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Image Maximum: The Invention and Early History of IMAX

IMAX is a Canadian-born invention that has had little scholarly investigation despite its continued commercial success. The importance of this research project stems from the lack of scholarly research about the beginnings of IMAX as a Canadian-born invention and its place within the history media technology. In celebration of IMAX’s 50th anniversary, The Public Access Collective, through their project entitled XL-Outer Worlds, will be commissioning five Canadian artists to create new large-format films in order to foreground the Invention of IMAX, explore the technological and aesthetic imaginaries of the early years of the Invention. In 2019 XL-Outer Worlds will be showcasing the commissioned films at Cinesphere (the first permanent IMAX theatre) in Toronto in addition to other IMAX venues across Canada. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Allison

Student:

Partner:

PUBLIC Journal

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; Education; Technology

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Development and implementation of novel processor cooling technologies

Processors are the computational core of a computer system, and the most important component governing a computer’s overall performance. As processors increase in computational power, their required electrical power and the resulting heat generated correspondingly rise. A processor cooling system is therefore necessary to prevent the processor from overheating. Although processor cooling research has been ongoing for years, there still exists significant room for improvement that can lead to enhanced processor performance, which is the primary goal of applications ranging from supercomputing to high-frequency (equities) trading. State-of-the-art techniques for processor cooling include the use of microchannels, spray cooling, jet impingement, heat pipes, vapour chambers, and thermoelectric cooling.The objective of the proposed research is to develop a processor cooling method that outperforms the current state-of-art methods (most of which use microchannels). This project is a continuation of a previous Mitacs project with the same objective. TO BE CONT”D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Mydlarski

Student:

Partner:

Hypertechnologie CIARA Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Design guidance for novice designers

Providing guidance that is relevant and timely can result in better business outcomes. In this project we will focus on how to provide human computer interaction guidance in a timely, low effort way to novice software designers. The Mitacs intern will be embedded at the Apps Factory where he will provide guidance to a team of four interns working on four apps projects. Using cognitive work analysis techniques he will uncover leverage points for guiding novice designers. This project is unique in several ways in that it extends a research technique, Cognitive Work Analysis to the modeling of a team in an agile programming environment. This project also provides key design guidance and recommendations that will remain with the Apps Factory for future projects and, on publication, contribute to other design project with novice design teams.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Burns

Student:

Partner:

Communitech Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of injectable dense collagen gels in vitro and in vivo for bone tissue engineering

Bone defects may arise from trauma, congenital disease, tissue/vascular necrosis or tumor radiotherapy/excision. Rising rates of the ageing population are expected to dramatically increase the demand for orthopaedic procedures and associated waiting periods for patient treatment. Current techniques to repair and regenerate of mineralized tissues possess inherent limitation and may be overcome by tissue engineering. In this Globalink Research Award Proposal we will use an innovative technique for bone repair that will impact orthopaedic and dental (craniofacial) applications. By using a unique combination of tools already used in the clinic, we have developed a novel system for the production of highly defined injectable dense collagen-based gels for the delivery of bioactive glasses and cells in bone tissue engineering applications. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Showan Nazhat

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris Descartes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Entrepreneuriat hybride: l’impact de l’auto-efficacité et l’engagement de carrière

Depuis quelques années, les travaux en entrepreneuriat indiquent une prévalence d’entrepreneurs « hybride », soit le fait de conserver un emploi salarié tout en démarrant et opérant une entreprise (Folta et al., 2010). Bien peu de choses sont connues quant à ce phénomène, notamment ce qui fait en sorte qu’une personne choisisse de demeurer dans un mode hybride plutôt que de faire un transition directe ou échelonnée de l’emploi salarié vers l’entrepreneuriat.
L’objectif de ce projet sera de voir l’effet de l’auto-efficacité entrepreneuriale et de l’engagement dans la carrière entrepreneuriale dans le choix du mode opératoire (hybride vs classique). Nous posons l’hypothèse qu’une auto-efficacité entrepreneuriale élevée amènera un engagement plus grand dans la carrière entrepreneuriale et que ces deux éléments influenceront négativement le choix du mode hybride. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Étienne St-Jean

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Joint Range of Motion, Muscle Strength, and Gait-Derived Ground Reaction Forces Pre and Post Novel Rehabilitation Program for Lower Limb Amputees

This project is being undertaken as a part of the Gait Rehabilitation Analysis for Amputee Locomotion (GRAAL). GRAAL is a 3-year project focused on the continued rehabilitation of people with lower limb amputations. Through this research I will use gait analysis technology to kinetic measures of gait including ground reaction forces and muscle torque and force. Together with clinical measures of static joint motion, this will be used to help physiotherapists determine the limitations of each patient’s current mobility. A tailored physical rehabilitation program will be designed for each patient with the intention of improving mobility and reducing pain. After four weeks of participation in this rehabilitative program each patient will undergo a second series of tests to allow researchers to determine the efficacy of each program. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandra Hundza

Student:

Partner:

Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Sunitinib and Pazopanib in Advanced or Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (SUP-R)

