Painting in Virtual Reality (VR) offers unprecedented possibilities for artists to create and visualize 3D scenes. On the one hand, modern VR painting applications reproduce the traditional painting metaphors of a brush that traces paint strokes. On the other hand, these strokes can be traced in 3D space rather than on a flat canvas, a […]

With the rapid development of the economy, the demand for electrical energy storage is also increasing. However, the lack of high-efficiency, economical and reliable energy storage technologies makes it difficult for current electrochemical systems to utilize renewable energy and enable the circular economy fully. As an efficient and green energy storage device, the supercapacitor has […]

Many animations and videos have high frame rates — meaning many still frames are shown to the viewer per second — in order to give the viewer motion information needed to parse the video. For example, expressive dancing sequences are usually shown in high frame rates because they contain large motions, and often a human […]

My project aims to discover a treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disease that affects one billion people in the world. OSA is a serious chronic disorder that happens when a person’s breathing is intermittently interrupted during sleep. This is caused by an obstruction in the airways when muscles in the back of the […]

This research project investigates the role of political staffers in Canada’s representative democracy. Working with the leading expert on political representation, Dr. Sarah Childs (University of Edinburgh), this project explores how political staffers contribute to the process of political representation. Political staff are the first, if not only, point of contact for constituents. This project […]

Whilst, perceptions of effort have received increasing attention, the perception of pain has received much less attention despite its inherent role during voluntary activities such as exercise. Pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage”. As such, pain is a regular […]

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is a debilitating disease that has a 5-year survival rate of only 44%, making it the fifth most lethal cancer in women. A major reason for this low survival rate is the high rate of metastasis, where cells detach from the primary tumour site on the ovary and reattach at secondary […]

The serine/threonine kinase AKT1 is a key mediator of cell growth and survival processes including glucose metabolism, apoptosis, transcription, proliferation, and migration. AKT1 is activated by phosphorylation at two key regulatory sites, Threonine308 and Serine473, that are both used as clinical diagnostic markers for cancer. AKT1 also plays an important role in glucose metabolism by […]

Ce projet de recherche propose d’étudier l’origine de la latéralité humaine. En effet, la vaste majorité des humains préfère systématiquement l’utilisation d’une main relativement à l’autre tandis que nos plus proches cousins, les grands singes, n’ont pas une telle préférence. Cette préférence pour une main plutôt que l’autre est détectable dans nos os puisque ceux […]

Ce séjour de recherche s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une cotutelle de thèse entre l’Université de Montréal et l’Université Paris Nanterre. Le projet, mené au sein de l’Observatoire des écritures contemporaines françaises et francophones (OEC), permettra d’étudier un pan récent de la littérature contemporaine, les « littératures de terrain », forme assez peu pratiquée au Canada […]

Envisagées dans une perspective historique, certaines séries télé sur l’art plébiscité par leurs publics de masse aux États-Unis, en France et en Grande-Bretagne et dont le rayonnement s’est poursuivi au-delà de leur diffusion d’origine, ont participé à la construction et la diffusion de discours d’histoire de l’art auprès du plus grand nombre. Cette étude s’attarde […]

In response to the present Covid-19 pandemic and the need to decarbonize the transport sector, city leaders and communities are rethinking past assumptions regarding transport planning and infrastructural development and have renewed interest in promoting cycling as a sustainable transport mode. Infrastructural interventions that improve safety and comfort and widen access to cycling are necessary […]