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Ethica CRO: Génération de modes opératoires normalisés assistée par NLP

Le présent projet de Ethica CRO explore le développement d’un prototype d’application pour les établissements de recherche canadiens qui intègre une solution d’intelligence artificielle (IA) au développement de modes opératoires normalisés (MON). Les ensembles de données de test dérivés des MONs de nombreux établissements de recherche canadiens conformes aux normes nationales du Canada (NNC) gouvernant la recherche chez l’humain seront utilisés pour former les algorithmes. Une fois formée, l’application pourra traiter des informations uniques à un institut de recherche pour produire des MONs spécifiques à son environnement et contexte de recherche. Lorsqu’un institut de recherche applique des procédures conformes aux NNC, il élève le niveau de qualité de la recherche humaine qu’il mène tout en protégeant les droits et le bien-être des participants à la recherche. L’objectif du projet est de favoriser l’harmonisation des pratiques de recherche et la collaboration dans la recherche humaine à travers le pays.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Richard Khoury

Student:

Partner:

Ethica CRO Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Examining the effects in variations of light quality on Cannabis Sativa – BC-774

The Canadian cannabis industry currently relies on indoor growth facilities where the environment can be carefully controlled to grow ‘bud’, which are actually the flowers of cannabis plants. Indoor plant production is energy-intensive, so switching to high-efficiency LED lights can save energy, reducing costs to the producer and the environment. In this study, the best way to use LED to grow high quality cannabis will be tested. Industry partner Green Amber’s LED One lights will be used to test how the cannabis plants grow when the LED lights contain extra blue, red, or mixed lighting. Based on earlier studies, we predict we can alter plant development using different colours of light.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Lacey Samuels;Sean Michaletz

Student:

Partner:

Green Amber Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Sustaining Disability Arts Ecologies in Canada

Disability arts is a field of artistic practice and cultural production that is revolutionizing approaches to accessibility and inclusion and providing a critical intervention into Canada’s arts and culture sector. I position this field as an ecology made up of different participants, resources, processes, materials, and networks. My research recognizes an urgent need for disability arts organizations to enact sustainable working practices and administrative infrastructures that can respond to the unique needs and values of the field and support its growth in meaningful ways. My Mitacs project addresses this need for sustainability by focusing on two foundational parts of this ecology: Tangled Art + Disability—Canada’s first accessible and disability-led art gallery and a national leader in accessible curation—and the archival materials of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life (BIT)—a community research project that produced an influential lineage of disability arts and culture work. I analyze Tangled’s organizational practices, administrative policies, and networks in relation to BIT’s histories of artistic and cultural production to explore how these infrastructural elements have marshalled the development of the disability arts ecology and how they can be further developed to support the sustainability of the disability arts ecology in the future. This project will support Tangled in assessing their administrative practices, ensuring they are sustainable and aligned with the ethos of disability arts and culture. This will support Tangled in advancing their current strategic planning initiatives by developing meaningful ways of assessing their policies and internal ways of working.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carla Rice

Student:

Partner:

Tangled Art + Disability

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Exploring the potential of chemical suppressors of nonsense mutations for treatment ofmultiple genetic disorders

Over 5000 rare genetic diseases collectively affect 1 in 12 Canadians. For these disorders about 10% of patients share a common mutation type that introduces a premature termination codon (PTC) in the gene and results in truncated and non-functional protein. The previously found PTC suppressors have limited effect or unacceptable side effects.
The goal of my project is to use a new approach to discover novel chemicals that suppress PTC with therapeutic potential for multiple genetic disorders. I will test over 300,000 chemicals in a yeast-based screening assay to detect the few that can act as PTC suppressors. I will test the activity of these chemicals in cells derived from patients with
various genetic disorders and bearing PTC. Finally I will elucidate the mechanism of action of the active compounds. The screening section of this proposal will be performed in collaboration with the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Roberge

Student:

Partner:

Center for Drug Research and Development

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Examining contaminants in fish and wildlife along the St. Lawrence River, Canada

Industrial, shipping, and agricultural activity over the last 100+ years have contributed a significant number of contaminants to the St. Lawrence River, causing health and cultural consequences for the local population, especially the local Indigenous community. Contaminants also affect the local ecosystem, and these impacts need to be better understood in the St. Lawrence River. This project aims to understand contaminants in three key species: herring gull, yellow perch, and northern pike. Technical reports on the contaminants in each species will be produced and shared with academics, policymakers, and industry. Additionally, materials for non-scientific audiences will be created and shared so that local community members can better understand the impacts of contaminants on the river. This work will provide essential insights into contaminants in wildlife in the St. Lawrence River and can help inform future decision-making regarding the management and use of the St. Lawrence River.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frances Pick

Student:

Partner:

St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Adapter un modèle de diffusion à la génération de photos de mode

THIS IS A GENERIC TEXT PUT IN PLACE AS THERE WAS NO PROJECT OVERVIEW

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Uwear.ai

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

On the same page? Black voters in Canada and the United Kingdom: A comparative study with African-Americans

The primary objective of the second article of my thesis is to evaluate if a racial cleavage is perceptible in public opinion in Canada and the United Kingdom. It will assess if this political cleavage is as salient as in the United States in both of these countries with the case of black voters. Also, one sub-objective of this thesis is to evaluate the factors susceptible to increasing the saliency of political division based on race in democracies other than the United States with survey experimentations. My thesis aims to assess whether race has become an important political cleavage in Canada and the United Kingdom by studying the case of black voters. The outcome of the following work will be an article that I will submit at the end of the next autumn semester.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ruth Dassonneville

Student:

Partner:

University of Manchester

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Signalisation Ver-Mac : Localisation automatique de chantiers

