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Genomics Study to Identify Genes & Pathways Controlling Reproductive Longevity

Reproductive Longevity (RL) is a complex biological trait under the control of many genes. In livestock, RL of female breeders is a key productivity factor, especially for dairy cows. The genes that determine RL in humans are potential sources of diagnostic and therapeutic innovations for fertility and reproductive health. The proposed research aims to identify RL-controlling genes in mammals using a unique model system, selectively-bred mouse lines that reproduce twice as long and have twice as many litters as matched control lines. The project Partner, Performance Genomics Inc. (PGI), is applying whole genome mapping and sequencing technologies sourced through service laboratories to generate complete genomic datasets for the select and control mice. The internship project will apply bioinformatics tools and approaches to “mine” the RL Mouse genomics data with the goal of selecting and ranking candidates for genes and mutations responsible for doubling of RL in the mouse.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Robert Beiko

Student:

Partner:

Performance Genomics (1999) Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Adaptive operating room (OR) scheduling and control of cardiac surgeries

Operating room scheduling is one of the most important issues at Foothills Medical Centre (FMC), on which the hospital budget and the efficiency of OR management rely. OR scheduling is difficult in practice and theory because there are many constraints and disturbances. However, cardiac surgeries have special characteristics. Compared with other types of surgeries, cardiac surgeries usually have more complicated procedures, accordingly resulting longer case times and greater variances, increased interdependency of patients with surgeons, and increased dependency of surgeries on OR staff and anesthetists. These special characteristics make OR scheduling of cardiac surgeries sensitive to disturbances. Thus the general OR scheduling and planning at the hospital is inefficient for cardiac surgeries. Therefore, in our extension Mitacs-Accelerate project, we focus on cardiac surgeries. We need to tailor our former FFPD heuristic for general adaptive OR scheduling and control, by taking into consideration of variances of case times and dependencies of cardiac surgeries. We also need to identify critical factors affecting the OR performance of cardiac surgeries, i.e. dependencies of OR utilization on patients, surgeons, OR staff, and the duration of OR blocks allocated to cardiac surgeries in the scheduling phase, which can be a guideline for OR scheduling and planning at the hospital level. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Barrie R. Nault

Student:

Wei Li

Partner:

Alberta Health Services

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Metabolic Lipid Abnormalities in Prediabetes and Insulin Resistance

Type 2 diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance and has been associated with increased lipids (fat) in the blood (hyperlipidemia). Our research focuses on regulation of blood lipid levels by controlling both intestinal and liver fat (lipid/lipoprotein) metabolism. We have previously shown in our laboratory that a naturally occurring hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) can lower intestinal lipoprotein production. The current research proposal will focus on analyzing the following three areas: 1) how intestinal inflammation alters intestinal lipoprotein production, 2) regulation of intestinal lipoprotein production through brain signaling, and 3) regulation of liver lipoprotein production in insulin resistance. Merck Pharma has developed a compound (sitaglipitin) that prevents the degradation of endogenous GLP-1. Analyzing the effects of long lasting GLP-1 signaling will provide crucial mechanistic insight into common disorders associated with hyperlipidemia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Khosrow Adeli

Student:

Jennifer Sacco & Karin Shortreed

Partner:

Merck Pharma

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Effect of anisotropy in thermal-hydro-mechanical properties on casing and caprock integrity

Argillaceous shales comprise a large proportion of rocks in most sedimentary basins. They serve as caprocks in the projects of petroleum industry. Maintaining borehole and caprock integrity is to prevent disasters such as borehole collapse and leakage through caprocks. Thermal-hydro-mechanical properties of argillaceous shales have decisive controls on the integrity analysis. As a kind of clay rich geomaterial, argillaceous shales feature in oriented fabric and have anisotropic behaviors. Currently, the investigations on anisotropic thermal-hydro- mechanical properties of argillaceous shale are limited. During designing of oil exploiting, the neglect of anisotropy will reduce the degree of exactitude. The objective of this internship is to work with BitCan Geosciences & Engineering Inc. and their expertise and facilities to develop characterization tools on investigating the anisotropic thermal-hydromechanical behaviors in argillaceous shale. The researches included in the internship are closely related to BitCan’s technical services. The generated results can be written in their programs and promote BitCan’s businesses in petroleum industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ron C. K. Wong

Student:

Biao Li

Partner:

BitCan Geosciences & Engineering Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

System identification and control of fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles

MicroPilot, a company located in Manitoba, is specialized in design and manufacturing of autopilot systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The company’s interest is to develop accurate simulation models of various UAVs, upon which the autopilot systems are tuned and verified first. The goal of this project is to evaluate and improve the model structure adopted, and develop appropriate tools for extracting accurate models to be used by the simulation. The challenge is to find tools that allow model parameters to be adequately identified, given minimum flight test data and limited sensory information. The outcome of this project will provide MicroPilot with a technology for enhanced control of various classes of UAVs. Accurate model identification is essential to optimize the design of the autopilot systems without excessive flight tests. This in turn will reduce the manufacturing expenses, allowing MicroPilot to compete stronger with its competitors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Nariman Sepehri

Student:

KaiwenXu & Divyarajsinh RaoI

Partner:

MicroPilot

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Online Public Consultation in the Resource Development Industry

Over the years, the methodology for public consultation has evolved to include public information meetings and hearings, telephone polls and surveys, and most recently online engagement. Increasingly, government is emphasizing evidence-based decision-making. They recognize that existing methods are lacking in reaching a broad demographic. Internet communication technology has made it possible to reach a broader spectrum of the public however until recently, that interaction has been anonymous and anecdotal at best. The objective of the proposed research is to explore the use of online public consultation technology to advance best practices within the real estate development industry. The project aims to investigate the ways online consultation generally, and the PlaceSpeak platform with location-based authentication in particular, can enrich public development consultation bringing together current and traditional outreach methods. The intern, who intends on a career in urban planning with a focus on public participation will benefit from the exposure to real players in the property development industry with added experience in developing case studies and knowledge of the public consultation processes while the partner will benefit from the research itself.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Frank Gobas

