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Une solitude double : Les résultats de la réinstallation communautaire des réfugié.e.s LGBTQ+ en France

Des multiples défis mondiaux alimentent la croissance des personnes déplacées de force en quête de protection. Quelques pays – dont le Canada et la France – ont développé des programmes de parrainage privés et communautaires qui tirent parti de l’impulsion citoyenne d’aider des réfugiés. Ces deux pays accordent la priorité à la réinstallation des personnes jugées « très vulnérables », y compris les personnes LGBTQ+. Cependant, les expériences des réfugiés LGBTQ+ réinstallés sont mal comprises en raison de recherches inadéquates. Plus précisément, la façon dont la queerphobie combinée avec la xénophobie empêche les personnes LGBTQ+ de trouver un sentiment d’appartenance dans leurs communautés d’accueil est mal comprise. Ce projet étudiera le modèle de réinstallation communautaire en France pour examiner comment les réfugiés LGBTQ+ naviguent dans leurs espaces de réinstallation. Les méthodes comprennent des entretiens semi-structurés; l’observation participative; et des ateliers de cartographie créative avec des réfugiés LGBTQ+. Les résultats initieront un dialogue entre les acteurs de réinstallation au Canada et en France et aideront les décideurs politiques et les fournisseurs de services à atteindre leurs objectifs déclarés dans la réinstallation des réfugiés vulnérables.

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Faculty Supervisor:

luna Vives

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

City – PSI Partnership Pathway Explorations

Collaboration and Capacity building are required to engage with the challenges and benefits of technical expertise within, and available to, municipal politics and policy, the challenges and benefits of both representative and direct democracy, and the existence of multiple sources of knowledge, including the social sciences, Indigenous knowledges, and local knowledge. This project is the first step in addressing these challenges in southern Alberta, through the development of a robust and long-term partnership and collaborative space between the University of Lethbridge, the City of Lethbridge, and the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy.
Municipal government presents both the greatest opportunity for local and evidence-based responses grounded responses, but also some of the greatest challenges in terms of public perception, engagement (whether electoral or otherwise), fiscal policy, population equity, and the broader trends of neoliberal devolution.
To ensure that cities and local governments can affectively respond to these opportunities, and to these challenges, city managers, planners, and elected officials, need up-to-date, relevant, and rigourous information from any number of different sectors and sources..

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lars Hallstrom

Student:

Partner:

City of Lethbridge

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Effectiveness of various non-antibiotic topical products for the treatment of digital dermatitis as an alternative to tetracycline.

Digital dermatitis is a highly contagious hoof disease in dairy herds. If left untreated it often results in severe lameness, and is highly contagious between animals. In Québec, a recent study showed that 64% of the participating herds had at least one case of digital dermatitis with prevalence variations from 0 to 84% in herds. Initially, treatment was performed with antibiotics, but currently, non-antibiotic products are sought, considering residues in milk and animal products, and the resistance to some antibiotics. Different topical products are currently available in Québec for the treatment and/or control of digital dermatitis. Most of those products are the results of the empirical experience of users. The topical application of the antibiotic’s tetracycline has been demonstrated to be effective for treating digital dermatitis and is generally considered as the gold standard treatment. However, the use of this antibiotic is limited to avoid contamination of the milk and this is an extra label use of tetracycline. The main objective of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of various non-antibiotic topical products for the curative treatment of digital dermatitis as an alternative to the current antibiotic treatment used.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André Desrochers

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Using machine learning to predict and attribute mortality to non-adherence to medication among patients with asthma and/or COPD

This project has two objectives. At the individual level, we propose to develop, using artificial intelligence, a predictive tool useful in the doctor-patient relationship. It will indicate the five-year risk of death for asthma and COPD patients based solely on individual electronic information already recorded by the provincial health insurance organism: sociodemographic factors and the history of adherence to each prescribed medication. At the population level, we will estimate the proportion of deaths among asthma and COPD patients that could be prevented by better medication adherence. This estimate will be particularly useful for public policy managers when allocating public resources to preventive measures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lucie Blais

Student:

Partner:

AstraZeneca Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Learning abstract causes from text

Consider a question that a policymaker might have: which economic factors have causal effects on the median housing price in a region? Answering this question requires gathering historical observations of house prices and economic factors of interest and performing statistical analysis to asses causal effects. But what if the policymaker does not exactly know which economic factors are relevant? What if they cannot afford to measure some of them? The goal of this project is to develop new methodological tools to facilitate causal analyses when experts cannot measure all the potential causes of a phenomenon but have access to relevant sources of knowledge in textual form, e.g., news articles, forums, social media, etc. Building on recent work on causal feature learning, we aim to develop methodology to extract implicit information on the state of potentially relevant causal variables, which we term “abstract causes”, and use these to enable downstream causal analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Germain

Student:

Partner:

ServiceNow Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Système de décontamination de l’eau alimenté à l’énergie solaire

Les composés per- et polyfluorés (PFAS) sont des composés chimiques très stables qui se trouvent dans de très nombreux biens de consommation courants. Cependant, du fait de leur stabilité, ils s’accumulent et contaminent l’environnement. Ces « polluants éternels » ont un impact néfaste sur la santé et l’environnement.
La compagnie E2metrix a démontré que son réacteur électrochimique ECOTHOR permet de traiter l’eau contaminée de façon efficace et économique. Elle développe des systèmes mobiles de traitement des contaminants dans l’eau utilisant ces réacteurs. Cependant, ces systèmes mobiles nécessitent une connexion au réseau électrique.
Serait-il possible d’alimenter ces systèmes mobiles à l’aide d’énergie solaire ? Quelle est la meilleure configuration de système photovoltaïque pour répondre à cet objectif ?
Dans ce projet de recherche, nous répondrons à cette question en évaluant une méthode d’alimentation en direct des réacteurs ECOTHOR par des panneaux solaires, et en identifiant sur la base de modélisation supportée par des données expérimentales la meilleure configuration de panneaux solaires pour un site de test en Alabama.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abdelatif Jaouad