Signalisation Ver-Mac est un fabricant d’équipement de signalisation routière pour les chantiers de construction (panneaux à message variable, senseur, etc.). Ver-Mac a plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’équipement en Amérique du nord qui sont connectés et sur lesquels ils collectent des données depuis plus de 10 ans. Ver-Mac a des chantiers intelligents où des données temps réels changent l’affichage sur les panneaux. Les données de Ver- Mac sont structurées par métadonnées et par nomenclature. Des données comme la position GPS, les messages affichés, la route et la direction de celle-ci sont incluses dans beaucoup de données. Ver-Mac a accès à des données en temps réel comme la liste des chantiers connus par les départements de transport (données structurées) et les cartes routières (non structurées). Ce projet de stage vise à évaluer la capacité de l’intelligence artificielle à détecter la présence de chantier de construction automatiquement en se servant des mouvements et conditions d’opérations d’équipements connectés ainsi que d’information géo-référencée. Ceci facilitera grandement les opérations des gestionnaires de chantier pour faire le discernement entre des chantiers planifiés et ceux actifs pour faciliter la mobilité globale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Thierry Badard

Student:

Partner:

Signalisation Ver-Mac Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Effet de l’intégration du temps depuis le dernier feu sur les courbes de productivité et le calcul de la possibilité forestière de l’unité d’aménagement 85-51

La possibilité forestière vise à déterminer la quantité de bois exploitable tout en assurant la pérennité des écosystèmes forestiers et de l’industrie forestière. Néanmoins, la méthode actuellement utilisée pour déterminer l’âge des peuplements sous-estime l’âge réel dans l’établissement des courbes d’évolution du volume à l’échelle des peuplements. Cette erreur augmente en fonction de l’âge et se répercute sur les courbes d’évolution du volume et sur le calcul de la possibilité forestière. Ce projet vise, pour une unité d’aménagement situé en Abitibi, à substituer l’âge moyen par le temps depuis le dernier feu afin de créer de nouvelles courbes de croissances et à déterminer cet effet sur le calcul de la possibilité forestière. Du fait du contexte local, il est difficile de déterminer à l’avance l’impact de l’utilisation du temps depuis le dernier feu sur l’ensemble d’un calcul de possibilité forestière. Néanmoins, cette étude permettra un affinement des courbes d’évolutions du volume et améliorera le calcul de la possibilité forestière.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron

Student:

Partner:

Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C. - Tembec;Quebec Ministère des Ressources naturelles;Government of Quebec;Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Forestry; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a portable laser-based system for soil analysis

The goal of our project is to develop a portable, laser-based technique for in-situ analysis of
agricultural soils. This work will implement and enhance a technique known as Laser Induced
Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for in-situ measurements of key soil properties, such as
carbon content. LIBS is a minimally invasive detection technique, capable of rapid multielemental
composition analysis with sub parts-per-million sensitivity. LIBS uses an intense
laser pulse to produce a plasma on a material surface, from which the emitted light can be
analyzed to determine elemental composition. Compared to conventional soil analysis
methods, LIBS requires little sample preparation and provides high-speed, waste-free soil
characterization. The proposed project will begin by optimizing LIBS for soil analysis using a
compact and portable laser system and producing an open-source database and calibration
suite of spectroscopic emission from known soil samples. Artificial intelligence techniques will
be applied to establish algorithms for fast and reliable identification of soil composition. This
knowledge will be further applied to develop and test a portable LIBS device that can be
deployed in the field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amina Hussein

Student:

Partner:

Croptimistic Technology Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Low-loss and loss-tolerant photonic quantum computing

Today, quantum computers of any architecture still operate in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) regime, with systems composed of tens to hundreds of noisy qubits that are not protected from errors. To
meaningfully solve challenging problems from industries using quantum computers, we need to make a system that is large enough in scale and robust to errors. The intern will be involved in Xanadu Architecture team’s
efforts in investigating promising approaches for tolerating and lowering noise and errors affecting photonic platforms. The aim is to lower the demands on hardware, shortening the time to build a universal, fault-tolerant
quantum computer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hoi-Kwan Kero Lau

Student:

Partner:

Xanadu

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

The Environmental, Chemical and Physical Impact on Water Quality with the use of Stormflow Surfacing Permeable Rubber Pavement

Stormflow Surfacing (SS) has developed permeable rubber pavement (SSPRP) from recycled automobile tires. Their product focuses on alleviating sewage system stress during precipitation events. While there are no strict guidelines to the formulation of permeable pavers, SS is interested in proactively establishing baseline values for water quality and subsequently, investigate the effects of environmental factors on characteristics such as stormwater run-off, leaching/remediating/erosion properties of the product. The results of this project will also create references with respect to contaminants of concern (CoC), contaminant mitigation, installation, leachate/contaminant of concern for future permeable paver installation. The information gleaned from this research will establish a foundation that can be used for lifecycle analysis, comparison to other paving techniques, and applicable adjustments when standards for application of these products are created . In addition, this information may be used to bolster marketing of the product. This project has been divided into two (2) phases; Phase One (Pl) will investigate physical and chemical characteristics of the Stormflow Surfacing Permeable Rubber Pavement (SSPRP) by analyzing water quality with respect to leaching of SSPRP material, and the possibility of mitigating environmental contaminants of concern (CoCs). Phase Two (P2) will consider factors such as ultraviolet (UV) light, stress/compression/loading of use will be investigated to determine if the integrity of the SSPRP remains intact or if these physical/ environmental factors compromise its performance. Water quality characteristics such as turbidity and particulate matter will be investigated and the results also compared to the Phase One data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Grace Lee

Student:

Partner:

J.D. Roth Enterprises Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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