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Image matching for purposes of consumer recommendation

The purpose of this project is to develop a highly accurate e-commerce recommender system able to select products across databases and recommend them to prospective customers both in real-time and off-line. Leveraging the historical inventory of sold products, browsing history, purchase history, and expressed preferences helps the recommender to formulate highly accurate product suggestions to find closest matches to what a consumer is looking for. Consumers will instantly be shown other products similar to what she/he is looking at as well as an assortment of other products that complement it. For example, a prospective customer looking at blouses of a certain type will be shown other blouses of the same look and style as well as other well-matched pants, bracelets, earrings and purse.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Bergevin

Student:

Partner:

Stradigi Ventures

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Design and fabrication of a mechanical tarp system

This project undertakes the design and fabrication of a new headboard for mechanical tarp systems for flatbed trailers. At present, there are a number of problems including on-time supply of headboards, shipping, waste scrap, and health and safety of drivers. With this project a new design will be proposed and then fabricated using the computer aided design (CAD) systems. And safety analysis will be performed using the finite element analysis technique. Materials selection will be done according to required properties by taking consideration of cost. A manufacturing process will be proposed for the fabrication of headboard on the principle of reducing waste and providing a valued product to the end customers. Life cycle cost analysis will provide an indication of costs associated and profit margins over the coming years. This will help the organization to reduce their dependency on other manufactures and to provide fast services to their end customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Fleisig

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Foundation design system for FortisBC’s power poles

Traditional design method for the foundation of the transmission poles simply assigns a standard set of depths based on the length and diameter of poles. Although, this method has proven to be conservative and reliable, but it does not incorporate site-specific soil properties, water table, and weather conditions in its calculations. As a result, a new foundation design system which will integrate site specific conditions for each pole will provide more safe, economical, and reliable performance of transmission poles for the long-term benefit of FortisBC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sumi Siddiqua;Shahria Alam

Student:

Partner:

FortisBC Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Utilities

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Coordination et optimisation des opérations entre un manufacturier et un prestataire logistique

Dans un souci de performance et de compétitivité, les entreprises du secteur manufacturier (agroalimentaire, automobile, pharmaceutique…) sont de plus en plus nombreuses à se concentrer uniquement sur leur travail de production et tendent à sous-traiter certaines de leurs activités tels que l’entreposage ou le transport.
Ainsi, l’intervention de plusieurs entreprises, avec des stratégies et des intérêts différents, rend parfois complexe la gestion de la chaine logistique. En effet, la coordination de ces activités est souvent problématique dans la mesure où les contraintes sont nombreuses et pour le moins sous-évaluées. De manière générale, ces collaborations souffrent d’un manque de suivi de leurs performances et les outils de gestion utilisés sont parfois inadaptés. L’objectif de ce projet est de mettre en place une procédure de contrôle et d’optimisation des activités de façon à ce que ce type d’alliance logistique soit toujours la plus efficace possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mustapha Ouhimmou;Marc Paquet

Student:

Partner:

Danone Canada;Groupe Robert

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Development of novel methodology for the monitoring of astaxanthin production for Myera Group

The market for health food supplements is a large and growing sector of the Canadian economy. The biotechnology that underpins this industry requires a close collaboration between private industry and academic researchers. The development of supplements that target specific health effects is a significant driving force behind the investigation of new products. Astaxanthin, a carotenoid which is derived from beta-carotene, has been investigated for a wide range of positive health benefits. Myera Group (which includes Myera Fuel) is developing a biotechnological process for the production of astaxanthin as a commercial product from fermentation cultures of a microorganism. This proposal describes a project where the Sorensen research lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manitoba will develop novel methodology for the determination of astaxanthin content (among other carotenoids) in the fermentation cultures. This is an essential process that Myera Group cannot easily develop on their own and for which the Sorensen group has existing
expertise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Sorensen

Student:

Partner:

Myera Nu-Agri-Nomics Group Canada Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Une solution hybride basée sur les services web et la technologie RFID/NFC pour la gestion d’accès et de présence

Une solution hybride pour la gestion d’accès et de présence, combine à la fois les services web (Applications web, base de données) et la technologie RFID/NFC pour améliorer l’expérience de l’utilisateur. Un utilisateur possède sa carte RFID (de taille réduite et peut être équipé avec son porteclés), cette carte contient un code unique à elle (ne se répète pas). Ce code est associé aux données de l’utilisateur dans la base de données (informations sur la personne : nom, prénom, occupation, image, …etc.). Les données sont accessibles à travers internet, il suffit d’interroger la base de données par une requête avec le code, la base de données retourne les données associées à travers un service web (Script PHP). Une application web serve comme l’intermédiaire entre l’unité de contrôle d’accès et la base de données. L’unité de contrôle d’accès consiste à lire une étiquette RFID/NFC (Carte RFID/NFC) détermine sa code, envoie des requêtes HTTP vers l’application web pour obtenir les infos associées aux utilisateurs, elle contient un lecteur RFID/NFC (Pour la lecture des cartes RFID/NFC) et un module wifi (Pour l’envoie des requêtes http). TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Habib Hamam

Student:

Partner:

Solutions Galore Web Design & Hosting

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Accelerate

Prototype Behavior Based Integrity Verification (BBIV)

