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Enhancing Well-Being in Later Life Through Innovations in Narrative Care: A Train-The-Trainer Program

The aim of this project is to develop a training program in Narrative Care for health/social care workers who will in turn use their training to organize and facilitate Narrative Care programs for others in their workplace or organization in a cascading manner. The proposed program represents an extension of the hypothesis that the stronger (thicker, broader, deeper) people’s stories of their lives, the greater their inner resources before the challenges of later life in terms of enhanced self-esteem, purpose, and meaning. A train-the-trainer approach is an effective model for increasing knowledge, improving clinical behavior, and producing better patient outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clive Baldwin

Student:

Partner:

Person Centred Universe Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

St. Thomas University

Program:

Accelerate

The Power of Archival Records in Independent Schools

This research will look to explore the ingest, management, preservation, use, and re-use of archives within primary and secondary independent schools with more academic rigour than has been attempted in the past. Independent schools have unique challenges that differ from those faced by public schools. The purpose of this study is to inductively create a very detailed analysis of the relationships between the records that are created at an independent school and their uses (and re-uses). Key concepts will emerge from the rich qualitative data, identifying problem areas. This will inform the design of one or two practical solutions created in collaboration with relevant staff, faculty or student groups to improve the quality of school administrative or curricular activities, strengthen relations with their community, and/or enrich the archive itself through outreach activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eun G Park

Student:

Partner:

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Climate risk assessment and adaptation practices in mining operations: the use of smart water monitoring systems in surrounding watersheds

This research focuses on identify practical strategies for proactively managing the climate-related risks and design remote water monitoring networks that can support the ecosystem-based adaptation planning, related to hydrologic systems. Aquatic Life Ltd. has developed equipment for remote water monitoring system: Aquahive. This equipment provides the ability to remotely collect, analyze and report data from various environmental sensors in real-time. The system detects critical events, trigger commands, notify the end user, generate data visualization, alerts, and reporting. The study will investigate the properties of Aquahive, to support a monitoring and evaluation framework to support climate change adaptation planning using remote water monitoring networks, and therefore reduce the risks associated with climate change impacts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein;Nadja Kunz

Student:

Partner:

Aquatic Life Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Small-molecule screen revealing apoptosis inhibitors of BAX and BAK

The focus of this project is to screen for small-molecules that may interact with the machinery that controls the decision of life and death in the cell. Diseases can arise from aberrant control of cell life and death like cancer and neurodegeneration. By shutting off the cell death pathway when cells are injured, or stressed to the point that they would ordinarily die, we hope to use small molecule inhibition to allow cells the time they need to recover. The small molecules that we previously published that interact with the apoptosis machinery and successfully inhibit cell death are inappropriate for pre-clinical studies due to off-target activities. A goal of this project is to find additional compounds by adapting our current biochemical assay to a screening format in order to test a large library of compounds. This work will lead to the identification of molecules optimized for interaction with the cellular apoptosis machinery, leading us closer to custom synthesis of therapeutically active compounds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David W Andrews

Student:

Partner:

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Novel algorithms for SWATH-MS quantification to study type 2 diabetes progression on a molecular level

The number of patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) reached 392 million worldwide in 2015 and its prevalence is expected to increase by more than 50% during the next two decades. Currently, the best way to treat diabetes is to diagnose and prevent at the early stages. There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the disease on a molecular level. Here, we will use a novel high-throughput proteomics method to longitudinally profile an existing cohort of pre-diabetic patients at risk of becoming frank diabetics, thus gaining deeper insight into disease progression at the molecular level.
Blood plasma is a non-invasive source for protein measurement as infected tissue normally secrete proteins in the blood. Snyder lab at Stanford University has collected over 1000 samples from 105 subjects over 4 years in a longitudinal, personalized medicine setup. We will use SWATH-MS, a targeted proteomics method capable of accurate identification and quantification. I will develop novel algorithmic methods including direct chromatogram alignment approach to quantify proteins. Subsequently, software will be developed to scale the measurement across 1000s of samples and use mutual information to get robust quantification […]

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hannes Rost

Student:

Partner:

Stanford University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Slurry Pumps Efficiency, Productivity and Quality Enhancement

Pump industry is a very completive manufacturing sector which is dominated by few manufacturers. Attaining higher market share and the overall demand increase were the two motivations for the industrial partner of this project, Toyo North America, to initiate collaboration with the Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. To achieve this goal Toyo has identified the three areas that require further development as: (1) pump quality improvement, (2) high performance pumps design, and (3) flexible manufacturing. The main purpose of this project is to identify practical and scientific solutions to address the requirements in each of the tasks. This collaboration will provide the company with the expertise and facilities available at both universities. Moreover, the research team will have the opportunity to begin a long term partnership with the company for future joint projects. Finally, the project will help the interns to work on an industrial …

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siamak Arzanpour

Student:

Partner:

Toyo Pumps North America Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Accuracy Assessment of Optical Tracking for Orthopedic Robotic Surgical Tool

