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Using a gendered lens to examine social-ecological regime shifts within coastal fishing communities

A social-ecological systems perspective analyzes the connections between human impacts and ecological components. Regime shifts are rapid changes in an ecosystem’s structure and function. They are often difficult to anticipate and either extremely costly or impossible to reverse. A gendered lens is crucial in analyzing these shifts as gender roles have been constructed by society, dictating the differences between men and women’s tasks, responsibilities and resources. It is recognized that there are gendered implications of environmental change and that they influence the dynamics of ecosystems. Women are often seen at the receiving end of rapid environmental change without having much control over how these changes were triggered in the first place. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Prateep Kumar Nayak

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Connecting Culture and Childhood: Using Musical Arts Programming to Promote Belonging for Young Newcomers in the GTA

The Connecting Culture and Childhood Project is a collaborative research project that aims to understand how music functions to support newcomer children in the GTA to both celebrate their heritage culture and integrate into their new communities. This project engages participants from a choir created by CultureLink Settlement Services in research that examines the types of music they sing, why they sing, and what impact singing in the choir has on their integration and socio-emotional wellbeing. Ultimately, this project will demonstrate how music can serves an important part of the transition process for newcomer children and young people in order to contribute to their wellbeing and to their connection with diverse communities. The project will benefit CultureLink by identifying how the choir is supporting newcomer children and pathways for expanding participation across the GTA and beyond.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Emberly

Student:

Partner:

CultureLink Settlement and Community Services

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Green Cement Appraisal for Precast Concrete

This project seeks to appraise the use of three different blended cements, with 25 – 50% lower carbon footprint than commercial Portland cement, in masonry concrete applications. Carbonation will also be implemented as one of the curing scenarios, for an added potential increase in CO2 offset. Work will be carried out at the laboratory-scale first, and later validated in a real production setting at the partner’s site. Promising outcomes will help the partner demonstrate the greenest concrete product yet in the market, an opportunity championed by the local cement and construction industries, and well aligned with various provincial and federal initiatives related to emission reduction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yixin Shao

Student:

Partner:

Boehmers

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Leaders Enhancing Employee Wellbeing – Year two

Our objective is to create, evaluate, and sustain an evidence-based leadership intervention to foster employee wellbeing. Based on the leadership development and organizational change literatures, I am proposing to conduct two studies at a provincial-based financial institution. The first study will explore the beliefs and opportunities to model health behaviours in the workplace and serves as the basis for creating a leadership intervention designed for health promotion. The second study is creating a behaviour change theory-based intervention for leaders on how to model health promotion behaviours in the workplace. To evaluate the intervention, I will collect data on and analyze changes in leaders’ behaviours, changes in employees’ psychological and physical health behaviours, as well the potential impact of the intervention on work performance. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nick Turner

Student:

Partner:

ATB Financial;University of Calgary

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Leaders Enhancing Employee Wellbeing

Our objective is to create, evaluate, and sustain an evidence-based leadership intervention to foster employee wellbeing. Based on the leadership development and organizational change literatures, I am proposing to conduct two studies at a provincial-based financial institution. The first study will explore the beliefs and opportunities to model health behaviours in the workplace and serves as the basis for creating a leadership intervention designed for health promotion. The second study is creating a behaviour change theory-based intervention for leaders on how to model health promotion behaviours in the workplace. To evaluate the intervention, I will collect data on and analyze changes in leaders’ behaviours, changes in employees’ psychological and physical health behaviours, as well the potential impact of the intervention on work performance. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nick Turner

Student:

Partner:

ATB Financial;University of Calgary

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

National Smart Vehicle Demonstration and Integration Project

In a context of global warming, it is essential to find green alternatives to public transportation. The National Smart Vehicle Demonstration Project aims to improve mobility options for Canadians by advancing the implementation of low-speed electrified autonomous shuttles (LSAs). This project aims to support job growth in the design of technologically advanced electrification, sensing, communication and cybersecurity tools that support LSAs. This research will highlight the added value of owning and operating LSAs, which rely on pricing systems and rely on different usage and maintenance costs for municipalities.The intern works will be useful to the CUTRIC and The National Smart Vehicle Demonstration Project to use localized modeling outputs and to generate empirical evidence to support the allocation of future municipal funding to transit-oriented LSAs initiatives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Chahine

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (ON)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Clean Technology; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Le capital social comme voie de transformation innovante pour la résilience

