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Le renouvellement des outils de développement agricole et rural : une perspective par filières régionales (deuxième partie)

Prenant acte des limites des mécanismes actuels de soutien à l’agriculture dans les régions en voie de dévitalisation, notamment celles de l’Est-du-Québec, la recherche vise à contribuer à la définition d’un cadre d’intervention destiné à soutenir le redéploiement du domaine agricole dans ces milieux. La recherche poursuivra, en la bonifiant, l’orientation prise dans les travaux récemment publiés par le candidat et par le directeur du stagiaire ciblé (Mario Handfield). Rappelons que ces travaux ont permis d’identifier, en les traitant de manière simultanée, les caractéristiques du tissu socioéconomique de ces régions, les difficultés rencontrées par les acteurs locaux impliqués dans le développement du secteur agroalimentaire et les formes d’accompagnement public déjà en place dans ce secteur. De ces travaux a découlé la formulation et l’élaboration de leviers institutionnels inédits visant à accroître les capacités d’action des milieux régionaux dans le secteur agroalimentaire. Suivant les recommandations phares de ces travaux, une équipe d’intervention nommée AGROFOR fut créée, un projet d’établissement de relève agricole fut lancé et des passerelles ont été jetées avec un fonds d’investissement dans le but de relancer le domaine agricole et agroalimentaire dans l’Est-du-Québec. Le travail réalisé par le stagiaire s’est traduit par des retombées notables en matière (…)

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mario Handfield

Student:

Partner:

Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamique de la structure interne des peuplements forestiersmixtes et feuillus en milieu naturel

La simplification de la structure jnterne des peuplements forestiers constitue unenjeu

majeur dans la foret mixte et feuillue du Canada . .Plusieurs etudes tentent a demontrer

qu’il y a eu une perte de la complexite structurale et donc de la biodiversite dans les

peuplements amen ages pour la recolte de la matiere ligneuse. Cette complexite est

observable en milieu naturel la ou il n’y a pas eu d’interventions humaines. Afin de

mieux comprendre cettedynamique naturelle, ce projet propose d’approfondir les

connaissancesen lien avec (‘evolution de la vegetation forestiere.

Les resultats de ces recherches permettront a I’organisme et au reste du pays, de

mieux comprendre les mecanismes modelant la foret et ainsi developper des

traitements sylvicoles qui s’inspirent des processus naturels. Plusieurs industries

forestieres detenant la norme environnementale Forest Stewardship Council sontdans

I’obligation de suivre les principes de I’amenagement ecosystemique qui prevoit

(‘etude de la problematique de la simplification des structures internes. Cet enjeu

etant peu documente, la pertinence de ce projet prend tout…..

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frederik Doyon;Sylvain Delagrange

Student:

Partner:

Nova Sylva Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

University:

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Program:

Accelerate

Image Urbaine

La cohabitation des bâtiments du quartier des spectacles et des technologies d’architecture mouvante de Réalisaitons.net produirait une expérience sans équivoque pour les usagers du Montréalais. La richesse créative et la multitude des objectifs (sociaux, artéritiques, etc.) visés engendrent toutefois des préoccupations au sein de la planification et la réalisation du projet. Notre mandat est donc de développer une ligne directrice viable et d’un modèle d’affaire pour soutenir la rentabilité du projet. La continuité de la démarche nécessite également une analyse approfondie du potentiel d’implantation dans le contexte montréalais, tout en maintenant la perspective de construire un modèle exportable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Simon

Student:

Partner:

Réalisations.net

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Effect of polymers on wettability of bitumen and on stability of bitumen emulsions.

The proposed research project is aimed at enhancing our understanding of interactions of several biodegradable low molecular weight polymers with the different components of aqueous oil sand suspensions. The work is designed to assess the effect of the polymers on a number of fundamental phenomena that govern several unit operations during oil sands processing and subsequent tailings disposal. It is expected that the systematic research studies proposed in this project should not only lead to new scientific knowledge but also to improvements in the current technology of oil sand processing and tailings management.
The proposed experimental program will involve analysis of the shape and size of air bubbles spreading and attaching onto bitumen surfaces while immersed in polymer solutions. This type of information will be collected using high-speed microscopy. A similar approach will also be employed to monitor the displacement and detachment of bitumen droplets from model mineral surfaces, chosen to represent typical solids found in oil sands. The ability of bitumen droplets to aggregate or disperse, and to form emulsions in the presence of polymers will be researched using laser light backscattering and transmission…To be continued.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marek Pawlik

Student:

Partner:

Imperial Oil Resources Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of self-sovereign identity and ethics of data in public safety

Three in five persons with dementia will wander. This statistic however was derived from the USA, and it is unknown as to how this number was generated and what it specifically entails. The collection of Canadian-based data involving missing persons with dementia in Canada is limited. Secours.io’s initiative of collecting missing persons data generated from partners such as Project Lifesaver, could assist in filling this gap. Due to the sensitivity that arises from vulnerable persons data, this project will focus on identifying balanced, effective and ethical approaches for Secours.io to collect this data. This project will involve a literature review and interviews among key stakeholders across Canada and the USA. Seocurs.io mission is to transform public safety through the collection of data. A partnership with researchers, such as the intern, will provide credibility regarding effective and ethical data collection methods to inform and contribute to decisions about self-sovereign identity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lili Liu

Student:

Partner:

Secours.io Ltd

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Development of deep learning pipeline for automatic segmentation and classification of cardiac magnetic resonance images – Part 2

