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The Creative Economy: Vancouver’s Untapped Resource

Vancouver consistently ranks at the top of Richard Florida’s “bohemian” and “creative” indexes. Many of its leading industries, such as film and new media, involve a significant creative component. However, the ‘creative’ sector is difficult to define and much of its activity falls outside of the traditional economy, particularly within certain communities. The grassroots creative sector in Vancouver faces two major problems: poverty and over‐regulation. Artists find it difficult to turn their services into consistent revenue, and generally face an even bigger barrier in finding affordable spaces in which to work or showcase their work. This project will identify any gaps or issues that need to be addressed, particularly with respect to revenue and space (for events, incubators, etc.) and identify opportunities for revenue generation and community engagement from creative activities, and how VEDC can help foster linkages between this sector and the broader economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ginger Grant

Student:

Leah Emmott

Partner:

Vancouver Economic Development Commission

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Patient-reported outcomes of individuals living with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), life‐saving devices that may prevent sudden cardiac death from cardiac arrhythmias, are implanted in people who have had cardiac arrests and increasingly in people with severe heart failure who are at risk for a primary ventricular arrhythmia. The clinical benefits of ICD implantation contrasts with evidence suggesting ICDs may also have untoward effects on recipients’ quality of life and psycho‐emotional status. Yet, the research on ICDs and patient‐reported outcomes is very limited and has produced inconclusive findings. This project will study people with ICD’s patient‐reported outcomes, including their mental, physical, and social health, in an attempt to understand the non‐surgical factors that may influence the long term success of the use of ICDs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Pamela Ratner

Student:

Sandra Lauck

Partner:

Providence Health Care

Discipline:

Nursing

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization in multi-currency transaction system

PeerFX Inc. provides a peer to peer currency exchange platform that brings the small business client and individuals together and allows them to exchange currencies with each other. Rather than being charged a high spread in a bank, the users save significantly in this transaction system. However, the demand and supply of currencies normally cannot be balanced merely by the clients. PeerFX should exchange the extra supply of currencies for other deficient currencies with a third party, currency exchanges. In practice, the spread charged by the third party varies according to the currency pair and the amount to exchange. The intern will provide the most profitable exchange strategy by a mathematical optimization model. This model will be further developed with the clients' priorities, the promotion strategy and the exchange rate fluctuation taken into consideration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr, Dominik Schotzau

Student:

Liang Zhu

Partner:

PeerFX Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Modeling risk of small-scale vessels: Source oil discharges in Canada’s Pacific Coast

Frequent small‐scale oil discharges are the largest source of marine oil pollution resulting from vessel operations. Because of their frequency they are often referred to as chronic oil pollution and they are considered a constant threat to marine and coastal environments. Evidence of illegal spilling of oil in the Pacific Region has been gathered by the National Aeriel Surveillance Program (NASP); primary tool for monitoring and enforcement of pollution regulations within Canadian waters. NASP, constrained logistically, cannot provide a complete picture of the extent of chronic oil pollution; particularly when the area to patrol is extensive and with dense shipping traffic. This research aims to fill this knowledge gap by characterizing a spatial probability model, using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and multivariate statistical approaches, to understand the current distribution of detected oil spills by NASP and generate a spatial risk surface to identify area with the highest relative probability of chronic oil pollution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Rosaline Canessa

Student:

Norma Serra-Sogas

Partner:

Environment Canada

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Lab-on-a-chip Nanosensor for Vitamin Detection

Vitamin deficiencies are one of the key reasons for infant deaths and a variety of diseases for adults including breast cancer, prostate and cervical cancer, rickets, schizophrenic depression, etc. An invention of a low-cost Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) microfluidic platform for the detection of Vitamin D and Vitamin A would be an answer for the potential multi-billion dollar market around the globe and represents one of the most desperately needed devices to enhance public health and prevent vitamin deficient related diseases. The proposed disposable environmental friendly device integrates microfluidics, photonics and micro‐electronics functionalities and could be used at point-of-care, in homes, schools and clinics. This LOC nanosensor that will be the first of its kind provides fast quantitative readings of Vitamin profile to the patients. Success of this collaboration will play an important role for the growth and recognition of Alberta as a centre of excellence and leader in nanotechnology based diagnostics. This new technology, developed collaboratively in Alberta could reshape the methods of diagnostic testing in a variety of clinical applications. Successful commercialization of these products will capture substantial share in this high growth market and as a result will provide long term benefits to Alberta’s economy and to its continued diversification.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sushanta K. Mitra

Student:

Dr. Tim Hossain

Partner:

SciMed Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Father engagement in addictions health services

Father engagement in addictions services with substance‐using mothers may be neglected, resulting in mothers’ poorer engagement and retention in addictions services, and subsequent compromised family health. To determine the extent and nature of father exclusion in ante‐partum, partum and post‐partum addictions services, and whether father exclusion affects mothers’ engagement and retention in services, a mixed methods study, using qualitative and quantitative methods, will be conducted at Fir Square Combined Care Unit, BC Women’s Hospital. Quantitative data pertaining to mothers and fathers will be obtained from hospital charts of former Fir Square patients. This data will be analyzed to determine associations between father involvement and mothers’ engagement and retention in addictions services. For the qualitative study, six mothers, former patients of Fir Square, and their partners will be recruited and interviewed separately. A focus group with the twelve parents will also be conducted. An additional focus group with Fir Square physicians, social work, nursing, infant development and counselling staff will also be conducted to elicit service provider views. Data will be recorded, transcribed, analyzed and coded by the researcher, using a qualitative thematic analysis technique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Paule McNicoll

