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The Functional Resilience Question-AIR: Validation of an assessment tool designed to measure employee resilience

The purpose of this research is to validate the Functional Resilience Question-Air (FRQ; Kinley, 2016), an assessment tool based on scientific principles that use the latest research on resilience and neuroplasticity. Specifically, the Functional Resilience Question-Air identifies employees’ personal strengths, providing them with a global resilience score as well as a personalized development plan. Designed to help employers of all sizes, and in all sectors, measure their workforces’ resilience, this assessment tool aligns with the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (CSA & BNQ, 2013), as it aims to promote mental health and prevent psychological harm (MHCC, 2012; 2013).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Kelloway

Student:

Aleka MacLellan

Partner:

Air Institutes

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Synthesis of Stimuli Responsive Viscosifying Agents for use in Fracturing Fluids

Fluids used in hydraulic fracturing are designed to open fractures and transport proppant along the fracture to ensure conservation of the fracture. Scientists in the industry use commercially available polymers that are produced at low-cost in high volumes for other industries (e.g. water treatment) without really understanding the reasons why these polymers have the desired performance for fracking. The fluids we are focused on developing are used to reduce the cost of pumping/fracking to make drilling operations economically viable. The first goal is to understand the key macromolecular characteristics of polymers that make them good candidates for friction reducers and viscosifying agents. The second goal is to develop new polymers that will have the dual performance activity of friction reducer and viscosifying agent in one product versus the common use of multiple fluids.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Silvia Mittler

Student:

Joseph Paquette

Partner:

PolyAnalytik Inc

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the role of trees and topography in determining power outage frequency across London, ON

While trees are regularly maintained to prevent damage from branches to power lines, power outages caused by vegetation still occur, and these outages are more common in some areas of London than in others. This work will correlate tree species-specific growth rates, tree species distribution maps, and topographical maps with the frequency of vegetation-related power outages across London, ON to determine potential drivers of tree growth (such as species identity, tree size, and indices of water availability) that should be accounted for in future vegetation maintenance plans. The potential of incorporating this key information into one interactive electronic platform that also captures the activities and observations of the forestry team would be a valuable asset to London Hydro. This tool would be the foundation of a continuously improving Vegetation Management Plan that would ultimately reduce the potential risk to reliability and safety and increase operating efficiency. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Danielle Way

Student:

Aathishaan Kubendran

Partner:

London Hydro Inc

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

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:

Benjamin Lee

Partner:

Borealis Geopower Inc

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Novel formulation for the treatment of interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis is an inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder and is recognized as a serious medical condition associated with a profoundly negative impact on patients’ quality of life. Currently, there are no widely acknowledged causes of this disorder and no effective treatments available. Panag is a Halifax based drug company which focuses on development of novel therapeutic treatments which can be used to alleviate both pain and inflammation associated with IC. The goal of our research is to provide IC patients with symptom and pain relief, as well as to improve outcome. Previous research showed that the immune system is regulated by another system within our body, called the endocannabinoid system. Our approach uses special drugs, called cannabinoids, which are designed to target this system and as a result, provide symptom and pain relief and improve patients’ quality of life. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Juan Zhou

Student:

Ian Burkovskiy

Partner:

Panag Pharma Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

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:

Andrea Wurster

Partner:

Tap2Tag Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of Conventional and Novel Methods for Removing Carbon Dioxide from Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are land based fish farms that recycle the water from the fish tanks using multiple water treatment processes. Fish produce large amounts of carbon dioxide, through respiration, that needs to be removed during the water treatment process since high levels of carbon dioxide are hazardous to fish. Currently the most common method of removing carbon dioxide from recirculating water is with degassing towers. Moving bed biofilters and sidewall-box airlift pumps could also be used as a method of carbon dioxide control. The focus of this research project is to determine the optimal combination for carbon dioxide control in RAS. Moving bed biofilters, sidewall-box airlift pumps and degassing towers will be optimized for economical carbon dioxide removal. Determining the optimal method of carbon dioxide degassing in RAS will decrease operating and capital costs and potentially the complexity of RAS. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Couturier

