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Advancing Retail Analytics

The proposed research will develop enhanced clustering and segmentation algorithms of high dimensional data. Cozumo Technologies, a world leader in the real-time capture and transmission of point-of-sale customer data, will use the research to improve their existing models of customer segmentation and offer generation. It is clear that real-time handling of big data represents a very large business opportunity that is being actively pursued by
many countries around the world. Leadership in Canada in this sector will have obvious economic benefits to the country.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kumar Murty

Student:

Travis Russell

Partner:

Cozumo

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Improved method of donor kidney storage at subzero temperatures

Currently, storage of donor kidneys at low temperatures is limited to 24 hours. If the storage time of donor kidneys could be extended, this would allow more opportunity to identify and prepare suitable recipients for this life-saving procedure. Our improved method of kidney storage at subzero temperatures will also allow patients at more remote locations to benefit. Our novel kidney storage solution is expected to reduce damage to donor organs and thus decrease post-transplantation damage.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Adams

Student:

Heather Tomalty

Partner:

Cryostasis Ltd.

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Measuring Indicators of Community Health and Holistic Well-Being Based on Future Land Use and Transportation Planning Scenarios using Geographic Information Systems

Urban design and transportation investments may have a significant impact on the health and well-being of the people and environments; however, it is often difficult to measure these impacts or predict how long term growth may improve or disrupt a community. This project will begin with a literature review to identify built environment indicators that have been linked to positive population health and holistic well-being outcomes at a community scale. A framework will then be developed to measure these indicators to support development of an Official Community Plan for Abbotsford, British Columbia. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be used to measure healthy built environment indicators such as: walkability, bikeability, access to transit, commute length, air pollution, population density, social interaction, and access to nature. Three future urban growth scenarios will be constructed in GIS and the indicators will be compared for each scenario. This project will assist local government stakeholders in understanding the potential impacts of different urban planning approaches, and in ultimately creating urban planning policies that may improve the population health and holistic well-being of the community.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raktim Mitra

Student:

Anthony Smith

Partner:

DIALOG

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin Therapy in Myasthenia Gravis Exacerbation

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is caused by an immune attack on the nerve and muscles junctions and manifests as severe and sometimes life threatening muscle weakness. A number of effective immune modifying medications are available for MG. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) – a fraction of blood harvested from thousands of donors and containing high concentration of immunoglobulins, is a highly efficacious therapy for MG. Unlike some other therapies, response to IVIG is quick and therefore commonly used in MG patients in whom rapid response is needed. Recently, a highly concentrated form of IVIG has become available that can be given under the skin i.e. subcutaneously (SCIG), which may have several potential advantages over IVIG. Our center is currently leading a clinical trial designed to optimize the use of SCIG in MG patients. The purpose of this study is to further explore various biological characteristics of SCIG that determine its efficacy, response duration and adverse effects in MG patients. Our findings would also be applicable to several other immune mediated diseases of nerves and muscles, which are treated with immunoglobulin therapy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zaeem Siddiqi

Student:

Derrick Blackmore

Partner:

CSL Behring Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a slit die system for on-line rheological measurements of polymeric melts

Our industry partner, EHC GLOBAL, is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of escalator handrails products including recyclable handrail that features built-in antimicrobial properties and the ability to display custom graphics. They also deal in many other products such as escalator safety brushes, urethane rollers and engineered polymer products and are continuing to introduce new products in the market. However, escalator handrails continue to be one of their major product lines, which they consistently look at improving the performance of this product. Therefore, they have established a pilot production line for investigating new material formulations and production methods. They want to undertake detailed scientific studies of all the factors that have a bearing on material properties and production technology. The rheological properties are key parameters that affect not only the production processes but also mechanical performance of the elastomeric handrails during operation. The rheological behavior of materials can vary widely with both formulations and process parameters. Therefore, having an in-situ measurement system will be very helpful in carrying out the scientific studies and modeling that they desire to undertake for product improvement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ghaus Rizvi

Student:

Shahid Ahmed

Partner:

EHC Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced manufacturing

University:

Ontario Tech University

Program:

Accelerate

A Review on the Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry Conference Series

We propose to investigate the evolution of sustainable development in the mineral extraction industry over the past 12 years. In 2003 the first Sustainable Developing in the Minerals Industry (SDIMI) conference was held where attending engineers, government officials, researchers, technical experts and non-governmental organizations, adopted the “Milos Declaration” which stated they as a community would develop and promote sustainable practices within the mineral extraction industry. In 2015 the SDIMI conference series will be reviewing their mandate and putting forth a revised “12+ Milos Declaration”. To provide context for the committee, conference attendees and major conference partner, EduMine, an investigation of the evolution of sustainable development is necessary to grass the conferences impact in academia and industry. Funded by EduMine and the MITACS Accelerate program, a intern will conduct a literature review, develop a database of past conference topics and create a report and an academic paper from their findings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dirk van Zyl

Student:

Brandon Nichols

Partner:

EduMine

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Power Flow control in HVDC Grid and its effect on the underlying AC power system stability.