Le capital social est un concept regroupant l’ensemble des ressources sociales dont dispose les membres d’une communauté, offerts par un grand nombre de contacts au sein de cette communauté. Il peut s’agir de contacts entre voisins ou de participation à des groupes de la communauté (religieux, communautaires, sportifs, etc.). Les avantages d’un capital social élevé sont multiples pour les entités gouvernementales, en assurant un meilleur taux de résilience des communautés, ainsi que pour les citoyens, qui vivent dans les communautés à faible taux de criminalité et qui sont globalement plus heureux. Les présents projets visent à développer, en partenariat avec la Maison de l’innovation sociale (MIS), des initiatives de développement du capital social à l’échelle des quartiers, puis de les reproduire dans d’autres communautés. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Christine Therrien

Student:

Partner:

Maison de l'Innovation Sociale

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

École nationale d'administration publique

Program:

Accelerate

Ultrasonic power transmission analysis of a guide wire for angioplasty applications

This project focuses on the power dissipation study of an ultrasonic guidewire under the frequency range from 1 to 6 MHz. There has been little research done in the field of using ultrasonic power transmission in angioplasty guidewires to perform drug delivery on drug-eluting stents. By using the results of this study, a new ultrasonic actuator design would be delivered. This new devices creates an ideal condition for drugs to be absorbed by human blood vessels. Also, the device has a possible function of blood vessel plaque removal. By using this proposed new device, the Vancouver General Hospital could reduce the death rate of using drug-eluting stents as well as save funds for purchasing plaque-removal devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mu Chiao

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver General Hospital

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Human Heart Phantom for Catheter Navigation Assessment

Il est estimé qu’entre 4 et 5 millions de personnes souffrent de fibrillation auriculaire (battements irréguliers) aux EU et environ 350000 au Canada. Un traitement est l’élimination avec un cathéter des cellules responsables des battements irréguliers. Le cathéter transmet de l’énergie (radio-fréquence, cryogénique, ultrasonore) pour isoler les cellules erratiques. Cependant, la procédure a un taux de complication d’environ 4.5 % incluant les fistules auriculo-oesophagiens, une condition qui met la vie du patient en danger. Agile MV développe une technologie adjuvante pour un meilleur positionnement et ainsi réduire ces problèmes. Le projet vise la fabrication de modèles anatomiquement corrects pour tester la technologie de Agile MV. L’approche utilise l’impression 3D pour faire des moules à partir d’images 3D (CR, MRI) et les modèles sont ensuite réalisés avec des hydrogels pour reproduire les propriétés des vrais tissus ce qui permet de tester la technologie sous des conditions réalistes et reproductibles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rosaire Mongrain

Student:

Partner:

Agile MV

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Using EPS Geofoam as a Seismic Buffer in Geotechnical Engineering Applications

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam has been widely used to reduce the effect of dynamic and earthquake loads on rigid structures (e.g. retaining walls). Limited effort has been made to date to examine the available design methods utilized for different EPS materials subjected to dynamic loading conditions. The proposed project aims at providing a comprehensive review and evaluation of the available experimental, analytical and numerical research related to the use of EPS geofoam blocks as seismic buffer in various geotechnical engineering applications and recommend the most suitable design approach in these situations. Finite element analyses will be developed to verify the assessment of the current available design methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohamed A Meguid

Student:

Partner:

Plasti-Fab (AB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

In vitro validation of candidate therapeutic targets for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disorder of the lung, which is characterized by shortness of breath and progressive loss in lung function, and one that affects 2.6 million Canadians and 380 million people worldwide. The current therapies are very imprecise and none modifies disease progression or mortality. Therefore, there is a pressing need to discover new therapeutic targets that may be important molecular drivers of airways disease in COPD. The goal of this project is to understand how two genetic targets discovered using genomics and computational biology (i.e. FAM13A and PTCH1) play a role in the development of COPD. By understanding the relationship between the biology of these gene targets, we may be able to provide valuable information to enhance the drug discovery and delivery process for patients with COPD in Canada and worldwide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chinten James Lim

Student:

Partner:

Providence Health Care

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

The development of monoclonal antibodies for early diagnosis and therapeutic application in Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder. The recent immunotherapy brings the hope of treating AD as suggested by several preclinical studies. This project first aims to develop a humanized monoclonal antibody to target the molecules involved in generating a toxic protein of AD, named amyloid ?, and test the application of this antibody in treating AD model mice. In addition, early diagnosis of AD is of great need to achieve the maximal effectiveness of beneficial treatments. Therefore, this project will also focus on the development of two pairs of rabbit monoclonal antibodies and explore their potential to use as tools for detecting blood-derived biomarks in AD. The partner company, Artron Bioresearch Inc., will share the copyright or patents regarding antibody development. The leading-edge knowledge and related techniques in studying AD from our research team will benefit their research and development for future products in neurodegenerative disorders.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Weihong Song

Student:

Partner:

Artron Bioresearch Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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