Membrane-based separation technologies are increasingly finding broad industrial applications such as remediating natural water sources and industrial or municipal wastewater, and desalination. Compared to hitherto separation processes, they are relatively energy-efficient and cost-effective. However, dissolved and suspended solids in the feed stream can foul membranes which remains a major challenge and hinders industrial adoption. In […]

Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is engaged in retrieving historical philosophical works of women and individuals from other marginalized groups and sustaining their presence in the history of philosophy. Our overall goal is to change the ways we do history of philosophy to enable the discipline to become more inclusive and diverse. […]

Ce projet de recherche porte sur l’immobilité climatique et vise à comprendre pourquoi les personnes les plus vulnérables aux changements climatiques ne se déplacent pas toujours, malgré l’intense dégradation de leurs lieux de vie. À travers le cas du sud de la Louisiane, cette recherche s’interroge sur les conditions politiques, économiques, idéologiques et émotionnelles de […]

Sugar alcohols such as Xylitol and Sorbitol are an abundant and renewable carbon resource obtained from plant-generated sugars and starches or – preferably – the breakdown of (hemi-)cellulose into the soluble sugars Xylose and Glucose. Already established industrial processes currently running at > 2 million tons/year allow the facile conversion of these sugar to the […]

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, making them perfect laboratories to study galaxy formation and evolution. This evolution is closely influenced by the environment of a galaxy and sometimes, when two galaxies are so close to one another, a merging event unfolds. Such an event leaves long lived fossil records […]

This project will ultimately highlight the ways in which international students experience higher education (as framed by policy, racism, and student testimonies I will have collected prior to departure).The project is 2 pronged: one area focusing on a policy driven manuscript informed by international student testimonies to be used for my dissertation, and the other […]

Amaryllidaceae alkaloids (AAs) are a group of specialized metabolites found predominantly in the Amaryllidaceae plant family. Approximately 650 naturally occurring AAs have been identified, many of which possess a variety of potent biological and pharmacological properties. In contrast to the large body of knowledge on the pharmacological and phytochemical aspects of AAs, their molecular and […]

We introduce Swarm Fabrication, a novel concept of creating on-demand, scalable, and reconfigurable fabrication machines made of swarm robots. We present ways to construct an element of fabrication machines, such as motors, elevator, table, feeder, and extruder, by leveraging toio robots and 3D printed attachments. By combining these elements, we demonstrate constructing an X-Y-Z plotter […]

In our proposed research we will be performing numerical simulations of cavitation occurring around mantis shrimp appendages. The simulation results will serve to answer how evolutionary diversification in the species has enabled appendages to selectively cavitate only upon impact, and not during forward rotation, despite the appendage-acceleration being comparable with that of a bullet. Moreover, […]

Can health be understood differently in different cultures? Many studies (Murray & al., 2018; Glouberman & Millar, 2003) have already investigated the level and distribution of health in Canada. There are also studies assessing health literacy and its possible improvement among Aboriginal people (Smylie, Williams & Cooper, 2006). However, there are few (if any) studies […]

La sclérose en plaque est une maladie auto-immune du cerveau et de la moelle épinière, c’est-à-dire que les globules blancs qui normalement protègent le corps vont reconnaitre des éléments du soi comme étranger et dégrader. Cette dégradation va engendrer une inflammation et une infiltration des globules blancs dans le cerveau et la moelle épinière causant […]

En clinique comme en recherche, il est souvent supposé que le contrôle moteur de la parole se développerait en étroite relation avec d’autres fonctions orofaciales non spécifiques à la parole, comme par exemple la respiration ou la mastication. Toutefois, cette théorie ne fait pas du tout l’unanimité. Dans ce contexte, l’objectif de cette thèse de […]