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Estimating Sugarcane Maturity Using Remote Sensing Techniques

Sugarcane is native to the warm temperate, tropical regions of the world and is highly weather dependent. Recent climate change has hampered its growth, resulting in reduced yields, forcing farmer to adapt different practices in Costa Rica. There are four main phenological and development stages in Sugarcane. This project is focused on the maturation process of the crop, which is influenced by several factors, including climate. Currently, sugarcane maturity is measured by ground sampling, which is a tedious, cost effective and not entirely practical methodology. Hence, it is necessary to develop time and cost effective method for identifying sugarcane maturity levels. The research aims to develop a method for estimating sugarcane maturity using remote sensing data. The expected outcomes will help to increase sugarcane management and competitiveness in order to mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change on sugarcane growth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Muditha Heenkenda

Student:

Partner:

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Environmental Science and Technology; Technology

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Personalization with Integration of Sensor Signals in Cloud Architecture

This research project focuses on the integration anonymized signals from sensors. The capture of this data and application provides enhancement and personalization and additional clarity of information to optimize the value of benefits and features for FutureCite membership services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Russell Greiner

Student:

Partner:

FutureCite Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

AIDOX – Document Verification System

To validate structured trade contracts for language and economic term correctness, the existing document understanding systems use machine learning methods, natural language understanding, and text analysis, to extract data elements from financial documents. This can be expanded to a wide variety of financial documents, especially customer-provided reference material. The project focuses on document information extraction to extract the key data elements from financial documents and validate this data against the internal source of record.
The existing OCR-based approach has issues of error propagation (especially with noises), slow processing time due to the large model size, as well as the need for retraining for new document classes. To improve this, the first approach is to improve OCR engine performance by exploring OCR engines with pre-processing and post-processing techniques. The second objective is to implement OCR-less models which learn jointly with image and text contexts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gerald Penn

Student:

Partner:

Scotiabank

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

COMmunity-based nutrition RISK in Indigenous communities (COMRISK-Indigenous)

Poor nutrition is common in older adults and may be even higher in Indigenous communities than the general population. Yet, nutrition risk is rarely assessed as part of a health check-up. In this project, a First Nation and an interdisciplinary team will work in partnership to determine how to address poor nutrition in that community. The Mitacs intern will collate, interpret and communicate outcomes in order to generate a pathway for moving forward.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Johnson;Catherine Chan

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Health Services;Canadian Nutrition Society

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Retail trade

University:

Athabasca University

Program:

Accelerate

Readying For Change: Supporting Sustainability Progress Through Inner Transformation

There is increasing urgency to accelerate sustainability progress and address growing social and environmental challenges. Current approaches to solving these complex issues, such as new technology and governance, are failing to support the kinds of changes needed to collective wellbeing. Interest is growing around how individual values, worldviews, beliefs, and consciousness can be transformed so that they align with sustainability requirements. The project examines: i) what kinds of skills and capacities would be most helpful for enabling positive change, ii) how these approaches could challenge old ways of thinking and doing that are detrimental to people and planet, and iii) how new skills could be nurtured to support present needs. This is the first project to develop and test a novel readiness assessment tool and therefore offers immense value to the fields of sustainability and social innovation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel McCarthy;Derek Armitage;Sharon Stein

Student:

Partner:

Musagetes Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Elevate

Decolonizing diagnostic assessments in mathematics

The overall purpose of this research is to explore the ways diagnostic assessments enable or disable growth in mathematics understanding for children most impacted by colonialism, in particular Black and Mi’kmaw children in Mi’kma’ki or what we now call Nova Scotia. This research stems from ongoing
collaborative relationships in local Mi’kmaw and Black communities that have focused on strategies for decolonizing pedagogy and content in mathematics classrooms. Yet, we recognize the disabling and dehumanizing power of current diagnostic assessment practices that contribute to the opportunity gap (otherwise referred to as an achievement gap) for students in mathematics achievement, resulting in
higher rates of individualized program plans (IPPs), streaming into nonacademic courses and lowered
expectations for Black and Mi’kmaw children. Much has been written about how these mathematics assessments are not culturally relevant or enabling, yet there is limited literature on how to create more appropriate diagnostic tools. Diagnostic assessments should be useful for educators, students, and their families to understand the underlying reasons for mathematics difficulties and create plans to support student learning….

