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Data-driven AI Approach for Union Data Analysis

LegacyX is a software development firm currently transitioning from a consulting focus to a software as a service vendor, specializing in Unions. LegacyX aims to give users the choice of a range of data science tools and generate statistical analytic outcome that will allow end users gain access to the insights provided around their Union operation and growth by leveraging the extensive data. In this research, we will explore current data accumulated by LegacyX for more than 15 years, to that user can navigate to different query and reporting options, review and understand their data and statistics. This proposed system will also offer users the opportunity to submit ideas on new data views that could further benefit their organization and assist in the future product development roadmap.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irene Cheng

Student:

Partner:

UnionX Software

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Effects of post-COVID-19 on the integrated dynamic autonomic, cardiovascular, respiratory, and skeletal muscle oxygenation regulation during acute exercise

This proposal focuses on determining whether post-COVID-19 and sex influence the integrative dynamic
autonomic, cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscle oxygenation regulation during postural transitions and acute
exercise. COVID-19 is considered an inflammatory storm affecting many physiological systems, especially older
adults. COVID-19 may impact these dynamic integrative responses, compromising homeostatic regulation, rapid
physiological adjustments, and exercise capacity. It may cause further degradation of biological and functional
reserves to tolerate stressors, increasing susceptibility to adverse health outcomes. COVID-19 is taking millions of
lives and dollars, having a tremendous impact on families, healthcare, the economy and society. Currently, research
has been focusing on the direct effects of COVID-19. However, little is known about this pandemic’s broader and
lifelong impact on the dynamic integrative autonomic, cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular systems regulation.
This research proposal is critical because it will inform whether post-COVID-19 alters female and male older adults’
autonomic, cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscle oxygenation responses. It will also be critical to develop
rehabilitative treatment/intervention strategies to minimize adverse health outcomes, promoting health, well-being,
and quality of life for females and males impacted by the pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rodrigo Villar

Student:

Partner:

Technical University of Munich

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Intersectional Complexities in Indigenous Youth Accessing contraceptive and abortion based care

Indigenous youth may face a number of barriers to accessing sexual health services due to accessibility and stigma. This study seeks to identify intersectional barriers that Indigenous youth may face when accessing sexual health services. This study will be done with mixed methods through statistical analysis and Indigenous community co-designed interviews.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Munro

Student:

Partner:

The McCreary Centre Society

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

A Collaborative Approach; Reimagining Caring

Living with a mental illness in Canada is complex and not well understood. The research question for this project is; when and how do people with a chronic mental illness feel cared for in palliative settings? This project will provide a unique opportunity for a student intern to partner with Health Cities, Mitacs and a research team from the UOA. The student intern will join the research team in a SSHRC funded project – Reimagining Caring. The project is an opportunity to work with researchers, clinicians (nurses) and people with a mental illness to understand more about the experience of care and caring from the perspective of patients and nurses. The project gives work integrated learning for students on social innovation practices with organizations like Health Cities in addition to the research methodology – collective narrative is an affirmative, trauma informed approach that uses storytelling to illuminate people’s lived experience and generate hope regarding the topic of concern – care and caring. This project will contribute new ways of thinking about care and caring. The codeveloped narratives will provide a unique learning opportunity to understand the experience of care and caring by people with a mental illness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tanya Park;Tim Barlott

Student:

Partner:

Health Cities

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

CRIAQ MANU-604 : Additive Manufacturing

Bombardier Aerospace, Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited and Pratt & Whitney Canada have all initiated projects on Additive Manufacturing processes. Although applications are different, all companies are facing the same challenges including the lack of a mature certification path and a mature Canadian supply chain. In order to accelerate the maturation of this technology, we are proposing the first Canadian industryled R&D program on additive manufacturing (AM). The end goal of the research project would be to reach to reach Technology and Manufacturing Readiness Level 3 on selected parts for primary and secondary aircraft/helicopter structures as well as aircraft engines and pave the way for usage in the production of parts for repair, retrofit or new products development. The expected benefits are: CO2 emissions reduction via weight reduction and cost reduction through part assemblies’ integration, lead time reduction, reduced buy-to-fly ratio, reduced inventory and optimized batch size.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mathieu Brochu;Sylvain Turenne;Carl Blais

Student:

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney;Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Montreal, QC);Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (Inactive);Consortium de recherche et d'innovation en aérospatiale au Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Aerospace

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal; McGill University; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

How does social isolation impact rodent health, welfare and the validity of research results?

