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Formulation d’un cadre d’analyse des politiques culturelles de soutien COVID-19 pour la diffusion dans le secteur culturel au Québec et application sur les musées québécois

Depuis plusieurs semaines, la COVID-19 bouleverse plusieurs aspects de la société, tels que les liens sociaux ou économiques. Parmi les nombreux secteurs affectés, le domaine de la culture est particulièrement touché au Québec et partout dans le monde. Par exemple, les regroupements tels que les festivals, expositions ou spectacles sont maintenant annulés. Cela pose donc des conséquences économiques importantes pour le secteur. Une des manières de supporter le secteur pendant cette crise est de faire appel aux gouvernements pour des mesures de soutien appropriées pour les nombreux acteurs de la culture au Québec. Notre projet va donc étudier l’impact des politiques culturelles de soutien aux organismes de diffusion au Québec. Nous allons mettre en place une grille d’analyse des politiques culturelles afin de mettre en avant les forces et faiblesses des politiques publiques. Nous allons appliquer cette grille d’analyse sur politiques de soutien au Québec. Cette grille d’analyse sera aussi utilisée pour étudier le cas des musées en Colombie-Britannique (Canada) ainsi que dans une autre région européenne. Cette analyse permettra d’émettre des recommandations pour accompagner les organismes culturels de diffusion dans la justification de leurs besoins.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guy Lachapelle

Student:

Partner:

Synapse C

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

COVID-19: Assessing Non-Profit Resilience in the Context of COVID19

This research project will seek to explain differences among non-profit organizations in terms of their resilience to the crisis generated by the COVID 19 pandemic. By studying 10 firms that have exhibited strong resilience and then 10 similar firms that have struggled, we will seek to better understand what might account for stronger resilience in the face of this crisis. We will pay particular attention to what may have been inhibiting non-profits from building resilient capacity. The research will result in a practitioner-oriented report, theoretical framework, teaching case, and academic articles. We expect that this research will have immediate applicability for non-profits going through the COVID 19 crisis currently and help to build more resilient capacity to better prepare for future crises.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent McKnight;Sandra Lapointe

Student:

Partner:

Social Impact Advisors

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Sales Skills for the Modern Sales Environment

This research project will investigate the sales skills that enable salesperson performance for the modern sales environment. This will help to improve recruiting practices for organizations and will enable organizations to better prepare their employees for sales-related positions, and better prepare the existing sales team by incorporating the findings of this study in their sales training. The project involves an extended quantitative study on sales skills for top performance, understanding the top sales skills based on recruitment industry data, and an academic literature review and matching these skills to sales performance. This project extends Dr. Peesker’s innovative new approach to sales leadership research using mixed-approach (both quantitative and qualitative methods). The partner organization, CPSA, will benefit from this research by being able to better support their education partners and employers to establish national occupational standards and produce more graduates with the skills needed to succeed in sales jobs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karen Peesker

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Professional Sales Association

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of intelligence system for enhancement of automatic recognition and classification of normal and abnormal cells of human blood images

Automation of medical diagnosis/detection process is very important in terms of enhancing diagnostic
accuracy, increasing throughput, reducing cost, and training new staff. In this project we are
interested to investigate and develop a system for enhancement of automatic recognition and
classification of human blood images. Smart tools for medical applications have high importance and
increasing market demand. Smart labs is aiming from this project to develop automatic diagnostic tool
for medical application, which is required by a partner company. This project is considered a seed for
a line of business in developing smart components for medical field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Behrouz Far

Student:

Partner:

Smart Labs Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Intervenir en milieu de vie et de soins pour personnes aînées en temps de Covid-19 : quand l’action tombe sous le sens

Dans le contexte actuel de pandémie du Covid-19, de nombreux exemples d’échecs du système de soin et d’hébergement des ainées en résidences et de maltraitance furent présentés dans les médias. Or, il existe aussi plusieurs exemples de réussite où les milieux d’hébergement ont su s’adapter aux nombreux défis que pose l’actuelle crise. Cette recherche étudie les raisons qui ont fait en sorte que certains milieux réussissent à traverser cette épreuve de manière sécuritaire et en maintenant une bonne qualité de soin et de qualité de vie tant pour les résidents que les divers intervenants y travaillant. Ce climat de soins de qualité et favorisant le bien-être que nous étudierons est ce que nous nommons la « bientraitance ». La retombée finale de cette recherche sera de formuler, à l’aide des trois partenaires (une Fondation et deux milieux de vie collectifs pour aînés), un guide de pratique pour promouvoir la bientraitance en contexte de crise socio-sanitaire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie Beaulieu

Student:

Partner:

Fondation Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais;Brunante coopérative de solidarité en habitation;Grace Village

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Automated Escalation and Incident Management in Healthcare during Mass Casualties and Pandemic Events

In healthcare, communication and clear roles and responsibilities are critical in delivering care to patients. This is difficult to achieve in the best of times; during pandemics and mass casualty events, communication is the first thing to fail, leading to inefficiency, confusion, and ultimately harm to patients. This project aims to develop an automated system that escalates critical events to the required healthcare providers in a reliable and closed-loop manner. This would replace the current manual and convoluted process in place at most hospitals, which is slow, error-prone, and often ineffective.
The interns will be involved in designing a user interface that requires minimal input, and a backend logic and algorithm that can route information to those who need to know. In the event that certain providers or communication methods are unavailable, the system will be able to adapt and escalate the urgency to find proxies and other cross-covering providers.
With the development of these systems, Hypercare will be able to strengthen its product line and value proposition to larger and more complex healthcare systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Loutfouz Zaman

