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Development of low-cost feeding strategies for group-housed gestating sows – Year 2

Feed restriction in gestating sows is required to prevent excessive body weight gain and the associated negative consequences on lactation, locomotion, farrowing, and feed intake during lactation. Aggression and stereotypies associated with restricted feeding become a welfare and production concern when the sows are housed in groups. Delayed gastric emptying, increased swelling of contents in the stomach, and/or fermentation metabolites associated with bulky or high fibre diets during gestation may increase feelings of satiety and ameliorate behavioural problems associated with restricted feed intake. In addition, feeding high-fibre diets to sows may result in an increase in litter size and growth performance of offspring. The proposed project will seek to examine the effect of feeding processed straw on metabolic indicators of satiety and behavioural measures in group-housed gestating sows and growth indicators of litter performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Allan Columbus

Student:

Partner:

Sask Pork

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Development of low-cost feeding strategies for group-housed gestating sows

Feed restriction in gestating sows is required to prevent excessive body weight gain and the associated negative consequences on lactation, locomotion, farrowing, and feed intake during lactation. Aggression and stereotypies associated with restricted feeding become a welfare and production concern when the sows are housed in groups. Delayed gastric emptying, increased swelling of contents in the stomach, and/or fermentation metabolites associated with bulky or high fibre diets during gestation may increase feelings of satiety and ameliorate behavioural problems associated with restricted feed intake. In addition, feeding high-fibre diets to sows may result in an increase in litter size and growth performance of offspring. The proposed project will seek to examine the effect of feeding processed straw on metabolic indicators of satiety and behavioural measures in group-housed gestating sows and growth indicators of litter performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Allan Columbus

Student:

Partner:

Sask Pork

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Prioritizing decision-making for agriculture and conservation in North America’s prairies under climate change and land-use change – Year 2

Wetland habitats are critically important to many animal and plant species, and they are in trouble. The North American prairies, for example, comprise some of the most productive wetland habitats in the world, but many areas of the prairies have lost up to 90% of their wetlands and more than 90% of their native grasslands due to farming practices and more recently, climate change. This project will build a decision-support framework to prescribe the conservation actions needed to sustain wetland biodiversity in the face of climate and land-use changes. This framework will be a first of its kind to directly guide decisions by generating solutions to deal with effects of habitat loss, wetland drainage, and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The end result will be a plan for managers, producers and policy makers to support adaptive farm management and address wetland biodiversity loss in the North American prairies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Clark

Student:

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada (MB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Agriculture and Food; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Prioritizing decision-making for agriculture and conservation in North America’s prairies under climate change and land-use change

Wetland habitats are critically important to many animal and plant species, and they are in trouble. The North American prairies, for example, comprise some of the most productive wetland habitats in the world, but many areas of the prairies have lost up to 90% of their wetlands and more than 90% of their native grasslands due to farming practices and more recently, climate change. This project will build a decision-support framework to prescribe the conservation actions needed to sustain wetland biodiversity in the face of climate and land-use changes. This framework will be a first of its kind to directly guide decisions by generating solutions to deal with effects of habitat loss, wetland drainage, and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The end result will be a plan for managers, producers and policy makers to support adaptive farm management and address wetland biodiversity loss in the North American prairies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Clark

Student:

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada (MB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Agriculture and Food; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

GPU platforms for highly parallel EMT simulation – Year 2

A parallelized electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation tool for power system transients will be developed in this research to accelerate the internal computation process. An EMT simulator uses a highly detailed representation for the Electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation is a widely used and most accurate tool for power systems network simulations. EMT simulation is very important for various design, testing and analysis of power systems networks involved in generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. PSCAD is one of such commercially available and very popular EMT-simulation tool in the area. Computer based simulation becomes very time consuming for large networks due to the requirement of detailed mathematical modeling of various components involved in the simulation. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aniruddha Gole

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro International Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

GPU platforms for highly parallel EMT simulation

A parallelized electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation tool for power system transients will be developed in this research to accelerate the internal computation process. An EMT simulator uses a highly detailed representation for the power systems components. Conventional EMT simulators typically execute sequentially on a single processor; and computational effort increases significantly with network size. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have massively parallel architecture and can accelerate EMT simulation. The investigator’s recent Ph.D. research, was of a preliminary nature, and showed promising performance gain for GPU based EMT simulations. The main focus of this project is to explore the suitability of deploying multiple EMT instances on GPUs to increase the simulation speed for cases requiring concurrent processing of the EMT sub-systems. Also a larger class of parallelized models will be developed for GPU implementation for complex power systems components such as high-voltage dc (HVDC) transmission systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aniruddha Gole

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro International Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

