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Optimization of Myelin Water Imaging

The purpose of this research project is to optimize a magnetic resonance technique designed to measure myelin in brain and spine. This technique holds great promise for diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative diseases as well as abnormal brain development. The finalgoal ofthe project is to have a magnetic resonance protocol which could be offered as a product on a Philips Healthcare magnetic resonance imaging scanner. Currently, no MRI manufacturer offers myelin water imaging as a product. If a suitable implementation of myelin water imaging can be found for the Philips MR scanner, it could be offered as an advanced imaging tool with a potential price in the range of 30-50,000$. If myelin water imaging is accepted as a valuable tool by the medical imaging community, there could be several hundred sales which would lead to a considerable return on investment for Philips Healthcare.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex MacKay

Student:

Partner:

Philips Healthcare (Markham, ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Development of an analytical framework for multiple cellular (omics) responses of Canadian aquatic species exposed to different environmental conditions to guide the management of biodiversity, fisheries and aquaculture.

Canadian ocean and freshwater systems currently undergo rapidly changing disturbances that threaten high-value aquatic species such as shrimps and fishes, even in Marine Protected Areas. Whilst biologists gathered a large amount of knowledge (and data) about the responses of aquatic animals in such disturbed environments, our current understanding is often limited to individual single-layer levels of biological organisation (e.g., focusing only on genes or only on lipids). This project aims to develop a framework to integrate, and link together, existing single-layer knowledge into multi-omics models that synthesise the response of aquatic organisms across several molecular compartments. The framework developed within this project will be a much-needed tool for academics, stakeholders, and industrials to quickly gain an overview on the general physiology and health of their species of interest. Such framework may significantly support species conservation and management efforts in Canadian aquatic systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Piero Calosi

Student:

Partner:

Les Laboratoires Iso-Biokem Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

Climate-smart circularity: Guiding decision-making through data-informed standard protocols

Organizations are trying to manage their waste streams using circular economy principles to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Without proper assessment, organizations that follow a standard waste hierarchy often lack proper awareness and understanding about the amount of GHG emissions individual options actually reduce. They can use sophisticated (and systems thinking) approaches such as life cycle assessment (LCA) to overcome that issue and choose the most GHG-efficient option(s). But using LCA is a complicated task due to complex supply chains, and the needs for lots of high-quality data, which may cause organizations to feel overwhelmed. This is the challenge this project aims to address. These generalized best practices are expected to make organizations’ circularity decision-making more efficient. The findings will help CSA Group in providing broad direction and guidance for organizations to reduce their environmental impacts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jury Gualandris

Student:

Partner:

CSA Group

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Anisotropie des aluminiums extrudés

Dans le cadre d’un projet sur l’extrusion, un besoin de documentation des propriétés mécaniques de profilés est présenté par le LOPFA et pourrait intéresser un élève d’école d’ingénieur en stage. Dans le cadre de ce stage, l’étudiant devra caractériser l’anisotropie de profilés extrudés en alliages d’aluminium (AA6063 et 6082). Pour se faire, il faudra réaliser des essais de micro-traction dans différentes directions par rapport à la direction d’extrusion des profilés, mesurer l’évolution du coefficient de Lankford au cours de la déformation lors des essais de traction (un état de l’art peut être nécessaire), déterminer la texture des échantillons et faire le bilan de la fraction recristallisée pour chaque alliage. Ces deux dernières étapes devraient demander le polissage (manuel) et l’attaque chimique des échantillons, des observations et des mesures au microscope optique et au MEB. Il faudra documenter l’effet de la variation des paramètres d’extrusion lors de la réalisation du profilé sur la texture, la recristallisation, et la courbe de traction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Bocher

Student:

Partner:

École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Aerospace; Manufacturing and Construction

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Proportion-Based Hypergraph Burning

Graph burning is a mathematical game or process that has applications in financial cyber security, as it can be used to model “dirty money” spreading throughout a network of accounts. Hypergraph burning is a similar process that is played on a more complex network-like structure called a hypergraph. We investigate an alternative rule set for hypergraph burning which is more applicable to financial cyber security.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Pike;Andrea Burgess

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Cyber Security; Finance and Insurance; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Rebuilding Stronger Homes

As extreme weather events become more frequent, home insurance claims are rising. These losses undermine Canadians’ financial security and emotional well-being. Collaborating with Innovation North, Co-operators will reimagine the role of home insurance to catalyze a circular economy. This research will not only contribute to the very practical outcomes of catalyzing change within the insurance industry, it will also help to better understand how insurance companies can overcome the tension of the increased short-term costs of building homes differently for sustainability and resiliency with the long-term costs related to increased climate change-related weather events.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pratima Bansal

Student:

Partner:

Co-operators (Financial Services)

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Ash as a soil amendment for low fertility farmlands: Impacts on soil fertility and heavy metals content

