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13270 Completed Projects

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Childhood Healthy Weights Early Intervention Program

The Early Intervention Program (EIP) is a family-based intervention targeting families of children who are off the healthy weight trajectory. The EIP is a 10-week program offered at community centers across BC where children and their families meet once a week for 90 minutes. Parents will be provided with healthy lifestyle content and will engage in discussions on how to engage in health behaviours, and children will participate in physical activities aiming to enhance their motor skills. Families will also have access to a web portal with content and suggestions of activities to be completed. The Childhood Obesity Foundation will benefit by having an experienced post doctoral fellow leading and overseeing the evaluation team to ensure the research is following best standards. The intern will contribute with previous experience and innovative perspectives on the use of technologies to promote behaviour change in low income and diverse populations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patti-Jean Naylor

Student:

Isabela Gouveia Marques

Partner:

Childhood Obesity Foundation

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Diagnostic, Prognostic and Health Monitoring of Aircraft Flight Control System

The reduction of aircraft life-cycle cost and environmental footprint, increasingly desired by the aerospace industry, requires innovative ideas not only at design level but also at maintenance level. Aircraft manufacturers are looking for highly reliable equipment; however, degradations due to wear and tear and faults/failures are inevitable. Thus, when degradations occur, aircraft owners/operators want to be able to identify (i.e. detect and isolate/localize) them as early as possible and replace the faulty unit as quickly as required (and feasible). Also, it is highly desired to evolve from time-based to condition-based maintenance (CBM). This requires the capability to predict degradation progression time profile and thus estimate time-to-failure (TTF) or remaining-useful-life (RUL) of components. This will help optimize maintenance scheduling and reduce time dedicated to maintenance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ruxandra Botez

Student:

Yamina Boughari

Partner:

GlobVision

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Real-time measurement of the thickness swelling of modified fibreboard

Wood composite panels such as particleboard and fiber board swell when they get wet and, as a result, they are only used to make products that are used indoors. However, a new type of (modified) fibreboard has been developed that doesn’t swell when it becomes wet, which opens up the possibility of using fibreboards outdoors for siding, furniture and cabinets. The market for such products is large, but end-user need to be fully convinced that the new fibreboard is highly moisture resistant. This project seeks to develop an inexpensive high-resolution system to visualize the thickness swelling of modified fibreboard in real time. The system will be used to develop an animation showing the moisture-induced swelling of modified fibreboard versus unmodified fibreboard. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phil Evans

Student:

Lukie Leung

Partner:

Upper Canada Forest Products

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Analyzing the impact of the Lactobacillus rhamnosus R0011 secretome on intestinal epithelial cell and antigen-presenting cell interactions

Intestinal bacteria are now recognized as important for maintaining our health. Many questions remain about how these probiotic or health-promoting bacteria act to influence health, and how to use them to combat the numerous health problems associated with inflammation. The objectives of this research project are to determine how products made by one of these bacteria, Lactobacillus rhamnosus R0011, influence communication between certain cells important in our immune defences, intestinal epithelial cells and antigen-presenting cells. We have found that products of L. rhamnosus R0011 can modify the behavior of these cells in ways that would reduce inflammation. Examining how the products of these bacteria influence activities of and interactions between intestinal epithelial cells and antigen-presenting cells will allow us to more accurately determine the impact on our immune defences and understand how they influence health, information of use to Lallemand Health Solutions for applications of probiotic bacteria.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julia Green-Johnson

Student:

Michael Jeffrey

Partner:

Lallemand Health Solutions

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Salivary insulin profiles throughout the day in humans with elevated waist circumference

The hormone insulin rises in the blood after consuming food. Too high of an insulin response may be a sign of dysfunctional metabolism and has also been shown to promote weight gain. Thus, if insulin levels rise too high after a meal it may indicate that someone is metabolically unhealthy or is prone to obesity. Currently insulin is only measured in research studies using blood samples and costly, time consuming measurement techniques. This project aims to determine if saliva can be used to measure insulin in order to allow for non-invasive insulin measurement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Little

Student:

Hossein Rafiei

Partner:

CoreHealth Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Automating Analysis of Privacy Requirements

Against a backdrop of alarming privacy breaches at social media, banking, and government websites, the European Union will see the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come into force as of May 25 2018. GDPR will drastically increase fines for data loss and breach, introduces new requirements to obtain individual consent for data use, and defines new responsibilities for data processors and controllers. Any company, including Canadian companies, that processes EU citizen data is within the purview of the GDPR.
Many Canadian ICT companies have realized that their activities are potentially covered by the regulation. However, fully understanding where and how the technical architecture of the company’s information processing and storage may be non-compliant with GDPR is challenging for two reasons. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Ernst

Student:

