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Évaluation d’impact en santé intégrée aux procédures d’aménagement du territoire: guide d’aide à la décision

Plusieurs municipalités dans la région de Québec visent l’innovation des pratiques pour construire des quartiers sécuritaires favorisant les saines habitudes de vie. Parallèlement, l’OSBL Vivre en Ville veut informer/sensibiliser les décideurs aux impacts de leurs décisions sur la qualité de vie citoyenne. L’objectif du projet proposé est d’intégrer l’Évaluation d’Impact sur la Santé (EIS) aux procédures d’aménagement du territoire dans la région de Québec pour développer des projets favorables à la santé et à la sécurité. Les retombées attendues sont : 1) d’analyser les impacts et retombées des EIS effectuées depuis 2013 sur les traumatismes (p. ex. accidents), les déterminants sociaux de la santé (p. ex. cohésion sociale), l’environnement (p. ex. qualité de l’air) et la prise de décision; 2) de développer un guide destiné aux municipalités et entrepreneurs immobiliers, afin de faciliter l’intégration, des considérations de santé dans les projets en aménagement et d’identifier, pour les personnes en situation de handicap, les éléments liés à l’accessibilité universelle à considérer en EIS. Le développement d’une expertise en EIS dans la région de Québec sera soumis à l’« International Observatory of Mayors on Living Together» pour échanger des expériences urbaines favorisant la création de milieux de vie sécuritaires et en santé.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Lebel

Student:

Partner:

Vivre en Ville

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Elevate

Designing Soft+Stiff Haptic Interactions with Opensource Authoring Toolkits – Year two

Our sense of touch is vital to most daily activities we engage in, but is underused by most existing computing devices. Though haptics is an active research field, the main outcomes of three decades of research are limited to cost-effective vibrotactile feedback (as in mobile phones) or expensive force-feedback devices (mainly for surgical operation simulation). Software frameworks for haptics offer comprehensive haptics and physics simulation capabilities, however require expert engineering and software development skills. Haply Robotics offers a cost-effective force-feedback hardware toolkit. The Haply development environment targets designers and students, however its expressivity in haptics and physics simulations is more limited. There is still a huge potential for haptic applications to unleash creativity and expressivity: improving communication (as in information visualization) and interpretation (as in digital musical instrument design). Recent advances in soft robotics offer opportunities to develop soft haptics applications with greater degrees of freedom.
We will create a second generation Haply toolkit for soft haptics building upon the recent advances in soft robotics. We will create an authoring tool that support novices and experts (in design, development and engineering) compatible with both toolkit generations. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcelo Wanderley

Student:

Partner:

Haply

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Designing Soft+Stiff Haptic Interactions with Opensource Authoring Toolkits

Our sense of touch is vital to most daily activities we engage in, but is underused by most existing computing devices. Though haptics is an active research field, the main outcomes of three decades of research are limited to cost-effective vibrotactile feedback (as in mobile phones) or expensive force-feedback devices (mainly for surgical operation simulation). Software frameworks for haptics offer comprehensive haptics and physics simulation capabilities, however require expert engineering and software development skills. Haply Robotics offers a cost-effective force-feedback hardware toolkit. The Haply development environment targets designers and students, however its expressivity in haptics and physics simulations is more limited. There is still a huge potential for haptic applications to unleash creativity and expressivity: improving communication (as in information visualization) and interpretation (as in digital musical instrument design). Recent advances in soft robotics offer opportunities to develop soft haptics applications with greater degrees of freedom.
We will create a second generation Haply toolkit for soft haptics building upon the recent advances in soft robotics. We will create an authoring tool that support novices and experts (in design, development and engineering) compatible with both toolkit generations. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcelo Wanderley

Student:

Partner:

Haply

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Improving energy system planning solutions by accounting for inherent uncertainties through robust optimization – Year two

More and more distributed energy resources (smart loads, self-generation, electric vehicles, etc.) are installed directly at the customers. This causes fluctuations in the distribution network that can reverse the power flow or increase the cold pick-up effect. The infrastructures in place have not been designed for this new reality and they must be adapted accordingly, and ideally, at minimum costs. Herein, we will develop a new methodology to optimize such networks in presence of local renewable energy producers (new control device location, generation type limitations, nominal power, battery storage eventually). To accomplish this, we will extend the mesh-adaptive direct search algorithm (MADS) to perform robust optimization on high-dimensional and time-consuming models with inherent uncertainties and apply it to the present problem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Le Digabel

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Elevate

Improving energy system planning solutions by accounting for inherent uncertainties through robust optimization

