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Resilience of modern skyscrapers subject to natural hazards

The structural performance of skyscrapers subjected to natural hazards such as strong winds and earthquakes has significant effects on the resilience of a city because of the recent boom in the construction of skyscrapers around the world. However, resilience is currently not explicitly considered in the design of tall buildings. Studies show that modern tall buildings can suffer significant damage due to natural hazards and they might need to be closed for up to 2–3 years for repair. This has serious socio-economic repercussions. Therefore, this research is first aimed at developing a comprehensive framework for evaluating resilience of modern skyscrapers. The research will then investigate methods of enhancing tall-building resilience using the Viscoelastic Coupling Damper, which is Kinetica’s ground breaking technology. Kinetica is a leader in the design of tall buildings and the findings of this research will create working platforms for Kinetica to enhance its competitiveness worldwide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Evan Bentz

Student:

Partner:

Kinetica Risk

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Advanced Manufacturing; Construction

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Training, engagement, and retention: a ‘learning region’ approach to rural youth

Youth are tomorrow’s leaders, parents, professionals, and workers, as well as today’s assets. However, the disengagement and out-migration of rural youth are critical challenges for rural communities and regions. In the Lower Columbia and surrounding West Kootenay-Boundary region these challenges are compounded by struggles to meet existing labour force needs. This project will review, summarize, and distribute existing information related to youth training, engagement, and retention to help inform relevant actors in the region. By improving their understanding the Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation (LCIC) and other actors will be in a better position to more effectively support and engage youth within the region, as well as addressing workforce development challenges. This project will result in a tailor made, detailed action plan to help the LCIC take a collaborative and regional approach to the training, engagement, and retention of youth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Markey

Student:

Partner:

Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Mining; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Identifying the molecular mechanisms of neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation and screening NETosis-suppressing drugs to treat cystic fibrosis lung disease – Year Two

Recent discoveries show that neutrophils mainly die by formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in Cystic Fibrosis airways. Therefore determining mechanism and identifying FDA-approved drugs that inhibit NETosis could provide novel options to treat CF lung disease. We aimed to do the comparative gene expression analysis during NETosis induced by different NET inducing agents (PMA,LPS,A23187) in CF neutrophils. Furthermore to translate the findings for therapeutic targets, screening of large scale drugs, kinases and specific pathways inhibitors associated with NETosis are required. When therapies are developed and tested, It provides opportunities to train our healthcare professionals in the use of these drugs and therapies, assists in their dissemination and generates economic benefits. I have confident that our research findings would develop commercially applicable products; give back the economical benefits and commercial ventures to the organization (Cystic Fibrosis Canada). Over all findings would be definitely uplifting the socio-economical status of the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nades Palaniyar

Student:

Partner:

Cystic Fibrosis Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Identifying the molecular mechanisms of neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation and screening NETosis-suppressing drugs to treat cystic fibrosis lung disease

Recent discoveries show that neutrophils mainly die by formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in Cystic Fibrosis airways. Therefore determining mechanism and identifying FDA-approved drugs that inhibit NETosis could provide novel options to treat CF lung disease. We aimed to do the comparative gene expression analysis during NETosis induced by different NET inducing agents (PMA,LPS,A23187) in CF neutrophils. Furthermore to translate the findings for therapeutic targets, screening of large scale drugs, kinases and specific pathways inhibitors associated with NETosis are required. When therapies are developed and tested, It provides opportunities to train our healthcare professionals in the use of these drugs and therapies, assists in their dissemination and generates economic benefits. I have confident that our research findings would develop commercially applicable products, give back the economical benefits and commercial ventures to the organization (Cystic Fibrosis Canada). Over all findings would be definitely uplifting the socio-economical status of the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nades Palaniyar

Student:

Partner:

Cystic Fibrosis Canada;University of Toronto (Hospital for Sick Children)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Monitoring functional recovery in acquired brain injury – Standardization of fMRI data acquisition and analysis

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive technology for examining functional activity in the brain. It is widely used in research, but is not yet part of routine patient care in clinics. To date, most of the fMRI applications collect imaging data at a single time point. This has limited the potential of the method as a diagnostic tool to monitor changes over time, which is needed especially for the evaluation of rehabilitation and pharmaceutics treatments effect of patients with acquired brain injury such as traumatic brain injury and stroke. Such multiple time studies are technically challenging because they request following of standardized procedures, in terms of both data acquisition and analysis, to minimize possible changes induced by inconsistent operations. Our proposed research will develop optimized procedures to acquire and analyze fMRI data consistently for long-term brain function monitoring. Through repeated MRI tests, brain functional changes will be linked with rehabilitation outcomes during recovery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan D’Arcy;Xiaowei Song

Student:

Partner:

Philips Healthcare (Markham, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

An economic evaluation of sulfonylurea medication, hypoglycemic episodes and falls in older adults with type 2 diabetes

Drug use in older persons is a major public health concern. Even though therapeutic drugs are beneficial for patients’ health in terms of survival or quality of life, patients aged >65 years have a greater risk of developing drug-related complications. Such complications may be fatal because of the high frequency of both multiple pathologies andpolypharmacy in these patients, who consume a major proportion of healthcare resources.The present work aims to evaluate the impact of treatment with a widely used antidiabetic drug (sulfonylureas) inolder diabetic patients on avoidable hospitalizations for hypoglycemia, falls, and fractures. This economic study will beconducted using data from the diabetes-specific Quebec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System database. For Merck Canada Inc, the present work will play a key role in helping evolve research in the area of pharmacogeriatrics related to diabetes in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cara Tannenbaum