Heart disease is the main reason of death worldwide. One way to understand better and detect heart diseases without need for biopsy via surgery is by using medical imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Cardiac magnetic resonance is a specific kind of MRI which allows great visualization of inner parts of the heart and can be used for measuring the size of the heart and its chambers, which can be very useful for understanding blood flow and other potential markers of disease. One problem with modern technologies for measuring parts of the heart is that they are often unreliable because of the data complexity. In this project, we use advanced artificial intelligence techniques to solve that problem. Our techniques are going to be used to obtain better representations of the internal chambers of the heart which can be useful for assessing several kinds of heart diseases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Frayne

Student:

Partner:

Circle Cardiovascular Imaging

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Developing the use of UAV Imagery Systems for Agriculture Applications

During the last decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) drew the attention to be used as platform for imagery systems for different applications including agriculture applications. Therefore, the proposed research aims to develop the use of UAVs for specific important agriculture applications as weed management. These developments include the use of low-cost imagery sensors for these applications. On the other hand, Cansel is fully supportive organization for cooperative research with universities. Therefore, Cansel endorses this research as being directly relevant to the company’s interests in the area of precise agriculture using low-cost drones and sensors to support Cansel’s various UAV-based mapping systems and application. Furthermore, Canada will benefit from the established knowledge and expertise in technologies of growing demand worldwide, thus keeping the leadership of both the Canadian academia and industry sectors in the precision agriculture industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naser El-Sheimy

Student:

Partner:

Cansel Survey Equipment Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Agriculture and Food

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Fatigue des assemblages conducteurs aeriens ~ pince semi~rigide

Les conducteurs aeriens des lignes de transport d’emergie sont des structures tres flexibles et

ils sont retenus a chaque pylone a I’aide de pinces de suspension. Sous I’effet du vent, Ie

conducteur peut etre excite, en particulier par les vibrations eoliennes modulees par un

detachement tourbillonnaire en aval du conducteur. La vibration produit une flexion repetee

du conducteur au niveau du contact avec la pince de suspension qui peut amener ce dernier a se briser en fatigue. Une nouvelle pince de suspension a ete developpee a I’IREQ

conjointement avec un partenaire industriel. Cette pince semi-rigide reduit la sollicitation en

fatigue du conducteur face aux vibrations comparativemenl aux pinces metal-metal

habituellement utilisees.

Le but de ce projet de recherche est de proceder a des essais de fatigue de I’assemblage

conducteur-pince afin de determiner sa limite d’endurance et de la comparer

quantitativement avec celie de I’assemblage d’un conducte.ur.d.u me.me type avec une pince

metal-metal conventionnelle. Cette nouvelle limite d’endurance pourra etre utilisee par…………..

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thang Bui-Quoc

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Comparing the value of country foods with other food provisioning systems in Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories.

How can we describe and value harvesting, processing and sharing (costs as well as benefits) country foods in economic, nutritional, environmental and socio-cultural terms? How can we compare the value of country food with food that comes from other provisioning systems (e.g. imported/market-based foods and local food production)? These are important questions for both communities and decision-makers at multiple levels (from local to territorial to federal), and an initial review of the literature shows that there are complex decisions to be made about what “value” means and how it might be measured before any comparisons with other food provisioning systems can be undertaken. This research will review and synthesize the relevant literature, undertake an environmental scan to identify related projects and potential partners, interview decision-makers at multiple levels, community representatives (including from communities that might be interested in cooperating on this research) and experts in food systems and valuation. It will propose a framework and set of metrics for comparing the value of country foods, locally produced food and market-based imports. This framework will then be adapted for piloting in the context of one or two communities. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Andree;Andrew Spring

Student:

Partner:

The Gordon Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Caracterisation du comportement electrique et thermique de structuresde materiaux composites de carbone dans Ie cadre de la recherche de solutions deretour de courant

Le projet vise a ameliorer la connaissance des proprh§tes electriques et thermiques des

materiaux composites dans Ie contexte de leur utilisation dans Ie milieu aeronautique. Pour

ce faire, il est envisage de soumet!re des echantillons de ces materiaux a des courants

electriques, pour en evaluer la distribution dans lesdits echantillons. L’echauffement cause

par ces courants sera mesure pour en arriver a des recommandations sous forme de seuils

de tolerance. Le projet envisage est primordial afin de permettre au partenaire de remplacer

les structures actuelles composees d’aluminium par des materiaux composites, dont les

caracteristiques mecaniques sont nettement superieures, et ainsi permet!re la construction

d’avions de prochaine generation plus performants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frederic Sirois

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Aeronautic Inc (Saint-Laurent, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Characterizing the stability of claims in neuroimaging

In recent years there has been a growing focus on evaluating the reproducibility of scientific findings. In neuroimaging this has been explored with respect to the impact specific choices in analysis software have on the resulting claims and their ability to be replicated across datasets or other tools. The focus of my Ph.D. involves the characterization of various tools and their relative stability, in other words, how significantly minor changes (such as noise in data, specific analysis choices, or computer hardware) affect the eventual results. This exchange will give me the opportunity to apply this exploration to functional MRI analyses, leveraging the experience provided by Dr. Maumet and her team in comparing disparate processing pipelines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Evans

Student:

Partner:

Institut Nationale Recherche Informatique Automatique

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Information and Communications Technology; Biotechnology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Predictive Control Approach to Convert Single-Zone Residential Buildings with Central HVAC Systems to Multi-Zone Systems

The current project aims to develop a novel energy management strategy for residential heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Controllable wireless air damping vents will adjust the air flow in different zones of the building allowing independent control of the temperature which results in enhanced thermal comfort and energy savings. The intern will collaborate with the partner organization on studying a novel predictive model to control the damping factor of the vents within fully closed to fully open range. The partner organization will benefit from the expertise of both the academic supervisor and the intern in HVAC and thermo-fluids to achieve a more effective control strategy for the system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carey Simonson

Student:

Partner:

SenergyK Innovative Creations

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate