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Validation of the biochemical activity of SSAT-1 in cancer biopsies

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide with approximately 8 million deaths in 2010. Most cancer treatments lack specificity and affect the whole body, with toxic effects on both cancerous and normal cells. Then, there is a need for an early diagnostic test to treat patients before the development of cancer. Biomark Technologies Inc. has found that the expression levels of the gene coding for the protein SSAT-1, which is involved in basic metabolism, is up-regulated in cancer cells. In this project, human cancer biopsies from different tissues (e.g. brain, prostate, breast, and lung) will be analyzed biochemically to validate the up-regulation of SSAT-1 in cancer cells. This test can be used for monitoring population at risk (e.g. smokers) as well as patients after cancer treatment. Then, the use of this test will benefit not only patients with cancer but also will alleviate the burden to the Health Authorities by reducing the need for invasive techniques as a pre-screening. Results of this project are necessary before an extensive clinical trial for the test development planned by the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Horacio Bach

Student:

Partner:

BioMark Technologies Inc (Richmond, BC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Cultural Identity through the Urban and Architectural Space in Mexico City: The Case of La Villa de Guadalupe

Located in Mexico City, La Villa de Guadalupe is very important place for Mexicans and it is the shrine where the original painting of Virgin of Guadalupe is preserved. She appeared to a native Mexican, Juan Diego in 1531. Both, the sacred place and the Virgin are considered the most important icons for the Mexican culture and they represent the unification between the native’s culture and Spanish culture. Over centuries the urban-architectural space at La Villa has transformed radically affecting the cultural identity of its inhabitants. This thesis aims to study the complex urban-architectural space at La Villa de Guadalupe and analyze its effects in
shaping the Mexican cultural identity, particularly from 1976 to 2014. I am expecting to publish some articles as well as generate international collaboration and new debate with other scholars in order to better understand the relationship between cultural-identity and the urbanarchitectural space in La Villa de Guadalupe.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alena Robin

Student:

Partner:

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Real-time Special Effects Visualization (RTFX)

Computer hardware and software have revolutionized the film production process and brought about a world of visually rich, immersive videogames. These days, computers are used both in the process of developing preliminary visualizations of cinematic sequences (known as previsualization) and on-set to preview computer-generated environments and visual effects (known as virtual production). These techniques allow the creative and technical teams involved with a production to build a shared vision of its style and aesthetic, while also ironing out logistical and mechanical issues that would otherwise be discovered on-set. Our research will explore how to make previsualization and virtual production more efficient, more flexible and more expressive by tying the 3D animation software Houdini with game engines like Unreal. It also provides a testbed for exploring larger problems in computer-assisted film production, notably the ability to automate some of the decisions made by cinematographers in placing and moving cameras.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Craig Kaplan

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Robust identification of protected heath information in unstructured data

A large amount of health-related data is available only in unstructured form (“free-form text”). To share this data for secondary purposes, it is necessary to de-identify it to protect against inappropriate disclosure of personal health information (PHI). PARAT Text is Privacy Analytics’ de-identification software for unstructured data. It automatically discovers and marks PHI in a variety of document formats using gazetteers and a bunch of rules. The primary problem of this tool is that it is limited by the knowledge of human experts, gazetteer lists, and lack of contextual knowledge. I plan to explore unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning approaches to make the PHI discovery more robust. This will provide elegant and robust methods to deal with text data, which might broaden the partner organization’s consumer base.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diana Inkpen

Student:

Partner:

Privacy Analytics

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

The Evolving Legal Services Research Project, Stage II

How can public legal education and information help Canadians get justice in our legal system? With the demand for publicly-funded or low-cost legal services far exceeding the supply, public legal education and information (PLEI) is filling an increasingly larger role in meeting the legal needs of people with modest means. Yet we know relatively little about how PLEI can help people deal with their legal problems. examines the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems. The research, conducted at legal clinics, will look at PLEI provided at various points along the legal services continuum, with the goal of identifying when PLEI is effective on a primarily stand-alone or self-help basis and when a fuller continuum of legal services, including PLEI, is required. This research will provide Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario (CLEO) with insights into the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lesley Jacobs

Student:

Partner:

Community Legal Education Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a precise and robust INS/GPS navigation system using low cost MEMS sensors dedicated to autonomous multirotor applications

ARA Robotique is a company specialized in the development of a state-of-art flight controller for light multirotor UAV. One of the critical subsystems of a flight controller is its navigation system which measures the position and the orientation of the vehicle which is then used to ensure the flight stability and to operate the UAV. To complete its flight controller design, ARA Robotique is interested in developing a robust and accurate Inertial Navigation System (INS) based on low cost Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. The disadvantage with low cost inertial sensors is that their measurements are affected by deterministic errors and stochastic noise that causes the INS solution to diverge rapidly. The goal of the project is to design an aiding system based on the Extended Kalman filter to combine the INS with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal to ensure convergence and elimination of the measurement noise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ouassima Akhrif

Student:

Partner:

ARA Robotique

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Technology; Other

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Développement de détergents ou mélanges de tensioactifs/surfactants biodégradables à base d’alkyles polyglucosides

