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Progression du nouveau moteur de positionnement de Delmiabasé sur les intentions de l’usager

L’objectif général de ce projet est le développement d’un nouveau moteur de positionnement de Delmia basé sur les intentions de l’usager. Ce nouveau moteur positionnera le mannequin de Delmia en tenant compte de la l’équilibre postural, de l’effort exercé par les membres supérieurs sur l’environnement ainsi que la probabilité et la répétabilité de la posture tout en évitant les obstacles environnant. L’équilibre postural sera contrôlé par le concept du zero-moment-point (ZMP) : un point virtuel ou l’ensemble des couples externes s’annulent sur le plan horizontal. La connaissance des forces exercés par le membre effecteur permettra le calcul des forces de réactions au sol qui à leurs tours estimeront le ZMP. Nous pensons que dans un avenir proche que cette rétroaction générera une posture stable et plausible du point de vue biomécanique. Enfin le mannequin intégrera une acuité visuelle capable de procéder à l’évitement des objets dans l’environnement proximal du mannequin.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachid Aissaoui

Student:

Partner:

Dassault Systèmes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

An Acute Care Telemedicine/Telementoring Research Platform for Offshore and Remote Environments

The provision of emergency medical services to the oil and gas industry operating in the North Atlantic presents a number of unqiue challenges. Prolonged, weather-dependent transport times place tremendous strain on isolated medical providers in emergency situations. As a result, practitioners may be required to perform life-sustaining procedures outside of their training. Memorial University researchers have partnered with Praxes Medical Group to develop an emergency telemedicine research lab designed to identify and address issues pertaining to the provision of remote healthcare for the offshore oil industry. It is anticipated that knowledge and technologies developed at Memorial will also address healthcare challenges faced by the people living in underserviced locations throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohamed Shehata

Student:

Partner:

PRAXES Medical Group;Petroleum Research Newfoundland & Labrador

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

An investigation of bioamendment strategies for bitumen degradation of MFT in the oil sands industry

Large volumes of waste in the form of tailings are produced during bitumen extraction. Conventionally, whole tailings are composed of sands, clay, water and residual bitumen. One of the major challenges facing the oil sands mining industry is the economical and efficient detoxification and reclamation of the tailings pond. Cypher Environmental, in collaboration with Dr. Ania Ulrich at the University of Alberta, will assess the performance of Cypher’s UltraZyme on degrading known contaminants of concern in MFT. Information obtained from this research will provide the technical information to the organization’s development team which will be highly beneficial in evaluating new market opportunities and to promote in-house manufacturing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ania Ulrich

Student:

Partner:

Aquarian Industries International Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Wholesale trade

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Asian Aquaculture Feed Formulation Database

Asia is the most important global market for aquaculture feeds and an increasingly important consumer of Canadian agricultural commodities, know-how and technologies. Given the complexity of the field, feed manufacturers require robust and highly flexible tools that could assist them in the formulation of cost-effective feeds for major aquaculture species across their life cycle. Veridis Aquatic Technologies (VAT) is a Canadian corporation established in 2009 that developing a cutting-edge online production analysis and benchmarking platform (PisciMetrixTM) aimed at improving the productivity and profitability of commercial aquaculture operations. VET will partner with the University of Guelph’s Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory (UG-FNRL) to deliver a series of databases and tools as part of a joint effort called the “Asian Aquaculture Feed Formulation Databases (AAFFD)” project. This large project requires the contribution of four graduate students and post-doctoral fellows trained at the UG-FNRL and with expertise in the nutritive value of feed ingredients, aquaculture feed formulation and nutritional modeling. This project will make use of unique expertise of the UG-FNRL and allow VAT to expand the capabilities of its platform (PisciMetrixTM). TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Bureau

Student:

Partner:

Veridis Aquatic Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Risk Analysis and Efficiency Measurement of Protocols for Missing Children in Saskatchewan

We aim to use Saskatchewan’s data and current protocols to explore and identify the risk factors for the challenge of investigating cases of missing children. We will be using a variety of analytical methods in order to come up with a set of valuable recommendations for improving the process of investigating the cases of missing children.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mahshid Atapour

Student:

Partner:

IRG-Informatics Inc;Ministry of Justice Corrections and Policing

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

IMMERSe

The proposed project will transform a trading card game into a locative mobile gaming platform with the goal of creating an interactive narrative experience. The game itself will be creating an on-going history of gameplay and publishing it on the Internet. In essence, players of the game are dynamically being written into the mythology of the game thus affecting the narrative of the game while playing. The project will produce an interactive storyline where users create a “grimoire” with a full history of the characters within the game world. The research will focus on how users interact with the game mechanics and on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning mechanisms. The partner organization will benefit from the project via the interns’ experience with Natural Language Processing and Narratology. The application of this type of research is directly attached to the creation of a generative story-telling machine

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Randall;Chrysanne DiMarco

Student:

Partner:

