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Improving Models for User-Specific State Assessment: A Real-time Querying and Learning Technique

Advances in wearable physiological sensors can now potentially provide critical information about human functional states in real-time, in order to support performance, learning, and safety in various work, training and leisure-related contexts. It has been observed that models trained for human state prediction in laboratory suffer from drastic performance loss when deployed on subjects unseen by the model. In this project, we propose to use systems made of multiple models, and calibrate decisions made with these pre-trained models on new users. For instance, integration of the models will be dynamically reweighted for a new human subject using the system according to similarity and uncertainty measures. One element of novelty lies in adding the possibility to query users to improve the combination of models. It is expected that this methodology will improve performance over current models for new human subjects. This will make Thales’s human functional state prediction platform more robust and able to adapt
dynamically to new users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné

Student:

Partner:

Thales Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of the Elder Abuse Prevention and Response Services Program (EAPRS) of Renfrew County

Elder abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, financial abuse, deprivation, neglect) is a pressing social concern. Approximately 10% of seniors in Canada are victims of some form of abuse each year (Department of Justice, 2004). Elder abuse impacts all social, cultural and economic groups. Prevention programs have been put in place to address the underlying causes of abuse, stop it and reduce the prevalence and incidences of abuse. However, the body of research on the effectiveness of elder abuse prevention and the consequences of abuse is sparse. Needed is research that identifies best practices and lessons learned in preventing elder abuse in Canada, and the proposed study will address this question through a particular focus on Renfrew County.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bradley Cousins

Student:

Partner:

Carefor Health and Community Services

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Transcoder-aided multipoint real-time video conferencing over heterogeneous networks

Often, a mobile terminal has barely enough resources (bitrate and processing power) to support a good quality real-time videoconferencing session with another user. There is a growing need and interest for multi-party videoconferencing but it requires increased resources that these terminals don’t possess. In this project, we investigate the use of a smart transcoder to enable real-time video conferencing between multiple heterogeneous terminals with limited resources. Inserting a transcoder between the end-points is expected to resolve the terminals’ bitrate and processing limitations but at the expense of increased delay making real-time an even bigger challenge. To solve this issue, we will enhance technologies to monitor bitrate and adjust dynamically the various video-encoding parameters to meet the delay constraints while optimizing the quality at each destination terminal. The results of this research will lead to a robust multi-party real-time videoconferencing system between resource-limited terminals; something still lacking today. This will enrich Vantrix’s video product offering and permit a postdoc to extend his PhD research on bitrate estimation and rate control and apply it to a cutting-edge application.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stéphane Coulombe

Student:

Partner:

Vantrix Corporation;École de technologie supérieure

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Improved Automated Tracking of Workouts for Fitness Facilities

Fitness tracking is the process of tracking the fitness-related activity and metrics of a person such as heart rate, distance walked, and consumption of calories. Emerging and specialized wireless sensors and devices also enable the tracking of movements performed during workouts in gyms. This project will help improve the motion tracking experience by reporting workout activities to gym customers, in real-time and in usable ways (via new auditory feedback and enhanced user interfaces) on their Android smart phones. Additional features include better handling of background processing on the latest Android operating system as well as event logging enabling continuous improvement of the system. Gymtrack Inc. will benefit from this project as its resulting app for Android will improve the overall user experience and its improvements to the basic infrastructure will simplify the introduction of future features, across platforms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Amyot

Student:

Partner:

GymTrack

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a novel processing method for stabilization, extraction and bio-refining of value-added functional ingredients from marine by-products for use in feed and food products.

This research will look to extract value from marine food processing by-products through development of green chemistry technologies, to generate valuable bio-products that may be used in a health prevention role in animals and humans. This will benefit existing food processors by addressing underutilized resources, add value in the partner industry and provide tools for Canadians in the future to access affordable functional food ingredients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Beth Mason

Student:

Partner:

Saputo (NS)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Clean Technology; Biotechnology

University:

Cape Breton University

Program:

Accelerate

Strengthen Your Health: Interdisciplinary Intervention Program for Promoting an Active and Healthy Lifestyle Among Students

There are a number of factors that can impact ones level of physical activity. Interpersonal, intrapersonal, and environmental factors are all important when looking at how active or sedentary an individual can be. For schoolchildren, it is important to promote active behaviors that will lead to a healthy lifestyle. By creating a tool to identify factors that influence sedentary behaviors, it can help to promote interventions to encourage students to be more active and more fit. One of the factors of interest is the relationship between being overweight and screen time, and the factors that mediate this relationship. The analysis of this relationship will provide insight into how these factors are related, and hopefully how sedentary behaviors (including screen time) can be reduced.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linda Rohr

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Santa Catarina - to merge

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Invariant Chain- Influenza A Fusion Adenovirus Vaccine Using M1 Gene

