The research to be undertaken in Ireland is a part of my dissertation project, entitled “Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure, Built Space, and Financialization in Post-Crisis Ireland.” The project widely investigates the intersections of various industries—media, tech, tourism, and finance—which have been strategically deployed in Ireland’s post-financial crisis political and cultural landscape as areas for recovery, […]

The challenges faced by mammals in adapting to their environment must be tightly controlled in order to ensure optimal body function. Hormones can travel in the bloodstream to reach various parts of the body and execute their biological actions on various organs. However, to reach their target the hormones must leave the bloodstream. That means […]

Ecosystems are linked by exchanges of both energy and matter. These exchanges can be passive, as in water run-off, or active, as when an animal moves between ecosystems. These two types of exchanges can act against each other but, while research has focused on passive exchanges, not much is known about active exchanges. In this […]

De nos jours, les ordinateurs, les téléphones cellulaires et beaucoup de gadgets électroniques voient leur taille diminuer de plus en plus au fur et à mesure que les années passent. Actuellement, la technologie de ces dispositifs électroniques est basée sur le silicium. Or, le silicium atteint les limites de sa performance plus la taille des […]

Mon projet de recherche vise à étudier l’impact de la langue utilisée par une marque sur la perception et l’évaluation que les consommateurs ont de celle-ci. Dans ce but, une recherche théorique avancée sur la marque et une étude culturelle seront le socle d’une expérimentation visant à tester des hypothèses. Grâce à cette bourse, je […]

In a colloid-polymer mixture, the addition of non-adsorbing polymer can control the magnitude as well as the range of an effective attraction between micron-sized colloidal particles. In such a system, various phases, including network-forming gels, can be observed. With tunable interactions, such systems could also be used for the studies of phase transition kinetics. An […]

This research will explore the vision of professionals, women, partners, and decision –makers about the implementation of the Brazil national policy of humanization of childbirth. This research will review the specific roles of health promoters, nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists and midwives in different health care organizations to educate women about their rights during the […]

This research will explore the vision of professionals, women, partners, and decision –makers about the implementation of the Brazil national policy of humanization of childbirth. This research will review the specific roles of health promoters, nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists and midwives in different health care organizations to educate women about their rights during the […]

Linking proximate mechanisms of immune responses to host health and parasite burden is key to predicting individual infection outcome. However, existing mathematical models fall short as they leave out mechanistic details of host responses. My work bridges the gap between mechanistic immunology and infection ecology by incorporating a process-based description of host responses into a […]

Massive public and private funding is being invested in building new healthcare infrastructure. Hospitals who take part in building new facilities often take this opportunity to improve their practices through quality improvement projects. The organizational transformations that result create a lot of changes for individuals who work, visit and receive care in these hospitals. Nurses […]

En raison des initiatives gouvernementales de construction industrialisée afin de solutionner la pénurie de logement à Hong Kong, l’Université Polytechnique de Hong Kong collabore avec Roger-Bruno Richard, architecte et professeur titulaire à l’Université de Montréal, en vue d’une application « high rise » du système constructif hybride de type « Noyau Porteur » qu’il a […]

The project builds upon prior work done by Prof. Katherine Kuchenbecker’s former Ph.D. student Naomi Fitter and current Ph.D. student Mayumi Mohan in the field of human-robot interaction. They investigated ways of using an upper-body humanoid robot (a Rethink Robotics Baxter Research Robot) to play physically interactive games with elderly adults in order to motivate […]