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Adapting Human Performance Techniques, Illusion Aesthetics, and Specialized Apparatus from the World of Stage Conjuring to Contemporary Circus Disciplines

The vast majority of performance techniques, illusion aesthetics, and specialized apparatuses used by stage conjurors are still unknown and remain unexplored by the circus world. The tacit knowledge that magicians exchange amongst themselves is rarely transferred to members outside of their subculture, which leads to creative stagnation in their communities and beyond. The purpose of this project is to create an intensive and sustained collaboration between North American illusion experts and elite circus artists to produce new physical vocabulary for new equipment. The prototypes produced will be disciplinary hybrids. The specific magic/circus combinations proposed for this project are: 1) manipulation techniques for an optical illusion wheel apparatus, 2) movement vocabulary for a color-changing aerial rope apparatus, and 3) movement vocabulary for a color-changing silks apparatus. Cirque du Soleil, as industrial partner, and graduates of Montreal’s National Circus School will be the first to use and diffuse the physical vocabulary and special apparatuses developed. The collaboration of magic and circus specialists will be facilitated through the organization of an international academic and industry conference held in Montreal in the summer 2020.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Louis Patrick Leroux

Student:

Joseph Culpepper

Partner:

Cirque du Soleil

Discipline:

Literature

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

Program:

Elevate

Opioid Use in Pediatric-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an inflamed digestive tract and experience diarrhea, fatigue, and abdominal pain. Youth with IBD are six times more likely to take opioids than youth without IBD. We are currently in the midst of an opioid crisis. In 2016, there were almost 3000 deaths related to opioid use in Canada. This increased to nearly 4000 deaths in 2017. Since 2001, opioid-related deaths have increased by 345% in the United States. IBD patients taking opioids have a poorer quality of life, regardless of how severe their IBD is. I will use health administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) to (1) examine trends in opioid prescriptions for children and young adults with and without IBD; (2) identify characteristics of patients who are more likely to take opioids; and (3) evaluate the impact of opioid use on use of health care services, IBD-related surgeries, addiction services, and death. Understanding patterns and the impact of opioid use will allow for creation of strategies to decrease opioid use in IBD and support ICES in their mission to improve health and health care through data and discovery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Benchimol

Student:

Ellen Kuenzig

Partner:

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

Advanced Anode Materials for Next-Generation All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

Advanced batteries are critical for achieving high-performance electric vehicles (EVs) and supporting goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The prevailing rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using liquid electrolytes, are the major choice for current EVs. However, these LIBs still suffer from safety, lifespan, and energy density issues. Solid-state lithium batteries (SSLBs) have recently emerged as alternative energy storage devices for next-generation EVs due to their ability to overcome intrinsic disadvantages presented by flammable liquid electrolytes, thus solving a major safety issue. SSLBs can achieve greater volumetric energy density and last longer without compromising safety or power, thanks to solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) to replace traditional liquid electrolytes in LIBs. This proposal aims to develop high-performance anodes for next-generation SSLBs that offer improved safety and performance. Metallic lithium and graphite/silicon high-capacity anodes will be applied and optimized for SSLBs. Meanwhile, various novel surface modification methods will be used to address anode/SSE interfaces challenges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xueliang Sun

Student:

Jianwen Liang

Partner:

Glabat Solid-state Battery Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The Power of Archival Records in Independent Schools

This research will look to explore the ingest, management, preservation, use, and re-use of archives within primary and secondary independent schools with more academic rigour than has been attempted in the past. Independent schools have unique challenges that differ from those faced by public schools. The purpose of this study is to inductively create a very detailed analysis of the relationships between the records that are created at an independent school and their uses (and re-uses). Key concepts will emerge from the rich qualitative data, identifying problem areas. This will inform the design of one or two practical solutions created in collaboration with relevant staff, faculty or student groups to improve the quality of school administrative or curricular activities, strengthen relations with their community, and/or enrich the archive itself through outreach activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eun Park

Student:

Morgannis Graham

Partner:

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School

Discipline:

Library and museum studies

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Effectiveness of an Online Game in Promoting Careers in New Brunswick Nursing Homes

Workforce shortages are a growing problem in New Brunswick, and across Canada. Nursing homes are already experiencing challenges in recruiting staff, while the demand for the service continues to rise due to an aging population. Nursing homes need an effective recruitment strategy and the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes has committed to investing in new technology to help attract staff. Businesses are starting to use game-like tools to engage employees and brand their business to attract job seekers. This project will apply research to design an online game that will demonstrate what it is like to work in a nursing home. The game will be tested with high school students to see if it increases the likelihood of choosing a career in a nursing home.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emily Read

Student:

Cassandra Folkins

Partner:

New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes Inc

Discipline:

Nursing

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Direct Olefin Reduction

Olefins are unsaturated hydrocarbon molecules that are commonly formed as by-products during the fluid catalytic cracking of heavy crude oils. The presence of olefins in upgraded oil feedstocks is highly undesirable as their intrinsic instability means that decomposition is facile and results in the formation of a variety of unwanted compounds that devalue the upgraded oils and impede its pipeline transportation and long term storage. Furthermore, the presence of olefins has been strongly linked to the sulfur content of crude and refined oils. Sulfur containing compounds must be removed during the oil upgrading process as the formation of harmful sulfur containing pollutants may promote downstream e.g. SOx gas emissions from gasoline oil. Olefins in the feedstock may be transformed into more valuable products such as aromatics and paraffins via reaction with Hydrogen gas at high temperatures over an appropriate heterogeneous catalyst. Hydrogen gas is however, costly due to its natural unavailability. It is instead formed by reacting methane obtained from natural gas with steam under very high temperatures. This research project aims to develop an effective catalyst that can bypass the use of hydrogen gas and instead, utilize methane directly to transform olefins into more valuable products…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hua Song

