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Corcadorca Theatre Company: Case Study in Occupational Folklife.

Although it takes the work of many people to create a theatre performance, most of them do not get recognition for the range of their skills and contributions. The goal of this project is to document the occupational folklife of people who work at the Corcadorca Theatre Company, and to highlight and celebrate the unique occupational skills and techniques of theatre personnel. In carrying out this research, I will document the experiences of theatre workers first-hand through oral history interviews, as well as learn about their work customs and traditions through participant observation. Topics of study include occupational jargon, jokes, customs, traditions, superstitions and work technique. Mitacs Globalink Research Award will allow me to carry out this research project. The ethnographic data will be deposited in and accessible in both universities’ folklore archives. The research results will be presented at conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jillian Gould

Student:

Partner:

University College Cork

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink Research Award

From Data Collection, Maintenance and Analysis to Effective Air Traffic Management

Skyplan Services Ltd. is a company active in the air traffic management domain. The company is interested in expanding their current working application by benefiting from advanced technology to develop an integrated environment and solutions for air traffic management in order to provide better service at the international arena. Students to be involved in this project will build a data repository to host data to be collected, cleaned, built, integrated and processed for knowledge discovery which will guide more focused decision making. A Web-based and a mobile app multilingual communication platform will be developed to help in connecting a variety of data sources and domains. The target is to maintain data privacy by enforcing security in communication. Intelligent data processing and analysis techniques will be employed to benefit the best from data. This includes behavior analysis, trend prediction, etc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reda Alhajj;Jon Rokne

Student:

Partner:

Skyplan

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Implementing a Web-Based Patient Follow-Up Platform into BC Cancer

Increasing cancer diagnoses and advancements in detection and treatment have allowed more patients to survive for longer periods of time. Correspondingly, patients are increasingly reporting side effects that influence quality of life (QOL). This creates demand for more accessible methods of long-term collection of patient reported outcomes (PROs). Due to geographical, time, and financial constraints, post-treatment follow-up may not be convenient or feasible for patients or healthcare providers. This study seeks to evaluate the utility of implementing Equicare’s web-based system. for PRO collection in BC cancer patients with breast cancer. A successfully implemented online system has the potential to improve patient-physician communication and the monitoring of treatment-associated side effects, and will allow Equicare Health Inc. to demonstrate the power of their online platform to a key physician user group at BC Cancer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sara Taylor

Student:

Partner:

Equicare Health

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of novel hydrogel/metal nanoparticles catalytic monoliths via a green hydrothermal process: towards the synthesis of high added value fine chemicals in continuous-flow conditions.

The proposed research project falls within what is called process intensification (PI). PI consists in novel devices and techniques that bring striking changes to chemical engineering processes by significantly decreasing the equipment’s size to production ratio, energy consumption and waste production, which result in smaller, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient technologies. Catalytic nanoparticles, with a high surface-to-volume ratio, are highly considered materials for these types of application. A recent research program in Prof. Nick Virgilio’s group has led to the development of novel hybrid hydrogel/nanoparticles material prepared from melt-processed polymer blends – a scalable process. This material comprises a porous hydrogel monolith with fully interconnected pores, with embedded catalytic nanoparticles. The unique microstructure of our material ensures fast diffusion and reaction rate of chemical compounds, an easy separation process, and the possibility of integration within continuous-flow systems, for the synthesis of high added value chemicals (e.g. pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries). In this specific research project, we will explore and investigate the impacts of hydrothermal conditions, a promising green route for chemistry, on material synthesis and performance. Ultimately, this project will lead to the development of greener high performance materials for fine chemicals synthesis applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nick Virgilio

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Wien

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Nanotechnology; Sustainability & the Environment; Pharmaceuticals

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exploring European response to mental healthcare need of women with insecure immigration status

The war and conflict in the Middle East resulted in a humanitarian crisis. UNHCR estimates that 65.6 million people have been forcibly displaced at the end of 2016. Over one million refugees had arrived in Europe in between 2015 – 16. Canada has resettled a record number of refugees in 2016. Refugees have higher risk of developing mental illness like anxiety, depression and Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder. The effects of war, family separation, displacement and long travel pose more stresses on women, including overlapping with pregnancy, childbirth and caring for children. The scope of this short-term research will be to conduct (1) Literature review of European response to insecure immigrant status women’s mental health crisis (2) A comparison of European response and policies to Canadian and (3) Documenting lessons learned for Canada. The expected outcomes are knowledge sharing and the applicable policy recommendations for Canada. I plan to prepare 2 posters and a final report/paper.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalie Riediger

Student:

Partner:

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Modelling large-scale behaviour of hybrid macro-scale response agents for use in mitigation of marine oil spill impacts

While technologies exist for cleaning up marine oil spills, they become decreasingly effective with increased lag-time between spill and initiation of remediation efforts. Rapid-deploy chemicals could potentially reduce the spreading of marine oil spills, increasing the time available for teams to clean it up. The hybrid spill-treating agents (STAs) under development by BC Research Inc. (BCRI) to herd and gel marine oil spills provide great promise in this area. At the current stage of understanding the large-scale behaviour of STAs is unknown, though bench-scale experiments are promising. This research uses physical testing to determine the spreading characteristics of oil compounds under influence of STAs. This will help BCRI in development and understanding of these chemicals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory A Lawrence

