Charles IV of Bohemia (1316-1378), King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, ruled in what is often called a Golden Age of outstanding cultural achievements, centered at his cosmopolitan court in Prague. He famously founded a university, supported humanists, spoke five languages and wrote an autobiography. But of his four wives, Blanche of Valois (1316–1348), […]

Ontario has recently acquired a new forest inventory, based on aerial photos, and for the first time, a technology called single photon Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). This technology allows users to not only see the forest, but precisely calculate tree heights, drainage, and other things by collecting dozens of measurements per m2. A first […]

The applicant will be participate in the Vital cities project alongside Professor Jurian Edelenbos and his colleagues. The project will allow for better understanding of how youth engage with others, particularly with diverse groups of other youth, in social change and community betterment activities. This project seeks to understand how and why youth engage in […]

This project is meant to provide, and expand upon existing research, on social media and what role it plays in modern day society. The focus of this study will be on Social Media working as a vehicle for social change and social movements for the community; particularly, the abortion laws in Ireland. This is a […]

The depletion of fossil fuels and the pollution associated with their processing has put modern society in an energy crisis. With increasing global demand for energy, it is imperative that we find clean energy alternatives to the hydrocarbon economy. Fuel cells provide a promising electrochemical approach to clean energy production, but still face challenges such […]

The proposed research will contribute to an empirical analysis of the utility of the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) and Athlete Coding System for Social Environments in Sport (ACSSES) to assess auditory observational data for meaningful social processes related to social identity in youth sport teams. We anticipate that observational data collected from participants’ social interactions […]

With the rise in electronic health records, we are seeing more reports of clinician job dissatisfaction that is attributed to the amount of data entry work they are now required to do. Therefore, there is a lot of interest to use a speech recognition system to reduce the burden clinicians have by automating the documentation […]

States have built their climate institutions in a diversity of ways, rooted in their traditions of governance. Our collective thinking in responding to climate change lacks an understanding of the effects created by these institutions; they incentivize certain forms of politics and diminish others. This research project aims to understand the institutional architectures that create […]

Development of energy storage has been identified as one of the most important features of our rapidly evolving energy grids. While the significance of flexibility it provides is well understood, commercialization remains non-trivial. Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) is founded on well-known scientific principles that have been combined and applied in a novel way. […]

Recent campaigns by anti-abortion activists in the United States have centered on the claim that medication abortion with mifepristone, a highly effective regimen for early pregnancy termination, can be “reversed”. Despite the fact that this is not supported by medical evidence, multiple states have incorporated this information into state mandated counselling materials for abortion patients. […]

The proposed project aims to develop dynamic control systems for the autonomous operation of agricultural Wide-Span Implement Carriers (WSICs). The dynamic effects will be integrated into the control algorithms for the stationary and mobile mode of WSIC to further improve the precision and efficiency for path tracking of the machine. The proper control laws will […]

In 2013, North America’s 1st ‘sustainable’ landscaping rating system will be launched: the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES: www.sustainablesites.org). A major component of this guideline is the preference for native plants because they are assumed to provide greater ‘ecosystem services’ than non-natives. However, to date no research has been conducted in North America that compares the […]