Investments in social housing in Nunavut and Nunavik: impacts on the mental well-being of Inuit families

Mon projet de thèse s’intéresse aux impacts d’investissements dans le logement social sur la santé mentale de familles inuites. Il a été développé en partenariat avec plusieurs organisations inuites du Nunavut et du Nunavik qui ont identifié les conditions de logement comme étant un levier majeur pour l’amélioration des conditions de vie et de santé […]

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The morphodynamics of the early Arabidopsis thaliana gynoecium development

Angiospermas, or flowering plants are the most successful group of plants on the planet. The reproductive structure of angiosperms known as gynoecium is the responsible for the success of flowering plants. In this project, we want to understand how growth, patterning and tissue differentiation interact during the gynoecium initiation. Currently, there is only hypothesis of […]

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POLITICAL ADVOCACY BY FOR-PROFIT ENTERPRISES: ACTIONS AND GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS

For profit companies can exercise influence over public politics: Advertisers withdraw funds from media programs and media outlets, companies move service centres and offices, companies stop providing services to certain clients. This research will perform a series of comparative case studies, using publicly available commercial communication and interviews with industry professionals to understand how for-profit […]

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Meltwater Retention In the Greenland Percolation zone

I am a member of ArcTrain project, which is an international collaborative research and training experience program between Canadian and German scientists funded by NSERC CREATE. I am offered the opportunity to study for four to twelve months at a partner institution in Germany, to develop a better model for my research on Greenland Ice […]

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Geomagnetic indoor positioning based on smart phone sensor

This project aims at solving the difficult problems faced by indoor positioning and related issues, which are part of the future development direction. For different positioning environments and positioning requests, the project will explore the corresponding positioning schemes, conversion mechanism sand switching strategies. The project will use the geomagnetic-based technology that does not require additional […]

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Intercultural Education Professional Development in teacher education programs and in-service programs

Objectives: •The objective this study is to explore the perspectives of in-service instructor’s and teacher educator perspectives of intercultural education. A secondary objective is to understand the intercultural professional development of in-service teachers in the Faculty of Education at Nelson Mandela University and to examine teacher education programs and their practices related to intercultural education. […]

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Engineered Framework for Wildfire-Urban Interfaces

The intent of this research is to study fire dynamics and the threats it imposes on people, property, business continuity and environments, namely at wildfire-urban interfaces (WUI). Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Boston, MA, is equipped with modern technologies, not yet available at my home institution, that can be used to build a comprehensive analysis of […]

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Seizure induction by single-cell control of neural circuits

The impact of seizures on the life of an epilepsy patient is significant. How they start, propagate and terminate remains unknown. Our hypothesis is that seizures develop in the brain when populations of neurons lose their ability to efficiently parse incoming inputs, known as decorrelation. When these neurons are not able to sufficiently decorrelate incoming […]

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Public Policies and Subjectivity of Black Women

This research analyzes the manner in which black women from the periphery of São Paulo (Brazil) deal with state-funded social policies in their daily lives. In particular, it looks at the challenges of navigating complicated bureaucratic procedures for marginalized and often undereducated urban populations, and the impact these challenges have on their everyday life. This […]

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Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via merger of Protostars

The origin of Supermassive Black Holes that are observed to exist in the early Universe is one of the key questions in astronomy. There are different models that try to explain how these black holes formed and grew in a short period of time. One such model is the collision of protostars resulting in massive […]

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