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Limb sparing in dogs using patient-specific endoprostheses and cutting guides: design, manufacture and validation

Osteosarcoma at the wrist joint is the most common type of bone cancer in dogs. Each year over 10 000 dogs are affected. To date, several surgical techniques exist to treat patients suffering from this disease. Unfortunately, complication rates subsequent to surgery remain elevated.
We propose a workflow that allows the portion of the wrist affected by the tumor to be replaced with a 3D printed personalized limb. We anticipate that this treatment could (i) reduce the complications that are often observed with existing techniques and (ii) shorten the time span between the diagnosis and surgery.
To commercialize the proposed technology we anticipate the creation of a start-up company that would receive medical images of the limbs, design and 3D print the patient specific implant and ship it to the veterinary hospital. This project will be realized in close collaboration with our partner organization, Aligo innovation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vladimir Brailovski

Student:

Anatolie Timercan

Partner:

Aligo Innovation

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

University-to-Work Transition Project

Research on university graduates’ University-to-Work transition (UWT) is sharply polarized between two discourses: the smooth transition narrative and the crisis narrative. Proponents of the smooth transition narrative such as universities are reporting high-rates of student satisfaction, skill transferability as well as early-career earnings consistent with those of 1970s and 1980s’s graduates. At the same, the crisis narrative is pointing at rampant underemployment, a loose School-to-Work transition structure and a blunt lack of high-skilled technical labour. While voices in the middle are calling for an overall more sustained engagement from all stakeholders, it is surprising how little we have actually learned about the transition itself, namely university graduates’ own early experience in a “dynamic and unsettled economic landscape” (BCBC 2016). C2Careers has staked out this middle position and it has issued a call for gaining a clearer picture of how university graduates experience and navigate the first critical months of their school-to-work transition in order to create an informed space where university trained grads can work closely with companies who hire and C2Careers can learn about what businesses find lacking in grads and train them accordingly. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy Cheek

Student:

Francois Lachapelle

Partner:

C2Careers

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced mapping techniques applied to wetland drone base information

Wetlands are habitats for many fishes, aquatic invertebrates, waterfowl, and other wildlife. Wetlands are also important for people’s daily lives. They can renovate freshwater, store flood, and provide fishery resources. However, wetlands are being destroyed and polluted at alarming rates worldwide. This research tries to understand the current wetlands extent and states in mid-Alberta, Canada. We use an emergent Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) and cutting-edge computer techniques to map wetland vegetation species and communities. Results of this research will help the public and policy-makers better know and conserve current wetlands in central Alberta. Fiera Biological Consulting Ltd. will also benefit from this research in enhancing their expertise in wetlands monitoring.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Student:

Cao Sen

Partner:

Fiera Biological Consulting Ltd

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Enteroids and enteroid derived monolayer cultures: Using primary intestinal epithelial cell cultures to define the mechanisms underlying epithelial intrinsic innate defenses

Using growth media available from Stemcell technologies, along with our own tools and techniques, we can isolate and grow intestinal stem cells from mice or human patient donors into enteroid cultures. Enteroids are 3D cell cultures that replicate many of the structures and types of cells found in the intestinal lining. We propose to work with Stemcell technologies to continue to develop their growth media for enteroid culture and apply these new media and techniques to further or understanding of how these cells help the body defend against infection. We will study how the goblet cells within the enteroids respond to infectious bacteria to produce protective mucus and how the other cells of the enteroid produce antimicrobial factors to kill the invading bacteria, defend themselves from attack and produce factors to recruit immune cells to the site of infection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Vallance

Student:

Martin Stahl

Partner:

StemCell Technologies

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Precast Concrete Carbonation under Ambient Conditions

This project seeks to explore the practical viability of curing concrete via carbonation at ambient pressure conditions, thereby omitting the technique’s current dependency on elevated pressures. A vacuum pre-setting step and regimented CO2 injections highlight the proposed technique. Experiments will initially be carried out at the laboratory scale at the university, and then scaled up to pilot trials to be conducted at the partner’s industrial site. Tests and analyses include compressive strength, absorption, porosity, surface resistivity, mineralogy, microscopy, and thermal analysis. Promising outcomes will help the industrial partner expand on its commercial implementation of carbonation curing, and promote further adoption by the concrete precast industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yixin Shao

Student:

Ghalia Abdul-Baki

Partner:

Boehmers

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Topological Network Analysis for Transportation and Water Management Systems

The main goal of this project is to develop a general set of computational solutions that could be used to prevent and manage emergency situations in transportation and water management networks by developing a monitoring and predictive model. This monitoring and predictive model will be based on topological data analysis (TDA) in a fashion similar to the model used in systems biology but here applied to Big Data provided by transportation, communication and water management systems. The TDA thanks to its proactive approach – utilizing different sources and their correlations and generating data interpretation and association – will evolve towards creating “business intelligence” and will improve transportation and water management safety at a system level and crisis management. This methodology is based on the study of dynamic predictive models related to individual and / or collective behavior as well, especially inspired by the models produced by systems biology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jack Tuszynski

Student:

Mark Healey

Partner:

Mowat Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing inter-device interaction in Drone-Aided Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (DA-MANET) for Humanitarian Mission deployment

Every year, people suffer the consequences natural disasters descend upon them. When these unfortunate events occur, emergency response teams are deployed and need to deal with a multitude of challenges. In this scenario, the communication infrastructure is a key element that can contribute to the success of the mission. Considering the case of a Drone-Aided Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (DA-MANET), where devices such as drones and cell phones are available, it is imperative to investigate how their interaction must occur in a way to optimize the humanitarian mission. In this context several aspects need to be considered, such as device placement, energy consumption, overall network throughput, fairness between connections, and balance in use of short- and long-range connections. In this project we propose the creation of an optimization framework that deals with the multiobjective exploration for this specific type of network aiming to improve its performance for humanitarian mission deployment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriela Nicolescu

Student:

Alexandra Aguiar

Partner:

Humanitas Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Comparing and Improving Approaches to Topic Modeling

The proposed research project aims at evaluating and improving a technique in Statistical Natural Processing called Topic Modelling in order to apply it to real-life scenarios. Topic modeling is a techniques that allows the quick discovery of what the main topics of a document collection are, and thus automatically answers the question “What do these documents talk about?”.
Several approaches have been proposed to implement topic modeling, but their evaluation have rarely taken the end-use into account. In addition, the topics identified by such techniques are often based on single words and seen as the end-result.
In this research, we wish to address two main issues: 1) the evaluation of methods in topic modeling based on a social validity assessment when applied to real-life applications, and 2) the improvement of the extracted topics based on other linguistic units, other than single words.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leila Kosseim

Student:

Elnaz Davoodi

Partner:

Provalis Research Corp

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the prospective benefits of physical demands description (PDD) data created from job simulations

Every job at Ford Motor Company should have an associated document describing the physical demands (i.e., lifting, climbing, pushing, etc.) required in that job. This information is important to select job candidates with the right blend of capabilities to be able to safely meet these demands. Perhaps more importantly, this information also provides a benchmark to guide health care providers in helping injured workers rehabilitate their capabilities so that they can again return to their job, safely meeting the job’s demands. However, it is very time consuming to generate these reports and many health care providers often wish they had more details. With advances in the ability to simulate work using computer programs, there is a new opportunity to more quickly generate very detailed physical demand summary reports. This project will evaluate health care provider’s preferences regarding the usefulness of reports generated from work simulations compared to the traditional reports.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Fischer

Student:

Nicholas Patrick

Partner:

Ford Motor Company

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Mevalonate Cascade Inhibition Sensitizes human Glioblastoma Cells to Temozolomide via Modulation of Autophagy

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), also known as glioblastoma and grade IV astrocytoma, is the most common and most aggressive cancer that begins within the brain. There is no clear way to prevent the disease. Typically treatment involves surgery after which chemotherapy and radiation therapy is used. The medication Temozolomide (TMZ) is frequently used as part of chemotherapy. Cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) is recently being considered as a novel and safe approach for combination therapies in many cancers. In the current project we are going to address how statins sensitizes human GBM cells to TMZ-induced programmed cell death. We will use different pharmacological and gene silencing approaches to investigated the role of program cell death in this mechanism. Our project will open a new horizon in treatment of GBM and provide opportunities to increase the survival rate of GBM patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Saeid Ghavami

Student:

Shahla Shojaei

Partner:

Health Sciences Centre Foundation

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Passive optical remote sensing of channel bathymetry for monitoring of large river morphodynamics

Air photos and satellite images offer a comprehensive perspective on rivers that can be useful for the study and management of aquatic ecosystems. In particular, water depths can be determined remotely by relating image properties (color, brightness, etc.) to depths measured through fieldwork. However, this reliance on field data for calibration of the depth/image relationship requires costly, sometimes dangerous fieldwork and means the methods cannot be applied to data sources without associated field-measured depths. This project aims to test the applicability of a newly developed framework that uses equations that mathematically describe flow of water through rivers to help constrain estimated depths from remote sensing imagery without the need for field calibration. By applying and the Flow REsistance Equation-Based Imaging of River Depths (FREEBIRD) framework to satellite and air photo imagery of Peace River, BC, the project will test the method’s suitability to measure depth on large rivers. Testing the results against available hydraulic data and available field measurements will allow for quantification of data quality relative to currently used methods. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brett Eaton

Student:

Aaron Tamminga

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Additives in Pellet Form For Asphalt Mixes Containing Recycled Asphalt

In this project, asphalt mix additives in the form of pellets added directly in the mix during mixing will be developed. The pellets will include at least recycled asphalt shingles, but other additives like rejuvenators and warm mix additives will also be tested. Those additives should help to make asphalt mixes with better mechanical properties while using less virgin materials. The compactibility, the workability, the moisture resistance and properties like thermal cracking resistance, rutting resistance and modulus of those modified mixes will be tested. With this project, the partner will have the necessary information he needs to improve his product and to ensure his customers that what they produce with this additive will meet their requirements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Carter

Student:

Appa Rao Gandi

Partner:

Rogitex International Inc

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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