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Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and New Forms ofPolitical Engagement in Canada

Over the past three decades, there have been drastic declines in voter turnout and traditional political participation across North America, particularly among younger demographics. As young people increasingly move away from institutionally-driven practices, political participation is no longer only defined by voting in elections, volunteering with civic associations and town hall meetings but increasingly manifests through civic media – political engagement facilitated by digital tools. As civic engagement shifts toward greater use of networked and mobile communication, there is an increasing demand among government agencies, non-profits, labour groups, and businesses for research into how digital media is being used to empower citizens and make government more accessible. However, despite being increasingly central to political life, it is not clear the degree to which civic media and digital tools have an impact on political outcomes in Canada or the ways in which they can be improved to facilitated deeper efficacy. In partnership with national young engagement organization Apathy is Boring, the research internship paints picture of the digital engagement sector – analyzing how the sector is using digital media to constitute political public realms and providing critical insights to the future of digital grassroots politics in Canada. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stuart Poyntz

Student:

Tara Mahoney

Partner:

Apathy is Boring

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding changes in corticospinal excitability due to chronic resistance training and fatigue

The proposed research will allow us to determine how the human central nervous system (i.e. brain and spinal cord) functions to produce different intensities of muscle contractions with and without fatigue. We will use a variety of stimulation technics to determine how active the brain and spinal cord are during the arm contractions. We do not currently have a detailed understanding of how the brain and spinal work together during force production. Before we try to determine how the functional connections between brain and spinal cord are altered in persons with spinal cord injuries, however, we need to determine how they work in non-injured persons. The industry partner included in this proposal employs medical professionals that are interested in understanding basic nervous system function in humans. An enhanced understanding of how the nervous system works before and following fatigue in addition to increased physical activity may lead to new developments in their treatment of patients with upper and lower body injuries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Duane Button

Student:

Brandon Collins

Partner:

Lewisporte Medical Clinic

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a method using immuno-Raman for the simultaneous imaging of 15 biomarkers for immunotherapy of breast cancer.

We propose a novel approach that will provide researchers with an improved method to study multiple molecules, simultaneously in the same tissue section. Our strategy is to use novel nanoparticles that each emit unique multispectral signature and can be used simultaneously. We aim to develop a novel method to detect 15 breast cancer and immunotherapy-related biomarkers at the same time. The capability to detect a multitude of biomarkers simultaneously on the same tissue section would provide unprecedented headways in the field of cancer research and particularly on tumor profiling. Extensive characterization of tumors is central to the development of personalized therapies such as immunotherapy, which is now considered one of the most promising and innovative approach to treatment in the fight against cancer. In parallel to this project Photon is developing an imaging instrument tailored to the imaging of multiple biomarkers at the same time as well as a data analysis software. In combination with the results obtained in this project, Photon will be able to position themselves in the market of as a new major medical device player in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Martel

Student:

Charlotte Allard

Partner:

Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Metamaterial in Solar Energy Harvesting Devices

Solar energy is one of the best sources of environmentally friendly reliable energy. Metamaterials is one of the subjects of nanotechnology, which applies scientific and engineering principles to make and utilize very small things— things at the nanometer scale, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. How to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of power collected by crystalline silicon solar cells with Metamaterials is a subject of great interest and also the objective of this project. Metallic and dielectric nanostructured metamaterials will be designed and tested, which are engineered to enhance light absorption of solar cells. Proposed project is aimed at developing and manufacturing such enhanced absorption solar cells on a large scale and help increase Canada’s solar energy production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Cada

Student:

Xiaoou Mao

Partner:

Metamaterial Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Complex Continuing Care in a Rural Hospital: Optimizing community-based health care

Community hospitals in small towns or rural areas face challenges in delivering health care that will allow elderly members of their community to remain in the community that they helped to build. Using simulation modelling, this project will develop strategies for delivering complex continuing care in rural hospitals that is closely integrated with long-term care, residential care, and home care services. Small towns and rural communities have a tight-knit social fabric and the contributions that family support and community services provide to health care are important factors. This project will be carried out with the Listowel Memorial Hospital Foundation and will focus on the municipality of North Perth, Ontario.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexander Rutherford

Student:

Sergei Gassan

Partner:

Listowel Memorial Hospital Foundation

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Early Childhood Education project

Early Learning is an impotant undertaking in Canadian society and supporting young children as they move from home to early learning centres onto kindergarten classes is of particular interest and value to educators, helping us to ensure we provide the right environments and supports for all young children. This research will help us to provide the most appropriate learning experiences to young children in new Brunswick and beyond.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ann Sherman

Student:

Candace Mersereau

Partner:

Origins Natural Learning Childcare

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Education

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis of the implementation of a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach for the conceptual design of advanced aircraft high-lift system architectures

