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Concussion Diagnosis: Improving clinical decision making in football

Diagnosing and managing concussions have become an increasing priority in sports medicine. The King-Devick test is a screening assessment of neurological functioning detecting impaired eye movements and saccades. During the 2016 Canadian Football League (CFL) season, all players will undergo pre-season (baseline) and post-injury testing with the King-Devick test in addition to the CFL’s standardized medical evaluation for concussion. This project will conduct a sensitivity and specificity analysis of the King-Devick test to evaluate its effectiveness in diagnosis concussions. It will be correlated with other well established concussion assessment tools such as the Sideline Concussion Assessment Test (SCAT). The utility of the King-Devick Test may enhance concussion diagnosis and management in professional football.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Mrazik

Student:

Carley Borza

Partner:

Canadian Football League

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

An investigation on software quality measurement

Software failure may result in substantial damage, especially to human life and financial loss. High-quality software is recognized as a product that has been specified correctly, and that meets its expected specifications. It is important that the quality characteristics be specified, measured and evaluated. In this internship, the primary objective is to create the software quality deviation artifact through comparing the user expected quality against the final observed quality of a software product. For this purpose, the quality measurement process is focused. The rules and quality characteristics presented in ISO/IEC 250nn series of standard are applied to define a range of quality-related questions, which were reviewed iteratively by industrial experts and academic professionals. The final questions formed four working questionnaires; two for expected quality profile and two for the observed quality profile, each consists of end users’ and power users’ questionnaires. A software product – in development phase – was selected as a case study for expected quality and the future users of the software were asked to fill out the related questionnaire. In the current internship, it is planned to perform another survey for assessing quality-related achievement in an established and deployed software application. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Robillard

Student:

Reza Mirsalari

Partner:

Technology Evaluation Centers Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Resisted sprinting and ischemic preconditioning as ergogenic aids in high-level sprinters

With a rise in talent and the number of youths participating in athletics, Canada has a seemingly bright future in track and field at the international level. With the abundance of talent, it is important to improve the resources available to our competitors to continue promoting excellence. We propose to study two novel protocols which can be performed immediately prior to competition in order to enhance performance. Resisted sprinting, which involves sprinting with a weighted sled or using a training device such as the 1080-Sprint is the first protocol under examination. Based on previous research it is expected that our novel technique may improve sprint ability over a greater range of distances than previously able. Ischemic preconditioning, a type of pre-exercise blood flow manipulation protocol, which was initially developed to prevent cell death, will also be examined with high-level sprinters. This protocol has been tested in a variety of other types of activities such as repeated sprints, endurance activities and swimming, and has shown 1-3% improvements in performance. We are excited to partner with the Speed River Track and Field club, who have sent increasing numbers of athletics athletes to the Olympics each year. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jamie Burr

Student:

Kyle Thompson

Partner:

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Intelligent Residential Energy Management Utility Controller

To research, design, and develop a network communication and control modules that integrate any residential HAVC control system with a utility energy management user interface. Developed signal modulation scheme will be implemented on development testing board. Device will network with all utilities for gas, water, and electricity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jahangir Hossain

Student:

Imran Ahmed

Partner:

Thermo Matrix

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Pelvic Floor Health and Sexual Well-Being in Men

The promotion and maintenance of men’s pelvic floor health is a growing concern as pelvic disorders affect a substantial number of men and their prevalence is expected to increase as a result of Canada’s aging population. Pelvic floor disorders go beyond their physical consequences as they can negatively impact men’s psychological, sexual, and social quality of life. Evidence strongly suggests pelvic floor muscle training can contribute to the promotion and maintenance of pelvic floor health and to the treatment of symptoms associated to pelvic floor disorders. Nonetheless, traditional ideals regarding men’s behaviours can be a barrier to their engagement in health promoting behaviours. The associations between men’s pelvic floor health, sexual health, and identification to traditional masculine ideals currently require a closer attention from researchers. Increasing evidence-based knowledge in this area will contribute to the development of effective interventions, products, and services focused on the maintenance and promotion of pelvic health and treatment of pelvic floor disorders that are tailored to men’s experiences and needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elke Reissing

Student:

Emilie Gravel

Partner:

Standard Innovation Corporation

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Prediction Models on S&P 500 Index using Social Sentiment and News Events

Project is to import ten year’s of historical data on news events, public sentiment metrics and the price movement of S&P 500 related equities for study and analysis through the latest Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques. The goal is to uncover correlation and causality between events and price movement of global markets in multiple timeframes (three hours, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly). Specifically, the research would answer the question which features (metrics) generated from initial news and sentiment data have predictive power and which don’t. Predictive models based on the studies will be developed, compared, and evaluated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fred Popowich

