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Fresh Properties of Rubberized Self-Consolidating Concrete

The project focuses on the development of SCRC mixtures using concrete materials available in Newfoundland. The developed SCRC mixtures can be successfully used by concrete suppliers in Newfoundland, especially for the construction of marine and offshore structures, which are exposed to ice abrasion and impact loading from ships, waves, and icebergs. In addition, this kind of concrete, where it is durable in freezing and thawing, can be used effectively in cold regions. The partner organization will benefit from the data-based analysis conducted in this study to develop successful SCRC mixtures with a promising potential for structural applications, particularly in seismic zones and cold regions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Assem Hassan

Student:

Partner:

Capital Ready Mix;Petroleum Research Newfoundland & Labrador

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Health economics and modeling collaboration between sanofi Pasteur and York: pertussis study

Pertussis, caused by the strict human pathogen B. pertussis or Bordetella parapertussis, is a highly contagious, potentially life-threatening respiratory tract illness when it occurs in unprotected infants. Despite the introduction of acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines and great initial success of the immunization program, pertussis outbreaks were reported in adolescents and adults in Canada since 1993. This trend was demonstrated as shift in pertussis epidemiology from infants and young children. Further, pertussis in children associated with adolescents or adults cases have been reported in developed countries, in which siblings and adults were identified as the main source for the transmission of pertussis to young unvaccinated infants. This project emerged from a successful collaboration between Sanofi Pasteur and York University’s Institute for Health Research/Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in developing and testing an age-structure and cost-effective economic models to understand the introduction of different aP vaccine (booster) recommendations (for <65 years old and>=65) on the transmission dynamics of B. pertussis, and cost-effectives in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jianhong Wu

Student:

Partner:

Sanofi

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Relations entre le climat, les feux, la végétation et la dynamique du carbone organique du sol (COS) dans un contexte des changements climatiques de la pessière à mousses du Québec

La forêt boréale renferme un important stock de carbone organique dans le sol, considéré comme le plus grand réservoir terrestre de carbone au niveau planétaire. Ce stock de carbone s’est accumulé sous l’effet combiné du climat (e.g. la température et les précipitations), des feux et de la végétation Les changements estimés dans le climat et les feux pourraient modifier de façon importante les écosystèmes et menacer leur capacité à stocker du carbone. Le projet a pour objectif de caractériser les interactions entre le climat, les feux, les changements de la végétation et la dynamique du COS de l’Holocène à nos jours dans la pessière à mousses du Québec. Ce projet permettra aux ministères concernés (e.g. MFFP) et aux entreprises partenaires d’adapter leur aménagement forestier aux changements climatiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron;Michelle Garneau;Sylvie Gauthier;Martin Girardin

Student:

Partner:

Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs;Barrette-Chapais Ltée;Rébec (9300-1618 Québec inc.);Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C.;Université du Québec à Montréal

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal; Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Exploratory Research and Development of Catalyst Layers for PEM Fuel Cells

This proposed project will partner researchers in the research group of Dr. Byron Gates at Simon Fraser University with those at Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) to create structured cathode catalyst layers to improve the performance of AFCC’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells (FCs). The focus of this project will be to create structured polymeric stamps that will allow the deposition of structured cathode catalyst coatings onto a membrane pre-coated with an anode catalyst layer (half-CCM). The resultant catalyst coated membrane (CCM) will be assembled into an AFCC proprietary membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which will be integrated into a fuel cell and its response measured. It is foreseen that by creating new catalyst structures with our flexible stamps the FC electrochemical performance will be fine-tuned in an attempt to understand the correlation of catalyst layer structure to its overall performance. The overall goal is to guide further improvement in the optimal use and loading of catalyst material within PEMFCs. To achieve this goal we will adapt microelectronics industry techniques to produce flexible stamps, which will be used in partnership with AFCC to print structured cathode catalyst layers onto membranes for incorporation into PEMFCs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Byron Gates

Student:

Partner:

Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

An innovative biosurgical approach to osteoarthritis treatment

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a growing burden in an aging society. There are few proven treatments and hence disability contributes to poor quality of life and direct/indirect costs to society. Hyaluronic acids have been show to improve OA symptoms but usually the onset is delayed by weeks. Corticosteroid therapy in contrast has a quick onset of action but is very brief in duration (only ~ 2 weeks). Hence, a novel combination of these therapies may offer patients improved symptoms relief and quality of life. Furthermore, OA symptoms include both increased pain and reduced mobility. Exercise has been shown to improve symptoms in OA however this also is fraught with worsening of pain. We propose a novel low impact exercise modality that improves balance and gait. This program of research should improve patient options and improve knowledge in OA management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Petrella

Student:

Partner:

Carbylan Therapeutics;Integrated Research Inc;Lawson Health Research Institute

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and improvements of security solutions to be integrated in an Internet gateway

Four research projects addressing issues related to computer network and web security are proposed. In Project 1, the development of a novel self-learning anomaly detection tool is proposed to protect web servers against emerging elaborate attacks (such as spamming, multi-step and zero-day attacks). This tool will be developed using Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques. In Project 2, an event correlation system for cloud-based infrastructures will be developed. This tool will correlate across several heterogeneous types of cloud, sensors and logs to detect complex attacks using the traces attacks left across systems they compromised. In Project 3, a tool that can automatically analyze and identify malicious web content before it deploys in the target network will be developed using a comprehensive context-aware and ontology-based event correlation approach. In Project 4, we will test a novel malware detection approach based on physical measures (e.g. CPU, memory, network bandwidth, etc.). Groupe Access is looking to use results and findings of these projects to improve the security level of systems it manages. Tools developed will enable early threat detection, improve analysis of ongoing events and display warnings related to abnormal activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Schiffauerova;Jean-Marc Robert;José Fernandez