Today, the development of complex products such as aircraft systems is still mainly based on a paper-based requirements and development process which leads to delays, cost overrun and sometimes failure to respond to customer needs. A structured, model-based design approach is considered promising to bring innovation and optimization in systems architectures. The project aims to demonstrate the value of a model-based systems engineering approach opposed to a traditional bottom-up approach for the example of advanced aircraft high-lift system architectures. The open-source framework Capella will be used to provide the partner organization a tailored new methodology, example process and models for the conceptual design phase that will enable subsequently a more efficient and effective development process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Liscouet-Hanke

Student:

Bharani Raj Mohan

Partner:

Bombardier Aeronautic Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Operation Strategies for Energy Storage Systems in a Wind Park

The Wind Energy Institute of Canada has installed a large-scale wind power and energy storage systems. The institute’s goal is to investigate the wind integration techniques and to increase understanding of the industry for energy storage systems. The objective of this project is to demonstrate and evaluate the capability of energy storage system for shifting wind energy over time and providing ancillary services. Multiple functions of energy storage systems can bring more value to them and justify their high capital costs. This project is in line with institute’s research objectives to show how energy storage systems can facilitate high wind power penetration into the electricity grid.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hamidreza Zareipour

Student:

Ehsan Nasrolahpour

Partner:

Wind Energy Institute of Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Implementation of a database driven website for IIBC Canada-based online Application

This project seeks to design and implement an online web-based application system for IIBC that will enable people to easily apply for Work permit, Study permit, Permanent Residence, etc. This will provide real-time access to data, making visa application easy for people from all countries to migrate to Canada. With this web application system in place, IIBC will reduce the time taken in handling the manual process, making their services effective and efficient, while generating extra revenue due to ease of processes for customers. This project will help the interns apply research skills gained in the area on provenance and semantic technology and will provide hands-on practical industrial skills to better position and shape them for real world complex challenges ahead.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Emmanuel Kaku

Partner:

International Immigration and Business Consulting

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Implicit Feedback Based Personalized Recommender System Using Collaborative Denoising Autoencoder

There are plethora of applications today that rely on hyper-curated content personalized according to user’s interests. It is usually difficult to get lots of users to explicitly specify their interests continuously and to ensure a rich user experience. To overcome this, Implicit feedback based on the actions performed by users tend to be very useful. In order to facilitate premium services to users, big chunk of applications today rely on Top-N recommendations so that users don’t have to spend lot of time searching for the needed contents or items. This project is done via Mitacs Accelerate Funding in association with Pintellect. Pintellect is Enterprise Social Software that gives employees access to the thoughts and ideas of the organization’s influencer set by encouraging them to share links to the internal files or external resources such as books, TED talks, podcasts, articles, etc. In this project, following are the high-level sub-objectives that are studied and implemented: 1. Requirement Identification 2. Feature Identification 3. Data Representation, Gathering and Cleaning 4. Design of Framework for Training and Evaluation 5. Model Architecture and various recommendation algorithms 6. Collaborative Denoising Autoencoder (CDAE) 7. Algorithm evaluation and training 8. Performance evaluation

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Faculty Supervisor:

Craig Scratchley

Student:

Shams Narsinh

Partner:

HOP Operating Company Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Stand and stock table projection system for Interior Douglas-fir in the central interior of British Columbia

Forest management in Canada will be more and more constrained by species habitat requirements as well as the risks and results of natural disturbances. The recent, sever Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak in the interior of British Columbia resulted in a harvest shortage of lodgepole pine in this region. Forest managers now rely heavily on non-pine harvests, mainly within the Interior Douglas-fire forest type. This forest type requires partial cutting and is further constrained by several ecological and social forest management objectives. Sustainable forest management of the Interior Douglas-fir forest type requires the ability to predict responses to forest management activities. There is currently no tool that allows making these forecasts at both the stand as well as forest level. We are proposing to develop a stand and stock table projection system that will allow forest managers to easily predict possible outcomes to planned management activities at both the stand and forest level scale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bianca Eskelson

Student:

Woongsoon Jang

Partner:

Tesera Systems Inc

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Software Defined Security Orchestrator for Content Delivery Networks

Denial of service attacks deny a service, such as visiting a website or access to a network, by deliberately congesting the server or the network resources. In addition to delivering digital contents to end-users, content delivery networks (CDNs) are supposed to protect the content origins, such as Netflix or Amazon Video, against denial of service threats. However, denial of service attacks not only evade a CDN’s protection but also exploit its resources to damage content providers and the CDN itself. As such, traditional security mechanisms are no longer sufficient. This proposal presents the design and implementation of a security orchestrator that protects a CDN and its content providers using more sophisticated and more effective techniques. In collaboration with our partner, Ericsson Canada, we aim at building a system that provides an improved defense compared to traditional approaches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raouf Boutaba

Student:

Milad Ghaznavi

Partner:

Ericsson Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

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