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Qualitative Data Collection for Development of an Electronic Application to Promote Home-Based Self-Care in Older Heart Failure Patients: Patient and Informal Caregiver Perspectives

Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and rehospitalization in older adults, yet the majority of HF-related readmissions are preventable if patients can manage their treatment at home. One method to help patients who require extra assistance in following their treatment is through mHealth applications. However, these applications are not usable for many older patients due to their complicated design. Within this study, we will have HF patients and their caregivers evaluate our current HF-app to determine if it helps tackle the challenges they face with their treatment. We will use this feedback to help design a more simple, user-oriented application with our partner Pulse Infoframe. The development of this application will be used as an additional tool for Pulse Infoframe’s current patient portals and patient-reported outcome framework. Furthermore, this user-centered HF-app will serve a greater purpose by helping patients better manage their care at home.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Demers

Student:

Sahr Wali

Partner:

Pulse InfoFrame Inc.

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Content Delivery Networks to the Home

CONTENT Delivery Networks (CDNs) are large distributed infrastructures of replica servers placed in strategic locations. They deliver content to end-users with reduced latency by replicating content on surrogate servers. However they face a major challenge when content is delivered to end-users accessing a same content in home settings: inefficient bandwidth usage in the access network. There are as many streams from the replica server as end-users accessing the same content. It should be noted that although multicast is implemented on most routers, Internet Service Providers (ISP) generally do not enable multicast on their network. The ley reason is that RTP on multicast did not provide an attractive platform for delivery multimedia over the Internet for a host of reasons. This project aims at tackling the problem of inefficiency in bandwidth usage. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roch Glitho

Student:

Shreya Biswas

Partner:

Ericsson Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Detailed Analysis of the forces acting on a high-speed full-scale elevator

The industry partner of this project has an elevator modernization project that includes increasing the current speeds of their elevators by more than 30%. However, increase in speed is usually associated with increase in aerodynamic and lateral forces on the elevator cars, which can negatively affect ride quality and noise levels. The objective of this study is to examine the forces involved, and determine if the speed increases are within the Elevator Modernization Specification provided by industry experts. The study will employ powerful computer software to analyze the airflow inside two-car and three-car elevator shafts, focusing on the forced-air flow in the shafts caused by the cars, as well as aerodynamic effects caused by cars traveling in opposite directions passing each other.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Agelin-Chaab

Student:

Abed Omran

Partner:

Schindler Elevator Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A Pilot Clinical Study of Treating Pressure Ulcers in patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Pressure ulcers are among the top five leading causes of re-hospitalization in patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Unfortunately, current conventional prevention and treatment methods have neither decreased the prevalence of these ulcers nor significantly improved their outcomes. To address this difficulty, here, we will test the efficacy of our new liquid skin substitute to fill up the non-healing wounds where the skin solidified and promotes the healing process. Our plan in a pilot study is to treat 12 patients who pressure non-healing wounds did not heal in the previous 3 months. Liquid skin will be applied layer by layer every 24 hours until the wound bed is filled up and dressed according to the UBC wound clinic instructions. Wounds will be monitored daily and healing outcome will be compared with that of untreated wounds for the previous 3 months.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aziz Ghahary

Student:

Layla Nabai

Partner:

Rick Hansen Institute

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing trust of artificial intelligence technology in the context of workplace relations

The goal of the project is to gain insight into individuals’ reactions to an artificial intelligence (AI) product currently in development at Kiite. The product is designed to fulfill some of the role responsibilities typically occupied by a manager. Trust is an important factor in both leader-employee relationships and in user experiences with AI-based systems. Thus, the partnership with Kiite offers a novel research opportunity to contribute to an emerging area of research on when and why humans are liable to (dis)trust AI technology in the workplace. We will conduct one-on-one interviews with participants from several organizations where Kiite is testing their AI product. The main outcomes will be communicating the findings in the form of a paper for an academic journal, a knowledge-translation piece for a trade-level publication, and an executive report prepared for Kiite, which will include actionable recommendations for improving their product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Benson

Student:

Julia McMenamin

Partner:

Kiite Inc

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a novel stem cell-seeded extracellular matrix for treatment of chronic wounds

The bedsore or pressure ulcer is a serious health problem that affects many individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). These ulcers mostly develop on skin that covers bony prominences of the body, such as the hips and tailbone. Pressure ulcers are often very difficult to treat and not only negatively affect patients’ health, but also have profound impact on their quality of life. This speaks to the need for finding more effective treatment methods to address this problem. Our aim in this research project is to find a novel method to improve the healing of pressure ulcers. We specifically plan to develop a novel method to fabricate a liquid skin substitute. This liquid skin can then be applied to the wound site to cast inside the wound bed and fill the ulcer pockets similar to patching a pothole with liquid concrete. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reza Baradar Jalili

