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Spatial Optimization Modelling for China’s County-level Land Use Planning

Considering the research gap that there lack quantitative models and advanced techniques to solve the land spatial allocation problem in China’s county-level, my PhD project aims at developing spatial optimization models to assist land spatial allocation that reconciles the market value, social value and ecological value of land, land utilization zoning and boundary setting in constructive expansion regulation zoning for China’s county-level land use planning. The field work in Wuhan, China will finish the data collection, database establishment, personal interview and land suitability evaluation work for the project. The expected outcomes for the work in China include: (1) Build GIS Geodatabase of land use and environmental data for the study area; (2) generate land suitability map for land utilization zoning and land suitability map for agricultural utilization in the GIS raster format for the study area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

DongMei Chen

Student:

Partner:

University of Chinese Academy ofSciences (Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Liver cancer detection using recent advances in deep learning

Approximately half of today’s population will be affected by cancer during its lifetime. Knowing that the earlier cancer is detected, the better the life expectancy, accurate radiological detection can make the difference between life and death. Primary liver tumor, known as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and secondary liver tumor (metastasis) represent, in aggregate, the second most common cause of cancer-related mortality in North America. Existing Computed Assisted Diagnosis (CADx) software use traditional image analysis techniques and as such their applications are mainly oriented towards type of cancer that show specific imaging characteristics (e.g. lung nodules, colon polyps and breast micro calcifications). The goal of this project is to innovate in the field of automatic medical image analysis by using the latest developments in artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning. Using readily-available data of sufficient quantity from the liver through extensive datasets hand-segmented, we plan to develop a framework that will detect and segment tumors in a liver segmented from CT and MRI images. This approach opens new prospects for medical imaging applications, by proposing of models that exhibit high accuracy with minimal human intervention, broadening their use and ultimately leading to improved patient care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samuel Kadoury;An Tang;Christopher Pal

Student:

Partner:

Imagia;ApSTAT Technologies Inc;Global Imaging On Line

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other; Information and Communications Technology

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal; Polytechnique Montréal; Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Development of court booking module and algorithm

OrbitHub is a web/mobile platform that helps its clients coordinate activities more efficiently and maximize the utilization of their resources and time. In addition to being a global social network, OrbitHub also offers tournament, league and ladder management functionality, as well as registrations, payments, rankings, court booking and more. This project aims to focus on leveraging the global social network data and geo data to efficiently link up similar-skilled sport players with under-utilized facilities so that players have a chance to play more while clubs/facilities can maximize their facilities’ usage.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Amyot

Student:

Partner:

OrbitHub Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

An analysis of aural and visual cross-modal recognition of paths of moving sources for authoring and editing trajectories in 3D audio composition and production.

Current advanced audio playback systems can provide a feeling of 3D immersion to listeners. Though the technology to listen to 3D audio can provide a good listening experience, the technology used to create 3D audio content has not adapted to those advances. One major reason is due to human aural localization ability that is not as accurate as the visual localization ability, making it difficult for users to create a 3D experience because common authoring tools use visualizations to interact with. The proposed research project is to study how the 3D audio systems affect listeners’ ability to track moving sounds by examining the association of visual representations to different paths of moving sounds. We expect to have measurable discrepancies between the visual representation and the path of the moving sound in our findings that will be used to design and evaluate new input methods for creating 3D audio content.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Guastavino

Student:

Partner:

Inria Lille - Nord Europe Research Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

optimization of Software Systems driven by the Wisdom of Crowds

The popularity of smartphones is leading to an ever growing number of mobile apps that are published in official app stores. However, users might experience failures and crashes for some apps installed on their devices. For developers, diagnosing failures that users experience is a major challenge, since the diversity of contextual conditions makes it difficult to reproduce unexpected behaviors that emerge in the field. This project aims to drastically improve the quality of mobile apps by assisting developers to reproduce failures, based on the experience faced by a multitude of individuals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bram Adams

Student:

Partner:

Inria Lille - Nord Europe Research Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Combining Structural and Behavioural Modelling of Software Product Lines

Embedded Software is designed to work with and control physical systems such as car brakes. These systems come in many configurations and the software embedded on them also has to be configured for each one. Software product lining is a methodology to develop a family of related systems that can be configured for each product, reducing development costs and reusing common parts. Our research will explore ways to model quality attributes, such as response time or cost, of different products and will provide tools to consider those attributes when designing or using a software product line.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joanne Atlee

Student:

Partner:

Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Implementing a Sustainability Toolkit

The Sustainability Toolkit has been developed to address the lack of available practical guidance on how to implement sustainability in an organization. In essence, the Toolkit integrates globallyrecognized approaches to sustainability and systems-based management (ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 26000). The basis for the system-based approach is the Plans-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) process which breaks down initiatives into smaller manageable steps and leads to continual improvement. By integrating a management system framework into the social responsibility guidance defined by ISO 26000, the Toolkit is a practical and flexible approach to sustainability implementation that is applicable to all sizes of organizations across various industry sectors. This project will validate the tool by testing the 13-step approach to sustainability integration within SMEs across various sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Colquhoun