Student:

Partner:

Groupe Access

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University; École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

State-society relations at the margins: Control and Resistance in Turkey’s borderlands (1990-2004 and 2004-present)

There is a controversial relationship between the levels of democratization and violence. Although it is assumed that more democratic a country becomes less violence occurs, there are some counterarguments (Tezcur 2009). This project is an attempt to test the viability of whether democracy leads pacification. We will compare two time periods to evaluate the impacts of change in state strategy toward Kurds in Turkey’s borderlands. The first is the period from 1990 to 20042, which is a period of military domination. The second time period is commonly associated with political liberalization. Our preliminary research suggests that the new strategy has encountered significant challenges in borderland regions. Our aim is to explain the sources of limitation of the Turkish state’s ability to improve state-minority relations. The expected outcome is that the relationship between democratization and violence can be best understood by looking at the institutional (re) design of the borderlands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Margaret Moore

Student:

Partner:

Istanbul Sehir University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Enhancing Small-cell Wireless Backhauling

The cellular network nowadays faces an uphill battle against the explosive growth of mobile data traffic. Deploying low power radio base stations covering small cells within the current cellular coverage area is a promising approach to significantly boost the network capacity, provide better coverage, and reduce network congestion. Since it is recognized that backhauling the traffic from small cell sites to the core network is one of today’s major impediments to the wide scale adoption and deployment of small cells, this project aims at enhancing small-cell backhauling technologies for the scenarios that a communication path in unlicensed frequency band is partially obstructed between the small cell base station and the hub base station. The research project will provide novel solutions to channel access and resource scheduling. The proposed solutions would efficiently improve the quality of services of cellular users and have a great potential to be implemented in BLiNQ’s new products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sherman (Xuemin) Shen

Student:

Partner:

BLiNQ Wireless Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Eye Tracking as a functional biomarker in Neurological and Mental Health Disease

There is an urgent need for the development of new tools that can provide a relatively highthroughput, objective assessment of brain function in individuals with neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative or psychiatric disorders. The overarching objective of this research proposal is to use eye movement tasks to identify biomarkers that can be used in the assessment of brain function in these disorders. We will utilize the EyeLink 1000 manufactured by SR Research Inc. (Mississauga, ON), to optimize the application of structured and unstructured eye movement tasks that will identify phenotypic behaviours that characterize specific neurodevelopmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders. The internships will offer an enriched training environment, in that the interns will interact with a company that markets the state-of-the art instrument for measuring eye movements, use the instrument to investigate underlying neural correlates of behaviour, and apply this knowledge to enhance our understanding of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by deficits across multiple domains of brain function. SR Research will benefit from this collaboration since the project aims to develop eye tracking techniques as biometric markers of neurodevelopmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders. This effort aligns with the strategic priorities of SR Research to develop new applications for its products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Doug Munoz;James Reynolds

Student:

Partner:

SR Research Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

The Science of Body Sugaring

Sugarbush Spa is a London-based company that specializes in the removal of unwanted body hair by a method known as sugaring. The method, used for centuries in the Middle East, has several notable advantages over traditional waxing. Commercially available sugaring pastes suffer from inconsistency in production and unsatisfactory performance. At its core, the creation of sugaring paste is a synthetic organic chemical reaction, hydrolyzing the disaccharide sucrose to the two monosaccharides glucose and fructose. The goal of this internship is to develop a superior sugaring paste using scientifically-informed methods. The intern will use an iterative process, keeping a strict log of conditions and a record of observations and results. Product samples will be examined using NMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, and evaluated by expert staff at Sugarbush Spa for is physical properties. Ultimately, a standard operating procedure will be developed for Sugarbush Spa to create a consistent, high-quality sugaring paste

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Kerr

Student:

Partner:

Sugar and Company Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Novel modeling and simulation algorithms of interconnected AC and multiterminal DC grids for power flow and transient stability analyses

This research is aimed at the development of new modeling and simulation algorithms of interconnected AC and DC supergrids for power flow and transient stability analyses. The efforts will be focused on the following technical areas:
• Advanced modeling methods of AC/DC power converters and controls for the integration of renewable energy resources in power systems.
• New stability solution algorithms interfacing DC grid models with AC grid transient stability program will be developed.
• Development of benchmark cases of AC and DC supergrids for transient stability analysis using realistic AC grid cases for various fault conditions
The results are expected to be implemented in the commercial software package TSAT (Transient Security Assessment Tool) developed by Powertech Labs Inc. It is expected that the results of this project will greatly enhance the capabilities of TSAT which will better serve the purpose of analysis for the integration of renewables into the power grid and the operation of the new HVDC technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liwei Wang

Student:

Partner:

Powertech Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Green/Alternative Energy; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of safety and efficacy of probiotics use in premature infants

Probiotics are suggested to greatly reduce the risk of mortality and risk of infection in the gut of preterm infants. However, probiotics are rarely given to babies in hospitals in North America. The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of probiotics supplementation in improving intestinal heath and preventing gut complications in premature infants. In this study, 25 preterm infants in St. Boniface Hospital will receive the probiotic for four weeks and 25 infants in the Winnipeg Health Science Centre will not receive probiotics. Stool, blood and urine samples will be collected before and after administration of probiotics for multiple laboratory analysis (biomarkers related to gut health). The results will provide a better understanding of the efficacy and safety of probiotic supplementation as a routine treatment for premature infants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Friel

Student:

Partner:

Lallemand Bio Ingredients;Lallemand Health Solutions Inc (Mirabel, QC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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