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13270 Completed Projects

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The Black Equity in Alberta Rainforest (The B.E.A.R)

Anti-Black racism presents a major barrier in the social participation of African Caribbean Black (ACB) Canadians in civic leadership, arts and culture, and employment, as well as barriers to justice as negative relationships are created between communities and criminal justice systems. Resulting barriers and negative relationships are structural drivers of health inequity. In response, the Black Equity in Alberta Rainforest (B.E.A.R) is being developed as a vast network of key stakeholders to understand root causes of ACB related health inequity. The B.E.A.R is a comprehensive multidisciplinary applied research project to achieve Black related health equity using several innovative approaches to develop sustainable real solutions to systemic barriers to employment, justice and social participation. We believe there are deep lessons to be learned by the Ribbon Rouge Foundation, Alberta, and the world from applying this approach to understanding racialized health inequity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jan Selman;Erika Goble;Denise Spitzer;Vera Caine;Bukola Salami;Shirley Anne Tate

Student:

Lebogang Disele

Partner:

Ribbon Rouge Foundation

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Cumulative effects of climate and land cover change on river flows in mountain catchments

As glaciers retreat, the reduction in area available for melting ultimately causes declines in summer streamflow. In addition, evaporation from newly formed lakes and evapotranspiration from vegetation establishment on deglaciated areas would act to further reduce summer streamflow. However, these latter processes have received little attention to date. The objective of the project is to advance our ability to incorporate these processes into hydrologic models that can used to make projections of future water availability under changing climate and land cover conditions. The project will focus on catchments feeding reservoirs operated by BC Hydro, particularly at Bridge River, where rapid deglaciation has occurred over the last two decades. The project will be based on a synthesis of existing literature, field observation and application of hydrological models. The research would support BC Hydro’s need to make long-term projections of water availability as part of its long-term planning. It would support the intern by providing the opportunity to expand his knowledge and skills to include hydrological modelling and analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Daniel Moore

Student:

Ben Mauri Pelto

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Investigating the influence of metallic impurities on the properties of Cu coatings intended for used nuclear fuel containers

Canada’s use of nuclear power has led to an inventory of used fuel, which requires a strategy for safe, permanent containment. The current long-term disposal plan uses both natural and engineered barriers in a deep geological repository. A key engineered barrier in this concept is the used fuel container (UFC), made of copper-coated carbon steel. The Cu coating will be applied by two additive manufacturing techniques, electrodeposition (ED) and cold spray (CS) deposition. A major element in the UFC design is the establishment of specifications that will ensure efficient and cost-effective fabrication on the scale needed for the UFC, while avoiding any concerns related to performance. Since the CS-Cu coatings, proposed to cover the weld region of the container will inevitably contain trace metallic and non-metallic impurities, tolerances must be assigned. However, the absence of relevant studies in the literature suggests that the impacts of these impurities on the corrosion performance of Cu coatings remain unknown. The proposed research will develop an understanding of how impurities impact the corrosion of CS-Cu coatings, helping the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) and the National Research Council (NRC) in assessing the performance of CS coatings and assigning specifications for large scale UFC fabrication.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Noël

Student:

Jeffrey Henderson

Partner:

Nuclear Waste Management Organization

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Elevate

Healthy and Sustainable Housing in Indigenous Communities

Healthy and sustainable housing is a critical social determinant of health and well-being. In Indigenous communities, decades of ineffective government housing and land policy have created abysmal, often culturally inappropriate housing conditions. Through partnership with First Nations, we will explore and uncover solutions to answer these questions: What if we could co-create Indigenous homes to be sources of health, wealth and connection in tune with culture and the environment? How would that change things for future generations? How can we co-create this future together?
This project will serve as part of a case study in developing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) and IPCA Villages that can be applied in other communities across Canada. While the focus is on Indigenous communities, the lessons learned can be applied to all communities Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya

Student:

Eric Wilson

Partner:

IISAAK OLAM Foundation

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Pharmacological Probes for Road-Mapping WD40 Domain Proteins

Since the dawn of the human genome sequencing in 2003, great hopes have been put into the development of new therapeutics and personalized medicine tailored on individual DNA profiles. Nonetheless, progress in these fields has been slow, mainly due to the focus of the research community on only a small number of genes and proteins involved in diseases. As a result, there remains a plethora of unexplored proteins and genes responsible for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, or rare/orphan diseases, that have yet to be understood. To further the knowledge in the field of disease therapeutics, a more in-depth understanding of these unexplored proteins is necessary. This project will focus on developing chemical probes for WD40 Repeat (WDR) proteins, a protein family that is largely unexplored, despite its abundance in the human body and its involvement in diseases such as cancer. WDRs are ubiquitous in eukaryotes, and are involved in processes like signal transduction to apoptosis. While it has recently been shown that WDRs are in fact druggable targets, they are virtually entirely uncharted in drug discovery. Our goal is to develop chemical probes that can shed light on WDR function in cancer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Moitessier

Student:

Mihai Burai Patrascu

Partner:

Molecular Forecaster

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Muscle Oxygenation characteristics of elite middle-distance runners

Middle-distance running events require a high blend of endurance alongside speed and power characteristics, to produce a fast rate of energy production in large capacities. Oxygen delivery is one of the limitations to enhancing the rate of energy production, which in part is determined by the ability of the muscle to extract oxygen delivered in the blood from the lungs. Therefore this project aims to understand the muscle oxygen extraction characteristics of elite middle-distance runners, and how this relates to other performance parameters.
This work will have transferable practical applications for sports that require fast rate of energy production in large capacities over a 1.5-10 minute duration (e.g cycling, kayak, swimming, rowing, and speed skating). The findings of this project will stimulate development of targeted interventions that improve oxygen delivery to the muscle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Koehle

