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Identification of RC connection behavior for seismic retrofitting

The project aims at defining a new modeling strategy of retrofitted structures by composite materials. This strategy should be able to take into account externally bonded (EB) fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) that strengthens structural components and to assess their interaction with the overall response of the structure subjected to seismic loading. This new strategy will be calibrated using experimental data coming from an original multi-scale campaign to assess material parameters and to identify the dissipative mechanisms to be included in the numerical strategy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathalie Roy

Student:

Partner:

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Validation d’un test navette adapté (5x5m) à des adolescents en situation d’obésité pédiatrique et de sa reproductibilité pour l’évaluation de la capacité aérobie dans cette population.

Le test de référence afin d’évaluer la capacité aérobie est un test d’effort maximal effectué sous surveillance médicale dans l’enceinte d’un service de médecine du sport. L’accès à ce test étant difficile pour les structures de soins de part son coût et sa complexité de mise en place, des tests de terrain existent afin de mesurer la capacité aérobie des sujets. Les tests de terrain aujourd’hui disponibles montrent une importante fiabilité auprès d’enfant normo-pondérés mais semblent ne pas être adaptés aux contraintes physiologiques et fonctionnelles induites par l’obésité infantile. C’est pourquoi notre projet tend à questionner la validité et reproductibilité d’un nouveau test de terrain (Test Navette adapté : 5 x 5m) pour l’évaluation des capacités aérobies d’enfants et adolescents obèses afin de fournir aux professionnels un test adapté à la population traitée et aux conditions de mise en situation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Eve Mathieu

Student:

Partner:

Université Clermont Auvergne

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Improved pulse pressure approximation and pattern recognition algorithm for prediction of blood pressure-related health issues

Continuous blood pressure (BP) monitor is highly beneficial for detection and prevention of stroke and cardiovascular disease. The most common BP monitor technique still relies on using a cuff that slows the blood flow, which is both uncomfortable and makes continuous monitoring impossible. Furthermore, research has shown that due to the numerous artifacts, the existing cuff-less BP monitoring technologies such as pulse transit time (PTT) and tonometry are not effective. The purpose of this study is to introduce a non-invasive low-cost and continuous BP monitoring technique which is capable of estimating BP from dilation and retraction of the wrist radial artery. The mentioned approach utilizes two small displacement sensors which can be integrated to any wristband or smartwatch. After calibration, the proposed approach may be used for months to estimate blood pressure in an accurate, easy-to-use and low-cost fashion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hilmi Dajani

Student:

Partner:

VitalTracer Ltd (QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Biotechnology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Potentiel d’utilisation du bois d’essences indigènes nordiques imprégné au méthacrylate de méthyle (MMA) pour les boiseries de canots

Les travaux de recherche appliquée visent à évaluer le potentiel du bois imprégné au polymère provenant d’essences indigènes nordiques (région de l’Abitibi) pour les boiseries de canots. L’application visée est les accessoires des canots et non la coque des canots. L’essence majoritairement utilisée par l’industrie du canot est le frêne blanc. Le partenaire désire utiliser une ressource locale, plus facile à obtenir et plus durable que le frêne. Les essences indigènes ne sont pas assez dures (peuplier faix-tremble, épinette-pin-sapin) ou pas assez durables (bouleau blanc) pour cette application. Dans le projet, des pièces de peuplier faux-tremble, de bouleau blanc et d’épinette seront imprégnées au polymère puis caractérisées en termes de propriétés mécaniques et de vieillissement accéléré. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Migneault;Ahmed Koubaa

Student:

Partner:

Abitibi&Co

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Classification of human activities and detection of behavioral anomalies using thermopile sensor and machine learning

Impending increase in senior population in developed countries is expected to overwhelm the health care system carry a significant social and economic cost. Number of solutions, that leverage ambient intelligence, have been proposed to help aging in place. HomeEXCEPT is working on a non-intrusive solution using a temperature sensor. The research will help in identification and classification of human activities, including fall detection. It will also help in uncovering patterns in daily activities of an individual and in identification of deviations from the usual behavior. This will be attained using machine learning and data mining techniques. The effort will improve sensor’s capability and its applicability in providing a comprehensive aide to aging in place.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pawan Lingras

Student:

Partner:

Home Except Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient Machine Learning in a Collaborative Edge-cloud Architecture

With the growing application of learning-based technology in image recognition, speech translation, and other back-end systems like ad advertising, artificial intelligence (AI) has finally moved from research labs to real business. As AI moves closer to reality, it is expected to help us more in more personalized and even critical contexts, like smart home, autonomous car. Traditional learning approaches start to meet new challenges in data collection, resource assumption, latency, since these contexts usually request near real-time interaction and high accuracy to guarantee safety and quality of service, or demand data that may be deemed as private, mostly even in resource-constrained environments. The objective of the proposed research is to examine and eventually improve the performance of artificial intelligence, especially deep learning approaches, in the edge-cloud architecuture. We will investigate the trade-offs among resources, latency, accuracy during the process of applying learning approaches from a system’s perspective. The proposed research can greatly accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence into real-world production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jiangchuan Liu

