In my proposed PhD project I will interrogate privilege at the nexus of sport, tourism and issues surrounding race, class and gender. There is a new trend emerging in sporting tourism: martial art training camps abroad. Martial art training camps are now established in the places of origin of certain martial arts such as Brazilian […]

What would it mean to have a background, visceral sense of a partner on an ongoing basis, as we moved throughout our day? How would it change our behaviour and how might it assist us? The SenseProxy application at the core of my Ph.D. research seeks to answer these questions. By joining Prof. Jessica Cauchard’s […]

Biomass materials have been a source of energy for years to now and their effective conversion into usable energy form is always under research to get improved results. Various techniques and systems have been developed to exploit different biomass materials so far and this research aims to study the effect of nano NiO particles as […]

The “RESOLUTION: Resilient Systems for Land Use Transportation” is an ongoing project that focuses on the ways in which the impact of transportation infrastructure in terms of operation and provision leads to social and spatial segregation across major metropolitan regions across the World. My job would be to collaborate with Federal University of ABC to […]

Organisms have enormous amounts of instructions encoded in their DNA. When DNA sequences are found using sequencing methods, such as New Generation Sequencing, they are stored as very large datasets. Merely knowing the sequence of an organism’s DNA is not enough, however, and there needs to be further processing of the datasets to extract meaningful […]

Environmental regulations have been widely used in all developed and some developing countries to mitigate pollution. While these regulations potentially reduce pollution, their impact on companies and businesses is unclear. Economists traditionally think that these regulations will increase production costs and deteriorate a firm’s position in market. However, modern economists argue that environmental regulations may […]

The electroencephalogram (EEG) reflects the neural electrical activity and used in brain-computer interface (BCI) systems which provide assistive technologies for people with various disabilities. The proposed research is mainly focused to apply Nonnegative matrix factorization for EEG signal enhancement for BCI applications to mitigate the limitations of existing BCI system such as slow speeds, limitation […]

Since the 1990s, states have rolled back funding for social service provision. The conventional wisdom among researchers is that these cuts led to a groundswell of faith-based organisations seeking to respond to the gaps in social service provision left by the diminished capacity of the state. Around the same time, leading scholars asked a pertinent […]

This project aims at investigating the causes of Salafism appeal, especially on youth, in the historical context of the post-Arab spring, in Tunisia and in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. As Henri Lauzière extensively explained in his latest work, (2016) the Salafi ideology is complex and it doesn’t make consensus. Many scholars have already pointed […]

The Earth’s richest freshwater fish fauna is found in the Brazilian Amazon basin. This resource represents the primary protein source for the “ribeirinhos”: the populations of native Brazilian fisherman living in the upper Amazon. The black waters of the Amazon River are poor in nutrient, ion, oxygen and are acidified by humic acids from surrounding […]

Placental dysfunction is the leading cause of stillbirth, and assessment of fetoplacental health in utero is limited. Our goal is to use MRI to gain functional information of the placenta, specifically to measure pH as a critical indicator of placental health. Current methods of this use 13P MRS but are challenged by low signal-to-noise ratio […]

Increase in global temperatures, over dependence and depletion of fossil fuels to fulfill the human needs have forced the mankind to produce sustainable bioenergy. Plant biomass which contains lignocellulose polymers constitutes the most abundant components on the earth’s surface. Naturally, enormous amounts of cellulose are digested by the cattle and this process of digestion is […]