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PCM-to-air integrated heat exchangers

With recent high energy consumption rates, the awareness has been increased for thermal energy storage systems to reducing cooling loads. Referring to literature potentials and limitations, the research hypothesis can be formulated as ‘Developing a free cooling system of phase change material (PCM)-to-air heat exchanger, utilizing both convection and radiation heat transfer modes, can maintain the indoor thermal comfort under hot climatic conditions’. The scientific contribution of the research is developing a generalized numerical model for the heat exchanger which can enable the application of the system for free cooling designs as well as for improving the thermal properties of supplied air to HVAC units, and thus, reducing the energy consumption for active cooling systems. So, the importance of this research could be magnified to reduce energy consumption and improve indoor thermal conditions. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fariborz Haghighat

Student:

Partner:

Université de Lyon (Lyon, France)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Green/Alternative Energy; Sustainability & the Environment; Construction

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of SemiosGUARD biopesticide product

Chemical pesticides are often highly toxic and non-discriminatory substances. SemiosBIO is developing new pheromone-based bed bug control product for indoor use as a safe, sustainable and targeted control with negligible toxicity to humans and other organisms. This current project involves an understanding of this technology to determine the best suitable market research technique(s) to incorporate the customer needs (e.g. hotels, travelers) into the on-going product development process. This will also entail getting buy-in from the collaborators. At the end of the project, the intern will be required to summarize the results of the project, the success of the techniques chosen and future recommendations in order to assist the strategic development of the pheromone-based product SemiosGUARD.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colleen Collins

Student:

Partner:

SemiosBio Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

La damnation de la mémoire dans les écrits historiques de Suétone

Suétone fut le biographe des Césars. Ses écrits historiques dressent un portrait personnel et unique de chacun des Julio-Claudiens et des empereurs qui leur succédèrent. Certains Julio-Claudiens, tel que Caligula et Néron, ont une réputation sulfureuse, en partie pour deux raisons. Les deux ont été frappés de la damnation de la mémoire (une action politique ordonnée par le sénat qui légalise la destruction de leurs représentations) et les deux ont aussi été décrits par la plume sans pitié de Suétone. Ce chevalier proche du pouvoir impérial écrivit ses biographies à une époque où les Julio-Claudiens n’avaient plus les faveurs du public ni des politiques. Mon projet de recherche espère mettre au jour les mécanismes de la damnation de la mémoire afin de mesurer ses impacts autant sur l’iconographie impériale que sur la postérité biographique des maîtres de Rome.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Luc Bonnaud

Student:

Partner:

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Commercial Mortgage Backed Security Sensitivity Analysis-Part 2

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities have traditionally been an extremely illiquid and inefficiently priced instruments. Our model, whether implemented through direct portfolio optimization services for clients or through a money management business, will help make this market more efficient and liquid. In particular, using the output of the model, we are able to advise our clients to engage in transactions for any CMBS bond in existence, thus providing liquidity to the market and improving the market pricing, especially for smaller and less liquid bonds. Thus, even though our business is very small compared to the CMBS market, our valuation service can have a substantial impact on improving the efficiency of the CMBS market as a whole.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Blazenko

Student:

Partner:

Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Campus);Pavlov Consulting lnc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Municipal inclusion and human rights

Pivot Legal Society seeks to improve the lives and the health of people who are homeless, use drugs, and/or engage in sex work through law and policy reform. Beginning in 2017 Pivot begun a large scale project to expand its knowledge base and networks with the goal of creating inclusive communities and promoting respect for human rights across British Columbia. Pivot now seeks to develop a body of analysis and export reports concerning the intersection of human rights of marginalized populations and municipal governance. Pivot has identified key areas of analysis in areas of: Zoning bylaw making, implementation and appeal; low-income housing placement; and provision of medical services. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas Blomley

Student:

Partner:

Pivot Legal Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Improving Concrete Sustainability and Durability by Optimization of Total Aggregate Gradations

To reduce the impact on natural resources and extend the lifetime of existing quarries, this research will attempt to reduce the large quantities of quarried rock that are currently wasted for simply not meeting current aggregate grading requirements in standard construction specifications, even though some of those wasted size fractions would improve the quality and sustainability of concrete. By optimizing aggregate particle packing, more workable and durable concretes can be produced while also reducing cement contents and therefore carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Doug Hooton