Student:

Ali Farrokhi

Partner:

Rick Hansen Institute

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating the Geochemistry of Selenium (Se) in the Residual from Biological Wastewater Treatment

Although selenium is an essential element for human and animal health, it has a narrow concentration range before becoming toxic. Industrial practices, such as mining, can result in elevated levels of selenium to be introduced into surface water bodies, hence, treating mine processing water and wastewater is commonly done to reduce the potential for environmental impacts. Bacterially mediated redox processes are currently used in the mining industry to remove selenium from wastewater. The byproduct of this treatment is a solid state residual which contains high concentrations of selenium. The objective of this research is to investigate how selenium is occurring in the residual which will aid in understanding the risk it poses. This improved understanding of selenium within the residual will support the decision making process for managing the residuals in terms of disposal options and thereby reduce risk to environmental receptors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dirk Kirste

Student:

Laura Desaunoy

Partner:

Teck Metals Ltd.

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Macroeconomic Models for Performance and Investigation Prediction

Corporations are under a lot of scrutiny, especially when they annually release their financial reports to the government. If a corporation makes a mistake, or if an employee submits fraudulent information, or if it appears that either is the case, then they risk being asked to amend the filing by the government, which will cause their share price to suffer and force them to painstakingly redo the report at great expense. Caseware will sell software that can analyze these reports and determine if an amendment request is likely. The software can also make predictions about the future value of a company’s assets, which can help companies make informed decisions. This project’s goal is to increase the accuracy of this software by allowing it to look at big-picture information, such as the value of the stock market or the unemployment rate, when making its judgements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Rudzicz

Student:

Matthew Arnold

Partner:

CaseWare International

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Impact Fatigue Testing for Soil Openers

This project focus on designing a fatigue cycling machine to test soil openers for low cycle, impact fatigue. This process begins by identifying and characterizing the load in case, and then continue into detailed design, fabrication and commissioning. Characteristics such as robustness, reliability and safety will be strongly emphasised. This testing machine will then form a basis for further research on opener design.
It is very important to test the soil openers before releasing them, to assure that the customers that acquire them will not have problem during their seeding period. The outcomes of having the openers tested are beyond profit, it’s maintaining the company’s reliability in the present scenario.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Retzlaff

Student:

Jonathan Barroso de Araujo

Partner:

Dutch Industries Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a SEMA3C targeted therapeutic for treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, lung cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer

The major focus of this proposal is to perform preclinical studies to support clinical development of a novel inhibitor for treatment of different caners such as breast, lung, colorectal and kidney. We have recently developed a novel therapeutic protein that selectively inhibits multiple pathways for treatment of advanced prostate cancer. A goal of this project will be to explore the potential utility of this protein in treatment of cancers for which the inhibitors of these pathways have been clinically validated targets and drugs targeting these pathways are effective in their treatment and have received regulatory approval. These proposed studies will help guide clinical trial design and inclusion criteria for first-in-human clinical trials and future evaluation of biologically-rational combination strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Ong

Student:

Lucia Nappi, Satyam Bhasin, Kevin Tam, Shahram Khosravi, Pavan Derodra

Partner:

Prostate Centre’s Translational Research Initiative for Accelerated Discovery and Development

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Uplift models extension for smart marketing

Insurance companies heavily fund marketing campaigns such as, for instance, customer retention or cross-sell initiatives. Uplift modeling aims at predicting the causal effect of an action such as medical treatment or a marketing campaign on a particular individual by taking into consideration the response to an action. Typically, the result of an uplift model is used to call customers for marketing some products based on important attributes of a customer. The general objective of the research project is to explore the eventuality of introducing a clustering methodology that aligns with the detection of the uplift.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alejandro Murua

Student:

Mouloud Belbahri

Partner:

TD Assurance

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Detection of axial cracks in cast iron pipes using ultrasonic guided waves

Pure Technologies is a world leader in the development and application of innovative technologies for inspection, monitoring and management of physical infrastructure including water and hydrocarbon pipelines, buildings and bridges. Over the years, Pure Technologies has developed innovative, proprietary and patented technologies to provide infrastructure owners with comprehensive, state-of-the-art information. For the inspection of large diameter water pipelines, Pure Technologies has developed a platform named PipeDiver. It can be effectively deployed for long inspections on several types of pipe to determine baseline condition. Pure Technologies is interested in adding new capabilities to the PipeDiver such as the detection of axial in various configurations including bell-and-spigot joints.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Bélanger

Student:

Baptiste Gauthier

Partner:

Pure Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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