The CBPPL Company generates five tons of biomass ash daily as a byproduct of generating heat from their boiler. Currently, this waste is disposed of at the local landfill. However, it is acknowledged that the soil in the region is of low fertility and requires correction for agricultural purposes. Therefore, this document proposes a technical feasibility study to explore the potential of using ash as a soil amendment. The study will include the application of the ash and evaluation of soil fertility and contamination levels to ensure its safe and effective use. It is hoped that the results of this study will not only prevent the ash from being sent to the landfill but also fulfill the input requirements for local farmers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kelly Hawboldt;William Newell

Student:

Partner:

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Centre historique des Sœurs du Bon-Conseil – Documentation du patrimoine

Ce projet consiste à permettre à une étudiante inscrite au baccalauréat en histoire de l’UQAC de réaliser un stage de 4 mois au Centre historique des Soeurs du Bon-Conseil, une institution qui gère une vaste collection, témoin précieux de l’histoire de la Congrégation des Soeurs de Notre-Dame du Bon-Conseil au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. Ce stage vise à permettre à l’étudiante de mettre en pratique diverses aptitudes acquises en cours de formation et de vivre une expérience professionnelle concrète dans le champ de l’histoire publique, plus spécifiquement eu égard à la valorisation, la transmission et la préservation du patrimoine religieux. La stagiaire sera notamment appelée à compléter l’inventaire de la collection matérielle du centre mais aussi, à oeuvrer au traitement et au développement de son patrimoine immatériel (notamment via la réalisation d’entrevues avec des Soeurs de la Congrégation). Ce travail de mémoire et d’archivage s’inscrit dans le contexte d’une transition institutionnelle plus vaste de cette Congrégation qui, confrontée à l’obligation de vendre ses bâtiments dans quelques années, doit réfléchir à son avenir et au futur musée qu’elle deviendra.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François-Olivier Dorais

Student:

Partner:

Centre historique des Soeurs du bon-Conseil

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Nick Mintoft – Innervision

The need for carbon reductions, and looming energy supply transformation has had and is having a profound impact on economy and marketplace, particularly in Calgary, Alberta, the heart of Innervision’s business and clientele. As such, Innervision has recognized the need to build a more robust, innovative, and competitive subsurface and environmental division. This is crucial for Innervisions’s economic viability and growth aspirations for 2023 and beyond. The intern will be responsible for analyzing the development pathway of the Innervision tool towards the provincial energy regulator goals and regulatory changes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Oleksiy Osiyevskyy

Student:

Partner:

Innervision Wellbore Technologies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Entrepreneurship and the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame

This project will support delivery of a major business event to celebrate business leadership and entrepreneurship in Nova Scotia – The Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame (BHoF). The project will help to make stories of business leadership more inclusive and more accessible. In addition to supporting the BHoF event, the intern will identify a representative list (a subset) of business entrepreneurship success stories which is diverse and representative of the full Nova Scotia community. They will then design and deliver a documented collection of business entrepreneurship success stories (about 10-20 stories) in the form of an Open Education Resource text book which will be available digitally and for free. A repeatable business process for JA to collect and share entrepreneurship stories ongoing will also be explored and developed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jules Fauteux

Student:

Partner:

Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Nova Scotia Community College

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Mapping tenant displacement through lived experiences

In today’s housing crisis, many low income tenants are unjustly evicted and displaced from their homes. To date,
we have very little knowledge of how this happens and what this means to tenants, particularly outside big cities.
This project will disseminate research into displacement conducted in four communities across Ontario: Oxford
County, York Region, Kingston and Cornwall. The aim is to better understand the patterns and experiences of
displacement and to convey this knowledge to a wide audience. This will primarily be done in the form of a Story
Map, which combines mapping the loss of affordable housing with interactive stories, images and audio clips from
interviews with tenants who have recently been displaced. We will shed important light on three key questions: 1)
how displacement happens, 2) what this means for tenants who have been displacement, and 3) where tenants
end up moving to after they have been displaced and the experiences and conditions of this new housing. This
knowledge is essential to developing policies to combat the housing crisis and treat housing as shelter, rather
than a commodity. This project is a partnership between the University of Waterloo and the Social Planning
Network of Ontario.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Doucet

Student:

Partner:

Social Planning Network of Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Mitigating Phosphorous and Nitrogen in The Bay of Quinte Using Eggshell Bioreactors

The primary purpose of this project is to mitigate phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) runoff from agricultural lands in the Bay of Quinte Area of Concern (AOC) using passive reactors. These reactors are cheap and easy to construct and use waste eggshells as the main reactive material creating a useful product from a waste material. In laboratory studies and initial field studies these reactors have been shown the remove significant amounts of P from water that could cause algal blooms and other undesirable effects on water quality. This project will focus on optimizing larger scale versions of the reactors and addressing practical concerns for stakeholders using this technology. Additionally, this project will aim to help model and mitigate P inputs related to storm events that are increasing as a result of climate change.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maria Dittrich

Student:

Partner:

AEML Associates Ltd

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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