Student:

Partner:

E2Metrix Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Discriminations à l’embauche des personnes transgenre et non-binaires

Dans le contexte d’un droit lacunaire et d’un manque de recherche sur la réalité des personnes trans et non-binaire en emploi, cette recherche a pour défi de mieux diagnostiquer, en mobilisant des outils relevant du droit et de la sociologie, les discriminations à l’embauche vécues par les personnes trans et non-binaires au Canada.
Cette recherche intersectionnelle poursuit ainsi trois objectifs: 1) dresser un portrait des discriminations à l’embauche vécues par les personnes trans et non-binaires; 2) documenter, à partir d’un regard de droit comparé, l’état du droit canadien/étranger permettant de lutter contre ces discriminations; 3) observer les politiques et pratiques déjà mises en oeuvre par les organismes canadiens pour favoriser l’accessibilité à l’emploi des personnes trans et non-binaires. Concrètement, cette recherche enrichira les formations données dans le cadre du programme ProAllié.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Koussens;Sébastien Lebel-Grenier

Student:

Partner:

Fondation Émergence

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Sensors Western Operational Research andDevelopment (SWORD)

Accurate monitoring of a patient’s vital signs – including body temperature, blood pressure, and pulse oxygenation – is central to the ability of clinicians to provide appropriate medical care. In spite of this, the standard equipment used to take these measurements is inefficient, inconvenient, and expensive. Adept Diagnostics will break into the medical device market with the development of novel wireless sensor systems to track these physiological variables continuously and inobtrusively. This equipment, based on unique patented sensor technology, will improve patient care by allowing doctors and nurses to easily keep track of key patient statistics accurately, reliably and remotely. These sensors will also be inexpensive and small enough for use in research. This project will produce and test prototype sensor devices measuring three clinically relevant physiological variables, and complete pilot studies testing their effectiveness and accuracy. This technology has the potential to improve the clinical care of adults and children in almost any medical situation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Rieder

Student:

Partner:

Adept Diagnostics Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Testing alternative binders for biochar-based seed coatings

“Precision seeding” is a new approach to forest restoration that seeks to place tree seeds in locations to maximize establishment success using drone technology. Coating seeds with biochar – a form of charcoal made from waste materials – is a new innovation in this area, but it is necessary to find the right binding agent to make biochar adhere to seed coats but not interfere with seed germination. Polyvinyl acetate (PVA), a type of white glue, has previously been used, but PVA can inhibit seed germination. The proposed research will test alternative binding agents for this application, examining their effects on physical properties and germinability of coated seeds and establish trials to test this approach in the field. This work will help develop this innovative approach for reforestation and is a main focus of partner Seed the North, a startup company focused on seed-based restoration in northern forests in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Thomas

Student:

Partner:

Seed the North

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Improved Perception and Navigation for Automated Harvesting using Imaging Sensors

The primary objective of the project is to develop a comprehensive system that enables spatial and color measurements of agricultural fields using imaging sensors. By integrating the data acquired from onboard imaging sensors with GPS/INS sensors, the aim is to enhance the navigation capabilities of harvesting machines. This integration allows for efficient and precise navigation, which in turn contributes to improved harvesting practices. The ultimate goal is to maximize crop yield by leveraging the valuable information obtained through these sensor fusion techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mehran Mehrandezh;Abdul Bais;Denise Stilling

Student:

Partner:

MacDon Industries Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Variable Rate Seeding and Fertility for Improved Profitability and Sustainability in the Potato Industry

The proposed project will aim to improve traditional farming practices where seed and fertilizer are applied uniformly throughout a field without taking soil variability into account. Variable rate applications have shown the potential to help farmers save money while increasing the quality of their crop and minimizing environmental impacts. This research will help the Prince Edward Island Potato Board work with growers to implement sustainable practices on the island by optimizing fertilizer application in fields and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from the soil. It will also advance clean precision agriculture technologies that can be applied anywhere in Canada where potato production occurs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aitazaz Farooque

Student:

Partner:

Prince Edward Island Potato Board

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Accelerate

Accompagnement des entrepreneurs immigrants au Québec : Une proposition de modélisation d’un processus d’incubation inclusif

L’entrepreneuriat immigrant constitue une source de croissance économique et de développement social pour le Canada néanmoins les études révèlent que les personnes immigrantes rencontrent plusieurs difficultés pour se lancer en affaires. Parmi ces difficultés figurent l’accès aux incubateurs et l’inadéquation de l’offre d’accompagnement entrepreneurial à leurs besoins. Ainsi, ce projet de recherche permettra de mieux comprendre les défis et opportunités auxquels font face les entrepreneurs immigrants, et surtout de développer des services et des programmes adaptés à leurs besoins, pour mieux les soutenir. L’offre actuelle étant standardisée autour d’un modèle québécois ne tenant que partiellement compte de cette réalité immigrante, le projet de recherche sera un atout pour le DigiHub, pour son écosystème et sa communauté entrepreneuriale (coachs, mentors, formateurs, conseillers financiers, prêteurs, consultants, etc.) qui pourront mieux adapter leurs pratiques et leurs modèles d’interventions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Étienne St-Jean

Student:

Partner:

DigiHub Shawinigan

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

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