Dimensions stratégique et géopolitique de la transition énergétique en Chine

Le développement économique de la Chine et sa situation démographique ont rendu le pays dépendant de ses importations d’hydrocarbures depuis 1993. Une telle situation explique la nécessité d’une transition énergétique en Chine. L’actuel plan quinquennal (2016-2020) prévoit de contrebalancer la réduction drastique de la consommation de charbon par des investissements massifs dans l’industrie de l’éolien […]

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The Development of Phonological Awareness in Vietnamese Children

Vietnamese is widely spoken by over 90 million people in Vietnam and around the world. The proposed project will be the first to study phonological awareness (PA) and reading outcomes in Vietnamese-speaking children. Phonological awareness is the ability to explicitly and/or implicitly manipulate small meaningful units of speech. Many studies with English-speaking children have found […]

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The Tabletop Makerspace: A Portable Low-Cost Personal Fabrication Toolkit

This project will be a collaboration between the School of Interactive Arts at Simon Fraser University and Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia. A portable low-cost set of tools will be assembled to support “maker” activities, educational do-it-yourself building project that use electronics and personal fabrication technology. Personal fabrication technology refers to a new generation […]

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The EU in contemporary global environmental governance: a complementary outside-in and inside-out approach

The research conducted in Montreal focuses on studying the role of the European Union (EU) in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through an innovative outside-in mapping. Three dimensions of the EU’s role are examined: its environmental ambition, leadership and diplomatic activity. The project is innovative because of a twofold reason. First, counterbalancing the literature’s […]

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Visualizing Unspoken Words

In order to a facilitate a productive dialogue about contemporary Canadian race, ethnicity and religious rights, my research project entails the following three components: 1- an interactive artistic installation; 2- data collection from the target audience in response to the installation using sensor-based software application; 3- public visualisation of such data in the form of […]

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When do we support harming another group?

The purpose of this project is to extend my investigation of destructive intergroup behaviour (DIB), defined as collective action taken with the primary intent of harming an outgroup. Specifically, I am interested in identifying the psychological processes through which individual group members come to see DIB as justified, as it is the widespread acceptance and […]

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Quête d’identité juive par les archives : quand il ne reste que la généalogie. Un cas concret de recherche matérielle et virtuelle

La généalogie procède d’une recherche de parenté, de filiation qui nous rattache à un contexte de société. Les archives, autrefois secrètes et dévolues aux experts (historiens et chercheurs), connaissent un regain d’intérêt informationnel mais aussi émotionnel tant au niveau concret qu’un niveau virtuel. La généalogie juive est en marge du mouvement car elle témoigne souvent […]

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Violent futures? Contestations along the frontier

This research project investigates the effects of large-scale land use change on organized violence in rural Africa. Through an analysis of contested land in Northern Kenya, this project analyses how the Kenyan Government’s ‘Vision 2030’ project impacts conflicts in the region through large-scale infrastructure and conservation projects. The student is expected to join one of […]

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the Essence of Human Design from the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

The objective of this research is to relate the language game proposed by Wittgenstein to design theory in the context of philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Wittgenstein put forward the theory of language game in his later philosophy, believing that language is a kind of game. Since the process of language game between human beings is […]

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