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Investigating and Facilitating users’ participation in trading social networks

“Trustply Tech Ltd.” will control the overall users’ acceptance process using this research project in a step-by-step manner, rather than “trial and error” way of dealing with users. This project allows the company to invest on its development efficiently, by targeting proper users with effective approaches.
While implementing different versions of this social platform, the intern will perform two main research tasks; a) monitors the users and makes an adoption model to identify the most important factors affecting users’ acceptance and b) analyzes the users’ subscription patterns and finds the most effective configuration for the company’s viral marketing strategy in the new communities, based on the available data on previous attempts.
This project solves two main problems of this company, while connects the company to research resources and saves on budgets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eleni Stroulia

Student:

Ali Sajedi Badashian

Partner:

Trustply Tech Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Characterizing lytic bacteriophages against pathogenic E. coli: receptor specificity, efficacy in vivo, and genomic analysis

Many facets of human life are affected by bacterial pathogens. Bacteria can cause both animal and plant diseases. Extensive use of antibiotics to contend with pathogenic bacteria has resulted in an increase of multi-resistance to antimicrobials. Even when antibiotics are used vigilantly, their application in poultry or other fields of animal production can lead to increased spreading of drug resistance. Natural adversaries of bacteria – bacteriophages – are now considered as an alternative to antibiotics. Unlike antibiotics which show broad range killing, bacteriophages only kill specific bacterial species or strains, and are harmless for others. In poultry, avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) is the predominant cause of respiratory and systemic infection in chickens and turkeys. During a Mitacs Accelerate grant, we isolated lytic phages with a broad killing activity against a variety of APEC strains. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Dozois

Student:

Kateryna Krylova

Partner:

SyntBioLab Inc

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Elevate

Recommendation system for retail shopping

People rely on recommendations from other people, friends’ word, news reports, and travel guide and so forth. Recommendation systems assist people to sift through available books, web pages, restaurants, and grocery products. [16]. We want to build a recommendation flow in the retail industry to serve Canadian citizens better. The system will understand the customers and help them to make better selections and improve their shopping experience. A retail recommendation is different from e-commerce as the basket is substantially larger and customer tends to buy same product over and over again. In this project to build models to understand the existing customer base and products for shopping suggestions, robust substitutions, and search ranking. The system will make recommendations base on the users that are similar. For example, the system will learn your shopping behaviours and make product recommendation based on purchased history of other users that share the similar shopping behaviours.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nick Koudas

Student:

Wei Zheng

Partner:

Loblaw Digital

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting climate change resilience of mine site reclamation in Yukon’s boreal region: from site and ecosystem classifications to biological response

Research problem: Reclamation practices in regions known to be undergoing rapid climate change must consider what adaptive measures could be implemented to maximize short-term reclamation success and long-term resilience of reclaimed sites. Objectives: I will investigate how a multi-scale ecological classification system can be used to predict regeneration success of different forest tree species at reclamation sites in north-central Yukon. To predict regeneration success, I will investigate how tree species in equivalent, nearby natural stands have responded to observed climate change in the past. Methods: I will use a dendrochronological approach to reconstruct tree growth over the last 50+ years in natural stands that are either directly comparable to the reclamation sites, or that are equivalent under an observed or predicted warming signal. Climate equivalency is determined with a climatic niche model. Site equivalency will be determined by evaluating topographic metrics and soil data at candidate sites. Water deficit will be measured during hot/dry periods at reclaimed and natural sites as a key factor in determining resiliency to climate change. Anticipated Outcome: “TO BE CONT’D”

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andreas Hamann

Student:

Nadele Flynn

Partner:

Integral Ecology Group

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

GaN Power Transistor Modelling and Experimental Verification

Crosslight Software Inc. is a leading provider of technology CAD (TCAD) tools for the design and simulation of semiconductor devices. They are specialized in innovative III-V compound materials which are considered as the next generation materials for power semiconductor devices. Crosslight has on-going activities in developing accurate simulation models for gallium nitride (GaN) material and devices. In particular, this is critical for the design of GaN based power transistors. This project aims to evaluate a variety of widely used processes involved in the fabrication of GaN power transistors to assist Crosslight in improving their GaN TCAD models. Specifically, we wish to focus on the metal semiconductor alloying process under high temperature annealing, including surface morphology, alloying product and temperature dependent crystallization mechanisms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wai Tung Ng

Student:

Wei Jia Zhang

Partner:

Crosslight Software

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Methods for efficient and effective multi-document reading comprehension in the legal domain

ROSS enables legal professionals by providing tools that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to make the research process more efficient. Advances within machine learning and natural language computing enable systems to achieve close to human performance. Many state-of-the-art methods have not been applied to the legal domain, leaving opportunity to enable development for the legal field and bring improvement to the efficiency and effectiveness of legal research. This project evaluates multiple approaches to multi-document comprehension and their performance in legal domain.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Rudzicz

Student:

Antonia Mouawad

Partner:

ROSS Intelligence Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Economic Implications of Policy Change in Rural Regions: Implications of Legalizing Cannabis in the Kootenay Region

