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The role of dairy food consumption in optimal growth and development of Canadian children: A longitudinal study

Existing literature has produced mixed results regarding the relationship between dairy intake and body composition in childhood. Further, there is scarce information on knowledge, attitudes, facilitators, and barriers regarding dairy food consumption among Canadian children. Thus, we aim to comprehensively evaluate the association between dairy food consumption and growth and development indicators among children aged 5-11 years. We will collect information every six months. We will assess dietary intake, physical activity, anthropometrics, and cognitive development, as well as bone, fat, and muscle mass development indicators. The knowledge, attitude, and practice toward milk and dairy food will be collected from children and their caregivers. A salivary sample will be taken to measure a growth marker. The interns will work closely with Dairy Farmers of Canada throughout the project and at the knowledge translation stage, in which the scientific findings will be converted into infographics and information useful to the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hassanali Vatanparast;Hassan Vatanparast

Student:

Partner:

Dairy Farmers of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Information and cultural industries; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

A Collaborative Innovation Research Program on Patient Decision-Making, Technology, and Outcomes for Robotic-Assisted Knee Arthroplasty Surgery

The ultimate treatment of end stage osteoarthritis is joint replacement surgery. Over the past several decades there have been important innovations in the design and customization of implants, but many patients continue to be burdened with persistent poor outcomes after surgery, particularly with respect to unmet expectations around mobility and their ability to function and participate fully as desired. The next frontier for innovation is how to treat patients individually to customize the timing, type and particular details of their surgery to maximize the potential for a successful surgery. Our team has been working collaboratively for many decades in introducing technology to the clinical field of joint replacement surgery. Until recently, the information gained could not be readily used at the time of surgery. However, with the recent advent of robotic surgery systems for joint replacement, we can precisely plan and execute custom surgeries specific to a patient’s needs. The program described will introduce and combine technologies and data modeling before and after robotic joint replacement surgery to provide the needed information to customize surgery to the individual patient.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Janie Wilson

Student:

Partner:

Nova Scotia Health Authority

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences and Technology; Technology; Biomanufacturing

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Real time machine learning assisted emergency diagnosis

Hospital emergency departments are very busy places, with long wait times and a substantial proportion of patients misdiagnosed. This project aims to use machine-learning AI techniques to improve emergency department outcomes in the following three aspects:
1) By providing a list of plausible diagnoses for each patient, allowing the physician to check that they have not overlooked anything.
2) By suggesting informative tests for diagnosing a particular patient, reducing waiting times for patients and costs of unnecessary tests.
3) By linking real-time data from multiple hospitals, allowing identification of important trends and patterns in the data, allowing health services to react quickly to various events.
The project is to resolve a number of the challenges in building such a system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Toby Kenney

Student:

Partner:

Safeguard Intelligent Medical diagnosis Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

IA pour la gestion stratégique des services préhospitaliers d’urgence

Ce programme de recherche concerne les services préhospitaliers d’urgence (SPU) dans les régions des Laurentides et de Lanaudière. En s’appuyant sur l’IA et les sciences des données, il vise à étudier des questions sous-jacentes à la demande et à l’offre des SPU. Nous développerons des algorithmes et des programmes informatiques pour améliorer à la fois la qualité des services offerts à la population et le bien être des intervenants. Ces technologies permettraient de réaliser des analyses spatiotemporelles des données acquises par nos partenaires (CCSLL, compagnies ambulancières, CISSS), la prédiction d’évènements spatiotemporels, l’analyse comportementale des appelants, la planification des emplacements des équipes d’intervention, la répartition de ces équipes et l’interprétation des données sonores et visuelles. En outre des SPU, ces retombées pourraient être utiles pour d’autres fournisseurs de services qui ont besoin de comprendre les phénomènes et leurs données (alphanumérique, vidéo, son), de trouver des solutions optimales et d’anticiper les évènements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Djemel Ziou;Jessica Lévesque

Student:

Partner:

Centre de communication santé Laurentides Lanaudière;Services informatiques SYM;CAMBI Services et soins préhospitaliers;Les Services préhospitaliers Paraxion;HRH Services préhospitaliers