Student:

Partner:

Holcim (Canada) Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Model development for membership analytics

This project will lay a foundation for Interior Savings Credit Union to better serve their membership by providing them with the means to discover significant membership groups within their large and complex database. This will be done through a combination of developing novel statistical techniques to discover the groups and writing the computer code needed to enact those techniques. We expect the project to benefit Interior Savings and its members by enhancing the credit union’s ability to target growth opportunities. We also expect benefits the broader Canadian scientific community by eventually releasing the statistical techniques through open source software and manuscripts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey L Andrews

Student:

Partner:

Interior Savings Credit Union

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Interacting effects of contaminants and climate change on the health of the western Arctic beluga whales

The Arctic environment is changing rapidly, and this change may influence the health of organisms that live there, such as belugas. In periods of low sea ice extent, belugas in the Beaufort Sea showed altered expression genes involved in various aspects of health. Further, polychlorinated biphenyls, contaminants of concern, were also associated with altered gene expression. These results indicate that climate change and contaminants are playing a role in the health of beluga whales. However, these data were collected over a small time-frame and therefore observations must be extended in order to draw conclusions. Further, the combined impacts of climate change and contaminants have not been explored. We will utilize both novel and existing techniques to determine the impacts of these two stressors on beluga health in order to shed some light on the long-term trend of western Arctic beluga health in a changing Arctic environment and contribute to Ocean Wise’s conservation and research efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Richards

Student:

Partner:

Ocean Wise

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Education; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis and Integration of Real-Time Mobility Data for the Cascadia Corridor

In order to design and operate more efficient urban transport infrastructure networks along the Cascadia Corridor, improved spatial and temporal data is required to understand travel activity patterns. The integration and comparative analysis of new data sources including: electronic transit ticketing (Vancouver Compass Card, Seattle Orca Card), geospatially tagged social media, smartphone travel diaries, and road based sensor networks can now be used to improve data collection, resolution and reliability.
This research will integrate various citizen generated (social media, smartphones) and infrastructure sensor-based (real-time vehicle counts, automated traffic signals) mobility data sources to construct high resolution spatial and temporal travel demand profiles to improve calibration and estimation of agent-based simulation models. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martino Tran

Student:

Partner:

Microsoft Canada;Microsoft Canada Development Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Information and Communications Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Eastside Works: Information System Support and Evaluation

EMBERS Eastside Works (EW) is a new low barrier employment centre in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. EW helps people in the Downtown Eastside make connections to the world of work, earn income, and improve their livelihoods. The proposed research will work with EW to develop a database and information system that fits their needs, while informing a larger UBC research study on individual’s economic activity and how it affects their health and well-being in the downtown eastside.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lindsey Richardson

Student:

Partner:

EMBERS Eastside Works

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Context-Aware Advertising Language Modeling with Deep Learning for Internet Ads

Digital advertising is a rapidly growing industry, commonly seen on Facebook and Google. However, most people who start promoting their business with Internet Ads are not professional and experienced marketers. They need help to design and launch ads campaign, especially on writing ads copies. Meanwhile, people have started to embrace AI technologies in the industry more than ever before. In this project, I propose to bring the state-of-the-art AI technology into the partner company’s products. I will train deep learning neural networks with Tensorflow to learn and write ads copies. Moreover, I will try to implement the latest research, Generative Adversarial Network, to improve the learning capability of the neural networks. This project will enable the partner organization to launch the new product in this industry and take the advantage in the growing competition.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yvonne Coady

Student:

Partner:

Digitoria Media Limited

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Making scholarship more practice and policy relevant: Analysis of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies’ peer review process and its implications

This project examines the peer review process of a leading Canadian academic journal focused on international development, with the goal to better understand how research knowledge is made accessible and relevant – or not – for policy makers and practitioners. The intern will analyze systematically the texts of submitted articles, comments provided by the scholars asked to evaluate these articles, journal editorial guidelines and the revisions the authors undertake, for evidence of efforts to make research accessible and relevant. He/she will also interview a subset of authors and reviewers for their views on this process. The quantitative and qualitative data collected will suggest new ways this journal and others might encourage high standards of scholarship as well as relevance for policy and practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elizabeth C Cooper

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Association for the Study of International Development

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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