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Dynamic Bracing for Pectus Carinatum: A Quantitative Analysis

The most common solution to pectus carinatum is surgical. As braces begin to be developed that have been seen to reshape the chest successfully it becomes important to understand the effectiveness and optimal design thereof. Braceworks, has managed to create a low profile prototype brace which contains a protocol on how long to wear the device. However, only qualitative data has been collected and very little quantitative. Therefore, the project seeks to gain more information on what this protoype does to the chest wall as a whole, and how much force it applies to the chest. Currently, the amount of force the PCO applies is determined by how comfortable the prototype is on the child. By gaining this information, Braceworks will be able to develop the device and related protocol even further by creating a more user friendly PCO.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Janet Ronsky

Student:

Tomasz Bugajski

Partner:

Braceworks

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Teachers’ reciprocal learning in transnational professional communities between Ontario and Shanghai secondary schools

The proposed research project investigates two transnational teacher communities between Ontario and Shanghai secondary schools. Teachers’ cross-cultural professional learning is the focus of the study. To understand how, why, and what teachers learn from each other, the project needs to collect data from both countries. While in China, data collection will be completed in two Shanghai sites. The data will include teacher professional development policies, Skype meeting accounts between sister schools, and teacher and principal interviews. Policy documents at both school level and municipal level will be collected. About ten educators, including teachers, principals, and vice principals, will be interviewed in each participating school. Data will be compared to that obtained from Canadian schools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Connelly

Student:

Xuefeng Huang

Partner:

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink

Language immersion in ESL and EFL classes

The purpose of the study is to explore the similarities and differences between both Canadian and Chinese education systems in terms of language and culture. This particular study will focus on the impact that language immersion has on the learning of the English language. The impact of immersion will be explored via English as a second language (ESL) classes and English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Both the ESL and EFL classes will be critically analyzed, compared, and contrasted in order to gain the most knowledge from both systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shijing Xu

Student:

David Potocek

Partner:

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Globalink

The impact of social environment on mobility status and occurrenceof falls in older adults. International comparisons

Human populations are aging all over the world and decline in mobility is an age-related problem that limits older adults’ quality of life. One major risk factor for mobility disability in is falls. There are some modifiable risk factors for falls and identifying these factors can help public health professionals to devise proper prevention strategy. Apart from socioeconomic factors of income and education that are among main determinants of health, social capital defined as the quality of social interactions and levels of social cohesion within a community can also impact various health outcomes including the occurrence of falls. The main objective of this research project is to examine associations between social capital and falls in an international sample of older adults from Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Albania. Using the similar data from different social contexts will help us to better understand the social etiology of falls and to support country-specific public health interventions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Beatriz Alvarado

Student:

Afshin Vafaei

Partner:

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink

How Chinese IPO Affect Capital Flow in the Market and Its Historical Change over Changing IPO Regulations

Yirun Ryan Li will be closely working with Dr. Shen, on his project that aims to observe, through empirical data, how IPO affects the Chinese market and how this effect is changing as IPO regulations evolve over time. Under Dr. Shen’s guidance, Ryan will study literature in the history of Chinese IPO regulations and identify key dates that relates to major IPO issuances and regulation changes. Ryan will work with Dr. Shen to utilize databases (Bloomberg) and programing (python) to collect and analyze stock data, thus assisting to identify IPO’s effects on the market and how that evolves over time in policy changes. The intended result is to observe the market’s downward shock before a major IPO issuance (capital withdraws to buy the IPO), and upward shock as capital returns after an IPO lottery. The size of shocks over time will prevail the effectiveness of CSRC policy changes over time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adlai FISHER

Student:

Yirun Ryan LI

Partner:

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink

Écologie de la fission-fusion chez le singe araignée

Some social mammals present a group dynamic related to spatially and temporally variable environments described as fission-fusion dynamics. This dynamics is defined as the temporal division of a group into sub-groups varying in size and composition, and is thought to occur through social regulation to improve foraging efficiency. Nevertheless, the influential factors in that dynamics are not well understood. Particularly, the ecological causes and the social relationships in the fission-fusion remain unclear. In this study I expect to see changes in the fission-fusion dynamics of spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) groups inhabiting two different tropical forests, and under different contexts of food availability, subgroup size and subgroup composition. The main purpose of my project is to disentangle the relative influence of environmental and social variables on the fission-fusion dynamics in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). nderstanding the functioning of fission-fusion dynamics under different environmental and social conditions could allow us to understand the evolution and flexibility of group strategies. Given the high rates of current environmental changes, identifying a threshold in social behaviour could provide us useful indicators of environmental degradation for social animals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sophie Calmé

Student:

Adriana Aguilar Melo

Partner:

Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Capacity Building for Competitiveness in Aboriginal forestry Year Two

This project recognizes the significant business challenges First Nations forestry enterprises face which have the effect of limiting the benefits to First Nations from forests (Wellstead and Stedman 2010). There is limited awareness of the conditions that affect the success and failure of Aboriginal enterprises in the forest sector (Trosper et al 2008). Research on economic questions is more limited than expected given the widespread activity taking place, despite the widespread importance of forests to Aboriginal peoples and their long-standing history of resource management and land use (Wyatt et al 2010a). We focus in on a fundamental problem: governance. The research will address this problem by working with FN to identify business objectives and designing an effective business governance structure, drawing on the empirical work of the Harvard Project. In this vein, the outcomes of the study will lead to improved business process, supporting the competitiveness of the partners. Working in a participatory action research approach with the partners, the researcher will test and guide the implementation of an optimal governance structure for the partners– linking it to the unique context of each enterprise. The use of the Native Nations Institute’s governance tool is novel in the Canadian context.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harry Nelson

