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The politics of state-facilitated gentrification in post-socialist China: ideological domination, consumerism and exclusionary redevelopment

Using the case of Chengdu, this research is about neighbourhood redevelopment and residential relocation in post-reform cities of China. In this project, the key process is defined as state-facilitated, new-build gentrification. The thesis attempts to understand why politicaleconomic actors initiate gentrification in the inner city, how consensus building is achieved,
conflicts are mediated, and what are the social outcomes for different social groups. It intends to reveal how state intervention renders a process of gentrification seemingly legitimate and consensual between the state and the society through its ideological influence on residents, and how the outcomes of gentrification mask an essential process of marginalization of subaltern groupings from the housing system in the inner city. Empirically, the project will investigate the
decision-making processes in gentrification and the experiences of residents engaged within gentrification and their life chances before and after resettlement or displacement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Ley

Student:

Partner:

Southwest Jiaotong University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exome Annotator: Developing a system biology approach to genome annotation for disease risk assessment

Understanding the underlying factors that cause inherited diseases to develop is an important step in improving the health status of individuals, and identifying effective prevention and control measures. This project aims to apply fundamental knowledge of genetics, genome sequence analysis, modeling and simulations, and bio-informatics to uncover the relationship between these factors and assess the risk of such diseases. This understanding will help design health policy and pharmacological measures that reduce the risk of inherited diseases, and could potentially interrupt the ongoing cycle of such diseases. The project will be undertaken within an academic-industry partnership environment, and therefore provides significant benefits for interns to benefit from interdisciplinary collaborations with applications to individual and population health. Furthermore, this project will result in development of advanced genome annotation software required for the analysis of GeneYouIn’s clients’ genomes – it is critical to have such tools to scale up genome analysis. The HQP recruited and trained during this project will have intimate knowledge and understanding of GeneYouIn’s genome analysis approach, IT systems and corporate culture thus will be considered as to candidates for future full time employment at GeneYouIn.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seyed Moghadas

Student:

Partner:

GeneYouIn

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Detection of salivary insulin following low versus high carbohydrate meals in humans

The intern will conduct a research study to evaluate whether measuring insulin in saliva can be used to reflect levels of insulin in the blood. The long-term objective is to work with the industry partner to develop a non-invasive personal salivary insulin monitor using a new technology that is in development that can quickly and cost-effectively measure insulin. The intern will work closely with the partner organization to understand the new technology and the end goals of the project while translating the research study results to help develop a prototype.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Little

Student:

Partner:

Light Heart

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Pharmaceuticals; Biotechnology

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Optical Recognition of Anglers

The Freshwater Fisheries Society of British Columbia is dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable exploitation of British Columbia’s freshwater fish resources. They have set up cameras to label fishing levels in BC lakes, but it is too time-consuming to count the number of fishers in all these images. We intend to use recent advances in computer vision and machine learning, in the form of “deep learning” methods, to build a system to automatically assess the fishing levels in all BC lakes. The intern will work on developing a system that automatically reports the fishing levels in all BC lakes, and will also focus on advancing research into deep learning by focusing on more effective training strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Schmidt

Student:

Partner:

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Aquaculture and Fishing; Natural Resources; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Stress Testing in the Alberta Business Environment

Stress testing is a risk management technique used to evaluate the potential impact of exceptionally unfavourable events on the financial conditions of a financial institution. The purpose of this research project is to develop a stress testing protocol for the business partner. Given the importance of the state of the domestic (i.e., provincial) economy the business
partner, testing the protocol will be tailored to account for local economic conditions, for the conditions of the remaining of Canada and for the dynamics of global markets, with a focus on energy indicators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Valentina Galvani

Student:

Partner:

ATB Financial

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of Novel Coatings for Orthopedic Implants

This project seeks to improve the performance of polymer-based spinal implants through the development of a multi-layered coating technology to overcome identified problems. The coating must allow for: a) strong adhesion to the underlying polymer to ensure structural stability; b) radio-opaque properties to allow visualization of the implant during x-ray procedures; and c) a bone bonding interface to support biological integration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reginald Smith

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the Impact of Grassland Set Asides on Agricultural Productivity in Delta BC

The lower Fraser River delta is recognized as one or the most productive agricultural areas in all of Canada yet one-third of farms have soil quality problems associated with poor structure and low organic matter content, with other reported soil quality problems of soil salinity and low pH.The overarching goal of the proposed project is to provide farmers in Delta, British Columbia with detailed information about effects of integrating short (2 year) to medium (4 year) term recurrent grass land set asides (GLSA) into their crop rotations. The proposed project will evaluate the effectiveness of the GLSA in enhancing long-term soil quality (and crop productivity) upon Fraser River delta farmland.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Smukler;Maja Krzic;Maja Krzic;Sean Smukler

