Verbal encouragement aims to increase athletes’ performance by mobilizing resources, such as commitment and motivation, self-efficacy and/or the reduction of stress. A large body of literature supports its effectiveness in a variety of settings (e.g., sport, exercise). Yet, most studies suffer from important limitations, including the lack of external validity of the experimental stimulus. In […]

Using qualitative research methods, including in-depth interviews and a facilitated workshop, the project explores the educational transition experiences of older refugee-background youth (ORBY) resettled in rural areas of Nova Scotia. Research indicates that resettled ORBY face challenges completing high school and post-secondary programs, explained as influenced by duration of school disruptions, addressing family economic need, […]

Music Therapy (MT) has the potential to support health and well-being of people with incurable diseases and limited life expectancy. Yet, it is a relatively underused service in Canada. There is a need for non-invasive and non-pharmacological treatment options in Palliative Care because such treatments can sometimes further exacerbate illness (e.g., drug interactions). Research has […]

This project will support the work of a school and community-based program that is intended to help prevent gender-based violence and improve the overall wellbeing of young men and boys (GuysWork). The interns will support the evaluation of year one of this three-year study, as well as project management related implementation in Newfoundland and Labrador, […]

This project aims at enhancing the capabilities of a document management system by leveraging the power of large language models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models. By incorporating graph-based information retrieval methods, the system will be able to utilize the rich metadata and interconnected information associated with documents more effectively. It will improve the system’s […]

This research from Arolytics and StFX’s FluxLab, led by Nadia Tarakki, PhD, focuses on accurately calculating methane emissions from Canada’s oil and gas sector, a major contributor to global climate change. The project will develop innovative emissions frameworks for reconciling diverse methane measurement methods and create accurate methane inventories, overcoming current limitations. Emphasizing statistical properties […]

The Ahead of the Game Youth Mentoring Organization (AOTG) is a not for profit organization who supports under resourced youth ages 12-29 through group and one-on-one mentoring. The goal of mentorship programming facilitated by AOTG (typically 12-week in school programs) is to provide under resourced youth with the motivation, guidance, skills and connection to resources […]

This project will result in an online site showcasing Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre’s archives. These archives include historic materials such as programs, promotional materials, promptbooks, and other theatrical ephemera. Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre is a bastion of rural Nova Scotia theatre. This digital archive will make these materials available to the community and to researchers: […]

This project aims to apply machine learning in the context of potato farming. By analyzing many previous spectrometer scans of potato plant leaves, models will be developed that can estimate the amount of nutrients in a potato plant based on a single scan. The models produced by this project will help offer a more scalable […]

The partner provides software that uses natural language processing techniques to store and analyze documents of different firms. This includes their widely used smart document storage software. The techniques suffer performance when they use text that is not written in well-formed “natural language”, such as tables and labels. The intern will be designing and implementing […]

We will develop complex image analysis processes to advance and tighten our current processes and more accurately and speedily identify bare spots and in addition develop new processes to identify specific weeds that cause problems in wild blueberry fields. Using spatially accurate drone photography of wild blueberry fields the intern would use custom programming logic […]

Industrial-scale production of protein from black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) has emerged as an efficient and sustainable alternative to wild harvesting or large animal farming. The principal waste product, called frass, has plant growth-enhancing properties exceeding those explained from primary nutrient (e.g., N,P,K) profiles, but how does frass confer these growth enhancing properties upon plants? […]