scales at which the river responds. This project aims to incorporate recently developed fluvial remote sensing methods into the ongoing research and monitoring of Peace River through investigation of three specific questions (1) how does geomorphic change affect in-stream hydraulics and aquatic habitat? (2) how can unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing and photogrammetry be used to characterize the stability and function of constructed habitat compensation features under changing flow conditions? TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brett Eaton

Student:

Partner:

BC Hydro (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Utilities

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Integrating high resolution remote sensing of multi-scale hydrogeomorphology into long-term river management

Large northward-flowing boreal rivers are an important hydroelectric resource, but effects of river regulation on downstream geomorphology and aquatic ecosystems are difficult to predict. Peace River, BC presents an ideal case study of river response to regulation, with continuous monitoring since dam construction in 1967. However, current understanding of system changes is based mainly on periodic ground-based measurements that may be less sensitive to characterize complexity at the scales at which the river responds. This project aims to incorporate recently developed fluvial remote sensing methods into the ongoing research and monitoring of Peace River through investigation of three specific questions (1) how does geomorphic change affect in-stream hydraulics and aquatic habitat? (2) how can unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing and photogrammetry be used to characterize the stability and function of constructed habitat compensation features under changing flow conditions? and (3) how do flow regulation and geomorphic change alter riparian vegetation succession? The proposed research will involve the development of automated image processing workflows for the derivation of fluvial features of interest at appropriate scales for each question, providing a flexible framework that will be set up to accommodate incoming remote sensing data and complement field based studies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brett Eaton

Student:

Partner:

BC Hydro (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Utilities

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Design, optimization and testing of baffle-type parallel-channel flow field plates within a 200-cm2 fuel cell short stack with a highly-active catalyst – Year two

Enhancing the current and power density in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is one of the main challenges to their large-scale commercialization and hence in tune with the pending needs of the PEMFC industry. The volumetric power density in PEMFC stacks is strongly affected by the flow field plates due to their critical impact on the reactants distribution over the electrodes and their bulky size. In the proposed research, baffle-type parallel-channel cathode, anode and cooling flow field plates are designed with a small thickness. The flow distributions over these thin plates are optimized through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations combined with experimental verifications and flow visualization. Since the flow field plates in stacks behave differently than in single cells, both original and optimized plates are tested within a fabricated 200-cm2 short stack. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaotao Tony Bi

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver International CleanTech Research Institute

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Design, optimization and testing of baffle-type parallel-channel flow field plates within a 200-cm2 fuel cell short stack with a highly-active catalyst

Enhancing the current and power density in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is one of the main challenges to their large-scale commercialization and hence in tune with the pending needs of the PEMFC industry. The volumetric power density in PEMFC stacks is strongly affected by the flow field plates due to their critical impact on the reactants distribution over the electrodes and their bulky size. In the proposed research, baffle-type parallel-channel cathode, anode and cooling flow field plates are designed with a small thickness. The flow distributions over these thin plates are optimized through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations combined with experimental verifications and flow visualization. Since the flow field plates in stacks behave differently than in single cells, both original and optimized plates are tested within a fabricated 200-cm2 short stack. Comparative study of the polarization curves for the two original and optimized plates provides an in-depth understanding of the impact of the flow field design on the stack performance. An in-house high activity core-shell catalyst is tested with the optimized plates within the fabricated stack in the hope of achieving a current density as high as 1.5 A/cm2.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaotao Bi

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver International CleanTech Research Institute

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals – Year two

Canada’s coastal regions are an excellent source of marine renewable energy. These regions are also popular with marine mammals, providing good feeding opportunities. However little is known about how marine mammals will be affected by tidal energy developments. Concerns include the impacts of sound on animals’ ability to find food and navigate, the indirect effects of changes in prey distribution and abundance, and the direct impacts of collision with tidal energy structures in the water column. The objectives of this project are to better understand how marine mammals interact with tidal energy devices using a combination of traditional passive acoustic monitoring and novel sonar imaging methods. This study will improve our understanding of environmental effects and will contribute to the development of crucial collision risk models. This project will allow SMRU Canada to help move marine renewables forward into a cleaner future, both in Canada and elsewhere in the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Cote

Student:

Partner:

SMRU Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals

Canada’s coastal regions are an excellent source of marine renewable energy. These regions are also popular with marine mammals, providing good feeding opportunities. However little is known about how marine mammals will be affected by tidal energy developments. Concerns include the impacts of sound on animals’ ability to find food and navigate, the indirect effects of changes in prey distribution and abundance, and the direct impacts of collision with tidal energy structures in the water column. The objectives of this project are to better understand how marine mammals interact with tidal energy devices using a combination of traditional passive acoustic monitoring and novel sonar imaging methods. This study will improve our understanding of environmental effects and will contribute to the development of crucial collision risk models. This project will allow SMRU Canada to help move marine renewables forward into a cleaner future, both in Canada and elsewhere in the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Cote

Student:

Partner:

SMRU Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Mechanisms and Application of MFD Catalyst on the Leaching of Secondary Copper Sulfide – Year two

Cu and Ni minerals that have great economic value mostly exist in the form of sulfides, making them difficult to extract using hydrometallurgical processes. Currently, heap leaching is the most economical way to extract these metals from low grade ores. Copper recoveries of many chalcocite heap leaches report around 70% copper recovery. However, the chalcocite leaching reaction has several stages. The first stage leach is characterized by 50% copper extraction and the conversion of chalcocite into a second stage of covellite (CuS) which is very difficult to leach at ambient temperature. In our preliminary test using acidic ferric sulfate as lixivant, addition of MFD catalyst increased the rate of chalcocite leaching by 5 times in the first 8 hours of reaction in stirred reactors. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edouard Asselin

Student:

Partner:

Jetti Services Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Mechanisms and Application of MFD Catalyst on the Leaching of Secondary Copper Sulfide

Cu and Ni minerals that have great economic value mostly exist in the form of sulfides, making them difficult to extract using hydrometallurgical processes. Currently, heap leaching is the most economical way to extract these metals from low grade ores. Copper recoveries of many chalcocite heap leaches report around 70% copper recovery. However, the chalcocite leaching reaction has several stages. The first stage leach is characterized by 50% copper extraction and the conversion of chalcocite into a second stage of covellite (CuS) which is very difficult to leach at ambient temperature. In our preliminary test using acidic ferric sulfate as lixivant, addition of MFD catalyst increased the rate of chalcocite leaching by 5 times in the first 8 hours of reaction in stirred reactors. A similar test using a stirred reactor was also performed on pure covellite, improving its leaching rate by 36 times in the first 8 hours. Therefore, there will be imminent application for MFD catalyst in heap and dump leaching of copper sulfides.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edouard Asselin

Student:

Partner:

Jetti Services Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Building Risk Models and Feedback Systems Using Large Volumes of Automobile Telematics Data

More and more vehicles are outfitted with telematics (e.g. Global Positioning System (GPS)) devices that allow real time data to be collected on driver behaviour. This includes, for example, your location, how long you’ve been driving, your pattern of acceleration and braking, your cornering, and other factors. This project will explore the best way to use such streaming telematics data from automobiles to assess accident risk and improve driver behaviour. We plan to build validated models that can be used to quantify the expected risk as well as develop systems that provide effective feedback to drivers to reduce risky behaviour. Such models and systems will provide insurance companies a competitive advantage allowing them to better assess risk, and thus state insurance rates, as well as reduce risks for their clients and thus improve safety generally on Ontario roads.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stefan Steiner

Student:

Partner:

Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc;University of Waterloo

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

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