Dans les dernières années plusieurs déversements de produits pétroliers ont conduit à la contamination d’un grand nombre de terrains au Canada. Actuellement, les bio-surfactants sont utilisés dans plusieurs techniques de réhabilitation de sol grâce à leur faible toxicité et leur biodégradabilité. Les bio-surfactants sont des surfactants produits par une diversité de micro-organismes afin de solubiliser puis fixer (micelle) des substrats hydrophobes. Les Alkyl poly glucosides (APGs) sont des surfactants synthétisés à partir de produits naturels qui en combinaison avec d’autres surfactants peuvent diminuer la tension superficielle de l’eau de 72 à 0,01mN/m ou moins, en fonction du type de surfactant utilisé. Le projet ci-présent vise la formulation d’un surfactant à base d’APGs et de surfactants biodégradables d’alcools linéaires éthoxylés permettant la solubilisation de produits pétroliers tels que l’essence, le diesel et le mazout. Le développement de ce produit permettra d’étudier les interactions synergiques entre l’APGs et les alcools linéaires éthoxylés, et d’améliorer l’efficacité des techniques de réhabilitation utilisées par Enutech.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alfred Jaouich

Student:

Partner:

Enutech

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Mental Health: Strategies for Resilience

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training is a 12 hour course that was developed in 2001 for health care workers to better support clinical patients in mental health crisis. Evaluations of the training indicate that individuals who take this training improve knowledge of mental health disorders (e.g., psychotic disorders) and are better able to provide triaged mental health care. However, the program has limited use as it was developed for health care providers and focuses on extreme events of crisis. This post doctoral fellowship will revamp the MHFA based on current resilience research for university students on university campuses and offer the course through the Canadian Mental Health Association. The new focus will shift the emphasis of mental health training modules from a recovery model that is reactive and an approach that is didactic to a resilience model that is proactive and an approach that promotes interactive learning.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Hutchinson

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association (Halifax Dartmouth)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Elevate

Efficiency Analysis of UV-Initiated AOP using Computational Modeling

Advanced Oxidation processes are exploited for treating micropollutants in drinking water.Conventional UV-H2O2 based AOPs generate hydroxyl radicals that can directly attack and degrades the most persistent pollutants even at very low concentration.However, these processes are energy intensive and kinetically inefficient as the amount of UV energy used to generate hydroxyl radicals is minimal. To make UV-based processes commercially successful, their energy consumption must be minimized and reactor performance optimized. In this study, we will compare the process efficiency of four different UV-initiated AOPs(three hypothetical ones, e.g. batch, CSTR and plug flow reactors, and a commercially-viable one made available by Trojan technologies) under different operating conditions. The processes modeling will be carried out by modeling of the radiation, hydrodynamic and chemical reactions. Moreover the patented I-jet reactor will be used for the experimental study. The results could be used to optimize the water treatment plant designs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ajay Ray

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Our Home and Native Resources: Community planning and sustainable development to build prosperity in Wasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations

This Indigenous participatory research will work with community members from Garden Hill and Wasagamack First Nations to plan community development and work towards achieving sustainable livelihoods in their traditional territories. Research will consider traditional land use and occupancy, and how branding, community development, capacity-building and social enterprise development can lead to self-sustenance and prosperity. Future plans and enterprises must ensure a good life for these First Nation communities and consider opportunities for the youth, and women. This capacity-building will assist community members to engage with the Wabanong Nakaygum Okimawin (WNO) (Ojibway words meaning: “East Side of the Lake Governance”), East Side of Lake Winnipeg Large Area Transportation Network Study and other economic and human development activities which are directly related to traditional land use. Some enterprises identified by the communities thus far are healing centres, woodlots, alternative energy, farms and food markets, fishery co-operatives, tourism, and hunting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Thompson

Student:

Partner:

AKI Energy Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

Predictive Models for the Manitoba Bio-Economy Atlas

The intern will develop a multi-year model of a biomass supply chain for Manitoba, which will comprise the back end for a web based Bio-Economy Atlas tool. The tool will create feasibility level assessments of the volume, consistency, variability, accessibility and logistics costs of the biofuel resource in Manitoba, including both conventional sources, such as agricultural residue, and unconventional sources, such as riparian biomass and cattails. The focus on cattails will allow for an assessment of the potential benefits of removing phosphorous, which is negatively impacting the health of the Lake Winnipeg ecosystem, through the harvesting of cattails. The intern will focus on the uncertainty inherent in the model and apply forecasting, simulation and stochastic modeling and optimization to quantify the variability associated with plans and estimates of costs and environmental impacts of the biomass harvest and supply chain.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Attahiru Alfa

Student:

Partner:

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

Design and Control of a Reconfigurable Packaging System

DCZS Intelligent Systems Inc. focuses on providing solutions for industrial automation as well as on facilitating the need of research facilitates and universities. DCZS is currently developing a Box Packaging Automation System (BPAS), targeting the growing needs in packaging/assembling processes in industry. Currently, BPAS is designed based on certain box packaging style and limited size range, and is not versatile for packing boxes with different creasing pattern. To meet seasonal demand from different end customers, a rapid change of the folding tools is required. Therefore, the design and control of a reconfigurable packaging system is proposed. This project concerns the development a reconfigurable packaging line as well as its adaptive control scheme to overcome the aforementioned challenging. As such, it is expected to result in both a technological advancement for enhancing DCZS’s R&D capability as well as an increase of their competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris Zhang

Student:

Partner:

DCZS Intelligent Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

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