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Improving obesity prevention and management in primary care: Patient experience of personalized assessment and care planning and impacts on patient self-management

Over 14 million Canadians live with overweight or obesity. Patients want conversations with their primary care team about weight and create personalized plans to improve their health. Primary care clinicians want to have these conversations too, but don’t know how. This project partners with an interdisciplinary primary care team (ESPCN) and the Canadian Obesity Network (CON) to create an intervention for personalized obesity assessment and care planning, and study how it supports patients in their everyday lives. We will work with 20 patients to understand their experience of the intervention and its impact on their everyday efforts to improve health. Findings will be used to refine intervention and resources, which will improve the ESPCN’s approach to obesity care, their training of interdisciplinary clinicians, as well as contribute to the vision of CON to improve the lives of people living with obesity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Denise Campbell-Scherer

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Obesity Network;1157178 Alberta Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

A Place to Reflect and For Every Second in Time

A Place to Reflect and For Every Second in Time are a pair of interactive art installations that will make use of projection technology and interactivity. A Place to Reflect will debut at the Nuit Blanche contemporary arts festival in Toronto and For Every Second in Time is slated for Toronto in 2012. Through the development of these two projects, Hybridity Media will research and develop projection mapping and interactivity through sensor-based technologies like Microsoft Kinect in an installation setting; allowing for new artistic visions enabled through new forms of audience engagement. This project will develop techniques for accomplishing these goals, using the two projects as case studies for further development and innovation in the art installation environment, allowing Hybridity to better fulfill its mandate to bridge emerging digital art practices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Smith

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation du suivi des acteurs dans un espace partagé en réalité virtuelle pour des installations en contexte muséal

Ce projet de recherche a pour but d’apporter une vision claire et des solutions sur les problématiques liées à la simulation de présence et télé présence de plusieurs acteurs dans un univers de réalité virtuelle (VR) afin d’augmenter le sentiment de présence physique et du fait, l’immersion virtuelle. De manière succincte, cette proposition permettra l’étude des problèmes et défis de locomotion avec les technologies des casques VR et des problèmes de localisation et d’apparition virtuelle de plusieurs joueurs dans un même environnement lors de simulation de la télé présence. Le résultat attendu sera la création d’un environnement VR immersif multijoueur qui respecte une simulation de télé présence pour le Musée J. Armand Bombardier. Ce type de projet permettra à l’organisme de profiter d’une expérience immersive et de compiler les données sur l’utilisation VR multi-joueurs en milieu éducatif.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yan Breuleux

Student:

Partner:

Musée de l’ingéniosité J. Armand Bombardier

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Intégration et visualisation 3D des données essentielles pour le potentiel minéral : Application pour le camp minier de Chapais

Plusieurs camps miniers historiques ont produit des métaux sur de longues périodes. Ces secteurs sont riches en informations géologiques et de récents exemples ont démontré que la digitalisation systématique des informations et leur intégration en 3D peuvent mener à la découverte de nouvelles zones de minerai. Néanmoins, une telle approche est fastidieuse et coûteuse. La question qui se pose alors est comment définir le niveau de données essentielles permettant d’avoir un portrait réaliste et utilisable mais à faible coût. Le projet de recherche vise à élaborer la méthodologie d’intégration en utilisant le cas de la mine Cooke à Chapais. Une fois la démarche établie, celle-ci pourra être appliquée à l’ensemble du camp minier de Chapais et à d’autres camps historiques. Cela pourrait mener à relancer l’industrie minérale de ce secteur.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Damien Gaboury;Réal Daigneault

Student:

Partner:

Corporation de développement Économique de Chapais;Table Jamésienne de concertation minière;2736-1179 Québec Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Minéralisation aurifère associée à des essaims de dykes felsiques : paramètres fondamentaux à la formation de gisements importants ?

En exploration minérale la mode est à la recherche des gros gisements aurifères mais à faible teneur. Or, aucun des gisements en exploitation en Abitibi n’a été découvert selon une telle approche. En fait, il n’y a pas d’approche spécifique à ce genre de cible en exploration minérale en raison des contextes géologiques variés. Néanmoins, les principalement mines de ce type renferment tous des essaims de dykes ou intrusions qui agissent comme des réceptacles à la minéralisation. Ces corps compétents se fracturent à la déformation, fournissant ainsi des conduits pour la circulation des fluides minéralisateurs. Nos connaissances sont limitées quant à l’influence des caractéristiques des dykes en lien avec le régime de contraintes tectoniques pour favoriser leur fracturation et leur minéralisation. Le projet vise l’étude des caractéristiques des dykes minéralisés à Chibougamau qui ont potentiel de fournir un environnement favorable à la formation d’un gros gisement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Damien Gaboury

Student:

Partner:

Multi-Ressources Boréal

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental Investigation of Two-phase Flow through Airlift Pump System

Myera Group has developed an innovative, modular tank design for aquaculture that provides opportunities for targeted feeding, medication, and environmental control. This novel design uses an airlift pumping mechanism to control water velocity for optimising fish health through exercise, while simultaneously promoting gas exchange and removal of waste with built-in fail safes and redundancies. The airlift pump geometry and air flow rates that provide optimal tank circulation velocities, gas exchange, and waste removal are not yet known. In this project, advanced flow measurement techniques will be used to develop scientific understand of liquid and gas phases in airlift pumping system and develop comprehensive databases that will facilitate development of reliable numerical models. These models will enable engineers to design optimal airlift pumps and recirculating tanks. The interns will gain experience of applying advanced measurement techniques to conduct research in complex two-phase flows. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark F Tachie

