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Individual Neuronal Feature Extraction and Representations (INFER): Emulating the perceptual system of individuals with extraordinary visual skills by combining deep neural networks and visual psychophysics

Each and every one of us has distinct visual representations of persons, familiar objects and scenes. We all acquire and form these visual representations in our brains through our unique experiences, but how exactly do we acquire these representations? What specific visual information supports the conceptual representation of objects in our brains and what part of this information is necessary for recognition? Cognitive neuroscience studies have so far focussed on investigating the commonalities between individuals in the human visual system as though each individual share the same visual face or object templates. Yet, scientists are beginning to discover that even common representations such as facial emotion expressions of fear or joy show clear discrepancies according to culture (ex. Caucasian and Easterners), neurodevelopmental disorders (ex. schizophrenia, autism), or even according to individual variations of perceptual ability between neurotypical individuals. We know very little about how the brain of individuals that varies on these attributes enables these discrepancies in visual representations […]

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Gosselin

Student:

Partner:

University of Birmingham

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Système de gestion des traversées piétonnes aux intersections munies de feux de circulation et virage à droite au feu rouge: étude comparative entre Québec et Montréal

Les intersections représentent un enjeu de sécurité particulier pour les piétons. Les Villes de Montréal et de Québec ont deux façons très différentes de gérer les traversées des piétons aux intersections dotés de feux de circulation. L’étude qui sera réalisée en partenariat avec l’INRS, l’Université Laval et Accès transports viables va permettre d’analyser les impacts sur les usagers de ces modes de gestion, mais également de mesurer le sentiment de sécurité des piétons à ces intersections. Ainsi, avec une méthodologie éprouvée (via des observations non-participantes et un questionnaire sur rue), l’organisme Accès transports viables, dont une partie de la mission est la défense des usagers des transports actifs, pourra se baser sur des arguments scientifiques mesurés dans son rôle de plaidoyer auprès des instances publiques. L’étude se conclura d’ailleurs par un évènement d’envergure et ouvert au grand public pour vulgariser les résultats.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Soleil Cloutier;Owen Waygood;Owen Waygood;Marie-Soleil Cloutier

Student:

Partner:

Accès transports viables

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Tribo-electrostatic Separation of Potash

Over two years a post-doctoral fellow will investigate the electrostatic separation of potash. This will be accomplished experimentally by triboelectrically charging different materials, with and without conditioning agents, and then testing different separation techniques. Separation techniques will include electrostatic separation and a fines removal process. Electrostatic separation implementation in Saskatchewan may have multiple advantages, when compared with conventional techniques, including: increased capacity, reduced maintenance, reduced or eliminated environmental impact of tailings, reduced or eliminated water consumption, reduced energy consumption, reduced or eliminated environmental impact of brine, improved extraction ratio of the ore, reduced or eliminated corrosion costs, and reduced cost of production. A fines removal process may assist with the implementation of electrostatic separation and/or froth flotation techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Donald Bergstrom

Student:

Partner:

Nutrien

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Mining

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Environmental productivity patterns of the Salish Sea: trends, impacts, projections

Pacific salmon are important from ecological, economic, social and cultural perspectives, but many species in the Salish Sea have seen drastic decrease in marine survival rate in recent decades, likely linked to reduced survival of the young stages of salmon due to a combination of environmental, food web changes, and human impacts. This activity will provide an ecosystem-level analysis of how the environmental productivity of the Salish Sea has changed in recent decades with focus on the implications this has had for salmon populations in the area. The aim is to develop a hypothesis for why the changes in environmental productivity impact salmon, as well as for how important productivity changes are for population trends as compared to food web effects and direct human impacts, notably through fishing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Villy Christensen

Student:

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un outil de calcul du coût du cycle de vie de ponts routiers pour la Grappe industrielle AluQuébec

Ce projet de recherche vise à optimiser l’utilisation d’aluminium dans la conception de ponts routiers. Des recherches récentes montrent que l’aluminium pourrait présenter de nombreux avantages économiques grâce à son excellente durabilité, le peu d’entretien qu’il nécessite et son recyclage en fin de vie. Ces avantages seront tangibles dans la durée et non pas lors de la phase initiale de construction de ponts. En conséquence, une méthode d’analyse économique qui prendra en considération toutes les étapes du cycle de vie d’une structure (construction, entretien, fin de vie) sera développée pour estimer le coût total réel d’un pont conçu avec de l’aluminium en comparaison avec des ponts en bois et en béton.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luca Sorelli

Student:

Partner:

AluQuébec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

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

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Prototypical spatial patterns arise from face-to-face social interaction via hyperscanning

When two brains are engaged in a social interaction, specific brain activity emerges that causes the two brains to become ‘in sync’. This discovery was made possible by ‘hyperscanning’, a technique where two people are simultaneously scanned in two Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners to record their brain activity while interacting with each other in real-time. Our lab is spearheading a new method of looking at common brain architectures for representing visual information by looking at fine-scale patterns of brain activity. This project expands our methods to investigate whether a similar common architecture exists for social information. The prototypical spatial patterns of activity that arise from social interactions demonstrate that it may be possible to decode this information in one individual by using the patterns of another. Decoding social information stored in the brain will be important for understanding social deficiencies such as autism spectrum disorder and will provide insight into a hallmark ability of the human species.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reza Farivar-Mohseni