Ze Shi Li

Partner:

Tutela Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Preference analyses and development of an e-health app facilitating communication of test results for hereditary cancer syndromes

An estimated 5-10% of cancers are inherited through family members. To identify patients’ risk for developing hereditary cancers, genetic testing can be used. Communicating hereditary cancer genetic results to patients is challenging for health care practitioners. Practitioners want to ensure that patients understand and communicate their preferences for receiving information. Tools to aid patients in communicating their preferences need to be developed. The intern will work with us as we: 1) ask patients about their views on different characteristics affecting their understanding of genetic test results; 2) develop and test an e-health App alongside Molecular You that patients can use to understand test results; 3) determine patients’ preferences for receiving genetic test information; and 4) elicit feedback on the App from health care practitioners and patients. Molecular You will have the opportunity to expand their existing digital health platform to support shared decision-making in the context of communicating hereditary cancer panel test results.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dean Regier

Student:

Steve Kalloger

Partner:

Molecular You Corporation

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Electrochemical Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis of Renewable Liquid Fuels from CO2

Despite a rapid decline of electricity costs, there is still demand for energy-dense liquid fuels, such as in heavy freight and air transportation. Liquid fuels can be synthesized from a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen called synthesis gas (syngas). However, this process requires high temperatures and pressures, and is itself responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions. We propose the use of electrocatalysis to produce these liquid fuels. To accomplish this, we will use computational modeling and machine learning methods to design electrocatalysts that efficiently convert CO2 or syngas into dense chemical fuels. These computational efforts will be validated through a parallel experimental approach that includes the fabrication of new catalyst formulations and the construction of prototype electrochemical flow cells.
This project will enable the synthesis of clean, energy-dense liquid fuels that can replace the use of fossil-derived fuels in industry and transportation sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ted Sargent

Student:

Ziyun Wang

Partner:

IBM Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Improved Numerical Combustion Models for Predicting and Reducing Pollutant Emissions in Gas Turbine Engines

Gas turbine engines are the primary propulsion device for today’s aircraft. These engines operate on liquid hydrocarbon-based fuels and as such can yield a range of undesirable pollutants including gaseous emissions such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), green-house gases (GHG, largely CO2, really a combustion product) and unburned hydrocarbons (UHC), as well as nanometer-sized carbonaceous particulate matter or soot. Due to increasing concerns for the environment and causes of global climate change, the manufacturers of gas turbine engines are today facing increasingly more stringent governmental and/or environmental regulations pertaining to emissions. These increased regulations are in turn driving the need for significantly reduced engine emission strategies. Unfortunately, there are major scientific and technological challenges associated with designing robust, low-emission, gas turbine combustors. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clinton Groth

Student:

Kevin Brooks

Partner:

IBM Canada

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Recommendation engine for intelligent recruiting and expertise matching using social media-like deep collaborative filtering

In today’s candidate-driven market, talent recruitment represents a major challenge for many companies. Younger millennials have different expectations of their work environment than previous generations. They are heavy users of technology in almost all their activities, including job search. They are also used to multiple social medias and expect faster feedback.  In this changing environment, traditional job web sites do not answer the challenges facing today’s talent recruitment. It becomes obvious that we need a new approach to tackle this problem. Using social medias like models in recruitment is a new idea that can have a positive impact in today’s job market. The goal here is to develop advanced machine-learning algorithms, that can learn and improve over time, for a recommender system candidate-company matching in the context of recruitment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Moulay Akhloufic

Student:

Abdarahmane Traoré

Partner:

GradsFinder Recruiting Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Accelerate

Automating financial reports redaction

The objective of the proposed research project is to automate the redaction of financial portfolios reports. The generated reports should inform the reader about which factors influenced the portfolio’s returns, to what degree, and how far these factors deviate from the norm.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Cardinal

Student:

Stéphane Gazaille

Partner:

Croesus

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Sex: It’s a matter of the heart

Heart failure is a complex cardiovascular disease with increasing global burden while the prognosis for patients remains poor. Risk factors and the type of heart failure differ between men and women. These differences can be due to sex – referring to biological differences – or gender – referring to social differences. In our project we will study the role of genetics in the different types of heart failure in men and women, using models that distinguish the contribution of both sex and gender. We will use genome-wide genotyping data from two AstraZeneca randomized clinical trials, the Montreal Heart Institute and the United Kingdom Biobanks, totaling >10,000 heart failure patients. The partner organization, AstraZeneca, will benefit from a better understanding of the genetic, sex and gender specific determinants of heart failure which can lead to a better definition of patient subgroups driven by distinct mechanisms and may ultimately lead to new improved therapeutic interventions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Pierre Dubé

Student:

Anna Levinsson

Partner:

AstraZeneca

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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