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Research into an Implementation Framework for National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in NL

On June 3, 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released its Final Report. Among its 231 recommendations, Calls for Justice 5.7 and 9.2(iii) urge the federal, provincial, and territorial governments to take specific steps to strengthen civilian oversight of police services by ensuring stronger Indigenous participation in police boards and other oversight authorities.
Frameworks for civilian oversight of police services exist in many Canadian and other common law jurisdictions. Yet the current framework in use in Newfoundland and Labrador is comparatively weak. The purpose of this study is to work with Indigenous community stakeholders in order to determine ways of strengthening civilian oversight of police services in the province. It will do so with a view toward reducing the prevalence of gender-based violence while also recognizing the province’s unique legal context and history. The study will seek to identify effective models and best practices that are already in use in other Canadian and common law jurisdictions, propose possible innovations and/or improvements upon such models and practices, and develop a set of detailed recommendations for implementing stronger civilian oversight of police services in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naiomi Metallic;Constance MacIntosh

Student:

Partner:

First Light St. John’s Friendship Centre, Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Improved Unsteady Aerodynamic InfluenceCoefficients

Currently Bombardier Aerospace uses the Doublet Lattice Method (DLM), incorporated into a
structural solver, to perform aeroelastic calculations such as flutter. This method is able to provide
very good results in the subsonic regime, but looses accuracy in the transonic regime due to the high
non linearity of the flow. A methodology was developed where the aerodynamic data produced by
DLM is replaced by high fidelity CFD data. This project is aimed at producing unsteady aerodynamic
data in the transonic regime to be used in Bombardier’s new methodology to perform more accurate
aeroelastic calculations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mathias Legrand

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Dorval, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Accelerating Technical and Market Readiness of Solid-State Nanopores

Solid-state nanopores—small holes in thin membranes comparable in size to individual molecules—are promising candidates as sensors with which to revolutionize DNA sequencing, personalized medicine, point-of-care diagnostics, and next-generation information storage methods. A method by which these nanopores can be fabricated on an industrial scale was recently invented, but challenges remain, particularly in quality-controlling source materials with which to make them and in analyzing and interpreting the signals generated. This project seeks to both develop generalized analysis methods and software for nanopore applications, as well as optimize the manufacturing processes upstream of sensor fabrication, providing a recipe for reliable and consistent materials to be used in scaling up fabrication of solid-state nanopores going forward, greatly increasing the pace of academic research and making these critical sensors viable on an industrial scale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Ekker;Andre Beauchemin

Student:

Partner:

Northern Nanopore Instruments Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Retail trade

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

A Novel Passive Wireless Printed Circuit Board Cavity Sensor for the Measurement of Electric and Magnetic Fields

Increasing demand for more reliable electric power requires advanced monitoring systems that prevent equipment failure and outages. The existing technologies used for monitoring the voltage and the electric field in the vicinity of the high voltage devices are bulky and expensive. On the other hand, maintenance of the monitoring devices requires specific safety precautions. In this research project, a small and inexpensive electric/magnetic field sensor is proposed. They are passive and require no source of power. This eliminates the need of changing the batteries and direct contact to the high voltage apparatus. The interrogation system that will be designed and employed is wireless that makes the distant measurement possible. This will increase the safety of the personnel and facilitate distributed measurements at different distances from the high voltage device.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Behzad Kordi;Gregory Bridges

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Multilingual Semantic Similarity of Unstructured Enterprise Content

To communicate with their end users, businesses regularly produce written documents such as letters, notices, statements, etc. in various languages. A set of rules are usually used to ensure that information in these documents is ‘correct’ and consistent across languages and communication channels. However, with the increasing volume and variety of information being sent out to clients, it becomes difficult to preserve the semantics of client messages across vocabulary and language variations. State of the art algorithms that solve this problem involve a translation algorithm which creates an additional overhead and makes the entire pipeline less practical to use.
This project aims at creating algorithms capable of measuring semantic similarity between unstructured enterprise contents with less overhead regardless of the natural language being used for each document. The set of similarity algorithms must scale with the size of the corpus being used.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Mercer

Student:

Partner:

Messagepoint

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Intelligence Artificielle et Apprentissage Machine pour la Cybersécurité

Ce projet consiste à extraire la nature des accès informatiques des employés d’une organisation et les consolider afin de permettre au gestionnaire de l’employer ou à un auditeur d’avoir une vue d’ensemble des accès informatiques de ses employés. Les employés qui arrivent ou quittent l’organisation, ou changent d’emploi dans la même organisation exigent une révision périodique de ces accès.
Ce projet vise à :
• Extraire les accès de tous les employés et dans toutes les plateformes et applications sélectionnées ;
• Présenter ces accès au gestionnaire responsable pour les certifier via un workflow
• Intégrer dans ce processus des mécanismes d’apprentissage automatisé permettant de gérer les risques et les accès sensibles et détecter des anomalies
Plusieurs défis sont connus à savoir l’extraction des données qui nécessitent de développer de connecteurs spécifiques, la nature très hétérogène de données et la mise en place de solution d’intelligence artificielle efficaces dans ce domaine. L’objectif du projet est de réaliser un outil efficace aidant les organisations à mieux protéger leurs applications et infrastructures informatiques contre la fraude, fuite de données et les accès non autorisés.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Esma Aimeur

