Due to increasing rates of childhood obesity, it is important to investigate the relationship between motor skill development, physical activity, body composition and sleep patterns. Previous research in this area has focused on school-aged children and adults, when daily habits have already formed and are difficult to modify. The purpose of this project is to […]

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) hold promise as cell-therapy candidates for numerous diseases such as Graft v. Host disease due to their ability to influence the immune system. MSCs have been shown to be capable of a broad range of immunomodulatory effects, including the production of factors that allow them to serve as Medicinal Signaling Cells […]

My research project aims to study the notion of ‘expertise’ (techne) in the philosopher Plato who wrote many influential works during the 5th and 4th century Classical Greece. During his lifetime, Greece was undergoing radical transformations both intellectually and politically. As a response, Plato engaged with many issues concerning democracy, education and morality, the insights […]

Dans ce projet, diverses approches de synthèse du LFP seront utilisées soit par plasma thermique à couplage inductif, par méthode sol-gel et par méthode co-précipitation. Ces matériaux seront caractérisés par spectroscopie d’impédance électrochimique pour déterminer les valeurs de coefficients de diffusion des ions lithium dans les particules. Afin de déterminer ceux-ci, nous proposons un modèle […]

The phenomenon of near-limit detonation propagation, where detonations have been experimentally observed to propagate at average speeds smaller than the ideal Chapman-Jouguet (CJ) detonation speeds, has attracted extensive efforts on determining the influencing mechanisms through application of simple models for predicting such velocity deficits. Despite the large number of attempts to experimentally investigate the dynamics […]

Memristor, as the name suggests is a contraction of “memory resistor”, a novel device that was proposed almost fifty years but only realized recently for the first time. Memristor, the missing link in the manifold of circuit elements, is expected to usher a wave of innovative integrations in electronics and yield novel functionalities. Memristors would […]

This project involves an ethnographic investigation of the ongoing confrontations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem regarding Jewish women’s practices of worship. Through fieldwork and theoretical study, the aim is to examine contrasting spiritual practices and the processes by which religious and legal change is enacted. I hypothesize that prayer, for those engaged in this […]

The project is centered around the need for procedures in classical relativistic field theories. The idea is to determine the minimal amount of rules (postulates) such that a classical field theory can be uniquely determined. More specifically, determining a set of rules such that a unique set of models will follow from Noether’s theorem. The […]

The use of unconventional heavy oil, such as the bitumen derived from oil sands, has progressively increased, placing these materials as a compelling alternative to meet short- and long-term energy demands. Nevertheless, the current technologies available to exploit and upgrade this crude have critical challenges, such as high production costs, lower energy efficiency, and, even […]

La majorité des essais nutritionnels sont réalisés chez des porcs nourris deux fois par jour avec une quantité restreinte de nourriture. Ces conditions ne sont pas représentatives de la régie alimentaire des élevages commerciaux où les porcs mangent plus de deux repas par jour sans limitation de la quantité ingérée. Or, la féquence et la […]

This project is part of a larger mathematical modelling research project that has the broad objective of answering the question: Where should wildflowers be planted around blueberry farms to increase bumble bee pollination and provide the best economic result to the growers? To that end, we are creating an online tool in which blueberry growers […]

L ’objectif principal de ma recherche est de mesurer comment les mutations du système océan influent sur la structuration de la gouvernance de la sécurité à l’échelle arctique. À ce titre, j’adopte une perspective panarctique et tous les pays qui peuvent prétendre à une souveraineté territoriale sur cet océan doivent être analysés. Ce stage de […]