Student:

Sarah Preston

Partner:

Cooke Aquaculture Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Environmental productivity patterns of the Salish Sea

Pacific salmon are important from ecological, economic, social and cultural perspectives, but many species in the Salish Sea have seen drastic decrease in marine survival rate in recent decades, likely linked to reduced survival of the young stages of salmon due to a combination of environmental, food web changes, and human impacts. This activity will provide an ecosystem-level analysis of how the environmental productivity of the Salish Sea has changed in recent decades with focus on the implications this has had for salmon populations in the area. The aim is to develop a hypothesis for why the changes in environmental productivity impact salmon, as well as for how important productivity changes are for population trends as compared to food web effects and direct human impacts, notably through fishing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Villy Christensen

Student:

Vijay Kumar

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Oceanography

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding of the effect of wood quality and pulping conditions on the properties of dissolving pulp

AV Nackawic has experienced significant variations in the quality of its final product, including, pulp viscosity. There are many variables, both quality parameters of raw materials such as, wood species, chip size, and process conditions such as P- factor, EA, H-factor, play a key role in the overall quality of the final product. Due to the multivariable and complex nature of the issue, modelling/ data analyses using PCA and PLS analyses can reveal the key parameters that affect the pulp quality, thus gaining operational guidance. In this research project, PCA and PLS analysis will be used to determine the effect of wood chip quality (wood species, fiber dimension & distribution, density, moisture content, etc.) and cooking conditions/variables (cooking time & temperature, H-factor, P-factor, pH, etc.) on the pulp quality parameters such as, yield and intrinsic viscosity. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yonghao Ni

Student:

Avik Khan

Partner:

AV Nackawic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing survival of triploid oysters compared to diploid controls on farms in NS

A parasite present in the Bras d’Ors Lake in Cape Breton, NS has closed the oyster aquaculture and wild fishery in Cape Breton since the initial outbreak in 2002. This parasite has also affected oysters in the Eastern US. The industry in the US has survived and is stable in part due to the production of triploid oysters. Triploid oysters grow to market size faster and this fast growth rate reduces the time the oyster spends in the wild and therefore reduces the timeframe that the oyster may become infected with the parasite. A triploid oyster is one that has three copies of its genome instead of two. The objectives of this project are to develop the most efficient protocols for induction of triploidy for the aquaculture sector in NS. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Stewart-Clark

Student:

Ian Sewell

Partner:

Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Recommendation Engine for Open Source Software with Community Structures and Copulas

In the constantly expanding world of open source software and services, developers find it increasingly difficult to choose open source that is compliant, secure and reliable. There are millions of open source software and services publicly available today, and compliance, security and quality related information is extremely difficult for developers to find, making mindful selection of open source an onerous process. Black Duck Software is building a semantic search engine that allows users to describe their requirements in natural language and receive results that meet quality, legal and security requirements. In this research project, the candidate will develop mathematical models and computational techniques that analyze open source software and make suitable recommendations based on user specified criteria that meet quality, legal and security requirements. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kui Wu

Student:

Feng Qiu

Partner:

Black Duck Software Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Sustainability planning and performance assessment in Maple Ridge, BC

The Centre for Sustainable Development at Simon Fraser University has been a leader in sustainable development theory and practice, in Canada and internationally, since 1989. The Centre stimulates sustainable development research and study in BC and elsewhere; collects and provides information about sustainable development; carries out sustainable development projects in partnership with communities and agencies, and facilitates effective use of university resources in responding to requests for assistance on sustainable development problems. The Maple Ridge Community Foundation envisions a healthy and vital community with enhanced quality of life for all. This project aims to help achieve this vision, by assessing the sustainability of Maple Ridge and helping the Foundation, the City, and the citizens in making decisions based on a long-term perspective and a shared language. The Maple Ridge Community Foundation will be provided with a customized sustainability performance framework that will guide the community on its path toward sustainability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Roseland

Student:

Maria Spiliotopoulou

Partner:

Maple Ridge Community Foundation

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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