Student:

Partner:

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Etude biomécanique de la jonction sacro-iliaque par approche hybride numérique et expérimentale

La jonction sacro-iliaque (JSI) est une articulation du bassin ayant des déplacements en translation et rotation très limités, difficiles à mesurer. Des vis traversant la JSI et menant à sa fusion sont utilisées comme dernier recours en cas de douleurs
chroniques. Toutefois, les configurations utilisées varient selon le chirurgien puisqu’il n’y a pas de consensus reconnu. Ce projet a pour but, d’une part, d’améliorer la compréhension biomécanique générale de la JSI et d’autre part, de déterminer les
configurations optimales des vis de fusion en fonction des paramètres du patient. Une première étape du projet consiste à mesurer la mobilité de la JSI sur des bassins cadavériques, avec et sans vis. Ces données seront ensuite combinées à un
modèle numérique qui permettra d’étudier plus de configurations. Cela permettra de mieux comprendre comment les vis influencent la mobilité de la JSI et permettra de déterminer les configurations optimales en fonction des paramètres du patient.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carl-Eric Aubin

Student:

Partner:

Aix-Marseille Université

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Evaluation of three Victorian Human Ecology education curricula

This project will investigate, reflect on, and compare the pedagogical frameworks of human ecology/home economics education in the three Australian education streams: State, Private, and Catholic. It will assess how Victorian human ecological pedagogy incorporates curriculum, and consequently, classroom content in several domains, including HMEC and Indigenous peoples. Additional aspects that will be examined include the training of human ecology educators, their job potential, the demographics of pupils studying human ecology/home economics, and the greater societal outcomes associated with more recent curricula (e.g. health and well-being). Research methods will include document review and semi-formal interviews with key informants associated with human ecology/home economics education in Victoria. I will share my findings with other educators and professional home economists, and those who train human ecology/home economics teachers. I will document my experiences and findings through a final report, which I hope to publish in the International Journal of Home Economics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joyce Slater

Student:

Partner:

Deakin University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exploring factors affecting mothers’ food choices at the start of complementary feeding in children 6-8 months

The proposed community-based research project will explore what factors influence mothers’ food choices when they plan meals for their children 6-8 months old in Faizabad district,Uttar Pradesh. Introducing a variety of soft, semi-solid and solid foods into a child’s diet, at 6-8 months of age, is critical to the child’s growth and development, preventing the onset of malnutrition. The World Health Organization recommends that children aged 6-8 months should eat 2-3 meals with foods from atleast 4 food groups in a day. In UP, the first food in a child’s diet is often a thin gruel of pulses or rice often heavily diluted with water and with small quantities of vegetables added as a relish depending on season and availability. These diets are very low in energy, proteins and vitamins and minerals, and are an important cause of reduced growth and poor immunity in children from 6 months- 2 years of age. The project will explore why mothers choose certain foods for their 6-8 month old children and who are the ‘influencers’ of these food choices in their household […]

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Faculty Supervisor:

Deepa Sankaran

Student:

Partner:

Amity University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Examining the perceived impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax among high consumers in Karnataka, India

The World Health Organization recommends countries adopt a sugary drink tax to curb consumption. My project aims to explore the acceptability of a sugary drink tax among Indian adults who consume sugary drinks. In order to meet this aim, I will spend three months living in Dharwad, India. During this time, I will keep detailed field notes of my experiences and observations relating to the food environment, food patterns, and food security issues. I will conduct interviews in English with 5 adults living in Dharwad who report consuming sugary drinks. The interview will cover topics such as what type of sugary drinks they consume and where they purchase them, what participants think about the consumption of sugary drinks, the purpose of a sugary drink tax, intended outcomes of a tax, acceptability of a tax, and appropriate use of tax revenue, among others. Interviews and field notes will be analyzed qualitatively.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalie Riediger

Student:

Partner:

University of Agricultural Sciences, Dhawad

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Examining the perceived impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Karnataka, India

The World Health Organization recommends countries adopt a sugary drink tax to curb consumption. My project aims to explore the acceptability of a sugary drink tax among Indian university students. In order to meet this aim, I will spend three months living on-campus at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. During this time, I will keep detailed field notes of my experiences and observations relating to the food environment, food patterns, and food security issues. I will conduct interviews in English with 5 adults living in Dharwad who report consuming sugary drinks. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalie Riediger

Student:

Partner:

University of Agricultural Sciences, Dhawad

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Improving Hearing Aid Processing for Live Music

The goal of this project is to improve the processing on hearing aids for music. Currently hearing aids are designed for speech, but for some hearing aid users music is an important part of their lives. A concert where the room acoustics are changed will be used to collect audio samples for testing changes to the hearing aids to improve the quality of live music for hearing aid users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian C Bruce

Student:

Partner:

Unitron Hearing

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

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