Student:

Partner:

Xpertics Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Freeze purification of mine-impacted water: laboratory study and mathematical modeling

The project is dedicated to the investigation and testing of environment-friendly, energy-efficient freezing technology for the remediation of mine-impacted water. This technology could be beneficial and economically feasible for the regions with cold weather conditions and vulnerable to anthropogenic impact. The primary research objectives of current project are to continue and advance laboratory experiments started by Core Geoscience Services Inc. on the removal of impurities from mine-impacted water through cryopurification and to develop and validate a mathematical model that integrates the main physical and chemical mechanisms of ice formation process and mine-impacted water species removal. The outcomes of the project are planned to form a foundation for the development of a water treatment technology that utilizes northern climates’ cold temperature conditions and has the potential to be scaled up and applied at mine sites, or industrial sites, in the following years.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ajay Ray

Student:

Partner:

CoreGeo

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Water; Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Montage d’un systeme de production continuede nanoperles de carbone

Le projet vise a mettre au point un nouveau systeme de depot de vapeurs chimiques capable
d’assurer une production continue et en grande quantite des nanoperles de carbone de qualite. Ces
nanoperles constituent un nouveau type de materiau a base de carbone avec des proprietes
exceptionne!!es pouvant assurer leur utilisation dans de multiples applications e!ectro-optiques. En
particulier, elles pourront etre utili sees dans la fabrication des cathodes froides pour une nouvelle
generation de generateurs de rayons-x portables. Ces appareils pourront avoir un impact
considerable dans Ie domaine de la sante a cause de leurs dimensions reduites, leur prix de base
faible et leur grande mobilite.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Truong Vo-Van

Student:

Partner:

Nanomed

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

GaN Modelling for the EV Application

The use of new technologies, such as Gallium Nitride electronic switches, allows very efficient and compact power converters to be manufactured at reasonable cost. This is particularly interesting in applications such as electric vehicles. This project focuses on developing software simulation models and techniques for deploying these latest high voltage switches, in particular focussing on how they may best be controlled. The next step will be to design complete power control modules for specific applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Palmer;William Dunford

Student:

Partner:

Crosslight Software Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Identification of high-frequency periodic acoustic fish tags with deep learning

Innovasea produces fish tags and receivers to track the presence and motion of fish and marine mammals while underwater. Fish tracking (acoustic telemetry) is used by researchers worldwide to determine the abundance and habits of marine life, make decisions about fishing seasons and allowed catches, and help protect marine mammals. Innovasea has developed a novel high-frequency tag technology that is suitable for very small fish and generates more precise trajectories. However, the new smaller fish tags send no explicit identification information so signals from a specific fish tag are isolated from background noise and other fish tags based on the period and/or pattern of the signals. To obtain useful fish tracking trajectories, Innovasea currently applies manual processing which requires expert knowledge.
In this project we will apply advanced deep learning techniques to large manually processed training sets provided by Innovasea to eliminate the manual preprocessing steps. The project is scoped with an initial phase to test feasibility of the concept and subsequent phases for development with an eventual aim of transitioning the best performing prototype system to a fully realized system for filtering Innovasea data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stan Matwin

Student:

Partner:

InnovaSea Marine Systems Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Nature Based Outdoor Recreation ROI Framework

The project will develop a conceptual framework to quantify the value of nature based recreation. The tool will focus on improvements in physical health, improvements in mental health and health benefits associated with improved ecosystem protection. The tool will provide provincial, municipal and community organizations a mechanism to support informed program, policy and planning decisions and will help users better understand and communicate the value of investments in nature based outdoor recreation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Wilson

Student:

Partner:

Collegeway Consulting Ltd.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Improving Financial Health in Canada

The goal of this partnership is to develop data-driven tools that will empower individual Canadians to improve their financial resilience and reduce their levels of financial stress. Individuals will complete a short questionnaire; based on their responses, will be assigned to one of three groups – financially stressed, financially coping or financially comfortable – giving them a clear picture of where they lie on the “financial wellness spectrum.” They will be informed of how changes to their response profile would lead to movement up or down the spectrum and will be pointed towards resources that can help them with their specific circumstances. The project will help the Canadian Payroll Association (CPA) cement its role as a thought leader with respect to financial well-being in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matthew Davison;Adam Metzler

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Payroll Association

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.