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Cytokinin based yield potential in soybean

This research offers the potential of greater legume crop yields through the identification of key growth signaling metabolites and their future use in plant breeding programs. Recent discoveries suggest that there is a major role for cytokinins, a group of growth hormones, in the yield of rice and possibly other plants, such as legumes. To investigate the impact on soybean, a legume of particular economic significance to Canada, and the main product of the sponsoring company, Hendrick Seeds, we will complete comprehensive analyses of seed cytokinins and their accumulation in seeds during development. This will identify important aspects of growth regulating compounds in soybean. It is expected that this may lead to a breeding program for high yielding seeds that Hendrick Seeds will be able to implement in their operations. Overall, this research could result in greater yields in all legumes and, ultimately, high protein yielding crops, more efficient land resource use, and domestic and international market expansion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. RJ Neil Emery

Student:

Leonid Kurepin

Partner:

Hendrick Seeds Corporation

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Trent University

Program:

Accelerate

Converted-wave reverse-time migration.

There are two fundamental wave modes that travel through the earth p‐waves and s‐waves. Currently most seismic exploration uses p-waves only. P‐waves convert into s‐waves at a discontinuity of the material parameters of the earth and are called converted waves. Converted waves offer the ability to detect fractures in the earth which are linked to areas of high oil and gas production. Reverse time migration is a tool to process seismic data using multipathing and without dip imitation. A converted wave reverse time migration will allow multipath energy and steeps dips to be imaged for converted wave data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Gary Margrave

Student:

Ben Wards

Partner:

CGG Veritas

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Autonomic Computing Models and Adaptation of the Control Loop.

Autonomic Computing Systems are systems which are capable of self‐configuring, self‐healing, self‐optimizing and self‐protecting themselves, by constantly monitoring the current state of the system, determining if the state of the system must change and how the state must change, and finally taking appropriate action in order to bring the system to the desired state. The intern will build on previous work in autonomic computing by analyzing the impact of making changes in a control loop at runtime. By building an automatic system control which self‐adapts to changes in its environment one can ensure that an autonomic system will perform correctly even in the presence of conditions which are different than the conditions at design and deployment time. The proposed outcome, which will be approached theoretically, is aimed at a system that is stable, executes correctly and does not cause extra failures in the environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Dan Ionescu

Student:

Bogdan Vlad Solomon

Partner:

IBM Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic Enhancement of Handheld Photographs

This internship proposes to create a support vector machine based classifier which classifies image aesthetics, ranking images from 1-7. An existing classifier has been developed which classifies professional quality photographs. To be of use to Vidigami, the classification method needs to be developed which can provide an aesthetics score for average quality photographs. Individuals taking photos within the context of Vidigami’s service generally are not professional or semi-pro photographers, and are unlikely to produce a significant number of high quality photos in the general aesthetic sense. In addition to the aesthetic ranking of images from 1-7, a number of other general image properties are desirable to detect. If we can detect blurry photos, over/underexposed photos, or photos that are nearly identical, these can be pre-filtered out of the selection process. Finally, in order to be of use to Vidigami, the development of a prototype photo selection system which select N photos from a set of M is critical. Creation of such a system is complex, however exploring the use of the classifiers described above as elements begins to give us an idea of how to go about its development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sid Fels

Student:

Steve Oldridge

Partner:

Vidigami Media Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

An Improved Optical System for a Monocular Virtual Reality Display.

Incorporating a head-mounted display (HMD) into a high-performance sport goggle involves many technical challenges. Optically, the microdisplay must be magnified to a comfortable size for viewing, and the image must be shown in an area of the goggles that does not detract from the main field of view. This means that the magnifying assembly must be as small, lightweight, and unobtrusive as possible, but still maintain excellent visual fidelity. The focus of this research will be to produce the smallest, most cost-effective optical device that fulfills these requirements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Boris Stoeber

Student:

Reynald Hoskinson

Partner:

Recon Instruments Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

An Inverse Gaussian plume approach for estimating zinc emissions from a smelting operation.

Teck Metals Ltd. operates one of the world’s largest integrated lead-zinc smelting operations out of Trail, British Columbia. Every year, they report on atmospheric emissions of zinc and other contaminants through Environment Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI). The purpose of this internship is to extend an existing inverse Gaussian plume model for estimating the emissions of zinc from point sources. The input to the algorithm is a collection of measurements of particulate material deposited on the ground in the area around the Trail smelter. This internship will contribute to the design of the data sampling plan and help improve the accuracy of the Company’s NPRI emissions reporting for 2010.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. John Stockie

Student:

Sudeshna Ghosh

Partner:

Teck Metals Ltd.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Demonstrations of the Hybrid Control concept for reducing vibration and noise on helicopters and wind turbines

Smart Rotor Systems Inc. (SRS) is a new Ottawa-based start-up company, whose product is a novel active control system for the reduction of vibration or noise on rotary wing applications, i.e. on helicopters and wind turbines. Mitigation of vibration and noise is a hot topic in both these sectors nowadays, attracting plenty of attention from both manufacturers and operators. SRS has the competitive edge in owning the Intellectual Property (IP) of the first ever electrically driven Active Pitch Link (APL) as well as for the concept of the control system driving it. The first prototype of an electrically driven Active Pitch Link has been recently tested in static and centrifugal tests. Thus, the objective of this MITACS Accelerate cluster application is to build upon these results and to take the technology to another level by conducting further centrifugal and wind tunnel tests to verify the control laws from previous computer simulations, as well as to conduct new computer simulations to prove the technology for wind turbines. If successful, the results of this cluster project would bring the technology of SRS closer to market entry, thus providing a technological edge over competitors and increasing the potential for SRS to establish a small-size manufacturing and assembly plant in Ontario in the medium term.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Metin Yaras