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Micron scale ultra-low-cost light emitting diodes made using silicon carbide semiconductor material

A next generation of silicon-carbide (SiC) -based high performance microLEDs has the potential to replace existing gallium-indium nitride-based LED used in LED illuminated displays. The development of these SiC microLEDs is the goal of this research in collaboration with display company AVT Solutions Ltd. Silicon and carbide are low-cost earth-abundant minerals with ?1% of the cost of gallium nitride. This has the potential to dramatically increase market penetration of microLED-illuminated displays compared to current LED displays using gallium-indium nitride materials due to the dramatic cost improvement. The longer term goal is to demonstrate a high performance but very cost effective microLED displays of interest to AVT Solutions made of silicon carbide and to demonstrate that these microLEDs possess the optoelectronic characteristics suitable for display application including brightness, uniformity, and stability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adrian Kitai

Student:

Partner:

AVT Solutions Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Transition socioécologique en contexte métropolitain

Ce programme de recherche s’intéresse à la transition socioécologique en milieu urbain. Cette transition socioécologique et les changements de mode de vie qu’elle induit touchent notamment à des enjeux tels que la lutte aux inégalités socioéconomiques, l’importance du contact avec la nature et le dehors et la sensibilisation des citoyens et des citoyennes. Une partie des stagiaires apporteront des réflexions plus théoriques sur les transformations de l’économique ou sur les pratiques de certaines initiatives de transition socioécologique tandis que d’autres travailleront sur des analyses de cas d’étude et l’accompagnement de pratiques liées à la transition socioécologique dans un grand parc urbain : le parc Jean Drapeau. Les analyses de pratiques portent sur la mobilité; l’accessibilité, l’équité, l’inclusivité et la sécurité; la pédagogie par la nature et le dehors. Les recherches de ce programme apporteront une contribution majeure à la mission du Campus de la transition écologique et à la mise en oeuvre du Plan directeur d’aménagement, de conservation et de développement du parc Jean-Drapeau 2020-2030.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurence Brière;Éric Pineault;Walter Rei;René Audet;Mathieu Philibert;Paquito Bernard;Sophie Paquin;Florence Paulhiac;Daniel Chartier;Janosch Ortmann;Sylvain A. Lefèvre;Florence Paulhiac Scherrer;Florence Paulhiac

Student:

Partner:

Campus de la transition écologique;Société du parc Jean-Drapeau

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

How architects can contribute to International Development through knowledge sharing and empowering local architects

The purpose of this research is to respond to the following question: How can Canadian architects contribute to international sustainable development through knowledge sharing and empowering their international fellow practitioners?
The United Nations identifies building human capacity as an important requirement for achieving sustainable international development goals, including those set within its 2030 Agenda for people, planet and prosperity (UN, n.d.). On the other hand, Canada spends billions of dollars per year in international development aid. This research identifies ways to promote human capacity development through peer interactions within international development projects. Further, empowerment and knowledge sharing will improve the efficiency of such developments and ensure local professionals are able to sustain the project results long after the international team has left.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Robert Sinclair

Student:

Partner:

FNDA Architecture Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

A new generation of wear-resistant coatings consisting of high-entropy alloy matrix and complex carbides for the energy industry

Wear of materials is crucial to the energy industry, causing malfunction or failure of operation facilities, leading to high operation costs, short service life of facilities, and safety concerns. This project is proposed to develop a new class of highperformance
wear-resistant materials for protective coatings using high-entropy alloys as the matrix reinforced by complex carbides. The project is focused on crucial issues to achieve optimal combinations of high strength and high toughness, towards considerably increased wear resistance. The proposed research will be undertaken by four interns (postgraduate students) in collaboration with PDFs. The main outcomes will include prototype materials for commercial applications, guidelines for coating design, databases and standard for further development. The project is highly relevant to partners’ business and will directly benefit the partner organizations. Since wear is a common issue for machinery and facilities having dynamic contacts, the outcomes of the project would also generate foreseeable benefits to various Canadian industrial sectors, and consequently benefit Canadians in various aspects as mentioned earlier.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dongyang Li