Student:

Partner:

Hypercare Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

The Power of Peer Support: The Development and Evaluation of JAVAGROUPS-digital

Social isolation and loneliness have become a global public health concern affecting the majority of seniors living in care settings and seniors living in the community. Due to COVID-19 and physical distancing these numbers are dramatically increasing. Java Group Programs have developed three evidence-based peer support and mentoring programs that offer emotional support through structured weekly programs. The Java programs are already implemented in over 1100 communities in Canada and the US. The problem is thousands of vulnerable seniors who have benefited from these programs are now being deprived, and the burden this places on staff to fill this gap cannot be overstated. Therefore, this research project will develop and evaluate a digital adaptation of one of the Java programs, called the Java Music Club, to support socially isolated seniors during this pandemic and beyond. This research may bring tangible economic benefits to Canadians through facilitating emotional wellness among seniors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Albert Danison;Alexandra J Fiocco

Student:

Partner:

Java Group Programs

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology; Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a robust armoured RNA standard for the rapid clinical diagnosis of COVID-19

COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel SARS corona virus, has been a global threat for months now. The pandemic has crippled global healthcare sectors and economies. Early, rapid, and accurate detection of the contagion is critical for isolating infected patients to prevent further community spread. Currently, most communities in Canada suffer from insufficient testing capabilities, and as the need for testing increases, the added volume will produce a proportional amount of unreliable results. In collaboration with SM Research Inc (Mississauga, Ontario), an economical testing standard will be designed and produced to validate all COVID-19 diagnostic testing moving forward.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yufeng Tong

Student:

Partner:

SM Research Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

The effects of COVID-19 on inequality in Canada and abroad

The world is facing a global pandemic as COVID-19 disrupts and transforms the lives of those everywhere. It comes as no surprise that the closure of non-essential services to slow the spread of COVID-19 has devastated the economy and severely impacted the well-being of many. As the reality of COVID-19 begins to set, questions of who will bear the burden and how this will impact economic inequality arise.
This research explores the economic impacts of COVID-19 in Canada and abroad. Particular attention is given to vulnerable groups (for example, women, single parent families, visible minorities/racialized persons and those suffering from homelessness). As groups overrepresented in poverty rates, unemployment rates, and low-waged work prior to the pandemic, our research provides a critical examination of the ripple effect of COVID-19 and the looming recession on these vulnerable communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brenda Spotton Visano

Student:

Partner:

Islamic Relief Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Circulating Tumour Cells and prostate cancer outcome II

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, an estimated 26,500 men will be diagnosed with
prostate cancer in 2012 and 4,000 will die of it. New approaches are required to predict
clinical outcome and personalized management of patients. Drs. Mal and Cayre will combine
their two newly developed technologies and work towards obtaining a new solid biomarker
that enables the assessment of a patient’s clinical outcome from the start. With the use of
special filters, circulating tumour cells (CTC) will be isolated from prostate cancer patients’
blood. These cells are characterized using three-dimensional (3D) imaging of telomeres (the
ends of chromosomes) in the cells’ nuclei. This will be the first time these new technologies
are combined to investigate the link between CTCs, their 3D telomeric profiles and clinical
outcome of prostate cancer. A much better understanding and personalized management of
prostate cancer, which is a major goal of CancerCare Manitoba will be achieved by this
project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sabine Mai

Student:

Partner:

Cancer Care (Manitoba);Carl Zeiss Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

AI-enhanced lung ultrasound to detect lung involvement in COVID-19

The COVID-19 virus causing the current pandemic leads to severe illness and death when it involves the lungs. This occurs in a way that conventional X-Rays often cannot show. Experience in other countries and with a similar condition known as ARDS suggests that lung ultrasound can accurately detect COVID-19 lung involvement. Lung ultrasound is harmless and can be done with small handheld, easily cleaned portable probes, but the images are difficult for non-experts to interpret. We will test whether lung ultrasound images can be efficiently obtained by medical personnel already caring for COVID-19 patients in local emergency rooms and intensive care units, and whether the images we obtain can be accurately interpreted by artificial intelligence to help clinicians detect COVID-19 lung involvement. This can allow us to more accurately decide who needs to be hospitalized and to help provide the best possible care for the sickest patients with COVID-19.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Derek Emery;Kumaradevan Punithakumar;Jacob Jaremko

Student:

Partner:

MEDO.ai

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

“Dinner in the Street”: dining outdoors safely in the post-Covid city

Working closely with me, the two interns will have an opportunity to engage with a timely question engendered by the global pandemic: What is changing in our approach to the public realm, and how can we embrace these changes as positive forces in urban design. We will be working quickly on a time-sensitive challenge, in ways that bridge the conceptual thinking that characterizes architectural education with the pragmatic and pressing problem of a local economy in distress. The resulting proposal will incorporate suggested modifications to Ottawa’s zoning by-laws.
The project will benefit the partner organizations in two distinct ways: by showing them new modes of analytical and design expression by current students of architecture at Carleton, and by encouraging them to explore the post-Covid social contract of physical distancing in positive ways, through their own architectural practices, and through their agency in encouraging the City of Ottawa to modify its local codes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jill Stoner

Student:

Partner:

Roderick Lahey Architects, inc.;Colonnade Bridgeport

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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