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Building Better Readers: Characterizing the Neurological Effects of the SpellRead Reading Intervention Program

An estimated 15% of Canadian children have dyslexia, which limits their ability to reach their full potential as productive members of society. Over the past 20 years, Halifax Learning Centre (HLC) has developed and successfully delivered their SpellRead program to thousands of clients, and has seen very positive outcomes. As HLC looks to deploy this program nationally and in schools, they are seeking stronger empirical evidence for their program’s efficacy, and directions for improvement. To this end, the Accelerate computer science intern will develop and mine a new research database, based on HLC’s rich (but currently hard-to-access) data from over 3000 past clients. Paired with a brain imaging study of SpellRead conducted through the parallel NSERC ENGAGE study, this work will form a key contribution to HLC’s growth and the efficacy of their product, as well as setting the stage for continued collaboration with Dalhousie’s NeuroCognitive Imaging Lab.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aaron Newman

Student:

Partner:

Hfx Learning Centre Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

High-Fidelity Data Converters for Medical Diagnostics

Diagnostic medical devices work by translating our vital signs, such as neuron electrical activity and brain waves, into digital data that can be manipulated by a computer. High-speed computer processing improves diagnoses by presenting the physician with a numeric or graphical readout of important features extracted from the signal. Often, the ability of computer programs to extract the most diagnostically-relevant information is limited by how well the device can recognize and ignore background electrical noise common in clinical environments. Many emerging medical technologies (such as diagnosis of spinal cord injury using nerve conduction signals or automatically controlling anesthesia by detecting changes in brainwaves) could be improved if the measurement tools were more sensitive. In partnership with audio technology company ESS Technology, this project aims to design an analog-to-digital converter for recording these important yet weaker signals and allow them to explore the applications of their technologies to medical devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guy Dumont

Student:

Partner:

ESS British Columbia Holdings, Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Plasma Surface Modification for Passive Microfluidic Immunoassays

Sensoreal’s patented technology allows them to perform complicated laboratory health testing procedures on a plastic microchip the same size as a credit card. The testing is done through the use of passive microfluidics, in much the same way as trees transport water to their leaves. A blood sample is placed in the loading port of the microchip and allowed to pass through the different regions of the device. Doing so reproduces the procedures that a blood sample would go through when tested in a laboratory, however the whole process takes place in only 30 minutes. To make this technology work, the surface of the chip needs to be specially treated so that the blood flows through the entire chip. This research project will ensure that the microchip works perfectly every time, to ensure the most accurate blood tests possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault

Student:

Partner:

Sensoreal Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Nurses’ Role in Opioid Stewardship – Implications for health policy, practice advocacy) and patient safety – Year two

Multiple national strategies have been developed address the opioid crisis, however, Canada still remains the second largest consumer of prescription opioids. These drugs can have negative effects on consumers because they have addictive properties so therefore consumers may become addicted to these drugs if there are not taken as prescribed. For other drug classes such as antimicrobials, there have been programs developed to improve prescribing and hence patient outcomes. These programs are collectively called antimicrobial stewardship programs and usually promote cooperation between health professionals. However, most programs do not specify how nurses can promote safe prescribing and they usually are under-utilized in these programs, although it has been shown that these programs lead to better patient outcomes e.g. reduced hospital-acquired infections. For opioids, the concept of stewardship is quite ill-defined so not surprisingly nursing roles in opioid stewardship are also under-utilized. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lianne Patricia Jeffs

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Nurses Association

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Enhancing Nurses’ Role in Opioid Stewardship – Implications for health policy, practice advocacy) and patient safety

Multiple national strategies have been developed address the opioid crisis, however, Canada still remains the second largest consumer of prescription opioids. These drugs can have negative effects on consumers because they have addictive properties so therefore consumers may become addicted to these drugs if there are not taken as prescribed. For other drug classes such as antimicrobials, there have been programs developed to improve prescribing and hence patient outcomes. These programs are collectively called antimicrobial stewardship programs and usually promote cooperation between health professionals. However, most programs do not specify how nurses can promote safe prescribing and they usually are under-utilized in these programs, although it has been shown that these programs lead to better patient outcomes e.g. reduced hospital-acquired infections. For opioids, the concept of stewardship is quite ill-defined so not surprisingly nursing roles in opioid stewardship are also under-utilized. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lianne Patricia Jeffs

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Nurses Association

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

A new approach to assessing the potential for rockfall and landslide hazards

Rockfalls and landslides are a common hazard throughout Canada and have a significant impact on transport corridors, infrastructure associated with natural resources, and in public areas. The ability to determine the potential for slope failures is often limited either by the lack of a detailed assessment of the slope, or by the understanding of the processes driving failure. The latter is particularly limiting when considering small-scale movements, which potentially indicate subsequent, larger failures. Recent advances in monitoring capabilities via remote sensing techniques, such as laser scanners, have revealed evidence of patterns in rockfall and landslide events. The observations suggest that understanding small-scale processes and previous events are important for determining the timing and location of future failures. Analysis of these patterns has the potential to help in forecasting slope failure events. Here we propose to develop a new method to assess the potential for failure that considers the history of events and the way in which they evolve over time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Scott McDougall

