My research project will explore how playwrights John Dryden and William Davenant used their 1667 adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to establish a normative model for socially acceptable masculinity in response to the rapidly changing gender dynamics of the Restoration stage. My project hypothesizes that Dryden and Davenant used the supernatural island setting of Shakespeare’s […]

The proposed research project is a formative evaluation and pilot-test of the implementation of Exercise is Medicine on Campus (EIM-OC)® at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), Mexico. EIM® is a global initiative that seeks to make physical activity (PA) assessment and PA promotion the standard of care for the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic […]

A growing number of language tests have been designed to assess four skills of language integratively rather than isolatedly. With the guidance of Green’s (2007) washback model on washback direction, variability, and intensity, this study adopts a two-phase embedded concurrent mixed-method design to investigate the influence of TOEFL iBT on students’ learning of integrated English […]

The purpose of this project will be to explore the types of experiences that service parents in England are having when moving and transitioning their adolescent(s) into a new school. This project will explore different factors (e.g., the child, the family, the school, etc.) that can influence the school transition process and experience. Individuals who […]

In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, 23 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) committed themselves to mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. While the European Union will fulfil its commitment, other parties such as Australia, Canada and the US will not reach their envisaged targets. These four cases face […]

Contexte : La collaboration en robotique entre le laboratoire de robotique pédagogique de l’université de Montréal et l’université du Maine est vielle de plus de 20 ans entre Pierre Nonnon de l’Université de Montréal et Pascal Leroux de l’Université du Maine avec notamment l’organisation de coprésidence de 8 congrès sur la robotique pédagogique. Objectif : […]

Implémentation d’un système simple de contrôle de processus dans un système ExAO incluant des effecteurs. Le didacticiel produit devrait faciliter la programmation par des étudiants de niveau collège d’un système de contrôle avec des instructions simples et explicites.

The focus of this proposal is on ‘TouchTimes’, a new and potentially powerful digital technology for understanding multiplication. I want to explore processes by which students can reflect meaningfully on their experiences of using ‘TouchTimes’, in order to support their learning. The issue I am concerned with is whether a process of writing about their […]

Le séjour de recherche s’insère au sein d’un projet de thèse qui s’intéresse au rôle des fonctions exécutives dans la régulation du stress et sera composé de deux axes. Le premier évalue la faisabilité et l’efficacité d’un programme d’entraînement des fonctions exécutives réalisé récemment à l’Université de Montréal auprès de 66 participants âgés de plus […]

The Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW, Orcinus orca) population is assessed at 73 individuals, and significant threats include high levels of endocrine disrupting contaminants, alongside other anthropogenic threats. Studies have painted a partial picture of the contaminants of concern in the SRKW food web. For example, preliminary studies of chinook salmon suggest that some resident […]

In order to improve the understanding and awareness for students about the management of energy efficiency and environmentally sustainable practices, this study will evaluate the effectiveness on changing children’s awareness and behavior toward those aspects through of the implementation of educative material, previously developed by Nature’s Ride, by way of scholastic workshops on primary school […]

This project proposes to develop appropriate engineering tools to optimize the operation and tracing of a Sphagnum cultivation site. The project has three major stages: 1) literature review of main indicators of water stress based on the WTD, 2) construction of a database and indexes to represent fluctuations of seasonal water table that allows the […]