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Strengthening Rural Communities after Disruption: A Comparative Jurisdictional Analysis of Ontario and Australia

The goal of this project is to better understand the factors or barriers that may be hindering a stronger economic recovery in rural Ontario from the COVID-19 Pandemic; and build upon our understanding of how to enhance the resilience and robustness of rural communities in Ontario. To achieve this goal, a comparative jurisdictional scan between Australia and Ontario will be undertaken—since rural communities in these regions of these are situated in similar economic, political, and cultural environments. This comparative jurisdictional scan aims to identify potential new and innovative rural economic development strategies from international contexts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leith Deacon

Student:

Partner:

RMIT University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics for quantum-compatible optical devices

There is a significant ongoing effort in using photonic technologies to implement quantum information processing and communications. This requires proper supporting devices, such as single photon sources, quantum-compatible delay lines, ultra-high-efficiency detectors, and others. This project proposes to fabricate, using Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) technology ultra-low-loss photonic devices that could be used to create highly efficient single-photon sources, and quantum-compatible optical delay lines with extremely low losses. These devices could be an important part of future quantum devices in computing and telecommunications. Both Concordia University and Aston University will benefit from the project. Concordia will gain access to the advanced facilities in Aston, and to its vast trove of knowledge in SNAP. Aston will renew its research collaboration with Concordia. The research done for htis project may lead to a joint application to available funding program such as NSERC Alliance International.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pablo Bianucci

Student:

Partner:

Aston University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Quantum Science; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A Multi-Layer Security Framework for Protecting Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure

The proposed project aims to enhance the security of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure by developing advanced systems that detect and prevent cyber-attacks. The project will focus on building an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to protect against threats like Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) and Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) attacks. The expected benefit to the participating institutions, including research centres and universities, is the advancement of knowledge in cybersecurity, along with the development of innovative solutions that can improve the safety and reliability of the growing EV infrastructure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chadi Assi

Student:

Partner:

University of Huddersfield

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Meto 3.0

Meto 3.0 est une solution intelligente qui permet de concevoir et gérer la stratégie de l’entreprise et d’exécuter la séquence des actions requises pour activer la croissance, l’innovation et la valorisation des PMEs. L’application est une plateforme collaborative qui capte l’information aussi bien sur le cloud que via des données privées afin de générer automatiquement les documents stratégiques de l’entreprise. Un processus de ludification est intégré à l’application. Durant la phase d’exécution, un tableau de bord interactif permet de suivre en temps réel les résultats en fonction des objectifs fixés durant la phase d’analyse

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roger Villemaire

Student:

Partner:

Metix Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Politiques de soutien aux personnes seules en France et au Québec

Ce projet de recherche propose une étude comparative des politiques de soutien aux personnes vivant seules en France et au Québec, deux contextes ayant des approches distinctes face à cette catégorie de population. Les individus vivant seuls, en augmentation constante dans les sociétés occidentales, présentent souvent des caractéristiques socio-économiques spécifiques, comme des revenus et des patrimoines plus bas et un accès limité au logement de qualité. Cependant, les politiques publiques ne prennent pas toujours en compte leurs conditions de vie spécifiques, liées au fait de ne pas cohabiter. En dressant un inventaire des dispositifs fiscaux et sociaux dans les deux contextes, ce projet vise à évaluer dans quelle mesure les personnes seules sont reconnues et soutenues par l’action publique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maude Pugliese

Student:

Partner:

Sciences Po

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Oleogel structured emulsions as plant-based dairy cream alternatives

Dairy products like milk and cream, as well as their vegan alternatives, are emulsions. In emulsions oil or fat droplets are dispersed in a water-based, protein-rich phase. Usually, these fat droplets consists out of saturated fats, which are solid at room temperature and impact the mouthfeel through their melting behaviour. Unsaturated fats, on the other hand, are liquid what therefore changes the mouthfeel of the emulsion. To solve this, we use oleogelation to gel unsaturated fats. By adding small amounts of structuring agents like sunflower wax or ethyl cellulose, we create oleogels that are suitable for the use in dairy cream alternatives. This allows us to create a better mouthfeel in emulsions that use unsaturated fats. With this project, Canada is therefore helping to develop healthier and more sustainable dairy cream alternatives with improved mouthfeel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alejandro Marangoni

Student:

Partner:

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Globalink Research Award

GRA-JSPS: Automated Metabolomics Software Tool for Nutritional Assessment of Diet Quality in Urine