Student:

Aimée Brisebois

Partner:

New City Ventures

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Service industry

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Application Framework for Palliative Care Process Management

Performance management collects data to quantify and measure outcomes obtained by organizational processes in order to determine how well they achieve organizational goals. A significant challenge in implementing information systems support for process management of care processes is to understand the relationship between care processes and their performance measures. This research will develop an application model for care process management to capture that relationship and deploy a palliative care information system (PAL-IS) to collect data for performance measures into an OLAP database optimized for reporting. This research project is intended to define a systematic approach to palliative care process management in terms of goals, performance measures, care process states, and data entry forms. It will also demonstrate how to provide integrated information systems support for palliative care process management relevant to all roles within their organization.

 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Liam Peyton

Student:

Aladdin Baarah

Partner:

Elizabeth Bruyère Research Institute

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient massive spatial data search with version control

In large scale earth observation systems, data is gathered in short duration surveys returning massive numbers of point data observations (often millions) covering significantly sized regions. To maintain up-to-date products (e.g. navigation charts in harbours with continuous silt build-up), successive surveys are performed that often cover overlapping areas. Searches to find all the data in a specific region are expected to return only the most recent data in any given area, and must ignore any older, overlapping versions. In some cases, the data has errors that are difficult to correct; we would like to ignore or exclude this data during retrieval so that products derived from the data (e.g. contours on navigational charts) are accurate. This MITACS project investigates how to build a spatial data structure that efficiently supports this use case, termed “exclusion persistence range search”, over multiple versions of data covering the same area. CARIS makes software that is used to create navigational charts used by ships, aircraft and other moving vehicles. CARIS will benefit from this research by having a prototype multi-version index system that increases the efficiency and flexibility of its software, making it easier to track and change the data sources used to create navigation charts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Bradford Nickerson

Student:

Stuart MacGillivray

Partner:

CARIS

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Security Mechanisms for Mobile Cloud Computing

Cloud computing, with its low cost and scalability, is becoming more and more popular today. By outsourcing computation requirements to cloud, consumers as well as business entities can reduce their IT costs significantly while enjoying more and better services. Mobile devices are among the earliest to adopt this new computing paradigm due to their limited computing capability and power supply. However, the multi-tendency nature of cloud computing also introduces new security challenges such as leak of information. This project is targeted at these security challenges. In specific, mechanisms for securing information stored in cloud will be developed. The mechanisms will be implemented in software that leverages existing technologies developed by InBay Technologies Inc., an Ottawa-based company. It may lead to new products for InBay and provide unique training opportunities for graduate students in a hot industrial area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Changcheng Huang

Student:

Khaled Salem Albaden, Ebrahim Ghazisaeedi & He Zhu

Partner:

InBay Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Ergonomic analysis of air seeder control system

Buhler Versatile Inc. (BVI) is in the process of making design improvements to its air seeding equipment. The intern will be tasked with completing an ergonomic evaluation of the air seeder control system, with specific emphasis on the design of the displays used to provide information to the air seeder operator. Proposed modifications to the existing displays will be based on situation awareness design principles. Properly designed displays enable the operator to 1) detect changes in system status, 2) understand the implications of the change in system status, and 3) project the consequences if no corrective action is taken. Displays designed according to these principles enable more efficient operation of the system by the operator. It is anticipated that BVI will gain an understanding of the changes required to their air seeder control system to improve it’s usability by air seeder operators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Danny Mann

Student:

Aadesh Rakhra

Partner:

Buhler Versatile Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Developing m-health application framework

MedInstructional Resources Inc. focuses on providing turnkey solution for the education needs of the medical professions. Our current focus is on improving the reliability, agility, accountability and quality of medical student exams. The widespread adoption of mobile computing devices like tablets, offer the possibility to digitize the process of conducting student/patient exams in hospitals. MedInstructional Resources has identified as its goal to develop applications for mobile devices for use in situations where multiple examiners, multiple students and multiple stations are involved in order to make the administration of these events more efficient, cost-effective, secure, faster and reliable.
The partner organizations will be benefited from the results generated by this project. As we develop the system, we will take an iterative or agile approach where the development of system components is independent from each other. This will result into more flexible and more maintainable system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ralph Deters

Student:

Kazi Shahzabeen Rahnuma

Partner:

MedInstructional Resources Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Selective removal of neutral nitrogen compounds from heavy gas oil

Heavy gas oil (HGO) obtained from Athabasca bitumen is very difficult to hydrotreat due to high sulfur and nitrogen content. It is proposed that removal of non-basic nitrogen species from HGO prior to hydrotreating will strongly enhance desulfurization process and improve the length of catalytic cycle. The goal of this research is to develop a novel pretreatment process employing heterogeneously cross-linked macroporous polymer poly(glycidyl methacrylate) (PGMA) as the hydrophilic support coupled with different organic compounds such as tetranitrofluorenone (TEFN) for selective removal of neutral nitrogen heterocyclic compounds from HGO. The proposed project if successful will have a major impact on efficient removal of nitrogen and sulfur atoms from HGO derived from Athabasca bitumen and will benefit oil sands operations in Western Canada, particularly Syncrude Canada Ltd. and Suncor Ltd. who are the main producer of synthetic crude oil from oil sands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ajay Dalai

Student:

Emma Aryee, Sandeep Badoga & Prachee Misra

Partner:

Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

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