Student:

Partner:

National Institute for Physiological Sciences

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other

University:

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Microalgae for the production of plant specialized metabolites of interest

Algae-C is a company specialized in algal biomass production. It enables on-site production of algae for a wide variety of sectors (aquaculture, nutraceutical, cosmetic and biofuel). To date, many fuels, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products are extracted from plants. These valuable plant natural products (PNPs) are often produced in low quantities in plants and extraction methods can be long and expensive. Thus, there is much interest in metabolic engineering for developing microbial platforms to produce specific PNPs. Microalgae are well-known systems for plant biology and genetic engineering and are interesting and suitable hosts for the reconstitution of complex plant pathways. Algae-C wishes to translate metabolic engineering research into industrial processes. This project aims to optimized microalgae platforms for the production of valuable PNPs. These ventures are motivated by consumer demand for products that are environmentally friendly, less expensive, and possess properties similar or superior with those generated by PNPs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabel Desgagné-Penix;Suzanne Budge;Isabel Desgagné-Penix

Student:

Partner:

Algae-C

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Canadian Partnership for Research in Immunotherapy Manufacturing Excellence (CanPRIME)

Cancer remains the leading causes of mortality worldwide. While treatments are available, existing chemotherapies and radiation therapy have limited success due to secondary effects on healthy cells, resulting in adverse side effects in patients. Over the past 5 years, we have witnessed the development of new and promising cancer therapeutics that stimulate and awaken the body’s immune system to attack tumor cells. These new biologically-based therapies, known as immunotherapeutics, have already begun to show great promise in a number of clinical trials. Among immunotherapeutics, Oncolytic Viruses (OV), also known as cancer killing viruses, are at the forefront. In the lab, we discovered a new viral platform named “SKV” that has the ability to safely target and kill a number of different tumor cells types, while successfully activating the immune system against tumor tissues. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carolina Ilkow;Kevin S. Holmes;Jean-Simon Diallo

Student:

Partner:

Turnstone Biologics

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Algonquin College; Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology; University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Schools as Potential Sites of Prevention & Intervention for Youth Homelessness

Youth homelessness exists across Canada and schools represent one site of interaction with youth who are homeless or who are at risk of homelessness. Decreasing the number of homeless young Canadians means the implementation of innovative, youth-informed practices and policies within institutions, services, and places throughout communities that serve as points of interaction with homeless and at-risk youth (such as schools). This research will create a safe space for youth who have been or who are homeless to share their experiences, and allow the researchers to identify both the successful and unsuccessful interactions that schools have had with homeless youth in order to advise improvement of school responses to youth homelessness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacqueline Kennelly

Student:

Partner:

United Way Ottawa;United Way St. Catharine's & District

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Performance et optimisation de coagulants inorganiques préhydrolysés pour la production d’eau potable

Le projet vise à optimiser une filière de traitement fréquemment utilisée par les villes lors du traitement des eaux potables: la coagulation. Cette étape est essentielle à l’enlèvement de plusieurs contaminants organiques et inorganiques d’intérêt de santé publique. Kemira, le partenaire, bénéficiera de l’expertise du stagiaire et du superviseur en ce qui a trait à l’optimisation des coagulants utilisés en traitement des eaux potables i.e. à cerner les meilleurs produits pour une municipalité ciblée et mieux comprendre certains comportements mécanistiques de leurs produits.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Barbeau

Student:

Partner:

Kemira

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Community Land Trusts: Exploring civil society’s role in reconciliation and the housing crisis

This research project aims to explore how civil society organizations in Metro Vancouver might devise Community Land Trusts that allow their property interests to intersect with their social mission. Metro Vancouver Alliance, a broad-based community organizing alliance of faith, labour, community, and education sectors, previously conducted listening campaigns identifying reconciliation and affordable housing as common priorities. Some MVA faith institutions have expressed interest in redeveloping their property through CLTs to serve this shared social mission. The research initiatives of this project will inform educational materials about CLTs that will be tailored to their specific interests and context. The research project will include a day-long public education conference for organizations interested in exploring CLTs. In addition to exploring CLT models for affordable housing, this project will also partner with urban Indigenous partners to explore possible ways to use CLTs as a means of decolonizing urban land ownership.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karen Ferguson

Student:

Partner:

Metro Vancouver Alliance

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Engineered Reflection

This research will focus on glass materiality and its use in architecture. By attending Glasstec, fhe international trade fair for glass production, processing and products, I will be able to elaborate a technology survey of available products in the market, production processes as well as experiments and prototypes showcased by the companies Research and Development departments. Additionally, I will visit and document the recently inaugurated Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg, where glass is used in various forms and applications in innovative ways (curved, serigraphed, etched, thermoformed). Through an extensive documentation I will produce the material and documentation in order to propose future uses and applications of glass in architecture, focusing performance and its material possibilities. Both Glasstec participation and the Elbiphilarmonie documentation will become essential elements for my research in the form of concrete chapters in my thesis proposal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Howes

Student:

Partner:

Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Manufacturing and Construction; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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