Student:

Partner:

Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Lab-on-a-chip device for blood filtration and separation

Blood is composed primarily of cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc.) and plasma (the fluid in which the cells are suspended). Health care providers commonly require the components of blood to be separated before performing tests; currently, this requires blood samples be taken to a medical laboratory for processing. Recent advances in “lab-on-a-chip” technology have produced devices with branched microchannels (channels approximately the width of a human hair) that are designed so that, as blood flows through them, the different components take different paths and can be isolated. This research project will seek to use a new, cheap “rapid prototyping” manufacturing method to produce similar devices, and then to modify the channel arrangement for more efficient and controllable separation. The project will study the way in which the fluid/particle mixture flows through such small channels, which will result in microchannel designs with applications in industry as well as in health care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Prashant Waghmare

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Identifying adverse effects on neuroanatomy of hatchling American kestrels exposed to three priority brominated flame retardants

Tens of thousands of chemicals are present in the Canadian environment. The impact of those chemicals on wildlife and other components of the environment is often poorly quantified. The intern will develop a method for assessing the potential damage of a class of emerging contaminants, flame retardants, to avian brains. Specifically, the intern will examine the effect of three types of brominated flame retardants on the volumes of the telencephalon, hippocampus, and optic lobe, and the symmetry between hemispheres. A reduction in these regions or asymmetry between the hemispheres could lead to abnormal behaviour and a decline in survival and reproduction of wild birds. The methods developed by the intern will be applicable to a wide variety of chemical pollutants and the partner organization will use those methods to assess the environmental damage from brominated flame retardants and other chemicals at their field sites across Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jessica Head

Student:

Partner:

Stantec Consulting (Winnipeg, MB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

White pine endophytes: improving tolerance to white pine blister rust

White pine blister rust is a serious disease of pine, an ecologically and economically important forest species in Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. In western Canada, this pathogen has virtually eliminated pine as a commercial species and the disease now threatens eastern Canada. Endophytes are fungi that live in the leaves of various plants including conifers. In collaboration with the Miller lab, JD Irving, Limited has invested in the potential of spruce endophytes to increase tolerance to an insect pest, the spruce budworm. During production, seedlings can be inoculated with ‘good endophytes’ which persist in the tree and provide the desired tolerance. Pine endophytes can make potently antifungal compounds that inhibit the growth of needle pathogens. Identifying strains that can be used to inoculate pine seedlings is a potentially important tool to limit the destruction of white pine. The intern will be involved in isolating and characterizing antifungal compounds and will learn how endophytes can be used in operational forestry in the Maritime Innovation Limited facility (a J.D. Irving, Limited subsidiary) in New Brunswick.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Miller

Student:

Partner:

Maritime Innovation Limited

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Cannabis Access Regulations Study (CANARY)

The CANARY study is a patient-centered assessment of the impact of the regulatory changes regarding access to cannabis for medical purposes in Canada. The study is the first to offer patients’ perspectives regarding their experience of access to medical cannabis after the implementation of the new federal regulations that have created a decentralized competitive
national market for medical cannabis through the licensing of commercial producers. Through a nation-wide survey and interviews, the study will shed light on who is and who is not accessing the legal system of medical cannabis, and why. This valuable data will assist health professionals, policy-makers and medical cannabis providers to be responsive to the needs of Canadians who are using cannabis to manage their health conditions. As an industry association, the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries will use the results of this study to inform dispensary best practices and the development of regulations for dispensaries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lynda Balneaves

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Getting to Groundbreaking (G2G) Year 3 Focus on Hi-Rise

The Gettmg to Groundbreaking project 2015-16 seeks to engage two masters student interns for Sept 2015- June 2016 in order to complete original research tnto the home building poficy and process applicable to high-rise developments in municipalities in the Metro Vancouver region and Abbotsford The interns will conduct survey, interview, secondary and case studyba. sed research, consultation across the spectrum of interests in housing policy and development issues, and will construct and maintain a unrque database, for a third annual iteration of this study. The Greater Vancouver Home Bwlders AssoCiation and member companies engaged in this project expect to benefit from this· project through greater predictability and accountability of the municipal residential approvals process that the research supports

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meg Holden

Student:

Partner:

Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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