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A Professional Learning Community of Coaches (PLCC): supporting science teaching in Chinese international education

One of the main concerns in modern educational research is how to implement classes that are interactive and to provide a better learning environment for students. Among these trends, ambitious teaching refers to a set of principles that emphasize student-centered and investigative learning. However, teachers need support from their trainers to successfully implement these ideas. In this project, we aim to investigate the benefits of using a professional development training called Professional Learning Communities among science coaches to improve teachers’ practices. To do so, we plan to develop a community of coaches that will be responsible to implement training sessions with teachers in their respective schools. We will also investigate how to provide written guidance for science and mathematics teachers to make their classes more interactive and exciting for students.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Annie Savard

Student:

Alexandre Soares Cavalcante

Partner:

Teach for the Future

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Eye Gazing Enabled Driving Behavior Monitoring and Prediction

Automobiles have become one of the necessities of modern life, but also introduced numerous traffic accidents that threaten drivers and other road users. Most state-of-the-art safety systems are passively triggered, reacting to dangerous road conditions or driving behaviors only after they happen and are observed, which greatly limits the last chances for collision avoidances. Timely tracking and predicting the driving behaviors calls for a more direct interface beyond the traditional steering wheel/brake/gas pedal. We argue that a driver’s eyes are the interface, as this is the first and the essential window that gathers external information. The objective of the proposed research is to develop an active driving behavior monitoring and prediction framework for driving assistance applications, which is closely related to PANOMOTION TECHNOLOGY INC., a local startup working on intelligence driving assistants. The proposed research can greatly benefit the company by applying the research outcomes to its main products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victor Leung

Student:

Xiaoyi Fan

Partner:

PanoMotion Technology Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Climate change and water use: can increased diversity help protect forests?

Forests provide habitat to more than 65% of terrestrial biodiversity, yet are being eliminated or greatly simplified at an alarming rate under global change (GC). Current forestry practices tend to favour a handful of species, without considering resilience of resulting forests to GC. During the past two decades, studies have investigated the complex relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem service provision to humanity. Biodiversity and ecosystem function research (BEF) has prompted the establishment of forest experiments and research networks to better understand consequences of biodiversity loss. There is undoubtedly an increasing interest in Canada and internationally to evaluate the potential role of maintaining diversity in managed forests and plantations to increase productivity and resilience. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Paquette

Student:

Enrick Potiron

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The importance and multi-dimensional approach of marketing strategy in the data security industry

As a customer you expect your personal and sensitive data to be kept safe in the company’s storage and to be handled confidentially. But that is exactly among others one of the biggest challenge for businesses nowadays. Therefore, they need the best partner in IT and data protection by their side. Data security and protection solutions are offered by several software companies to address the issue. But how can businesses find the best suitable solution? That is when marketing strategy of the software companies comes into play. It is essential to realize marketing campaigns in a way that will businesses convince to buy data security solutions. This research will work out exactly this matter. The results of the research will help the partner organization as a data protection firm to be able to perfectly create awareness at potential customers

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Boulet

Student:

Corinna Stueckl

Partner:

TandemLaunch Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Buffer Width and the Persistence of Black Duck Populations in Forested Wetlands of New Brunswick, Canada

The American Black Duck is the most abundant breeding waterfowl species in New Brunswick (NB), and, although previously common throughout New Brunswick (NB), notable declines in breeding black duck abundance have been reported in the commercially forested area of NB in the last 20 years. In NB, forestry operations must maintain >=30m buffers around waterbodies. These areas are important to waterfowl as nesting habitat and as a barrier to sources of disturbance in areas adjacent to wetlands. It is unknown if NB’s 30m requirement is adequate to maintain quality black duck habitat. Therefore, I will test this by monitoring the success of black duck nests and measuring black duck reactions to disturbance in areas with different buffer zone widths. This project will benefit Ducks Unlimited Canada by identifying key conservation areas for NB waterfowl.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joseph Nocera

Student:

Kelly McLean

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Urban bat ecology in the Metro Vancouver region

Bats often use urban areas, but ecologists lack understanding of where they roost and forage. Bats are important predators on insect pests, including mosquitoes, so understanding their requirements is important. This need is made more critical by the likely imminent spread of an exotic fungal pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome, which is often lethal to bats. Our proposed work will support a MSc student who will examine summer roosts in the Metro Vancouver region. We will record bat numbers and reproduction, and the environments in different roosts; these data will help us to identify the most important roosts in the region. Our partner, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, has identified this research as a high priority part of their conservation plans for bats of western Canada. Our results will be broadly disseminated to researchers, government managers, and local non-profit groups interested in bats.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karen Hodges

Student:

Leah Rensel

Partner:

Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Chitosan-derivatives as a platform for drug and protein delivery