Student:

Denis Zubo

Partner:

EOTPRO

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Grassland Songbird Management Targets for Multi-Species Conservation on Mixed-grass Prairie Rangelands

The goal of this project is to develop management targets for grassland songbirds on native rangelands in western Saskatchewan. This research will identify grassland conditions required by priority species and examine how these differ between species and throughout prairie regions with very different soil and moisture conditions. Because native rangelands that are used for forage production make up such a large proportion of the remaining native prairie the project will also evaluate and promote the role of these systems in maintaining grassland songbird populations as well as a healthy and functional environment. Information that is collected will be relevant to conservation agencies and livestock producers and is expected to result in long-term economic benefits to the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Brigham

Student:

Phillip Rose

Partner:

Saskatchewan Forage Council

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Recurrent Deep Architectures for Modeling Time Series Data

Deep learning is currently the dominant machine learning technique as a result of state of the art performance in vision (Russakovsky, et al., 2015), speech (Amodei, et al., 2015) and natural language processing (Vinyals et al., 2015). The improvement in performance of these models is attributed to the availability of large datasets for training the models as well as software & hardware improvements that help accelerate the training process. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are one of the most powerful and popular frameworks for modeling sequential data such as speech and text. We propose to create an open source implementation of scalable, “industrial-strength”, RNN models. These models can then be fine-tuned and trained to perform specific prediction tasks on time series datasets from finance and insurance sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Graham Taylor

Student:

Nikhil Sapru

Partner:

RBC Financial Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Algae Wastewater Treatment Rosebud Pilot

Symbiotic EnviroTek Inc, in collaboration with the University of Calgary is undertaking a research project that will pilot and validate the efficacy and robustness of algae as a wastewater treatment technology and demonstrate a new business model for municipal wastewater infrastructure. The project provides a unique opportunity to optimize system performance in a pilot scale commercial environment, on site in the community to be served by the technology. Successful completion of this study, will result in the development of a best practicable wastewater treatment technology to be used by municipalities in Alberta and across Canada, improving environmental and water quality in rural communities and generating several new employment opportunities. Wheatland County is collaborating with Symbiotic in the pilot before deploying the full scale biofield in the community of Rosebud.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hector Siegler

Student:

Vani Sankar

Partner:

Symbiotic Envirotek Inc

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Soil Gas Field and Analytical Research at Tundra Sinclair Field

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) can deliver needed substantial emission reductions as we transition to alternative fuels. However, it is important to verify that CO2 being injected into the subsurface is well contained within the geologic container. This student will construct soil gas wells, as well as conduct surface monitoring research to define normal fluctuations of soil gases in soil, and compare to situations of expected leakage. This research will contribute to improved surface monitoring practice and better public acceptance of CCS, and will contribute toward the larger Tundra Sinclair CO2 Project initiative.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Risk

Student:

James Williams

Partner:

Tundra Oil & Gas

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

Towards Detection of Subclinical Joint Bleeds in Hemophiliacs: Advanced Imaging

This project aims to assess how the use of the novel “ultra-short echo-time” (UTE) MR imaging technology can “add value to” conventional MRI for detection and quantification of blood products in hemophilic joints. We will test this novel technology in joints of hemophilic patients with different stages of arthropathy presenting with blood products at different stages of degradation as compared with existing MRI sequences. With this study we should initiate the process of validation of UTE MRI for assessment of hemophilic joints at a time where joint changes are still reversible and could be “saved” from arthropathy. We should also be able to make recommendations on an optimal protocol for assessment of hemophilic joints. We hope that this new technique improves diagnosis and management of hemophilic patients by guiding prophylaxis in places where development and/or progression of arthropathy can be delayed or interrupted by regular infusions of factor concentrate replacement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Doria

Student:

Haris Majeed

Partner:

Siemens Healthcare Ltd.

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Developing metabarcoding approaches to describe the fish diversity within a diversity of aquatic habitats

Evaluating the impact of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems often requires robust biodiversity estimates. Traditional methods for sampling fish communities are very costly, may have a significant share of inaccuracy and require specialized taxonomic expertise and have numerous other inherent limitations.
The general objective of our proposed project is:
• to develop and validate genomic tools that will allow accurate monitoring of biodiversity and to compare results from traditional sampling techniques with biodiversity estimates based on refined metabarcoding approaches to describe the fish and diversity within a diversity of impacted aquatic habitats;
• to develop, test and apply advanced environmental genomics tools to predict and mitigate the responses of aquatic communities under environmental stressors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Melania Cristescu

Student:

Joanne Littlefair

Partner:

WSP

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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