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Faculty Supervisor:

Conor Barker

Student:

Partner:

Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Mount Saint Vincent University

Program:

Accelerate

Examining a Nature-Based Mindfulness-Compassion Intervention Delivered Via Virtual Reality: Applications for Older Adults

The global population is aging at an unprecedented rate, increasing the necessity for effective interventions targeting the mental health needs of older adults. The proposed research project is a partnership between Dr. Khoury’s mindfulness research lab at McGill (PhD Intern: Isabel Sadowski) and Super Splendide. We seek to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a 4-week nature meditation program offered via a multi-user 360°-HD video virtual reality (VR) application, called Toujours Dimanche. This program aims to support older adult mental health through incorporating elements of nature, mindfulness, and compassion. If successful, Toujours Dimanche has the potential to promote geriatric mental health through the use of a technology that is accessible, as well as safe. This project will also support Super Splendide in the effect development, market validation, and scaling of Toujours Dimanche.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bassam Khoury

Student:

Partner:

Super Splendide inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Un nouveau regard sur les protéines et le microbiote intestinal afin de mieux comprendre les bienfaits des produits laitiers sur la santé.

La composition en nutriments a été traditionnellement considérée comme un point clé pour justifier et recommander la consommation de certains aliments. En ce qui concerne les produits laitiers, les guides alimentaires de nombreux pays ont principalement insisté sur le lien calcium-lait selon lequel un nombre minimal de portions quotidiennes de lait et produits connexes devrait être consommé pour maintenir une santé osseuse adéquate. Au-delà de ce constat, la recherche sur les produits laitiers au cours des dernières décennies a également documenté une relation bénéfique entre la consommation de produits laitiers et le risque de développer des problèmes de santé tels que le diabète de type 2 et l’obésité. Dans un tel contexte, le calcium s’est de nouveau avéré être un acteur important bien qu’il ait également été établi que les protéines sont importantes. Cette demande propose donc une continuation de cette preuve de concept qui devrait montrer qu’au-delà de la quantité, les protéines laitières peuvent faire la différence dans le contexte de la prise en charge clinique de l’obésité.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Angelo Tremblay;André Marette;Claudia Gagnon

Student:

Partner:

Dairy Farmers of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Les effets de la pratique d’activités culturelles parascolaires à l’école secondaire sur le développement personnel et social des jeunes

En mars 2022, ACLAM, anciennement la corporation Secondaire en spectacle, a adopté une nouvelle raison d’être : le développement global et du plein potentiel des élèves des écoles secondaires par la pratique d’activités culturelles parascolaires. L’organisme doit toutefois être en mesure de faire valoir l’importance de ces activités pour l’élève. Le projet de recherche consiste à rassembler un maximum de connaissances à propos des effets de la participation des adolescents aux activités parascolaires du secteur des arts et de la culture. Les effets néfastes de la participation doivent être connus et compris si on veut mettre en place des mécanismes pour les réduire ou les éliminer. Les effets positifs, eux, doivent être valorisés, maximisés et mis de l’avant.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Marc Adjizian

Student:

Partner:

ACLAM

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Influence of redox conditions on the fate of emerging contaminants in groundwater environments

Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) have negative impacts on human and ecosystem health as well as the potential to develop antimicrobial resistance which is projected to result in 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Some examples of CECs include antibacterial agents, artificial sweeteners, and pharmaceuticals. Recently, the presence of these CECs has been found widespread throughout the environment including in our fresh waters. This research will focus on gathering preliminary field measurements on CEC fate and transport in groundwater environments known to have strong redox gradients. This will be completed at field sites near Sydney, Australia that are known to have CECs in the groundwater including recharge sites where treated wastewater is injected into the ground. Solid phase and groundwater samples will be collected and analyzed for CEC concentrations, redox conditions, as well as some other traditional geochemical parameters. Multiple sampling events will be conducted to better understand spatial and temporal relationships between CEC concentrations, redox gradients, and some other parameters. This research will help to better predict the transport of these CECs in groundwater allowing for future remediation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clare Robinson

Student:

Partner:

University of New South Wales

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Abnormal Detection for Language Assessment

A typical language test usually consists of four parts: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Both audio and text data from the test takers will be collected and used by the automated scoring system. During the test, some test takers will intentionally/unintentionally provide abnormal answers, which may contain memorized content, repeated sentences, and meaningless or off-topic words, and may affect the accuracy of the scoring system. Pearson would like to develop a more robust system for automated scoring to identify and penalize abnormalities in the audio and text data, which could greatly improve Pearson’s competitiveness in the market and in the meantime contribute to the development of abnormal detection models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jesse Gronsbell

Student:

Partner:

Pearson Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning Approach to Retail Sales Forecasting Based on Localized Weather Features

In recent years, weather has been recognized as an important factor that can have a significant impact on
consumer behavior in certain industries. Predictive models that incorporate weather data can help industries to
adjust their inventory and marketing strategies to optimize sales.
This research project focuses on using machine learning and data analytics to determine any weather-related
signals on retail sales based on historical data and then to predict sales using weather information. The project
will involve literature review, developing complex SQL queries, engineering features, analyzing weather and
retail sales databases, and developing machine learning algorithms. The ultimate goal of this end-to-end project
is to create an accurate and scalable sales forecasting model that can be used by industries to optimize their
inventory and marketing strategies based on weather patterns.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Taback

Student:

Partner:

Pelmorex

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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