The Mystical Element of Continental Philosophy

My project explores the relationship between a type of philosophy called Continental philosophy and Christian mystical theology. This project develops upon a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand how Christian theology in general has impacted the development of Continental philosophy. My project, building upon the work of Dr. Louise Nelstrop as well as […]

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Fairness-aware Matching for Dynamic Predictive Behavior Matching

Web-based chat services are widely used by millions of customers today. However, few of them satisfy both service providers and recipients (customers).For instance, customers are continually complaining about long wait times and inadequate service. The technical challenge is to keep both the customers and the agent happy. To solve these difficulties, we plan to model […]

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Automatic Generation of Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

As Intelligent tutoring systems such as Coursera, Korbit become popular, a great way for students to learn is by receiving feedback for incorrect answers. Since manual feedback generation on large educational texts seems impracticable, an important goal is to create hint generation systems from student-teacher conversations. These systems can be deployed as chatbots giving hints […]

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Impacts of climate change on land surface hydrologic fluxes

Hydrological extremes are often defined by a series of complex processes operating at a range of geographical and temporal scales. Climate extremes’ dynamics are highly impacted by land surface hydrologic fluxes (e.g., the interaction of temperature precipitation, soil moisture, etc.). It is critical to identify places where land surface conditions have a substantial influence on […]

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Soil moisture estimation using satellite imageries for Canadian croplands

Agricultural water management, being a critical area in accordance with the freshwater consumption rate, should be regulated with the help of emerging cutting-edge research. Recent research proves that precision technologies significantly reduce the agricultural input cost for the farmers thereby increasing their net revenue at the end of harvest. Technologies such as AI, remote sensing, […]

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An Aerodynamic-Acoustic Design of an Electrical and Shrouded Tail Rotor

Aerospace industry innovations targets reduction of fuel consumption and noise emission. Electrical power-bywire enabled technology address these challenges yielding lighter designs, increased operation flexibility and cost reduction. With electric motors having variable rotational speed, constraints in design and optimization strategies for rotor and propellers can be released. ln addition to conventional aircraft and rotorcraft, new […]

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A Graph Neural Network Approach to Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting

Short-term electric load forecasting for local areas is of interest to Hydro-Québec to efficiently respond to demand at the distribution level. Any significant forecasting error can result in reliability issues, loss of opportunity, or additional costs to the business. Improving short-term load forecasting can benefit both consumers and utility companies to optimize resources and costs. […]

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An ecological economics analysis of Quebec Sustainable Mobility Plan

As part of the transition plan to low-carbon economy, the province of Quebec (QC) has become one of the 20+ regions and cities worldwide to announce a plan to electrify transportation which centers around setting up a ’complete electric battery ecosystem’ by 2050. While this plan poses a new phase of land appropriation and environmental […]

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Process intensification for production of rVSV

To prevent diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Ebola virus disease vaccines are the most effective tool. For this, the promising viral vector recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) is applied as production platform. Using suspension HEK293 cells, rVSV-based vectors are currently only produced in batch mode. However, the establishment of perfusion cultivations at […]

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A Novel Bone Anabolic Treatment for critical size defects in rats

Often fractures don’t heal properly or large defects must be repaired in the bone due to accidents or disease. The drugs and treatments that are currently used to repair fractures are only partially effective. Mesentech Inc has developed a new drug that has shown a strong effect on bone formation in rats. In this project, […]

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