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NaLnF4 nanoparticles as high-sensitivity reagents for mass cytometry immunoassays

One of the goals of modern bioanalytical chemistry is the simultaneous (multiplexed) detection of multiple biomarkers in individual cells. Biomarkers are defined as characteristic proteins, genes, or small molecules that can be measured and evaluated as indicators of normal biological or pathological state of a cell. Mass cytometry is a recently developed technique developed by Fluidigm Inc to detect multiple biomarkers. Detecting fewer number of biomarker copies is essential because we can identify for instance a cancer causing biomarker at an early stage. This is important for detecting diseases in their early stage of development. The current reagents (polymers-metal tags) used in mass cytometry do not have the sensitivity to perform the task of detecting fewer number of biomarker copies. To achieve this task we plan to employ nanoparticles (the size of a nanoparticle is a million times smaller than the thickness of single human hair) which will have a much higher sensitivity when compared to current reagents. Once this reagent is developed the company will be able to sell them in the market for research purposes. The intern will learn a great deal about mass cytometry and different biological functions and cancer causing biomarkers in cells.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mitchell Winnik

Student:

Partner:

Fluidigm Canada

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

La transformation de la culture organisationnelle d’une caisse Desjardins: le cas de la Caisse de Granby-Haute-Yamaska

La caisse Desjardins a subi une mutation profonde sous la pression d’un environnement ayant de valeurs différentes de celles du paradigme coopératif. Elle doit travailler à rendre visible la distinction coopérative qui la différentie du monde bancaire. Elle veut renouveler le sens de la coopération auprès de ses gestionnaires et de ses employés. Pour ce faire, elle doit transformer sa culture organisationnelle en s’assurant de rester alignée sur les valeurs et les principes coopératifs dans le contexte contemporain actuel. Ce projet de recherche, de nature qualitative, sert à comprendre, en temps réel, le processus de transformation de la culture organisationnelle. Cette étude de cas met en évidence le rôle et les stratégies adoptées par les gestionnaires et le leader pour effectue ladite transformation. Les résultats ajouteront aux connaissances académiques sur le changement de culture organisationnelle dans une coopérative en s’appuyant sur des données empiriques. Ils seront également pour le milieu de recherche et pour les décideurs du milieu coopératif.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Lafleur

Student:

Partner:

Caisse Desjardins de Granby-Haute-Yamaska

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Husky Lloydminster Upgrader Water Risk Assessment

This project will review water source alternatives for the Husky Lloydminster Upgrader Complex. These alternatives will be evaluating in terms of their relative economic, technical, social and environmental risks. The framework developed will provide a basis for conducting
similar water risk assessments for other operations. The interns will research alternatives, risks, and develop the assessment framework.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Mulligan

Student:

Partner:

Husky Energy (Calgary, AB);Golder Associates (Montréal, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Wholesale trade

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Cloud based Big Data Processing Architecture for Internet of Things

As future IoT infrastructure generates massive data in excess of exabytes, a unified architecture to handle Big Data is highly essential. Development of unified Big Data processing architecture for IoT infrastructure will provide a scalable and standard solution that addresses the problem of continuous increase in the volume of Big Data. Cloud networks provide necessary platforms as services that are needed for Big Data processing. Services offered through cloud networks are cost effective and energy efficient, which are essential objectives of
future green communications. In fact, a unified cloud based architecture for IoT infrastructure can be created for efficient handling of Big Data. For this reason, a Big Data Management solution for the cloud based architecture will be developed in this project and will be investigated from an operational perspective. In particular, we will propose data analysis and security schemes and they will be incorporated on a cloud platform. Such a study is directly beneficial for Mircom, the partner organization. It is struggling to manage inventory and
as a result working capitals due to an ever-expanding product line. Its manufacturing workflows will be better handled with the help of wireless asset tagging of all its assemblies and sub-assemblies. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abdallah Shami

Student:

Partner:

Mircom

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Monitoring System for Predictive Energy Management and Maintenance of PV Systems

Existing techniques rely on conventional techniques, which are insufficient and do not ensure increased and optimal utilization of freely available PV energy. We propose predictive energy management and preventive maintenance through monitoring system for PV systems, taking futuristic PV potential and weather forecasts into account in association with the operational parameters of the PV system. This system will optimize operations of off, on, and mix grid operations with higher proportions of PV energy. In addition, maintenance will be predicted to minimize unplanned downtimes of the PV system. Suitable off-the-shelf components will be used for the system with the proposed algorithm to deliver cost effective solution. The proposed research will minimize operational cost, enable efficient distribution and utilization of energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emission. The results of this research will potentially facilitate cost effective integration of PV systems. Concept can easily be extended to other RE and other technologies such as lighting and retrofitting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kaamran Raahemifar

Student:

Partner:

Green Management Group Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Stepping Out. The impact of exercise on young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The overall research project undertaken by the University of Calgary graduate students will examine the effects of exercise on young adults 18-35 years of age with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Areas of investigation include cerebral blood flow changes, as well as sleep behavioral improvements. By doing research such as this, we will justify the use of exercise as a non-invasive means of treating and managing ASD, and additionally, establish exercise protocol templates that can be replicated in other universities and fitness facilities across the country. This initiative will address the enormous need for exercise and community programs for this underserved population. There is a need to further all the positive anecdotal evidence from previous pilot projects and create a database of information on individuals with ASD in an effort to advance the knowledge and improve the current care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Penny Werthner

