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Experimental and numerical investigation on force-based and performance-based seismic design of bridges

Bridge infrastructure constitutes a substantial portion of national wealth of Canada, whose performance during earthquake events has a significant impact on the public safety. This study focuses on investigating the force-based and performance-based seismic design of bridges specified in the latest version of Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code 2014. Both experimental and numerical studies will be conducted, and design guidelines will be recommended. The project will provide valuable insight into performance-based seismic design of bridges, which is helpful for its mass scale application in Canada. McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. is a renowned Canadian company for offering solutions to improving communities, transportation networks and resource industries, where particularly, it has gained rich practical experience in design and erection engineering of bridges. The collaboration will place McElhanney at the forefront of new technologies and development in infrastructure systems and enable it to become a world leader in advanced seismic design of bridges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahria Alam

Student:

Partner:

McElhanney Consulting Services LTD

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Numerical Simulation of Turbulence and In-Situ Tidal Turbine Performance in Minas Passage

Turbulence is a significant issue at every site being considered for instream tidal energy development. This turbulent flow creates fluctuating forces on tidal turbine blades and support structures, reducing turbine performance and shortening turbine lifespan. Thus, improving and validating numerical models of turbulence and turbine operation in turbulent flow is necessary to better predict device operation and, thus, develop efficient and financially viable tidal energy projects. This project will extend existing numerical models to predict the impact of turbulence in Minas Passage on tidal turbine performance with the long-term goal of reducing the overall cost of energy production for the region. Numerical simulations will rely on EXN/Aero software developed and commercialized by Envenio, providing an opportunity to expand software capability and visibility in the environmental modelling sector.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tiger Jeans

Student:

Partner:

Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia;Envenio Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing greenhouse design for Eco-industrial networks

The aim of this collaboration is to investigate best practices and innovative strategies for the design of food production systems for cold-weather climates that can be integrated into Eco-industrial networks by using available waste energy and additional by-products as part of the operational function. Using a “sustainable design” and biomimicry lens, the intention is to develop key design criteria necessary for evaluating potential design components, and then use these criteria support the preliminary design of a low-carbon, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable indoor food production system.
Working closely with scholars and researchers in Delft University’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, the applicant will be able to access new insights and perspective in support of her research. A particular emphasis will be placed on design parameters linked to energy efficiency and minimizing GHG emissions. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Adams

Student:

Partner:

Delft University of Technology

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A study of overlap and causality between chronic pain and depression

Given the starting premise, depression and chronic pain are often manifest in the same patients, I intend to investigate genetic and brain structural commonalities between these two conditions. This work would have two components: genetic association analysis and brain imaging. First, I would take the list of genetic variants previously associated with chronic pain conditions and run analysis on them to determine whether they are associated with depression in patients at the West China Hospital (host institution). Second, I would observe brain imaging done on the same patients to learn the procedure and analysis of output data. Lastly, I would compile a list of genetic variants that are associated with both chronic pain conditions and depression as well as brain regions that differ in both chronic pain patients and depression patients from healthy controls. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luda Diatchenko

Student:

Partner:

Sichuan University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of a subject-specyfic musculoskeletal shoulder model

Musculoskeletal models are an interesting avenue for human movement analysis since they allows us to noninvasively estimate muscles forces and internal joint loads. Consequently, they are becoming also more important in the clinical practice. So far our musculoskeletal shoulder model can perform only simple movements like abduction and flexion. However, it is in the great interest of clinicians to restore correct movements in everyday life of patients. Thus, the next step is to apply the activities of daily living into the model. It will be implemented using previously collected data from intracortical bone pins. As a gold standard, this dataset is highly accurate and allows us to obtain the joint kinematics without soft tissue artefacts. Model will be scale based on the CT-scals to match the patient specific geometry. To validate the model performance the resulting glenohumeral translation will be compared between model prediction and in-vivo measurements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicola Hagemeister

Student:

Partner:

Aalborg University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The Morphology of Non-canonical Imperfect Subjunctives in Spanish