Student:

Partner:

Myera Nu-Agri-Nomics Group Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Determination of nutritional values of freeze-dried berry products

Berries are rich sources of nutrients that can offer health benefits to consumers. Short growing season and shelf life are limit factors and a large amount of fresh berries have to be processed. Freeze drying is a rapid and low-temperature technique that can maximally retain the nutritional values and flavors of berry products. The influence of freeze drying on nutritional values of berries is not fully characterized yet. The objective of this research is to investigate the correlation of manufacturing conditions with nutritional values of the finial berry products. Antioxidant capacity and contents of bioactive compounds, including polyphenols, flavonoids, anthocyanins and vitamins of freeze-dried berries will be determined. The outcome of this work aids in the optimization of industrial production of freeze-dried berry products

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaonan Lu

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver Freeze Dry Ltd.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

The Perceived Use of Electronic Identification-Based Wearables in Medication Administration in Long-Term Care

Medication errors are common in long-term care homes, as older adults are at an increased-risk of experiencing medication errors. Additionally, most older adults living in long-term care homes have dementia, and few can identify themselves; this increases the risk of a medication error. Tap2Tag Medical Ltd. offers the Tap2Tag Medical Alert Bracelet. The bracelet encompasses a personal health record which, once ‘tapped’ by a smartphone, loads a ‘profile’ onto the web browser of the phone. Essentially, the wearable speaks for the individual as the profile can communicate the person’s name, medication allergies, etc.
The purpose of this research project is to understand whether the Tap2Tag Medical Alert Bracelet can help aide nurses limit the amount of medication errors. This is an observational study that seeks to understand whether these bracelets could help, or hinder care staff. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norman Archer

Student:

Partner:

Tap2Tag Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

SOLVENT AIDED-WATER PRESSURE-CYCLING (SA-WPC) PROCESS IN THE THIN POST-CHOPS RESERVOIRS

Western Canada has vast heavy oil deposits in many thin heavy oil reservoirs with less than 10-m main pay zones. The cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is the primary production process for the heavy oil reservoirs. However, a typical CHOPS process can recover only 5?15% of the initial oil-in-place and waterflooding has had a limited success. The primary objective of this research project is to explore and optimize a novel solvent-aided water injection strategy, namely, solvent aided-water pressure-cycling (SA-WPC, especially CO2-WPC) process, which promotes the sand production and enhances the heavy oil recovery. The SA-WPC process restores the reservoir productivity by re-pressurizing the reservoir and dissolving the injected solvent into the heavy oil. Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) will directly benefit from this research project by facilitating the practical oilfield applications of the optimized SA-WPC process in many thin post-CHOPS reservoirs. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Yongan Gu

Student:

Partner:

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Minéralisations aurifères liées à des intrusions tonalitiques archéennes dans la zone centrale de la ceinture de roche verte Lower Eastmain (Baie James)

La région de Baie James au Québec est une zone où l’exploration est en plein essor car elle l’a peu été et présente un potentiel minier florissant notamment dans le secteur de l’Or. Afin de faciliter l’exploration il est nécessaire de mieux comprendre l’environnement géologique de la région et le contexte de mise en place des minéralisations. Cette étude en partenariat avec la compagnie d’exploration Dios va permettre d’approfondir les connaissances sur les styles de minéralisations et d’établir un guide de prospection pour les prochaines campagnes dans cette région. L’étude permettra aussi de pouvoir comparer ces minéralisations qui sont liées à des tonalites avec celles déjà connues (Abitibi par exemple) et déterminer s’il y a un lien génétique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Jebrak

Student:

Partner:

Exploration Dios Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Magnetotelluric exploration at the Canoe Reach geothermal prospect

Geothermal energy extracts heat from the ground which can be used directly, or converted into electricity. In a geothermal power plant hot water is extracted from an underground reservoir with a borehole, and geophysics is used to locate these reservoirs. In the planned research, a geophysical method called magnetotellurics (MT) will be used to image the subsurface of a geothermal prospect at Canoe Reach in British Columbia. This method measures the electrical resistivity of the subsurface and can detect locations where hot water is present. In this project, the intern will work with the partner organization to collect MT data on a grid of points and then a computer program will be used to generate an image of the subsurface, in a similar way to the use of X-rays in medical imaging. The model will be interpreted using other geological data. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martyn Unsworth

Student:

Partner:

Borealis Geopower Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Protection and control of hybrid LCC-VSC multi-terminal HVDC transmission systems against DC faults

Two High Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission technologies, the mature Line Commutated Converter (LCC) and newer Voltage Source Converter (VSC) technologies have their own pros and cons. For a HVDC transmission system carrying power from a single generation center to multiple load centers, by using a multi-terminal LCC-VSC type hybrid HVDC configuration, advantages of both technologies can be exploited. There is also the possibility of tapping into existing point-to-point LCC transmission lines using this hybrid configuration to supply intermediate locations. Despite the apparent benefits, hybrid LCC-VSC multi-terminal topology is not well understood. Thus, this study aims to understand the DC side fault behavior of a hybrid LCC-VSC multi-terminal HVDC transmission system, and develop a satisfactory protection methodology that can retain high reliability. TO BE CONTD

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Faculty Supervisor:

Athula Rajapakse

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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