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Aerodynamic Noise of High-Lift Devices Year Two

The proposed project studies the noise sources of airplane high-lift devices (HLD) that are responsible for most of the aircraft noise at approach. The latter in turn creates noise nuisances that create health issues to populations close to large urban airports. Two approaches are followed. A state-of-the art simulation that predicts most of the turbulent structures that generate the HLD noise will be performed and will serve as a reference to the development of analytical models of the HLD noise that will be integrated in a  unique software by the partner. The latter will both test his in-house simulation tools, increase his knowledge on HLD noise, and in turn could help both the Canadian aeronautic manufacturers and HLD suppliers at the design stage to propose quieter systems, and improve their competitiveness. Noise reduction devices could also be proposed in the course of the project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stéphane Moreau

Student:

Pablo Salas Medina

Partner:

Mecanum Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Elevate

Using brain monitoring and video surveillance to reduce violent incidents in a care-facility environment

Increasingly prevalent patient violence within the dementia population is a challenge to long term care providers. Violent incidents can lead to serious musculoskeletal and neurological health complications. I propose to use video surveillance and a novel brain monitoring system in a care facility-based elderly population, to monitor violent episodes and brain vitality after incidents. This will help to 1) identify environmental, behavioural and biomechanical characteristics that contribute to injuries, and 2) measure the transient and long term effects on brain function. Retirement Concepts, a care provider for dementia clients, benefits from this research by gaining insight on potential
improvements in the design and function of their care facilities that may reduce violent events. This results in a higher quality of care for patients and an improved work environment for employees. Integrating leading edge research into
their care paradigm will uniquely distinguish Retirement Concepts from other care facilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Carolyn Sparrey

Student:

Tim Bhatnagar

Partner:

Retirement Concepts

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Service industry

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Web-based Goal Management Training™ in older adults with cognitive impairment: a randomized-controlled trial examining feasibility and efficacy

As the Canadian population is aging, more and more Canadians will show cognitive decline. Aging and certain types of neurological disorders is often associated with deficits in executive functions: goal maintenance, planning, task
switching and attention. These functions are critical for the maintenance of functional independence. Few validated rehabilitation approaches for these types of deficits exist. One rehabilitation approach, Goal Management Training™
(GMT), has shown promise. In its standard implementation, GMT is led in small groups. Although this approach is effective, it has significant practical limitations (limited accessibility and high cost). The goal of the proposed research
is to design an automated, web-based GMT training program that can be delivered remotely, to assess its feasibility in older adults and patients with deficits in executive functions and to compare its efficacy to an active control group
that would participate in an online activity that we do not expect to improve cognition.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Brian Levine

Student:

Vessela Stamenova

Partner:

Cogniciti

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Tracking the fate of Tetrodotoxin bound sodium channels

Pain is a global clinical problem. Chronic pain caused by cancer, osteo/rheumatoid arthritis, operations, injuries and spinal problems affects millions of people worldwide. The current treatments for severe pain is unsatisfactory and include opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids and tricyclic anti-depressants. Most of these drugs have limitations with regard to addiction, toxicity and thus there is a growing need for newer analgesic drugs that have greater efficacy, reduced toxicity and addiction. Chronic pain results from aberrant electrical signalling in the nervous system. Pain-sensing neurons in the peripheral nervous system express several isoforms of sodium channels. Sodium channel blockers currently in clinical use, though beneficial, are limited by their safety profiles. Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a naturally occurring toxin in puffer fish is currently being tested in clinical trials as analgesic by WEX Pharmaceuticals. TTX is non-opioid and is non-addictive. It is also 2000 times more potent than morphine. This project will address whether TTX affects sodium channel expression, trafficking and other targets in the pain pathway and thus will assist the industrial partner interpret their clinical findings by providing the molecular basis of mechanism of action of TTX.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Peter Ruben

Student:

Cynthia Gershome

Partner:

WEX Pharmaceuticals

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Measuring the Neural Responses to Auditory Rhythm and Beat in Nonhuman Primates

Despite the amazing level of shared neural machinery between humans and nonhuman primates, only humans appear to sense and react to musical rhythm. This ability spontaneously occurs very early in development, and has played a major role in human culture for millennia. The goal of this project is to advance our understanding of the neural bases of rhythm perception. This research investigates the neural processes underpinning uniquely human responses to rhythm, and compares them to the neural processes underpinning more general timing abilities that are shared across species. We will measure neural activity in humans and macaques as they listen to rhythmic sequences that resemble musical rhythms by giving a sense of beat, and to sequences that are irregular and give no sense of beat. Observing human brain responses that are distinct from macaque brain responses for beat-based rhythms will help us understand the uniquely human neural machinery that gives rise to complex auditory-motor behaviours.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jessica Grahn

Student:

Daniel Cameron

Partner:

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Designing a culturally inclusive information system for Canadian universities to enhance international student recruitment

The number of Asian students getting their post-secondary education abroad has doubled over the past decade to around 2.5 million. In the same period, the number of agents in the admission business in China has increased ten times to nearly 400. High school students in China find it difficult to make informed decisions independently about application and admission to foreign universities because the western university websites and information sessions are not designed keeping their cultural practices in mind. This research project undertakes an iterative, user-centered design of an online, real time information session and related international student information web pages to make them culturally inclusive of prospective students from China. The benefits from such a system for the students could include higher efficiency and reduced time for information seeking and bypassing of third party agencies. The anticipated benefit to Canadian universities would be facilitation of international student recruitment and increase in the number of international student admissions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jutta Treviranus

Student:

Zheng (Jane) Yang

Partner:

Discipline:

Design

Sector:

University:

OCAD University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Narratives of Canadian Teacher Candidates’ Cross-cultural Experience in China