More and more distributed energy resources (smart loads, self-generation, electric vehicles, etc.) are installed directly at the customers. This causes fluctuations in the distribution network that can reverse the power flow or increase the cold pick-up effect. The infrastructures in place have not been designed for this new reality and they must be adapted accordingly, and ideally, at minimum costs. Herein, we will develop a new methodology to optimize such networks in presence of local renewable energy producers (new control device location, generation type limitations, nominal power, battery storage eventually). To accomplish this, we will extend the mesh-adaptive direct search algorithm (MADS) to perform robust optimization on high-dimensional and time-consuming models with inherent uncertainties and apply it to the present problem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Le Digabel

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Elevate

Établissement de liens entre les changements climatiques anticipés et la classification écologique d’une portion de la forêt boréale et tempérée de l’Ouest du Québec – Year two

Cette demande porte sur les changements de végétation anticipés sous l’effet des changements climatiques, à la jonction entre le domaine de la sapinière à bouleau jaune (forêt tempérée) et celui de la sapinière à bouleau blanc (forêt boréale) (Figures 1 et 2). Nous quantifierons les différences entre le climat actuel et celui qui prévaudra dans le futur (stress climatique) dans les 4 régions écologiques à l’étude. Les régions écologiques actuelles (ex. 5b) seront mises en relation avec les régions où le climat estimé sous l’effet des changements climatiques est actuellement observé (ex. 3b) (analogues climatiques). Afin de mieux comprendre les changements de végétation susceptibles de se produire sous l’effet du climat (2070-2100), nous caractériserons la dynamique forestière contemporaine des végétations potentielles du territoire d’étude, à l’exemple de la sapinière à bouleau blanc (Figure 3). Nous poserons l’hypothèse que les végétations potentielles de la forêt tempérée, notamment les érablières nordiques, pourraient se déplacer vers la forêt boréale. Ces données empiriques seront ensuite utilisées afin d’interpréter les changements de couvert forestier simulés à partir de trois types de modélisation. Le projet permettra au partenaire (Eacom) d’initier des discussions sur les liens entre les changements climatiques estimés et les stratégies d’aménagement à développer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron

Student:

Partner:

EACOM Timber Corporation (QC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Forestry; Natural Resources

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Elevate

Établissement de liens entre les changements climatiques anticipés et la classification écologique d’une portion de la forêt boréale et tempérée de l’Ouest du Québec

Cette demande porte sur les changements de végétation anticipés sous l’effet des changements climatiques, à la jonction entre le domaine de la sapinière à bouleau jaune (forêt tempérée) et celui de la sapinière à bouleau blanc (forêt boréale) (Figures 1 et 2). Nous quantifierons les différences entre le climat actuel et celui qui prévaudra dans le futur (stress climatique) dans les 4 régions écologiques à l’étude. Les régions écologiques actuelles (ex. 5b) seront mises en relation avec les régions où le climat estimé sous l’effet des changements climatiques est actuellement observé (ex. 3b) (analogues climatiques). Afin de mieux comprendre les changements de végétation susceptibles de se produire sous l’effet du climat (2070-2100), nous caractériserons la dynamique forestière contemporaine des végétations potentielles du territoire d’étude, à l’exemple de la sapinière à bouleau blanc (Figure 3). Nous poserons l’hypothèse que les végétations potentielles de la forêt tempérée, notamment les érablières nordiques, pourraient se déplacer vers la forêt boréale. Ces données empiriques seront ensuite utilisées afin d’interpréter les changements de couvert forestier simulés à partir de trois types de modélisation. Le projet permettra au partenaire (Eacom) d’initier des discussions sur les liens entre les changements climatiques estimés et les stratégies d’aménagement à développer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron

Student:

Partner:

EACOM Timber Corporation (QC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Forestry

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Elevate

Towards Clinical Use of Whole Genome Sequencing based Tests in a Clinical Setting – Year two

Using genomics in clinical care has the potential to treat patients more efficiently. There have been a number of recent discoveries of genomic assays that can guide treatment. However, most genomic data is generated in a research setting and useful health data only in a clinical setting. Translating potential genomic research into a clinical setting as well as bringing clinical data into a research setting faces significant challenges. One challenge is technical: genomic tests often take days to run and are thus not efficient enough for a clinical use. Another challenge is the public perception: because genomic data is very private, the patient’s privacy needs to be ensured and the public opinion about this has to be respected. A final challenge is logistic: how can genomic data be linked into clinical records when the data is generated at different sites and different organizations have to be involved.
We propose to address these challenges. We will gather best practices and key characteristics of already successfully established genomic projects that cooperate with clinical sites. We will identify one or two clinical sites within Ontario that are positioned to implement genomic tests and start to integrate them. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Quaid Morris

