Grants and Contributions

The project will examine alternative justice mechanisms in relation to sexual violence, including restorative justice measures and community-based mechanisms which have historically been led largely by Indigenous, Black, racialized, queer sex worker and kink communities. LEAF will ensure in its outreach to participants that viewpoints from these communities are considered. LEAF will identify experts that represent the experiences of diverse populations with alternative justice to sustain the Advisory Committee.

Based on a patent-pending technology, LIFA is an add-on accessory that can be installed on ceiling fans and uses UVC to neutralize bioaerosols, thereby sanitizing the ambient air and preventing the transmission of infectious diseases between occupants in the same confined space. The project will produce functional prototypes.

The Aurora-RT combines an MRI system to provide high quality patient images to ensure they are properly aligned prior to delivering the radiation. This project will develop real time imaging during the treatment. The Aurora-RT will monitor the tumor position and if it moves outside of the treatment field, the beam will pause until the tumor returns to its proper location, then the delivery will continue. This is called “beam gating”. The project will also implement an advanced treatment beam modulation system called VMAT, in which the gantry rotates during treatment delivery, and the system will adjust the multi-leaf collimator position and dose rate throughout the rotation to deliver the optimal radiation dose to the patient.

The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm.

Lambda, Questron’s automation station for Microwave digestions, is currently under development. In parallel to the physical development, we need to update all of the methods developed in the past for our existing products. The youth will have her prime focus to learn about the existing methodologies and translate them onto the new platform. As a prerequisite, the youth will have to learn the specifics of sample digestion process, and the chemistries/steps involved. This will follow with performing the newly conceived methods. At the end of the project, the candidate will have a thorough understanding of the sample preparation steps that happen in an analytical laboratory and allow the determination of sample elemental content.

The project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm.

The intent of the proposed project is to develop the early framework of an Energy System Optimization Model which will be a Clean Energy Optimization tool with the capability of being customized for a provincial, national or even global meteorological applications.

The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm

Our core software has a scalability issue that is preventing us to grow and serve clients with over 200K digital objects (which represents most of our leads and historical projects in legacy frameworks).

Specifically, the DGI I8 Helper module and the Embargo module share an approach for adding access restrictions using query tagging. This approach is non-performant in a large site. We see an extreme slow down when accessing content and uploading files.

Supporting this piece of work is a direct R&D play - we’re not sure what the fix is in the Drupal ecosystem - requires some exploration and further build out.

This International Co-Innovation Action Program (ICAP) project will prepare the firm to enter into future international co-innovation work.