Notre projet de recherche vise au développement d’un nouveau système neuroprosthétique. Cette étude nous permettra à raffiner les paramètres d’une lésion médullaire cervical à fin d’investiguer la récupération de la motricité fine à l’aide d’une neuroprothèse intra-corticale. Nous avons démontré l’efficacité de cet outil de neuromodulation dans la restauration de la marche du membre postérieur. […]

We propose to produce a self-contained analysis and reduction of the equations of motion of the much-studied three body problem, making application to the Great Inequality (GI) of Jupiter and Saturn. The GI is a result of the mutual gravitational attraction between these two planets. Their orbits are very nearly in resonance (integer ratio of […]

Do voters become polarized because parties are polarized (top-down polarization) or do parties become polarized because voters are polarized (bottom-up polarization)? This project proposes that issue type determines whether ideological polarization follows a top-down or bottom-up trajectory. Voters adjust their positions to better match their party (top-down) on pragmatic issues such as economy because they […]

The heart beats an incredible 2-3 billion times in one’s lifetime. This amazing feat is made possible by highly organised electrical signals passing through the heart tissue. Disturbances of the heart’s electrical activity (known as ‘arrhythmias’) can be deadly, as they impair its ability to pump blood to the body. While various treatments for the […]

Developments in machine learning have increased interest in data-driven methods, particularly in predictive control. Data-enabled predictive control has been claimed to provide a data-driven end-to-end solution. It includes robustness guarantees obtained through regularization, borrowed from popular machine learning methods. These novel methods use data in a new framework, where analysis methods used in adaptive control […]

This research award will support two interns to work as part of an international research partnership between Dalhousie University, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvannia. We aim to investigate: (1) the impacts that expanding civilian rights and ability to use deadly force in self-defense across the United States have had […]

Dans la dernière décennie, nous avons vu les États européens délaisser le concept de culture stratégique, soit la création d’une convergence sur les priorités militaires et les usages de la force, pour prioriser davantage une autonomie stratégique, soit la création de capacités militaires propres à l’Union européenne et ses membres. Mon projet vise à comprendre […]

The Sign Language Institute Canada (SLIC) is a community-based organization that aims to increase training and certification opportunities for teachers of American Sign Language (ASL) and la langue des signes Québécoise (LSQ) across Canada. SLIC has plans to implement a community-based sign language program, intended to provide deaf adults with pathways to employment, as sign […]

Language is central to our daily lives and loss of language can have detrimental effects on daily living. To understand what occurs when language skills are disrupted, I will research how healthy adults process language, and in particular the neurological underpinnings of word meaning. The anterior temporal lobe is a brain region that has been […]

The CLS control system for the particle accelerator and beamlines, which are larger than the size of a football field, generates over 600,000 digital data streams to monitor and control the facility 24/7. The task of monitoring and reacting to these data streams is largely up to the Operators and other Egineers, Physicists and Scientists […]

The CLS uses a high energy electron accelerator to produce synchrotron light for user experiments. This project is to design and construct a part for a new radiofrequency electron source that is being installed at the CLS in a new electron source lab. The part needs to be designed to produce very high gradient electric […]

L’objectif de ce projet est de mettre au point un modèle numérique permettant d’étudier la dynamique du milieu environnant un arc immergé nanoseconde. Le système est supposé à l’équilibre thermodynamique local. En s’appuyant sur des mesures courant-tension réalisées au sein de l’équipe, le modèle doit permettre de résoudre le champ électrique et magnétique. Lors d’une […]