HVdc is the preferred approach for transmission of bulk power into existing AC network from point to point and from remote generation resources because of technical advantages, including low transmission losses. Integration of HVdc grid with existing AC grid provides considerable economic benefits while throwing up challenges for effective control of both the grids at the same time. This project proposes to study through simulations and come up with suitable recommendations for the following: (a) The effect of transfer of bulk power through HVdc grid into existing AC grid and the stability of AC network arising out of fast transients related to converters, (b) Impact of bulk power from HVdc on slower dynamics of the generators located at far places. The presently-used simulation technique takes a long time, as the systems become large and complex with real plant data. In the proposed study, these complex power systems will be simulated on a platform by splitting / parallelization to get faster results. The study will thus result in better understanding of operation of HVdc grid and will aim to develop an optimized control scheme for effective control of such a system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aniruddha Gole

Student:

Rajesh Vaid

Partner:

Electranix

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

An Economic Evaluation of processing route options for two gold bearing feed materials: Saprolite and Artisanal Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Tailings

The suggested research for the Mitacs Accelerate Program is directed to be the final step in a series of previous investigations for maximizing gold extraction from the ASGM tailings and saprolite materials, retrieved from the Eldorado Gold`s Tocantinzinho project (“TZ”), looking to improve its economic results. The TZ project is located in an extensive ASGM province in Brazil. ASGM is an acronym for Artisanal small scale gold mining, which is a type of mining practice that uses rudimentary procedures for extracting alluvium gold, achieving poor results, as well as damaging the environment, leaving large amounts of gold and mercury bearing tailings at their old workings. Successful completion of this research relies on laboratory testwork, as well as economic trade-off studies complying different gold processing routes and their particular implications. These investigations will define which processing approach and process plant implementation strategy will be the most beneficial to the partner in Brazil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcello Veiga

Student:

Guilherme W. Alves Lage

Partner:

Eldorado Gold

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Effective Pipeline Integrity Decision Making

Pipeline operators are required to make decisions for various complex pipeline integrity situations on a daily basis. These integrity situations often comprise a complex interaction between integrity threats such as corrosion, cracking, third party damage, dents, buckles, and wrinkles. A pipeline operator usually develops their own processes towards dealing with each specific integrity threat. In general, the processes are developed based on the stipulations by the Canadian Oil and Pipeline Systems Standard, the in-house experience, and the current up-to date integrity specific research. However, once the processes are developed, they become very rigid. In addition, when integrity threats are combined or when the processes are more conservative than or just different from the stipulations of the code, the processes become very confusing for the operators. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. is looking into revamping the current in-house processes for dealing with various integrity threats. The main objective of the research is to design integrity threat processes that are dynamic in nature allowing the process to be updated based on new literature findings. In addition, the newly designed processes would allow the users to identify the rigid and flexible aspects of the process to enable more informed decision making by the users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samer Adeeb

Student:

Muntaseer Kainat

Partner:

Enbridge Pipelines Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

An Optimized Generic Model of Radio Propagation through Vegetation

This project studies the propagating channel path loss in urban and suburban scenarios and how the foliage affects the channel efficiency in terms of path loss. The impact of different parameters such as leaf size, leaf type and trees density will be considered. The study includes the RET model, empirical models and theoretical models. Numerical packages will be utilized to compare the conventional channel models and the results will be presented. The proposed model will be optimized to reduce the number of input parameters and its accuracy will be tested against the measured data. During the course of this project, the intern will collaborate with Fastback networks engineers and staff and she also participate in site surveys.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rodney Vaughan

Student:

Maryam Dehghani Estarki

Partner:

Fastback Networks

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

IoT/M2M Network Capacity Planning Analytics

The Internet of Things is gaining popularity and it will enable the development of new applications that will be useful to businesses in almost any industry and in society. It is expected that more than 50 billion IoT devices will communicate via telecoms networks and will send an enormous amount of data. One major challenge to the successful deployment of this large and heterogeneous network is the problem of capacity planning. An in-depth knowledge of IoT traffic characteristics is necessary to optimize the capital expenditure (CAPEX) but no work has been done so far in this area. The goal of this research project is to use analytics to design models that will guide the capacity planning activity of future networks to meet both the requirements of IoT services and the business objectives of the operators. These models will be implemented in a network capacity planning tool and some tests will be conducted for validation and performance assessment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John William (Bill) Atwood

Student:

Mama Nsangou Mouchili

Partner:

Ericsson Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Incorporation of biosolids from municipal wastewater processing facilities into Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (L TH) methodologies for production of biofuels

Biosolids, the materials produced during treatment of sewage sludge, are produced in extremely large amounts each day in every town and city across the globe. This material contains significant amounts of bacteria, viruses, and parasites that can be detrimental to human heath and must be carefully disposed. Added to this, there are currently few uses for biosolids even after sterilization. Municipalities around the world, including our partners with The City of Edmonton, are eagerly looking for novel and innovative technologies that will consume biosolids. To this end, our interns along with our industry partner, Forge Hydrocarbons Inc., will utilize biosolids in a Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (LTH) technology that utilizes high temperatures and pressures. This technology will simultaneously sterilize the biosolids and transform the fats and oils contained within biosolids to fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. These fuels can be used in conventions engines on the market today. Our research will potentially reveal a novel and lucrative method to convert waste material to value added biofuels and solvents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Bressler

Student:

Mehdi Omidghane

Partner:

Forge Hydrocarbons Inc.

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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