Student:

Partner:

BC Research Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and Gas; Sustainability & the Environment; Ocean Tech

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Policy Optimization in Parameter Space

Model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) has recently demonstrated its great potential in solving difficult intelligent tasks. However, developing a successful RL model requires an extensive model tuning and tremendous training samples. Theoretical analysis of these RL methods, more specifically policy optimization methods, only stay in a simple setting where the learning happens in the policy space. This project attempts to advance the analysis of the policy optimization methods to a more realistic setting in the parameter space. We will mainly focus on the convergence properties of the model and the unification of value and policy in the parameter space. New algorithms in policy optimization are expected to originate from the analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dale Schuurmans

Student:

Partner:

Royal Bank of Canada (Borealis)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Identification of gene expression biomarkers for different biotic stress conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana and canola

Plants, like humans, sometimes get sick because of the activities of pathogens. When crops are diseased, their growth vigor will be severely damaged, leading to tremendous yield loss. To cure plant disease, farmers have been relying on synthetic pesticides for centuries; but the over-use of synthetic pesticides has caused pest resistance and serious environmental issues. To overcome this dilemma, companies like Terramera Inc. have been developing alternative powerful pest-managing products, namely biopesticides, which are eco-friendly bioactive agents derived from natural resources. To further accelerate their product development, the present MITACs project is aimed at identifying a set of gene expression biomarkers to be used as early diagnostic tools to reflect real-time plant health status and to quickly assess the efficacy of biopesticide treatment. These biomarkers will immensely speed up the development of novel agricultural products and bring huge profits to Canadian farmers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuelin Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Terramera Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Étude d’impacts d’une boucle de rétroaction incluant diverses formes d’agents pédagogiques sur l’engagement d’apprenant.es du primaire en mathématiques dans un environnement numérique d’apprentissage

La médiatisation de la formation des élèves ne cesse d’évoluer, les initiatives de formation en ligne sont rapidement devenues incontournables dans les systèmes éducatifs et le numérique offre de nouvelles opportunités d’apprentissage. Depuis près d’une vingtaine d’années, de nombreux chercheurs ont été amenés à étudier diverses formes d’outils associés à l’environnement numérique, qui rendent possible l’organisation de l’enseignement apprentissage de manière alternative. Parmi ces outils, les agents pédagogiques qui sont des « personnages à l’écran permettent, potentiellement, de faciliter l’enseignement aux apprenant.es ». Ces agents peuvent impliquer diverses formes et modalités de rétroactions avec les apprenant.es. Ainsi, le stage envisagé sera mené chez Scolab, une entreprise dont le coeur des activités est le développement de plateformes d’apprentissage et qui priorise la recherche pour valider de nouvelles fonctionnalités impliquant le recours à un agent pédagogique. Le stage vise globalement à évaluer l’efficacité de la rétroaction de l’agent pédagogique développé.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Charland;Stéphane Cyr

Student:

Partner:

Scolab

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Materials Selection & Design Strategies for Impact Resistance in Hand Protection

The needs for protective equipment are many, and range from use at home to many industrial sectors, such as: construction, mechanics, forestry, oil and gas, health, and manufacturing. There are many reasons to wear protective equipment: to provide improved grip and resistance to chemical exposure, pathogens, heat, cold, abrasion, punctures, cuts, crushing, and impact. In this research, we will focus on gaining detailed scientific and ergonomic understanding of how to design materials and structures to be used on the back of the hand to improve protection from mechanical impacts. The research will involve baseline testing of existing materials, state-of-the-art materials, and investigate materials selection techniques to identify and explore new strategies for choosing materials that provide increase energy absorption for impact events. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Nychka;Tim Antoniuk

Student:

Partner:

Superior Glove

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Mortality Rate Modeling: A study of the effectiveness of longevity and mortality linked financial derivatives as hedging instruments in a pension risk management strategy

Private pension plan sponsors wishing to manage their longevity risk transfer it to insurers through annuity contracts or bespoke longevity swap arrangements. They increasingly rely on such contracts to reduce their risk exposure. For example, annuity purchase activity from Canadian private pension plans expanded from $1 billion in 2012 to almost $2.7 billion in 2016 (Willis Towers Watson (2017)). This trend is expected to accelerate as interest rates increase, since it will improve the financial position of defined benefit pension plans and at the same time it will lower the costs of buying annuities. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Belanger

Student:

Partner:

Addenda Capital (Montréal, QC);Canadian Institute of Actuaries

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Technology; Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Setting risk margin for claims and premium liabilities in accordance with IFRS 17

This proposal deals with the pricing and risk management considerations of a property and casualty (P&C) insurance company. These considerations are within the context of a new accounting standard called IFRS 17, in which liabilities in insurance contracts will be measured prior to and during the exposure periods. We propose an implementable and accurate methodology, which is also compliant with the new standard in generating risk measures and margin adjustments. Such a new methodology will focus on the characterisation of the distribution of losses, and will be benchmarked with the traditional collective risk model. The main objective is to see to it that contract losses are tracked down properly and the company’s income statement incorporates them legitimately; thus a more theoretically valid measurement of revenue is obtained. Case studies will be developed to demonstrate certain challenges associated with the IFRS 17 and how they could be possibly overcome in practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rogemar Mamon

Student:

Partner:

J. S. Cheng & Partners Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

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