Stitch Media

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

The Hitchin—Kobayashi Correspondence

The goal of this project is to study the Hitchin–Kobayashi correspondence which relates solutions of certain differential equations to certain geometric objects with algebraic structure. The differential equations of interest are related to those studied in particle physics. By viewing them from an algebraic perspective, we can often find properties of the space of solutions which would otherwise have been difficult to see. This correspondence has been proved for the compact and finite volume cases, but while some specific cases outside these have been worked out, the correspondence in the infinite volume case is still relatively not well-understood, and this is an active area of research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Charbonneau

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Application of Simulation Techniques in Excavation Development Design and Planning for Underground Block Caving Methods

The Block Caving method is emerging as a significant future underground mining method (e.g. New Afton Mine, BC; Oyu Tolgoi Mine, Mongolia), becoming more popular in massive underground ore bodies. The design and planning for developing such complex underground excavation systems is challenging both technically and managerially. This research study aims to apply emerging simulation concepts and techniques within the design and planning process for such large scale underground systems. The objectives are to identify the key systems design and planning parameters and their influence over the optimization of such underground project schedules. Significant potential benefits relate to advancing the simulation approach so as to minimize development time and cost, and to improving mining process reliability and safety.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Malcolm Scoble

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Accroitre la qualité des sondages web en identifiant et contrôlant les sources d’erreurs

Les sondages web ont pour objectifs de réduire l’incertitude entourant d’importantes décisions commerciales ou d’ordres publics. Quoique plusieurs acteurs interviennent dans le processus d’un sondage web, la firme de recherche demeure garante des actions de tous les intervenants et de la qualité des résultats. Le projet comporte deux objectifs. 1. Procurer une trace des procédés de gestion d’un sondage web et identifier les risques d’erreurs qui peuvent entacher la confiance envers les résultats 2. Une analyse du processus de réponse à u sondage selon la perspective d’un répondant. Ces deux perspectives ont pour objectifs de procurer au partenaire une meilleure compréhension des risques d’erreur et de proposer des mesures pour en contrôler les méfaits. En somme, le contrôle des risques d’erreurs permettra au partenaire de réduire les coûts associés au rejet de questionnaires pour des motifs de qualités et d’améliorer la qualité des résultats des sondages web

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-François Guertin

Student:

Partner:

Element 54

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

A Mixed Methods Cross-Cultural Investigation of Conversational Turn-Taking in Families of Children with Hearing Loss

Parent-child interaction significantly impacts child language learning and influences what is considered appropriate when communicating with others, which can vary from culture to culture. These caregiver-child interactions become extremely important when the child has a hearing loss. However, if the expectations of the family differ from those of the therapist serving the child, there could be a breakdown in communication at home. This study seeks to describe differences in the amount and patterns of vocal turn-taking between Canadian and Vietnamese families of children with and without hearing loss. The LENA System, a new technology designed to capture and automatically analyze a child’s natural language environment will be used to calculate how often parents and children interact. To better understand how culture affects these interactions, a qualitative interview with parents will also be conducted in a mixed methods approach. The findings will help to create more culturally appropriate therapy techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alice Eriks-Brophy

Student:

Partner:

Ho Chi Minh City University of Education

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Conceptual design of the calibration and data processing modules for the NASA WFIRST-AFTA space telescope

The NASA-WFIRST space-based infrared telescope proposed to be launched in the 2023, will aim to answer two extremely important and outstanding questions related to our understanding of the Universe, namely the nature of Dark Energy, and the presence of other Earth-like planetary systems capable of hosting extraterrestrial life. During my MITACS-Accelerate internship, I will tap into the expertise in space technology of our industrial partner COM DEV Canada Ltd, to research and present a conceptual design for the telescope calibration system, and for the computational system needed to process, distribute and archive the petabytes of ‘big data’ foreseen to be generated during the lifetime of the mission. The design reports generated during my internship will be reviewed by the Canadian Space Agency in July 2015 with the aim of granting further development and construction of these systems to COM DEV and other suitable Canadian experts. These will therefore form significant Canadian contributions to the NASA-WFIRST space mission, and will help maintain Canada’s leading role in space technology and astrophysical research globally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Justin Albert

Student:

Partner:

COM DEV Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of Tristetraprolin in a Lipopolysaccharide-induced mouse model of fetal loss

Maternal complications such as miscarriage or fetal loss are important reproductive issues that can affect up to 30% of pregnant women worldwide. While these complications are worldwide health problems, their mechanisms are not yet clear. Using a well-established mouse model of fetal loss, our goal is to detect localization patterns of important genes that may play a role in fetal loss. We also aim to detect and measure expression levels of these genes in the same samples as well. We anticipate to ascertain varying degrees of cellular localization of our genes of interest with a differing pattern between our control and treated (lipopolysaccharide) groups. From this project, we aim to elucidate how some important genes may interact with each other and potentially contribute to fetal loss.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chandrakant Tayade

Student:

Partner:

FIOCRUZ - Aggeu Magalhaes Research Center

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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