Le projet proposé s’inscrit dans un contexte de préservation de la qualité de l’eau en misant initialement sur une approche préventive basée sur une mise en valeur des rejets altérant les milieux récepteurs plutôt que sur une approche curative (traitement). L’étude portera sur le cas de la municipalité de Miahuatlán (région de Xalapa, Mexique). Le […]

The project aims at contributing to the reduction of gender-based violence amongst adolescent boys and girls attending schools in cities such as Hyderabad. To do so, the knowledge, attitudes and practices of community health nurses and school teachers will be explored in relation to gender roles, healthy relationships and gender-based violence. The way they conceive […]

Kidney cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. The number of patients with kidney cancer is increasing every year due to aging of the population, obesity, diet, and lifestyle. The death rate due to kidney cancer is also increasing despite the introduction of new and advanced detection devices; also these methods are expensive, […]

Modern smartphones and tablets, and many notebook computers rely on multitouch interaction to augment keyboard and mouse input. Multi-touch gestures typically consists of taps and swipes – simple gestures that don’t exploit the full range of technical and human capabilities. In earlier work, we determined that users are willing to learn expert-level gestures, but often […]

The pilot project aims to study the relations between information behaviours (searching and retrieving information and also communications) and cognitive process in Rennes, France. Naturalistic observation, daily interaction with the public, and unstructured/semi-structured interviews will enrich knowledge in information behaviour and analyze trend. The expected outcomes include a holistic recognition of the relations among IT […]

Modern distributed applications are becoming increasing large and complex. They often bring together independently developed sub-systems (e.g., for storage, batch processing, streaming, application logic, logging, caching) into large, geo-distributed and heterogeneous architectures. Combining, configuring, and deploying these architectures is a difficult and multifaceted task: individual services have their own requirements, configuration spaces, programming models, distribution […]

Beyond the spectrum of visible light lies a window of frequencies called the W-Band which illuminates a world normally unseen to the naked eye and can be the vessel for energy without wires. In order to see this world normally unseen, we have developed a unique circuit topology which has shown signs of truly state-of-the-art […]

Green roof and water cistern technologies are increasingly becoming important components of sustainable building practices and urban water management. However, the two technologies are rarely designed as an integrated system. This goal of this project is develop an experimental design to test the reuse of cistern water for irrigation in green roofs. This experiment will […]

The student will work in a drinking water engineering research laboratory at the University of Toronto to explore an aspect related to the novel use of ultraviolet light and chlorine to destroy hard-to-treat contaminants in drinking water. Previous work by this lab has shown that this form of treatment can be effective, but it is […]

Electricity generation happens on a real-time basis therefore utilities and operators have to follow the demand, matching any variation in the customers’ needs and ensuring system stability at the same time. To achieve this balance between generation and demand during periods of high load peaks, it is necessary either to increase generation capacity or induce […]

Natural disasters are a global concern with each region experiencing unique risks and vulnerabilities. Using concepts from risk research, we can examine how the general public perceives and understands the risks that they face. However, further research is needed to understand how people comprehend risk when faced with competing hazards to see how satisficing and […]

Recent natural disasters, such as the 2005 Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami, have increased focus on the resilient design of coastal communities to these devastating large-scale hydraulic events. The loads from these events can be separated into hydraulic and debris loads. Debris loads, in particular, are difficult to evaluate in the field and […]