L’hépatite B est un virus. Un virus utilise le matériel biologique de son hôte pour exister. L’hépatite B affecte chroniquement environ 240 millions de personnes à travers le monde. C’est conséquemment une pathologie de premier l’ordre lorsque l’on évoque la santé publique. Ce virus affecte sans précédent la qualité de vie des gens qu’il parasite. […]

This project aims to find a better way to measure operational complexity for multi-segments firms, under an accounting perspective. Complexity is an important matter for accounting as many studies have documented how complex firms are harder to analyze for many stakeholders (financial analysts, auditors, regulators). Basically, operational complexity is currently proxied by the number of […]

This research project seeks to develop new low-cost and abundant materials for energy storage, like batteries, with an improved performance. The work will include the design, synthesis and characterization of the new materials, and, ultimately, will use them in fully functional devices. The project will focus in novel ways of combining elements and alloys with […]

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model (SM) is complete. Experimental results, even precision tests involving higher order perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations, appear to confirm SM results. However, SM cannot be the final theory, and the quest for physics beyond the SM is very much alive. Of the beyond the SM […]

This research project is aimed at developing a food waste inventory at household level for the Region of Waterloo to assess the associated environmental impacts and to identify the potential for future reduction. Due to lack of similar research in Canada, there is only a limited knowledge on the methodological approaches for food waste audits […]

This project will investigate violations of safety and consent that transgender and gender-diverse people face while dating. This project will uncover how trans and gender-diverse people have experienced and addressed dating violence, in both online and offline contexts. In this research, I will apply an intersectional framework to remain critically aware of how gender identity, […]

Le développement économique de la Chine et sa situation démographique ont rendu le pays dépendant de ses importations d’hydrocarbures depuis 1993. Une telle situation explique la nécessité d’une transition énergétique en Chine. L’actuel plan quinquennal (2016-2020) prévoit de contrebalancer la réduction drastique de la consommation de charbon par des investissements massifs dans l’industrie de l’éolien […]

Migration is a fundamentally important behaviour for animals to optimize their ability to acquire valuable forage which varies in its availability through space and time. Several species have been shown to time their migrations to coincide with the flush of new vegetation growth as it emerges along their migratory route. Understanding how individuals cope with […]

Preliminary work has shown that adding excess CEACAM1-specific antibody, 26H7, to hela cells expressing carcinoembryonic-antigen-related cell-adhesion moleule (CEACAM) 1-4L decreases CEACAM1-4L in the plasma membrane and shifts their surface expression from a monomer-oligomer mix to mainly monomers. A super resolution microscope will be used to co-localize CEACAM1-4L with 26H7 in order to determine the optimal […]

Vietnamese is widely spoken by over 90 million people in Vietnam and around the world. The proposed project will be the first to study phonological awareness (PA) and reading outcomes in Vietnamese-speaking children. Phonological awareness is the ability to explicitly and/or implicitly manipulate small meaningful units of speech. Many studies with English-speaking children have found […]

To be safe and efficient, autonomous robots will need to consider and understand one another when performing their respective tasks. Communication and joint planning between robots might not be possible due to the number of robots, adversarial behaviors, or the lack of common protocol. In this project, we start by tackling this large issue at […]

Globally, viruses cause more than half of deaths recorded in humans. Thus, lots of scientific research is ongoing to prevent viral-related disease and death. In addition to known harmful effects that viruses can have, other research has shown that viruses may be beneficial. For example, mammalian reoviruses can destroy certain types of cancer cells without […]