Student:

Partner:

Vector Institute;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Towards Clinical Use of Whole Genome Sequencing based Tests in a Clinical Setting

Using genomics in clinical care has the potential to treat patients more efficiently. There have been a number of recent discoveries of genomic assays that can guide treatment. However, most genomic data is generated in a research setting and useful health data only in a clinical setting. Translating potential genomic research into a clinical setting as well as bringing clinical data into a research setting faces significant challenges. One challenge is technical: genomic tests often take days to run and are thus not efficient enough for a clinical use. Another challenge is the public perception: because genomic data is very private, the patient’s privacy needs to be ensured and the public opinion about this has to be respected. A final challenge is logistic: how can genomic data be linked into clinical records when the data is generated at different sites and different organizations have to be involved.
We propose to address these challenges. We will gather best practices and key characteristics of already successfully established genomic projects that cooperate with clinical sites. We will identify one or two clinical sites within Ontario that are positioned to implement genomic tests and start to integrate them. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Quaid Morris

Student:

Partner:

Vector Institute;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Efficacy and insect resistance management of new insecticidal proteins targeting western bean cutworm in Ontario, Canada – Year two

Western bean cutworm (WBC) is the most important corn pest in Ontario and lack of control can reduce grain yield and quality due to insect feeding and mycotoxin contamination. Unlike other primary corn pests, WBC are not controlled by most transgenic corn expressing Bt proteins. Monsanto has developed new insecticidal proteins to which WBC are susceptible according to preliminary research. To support long-term use of these promising management tools, this project aims to generate information necessary to develop an insect resistance management (IRM) plan. Life history parameters for WBC with and without exposure to these proteins will be determined using standard and novel bioassay techniques. Novel bioassay techniques using relevant corn tissues typically encountered by key WBC life stages in the field will be used to determine WBC susceptibility to realistic plant expression levels. Field experiments will be conducted to determine the efficacy of new proteins against WBC in Ontario and the optimal transgenic events for expression in commercial corn hybrids. Lastly, field experiments will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy and durability of proposed IRM strategies for new insecticidal proteins. The ultimate goal of this research is to investigate new, durable management options for WBC in Ontario.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arthur Schaafsma

Student:

Partner:

University of Guelph;Bayer CropScience Canada (ON);Monsanto Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Efficacy and insect resistance management of new insecticidal proteins targeting western bean cutworm in Ontario, Canada

Western bean cutworm (WBC) is the most important corn pest in Ontario and lack of control can reduce grain yield and quality due to insect feeding and mycotoxin contamination. Unlike other primary corn pests, WBC are not controlled by most transgenic corn expressing Bt proteins. Monsanto has developed new insecticidal proteins to which WBC are susceptible according to preliminary research. To support long-term use of these promising management tools, this project aims to generate information necessary to develop an insect resistance management (IRM) plan. Life history parameters for WBC with and without exposure to these proteins will be determined using standard and novel bioassay techniques. Novel bioassay techniques using relevant corn tissues typically encountered by key WBC life stages in the field will be used to determine WBC susceptibility to realistic plant expression levels. Field experiments will be conducted to determine the efficacy of new proteins against WBC in Ontario and the optimal transgenic events for expression in commercial corn hybrids. Lastly, field experiments will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy and durability of proposed IRM strategies for new insecticidal proteins. The ultimate goal of this research is to investigate new, durable management options for WBC in Ontario.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arthur Schaafsma

Student:

Partner:

Monsanto Canada Inc;University of Guelph

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Combining data science and wearable technology for early health risk detection

It has been well established that if human diseases can be diagnosed early, the prognosis and future quality of life is much improved. With advancements in computing technology in both the hardware (e.g. smaller, lighter, better batteries) and software (i.e. improved artificial intelligence), health systems are entering a renaissance when wearable technology and data science are being applied to clinical diagnostics. The fellowship’s objective is two-fold in which the first is to assess the validity and durability of Ultimate Sensor System’s wearable technology, and secondly, apply their wearable technology to clinical health applications including early health risk detection through the use of data science methods. Phase 1 will consist of reliability, validity, and durability testing of the wireless system while Phase 2 will apply machine learning methods to identify neuromotor diseases (e.g. Parkinson’s disease) and predict future cases. This portable ehealth system will offer Canadians an early detection system that has incredible potential, particularly for remote communities who have difficulties coordinating continual health professional services. By doing so, Ultimate Sensor Systems (industry partner) will directly benefit from this collaboration as they will become global leaders in data science/ehealth systems, which entices new customers and increases their global market share.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Graham

Student:

Partner:

Ultimate Sensor Systems;University of Ottawa

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Elevate

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