In response to the current climate crisis and since the Paris COP21, there has been widespread international agreement on limiting warming to < 2°C. Two recent IPCC reports have emphasized that the most feasible pathway to limiting warming to 2°C or less is to deploy both climate mitigation (emissions reduction) and intervention (Carbon dioxide removal) […]

There is a growing need to address the rising child mental health crisis in Canada. One way is to take a personalized medicine approach which includes factors that influence an individual’s environment, genetics and their microbiome. The microbiome includes a collection of microorganisms and can live on or within the human body. Many environmental factors […]

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is rapidly emerging as a potential technique to mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change. However, little is known regarding the potential biological and ecological impacts of introducing alkaline base into the coastal ocean to capture CO2, reversing ocean acidification in the process. Specifically, it remains unclear whether the phytoplankton […]

Water resource management has been a challenge facing many regions worldwide, including Vietnam and Canada. Reservoirs are crucial in water management. The project is to further the intern’s PhD research on improving the reservoir operational rule with a case study of Thac Mo Reservoir in southern Vietnam. A model combining a rainfall-runoff framework, reservoir operating […]

Developing a sensor to detect nutrients in plants, replacing wet chemical analysis, has many advantages including rapid understanding of the nutrient status and the ability to scan wide areas of the field. The sensing principle is based on detecting spectral patterns of the leaves and relating them to nutrient availability in the petiole. However, such […]

Portfolio managers have generally favoured factor models to interpret and arbitrage abnormal alpha. Duncombe and Kay (2018) proposed an analysis, Two Sigma Factor Lens, to address these issues. In addition to these problems, another challenge is how to dynamically incorporate market upturns and downturns into asset allocation under a multi-factor model, which has attracted a […]

Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to compare the SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data available from the north American/Canadian SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in mink to the Danish SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in mink, and compare genetic similarities. Moreover, a secondary aim is to investigate the antibody response in relation to SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Canadian mink to […]

Those living with homelessness and in precarious housing situations experience several barriers to accessing psychological care despite often needing support for their mental health. Some of these barriers include lack of funding to pay for services and difficulty physically accessing services. Providing mental health care virtually, can reduce these barriers by making services more accessible […]

Sludge, a waste component of the paper making process, while typically placed in landfills, has the potential for a value-added end use in the capacity as a component in the hydroseeding process replacing the typical cellulosic shredded additive utilized to bind the hydroseed mixture and reduce movement once spread. The case study industry, Port Hawkesbury […]

In order to enable spot application of farm inputs such as pesticide and fertilizers using general purpose boom sprayers, the sensors that detect variation of the field (mainly machine vision systems) should be integrated to the boom sprayer using its standardized ISOBUS communication protocol. During this internship, a single board computer designed by the intern […]

The purpose of this research project is to analyze and understand the relationship between the European Union and the Polish political party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwo??, PiS) in both the party’s present and past, with an emphasis on how the party has formed an identity in opposition to “European values” and creating a […]

We propose to produce a self-contained analysis and reduction of the equations of motion of the much-studied three body problem, making application to the Great Inequality (GI) of Jupiter and Saturn. The GI is a result of the mutual gravitational attraction between these two planets. Their orbits are very nearly in resonance (integer ratio of […]