Student:

Sydney Weaver

Partner:

BC Women’s Hospital

Discipline:

Social work

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

A N-Dimensional Vector Mining Visual Analyzer for the Surveillance of Live-Stock Production Systems in Alberta

Animal heath surveillance is concerned with not only the disease in animal populations, but also with animal pathogens and diseases that affect humans. The objective of this project is to develop a system which can model the livestock production activity data, flow, weather pattern and disease history appropriately so that events can be more easily and effectively analyzed in time and spatial domain. Moreover, the system output needs to be presented in ways that are simple to understand and easy to work with. Given the complexity and high dimensionality of data collected over time and throughout the entire production continuum, the goal of this internship is to apply vector field analysis, graphical model visualization and probability distribution techniques to develop an N]dimensional process analyzer and a visualization tracker. The data input will be provided by the Alberta Veterinary Surveillance Network for emerging diseases of livestock.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. John Berezowski

Student:

Nathaniel Rossol

Partner:

AQL Management Consulting Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

The use of Wollastonite to enhance fresh and mechanical properties of concrete

This research project with Canadian Wollastonite, a company focused on the commercial development of a high grade wollastonite deposits located north of the St. Lawrence River in the eastern part of the Canadian province of Ontario, investigates the possibility of using the natural mineral to enhance the properties of concrete. The project will look at three main uses of wollastonite in concrete: (1) as reinforcement to enhance the tensile strength of concrete, (2) as mineral filler to obtain self‐flowable concrete; and (3) as filler to improve strength gain of concrete. Tensile strength is an important property of many concrete applications including pavements. Achieving high tensile strength will produce pavements of longer service life. Flowable concrete or self consolidating concrete is a concrete that consolidate under its own weight without the need to apply vibration. This concrete has many benefits including reduced levels of noise and labour fatigue during construction. The use of wollastonite in this type of concrete is expected to enhance its consistency and self-levelling properties.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Medhat Shehata

Student:

Hyder Jahim

Partner:

Canadian Wollastonite

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

The Potential of the Green Building Council Network to Influence National Policy Development Regarding the Built Environment and Sustainability

This research project will focus on gathering knowledge around policy development related to sustainability and the built environment. By working with a network of organizations (the Green Building Council Network) first hand experiences can be gathered on how Green Building Councils around the world have been able to come together with their national governments and guide green building policy development. The information will be gathered using a questionnaire that will be passed around to each Green Building Council. In addition, green building policy reports that have been published in the past will be reviewed in order to better understand which policies have been successful across different parts of the world. The research done will then be used to help guide discussions around the next Climate Change Protocol that will take place at the UNFCCC Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Arlene Gould

Student:

Dominika Czerwinska

Partner:

World Green Building Council

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Systems Integration of Automatic Specimen Processor with a Petri Net Approach to Control, Diagnose and Prevent System Faults

Microbiology analysis is an essential tool for diagnosing infectious diseases in health and medical services. The subfield of Bacteriology receives the largest volume in human specimens (i.e. urine and swab samples). For an average sized clinical lab, 1,000 to 5,000 samples would need to be processed daily. Such high demand in conjunction with the labour‐intensive and error prone analysis techniques makes automation an excellent solution for optimizing laboratory human resources. The focus of this research internship with Dynacon, an automated specimen processor provider, is to apply Controlled Petri nets (Ct1PNs) to the specimen processing task and to explore its potential capabilities in identifying and diagnosing system faults. The inherent contribution of this approach is twofold: 1.) the implementation of Ct1PNs on a microbiological specimen processing task in a novel application of Petri nets; 2.) anticipated results from actual hardware interactions will be instrumental in the further development of robust and fault tolerant Flexible Manufacturing Systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Clarence W. de Silva

Student:

GuanLu Zhang

Partner:

Dynacon Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Statistical Modeling of swept-source optical coherence tomography including multiple scattering effects in tissue

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is new optical imaging technique similar to ultrasound imaging. It has ten to 100 times higher resolution than ultrasound and a penetration depth of 4-6 millimeters. The use of light is safer to most biological samples than X-rays or gamma rays, and it also allows for chemical characterization of tumours in tissue. CancerCare Manitoba is interested in using OCT for early detection of breast cancer. The research team plans to use sophisticated mathematical techniques to improve the penetration depth of OCT, thereby improving its capability for early detection of breast cancer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sherif S. Sherif

Student:

Allaaedlin Alshaikhqasem

Partner:

CancerCare Manitoba

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Modeling, Filtering and Control Design for Draganfly Helicopters

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been receiving rapidly growing interest in research and industry applications, including military reconnaissance, remote sensing, aerial photography, educational use, mining inspections, traffic monitoring, and environment monitoring. Practical applications of UAVs will demand highly accurate position control. The main goal of this project is three‐fold: (1) To set up the accurate dynamic model of the UAV designed and manufactured by Draganfly Innovations Inc; (2) to develop novel filtering algorithms to estimate the state information; and (3) to design advanced control systems to achieve desirable flight control performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Yang Shi

Student:

Jian Wu

Partner:

Draganfly Developments Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

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