Student:

Partner:

Goodlife Fitness;Twenty-Two Consulting

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation de la performance des écloseries de homard américain par un régime alimentaire proche du milieu naturel

Le but de ce projet de recherche est d’améliorer les rendements de production des écloseries de homard américain en introduisant un nouveau régime alimentaire. Cette alimentation est basée sur le régime alimentaire des larves en milieu naturel : le zooplancton. En effet, les copépodes représentent une source de nourriture plus riche en éléments essentiels que les artémies et que la nourriture inerte. Ainsi nous proposons au travers de ces deux unités de stage de valider la technique de production de copépodes de qualité en quantité suffisante pour satisfaire les besoins d’une écloserie. Nous chercherons également à souligner les différences de performances entre les larves nourries de copépodes d’une part, et d’artémies enrichis, d’autre part. La validation de ce nouveau régime alimentaire sera une avancée pour l’industrie du homard américain, permettant l’ensemencement en milieu naturel d’un plus grand nombre de post-larves de meilleure qualité physiologique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Réjean Tremblay

Student:

Partner:

Le Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du sud de la Gaspésie

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

A Virtualized Cloud-based Multi-Tenant Environment for Developing Software Defined Network Products

The proposed research will develop a virtualized cloud-based multi-tenant environment tor testing and developing software defined networking products on a national scale. Similar centers are being built in other jurisdictions (Japan, Europe) but this is the first such
initiative in Canada. We are partnering with CENGN, which is a consortium of industry partners who wish to create a shared ecosystem where new product development can be supported and shared within the consortium. They will benefit from this research because the research environment this project will support will allow them to develop, test, and integrate commercial products and solutions. More importantly, interns trained within the program will be trained and gain experience in technologies that will benefit the R&D efforts of CENGN and its ecosystem of partners. It is expected that many of the interns will go on to jobs at CENGN partners or customers

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liam Peyton;Azzedine Boukerche;Trevor Hall;Hussein Mouftah

Student:

Partner:

Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Social Privacy

Providing personalized content can be of great value to both users and vendors. However, effective personalization hinges on collecting large amounts of personal data about users. Give the exponential growth in online activities in social networking sites; they can be a great platform to gather and analyze such information. In spite of the considerable number of user profiles with publicly available data, previous studies have shown that social media users often face difficulties in specifying the privacy policies that are consistent with their privacy concerns and attitudes. Therefore, even when the data is available, it is necessary to employ other techniques to predict users’ privacy preferences. In this project, we aim to make use of users’ social profiles and activities to build predictive models and to automatically discover their desired privacy settings for purpose of personalization and direct marketing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lu Xiao

Student:

Partner:

InfoTrellis

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Integrated Harvesting Technologies to Improve Berry Recovery and Quality

The overall objective of the proposed initiative is to develop a novel, automated and integrated harvesting system that will identify the root causes of increased loses; increase berry picking efficiency and product quality. The increased harvesting losses of wild blueberry crop during harvesting have pushed the growers and processors within the industry to set a goal, to increase the harvestable yields of wild blueberries by 33% to justify ever increasing cost of agrochemicals. Currently, there are 15 to 25% fruit yield losses during the harvesting with existing commercial blueberry harvester. Massive amount of data collected over the past 5 years will be interpreted, gleaned, organized and analyzed to identify the factors responsible for fruit losses during mechanical harvesting. A user friendly interface will be developed by considering the spatial variations in plant parameters, crop and fruit characteristics, yield, topography, environmental conditions and mechanical aspects by employing mathematical modeling and C++ programming. Interface development for mechanical harvesting of blueberries will help the farmers to choose operational settings of harvester to improve berry picking efficiency. Improved harvesting efficiency can reduce fruit losses and contribute millions of dollars to provincial as well as the federal economy every year.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qamar Zaman

Student:

Partner:

Doug Bragg Enterprises Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Analyse rétrospective de l’activité de dimensionnement de projets de véhicule de transport (voiture et véhiculeindustriel

Des représentations digitales humaines (RDH) 3D et manipulables dans l’environnement natif d’un outil de CAO, comme CATIA, ont l’avantage de permettre la réalisation de simulation dynamique. De plus, aujourd’hui les avancées technologiques constituent une piste prometteuse pour dimensionner le produit très tôt dans le processus et pour explorer à moindre cout différentes avenues
conceptuelles. Si l’on souhaite favoriser l’émergence d’outils en meilleure adéquation avec leur travail et qui permettent de dimensionner convenablement les produits, nous devons déterminer leurs besoins le plus vite possible. Il est alors essentiel de mieux connaitre le travail des designers et ses déterminants lors des activités de dimensionnement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steve Vezeau

Student:

Partner:

Dassault Systèmes

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Automotive; Aerospace; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Transport phenomena inside and across membrane in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has emerged as an eminent technology to address today’s growing energy crisis and environmental issues. PEMFC technology faces multiple challenges before widespread commercialization. Water transport inside a PEMFC has a significant impact on the cell performance and durability. In this internship a numerical model is implemented to study the
transport phenomena inside and across the membrane of a PEMFC. The numerical model will be used to investigate the effects of cell operating temperature and current on water distribution on both cathode and anode sides, as well as inside the membrane. The present internship will expand the modelling capabilities of FC-APPOLO, an in-house open-source application package for simulation of performance and durability of PEMFC developed by Ballard power systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Erik Kjeang

Student:

Partner:

Ballard Power Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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