Do voters become polarized because parties are polarized (top-down polarization) or do parties become polarized because voters are polarized (bottom-up polarization)? This project proposes that issue type determines whether ideological polarization follows a top-down or bottom-up trajectory. Voters adjust their positions to better match their party (top-down) on pragmatic issues such as economy because they […]

The heart beats an incredible 2-3 billion times in one’s lifetime. This amazing feat is made possible by highly organised electrical signals passing through the heart tissue. Disturbances of the heart’s electrical activity (known as ‘arrhythmias’) can be deadly, as they impair its ability to pump blood to the body. While various treatments for the […]

Developments in machine learning have increased interest in data-driven methods, particularly in predictive control. Data-enabled predictive control has been claimed to provide a data-driven end-to-end solution. It includes robustness guarantees obtained through regularization, borrowed from popular machine learning methods. These novel methods use data in a new framework, where analysis methods used in adaptive control […]

This research award will support two interns to work as part of an international research partnership between Dalhousie University, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvannia. We aim to investigate: (1) the impacts that expanding civilian rights and ability to use deadly force in self-defense across the United States have had […]

This project aims to improve the implementation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Canadian Atlantic, and abroad, by advancing the integration of social equity considerations in MPAs design, implementation and management. The project integrates two case studies. The proposed Eastern Shore Island in Nova Scotia (Canada), and the Iroise Marine Natural Park in Brittany […]

Land-atmosphere interactions strongly impact the exchange of heat and water vapor between the land and the atmosphere and play an important role for regional climates. How heat and water vapor exchange affect the near-surface climate is linked to the diurnal growth and decline of the atmospheric boundary layer – the atmospheric layer, which is directly […]

The heart is a complex organ that pumps the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool of blood to the body each day. To accomplish this incredible feet, millions of cells must work together in a coordinated manner, enabled by tight connections between their electrical and mechanical activity. In cardiac diseases these connections are disturbed, which […]

Dans la dernière décennie, nous avons vu les États européens délaisser le concept de culture stratégique, soit la création d’une convergence sur les priorités militaires et les usages de la force, pour prioriser davantage une autonomie stratégique, soit la création de capacités militaires propres à l’Union européenne et ses membres. Mon projet vise à comprendre […]

Language is central to our daily lives and loss of language can have detrimental effects on daily living. To understand what occurs when language skills are disrupted, I will research how healthy adults process language, and in particular the neurological underpinnings of word meaning. The anterior temporal lobe is a brain region that has been […]

L’objectif de ce projet est de mettre au point un modèle numérique permettant d’étudier la dynamique du milieu environnant un arc immergé nanoseconde. Le système est supposé à l’équilibre thermodynamique local. En s’appuyant sur des mesures courant-tension réalisées au sein de l’équipe, le modèle doit permettre de résoudre le champ électrique et magnétique. Lors d’une […]

Au Québec comme en Belgique, les travailleurs autonomes ou indépendants ne peuvent pas être syndiqués et négocier des conventions collectives de travail, car ils ne sont pas salariés au sens de la loi. Ils ne peuvent pas non plus bénéficier de toutes les politiques sociales, ce qui les place en situation de précarité. Depuis une […]

Low lying coral reef islands are considered among the most vulnerable landforms to the impacts of climate change. Currently, an incomplete understanding of reef island evolution and morphology (island evolution is typically analysed in 2-dimensions), and lack of data for reef islands in the Caribbean is limiting predictions regarding how these landforms will respond to […]