Student:

John Alexander Pickard/Melissa Richardson/Heather Whipp

Partner:

Smart Rotor System

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Usability of tractor-machine systems

The demands of precision agriculture have caused significant changes to agricultural machines. Improved sensor technology makes it possible to monitor numerous parameters. Access to GPS signals has made it possible to monitor the variation in yield within a field. Perhaps the most significant change is that access to the GPS signal has made it possible to develop guidance systems that provide accurate guidance information to the operator or even guide the agricultural machine for the operator. The rapid change in technology has significantly changed the role to be played by the human operator of the agricultural vehicle. Human factors principles are needed to understand how best to utilize the capabilities of the human operator in these new human‐machine systems. User-centered design will become increasingly important as agricultural machines become more automated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Danny Mann

Student:

Davood Karimi

Partner:

CNH Canada. Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding Urban White Tailed Deer Use of Hydro Corridors Within the Greater Winnipeg Area

The Greater Winnipeg Area (GWA) white-tailed deer (WTD) population has grown substantially over the last three decades. Growing urban WTD populations in heavily human populated areas have led to human-deer conflict and represent a significant human health and safety concern. A major human safety concern is the alarming increase in the number of motor vehicle accidents within the city involving WTD. In addition, WTD host a number of diseases transmittable to humans and other wildlife, and deer cause significant property damage. Despite these downfalls, the urban WTD population is a valuable resource and the residents of the GWA enjoy having deer living in their communities. Hydro corridors may provide passageways for deer to move from one habitat to another. If so, these corridors present opportunities for mitigating harmful deer-vehicle collisions and other potential human-deer conflicts. The proposed study will use Wild Cell GSM collars to track the urban WTD population to determine deer movement within Hydro transmission line corridors. The study will provide Manitoba Hydro with information that should assist in assessing how vegetation clearing and maintenance of Hydro rights-of-way may be managed to support and direct the urban WTD population. The information gathered from this study will be beneficial for the Site Selection and Environmental Assessment (SSEA) process of the Bipole III transmission line project and the transmission interconnections necessary in the southern part of the city. GIS analysis of deer land use may provide information useful to the creation of suitable potential future management strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Richard Baydack

Student:

Erin McCance

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

The interaction between cardiovascular and posture controls and the effects of aging

Falls are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly, and are the sixth leading cause of death. Often these falls result from a loss of balance due to decreased postural control; however, age related reductions in cardiovascular control during postural changes may produce light headedness and fainting (syncope) leading to fall proneness. In order to assess fall proneness, further study is required to increase our knowledge and better characterize how the cardiovascular and the postural control systems interact. We shall conduct two studies to accomplish the task above. In the first, we will be looking at the response of the individual to the forced oscillations of the support base and see the effect on body sway, blood pressure and muscular force production. Second study will look at the effects of ageing and gender on the above mentioned possible interactions by a sit to stand test. Eventually, the results from this study will be used at the Neurokinetics clinic in the assessment and treatment of patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Andrew P. Blaber

Student:

Amanmeet Garg

Partner:

NeuroKinetics Health Services (BC) Inc.

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Live Line Maintenance and Inspection Robotics Manipulation

This research project aims at working closely with Manitoba Hydro, to examine existing techniques and further develop new tools that allow remote access to live transmission lines equipment that cannot be out of service. More specifically, we aim to employ robots to partially substitute for, and work cooperatively with, crew directed at service interruption free maintenance and inspection of live transmission lines. Such operations are often complex, hazardous and labor intensive. We further intend to understand the extent to which advanced robotics technologies can improve productivity and working conditions. The outcome of this project will offer Manitoba Hydro with a validated technology that, combined with traditional man-in-the-loop operation, will perform advanced control of a robot mounted on elevated platforms in order to enhance some of its inspections, maintenance and repair related tasks on equipment that cannot be out of service. The challenging nature of the project and the industry involvement will ensure that the research will lead to the discovery of new knowledge with industrial relevance and the training of qualified personnel whose expertise and skill sets will be used in Canadian industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Nariman Sepehri

Student:

Yaser Maddahi, Babak Hejrati, and Szabol Fodel

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Design Tools for Next Generation of Microelectronics Cooling Solutions-Characterization, Modeling and Optimization.

There is an increasing trend towards miniaturization in the microelectronics industry which increases the power density and thus heat generated from these devices. Consequently, one key factor limiting reliability and higher performance of electronic devices is the heat removal, to maintain the device below its maximum operating temperature. This indicates the importance of devising efficient cooling strategies to meet the demands of the electronics sectors. The goal of this program is to develop and implement state-of-the-art cooling solutions for Analytic Systems’ products. In this project, theoretical models and simulations will be developed to accurately analyze and predict operating temperature and performance of the existing cooling solutions in Analytic Systems’ products. A comprehensive experimental program will be conducted to test and verify the developed models/simulations in close collaboration with Analytic Systems (AS). The developed models will then be used to optimize the current designs and develop efficient cooling strategies for AS products. During the first-phase of this program, the primary focus will be on development and implementation of direct air-cooled and passive techniques, including: Natural Convection and Enclosure Design,Impinging Jet-Array Cooling, and Heat Pipe-Embedded Enclosure. There are 6 intended internships to conduct the proposed tasks; 1 M.Sc. and 2 Ph.D. students will be working on these projects in close collaboration with AS.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Majid Bahrami

Student:

Kelsey Wong

Partner:

Analytic Systems

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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