Student:

Gareth Sandford

Partner:

Canadian Sport Institute Pacific

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Field evaluation of bacilin 20: Herbicide stress and accelerated flowering

Plants are always associated with a well coordinated and beneficial community of microbes – the phytomicrobiome; this plus the associated plant forms the holobiont, the entity that provides crop yield. There is considerable communication between the phytomicrobiome and the plant, often in through signal compounds. Bacilin 20 is a small protein produced a Bacillus thuringiensis strain and discovered by the Smith laboratory. It is improves plant ability to tolerate stress when applied at very low concentrations. One plant response to stress is accelerated flowering, leaving longer time for grain production. The proposed work will evaluate the potential for bacilin 20 to mitigate herbicide stress on widely produced Canadian crops: wheat, corn and soybean. It will be applied post emergence with glyphosate (corn and soybean) or buctril (wheat), to assess effects on herbicide stress, or at the mid-vegetative stage to determine if flowering is affected and yields increased as a result.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Donald Smith

Student:

Mahtab Nazari;Yoko Takishita

Partner:

CXC

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of carbonaceous adsorbents from Moringa Stenopetala Seed Waste for removal of heavy metals and organic contaminants from aqueous solution

The aim of this project is to prepare carbonaceous adsorbents from Moringa stenopetala seed husks for removal of contaminants such as heavy metals and dyes from aqueous solution of commercial interest. The proposed project will examine the developed carbonaceous adsorbents to determine their adsorption capacity, kinetics, selectivity for specific contaminants, at different operating conditions. This research will help partner organization to convert the available agri-waste at their site to valuable products, i.e., to develop adsorbents for commercialization in water treatment applications. This will also benefit in reducing environmental impact such as waste disposal or burning. It is also an excellent opportunity for the partner organization because they can easily access equipment and other resources that are available at the university via adsorption group expertise. Hence, the partner organization can take advantage of this to offer an innovative and competitive product in the market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiuyan Yuan

Student:

Alemayehu Bedane

Partner:

Bio TEI Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Employing Data Mining and Visualization Strategies for the Analysis of Well-being Indicators

In this project, an online, interactive map visualization tool will be built to illustrate trends of community well-being indicators across Nova Scotia using the 2019 Quality of Life survey as the primary source of information. The goal is to empower residents and decision-makers to understand unique well-being patterns and socio-economic trends in communities, providing an invaluable resource for planners, researchers, and policymakers, and even allow Nova Scotians to make informed decisions on where to live. The Engage team does not have the personnel resources or expertise required to build such a visualization tool and collaborating with experts in this field will make this possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fernando Paulovich

Student:

Leonardo Milhomem Franco Christino

Partner:

Engage Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the knowledge attitudes and perceptions of new users toward different exoskeletons

The proposed research has the following objectives: 1) Review available research on exoskeletons to better understand the technology. 2a) – Interview industry partners to identify tasks that may benefit from exoskeletons, b)– industry partners with experience using exoskeleton will be asked to give feedback on what works and what challenges occur when implementing exoskeletons. 3) With the information from the last objective, tasks will be physically replicated to test different exoskeletons on simulated tasks in a lab setting. 4) Participants will fill out survey questionnaires based on their experience and use of the exoskeletons
This research will provide an understanding of the technology of exoskeletons, that will help with the implementation of this ergonomics solution that could have a significant impact in the manufacturing industry by lowering injury risk and decreasing discomfort at work.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Allison Stephens

Student:

Jack Wang

Partner:

Sandalwood of Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Fanshawe College

Program:

Accelerate

Real-Time VLT Player Data Personae Classification

The goal of this project is to train a machine learning model that can identify player’s personae using VLT (Video Lottery Terminal) data within a transactiontime limit. The personae are results of the previews MITACS project. Using unsupervised learning each playing session was associated with a playstyle. Identifying the playstyle as soon as possible is of great importance since it can be used later for problem gambling detection in early stages of playing. Another challenge this project tries to solve is to estimate an optimal limit for transactiontime. It is preferred to identify the personae earlier with higher accuracy. Another challenge is to propose a good method for feature extraction. For the previews MITACS project a complete session was used for identifying the personae, therefore the feature space is not sparse unlike this project. To overcome sparse feature space problem, proposing new features or deep neural networks that ease feature extraction task.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vlado Keselj

Student:

Soheil Latifi

Partner:

IGT

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Improvement to the tool for Reliability-based Quantitative Analysis of Dents in Pipelines

The aim is to improve a software tool for reliability-based quantitative analysis of dents (QuAD) in pipelines developed by Enbridge. QuAD is a tool used to predict the failure for dented pipelines, so that the deteriorated pipeline segments can be reliably identified for excavation to avoid failure. The critical concern with the current QuAD tool is its inefficiency due to long analysis time and the potential room for accuracy improvement. So, this proposal is to improve this software tool by reducing the time needed for analysis and to get more accurate results that Enbridge can count on to make excavation and repair decision. The improved tool will eventually reduce the resources spent by Enbridge to maintain their pipelines, and also reduce losses of the oil and gas during their transmission. On the other hand, it will help keep the environment clean and have direct and positive impact on the economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yong Li;Samer Adeeb

Student:

Mahyar Mehranfar

Partner:

Enbridge Employee Services Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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