During primary immune responses, dendritic cells (DC) are the principal antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that initiate adaptive immune responses. DCs present pathogenic antigens (such as virus, bacterium and tumour) to induce CD4 and CD8 T cell responses via MHC-I and MHC-II pathways respectively. Recently, our lab has discovered that CD74 molecules not only promote MHC-II but also MHC I-antigen presentation. The MHC I-presentation is essential for CD8+ T cell mediated responses against viruses, tumours, self-antigens and allografts. This study is based on the discovery that CD74 mediates trafficking of MHC-I from the endoplasmic reticulum of DCs to endolysosomal compartments for loading with peptides and therefore CD74 has a critical function in DC presentation for priming MHC-I mediated CTL responses. This study chooses conserved influenza matrix 1 protein (M1) as antigen further CD74-antigen fusion constructs will be produced to further promote immune responses against influenza virus. This proposal will provide a potential influenza vaccine for BioMmune Technologies Inc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wilfred Jefferies

Student:

Partner:

Pascal Biosciences Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing and modelling climate – pollutant interactions in marine food webs in the Pacific and coastal British Columbia, Canada

Healthy ocean food webs are key to the socio-economic viability of coastal communities in British Columbia. The Vancouver Aquarium’s Coastal Ocean Research Institute (CORI) was established in 2014 to provide an ongoing assessment of the health of Canada’s oceans. This project supports this strategic priority of the CORI initiative and advances the organization’s mission to conserve aquatic resources though display, interpretation, education, research and activities. This study will develop new sustainable Environmental Quality (EQ) objectives that will allow managers to explore the implications of different pollution abatement options on the value of ‘downstream’ coastal resources such as fisheries. Climate change and ocean pollution present a risk to the economies of coastal communities in British Columbia. New EQ Objectives that incorporate economic impacts associated with different management actions will improve the resilience of coastal communities into the future and advance the overall aim of enabling sustainable economic development on Canada’s west coast.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Cheung

Student:

Partner:

Ocean Wise

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Roche Lake Eutrophication study

Roche Lake is the Roche Lake is the largest lake among 12 highly productive water bodies in the Thomson-Nicola region of BC’s southern Interior Plateau. It has experienced algal blooms over the past four years indicating a change in nutrient loadings to the lake. Roche Lake suffered a winterkill of more than 50% of fish due to low oxygen levels during the 2013-2014 winter, with low oxygen levels persisting throughout summer 2014. The algal blooms and impacts on fish populations indicate a significant level of eutrophication that needs to be addressed. The postdoctoral fellow will conduct a water quality study to evaluate causes of eutrophication in Roche Lake and evaluate possible management strategies to remediate conditions in the lake, as well as prevent other lakes in the region from experiencing negative environmental conditions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Johnson

Student:

Partner:

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC;Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Water; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Organo-Tellurium Supramolecular Building Blocks

The student will travel to the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Brazil, for 12 weeks to develop the chemical synthesis of new organo-tellurium compounds whose molecules will be used as building blocks for large self-assembled structures with functional properties. This project will combine the expertise of I. Vargas-Baca (McMaster) and A L. Braga, hence starting collaboration in between their groups. This project will be a cornerstone in the graduate research project of the student. Fundamental knowledge derived from these investigations is central to many areas of materials chemistry, from open molecular frameworks capable of gas sequestration to molecular recognition and materials for photonic applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ignacio Vargas Baca

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Santa Catarina - to merge

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Improving mining efficiency through sustainable recovery of energy

Improving mining efficiency through sustainable recovery of energyA significant step towards sustainable mining would be non-traditional, but productive uses for the mine. In particular, uses that would allow them to provide value and jobs to the community both during mining and afteroperations cease. To help in achieving this goal there is potential positive use of both closed and operational mines to provide renewable geothermal energy from their mine waters. The relatively stable temperature of mine water can be exploited by the use of geothermal recovery loops coupled to heat pumps. During the winter, heat can be extracted from the water and supplied for space heating, and in the summer the process can be reversed, and the heat transferred back to the water to provide cooling. This project will combine direct measurements within mines with modeling to determine a feasible design for geothermal energy recovery in Canadian hard rock mines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Ashley Scott

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

Federation of heterogeneous data sources for the linked data back-end in the Gold Fish mobile application

The overall goal is to create the backend of a mobile personal organizer that suggests professional events (conferences, colloquia, workshops, exhibitions) and contacts to establish while attending events, to members. Currently, the target audience are professionals in the biomedical domain. Given the need to feed data and meta-data from heterogeneous sources into the application, the industrial partner chose to implement the backend using semantic data management technologies. The main challenge at this stage is therefore to create the database (triplestore) that federates the chosen sources (social network profiles, event descriptions, domain terminologies, standards, etc.). Tools designed and co-designed by members of the academic team will be used and improved during this stage, in particular, methods for matching schemas and ontologies (domain models) originating in independent sources as well as for recognizing the alternative representations of the same entity (e.g. event) in independently created datasets. Thus, the academic team brings its joint expertise in the semantic technologies and its tools to the project that thoroughly benefits the industrial partner.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Petko Valtchev

Student:

Partner:

Goldfish Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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