Student:

Partner:

Trimay Wear Plate Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Visualizing change and adaptation: Integration of design practices and ecological realities

Our general objective is to develop a design language for mitigating and adapting to rapid environmental and ecological changes in built environments. This will come about through rigorous review of existing theory and practice in ecologically-motivated design, testing of new ideas, and application to built designs made possible by Christine Lintott Architects and colleagues in other design firms and the building industry. We propose to do this through the capacities of a Mitacs-based research program that will initially support two PhD students who will arrive at the University of Victoria in September 2021. They are trained internationally as architects and landscape architects, and bring diverse knowledge and new thinking to our work. We hope to expand this research collaboration with several additional graduate students over the next five years. We propose four subobjectives: 1) Produce a definitive synthesis of regenerative and ecological design ideas, precedents and practices under conditions of rapid change; 2) Developing visualization tools for citizen engagement (including repeat photography and oblique image analysis); 3) Test models of landscape resilience for urbanized and urbanizing regions; and, 4) Examine the lessons of decolonization for ecological restoration and regenerative design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Higgs

Student:

Partner:

Christine Lintott Architects

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Durable, temperature resistant omniphobic and dustphobic coatings

This project will investigate how to develop a multifunctional surface coating which exhibits both dust and liquid repellencies for industries like wood mills where fire hazard is a major challenge caused due to the accumulation of liquid contaminants and dust particles. The U of T / Eclipson Technologies team will develop durable coatings possessing these properties along with high temperature resistance that could be readily applied on application of various substrates (metals, glass, ceramic). This involves developing surface coatings, characterizing them. evaluating their performance and adopting approaches to improve their durability and high temperature resistance. Moreover, this coating will be tested in a wood mill industry to understand practical challenges and devise strategies to overcome those challenges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Golovin

Student:

Partner:

Eclipson Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Remote oxygenation monitoring of tissue

Remote evaluation of vital signs enables patient screening and frequent evaluation of health conditions in a clinic or at home. One of the main vital signs that can be associated with patient’s health and disease progression is (blood) oxygenation. Routine physical checkups at doctor’s offices include measuring oxygenation, with the use of a pulse oximeter . However, solutions for remote measurement of oxygenation, including smart-watches, are typically expensive and are not robust to patient movement.
The collaboration presented here, between the Levi lab (University of Toronto) and the Institut National d’Optique (INO), will design and demonstrate contactless optical measurement system for blood oxygenation that can map tissue oxygenation values from various distances using optical spectroscopy and miniature semiconductor light sources (Laser diodes, LEDs). This system will provide benefits in patient screening and in monitoring patients with chronic conditions such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ofer Levi

Student:

Partner:

National Optics Institute (QC);Institut national d'optique

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Role de l’axe ACLY-P300 en hypertension pulmonaire

L’hypertension artérielle pulmonaire (HTAP) est caractérisée par un rétrécissement progressif des petites artères pulmonaires puisque les cellules qui les tapissent se multiplient de façon incontrôlée. Ainsi, l’HTAP présente de fortes similitudes avec le cancer. En dépit d’une augmentation des connaissances, cette maladie demeure toujours incurable avec un taux de survie de 60% à 5 ans. Afin de survivre et se multiplier, les cellules de l’artère pulmonaire (AP) ont développé de nombreux mécanismes d’adaptation, incluant une modification de leur métabolisme. En raison des similitudes qui existent entre l’HTAP et le cancer, nous émettons l’hypothèse qu’une enzyme métabolique nommée ACLY est impliquée dans la modification du métabolisme et le caractère pro-survie des cellules de l’artère pulmonaire, conduisant à son rétrécissement et son obstruction progressive. Ainsi, nous espérons démontrer que les inhibiteurs d’ACLY sont des traitements prometteurs pour l’HTAP.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olivier Boucherat;Dr. François Potus

Student:

Partner:

HVL Therapeutics Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

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