Congestion Control for Ethernet Networks supporting ICN and 5G

Ethernet networks are typically best effort networks where traffic flows may contribute on creating network congestion and lead the switches to start dropping packets randomly. This results in unstable network latency that some applications cannot tolerate, especially in the context of 5G networks where delay constraints are very tight. The proposed research project aims at exploring and developing an innovative switch behavior for handling proactively traffic congestion in Ethernet network as a common Layer 2 infrastructure for the Core and Transport Network in C-RAN (Cloud Radio Access Network). The new knowledge, innovation and developed technologies will be integrated to Ericsson 5G scenario as a value added feature.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Halima Elbiaze

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Elevate

Seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete buildings subject to main shock and aftershocks

Many regions in Canada are prone to moderate to high seismic hazards. The seismic hazards, coupled with older, vulnerable infrastructures, pose the potential for damage and loss of life. The economic impact of seismic induced damage, on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia alone, has been estimated at 14.3 to 32.1 billion dollars. The overall objective of this research will combine current knowledge in the areas of seismic hazard assessment, structural engineering, and risk assessment to provide a comprehensive methodology to evaluate buildings and determine efficient retrofit alternatives. In the first phase of this MITACS proposal, the applicant will develop a methodology to quantify site seismicity (main shocks) and subsequent aftershocks, and develop a methodology to quantify damage accumulation. Subsequently, the proposed project will develop a decision support tool to assist in the planning and management of non-code conforming reinforced concrete (RC) buildings for resource and fund allocations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Solomon Tesfamariam

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating the predictive power of personality testing: Conducting in-depth research to improve a personality assessment tool

In the current socio-economic context, many companies, including Optimum Talent Inc., have begun using personality assessment tools to identify candidates and employees with high potential. Optimum Talent Inc.’s recent acquisition, the Pathfinder personality assessment tool, appears to be able to predict job performance with close to three time more precision than other personality measures. The goal of this research project will be to further validate the scientific merits of the tool, by first reviewing thoroughly the benchmarks created and used by the Pathfinder to predict job performance, and by designing a scientifically-based procedure to systematically assess its precision in predicting future performance of employees and candidates. From this perspective, the proposed research project should contribute to the tool’s improvement, in terms of the validity and credibility of its predictive power, and this should, in the long run, benefit the company’s distribution and marketing strategy for the tool.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacques Forest

Student:

Partner:

Optimum Talent Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Maritime Domain Awareness: A Service-oriented Analytic Framework

Maritime situation analysis is critical for dynamic decision-making in responding to real-world situations. Rapidly unfolding situations that pose an imminent danger or threat to critical infrastructure or public safety require interactive decision-making to enable a swift response. The main objective of this project is to design a robust methodical framework for the development of intelligent systems and services for real-time anomaly detection in marine traffic, applied to large volume maritime surveillance operations. Striving for scalable and extensible solutions, the framework combines data-driven with model-driven situation analysis methods and uses a high performance maritime data warehouse as an integral part of the architecture. This is a joint project with MDA Systems Ltd. to strengthen their strategic R&D initiative to provide intelligent decision-support for Canadian Coast Guard, Canadian Space Agency, and National Defence to protect the sovereignty of Canada’s coasts, including the Arctic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Uwe Glasser

Student:

Partner:

MDA Corporation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Optimization of novel drugs to treat cardiac arrhythmias

This project aims to validate and optimize drugs to treat heart rhythm disorders. The heart is a complex organ that uses tiny electrical signals to maintain a healthy rhythm. When these electrical signals are disturbed, it can change the regular rhythm, which can result in life-threatening consequences such as sudden cardiac death. Here, I will visualize one of the components of the heart that is responsible for the electrical signals, a specialized protein known as the ‘sodium channel’. I will look at the three-dimensional structure of this component both with and without drugs bound to it. This will tell us how exactly these drugs affect the function of the sodium channel, and also allows us to predict the drugs that can bind better and that are less likely to have side effects. I will then test such improved drugs through various biochemical assays.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Filip Van Petegem

Student:

Partner:

Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Synchronicity between phytoplankton and zooplankton phenology in the Salish Sea

The Salish Sea is a highly productive, dynamic coastal ocean with substantial temporal and spatial variability at lower trophic levels (e.g. phytoplankton and zooplankton). This variability, in turn, may directly impact resident and migratory fish populations that are of major economic importance in the region. The main goal of this research is to investigate the level of synchronicity between phytoplankton and zooplankton phenology in the Salish Sea. Time-series data for phytoplankton will be derived from satellite imagery, buoy
data, ferry data, citizen science data, and research cruise data, and then coupled with historical and present zooplankton data. By looking at long-term spatial data of phytoplankton arid zooplankton, we can identify their response to different climate drivers (e.g. SST, wind) and global climatic indices. Ultimately, changes in the seasonal patterns of these lower trophic levels will provide insight into their influence on the growth, survival, and overall return strength of salmon populations in the region. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maycira Costa

Student:

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

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

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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