Student:

Partner:

Merck Canada Inc (Kirkland, QC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Architecturally Diversified Miktoarm Star Polymers for Applications in Biology

Synthetic plastics in which one could easily tailor the overall structure and incorporate desired functions with ease continue to be at the forefront in research for biomedical applications. The synthetic challenges in constructing such complex structures could be overcome by introducing simple and high yield reactions which could help streamline their availability on a large scale, and thus help polymer industry in introducing these at an optimized cost. This proposal explores the design and synthesis of branched polymers commonly referred to as miktoarm stars using methodologies including anionic polymerization, ring opening etc. A variety of branched amphiphilic architectures with varied composition will be synthesized, and we shall examine their self-assembly in an aqueous medium to facilitate the delivery of lipophilic drugs to a diseased site.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ashok Kakkar

Student:

Partner:

Polymer Source Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Spatial Plasma Discharge Ignition

The Spatial Plasma Discharge Ignition System is used as an ignition module in internal combustion engines (ICE). Its implementation leads to an increase in engine fuel efficiency. The purpose of this 4-month internship is to implement a fuel and air regulating system equipped with electric solenoids and pressure transducers to measure the pressure gradients in a combustion calorimeter. The partner corporation will provide facilities for the intern to conduct experiments although it is up to the intern to construct the apparatuses and conduct the experiments. The partner corporation will benefit from the program by being able to conduct its own subsequent experiments allowing further development of their product. The research results will also support the company’s patent application.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ronald Miller

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of peptide-based probes as imaging and targeting agents for glioblastoma therapy

Glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive primary brain tumors in adults, is feared for its near uniformly fatal prognosis. Due to its infiltrative nature, surgery alone is ineffective in disease eradication. We originally identified abnormal cancer stem cells called brain tumor-initiating cells (BTICs) that lead to the formation of this brain tumor. These BTICs are known to be resistant to current chemoradiotherapy and act as disease reservoirs that contribute to recurrence. Using clinically relevant human GBM BTIC models from treatment resistant recurrent tumors, our collaborator Dr. Steve Robbins employed an unbiased combinatorial phage-display biopanning strategy to isolate peptides that home in vivo to disease reservoirs within GBM; especially the invasive and stem-like populations. We aim to develop these peptides for molecular imaging and clinical targeting of treatment resistant GBM BTICs, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sheila Kumari Singh

Student:

Partner:

Arch Biopartners

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Elevate

Action-driven 3D Indoor Scene Modeling

3D indoor scenes are ubiquitously needed in the virtual world, e.g. 3D games, movies and virtual reality. These scenes provide the essential virtual environments for 3D characters to perform daily activities and tasks. Current scenes on public available datasets, e.g. Trimble 3D warehouse, are usually clean and well organized, and might not be sufficient to serve as the realistic environment needed in applications that involve human interaction. In this project, we aim to produce scenes which are like having been used or interacted by human. We propose to learn human actions from various online data sources, e.g. public available RGB-D datasets, online video streams or still images, and apply the learned actions to generate “messed-up” indoor scenes. By analyzing how human interacts with indoor objects, we also aim to build a generic action model that could be applied to different scene categories and use the model for action-driven scene understanding and modeling in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Microsoft Research Asia;Tsinghua University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Fundamental Study on Synthesis Method with Zero Waste for LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 Cathode Materials in Li ion Batteries used for Electric Vehicles

An innovative, zero-waste synthesis process has been proposed by the partner organization and the research team for the production of high capacity cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, such as LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2. However, many fundamental issues need to be answered related to the process and its impact on the structural and electrochemical properties of the synthesized material. The scope of the project includes (1) studying the detailed reaction mechanism of the process; (2) investigating the microstructure and surface properties of the synthesized materials under various conditions using X-ray absorption near edge structural analysis, SEM, TEM, BET, etc, and (3) evaluating the electrochemical performance of the synthesized materials in lithium-ion cells to establish the relationship between the material synthesis process conditions and their performance. This work will help the partner company to gain knowledge in the fundamentals of the process and material properties and therefore help them in their scale up and commercialization process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tsun-Kong Sham

Student:

Partner:

Springpower International Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Elevate

Multiple shock dependencies with applications to insurance risks

Traditional insurance models build on the assumption of independence of risks. One of the main causes of the recent financial crisis, this assumption has facilitated the quantification of risks for decades, but it has often lead to risks’ under-estimation and as a result under-pricing. Importantly, one of the prime pillars of the novel concept of Enterprise Risk Management is the requirement that insurance companies have a clear understanding of risks’ interconnections within the risk portfolios. However, modeling dependence is not an easy call. In fact, there is only one way to formulate independence, whereas the shapes of probabilistic dependence are infinite. In this project, we aim at developing tractable technically and interpretable practically probabilistic models of dependence that describe the adverse effects of multiple risk drivers on the risk portfolio of a generic insurer. The outcomes will be applied to the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment of Sun Life Financial.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edward Furman

Student:

Partner:

Sun Life Financial

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Commercial Services; Other

University:

York University

Program:

Elevate

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