Student:

William Nikolakis

Partner:

Huu-ay-aht First Nation

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Engaging stakeholders to evaluate alternatives in energy system planning through agentbased automated negotiation Year Two

The objective of this project is to improve long-term planning of Alberta’s electricity system infrastructure in collaboration with an industry sponsor, Alberta Electricity System Operator (AESO). The project aims at engaging stakeholders in a regional planning exercise in southern Alberta by a detailed exploration of their perspectives when evaluating energy system alternatives. This was identified by AESO as being a pressing gap in their current practice. The objective will be achieved through the development of an agent-based negotiation model that will act as a virtual laboratory in which computer agents, acting on behalf of stakeholders, will examine scenarios of energy system development and negotiate to find the alternative that satisfies them the most, considering economic, social and environmental aspects. The project will allow AESO to engage in a transformation in decision making and will deliver knowledge that will support them in achieving their mandate by improving their planning process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Danielle Marceau

Student:

Majeed Pooyandeh

Partner:

Alberta Electricity System Operator

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Microbial diversity around natural hydrocarbon seeps in relation to petroleum bioprospecting and oil spill bioremediation Year 1

Oil reservoir souring is the production of toxic hydrogen sulfide by sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) through naerobic respiration supported by organic electron donors present in oil fields. In recent years, nitrate injection has merged as a promising green biotechnology that has been proven effective in controlling sulfide production in oil fields. This strategy relies on inducing nitrate-reducing bacteria (NRB), which can outcompete SRM for organic lectron donors. However, reports of enhanced localized corrosion associated with nitrate injection have started causing concern among oil companies. This research will test the hypothesis that a related NRB-governed process, nitrate-dependent, Fe(II) oxidation (NDFO), plays a role in oil field ecosystems and contributes to biocorrosion in presence of nitrate. The proposed industry collaboration will therefore assess the functional diversity of oil field NRB in context of souring and corrosion, and provide the first ever investigation of the role of NDFO in reservoir souring control.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Casey Hubert

Student:

Anirban Chakraborty

Partner:

ExxonMobil Research & Engineering

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Development of Lipid Nanoparticle Reagents for Functional Genomics in Difficult-to-Transfect Cells In Vitro Year Two

The objective of this project is to develop lipid nanoparticle (LNP) reagents for the delivery of nucleic acids to turn off, or turn on target genes in “hard-to-transfect” neurons and stem cells in vitro and in vivo. A recent report (BCC Research, April 2011) observed that “51% of researchers employ cell-based techniques to perform transfection routinely. Although transfection techniques have been available for many years ….this procedure faces challenges such as the efficiency of gene introduction and its toxicity in cells.” With an estimated market of $1.9 billion by 2016 this project will help explore high value market niche that is poised for substantial growth. It will leverage clinical grade, proprietary LNP reagents, a novel proprietary microfluidic-based manufacturing LNP technology, and a unique mechanism of action that maximizes LNP potency by combining broad expertise in technology development and commercialization from the University of British Columbia, and Precision NanoSystems Inc. (PNI).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcel Bally

Student:

Gesine Heuck

Partner:

Precision NanoSystems Inc.

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Keyword Search in Relational Databases for Business Users Year Two

Much of the world’s high-quality data remains under lock in relational databases. Access is gained through relational query languages. This can suffice for people who are well versed in both SQL and in the schemas of databases. However, anyone who does not know SQL or who is not well versed in the schema is effectively locked out. Keyword search over relational databases was proposed a decade ago to offer an alternative way to query a database. While the general approach has merit, many refinements are needed, before it can be an effective product. Our goal is to build a Google-like search experience over relational databases. Comparing to previous approaches, we build a system to return meaningful answers and is applicable on databases with large and complex schema. This project is beneficial to Dapasoft Inc. since it has the capability of being an independent product and/or be combined with existing products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nick Cercone

Student:

Mehdi Kargar

Partner:

Dapasoft Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

York University

Program:

Elevate

Transforming Learning Analytics Into Teaching and Learning: A Collaboration BetweenBitmaker Labs and Wilfrid Laurier University

Data-driven decision-making plays an increasingly important role in education (Mandinach & Gummer, 2013) and administrators now require educators to use data to inform practice (Earl & Seashore Louis, 2013). Furthermore, “harnessing big data and predictive analytics has transformed many industries, yet to date, the analytics to supportnext generation learning has been missing from education” (Baker, 2013, para. 3). Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate how educators use learning analytics to inform instructional practices in order to ultimately improve student performance. The study will generate valuable market research that Bitmaker Labs will use to develop and implement a learning analytics system into a classroom setting. Also, the research will be of particular interest to K-20 schools because it will provide scientific evidence and guidelines on how to properly interpret and use analytics for instructional and learning purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Mueller

Student:

Danielle Beckett

Partner:

Bitmaker Labs

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Elevate

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