Innovative Projects Realized

Addressing obstetric violence in Brazil: Multi-stakeholder perspectives, empowerment, and care in the context of Brazil’s National Humanization of Labour and Childbirth Policy (Porto Velho)

This research will explore the vision of professionals, women, partners, and decision –makers about the implementation of the Brazil national policy of humanization of childbirth. This research will review the specific roles of health promoters, nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists and midwives in different health care organizations to educate women about their rights during the pregnancy, child delivery and post-partum. The research will promote a debate about the needed changes to improve the quality of care for those women and the collective level of awareness about the obstetric violence against women at their most vulnerable condition.

Addressing obstetric violence in Brazil: Multi-stakeholder perspectives, empowerment, and care in the context of Brazil’s National Humanization of Labour and Childbirth Policy (Brasília 1)

This research will explore the vision of professionals, women, partners, and decision –makers about the implementation of the Brazil national policy of humanization of childbirth. This research will review the specific roles of health promoters, nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists and midwives in different health care organizations to educate women about their rights during the pregnancy, child delivery and post-partum. The research will promote a debate about the needed changes to improve the quality of care for those women and the collective level of awareness about the obstetric violence against women at their most vulnerable condition.

Toward Ore-Specific Sensor-Based Sorting Systems in Mining

A two-year, multi-disciplinary research project requiring MSc, PhD and PDF researchers across Computer Science, Earth and Ocean Science, and Mining Engineering is proposed, working with an industrial sponsor MineSense, focused on the development of new sensors for advanced sensor sorting and so-called ‘non-grade’ applications in previously unaddressed high capacity, low grade mining situations. Specific objectives include, through advanced ore characterization, sensor development, algorithm development (including use of AI) and advanced system design and evaluation to:
• Improve the ability of sensors to respond to different mineralogical compositions of an ore/orebody
• Incorporate knowledge of these characteristics into algorithms for either rock or bulk sorting or grade or non-grade parameters to develop more intelligent sensing, and ultimately sorting, systems
• Integrate developed sensor systems into ore-specific sensing and sorting applications in the industry, including ore recovery, waste rejection and non-grade parameter control.

Données, décision et commerce électronique: le cas du commerce de détail

Le présent projet a pour objectif de mieux comprendre le comportement du consommateur en ligne dans le secteur de la mode et du prêt-à-porter et de déterminer son intérêt pour le lancement d’un site marchand et/ou d’une application mobile par Pentagone.
Il permettra également de déterminer quelles sont les données les plus pertinentes que l’entreprise est susceptible d’utiliser pour déterminer si sa stratégie en ligne est efficace.
Finalement, il offrira des pistes de réflexion à l’entreprise sur les outils à privilégier pour communiquer en ligne avec ses consommateurs et les emmener sur leur site internet dont le design pourra être optimisé.

Addressing obstetric violence in Brazil: Multi-stakeholder perspectives, empowerment, and care in the context of Brazil’s National Humanization of Labour and Childbirth Policy (Niteroi)

This research will explore the vision of professionals, women, partners, and decision –makers about the implementation of the Brazil national policy of humanization of childbirth. This research will review the specific roles of health promoters, nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists and midwives in different health care organizations to educate women about their rights during the pregnancy, child delivery and post-partum. The research will promote a debate about the needed changes to improve the quality of care for those women and the collective level of awareness about the obstetric violence against women at their most vulnerable condition.

Soutenir les restaurateurs et le développement de la gastronomie québécoise par la recherche : GastronomiQc Lab

La restauration est une industrie importante du domaine alimentaire tant du point de vue économique (un repas sur trois est pris au restaurant) que culturel (promotion des saveurs locales et des nouvelles tendances). Or, l’industrie de la restauration, et plus particulièrement celle de la restauration indépendante, est très compétitive et fait face à de nombreux défis. L’objectif de ce projet est de soutenir par la recherche les restaurateurs québécois et le développement de la gastronomie. Pour ce faire, trois thèmes seront abordés : le portrait actuel de la restauration indépendante au Québec, les pertes alimentaires en restauration et leur valorisation, et les produits comestibles sauvages en territoires nordiques. Ensemble, ces trois projets apporteront des pistes de solutions innovantes en support à l’essor de cette industrie.

