Projets novateurs réalisés

Understanding the School Transition Experiences of Adolescents Living in Armed Forces Families: A Service Parent Perspective

The purpose of this project will be to explore the types of experiences that service parents in England are having when moving and transitioning their adolescent(s) into a new school. This project will explore different factors (e.g., the child, the family, the school, etc.) that can influence the school transition process and experience. Individuals who meet the following criteria will be invited to participate in the project: (1) at least one parent in the family is currently serving as a Regular Force member in the Armed Forces, and (2) has an adolescent who is currently in Years 10-13 (Grade 9-12 equivalent in Canada) who has experienced a school transition in England during the past two years. Data will be collected from 8-10 service parents using demographic surveys and in-depth qualitative interviews. Since this project replicates one being conducted in Canada, the findings of both projects will be compared to deepen learning and to inform policy in both countries.

Examining the Washback Effects of TOEFL iBT on the Integrated English Skills for Academic Purposes

A growing number of language tests have been designed to assess four skills of language integratively rather than isolatedly. With the guidance of Green’s (2007) washback model on washback direction, variability, and intensity, this study adopts a two-phase embedded concurrent mixed-method design to investigate the influence of TOEFL iBT on students’ learning of integrated English skills for academic purpose. The findings will (a) inform us the nature of integrated English skills for academic purposes and further support students’ learning. A thorough understanding of the construct of integrated English skills and its washback will (b) add to the validity evidence of the interpretation and use of TOEFL iBT score for high-stake admission decisions. This study will also (c) contribute to the ongoing language difficulties international students experience in the academic contexts.

Robot-Assisted Breast Cancer Surgery

Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women during their lives and is the second-leading cause of female cancer related deaths. The ideal treatment is breast-conservation surgery during its early stage to remove the cancer while conserving healthy parts of the breast. With current resection methods, on average, one out of every three women undergoing breast-conservation surgery needs at least one additional surgery to remove residual tumor that is left behind. Repeat surgery often leads to full mastectomy among other complications, which is a traumatic experience for a patient who expected a curative treatment with breast-conservation. As early stage breast cancer is not palpable or visible, surgeons tend to apply generous “safety margins” around the target tumor and remove a great deal of healthy breast tissue which can lead to more severe breast deformity. We propose integrative development of a unique robotic surgical navigation system, featuring a multimodal image-guided surgical robot to achieve precise resection of the target. Our project seeks to ensure complete resection of the tumor while also reducing the amount of healthy breast tissue removed, thus yielding significant quality of life benefits to patients and a reduction in health care costs.

Formative Evaluation for Exercise is Medicine on Campus in Guadalajara

The proposed research project is a formative evaluation and pilot-test of the implementation of Exercise is Medicine on Campus (EIM-OC)® at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), Mexico. EIM® is a global initiative that seeks to make physical activity (PA) assessment and PA promotion the standard of care for the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic illnesses. EIM-OC® is the university- and college-focused arm of EIM®, which aims to engage students, faculty, and staff in PA promotion on campus. This initiative is well-established at many Canadian and American campuses. To ensure that EIM® is relevant to the culture and context of Mexican campuses, it is necessary to conduct a formative evaluation to inform the development, implementation and evaluation of EIM-OC® at the UdeG. The proposed research will include an environmental scan of three UdeG campuses, interviews with faculty and staff, and focus groups with students. Findings will be used to implement and pilot test EIM-OC® at one UdeG campus.

Mine Traffic Optimization

The objective of this project is to optimize traffic in open pit and underground mines, in order to safely

maximize production and minimize costs. The intent is that this will be done by causing vehicles to

move at their maximum safe speed while at the same time choreographing mine traffic to give loaded

vehicles the right of way at intersections, and to slow but not stop other traffic at intersections. By using

this approach, production is maximized and fuel costs are minimized, while ensuring the safety of

personnel. This, in turn, will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicle operations.

Specific project objectives are:

(1) Speed and traffic optimization achieved by in-cab display of the recommended speed for all vehicles

in the mine.

(2) Speed and traffic optimization achieved by automatic control of speed for all vehicles in a mine, with

appropriate safeguards and over-rides.

This will be done by

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All you shall see of her is perfect man’: Performing Masculinities in John Dryden and William Davenant’s The Tempest

My research project will explore how playwrights John Dryden and William Davenant used their 1667 adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to establish a normative model for socially acceptable masculinity in response to the rapidly changing gender dynamics of the Restoration stage. My project hypothesizes that Dryden and Davenant used the supernatural island setting of Shakespeare’s Tempest as a space for processing both the growing agency of women in English drama and the new forms of gendered performance that were taking place during the Restoration. I will be working at King’s College London, where I will be able to carry out archival research at the nearby British Library. By completing this project, I will be able to demonstrate how Dryden and Davenant used their adaptation of The Tempest as an attempt to establish a normative model for socially acceptable masculinity and authentic “maleness”.

Material selection and surface coating of coker valves

Coking is one of the most corrosive and abrasive environments in the refinery with a

temperature of over 1000 F under high pressure condition. The function of the coker valve is

to transport the fuel from heavy crude oil. Therefore these coker valves used more subject to

failure than other valves used. It is crucial to design a valve which would offer more

sustainability in the environment described above. The main research focus is to develop a

suitable material and coating for this coker valve which will be more corrosion resistive and

applicable at high temperature. This design will have to consider not only the properties of the

valves as they are made, but also cycling tests are to be taken during the testing procedures.