Mice and rats are commonly used in biomedical research to model human diseases. Usually, we house them in “shoebox-sized” cages in small same-sex groups. Since they are social species, we know having social contact is important for their well-being. For example, rodents will choose to spend time with other rodents rather than live alone, and when given a choice, rats will choose to spend time with another rat before eating. However, laboratory rodents are often housed on their own without contact with other rodents. When isolated, rodents show signs of chronic stress, such as increased fearfulness of human handlers. In humans, social isolation can be detrimental to health, elevating the risk of developing disease and leading to an earlier death. In this project, we aim to assess if similar effects occur in rodents. We hypothesize that isolation is so stressful to rodents that it negatively impacts their health. If so, we wonder if using isolated and stressed rodents is suitable for research: are these rodents truly good representations of humans that aren’t socially isolated? This project will shed light on the ethical concerns regarding the commonplace practice of isolating rodents and address whether improving rodent welfare can also improve science.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Georgia Mason

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Council on Animal Care

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Curling Rock Launcher and Ice Sheet Printer

This project will produce a rock launching device for curling as well as a printer that will print pebbled curling ice sheets. These devices will be used to help understand the physics of curling (which are still not understood). They will also be used to enhance the fairness of curling competitions and to help train curlers in brushing. RMD Engineering of Saskatoon, as the partnering organization, will help develop these devices and will be able to commercialize the technologies developed, to help Canada stay on top of the curling world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Maw

Student:

Partner:

RMD Engineering

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Transaction Cost Economics: A theoretical overreach into Managerial Practice

The application of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) as a tool to understand managerial decision making has been a contentious issue over the last 35 years. Williamson (1985) founded and defended the TCE theory his entire career, eventually winning the Noble Prize in Economics in 2009. Many management scholars were either skeptical or hostile to the usefulness of TCE in management, reaching a nadir in 1996 with the publication of Ghoshal and Moran’s critique. Other more general criticism followed (Zingales, 2000; Ferraro, et al 2005; Tsang, 2006). To some extent the period that followed was relatively calm, with TCE being considered a legitimate theoretical analysis, but of questionable value to practicing managers. However, a recent paper by Cuypers, et al (2020) argued for a robust return to the application of TCE in a wide variety of managerial research areas. the purpose of this project is to rebut Cuypers as a form of theoretical and economic imperialism that is destructive to improving managerial practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rick Molz

Student:

Partner:

Sumy State University

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Other

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Pre-trained graph-based medical language model

The partner organization’s proposed role in the project is to lead all the initiatives in this project and collaborate closely with the academic partner in choosing the right approach to tackle the information retrieval and question answering problems. The partner organization will benefit through improvements to its product and the outcome of this research will be used by actual users in this space. This helps the organization with more user adoption and commercial gain.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Rudzicz

Student:

Partner:

Tali AI

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Elevate

Metabolomics Investigation of the human microbiome composition in inflammatory bowel diseases, antibiotic use and diet using an ingestible capsule for sample collection

Recent studies have shown that the gut microbiome works as an organ of the human body. The gut microbiome functions like an endocrine organ producing bioactive metabolites. Since the gut microbiome is in close interaction with the human internal environment and changes in the compositions of gut microbiota can impact host physiology through many pathways. Therefore, alterations in the gut microbiota integrity are suggested to potentially contribute to a wide spectrum of diseases including gastrointestinal (GI), cardiovascular and neurological diseases. Precise determination of gut microbiota compositions depends on the ideal sampling methods which are non-invasive, has little cross-contamination, and collect samples at different sites. The current investigational swallowable SIMBA capsule by Nimble Science can provide a non-invasive, inexpensive, and convenient sampling method to collect small intestine microbiota. The aim of this study is to optimize and evaluate the efficiency of SIMBA sampling capsule using the determination of microbial diversity followed by metabolomic profiling of samples from healthy controls and patients compared with samples obtained by endoscopy and feces.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Lewis

Student:

Partner:

Nimble Science Ltd.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Blue and green carbon sequestration on degraded ecosystems

The aim of the research is to conduct two studies. The first component is to conduct a robust literature review on methods to estimate above and below carbon in temperate (green carbon), and mangrove ecosystems (blue carbon). This component of the proposed research will be aimed to identify a package of monitoring tools that can be utilized and scaled to develop carbon credit models. The second component aims conduct a study of organic carbon present on soils from two selected study areas: a Canada, and Kenya of interest to Veritree with the goal of exploring differences between above, below carbon stocks and porewater between these two sites. The information collected in these two components will be used – on a second phase- to create new customized methodologies for estimating both mangrove (blue) carbon sequestration in Kenya and terrestrial (green) carbon sequestration in Canada of interest to our industrial partner (Veritree). The creating of these models can only be constructed via an in-depth literature review so, new methodologies, can be used to create robust carbon credits and as concrete case studies for adaptation for other locations for both blue and green carbon.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Student:

Partner:

Veritree

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Validation of the Next Generation Simulation Platform for High-Rise Buildings

Recent years have witnessed a boom in the construction of modern high-rise buildings in megacities around the world. Since many of these megacities are also located in seismically active regions, it is important to design a high-rise building that can effectively withstand both wind and earthquake loads. Nonetheless, in current practice, the design of high-rise buildings for wind and earthquakes is done independently. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop a set of integrated design guidelines for both wind and earthquake loads. The proposed research is focused on the development of tools and methods for efficient and reliable simulation, which will lead to an analysis platform for the understanding of the response of high-rise buildings, subject to both wind and seismic loads. Kinetica is a leader in the design of tall buildings and the simulation tools developed during this project will create working platforms for Kinetica to advance its competitiveness and understanding of tall building design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Evan Bentz

Student:

Partner:

Kinetica Risk

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction; Other; Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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