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Physiological signal based interface for a robotic system to support play in children with physical disabilities

Through play children develop sensory, motor, cognitive, communication and social skills. Children with physical disabilities, who have a limited access to play, may experience negative impacts on these aspects of development. Using robots to manipulate play objects can contribute to the children’s independence, social and cognitive development. The interface with which the children control the robot needs improvement. Haptic interfaces can provide the sense of touch during interaction with objects and toys. The eyes can provide information about the toys that a child might want to manipulate. The goal of this project is to integrate a haptic interface with eye tracking technology and other physiological signals (e.g. muscle, brain, or face gestures) to support play in children with physical disabilities. Results will yield to a clearer understanding of children’s visual behavior when playing and future direction for the development of robots to support play in children with physical disabilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kimberley Adams

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Temperature and dosage dependence of biological damage induced by ultraviolet germicidal irradiation on pathogens and comparison with conventional chemical wipes

Healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) represent a common complication for hospitalized patients and can produce significant financial implications for the health care system. Unfortunately, mobile and handheld devices are recognized as a hub for bacteria and viruses that can cause these infections. To aid in a remedy for this, ultraviolet light is an emerging technology that is becoming increasingly popular for germicidal surface disinfection in healthcare. It has the advantages of being chemical-free, more reliable and faster than existing sanitization protocol, which involves the use of germicidal wipes. Though UV has been used for decades for water disinfection, due to its recent development in the surface disinfection space, there is a lack of scientific data or papers that thoroughly study its effectiveness. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Jean

Student:

Partner:

CleanSlate UV

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation de la qualité des images et visualisation des tissus mous : mise au point de nouvelles approches en CBCT

L’imagerie cone beam CT (CBCT) prend une place de plus en plus importante dans l’exploration des structures osseuses du complexe dento-maxillo-facial. Cette modalité d’imagerie, moins irradiante que l’imagerie par tomodensitométrie conventionnelle (TDM), procure des images de qualité similaire, voire supérieure, à celle des images TDM. Toutefois, les rapports Signal/Bruit ne sont pas assez élevés, et les doses, bien qu’inférieures à celles en TDM, pourraient encore être diminuées. Un des objectifs de ce projet est donc d’optimiser la qualité des images tout en cherchant à réduire davantage la dose de radiation ionisante. Pour atteindre ce double objectif, nous proposons de mettre en oeuvre de nouveaux algorithmes de reconstruction/rétroprojection, notamment en faisant appel à des méthodes de reconstruction itératives. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacques de Guise

Student:

Partner:

Useful Progress Service Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Étude des déterminants de la détresse psychologique et du bien-être chez les avocats membres du Barreau du Québec

Le présent projet constitue la phase II d’un projet de recherche s’intéressant aux déterminants de la santé psychologique (détresse psychologique et bien-être) chez les avocats membres du Barreau Québec suivant une augmentation de près de 400% sur 10 ans des demandes d’aides adressées annuellement au programme d’aide aux membres du Barreau du Québec (PAMBA). La première phase ayant permis de réaliser des entrevues qualitatives auprès de 22 avocats québécois, cette seconde phase vise à mesurer quantitativement le phénomène de la détresse psychologique et du bien-être chez les avocats québécois, tout en cernant les déterminants de la santé psychologique à partir d’un questionnaire auto-rapporté (en ligne), construit à partir des résultats obtenus en phase I.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathalie Cadieux

Student:

Partner:

Barreau du Québec

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

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

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Impact des changements climatiques sur l’écophysiologie et la biogéographie du nerprun bourdaine dans l’est du Canada

Une espèce est dite ‘envahissante’ lorsqu’elle est capable de s’établir de façon remarquable dans un nouveau milieu, hors de son aire d’occurrence naturelle. Le nerprun bourdaine (Rhmanus frangula) est une plante envahissante au Canada et aux États-Unis. Originaire de l’Europe et de l’Asie, cet arbuste occupé les forêts et les plantations du Québec et empêche la régénération et succession végétale. Ce projet de recherche vise identifier quelles sont les facteurs environnementaux et physiologique que facilitent l’envahissement et quelles sont les dommages que le nerprun cause chez les forêts québécoises. Le projet envisage aussi connaître les stratégies de reproduction de la plante, le processus de germination de ses graines et de compétition avec nos espèces indigènes. Ouranos est un consortium de recherche qui s’intéresse aux changements climatiques et ses impacts. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Girard

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Brazil’s Female Voice in International Relations: Bertha Lutz and the Founding of the United Nations in 1945

This project examines the work of Bertha Lutz, the only female delegate from Brazil and one of the four women to sign the United Nations Charter in 1945 at the San Francisco Conference. Eight women were present at San Francisco as official delegates from seven different countries, making significant contributions to the UN Charter. But these contributions still remain unexamined. Lutz was a key figure in the Pan-American feminist movement, spending twenty years as the leader of the Brazilian Federation for Women’s Progress, and representing Brazil in the international stage. Much of the work about Lutz is focused on her contributions to the feminist movement and not her role in politics. This project aims to highlight Lutz’s work in international diplomacy and discuss her role in the UN, with the objective of bringing to light the importance of female contributions to the UN. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heidi Tworek

Student:

Partner:

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Catalytic effect of nano-NiO particles in Pyrolysing of Biomass materials

