How We Build Housing: Exploring Baugruppen in Berlin as Scalable, Participatory Co-production in Berlin

This research project will explore the German Baugruppe model of housing development—literally ‘building group’—through which multiple households organize themselves into an association and pool resources to purchase land and engage an architect to design a multi-unit complex of dwellings to suit their needs. This model removes the land developer from the equation, thus giving households, […]

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Opera in Canadian and Chinese Classrooms

My research project is a component of the Reciprocal Learning Program and SSHRC Partnership Grant project run by Dr. Shijing Xu and Dr. Michael Connelly respectfully. I will actively participate in and observe how music students study the historical, musical, and practical applications of vocal pedagogy in Chinese music classrooms. I would also like to […]

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Virtual Reality: Utopia, Technology and Art

My research seeks to map out the artistic context in which interactive and immersive technologies such as VR, AR, XR and Stereoscopic 3D are produced, distributed, and perceived. Generally posited as the future model for contemporary visual culture, these technologies have been promoted to realize the utopic telos that has haunted image technologies since early […]

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Evaluating the Influence of Student-Teacher Relationships on Chinese and Canadian Elementary School Systems

I will look at the interactions between Canadian elementary students as well as Chinese elementary students and their respective teacher. Through observation and casual conversations I will record how the relationships affect the learning of of students and what kind of effects this produces outside of the classroom setting. This information will be compared with […]

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Using soil water stable isotopes (?18O and ?2H) in the unsaturated zone to assess groundwater recharge and evapotranspiration in Nordic humid region dominated by snowmelt

The groundwater recharge is the quantity of water reaching, through infiltration, the groundwater already existed in the geological formation. The groundwater recharge is considered as relevant parameter for evaluating the water resources. In Nordic countries including Canada, the highest groundwater recharge is often associated with snowmelt, and it is affected by the geology of site […]

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Synthèse d’inhibiteurs ? en structure d’épingle à cheveux du point de contrôle PD-1 / PD-L1

Il a été démontré que les tumeurs exploitent certains mécanismes liés aux récepteurs immunitaires (point de contrôle) pour échapper à la réponse immunitaire. La mise sur le marché d’anticorps monoclonaux (mAbs) approuvés par la FDA, pembrolizumab et nivolumab en tant qu’inhibiteurs du récepteur immunitaire programmed death-1 (PD-1), et du durvalumab et de l’avelumab qui ciblent […]

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Employee Engagement in Innovation

The project aims to show the tenuous relationship and importance between the concepts of motivation, creativity and innovation for a company in modern times where innovation is a requirement of the market. In addition, it proposes to demonstrate concretely how companies and their employees handle these factors to improve their productivity, taking real cases of […]

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Development of case studies for business students

This research program aims to create a case study to teach classes of business administration course. Initially an in-depth analysis of the literature on case study development will be done to serve as the basis for building the cases. We will then analyze the existing data from interviews conducted by supervisors of this project with […]

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L’expérience française de la bibliothèque troisième lieu

Ce projet de recherche se découpe en deux parties : découvrir quels ont été les apports des théories de la bibliothèque comme « troisième lieu » dans le fonctionnement et l’organisation des bibliothèques en France et aussi préciser les éléments culturels particuliers au pays qui ont fait que cette nouvelle conception du rôle des bibliothèques […]

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Fatigue and Motor Control in Dancers

Ballet is a form of physical activity where dancers perform complex motor skills at a high intensity involving gross muscular movement and balance. Ballet is appreciated through the artistic quality of the movement and to be able to perform at the highest level, dancers must not only train at an intensity comparable to an elite […]

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Higher versus lower load resistance training in young men

There is substantial variability in an individual’s ability to increase muscle mass following resistance exercise training (RET). The final chapter of my doctoral thesis is designed to explore the relative influence extrinsic (e.g., the load lifted per repetition) vs. intrinsic (e.g., rates of protein turnover) factors have on RET-induced muscle hypertrophy. I am applying for […]

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