A poor diet quality and overconsumption of ultra-processed foods represent a looming public health crisis as reflected by a global ‘pandemic’ of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes. Nutritional studies are prone to bias and misreporting as they typically rely on questionnaires to assess the role of diet on human health outcomes in large populations. This proposal aims to develop a new software tool for rapid and reliable assessment of a panel of urinary dietary biomarkers of food intake when using high throughput capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) technology. This collaborative research project will bring together leading research groups at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) and SFC-Keio University (Tsuruoka, Japan) with longstanding interests in advancing CE-MS based metabolomics as required for new advances in precision nutrition and chronic disease prevention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Britz-McKibbin

Student:

Partner:

Keio University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Environmental monitoring, camera data collection and modelling in CEA

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is progressing toward innovative solutions specifically with remote monitoring instrumentation and artificial intelligence, can predict and detect physiological plant characteristics that will improve crop yield. The overall objective of this study is to design and build a test growth chamber to evaluate and remotely monitor environmental conditions and plant health. Environmental data will be collected with and without plants to understand sensor range and consistency. After building and testing the system, different plant species (oats, barley, canola, wild tobacco, medicinal plants, and possibly others) will be tested in situ to monitor plant growth and plant architecture. The collected environmental data with plant production data will be linked to develop an environmental thermal and mass flow model to better understand the operational parameters of this experimental growth space, provide valuable insight into assessing microclimate variability in CEA.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Lefsrud

Student:

Partner:

Canadensys Aerospace

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

L’acceptabilité sociale des projets visant le bien commun

Ce projet de recherche, en collaboration avec la Ville de Sherbrooke, vise à comprendre comment les projets de développement durable sont acceptés par la population. Il comprend deux volets. Le premier soutient Hydro-Sherbrooke dans l’installation de compteurs intelligents pour mieux gérer la consommation d’énergie, un élément clé de la transition énergétique. Le deuxième volet aide la Ville à développer une politique de plantation d’arbres pour lutter contre les îlots de chaleur dans certains quartiers. L’objectif est d’évaluer l’acceptabilité sociale de ces initiatives et de créer une stratégie pour encourager les citoyens à s’approprier ces projets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sofiane Baba

Student:

Partner:

Ville de Sherbrooke

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Heat Stress in Dairy Animals: Classification, Genetic Selection and Production Index

The objectives of the present study are to: evaluate the effects of environmental temperature on circadian variation of rectal temperature in dairy animals; determine thermo-resistant and thermo-sensitive groups of animals based on this temperature variation; examine new parameters for the ascertainment of caloric stress (e.g., minimum and maximum temperature ratio, number of hours above a certain temperature, and new bounds of temperature and humidity index (THI) more adapted to Brazilian conditions); how this new classification impacts the animals’ productivity, and the possibility of selecting thermo-resistant animals using genomic technologies. The use of automatic devices for animal monitoring allows for a detailed analysis and provides new insight into the thermo-regulation capacity of dairy cows.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ronaldo Cerri

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Models of synchronous machines and renewable energies for the SPS library of Simulink Matlab

With the growing integration of renewable energy into power networks, their dynamic behavior has undergone significant changes. To ensure stability, it is essential to accurately model the dynamic behavior of key equipment,
such as synchronous generators and inverter-based sources, within these networks. This project focuses on the implementation, analysis, development, and validation of established models for synchronous generators, solar,
and battery systems. The detailed models of mentioned equipment will be implemented using MATLAB Simulink (particularly within the SPS library). The performance of these models will then be evaluated and validated against
established standards such as IEEE Std. 1110, WECC, and NERC, and compared with output results from other software, including PSS/E and DIgSILENT PowerFactory. On the other hand, implementing the accurate dynamic
model of these equipment in SPS library, which belongs to Hydro-Quebec (IREQ), can assist in the future dynamic studies of the network in IREQ.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Innocent Kamwa

Student:

Partner:

Hydro-Quebec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Community Engaged Architecture

The research project aims to investigate how racialized communities relationship with public space can be
improved with community-engaged architecture. The intern will use a post-occupancy evaluation to understand
the impacts of the community-engaged designed public space, 1700SPOT, for the residents of Russell Heights.
Impact is evaluated with consideration to racial and gender equity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Menna Agha

Student:

Partner:

Ottawa Community Housing Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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