Student:

Jonathan Harrhy

Partner:

MEG Energy Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of climate sensitive growth functions for western North America’s boreal tree species

The Mixedwood Growth Model (MGM) is used by forest managers in estimating growth and yield outcomes for common boreal tree species in North America. MGM has been shown to effectively model both managed and unmanaged stands in Alberta and surrounding regions. Currently, climate effects are not accounted for in growth functions used in MGM. Recent work for black spruce has shown that there is need to understand and model the effect of climate for other boreal tree species including white spruce, aspen, balsam poplar, lodgepole pine and jack pine. This study is designed to examine the effect of climate, competition, site quality, and their interactions with climate on the growth of the aforementioned tree species. Long term measurement data with at least 11,673 Permanent Sample Plots (PSP) established and measured between 1931 and 2015 across western Canada and Alaska will be analysed for this project. This will include evaluating a wide variety of climate variables, competition indices and tree and site variables as potential predictors of growth . The addition of climate to growth functions in MGM would improve its ability to represent effects of climatic variation in the western boreal and support modeling of climate change impacts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phil Comeau

Student:

Felix Oboite

Partner:

Weyerhaeuser (Canada)

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Elevate

Integration of microbiological and geochemical tools for de-risking oil and gas exploration along the Scotian Margin

This Mitacs project will enable two MSc students the opportunity to work with the Offshore Energy Research Association and their partners with the Nova Scotia Department of Energy to produce an ArcGIS product and seismic-based model of seep architecture for petroleum exploration of the offshore Nova Scotia margin. These projects will relate newly created genomic and lipidomic data that is expected to help de-risk offshore exploration efforts. The Interns will use these data to produce maps and 3D models of the seeps

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Faculty Supervisor:

Todd Ventura

Student:

Yaisa Owino

Partner:

Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Simulation and Analysis of Aerators at Fish Farms

Fish farms are a way to satisfy the increasing demand for fish without directly impacting wild stocks. In fish farms water quality significantly impacts fish health and development. Industrial fish farms rely on aerators for multiple purposes, including the oxygenation of water and the isolation of fish from plankton blooms. However, at this time, several critical aspects of aerators are not completely understood. This study will be conducted in several stages, with a combination of experimental and simulation techniques. The first stage will involve field measurements in an operating fish farm. Next, computational techniques will be implemented in order to predict the flow from one aerator, and subsequently, from an array of aerators. The final stage will use the experimental and simulated results to determine the optimal design for individual aerators as well as their preferred placement within a fish pen. Poseidon Ocean Systems Ltd. will use the results of this research to assess the current behavior of aerators and then improve upon their novel conceptual design. There is also potential for significant environmental benefits as fish farm aerators are powered by diesel generators, and optimization of the aerators will result in reduced consumption of diesel fuel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sheldon Green

Student:

Armin Bodaghkhani

Partner:

Poseidon Ocean Systems

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Elevate

Nutrient balances (phosphorus and nitrogen) in Lake St. Charles, Quebec, and the evaluation of effectiveness of remediation scenarios for nutrient reductions on the lake’s water quality

Lake St. Charles is the primary drinking water reservoir of Quebec City, Canada, providing water to about 300,000 people. Over the past decade, several occurrences of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom have been recorded, affecting the quality of water in this strategic reservoir. Evaluation of observed data collected over the past decade indicates that the water quality of the lake is undergoing fast degradation due to anthropogenic activities around the lake and in the watershed. Further evaluation of field observations and their interpretation showed that the biweekly gaps between measurements, especially at high flow events, and lack of inclusion of all tributaries in previous studies produce uncertainties that decrease their suitability for making sound management decisions. Hence, to make better use of available data and to support decision making, this project aims to link water quality data from different sources with geomorphic, hydrometric and meteorological data through a comprehensive water quality model; providing a framework to assess the effect of various sources of nutrients on the water quality of Lake St. Charles. Model outcomes would help quantifying the relative amount of nutrients from each source to the lake.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Rousseau

Student:

Amir Sadeghian

Partner:

Association pour la protection de l'environnement du Lac St-Charles et des Marais du Nord

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Elevate

Examining the Roles of Mouse Immune Cells in Liver Regeneration

The mammalian liver is known for its regenerative property, capable of fully restoring mass and function after injury. However, when this process is in disarray, chronic liver diseases occur, for which the current solution is liver transplantation. Transplantation remains an imperfect solution as the supply is limited and rejection can happen. Today, 25% of patients waiting for transplantation die before a liver becomes available. This study aims to describe a regenerating liver at the cellular level to explore the alternatives to liver transplantation. By removing part of the liver and observing how different cells change as the liver regrows, we will identify the key players in this process thereby offering therapeutic strategies in supplementing these cells to treat liver diseases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gonzalo Sapisochin

Student:

Michael Cheng

Partner:

Industrial BioDevelopment Laboratory

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Spherical harmonic representation of sound field using a velocity microphone for source localization and source separation

The rapid emergence of voice interfaces in our everyday devices has driven the need to develop audio systems that are robust to noisy environments. Traditionally, arrays of pressure based microphones are used to listen into a specific sound and block out the surrounding noise. However, this comes at a tradeoff of increased size and decreased audio quality. Recently, Soundskrit has developed a new type of microphone that can directly measure the particle velocity of a sound field. This microphone inherently measures the vector components of the incoming sound, providing directional information of the acoustic environment. In this project, we will investigate how information on the sound’s particle velocity can be leveraged to perform accurate sound source localization and separation while maintaining a relatively small footprint. Such a system could enable new features in a variety of consumer devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe-Aubert Gauthier

Student:

Lucas Henrique Teixeira Carneiro

Partner:

TandemLaunch Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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