Student:

Partner:

BGC Engineering Inc (BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Revisiting the personality-performance link

Studies on the personality-performance relationship have traditionally focused on relating stable individual differences in behaviour, thought, and emotion (i.e., personality traits) to stable individual differences in performance. Whereas this approach has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of the relationship between personality and performance, it is at odds with a recent call in the literature to conceptualize personality in a more dynamic and integrative way. In our research, we respond to this call by developing Personality Dynamics model, a novel theoretical framework that not only describes individual differences in habitual pattern of behaviour, thought, and emotion, but also in the extent to which behaviours, thoughts, and emotions vary, and in the swiftness with which they are pulled back in the direction of the baseline once they have deviated from it. Building on that, we propose a series of experience sampling studies that examine how stability and change in personality links with performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yannick Griep

Student:

Partner:

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Use of temporary, transvenous phrenic nerve pacer for diaphragm activation to mitigate lung and neurological injury in critically ill patients

A breathing machine (ventilator) is the foundation of the intensive care unit and has saved many lives but it is associated with lung injury. Collapse of parts of the lungs (atelectasis) is common in these patients due pressures on the lungs from lying flat for long periods of time. Alveoli are the small sacks in the lung where gas exchange occurs. During lung collapse, some of the alveoli close during part or all of the respiratory cycle. This opening and closing of the alveoli causes lung injury and alveoli that remain open can become over distended and injured. Minimizing atelectasis is an important part of protecting the lungs.
The diaphragm is the major muscle responsible for breathing and it reduces atelectasis by opening the lungs. Two phrenic nerves enervate the diaphragm. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Reynolds

Student:

Partner:

Lungpacer Medical Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental and Computational validation of the Power law model for characterizing the long term (creep) performance of a prestressed fiber reinforced composite/wood system

The proposed research builds on our previous work, for which an internship was awarded. The objectives of this main phase of our investigation conists of several numerical and experimental tasks with the main aim of establishing long-term performance of pre-stressed fiber-reinforced system (Tenlam), and the glulam beams reinforced with the system. Moreover, the aim is also to improve the performance of suck reinforced beams by establishing the most optimum combination of fibers and adhesive. We hope to numerically estalish the most optimum combination of aramid and glass fibers to generate the most cost-effective and creeep resilient pre-stressed reinforcement for the Tenlam. We also strive to establish a design curve for the most optimum number of layers of reinforcement as function of beam span length to limit the reinforcement stress to 40% of the ultimate strength of fiber strength. Additionally, we will fabricate actual Tenlam laoratory scale articles with various pre-stressing…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Farid Taheri

Student:

Partner:

S&P Durable Enterprises Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Occurrence and physicochemical properties of organic matter found in phosphate ores

The proposed research project is aimed at detailed characterization of organic matter found in certain types of phosphate ores. The presence of organic compounds often complicates the beneficiation of such ores to produce a fertilizer-grade phosphate concentrate. Further advances in the treatment of such problematic phosphate ores require a thorough understanding of the nature and distribution of organic compounds within phosphate ores.
Among the most advanced methods, the proposed research will employ a range of x-ray, infrared, and other spectroscopic methods to visualize the internal structure of ore grains, to generate maps of mineral components within grains of various sizes, and to visualize the presence and distribution of various organic compounds on mineral particles. These techniques are expected to provide complete information about associations of organics with different ore components. Finally, different ore treatment methods will be tested in order to investigate the release of organics by the tested ores.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marek Pawlik

Student:

Partner:

Albatross Environmental and Process Consulting Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Cited: Partnered Knowledge Mobilization Between Research and Media Organizations

Cited is a multimedia knowledge mobilization project that tells stories about research and academia to a general audience. It is experimenting with a unique co-creative approach that puts students, journalists, and researchers together on the same team. Mitacs interns will work with Cited media partners to conduct original research that builds interviews, documentaries, and other media related to research and academia—particularly in the social sciences and humanities. These will be distributed widely through a network of partners across North America.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Allen Sens;Peter Klein

Student:

Partner:

XE Live Broadcast

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Modélisation des catégories de blessures en considérant la présence d’un représentant légal

L’estimation des réserves est une tâche qu’un actuaire d’une compagnie d’assurances incendie, accidents et risques divers doit accomplir pour démontrer que sa compagnie est solvable. Avec le développement de la technologie et l’accessibilité à une plus grande disponibilité des données, les approches utilisant t l’information disponible pour chacun des paiements, de chacune des réclamations et de chacun des assurés sont devenues de plus en plus intéressantes pour les compagnies. En particulier, il est maintenant possible de catégoriser les blessures subies par les assurés et de suivre leur évolution au cours du temps. Liée à la présence ou non d’un représentant légal de l’assuré, cette information semble avoir un haut potentiel prédictif quant au niveau de risque que représente un dossier au sein du portefeuille de risques d’un assureur. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mathieu Pigeon

Student:

Partner:

Desjardins Assurances Générales

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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