Student:

Partner:

Tavares Group Consulting Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

The Evolving Legal Services Research Project

How can public legal education and information help Canadians get justice in our legal system? With the demand for publicly-funded or low-cost legal services far exceeding the supply, public legal education and information (PLEI) is filling an increasingly larger role in meeting the legal needs of people with modest means. Yet we know relatively little about how PLEI can help people deal with their legal problems. examines the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems. The research, conducted at legal clinics, will look at PLEI provided at various points along the legal services continuum, with the goal of identifying when PLEI is effective on a primarily stand-alone or self-help basis and when a fuller continuum of legal services, including PLEI, is required. This research will provide Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario (CLEO) with insights into the effectiveness of
PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lesley Jacobs

Student:

Partner:

Community Legal Education Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

A comparative analysis of good governance in Canada and Vietnam to enable civil society organizations to participate as a central development actor

The overall aim of the research is to increase the influence of citizens in governance activities in Vietnam through bilateral development assistance from Canada. The research will compare the Canadian and Vietnamese characterization of “governance” and “good governance,” notably how governance is conceptualized and measured. The research will document specific Canadian approaches to and international norms for engaging civil society organizations in governance processes, in comparison to Vietnam. The research will identify and provide specific recommendations on opportunities for governance programming in Vietnam (at national assembly law and policy making and national ministry levels) that are in accordance with international norms and draw on Canadian and Vietnamese experiences. The researcher will then support the planning and design of an overall $12 million five-year governance program in Vietnam, and how it should be implemented and reviewed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kenneth Christie

Student:

Partner:

SALASAN Consulting Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing Economic, Policy, and Institutional Barriers to Successful Forest Restoration in the Interior Douglas-fir Zone

This research project will explore what barriers — economics, policy, or otherwise — exist to restoring unhealthy Douglas-fir forests in central British Columbia. These forests have reached a state where it is currently not feasible for timber companies to make any profit from
harvesting timber in those stands, which only serves to worsen the problem. In order to find a solution, not only do the barriers need to be identified, but also the risks of both action and non-action. To do this, this project will ask questions to both members of the industry, as well as members of the provincial government. A new approach is needed, but until the root causes of the problem are known, a proper strategy for fixing it cannot be properly implemented. Identifying these issues will give the partner organization the knowledge needed to restore a healthy supply of fibre in the area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harry Nelson

Student:

Partner:

West Fraser Timber Co Ltd (Williams Lake, BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Forestry; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Effective Pipeline Integrity Decision Making

Pipeline operators are required to make decisions for various complex pipeline integrity situations on a daily basis. These integrity situations often comprise a complex interaction between integrity threats such as corrosion, cracking, third party damage, dents, buckles, and wrinkles. A pipeline operator usually develops their own processes towards dealing with each specific integrity threat. In general, the processes are developed based on the stipulations by the Canadian Oil and Pipeline Systems Standard, the in-house experience, and the current up-to date integrity specific research. However, once the processes are developed, they become very rigid. In addition, when integrity threats are combined or when the processes are more conservative than or just different from the stipulations of the code, the processes become very confusing for the operators. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. is looking into revamping the current in-house processes for dealing with various integrity threats. The main objective of the research is to design integrity threat processes that are dynamic in nature allowing the process to be updated based on new literature findings. In addition, the newly designed processes would allow the users to identify the rigid and flexible aspects of the process to enable more informed decision making by the users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samer Adeeb

Student:

Partner:

Enbridge Employee Services Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and Gas; Energy and Utilities

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Narrations augmentées en littérature jeunesse: processus créatifs multimodaux et mécaniques collaboratives

Ce projet vise à documenter et analyser les processus de création et mécaniques collaboratives impliqués par la mise en place de livres augmentés jeunesse, et ce à travers le développement d’une séries d’oeuvres associant animation, texte, musique, et fonctionnalités interactives, et d’une interface de création mutlimodale à destination des jeunes utilisateurs. Effectué avec le partenaire Les Éditions André Fontaine, en particulier dans le cadre de sa collection jeunesse Fonfon, il s’attèlera à analyser et compiler des données précises permettant, à terme, de dégager d’éventuelles perspectives d’adaptation dans des contextes d’apprentissage, notamment en ce qui concerne les propres activités de création des jeunes. Dans une dimension plus technique, il visera à développer un nouveau secteur d’activités pour l’entreprise, et lui permettre des arrimages forts avec les milieux de recherche.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathalie Lacelle

Student:

Partner:

Éditions André Fontaine

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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