Extraction de vocabulaire structure pour I’etablissement d’une politique deretention et de controle de courriels

Le projet consiste :!l extraire, a partir d’un Ires grand vOlume de courriels, un vocabulaire

structure qui pourra etre mis a profit pour I’elaboration d’une politique de retention et de

controle. Plus precisement, des methodes seron! developpees pour I’extraction d’un

ensemble de termes pertinents puis, dans un deuxieme temps, I’ensemble des relations

pertinentes dans lesquelles ces termes sont impliques. Les informations extrai!es seran!

mises en correspondance avec les concepts contenus dans une base de connaissances

existante, permettant un enrichissement du vocabulaire extrait avec toutes les possibililes

d’inferences qui y sont associees.

Improved Industrial Sustainability through Residual Redistribution andRecapture of Value from Underutilized Streams

To maximize usage of residuals and underutilized product streams at Port Hawkesbury Paper (PHP), this investigation is conducted with eco-industrial parks in mind, and a goal of increasing industrial sustainability. The streams investigated could act as a supplement to PHP’s current processes or an external feedstock for a collaborative relationship through waste as a form of currency. Inventory of potential available residuals, streams, and energy sources will be produced and evaluated as well as trial scale operations of potential projects (aquaculture, soil amendments, etc.). Overall the formation of an industrial symbiosis could be created not only locally, but the information gained from this study could act as a guide for other industries globally in the pursuit of industrial sustainability.

Searching for Supernova Neutrinos in the nEXO Experiment

nEXO is a planned rare nuclear decay search in xenon-136. The experiment will tell us whether the neutrino, somewhat like a charge-less and extremely light electron, and its antiparticle are identical. However, nEXO has extremely low backgrounds and thus is sensitive to a lot more than just decays in xenon-136. Core-collapse supernovae are stellar explosions that signify the birth of either a neutron star or black hole. In our galaxy, we predict to have around two per century. When the star collapses onto its core, it emits a huge burst of neutrinos which should be detectable by the nEXO experiment. These neutrinos will give us lots of information on both neutrino and supernova physics, both of which are poorly understood and difficult (rare) to observe. This project aims to identify the expected signals from the supernova neutrinos in nEXO, thereby recording the data for many years to come.

Carbon prepreg filaments for 3D printing high performance parts

There has been an extensive growth in additive manufacturing, 3D printing, over the past couple of years. At the moment, pure polymers are mainly used for manufacturing parts and they yield low strength and stiffness, not suitable for load-bearing products. The use of carbon fiber composites in 3D printing can significantly improve structural properties. Currently, there is no commercial 3D printing head capable of printing with carbon fiber prepreg filaments. A 3D printing head will be custom-built to accept these filaments and produce parts with high strength. If this project is successfully completed, Teijin Carbon can bring high performance materials to the 3D printing market. Canadian companies involved in 3D printing will benefit from this material and can manufacture structural parts to be used across wide range of industries. Aerospace, automotive, oil and gas are some examples.

Model based optimisation of operational level harvest planning and integration with tactical level plans: Towards the improvement of planning process performance

In this project, computer based models will be developed to support operational harvest planning suitable for the use by a large forest products company operating in British Columbia, Canada. The models aims to enhance decision making processes related to equipment/crew allocation, scheduling, transportation and vehicle routing. Findings of this project will have the potential to improve overall decision making in the forest industry, enhance the speed at which information required for decision making becomes available, support companies with robust estimates of consequences of various management decisions at operational and tactical levels, decrease costs and finally improving company’s competitiveness.

New Acoustic Insulation Meta-Material Technology for Aerospace

Sound pressure level in aircraft cabin are similar to a noisy work place. One of the most disturbing noise for passengers is related to the engine fan noise during take-off and approach. This noise is mainly tonal (i.e., at specific frequencies) and in the low frequency range (below 500 Hz) – see figure below. Reducing this noise for the comfort of passengers is an important and challenging issue in aeronautics. One way to reduce cabin noise is to use efficient thermal acoustic insulation blankets between the interior trim panel and the exterior shell. However, conventional acoustic materials (ex.: glass wools, foams) have reached their limits in terms of sound proofing, and non-conventional ones, such as metamaterials, need to be industrialized.