Incivility is prevalent across various organizations and occupations and has harmful effects on both employees and their organization. Incivility has been found to have negative consequences not only for the victims and perpetrators of incivility, but also for the observers of incivility. This project aims to investigate whether taking the perspective of the instigator rather […]

ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is an incurable neurodegenerative characterized by the dysfunction and then death of motor neurons due to misfolded proteins. While healthy cells are equipped with a defence mechanism against protein misfolding known as protein quality control, it is possible that some neurons in ALS lose this mechanism. It is unknown why TDP-43 […]

“Bohemian matrices and applications” is a new and growing field in computational mathematics invented at Western University. The name “Bohemian” is a mnemonic for “Bounded Height Matrix of Integers”, which means that the entries of these matrices are drawn from a small set of numbers, such as {-1, 0, 1}. The original motivation for starting […]

As diabetes continues to rise globally, the risk of developing chronic diabetic complications greatly increases. Among these complications, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a serious liver disease that can contribute to major scarring of the liver and this may ultimately lead to liver failure. To develop a better understanding of the processes involved in […]

In the steelmaking industry, process control models need to be based on a sound physical understanding of the process but should also account for many uncertainties due to the nature and complexity of the environment in which the process is carried out. As a result, it is crucial to extract useful process control information from […]

Hyperplanes can be thought of as codimension 1 affine subspaces of a given Euclidean space. Given an arrangement A of hyperplanes in R^d, the set of intersections of hyperplanes define a partially ordered set called intersection poset. The characteristic polynomial of A can then be defined using Mobius function of the intersection poset. One can […]

Microplastics (Mps) are usually defined as plastic particles

In Martian history, asteroids have continuously collided with Mars. The catastrophic activity (impact) can produce high pressure, and finally affected properties of minerals in meteorites, which means the minerals were shocked. The force of impact for ejecting Martian meteorites can be 60 GPa, about 600,000 times of the atmosphere pressure on Earth surface. When the […]

Fatty liver disease occurs in the setting of obesity and a high-fat diet, and involves a build-up of excess fat in the liver. Excess fat can cause injury to the liver, which can lead to scarring, and in some cases liver cirrhosis and cancer. As obesity rates increase, it is important to investigate possible ways […]

The aim of the thesis project is to explore the language behaviour and attitudes of Nahuatl communities in the face of language endangerment, and how they are contributing to the language maintenance and revitalization efforts. Nahuatl is one of 72 indigenous languages in Mexico with over one and half million speakers . The research project […]

Since the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows, bridge engineers are greatly concerned by the dynamic behavior of bridges under wind actions especially when designing long-span bridges, i.e., suspension or cable-stayed bridges. Considering that very long spans are planned such as the Messina Strait Bridge, a suspension bridge in Italy with a main span of 3.3 […]

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and for remediation of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life […]