This study will explore narrative perspectives from Canadian teacher candidates’ cross-cultural experience in Chongqing, China from March 2015 to June 2015, and will be built on participant experiences during the Teacher Education Reciprocal Learning Program between University of Windsor and Southwest University China. Inquiries into the Canadian students’ learning trip in China will discover how they respond and react, their personal and professional beliefs, whether they go through any struggles and tensions, how they cope with and grow out of those struggles and tensions and what they have gained from this learning trip. With a focus on the Canadian student teachers’ personal and professional significance of cross-cultural knowledge and understanding and a narrative inquiry approach, student participants will might reveal their changing cross-cultural outlooks and increasing global perspectives throughout this study trip. Their personal beliefs with multi-cultural and inclusive notions which may be accompanied by cross-cultural struggles and tensions between Canada and China are expected to show in this research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Shijing Xu

Student:

Minghua Wang

Partner:

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Optimizing medical marijuana: developing genetic and chemical resources to improve thequality and quantity of cannabinoid metabolites in Cannabis sativa L strains Year Two

Determine how cannabinoid metabolites and their relative abundances differ among marijuana strains. Post Doctoral Fellow Name: Teagen D Quilichini Cannabinoids are synthesized and accumulate in Cannabis plant hairs called glandular trichomes, which are particularly abundant on female flower buds. Cannabinoid content and composition vary dramatically among Cannabis strains, with two general groupings distinguished: marijuana strains, defined by high THC and low CBD levels, and hemp strains containing low THC and high CBD (or low total cannabinoid content). Marijuana breeding efforts have increased the cannabinoid potency and profiles of cannabis strains, and have produced marijuana strains with highly variable chemical phenotypes (chemotypes). While these breeding efforts have been successful in dramatically increasing THC levels, they commonly have reduced the content of other pharmaceutically valuable cannabinoids that compete for overlapping starter substrates (4). Many cannabinoids are known to have important pharmacological properties, and the relative abundance of the major cannabinoids (THC, CBD and CBC), minor cannabinoids and terpenoids can alter the therapeutic effects of marijuana strains. For instance, the presence of CBC augments some of the pharmacological effects of THC, while CBD has the ability to reduce THC side effects (5, 6).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Anne Lacey Samuels

Student:

Teagen Quilichini

Partner:

Anandia Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Agriculture

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Development of a vigilance monitoring systems for drivers, using the electrical activities of the brain Year Two

More than 25% of the fatal and injury car crashes are related to fatigue or drowsiness. This calls for the need for designing automated driver monitoring systems, which can continuously measure the drivers’ vigilance level and alert them if their cognitive state is not safe for driving anymore. One of the most reliable solutions is to directly measure the electrical activities of the brain to monitor the driver’s cognitive state. The proposed research aims to design a non-intrusive yet efficient monitoring system that uses electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. We propose to use new processing algorithms which allow us to reduce the number of EEG recording electrodes without deteriorating the system’s performance. The outcome of this research will be of great benefit to the industrial partner since it serves as a pilot project for developing cognition monitoring devices for users in more complicated situations such as surgeons, pilots, and industrial machine operators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Konstantinos (Kostas) Plataniotis

Student:

Amirhossein Shokouh Aghaei

Partner:

Qualcomm Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Effect of Mineralogy on the Application of Sensor-based Sorting Techniques Year Two

Comminution, the process of crushing and grinding ore to liberate minerals, is the most energy intensive part of the processing flowsheet and accounts for upwards of 75% of the overall energy consumption of the processing plant. Ideally we would only crush and grind those rocks that contain economically extractable amounts of minerals. MineSense has developed sensors that can detect the level of minerals in rocks and, in particular, can detect very low levels with high accuracy. This proposal is to use MineSense’s sensing technology to pre-concentrate low grade copper ores. Based on test results, the correlation between the copper value and the sensor signals will be evaluated. An evaluation method will be proposed on the limit of the specific sorting technology. This information is critical both for MineSense to commercialize its products and for industry to accept the product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Bern Klein

Student:

Libin Tong

Partner:

MineSense Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Coherent Control of High-Q Devices Year Two

Research into understanding and controlling microscopic quantum mechanical phenomena has led to revolutionary new quantum devices, including quantum sensors and actuators that have unprecedented levels of sensitivity, efficiency, and functionality for a wide variety of tasks. A particularly compelling example is high quality factor (high-Q) superconducting resonators for magnetic resonance. These new devices will be substantially more sensitive than current devices in widespread use. They offer the potential of producing higher resolution medical images, enhancing biological and chemical sensors, and improving materials characterization measurements. Their routine use requires the development of control sequences tailored to the unique properties of these devices. We will apply quantum control theory techniques to develop and demonstrate robust control sequences for these devices, enabling them to have immediate impact in common commercial applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. David Cory

Student:

Troy Borneman

Partner:

High Q Technologies LP

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Elevate

Characterization and Improvement of Interfacial Properties of Cathode Materials forRechargeable Hybrid Aqueous Batteries Year Two

A new aqueous rechargeable battery combining an intercalation cathode with a metal anode has been developed recently. The energy density for a prototype battery is comparable or superior to commercial 2 V rechargeable batteries. There is a need to further improve the cycle performance and to reduce self-discharge effects of this battery. In this proposed research, novel surface improvements will be applied to the cathode material to improve the overall electrochemical performance of the battery and to improve the stability of the cathode material. The combined performance attributes of this new rechargeable aqueous battery indicate that it constitutes a viable alternative to commercial lead-acid system and is suitable for large scale energy storage application. POSITEC Group Canada, based in Toronto, is the receptor of this research results. This knowledge will be employed in the ongoing battery scale up efforts to improve the design of the aqueous rechargeable battery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Pu Chen

Student:

Sameh Saad

Partner:

Positec

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Chemicals

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Elevate

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