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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

Détection par voie optique de cellules immobilisées par diélectrophorèse

L’objectif de ce projet est de développer une biopuce capable de détecter et quantifier des cellules dans un échantillon liquide.
Son ambition est d’améliorer la limite de détection et la facilité d’utilisation actuelle des biopuces en amenant les cellules cibles jusqu’à la partie sensible du capteur, sans marquage préalable. L’effet utilisé pour concentrer les cellules autour du détecteur est la diélectrophorèse (DEP). La DEP permet de déplacer des cellules sans contact grâce à un champ électrique produit par une matrice d’électrodes. Ces mêmes électrodes serviront de détecteur optique par SPR (Surface Plasmon Résonance). En effet, en contact avec l’électrode, les cellules modifient localement son indice de réfraction, ce qui se traduit par une modification de l’angle de résonance plasmon mesurable par imagerie optique. Une application possible de ce biocapteur est la détection précoce de cancer par biopsie liquide et détection des CTC (cancerous tumoral cells).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Charette

Student:

Partner:

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Elastocapillarity: interactions between droplets and thin fibers

It is well known that fluids can be drawn along a small fibre with a conical shape. This strategy is used in nature, for example the beaks of some birds, the spines on cacti, and the needles on some carnivorous trees, are shaped so that water can be efficiently transported. Our hope is that the same strategy may be used in fog harvesting in arid coastal regions and as a microfluidic platform. We will start by focussing on a related system that we propose to study: a polymer droplet on a small flexible conical. In such a case, it the change in the curvature along the taper of the cone drives flow. Using liquids that wet or dewet on such elastic tapered fibers will enable a deeper understanding of the role of curvature in the transportation of droplets. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Student:

Partner:

École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Vers l’alimentation de précision en production porcine: première étape de modélisation des apports optimaux de phosphore et calcium chez le porc en croissance

Les préoccupations environnementales et les législations sur la production porcine ont exercé une énorme pression pour réduire l’excrétion de certains nutriments, en particulier le phosphore (P). Les scientifiques doivent relever le défi de faire un régime approprié en P et calcium (Ca) pour maximiser les performances et la santé de l’animal tout en assurant l’acceptabilité environnementale et sociale et la rentabilité de la production. Pour nourrir les porcs en fonction de leurs besoins, il est d’abord nécessaire de définir les besoins de l’animal à nourrir. Cependant, les animaux d’un troupeau diffèrent les uns des autres et peuvent donc avoir des besoins nutritionnels différents. De telles variations ne sont pas prises en compte dans les systèmes d’alimentation en phase conventionnels, de sorte que les nutriments sont fournis à des niveaux qui dépassent largement les besoins d’une grande partie du troupeau. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Pierre Létourneau Montminy

Student:

Partner:

AgroParisTech

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of an advanced ice dynamics and deterioration model and a DEM flexural ice failure model

Offshore Newfoundland is an ice-prone environment which holds valuable natural resources. Better understanding of the ice environment and ice characteristics in this region is essential for safe and economical offshore activities. In this proposed research, we aim to develop advanced models that provide a deeper understanding of some aspects of ice dynamics and deterioration and ice mechanics to make improved predictions of ice behavior.
The first model aims to evaluate the relative contribution of sea ice forcing to the overall drift of four ice island fragments tracked offshore Newfoundland in the Strait of Belle Isle.
The second model is a discrete element model (DEM) that intends to provide a better understanding of flexural strength of solid ice, rubble ice and ice ridges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rocky Taylor

Student:

Partner:

C-CORE

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Recycling of Laminated Particleboard

This research will focus on the development of recycling solutions for laminated particleboard after services. To effectively recycle the wood particles from the used particleboard as suitable raw material, it needs to remove the cured adhesives from particleboard, usually urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins. It is well known that cured UF resins are susceptible to hydrolysis so the decomposing particleboard panels will allow to recover particles. In the current research proposal, we are aiming to recycle particleboard via a thermohydrolytic treatment (treated with steam, pressure, and heat), and use the recovered particles as raw materials to manufacture particleboard panels. Several physical and chemical properties of recycled particles will be investigated to evaluate its quality in comparison with the virgin particles. Furthermore, the effect of the weight ratio of recycled and virgin particles on the mechanical properties of particleboard panels will be also evaluated. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Cloutier

Student:

Partner:

FPInnovations (Québec, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Modélisation d’un appareil de radiochirurgie Cyberknife par méthode Monte Carlo

La radiochirurgie stéréotaxique sans cadre est une technique avancée de radiothérapie permettant de localiser très précisément une dose de radiation sans avoir recours à des technique d’immobilisation douloureuses pour le patient. Ses applications principales sont le traitement de tumeurs cancéreuses et la névralgie du nerf trijumeau. De par la recherche et le développement des deux dernières décennies, cette méthode de radiothérapie est à maturité technologique. Par contre, la quantification de la dose de radiation demeure imprécise par rapport aux techniques conventionnelles lorsque les champs de radiation sont de petites tailles, soient inférieurs à environ 4 cm de diamètre. La modélisation précise par méthode Monte Carlo de l’appareil Cyber nife, permettant de produire des champs de radiothérapie stéréotaxique allant jusqu’à 3 mm de diamètre, permettra de comprendre comment calibrer précisément ces appareils dans des conditions cliniques. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hugo Bouchard

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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