How does policy created by the federal government impact local rural regions? What are the positive and negative implications of policy changes made in Ottawa? This research focuses on understanding the economic implications of changes in federal policies in rural areas. With better understanding, businesses and community serving organizations can better plan for economic implications emerging from policy change.
The Government of Canada has indicated the legalization of cannabis will take before summer 2018. As the federal government moves towards legalization, questions have emerged about how these federal and associated provincial and local government policies will impact rural regions. This research will investigate the economic implications of the proposed policy change of cannabis legalization in rural Canada. Through this research, the economic implications of this policy will be conducted in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia. The outcomes of this research will benefit regional stakeholders in the Kootenay region, including Community Futures Central Kootenay, to build enhanced economic strategic plans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Gibson

Student:

Tracey Harvey

Partner:

Community Futures Central Kootenay

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Peer Information and Substance Use Decision Making in Street-Involved Youth

This research aims to learn more about the way that homeless and street-involved evaluate information regarding substance use from their peers. To this end, this research team will work with Operation Come Home, a non-profit organization supporting homeless and at-risk youth in downtown Ottawa. The research team will recruit and interview 40 – 50 youth at Operation Come Home to assess a number of factors relating the way that they evaluate peer information regarding drug use. The interviews will be analyzed to search for themes relating to the way that street-involved youth receive and evaluated substance use information from their peers, and whether the use of peer information is related to subjective indicators of well-being. The results of this research will be directly communicated to the primary care workers at the partner organization, in order to facilitate improvements in their communications of high-quality information regarding substance use to this population of youth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Howard

Student:

Erin Macdonald

Partner:

United Way Ottawa

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Vanadium oxide coated with conductive polymers for zinc-ion battery cathode

Rechargeable aqueous zinc ion batteries (RAZBs) have been used extensively because of their safety and low-cost. As an available cathode material for ZIBs, layered vanadium oxide (V2O5) has been considered due to its high specific discharge capacity. Because V2O5 is slightly soluble in water, it is suitable for modifying V2O5 with conductive polymers to stabilize its crystalline structure and decrease the solubility of V2O5 in aqueous electrolyte systems. In-situ polymerization will be used to coat polymers on the V2O5 surface. In this research, we will experiment with the mass ratio of polymer to active material to determine the ratio that provides best cycling performance and that enhances the specific discharge capacity of V2O5 cathode for RAZBs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pu Chen

Student:

Mei Han

Partner:

D&H Partners Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

The Voices of Children and Youth: Community Injury Prevention through Visual Storytelling and Intervention (VOICES) in First Nations communities

The Voices research project aims to build injury prevention capacity within the First Nation community of Akwesasne (near Cornwall, ON) and among researchers. Under the principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP), and with the guidance of a local Akwesasronon project manager, this project will be accomplished by working directly with and within the community, following the community’s lead in addressing child injury in an Akwesasronon context, and by making expertise and resources available.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential to influence cultural change toward safety and injury prevention through child leadership. This will be accomplished through the following objectives:
1. Identify leading determinants of child injury in Akwesasne
2. Identify gaps in child injury prevention efforts in Akwesasne
3. Inform the development of a comprehensive and holistic child injury prevention strategy
4. Increase community capacity to address child injury in Akwesasne

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Pike

Student:

Emilie Beaulieu

Partner:

Katenies Research and Management Services

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Aboriginal affairs

University:

Program:

Accelerating home energy retrofits – building the case for local improvement charges in Ontario municipalities

In 2012, changes to provincial legislation in Ontario provided municipalities with a new market-based tool to improve the energy and water efficiency of the existing building stock; the ‘local improvement charge’ (LIC) mechanism.
The City of Toronto was the first and remains the only Ontario municipality to use LICs to finance residential energy retrofits, starting in 2014 with the Home Energy Loan Program. Many other municipalities are interested. Indeed, one of the key priorities articulated in each of Vaughan, Newmarket and Markham’s Municipal Energy Plan (MEP) is the development of an energy efficiency retrofit program for residential buildings, supported through implementation of a Local Improvement Charge mechanism. However, a lack of clarity regarding the risks to the municipality in developing an LIC program for energy retrofits, particularly in a two-tier municipal government context, is seen as a barrier to program implementation. This project aims to determine the best approach to implement a coordinated LIC-based residential energy retrofit program in the context of an tiered governance framework such as exists with these York Region municipalities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Winfield

Student:

Scott Harbinson

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Better Benchmarks, Better Urban Design

This project will assess the value in measuring sustainability outcomes according to place-specific baselines rather than universal thresholds set by rating systems and frameworks. It seeks a stronger foundation for sustainable design that can acknowledge place-specific factors. Ultimately, this work will lead to the establishment of a decision-making protocol about sustainable design options and outcomes that can be applied in a range of contexts, for better choices, made more justifiably, better understanding of impact, and a better sense of progress across projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meg Holden

Student:

Joan Chamunorwa

Partner:

Perkins+Will Canada

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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