Triozan™ is a safe, biodegradable and biocompatible hydrophilic and highly quaternized biopolymer with advantageous physicochemical properties that enables an efficient encapsulation and protection of drug molecules against degradation while simultaneously maintaining therapeutic integrity. We propose to encapsulate three drug candidates into nanogels formed from Triozan to enhance their therapeutic application and overcome multiple barriers such as multi-drug resistance phenomenon present in bacteria and in cancer cells as well as biological barriers such as the hematoencephalic barrier

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dusica Maysinger

Student:

Alexandre Moquin

Partner:

Ovensa Inc

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the impacts of landscape development on carnivore activity patterns and species interactions

Understanding the impacts of human-driven disturbance on carnivore communities is an important step for prioritizing conservation decisions and managing land-use policies. Disturbances such as landscape development may influence how species structure their activity periods over the 24-hour cycle and potentially compromise the capacity for competitors to avoid costly encounters with each other. Few studies to date have investigated how landscape disturbance impacts species’ behaviour and interactions across time, and the potential ramifications on community-level biodiversity and structure. Employing camera-trap datasets collected across Alberta, this project will characterize the behavioural responses of carnivore species across a gradient of landscape development and disentangle the interacting effects of disturbance and landscape characteristics on species interactions. Results of this research will benefit the partner organization in providing scientific information to government and industry decision-makers for better conservation practices and land-use management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Volpe

Student:

Sandra Frey

Partner:

InnoTech Alberta Inc

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Hey Neighbour! Evaluation and Understanding Social Connections and Engagement

The Hey Neighbour! pilot program evaluation intends to draw conclusions about the potential of social policy interventions into urban neighbourhoods. First, we will review the multidisciplinary research trends and approaches related to the question of improving social quality in urban neighbourhoods and communities. This will include review of the terminology, definitions of related terminology, overlapping usages across disciplines, co-citations, and different methodological approaches in the past generation, in the scholarly literature. Secondly, we will engage in a formative evaluation of the Hey Neighbour! pilot, an initiative created by the Social Connections Table around which both the Vancouver Foundation and City of Vancouver sit. This pilot establishes a new role of “resident animator” in two participating multi-unit residential buildings, with the objective of increasing social cohesion and sense of community. Intended outcomes of this work will include a report and scholarly manuscript based upon the bibliometric analysis of social connections research, and pilot program reports for the intended audiences of local decision-makers, property management companies, and other Hey Neighbour! project stakeholders about this pilot initiative.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meg Holden

Student:

Rahil Adeli

Partner:

Vancouver Foundation

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Machine learning prediction on embedded systems

Machine learning (ML) applications have shown remarkable performance in vanous intelligent tasks but high computational intensity and large memory requirements have hindered its widespread ubhzation in embedded and Internet of things devices due to resource constraints.
Many optimization techniques have been proposed previously for domain specific architectures. These optimizations will affect an embedded device differently. and each of them have their own trade-offs and Impact speed, accuracy and energy efficiency differently. Understanding these trade-offs will help a programmer to select from the arsenal of optimizations based on their target application. For example, a latency sensitive real-t1me apphcabon may tolerate inaccuracies, and another apphcat1on may need high accuracy. We want to explore optimization techmques needed to execute machine learning inference algorithms for embedded dev1ces and suggest the1r trade-offs on speed, energy, and accuracy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arrvindh Shriraman

Student:

Naveen Vedula

Partner:

Form Athletica Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Statistical Analysis of Women’s Representation in the Animation and Visual Effects Industry in Vancouver

The creative industry is one of the vital pillars of the Canadian economy. Furthering the careers of women in business, technical and creative roles in Vancouver can help promote the economic growth of BC creative industry and advancing women into higher roles. Our project is to track the real-time data of the female staff in animation and film studios in Vancouver and analyze the data. The methods for data collection include the traditional ways like making survey and doing interview, and the web-based way to make a database linked by a data collection website. Our project will use data visualization method to analyze the data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Tupper

Student:

Jie Jian

Partner:

Canadian Media Producers Association

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Bio-Aggregate Based Construction Materials for Sustainable Farm Buildings

This research aims in utilizing agriculture wastes in production of sustainable eco-friendly construction materials for farms building. The mechanical and durability performance of the proposed eco-friendly construction material exposed to the aggressive agriculture environment will be evaluated. The research will investigate the effects of different factors mainly related to physical properties of used wastes and binding materials. This leading-edge research on reusing/recycling agro-wastes in construction materials will allow IRDA to economically and sustainably transform such wastes into a high-value product. IRDA will lead the research in this area focusing on developing and innovating sustainable smart building materials for farm buildings and various construction applications, with an anticipated measurable impact on the Canadian specifications for concrete.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed Soliman

Student:

Sara Boudali

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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