The project addresses a theoretical issue that arises due to somewhat ‘unexpected’ uses of the imperfect subjunctive verbal form, quisiera, in Spanish. In the descriptive linguistic literature, it is noted that, quisiera, can be used for a conditional (e.g., I would do) or past perfect (e.g., I had done) meaning depending on the variety of Spanish spoken; these meanings would typically be expressed by querría and había querido, respectively. While this fact is well accounted for in the descriptive literature, current morphological theory has paid relatively little attention to how to tie two different forms to the same meaning; this represent a significant gap in the current literature. Therefore, my research fills a gap in the linguistic literature by giving a formal analysis to these previously unaddressed Spanish data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriela Alboiu

Student:

Partner:

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

An examination of physical activity discussions in mental health care

It is well known that physical activity can confer many health benefits, both physically and mentally. However, individuals with serious mental illness are less active than the general population. This is particularly troubling as this population tends to have many physical health co-morbidities such as metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. It is logical that primary care clinicians could be key messengers about physical activity (PA) to this population, as they tend to have longstanding relationships with patients, and thus patients view the practitioners with a great deal of trust and respect. However, little is known about how much clinicians engage in PA discussions with their patients. As such, this proposed project aims to analyze anonymized electronic patient databases at a major mental health trust in the UK, to identify how often and in which contexts clinicians discuss PA with their patients. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Sabiston

Student:

Partner:

King's College London

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Flaxseed fractionation for product development and process scale-up.

Flaxseed possesses many useful and valuable components, some in high concentration (oil, protein and fibre) and some as minor components (lignan, orbitides), as well as anti-nutrients such as cyanogenic glycosides and cadmium, which all need to be monitored during development and final production. Integrating or substituting these flaxseed components into various established foods, or generating new products, expands the marketability of the final products and expands the market potential of flaxseed as a high value Canadian crop: egg substitute, plant protein, gluten-free products, high fibre health products, gum substitution for clean label products, to name but a few potentialities. With each component, the value of the flaxseed crop increases, as does the quality of the individual products and the quality of the product testing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Tyler

Student:

Partner:

Prairie Tide

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Aquaculture and Fishing; Other

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Digital speech analysis: prediction and differential diagnosis of PTSD symptoms and severity

Occupational stress conveys risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In PTSD, early diagnosis and early treatment interventions are advantageous for positive outcomes.
We will develop novel technology for early diagnosis of and prediction of vulnerability to PTSD in military and first responder personnel.
Based on our existing collaboration on identification of symptoms and prediction of severity of mental illness, with IBM Alberta CAS and IBM TJ Watson Research in New York, we will develop digital analysis for diagnosing PTSD from speech, with subjects from AHS Operational Stress Injury Clinics in the Edmonton Zone.
Published evidence and preliminary results from the IBM TJ Watson group have demonstrated the potential success of this approach. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Russell Greiner;Andrew Greenshaw;Andy Greenshaw

Student:

Partner:

IBM Canada Ltd (Edmonton, AB);IBM Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture; Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Gestion des risques de délais dans la confection d’horaire de travaux à partir de données

Développer un modèle prédictif des durées moyennes de travaux et du potentiel de dépassement de ces durées afin de permettre la gestion du risque dépassement des échéanciers dans la confection d’horaire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Erick Delage

Student:

Partner:

Énergir

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Mining; Transportation and warehousing; Utilities; Wholesale trade

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of New Gelation Agents

This project involves the synthesis, characterization and evaluation of new low-molecular weight gelators for cleaning up oil spills. First responders to oil spills can add these gelators to the oil / water mixture to prevent spreading of the oil before additional resources are available to clean up the spill. This project will involve collaboration with BCResearch, a company located in the Lower Mainland of BC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark MacLachlan

Student:

Partner:

BC Research Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Nanotechnology; Natural Resources; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

The effect of phyto-cannabinoids on osteoclast differentiation and function

The recent legalization of marijuana in Canada opens the opportunity to study in detail the effects of cannabinoids on human physiology. This academic-industry initiative will combine resources to isolate compounds from cannabinoids to study their effects on bone cells. Specifically it will examine the effects of cannabinoid compounds on how the destructive osteoclasts form and act upon the bone in vitro. This cell culture work will pave the way for future clinical studies. Bone-wasting disorders like osteoporosis are a major economic burden and inflict a large population of the elderly. Exploiting natural compounds, like cannabinoids, to treat diseases would have a major impact on the health of Canadians.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rene Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Lupos (Canada) Biotechnology Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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