Understanding Montreal festival soundscapes

Quartier des spectacles is a dense multi-cultural hub with large outdoor festivals, also housing an ever-growing residential population due to new high-rise development projects. Given the need to balance vitality with quality of life, this project focuses on expectations of residents and festivalgoers in terms of their sound environment. We implement a methodology to assess […]

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How severe weather affects the auto insurance industry

In Canada, motorists are faced with a wide range of environmental conditions. Weather, in the form of rain, snow, other frozen precipitation, fog or strong winds, occurs 10 to 20 percent of the time, depending on the location and year. This project, which involves a three-way partnership between State Farm Insurance, the Institute for Catastrophic […]

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Éducation 4.0 : Jeux sérieux et technologies adaptatives

En cette ère du numérique et de l’intelligence, une nouvelle vision de l’éducation – Éducation 4.0 – vise à développer une approche pédagogique novatrice et centrée sur le développement des compétences du 21e siècles telles la pensée complexe, la résolution de problèmes de façon créative et la capacité d’adaptation. Ces compétences – non-techniques, transversales et […]

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Knowledge Translation and Simulation: the Viability of Teaching Financial Literacy through Gameful Design

The project seeks to make online management of credit card usage easier by developing new design methods for making information easier to understand in digital platforms. Through rhetorical accommodation, or the process of translating complex information into simpler forms, the project will improve TD’s web-based (EasyWeb) and mobile (TD App) platforms so that credit card […]

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Tisser des ponts numériques avec les jeunes publics : Création et expérimentation d’outils de méditation culturelle numériques

Nous assistons aujourd’hui à un mouvement global de développement de contenus numériques adaptés aux jeunes publics. Parmi ces contenus, la production d’œuvres littéraires numériques occupe une place grandissante. Cependant, encore peu de producteurs ou d’éditeurs québécois se lancent dans la production d’œuvres littéraires numériques jeunesse. Afin de favoriser le développement d’une offre locale de qualité, […]

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Harmonisation de la TVA et Commerce International

La recherche envisagée porte sur la comparaison de l’évolution du régime canadien de la taxe sur les produits et services (TPS) applicable aux opérations transfrontalières avec le système européen de la TVA pour vérifier si une telle évolution montre une convergence quant aux règles applicables en matière de distorsions au commerce. La recherche s’intéressera également […]

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The interplay between mental health, mental illness, sport culture, and athletic performance in Olympic and Paralympic sport

Mental health is increasingly being recognized as a key component of elite athletes’ overall functioning and sport performance. Globally, research on antecedents (e.g., sport culture) and consequences (e.g., athletic performance) of mental health and illness in elite athlete populations is growing. However, little is known about the relationship between mental health, mental illness, sport culture, […]

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Lay Sisters and Brothers in Medieval German Convents

Medieval nuns were supported by a wide range of people, including lay sisters and brothers who performed much of the physical and manual work of the convent. Yet scholarship has long ignored these members of the monastic community. My research attempts to address this gap by focusing on lay sisters and brothers in fourteenth- and […]

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The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Defense Policy

How technology relates to Canadian national defence policy, strategy, and planning is not well understood. To date, much of the research on emerging technology in the military focuses on concerns over ethics, privacy, human rights, and governance, largely overshadowing equally important research on the way technology intersects with military strategy and tactics, defence recruitment and […]

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Tendances mondiales de l’âge modal au décès depuis 1980 : une nouvelle perspective sur la longévité

Aujourd’hui encore, nos connaissances relatives à la longévité humaine portent sur une part limitée de la population mondiale, notamment en raison de la rareté des données sur la mortalité dans plusieurs pays à faible ou moyen revenu d’Amérique latine, d’Asie et d’Afrique. Nous savons en revanche qu’au sein de ces pays, le vieillissement de la […]

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