Web computing, in which the world-wide web is itself employed as a distributed computing platform, is entering a stage of rapid expansion with the advent of Open Web Platform so that programs that once worked only a native environment on desktop, tablets or phones can now work from within a browser itself. There is therefore a need for a new form of protection for apps. Existing security models are inadequate to address emerging threats to applications in low-cost, highly-exposed environments, because they fail to protect data and code on exposed consumer terminal devices of the network, which are vulnerable to attacks directly accessing their hardware and software. Irdeto developed a new approach for protecting such applications based on novel methods of integrity-verification, which permit the implemented validated integrity to serve as a root of trust. This project is part of this research to prototype BBIV concept and investigate the engineering issues for this security capability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Azzedine Boukerche

Student:

Partner:

Irdeto Canada (Kanata, ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Integrated pathogen management of co-infection in Atlantic salmon

The partner in this project is EWOS Canada, a producer of salmon feed. Salmon feed is made with sustainable and Canadian Food Inspection Agency approved ingredients. A major challenge in feed manufacturing is to support maximal growth and health of fish. This project addresses a health challenge which has received little attention in academic programs: that salmon in sea farms often have several infectious agents such as skin lice and bacterial infection. In this project we will develop indicators of this type of infection at salmon farms and determine how to treat the condition with feed additives. The Interns will work at both the industry and academic partner institutions, learning laboratory techniques to help identify health biomarkers (i.e., genes that turn on and off in response to different feeds and salmon health status), and also experience how industry functions in testing for and treating salmon health issues.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matthew Rise;Christopher Parrish

Student:

Partner:

EWOS Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

The bioavailability of zinc and copper in vegetable and animal based ingredients in dog food

The Canadian pet food market is projected to grow to $1.9 billion by the end of 2016, a 10.2% increase per year in the year. Adequate dietary mineral intake is key to supporting health and well being of dogs, but very little is known about what ingredients are good sources. Understanding of the bioavailability of minerals in ingredients commonly used in pet food could help to support avenues of eliminating mineral supplementation in adult dog foods and avoid excess supplementation. The objective of this study is to compare diets that utilize predominantly animal or vegetable protein in adult Beagles. Specifically, the aim is to measure whether the of zinc and/or copper is more available to the animal in animal vs. vegetable based ingredients. Bioavailability will be measured using apparent digestibility and mass balance, with the analysis of urine, feces, and plasma. Given data in other species, we expect that the bioavailability of minerals, specifically, zinc and copper, will be lower in dogs fed the plant-based as compared to meat based diet.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anna Kate Shoveller

Student:

Partner:

Champion Petfoods LP

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Innovating in-field DNA acquisition for enhanced microbiologically influenced corrosion diagnostics

Corrosion of metal-based infrastructure (for example, pipes) is an enormously costly problem faced by many industries including power generation, oil production, transportation, beverage production and water storage and distribution. It is now known that microorganisms can in many cases cause and/or worsen metal corrosion – a phenomenon known as microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC). OSP Microcheck Inc provides products to diagnose for MIC. Once diagnosed correctly, MIC type corrosion can be treated or further prevented more effectively than if left undiagnosed. Currently used MIC diagnostic methods recognise the presence of microbes, but are incapable of identifying exactly which microbes are present. This academic-industry collaboration will explore the biochemistry behind MIC diagnostic techniques, with the intention of innovating one of OSP Microcheck’s current MIC diagnostic methods such that it is capable of both finding and identifying the microbes causing MIC type corrosion in a cost-effective manner.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Turner

Student:

Partner:

OSP Microcheck Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

L’UTILISABILITÉ EN CONTEXTE DE COLLABORATION EXTRÊME : L’impact de l’utilisabilité sur l’efficacité des professionnels en situation d’urgence

Les circonstances qui accompagnent les événements extrêmes forcent les équipes de secours à travailler de près afin de limiter les dommages potentiels. La collaboration en contexte d’intervention d’urgence est particulièrement complexe à établir, mais tout autant essentielle. Les technologies qui supportent ces processus de coopération se trouvent au coeur de l’action et leur bon fonctionnement est étroitement lié à la convergence des connaissances et compétences, et donc au succès de la mission. C’est dans ce contexte que s’inscrit le projet d’évaluation de l’impact de l’utilisabilité des dits outils sur la performance des professionnels en situation d’urgence. Le projet vise à mesurer cet impact dans le but d’enrichir les connaissances scientifiques en proposant un guide de meilleures pratiques de développement d’application en contexte de collaboration extrême.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre-Majorique Léger

Student:

Partner:

Humanitas Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

A Link or a Tangle: The Internet at the Intersection of Parents, Advocacy and Health Information for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Many parents of children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as autism, rely on information found on well-known advocacy websites to make decisions regarding their child’s treatment. However, previous work has shown that advocacy websites tend to encourage a variety of treatments rather than objectively evaluate the plethora of available options. Using journalistic methods, this project looks at the extent to which parents rely on, and are influenced by, information published on these websites. The results of this research will be the basis of a 2000-2500 word feature to appear in the Vancouver Sun at the end of summer 2011. Additionally, 500-800 word articles about NDDs (including autism, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and cerebral palsy) will be published, weekly, in the newspaper. Ultimately, this work will benefit the Vancouver Sun’s readership by distilling complex ethical and scientific concepts into terms the general public can appreciate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Judy Illes

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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