Biomass materials have been a source of energy for years to now and their effective conversion into usable energy form is always under research to get improved results. Various techniques and systems have been developed to exploit different biomass materials so far and this research aims to study the effect of nano NiO particles as catalyst in pyrolysing of agro residues such as rice husk, saw dust, and groundnut shell, etc. The catalyst will be prepared and employed in different size to observe the effect of particle size in pyrolysis and the operating conditions of the test will also be varied to know their effect. Different approaches such as TGA, FTIR, and XRD will be used to characterize the precursors and nano-NiO particles. The experimental results will be correlated with theoretical and kinetic modeling to find the activation energy and conclude the results.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bishnu Acharya

Student:

Partner:

Periyar Maniammai University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Sustainable production of cellulosic ethanol from pretreated sugarcane bagasse using ruminal fluids extracted from ruminating animals

Increase in global temperatures, over dependence and depletion of fossil fuels to fulfill the human needs have forced the mankind to produce sustainable bioenergy. Plant biomass which contains lignocellulose polymers constitutes the most abundant components on the earth’s surface. Naturally, enormous amounts of cellulose are digested by the cattle and this process of digestion is solely supported by microorganisms residing in its rumen. In our current project, we have considered sugarcane bagasse to produce cellulosic ethanol using ruminal fluids. Sugarcane bagasse is the waste obtained after sugar production which is currently being burned for energy or dumped in landfills. Initially, we have pretreated sugarcane bagasse using specific pretreatment methods. Pretreated sugarcane bagasse is further subjected to enzyme hydrolysis under standard and optimized fermentation methods using the ruminal fluid samples obtained from Brazilian cows. This ecofriendly and economically beneficial method of cellulosic ethanol production would reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wensheng Qin

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Parana

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Thermal Analysis of Poly-V Belt Transmission System

Nowadays, automotive companies are seeking to use prospective robust, light-weight, anti-corrosive and cost-effective composites such as fibre reinforced polymer (FRP), instead of traditional materials like steel or aluminum alloy, to make their products more competitive in the market. The sponsor company in this project, Litens Automotive Group, is investigating the feasibility of adopting FRP to manufacture high torque capacity drive pulleys. However, comparing with a metal alloy, FRP exhibits a reduced material strength at the near engine high operating temperature, making the design of this pulley very challengeable. Moreover, time-consuming tests on expensive FRP drive pulley prototypes delay the design cycle and increase the research cost. Therefore, an analytical thermal analysis algorithm developed in this project for the design of FRP drive pulleys enables the product designers rapidly to determine thermal distributions of the FRP drive pulley and help them to optimize the pulley design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kamran Behdinan

Student:

Partner:

Litens Automotive

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Using hyperpolarized 13P MRI measure in vivo pH of the placenta

Placental dysfunction is the leading cause of stillbirth, and assessment of fetoplacental health in utero is limited. Our goal is to use MRI to gain functional information of the placenta, specifically to measure pH as a critical indicator of placental health. Current methods of this use 13P MRS but are challenged by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We propose using hyperpolarized 31P phosphates to significantly boost signal (10 000 fold) and are biologically safe and therefore clinically relevant. This study will demonstrate the first instance of hyperpolarized 31P pH imaging in vivo. pH data obtained using this method would compliment metabolic information we are able to observe using hyperpolarized C13 compounds like pyruvate. pH is an indicator of fetal health and this technique could provide information relevant for clinical decisions on interventions in the event of problematic pregnancies. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles McKenzie

Student:

Partner:

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Beneficial microbes and fishes of the Amazon: a story of co-adaptation to the extreme conditions of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystem on Earth, the black waters of the Amazon basin

The Earth’s richest freshwater fish fauna is found in the Brazilian Amazon basin. This resource represents the primary protein source for the “ribeirinhos”: the populations of native Brazilian fisherman living in the upper Amazon. The black waters of the Amazon River are poor in nutrient, ion, oxygen and are acidified by humic acids from surrounding submerged forest vegetation (acidic pH of 3.8 – 5.0). We aim to understand how Amazonian fishes manage to survive in such an extreme environment. We will explore the microbial communities associated with Amazonian black water fishes and we will test whether beneficial microbes living on the fish may play essential roles in the adaptation to these environments. We expect to achieve the following objectives:
1. Characterize the species of bacteria associated to Amazonian black water fishes. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Derome

Student:

Partner:

National Institute of Amazonian Research

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The political implications of the role of the Salafi ideology. The cases of Tunisia and China.

This project aims at investigating the causes of Salafism appeal, especially on youth, in the historical context of the post-Arab spring, in Tunisia and in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. As Henri Lauzière extensively explained in his latest work, (2016) the Salafi ideology is complex and it doesn’t make consensus. Many scholars have already pointed out the main characteristics and trends within Salafism (Wiktorowicz, 2006; Meijer, 2009; Bonnefoy, 2011; Wagemakers, 2012; Cavatorta and Merone, 2012; Wolf, 2013; Marks, 2013; et al.) but by and large, their perspective mainly focused on Salafism in Arab countries. Thus, the phenomenon of the spread of Salafism in non-Arab countries was neglected. The main goal of my research is to explain how Salafism, and especially Salafi-jihadism ideology, appeals to Arab and non-Arab youth. How can Salafi ideology adapt to different context as the Chinese region of Xinjiang? TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Francesco Cavatorta

Student:

Partner:

Université de Tunis El Manar

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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