This project is about understanding the culture and practice of nurses in the city of Niteroi, Brazil in the context of community health with women, children, and youth. The data collection will involve my personal observation of nurses practices with their clients, meetings with staff and decision makers, as well, as health and professional authorities. […]

As a result of climate change and human-mediated movement of plants and animals, the establishment of invasive species is increasingly prevalent, with global economic and environmental consequences. Establishment in a new habitat requires successful reproduction in novel environments in the short-term, and successful invasion requires local adaptation in the long-term. Thus, invasive populations may initially […]

This project aims to shorten patient wait time in precision healthcare treatments by speeding-up computerized DNA analysis. In precision or “personalized” medicine, a patient’s treatment is tailored specifically to his/her genetics. In contrast to one-size-fits all treatments, in a precision treatment the medication prescribed to the patient, as well as the medical decisions and practices […]

L’industrie du fitness est en pleine expansion, de plus en plus de personnes en deviennent des adeptes. Les objectifs principaux de cette recherche seront alors de comprendre et mesurer les différences de motivation, de comportements et d’intérêts qu’ont les pratiquants du fitness à travers trois pays ayant une culture différente, à savoir : Le Canada, […]

La densité élevée du carbone tourbeux intéresse désormais une frange importante d’acteurs aussi bien du monde scientifique, le pouvoir public que la société civile. Leurs actions visent à comprendre et maitriser le cycle du carbone, à empêcher ou freiner la dégradation des tourbières et à restaurer celles qui ont déjà été détériorées. Une tourbière perturbée […]

Lung cancer has a poor prognosis and a high incidence in low resource settings. Early detection of malignant nodules can enable prompt intervention and improve treatment outcomes. Despite the recognized benefits of early nodule detection, it is clinically and computational challenging. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a type of machine learning that has been applied […]

Combining semi-structured interviews of plastic surgery doctors and individuals interested in plastic surgery as well as content analyses of magazine and newspaper articles on plastic surgery, this research aims to inductively examine the intersubjective production of meaning among South Korean individuals in the context of the nation’s massive plastic surgery trend. To this end, this […]

Today, optical imaging technologies are used extensively for a wide range of advanced medical imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics applications. While current state-of-the-art pupil engineering has examined diverse mask types to enhance these imaging capabilities, binary phase masks (BPMs) have been suggested as the superior filter for achieving enhanced axial and transverse beam properties, offering the […]

Intravertebral disc degeneration is a common debilitating condition for which there is no cure and leads to back pain and disability. In order to provide sustained pain relief, research is investigating the use of local cell transplantation into the disc. However, many current cell delivery strategies suffer from low cell retention and survival following injection […]

Various hydrogel membrane resonators will be fabricated with hydrogels exhibiting different molecular weights and structures along with varying concentrations of the photoinitiator and ultraviolet doses. Then, resonance sensitivity of fabricated hydrogel membranes will be investigated with optical and electrical readout techniques. Using the dynamic mask, various hydrogel membrane resonators with different sizes and shapes will […]

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 […]