The work will include three major aspects, namely metallurgy/material selection, testing

procedures and Finite Element Analysis for computational simulation

Surveillance et suppression du bar à petite bouche dans le lac Cultus, en Colombie-Britannique

L’objectif du projet est d’atténuer les impacts sur les salmonidés précieux causés par le bar à petite bouche (SMB) envahissant dans le lac Cultus grâce à la suppression et à la surveillance. Le projet profitera à la fois à l’industrie de la pêche sportive et aux espèces en voie de disparition, en supprimant la prédation des PME et en contrôlant d’autres déséquilibres dans les relations prédateur-proie. Nous utiliserons des méthodes telles que la destruction des nids, l’analyse du contenu intestinal et la télémétrie acoustique pour en apprendre davantage sur l’écologie des poissons et la façon la plus efficace de supprimer la population. L’organisation partenaire (Pacific Salmon Foundation) vise à soutenir la conservation, la restauration et l’amélioration du saumon du Pacifique et de leurs écosystèmes, donc en aidant à réduire la population d’achigans, ils répondront directement aux objectifs de leur plan stratégique.

British Settler Constitution-Writing, Racialized Geopolitics, and Ideas of Global Order, c. 1865-1935

This project revisits Canadian and imperial history, seeking to understand the relationship between constitutions, settler colonialism, and globalization, which shaped and continues to shape Canada and the world. Understanding them in this era of populism and nationalist governments is particularly urgent. Constitutions remain central to liberal democratic self-understanding and critically reexamining their spread among British settler colonies is crucial to understanding the problems we are facing today. Brexit, the devolution of authority in the United Kingdom, provincial separation movements in Western Canada and Quebec are excellent reasons to revisit questions of federalism, constitutions, and sovereignty. However, even more pressing are the legitimate concerns of Indigenous nations in Canada and around the world. It is more important than ever to understand ideas, institutions, and process at the core of liberal democracy and to understand their connections to racism and settler colonialism. In doing so, this project contributes to ongoing policy and governance debates about decolonization and globalization. These are some of the biggest problems facing Canada today and understanding how they came to be is crucial to imagining new and innovative futures.

Développement d’une méthodologie originale d’analyse organique

La source LDTD-APCI ou source d thermo d6sorption par photodiode laser (Laser

Diode Thermal D6sorption – Atmospheric Pressure Chemical lonization) est un appareil

unique, developpe r6cemment par la compagnie Phytronix lnc de Qu6bec. Cette source

d’ionisation particulidrement douce coupl6e avec un spectromdtre de masse de haute

r6solution permet de simplifier I’appareillage analytique courant de type LC-MS ou GCMS

en remplagant les techniques chromatographiques par une s6paration des ions

parents dans le spectromdtre de masse. Les b6n6fices sont 6normes en termes de

rapidite d’analyse, de suret6 d’identification en particulier de compos6s organiques, et

de quantification.

Dans le projet propos6 ici nous proposons avec le soutien financier de la compagnie

Phytronix et celui du CRIBIQ de ddvelopper une s6rie de m6thodes analytiques bas6es

sur la source LDTD-APCI et sp6cifiques pour les nombreux produits organiques

inexplor6s obtenus dans un projet d’envergue intitul6 “Biodi6sel et autres bioproduits

d6riv6s des micro-algues”.

Edge Streaming pour des vidéos à 360 degrés

Le streaming vidéo à 360 degrés est un élément clé de nombreuses applications de réalité augmentée et de réalité virtuelle (AR/RV). Les exigences en informatique et en réseautage posent de grands défis pour les appareils mobiles et les réseaux mobiles, surtout si un appareil mobile est la source vidéo. Le déploiement de l’informatique mobile en périphérie décharge les besoins informatiques et de réseau sur les appareils mobiles et atténue la demande de bande passante dans les réseaux mobiles. Ce projet propose un nouveau mécanisme de diffusion en continu pour les vidéos à 360 degrés pour les applications AR/VR en tirant parti des avantages de l’informatique en périphérie et du réseautage défini par logiciel (SDN, un nouveau paradigme réseau pour la garantie de la qualité de service). Ce nouveau mécanisme réduira efficacement la demande informatique et réseau sur les appareils mobiles ainsi que la pression sur les réseaux mobiles. Le succès du développement de ce projet réduira les coûts d’exploitation des applications AR/VR pour les fournisseurs de services et améliorera la qualité de l’expérience pour les utilisateurs. Les résultats de la recherche inspireront la conception d’applications AR/VR immersives, efficaces en ressources et hautement réactives, dans les réseaux mobiles.

Vertical section development and multi-well modelling – Part 1

Au cours de la dernière décennie, l’optimisation s’est élargie dans de nombreuses applications, allant de la production alimentaire à des applications sophistiquées telles que l’efficacité énergétique des moteurs. Dans le paquet proposé, il est tenté d’appliquer des techniques d’optimisation ainsi que des méthodologies analytiques et semi-analytiques basées sur la physique afin de créer un cadre convaincant qui peut aider l’industrie pétrolière basée sur les procédés thermiques à réduire ses GES et aussi mieux évaluer ses CAPEX. De nombreux projets SAGD sont surchargés dans leurs installations en raison d’une sous-prédiction ou d’une surestimation de leurs attentes en production pétrolière. ce forfait aidera les opérateurs à prédire leurs attentes et à améliorer leurs prévisions à mesure que davantage d’entrées sont fournies, telles que des puits sismiques 4D, d’observation de température et de pression, des données de production et des caractérisations géologiques.