Highly accurate spatial measurement systems are among the enabling technologies that make image-guided surgery possible in modern operating theatres. We consider the problem of positional accuracy assessment for robotic surgical tool while using a multiple camera optical tracking system (OTS). Since the position of the surgical tool with respect to the bone is guided by tracking markers placed on the patient, to properly assess the surgical tool accuracy, the positional accuracy of the OTS must first be well understood. Since OTS assessment statistics from their manufacturers typically minimize underlying error distributions, it is essential to simulate specific surgical theatre usages to understand the actual error characteristics. In the proposed project, we conduct an accuracy assessment of the OTS used for the TNAV robotic surgical tool being developed by Think Surgical. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Fevens

Student:

Partner:

THINK Surgical

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Financial Contagion Measures Based on Co-movements

This project aims to study various aspects related to the contagion of financial crisis between markets, including the improvements on contagion measures, test of the existence of contagion, and the application of contagion measures in portfolio diversification across markets. The contagion of financial crisis is defined as the phenomenon that there is a significant increase in the extend of extreme co-movement between market indexes when financial crisis occurs in one market. With this definition, this project is expected to provide a couple of ways to probabilistically improve contagion measures in existing literature. Moreover, in order to test whether financial contagion exists, non-parametric estimators for corresponding contagion measures as well as their statistical properties are also targets of this project. Last but not least, this project is expected to provide illustrations of the application of contagion measures in time series clustering and portfolio construction accordingly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ricardas Zitikis

Student:

Partner:

Central University Of Finance and Economics

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Création d’une filière biosourcée issue du saule : définition d’un modèle de transition énergétique et de développement régional au Québec

L’objectif est d’identifier les facteurs de développement à mobiliser favorisant l’émergence d’une nouvelle filière de valorisation de la biomasse. Il s’agira de décrire la chaîne de valeur permettant de tirer le meilleur des propriétés du saule, salix sp, et d’identifier les acteurs industriels de la filière pour ensuite les mobiliser afin e définir les conditions et modalités des transferts technologiques requis pour en faire un véritable secteur industriel. L’ambition du projet est donc de contribuer à définir les voies d’utilisation de la filière du saule pour inscrire sa production et sa transformation dans un modèle de développement local adapté au territoire et aux collectivités du Québec.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Pitre

Student:

Partner:

Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating Sustainable Governance for Non-Profit Organizations in Rural Canada

Non-profit organizations play an increasingly important role in rural regions. Yet, these organizations are chronically lacking in capacity, including being both understaffed and underfinanced, as well as having high turnover rates and loss of institutional memory as a result. This research project aims to explore how non-profit organizations and charities in rural communities deliver their mandate in light of these challenges, with a particular emphasis on human resources. The objective is to identify and understand the critical factors that contribute to successful governance of their organizations and what strategies and practices have been successful in other places. This research will conduct 3-5 case studies on rural based non-profit organizations and/or charities to determine how they finance human resource supports, and what lessons learned may be transferable to other cases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Gibson

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration d’oreilles artificielles dédiées à l’étude du confort acoustique et physique

Au Québec, environ 360 000 travailleurs sont exposés quotidiennement à des niveaux de bruit susceptibles d’engendrer des problèmes d’audition. Les bouchons d’oreilles individuels sont souvent utilisés pour pallier ce problème. Cependant, l’inconfort lié à l’utilisation de ces protecteurs limite leur durée d’utilisation et donc leur efficacité. L’objectif de ce projet est de concevoir des outils capables d’évaluer cet inconfort. Des calculs assistés par ordinateur et des oreilles artificielles proche d’oreilles réelles permettront d’estimer les principales caractéristiques influençant ce confort comme par exemple l’atténuation des bouchons d’oreille ou encore la pression qu’ils exercent sur les parois du conduit auditif. Cette étude permettra à terme d’améliorer l’efficacité des protections auditives

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olivier Doutres;Eric Wagnac

Student:

Partner:

Université de Sherbrooke

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Étude de la dynamique de population des caribous migrateurs de l’Est du Canada à l’aide de données multi-sources et de modèles intégrés de population

Le caribou migrateur de l’Est du Canada est en déclin. En 2017 le comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada a recommandé le statut d’espèce en danger pour ces populations. Comprendre les changements démographiques de ces troupeaux et les effets de l’environnement qui influent est nécessaire pour améliorer la gestion et la conservation des populations. Mon projet a pour but de modéliser les changements dans la taille de population du caribou migrateur de l’Est du Canada pour ces 30 dernières années et d’identifier les effets potentiels de l’environnement (climat, ressources, niveaux de prélèvements par la chasse) sur ces changements. En plus de répondre à ces objectifs, les modèles créés me permettront d’une part de valoriser des données de différentes sources tels que la survie des caribous adultes et des faons, les résultats d’inventaires de population et des observations de terrain. D’autres part ils serviront à prédire les changements d’effectifs des troupeaux suivant différents scénarios de changements climatiques et de ressources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steeve Côté;Marco Festa-Bianchet

Student:

Partner:

University of Aberdeen

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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