Sunitinib and pazopanib are two effective medications from tyrosine kinase inhibitor pharmacologic class for the first-line treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Nevertheless, the adverse side effects during treatment often lead to dose reductions or even treatment discontinuations.
In order to provide the most efficient treatment to mRCC patients, efficacy and safety of these treatments have to be optimized. In the meantime cost-effective treatment strategies should be followed for more efficient use of healthcare resources.
The purpose of this study is (1) to assess the feasibility and potential benefits of sunitinib and pazopanib dose individualization in terms of efficacy and tolerance, and (2) to investigate whether one could be dispensed instead of another to provide flexibility in clinical practice and more efficient use of healthcare resources. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

France Varin

Student:

Partner:

Université Paul Sabatier

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Smoothed Analysis of Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Many important computational problems are prohibitively difficult to solve in the worst case, but are easy when instances are drawn from real world situations. This suggests that worst case instances rarely occur in real data and that worst case analysis is not a good measure of computational complexity in practice. One hypothesis to explain this discrepancy is that worst case instances are fragile, with noise inherent in real data preventing difficult instances from occurring too frequently. This was first confirmed in 2004 for a well-known optimization problem and has given rise to the theory of smoothed analysis. The purpose of this project is to use smoothed analysis to study the maximum cut problem for graphs, with the goal of giving bounds on the complexity that are tighter than existing bounds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Louigi Addario-Berry

Student:

Partner:

Université de Paris

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Culture et inégalités numériques : La question des usages chez les jeunes en situation de vulnérabilité au Québec

Dans un contexte de changement et d’évolution rapide des technologies, se pose la question de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie et du développement des compétences numériques chez les jeunes en situation de vulnérabilité. C’est pourquoi les jeunes, filles et garçons, issus de la diversité (culturelle, économique, sociale, etc.), ont des défis à relever pour s’affirmer dans ce paysage. Trouver des solutions à leur adaptation est crucial, il en va d’enjeux sociétaux. C’est dans ce sens, que le Plan d’action en économie numérique (2016-2021) du Québec, vise l’atteinte de “l’excellence numérique” (PAEN, 2016) pour assurer une cohésion sociale (UNESCO, 2003) et éviter que ne se creuse davantage un fossé numérique. L’organisme Printemps numérique, propose d’expérimenter des méthodes d’apprentissage et de mobilisation de connaissances en collaborant avec différents milieux pour trouver des solutions à cette problématique. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Collin Simon

Student:

Partner:

Printemps numérique

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Machine learning methods for signal classification in anti-drone technology

Drone technology has recently gained wide-scale acceptance in multiple military and commercial applications, including security surveillance and medicine delivery. In 2017 alone, the market revenue from drones is estimated to be around $6 billion. With this, there is also an emerging need for sophisticated anti-drone technology to detect rogue drones entering secure territories, such as military bases and prisons. In this project, we will design machine learning algorithms which can detect unknown drone radio signals from a mixture containing radio signals transmitted by multiple other wireless devices, including WiFi and Bluetooth. We will analyze several datasets of radio signals transmitted by popular drones in the market, so as to extract unique fingerprints hidden in the drone signals. Machine learning models will then be designed to make use of the extracted fingerprints for detecting the presence of a drone signal when a mixture of radio signals is fed as input.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vijay Bhargava

Student:

Partner:

Skycope Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Tomographe à positrons à ultra-haute résolution pour l’imagerie d’animaux intermédiaires et du cerveau humain

Le projet global vise le développement d’un scanner de tomographie d’émission par positrons (TEP) dédié à l’imagerie des animaux de taille intermédiaire (chien, macaque) et du cerveau humain. L’avantage principal du scanner sera sa résolution spatiale deux fois meilleure que tout ce qui existe à l’heure actuelle, permettant notamment l’imagerie des processus biochimiques à l’intérieur du cerveau avec une précision inégalée. Le projet permettra d’offrir des stages de formation pour des étudiants aux études supérieures qui porteront sur tous les aspects du développement d’un scanner TEP depuis la modélisation physique par simulation, la conception électronique, l’évaluation des performances et la reconstruction tomographique des images, jusqu’à son exploitation à des fins de recherche biomédicale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Réjean Fontaine;Jean-Baptiste Michaud

Student:

Partner:

IR&T Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

La vengeance dans le manuscrit de Paris, BnF, fr. 1553

Mon projet de recherche porte sur les textes littéraires du Moyen Âge attestés dans le recueil Paris, BnF, fr. 1553. L’idée de la vengeance telle qu’envisagée et pratiquée au Moyen Âge est explicitée dans plusieurs œuvres conservées dans le recueil. Ce thème a donc été isolé en tant qu’articulation signifiante du manuscrit dont je souhaite étudier la composition. Le texte de départ est la Vengeance Nostre Seigneur. Il s’agira de voir de quelle manière le thème de la vengeance, à partir de ce texte, rayonne dans d’autres œuvres du même manuscrit, où l’on n’attendrait pas nécessairement sa manifestation. J’observerai ensuite comment se configure l’agencement des contenus textuels dans les autres recueils qui hébergent une copie de la Vengeance Nostre Seigneur, dont le ms. Paris, BnF, fr. 1374 et le ms. Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, L.II.14, pour voir si le même phénomène se reproduit.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriele Giannini

Student:

Partner:

École Pratique des Hautes Études

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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