With the onset of climate change and an ever-increasing human population, Sub-Saharan Africa faces a three-pronged sustainable development dilemma: how to increase food security while also conserving biodiversity and reducing social inequality. Given the importance of agriculture in Sub-Saharan economies, agricultural intensification and expansion will likely comprise the main course of action to address food […]

When soil becomes contaminated, it is important to conduct a risk assessment to determine if there is any risk to humans. One way that humans can be exposed to soil is through ingestion where contaminants are made accessible by the body’s saliva, gastric, and intestinal juices. This concept is known as bioaccessibility, and gives a […]

This project focuses on considering uncertainties in hydrological models to obtain Groundwater Storage variations (GWS) during the period of April 2002 to June 2017 based on the availability of Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravity data over Canadian Prairies. Moreover, we extract all components of groundwater signals in this area using the least square […]

The development of microelectronics based essentially on miniaturization in the previous century has given rise to other sectors in this area including the ability to design, develop new materials especially in the form of thin layers that may have new properties that will lead to the design and manufacture of devices for a wide variety […]

With the introduction of numerous automated vehicle development programs, the scientific community has developed several Open Source simulation software packages. The most notable is CARLA: http://carla.org/ With support from the driving simulator team at the Institute for Transport Studies https://uolds.leeds.ac.uk/ the summer intern will use the CARLA environment including both simulation and the Autonomous Driving […]

L’énergie éolienne connaît une croissance importante dans le monde et le Québec suit cette tendance mondiale. En effet, le gouvernement québécois a mis de l’avant des mesures concrètes afin d’encadrer le développement de l’énergie éolienne. Ceci se justifie par le fait que la province possède un potentiel considérable compte tenu de l’immensité de son territoire, […]

Examining the refugee camps in Bamberg, Upper Franconia as study cases, this master thesis will aim to identify different victim groups or divisions within the camps’ population and how the authorities and charities dealt with them. Those include women, children, ethnic or religious groups and disabled persons. Using gender as a category of historical analysis, […]

L’extraction et le partage de données sont au cœur de nombreux défis liés aux systèmes d’information, en particulier dans le domaine médical. C’est pourquoi nous avons développé une méthode de mise en correspondance entre de multiples sources de données médicales et un modèle de connaissance (ontologie). Cette méthode permet, suite à l’intégration d’une source, l’extraction […]

Eye tracking has been a staple of partially automated vehicles for the last several years and forms a standard part of a driver monitoring package: https://www.seeingmachines.com/industry-applications/automotive/ The next step is to understand if drivers are hovering over the steering wheel or pedals in preparation to take control. As part of the HumanDrive project: https://humandrive.co.uk/ we […]

Financial Markets represent complex systems where the dynamics between market participants drive the evolution of prevailing prices. For this reason, it is important for fund managers to understand how these market impacts shape liquidity, transaction costs and equilibrium returns. To cope with the vast uncertainties, the subject of stochastic control provides key insights and critical […]

Large scale monitoring and control systems are being increasingly deployed around us, from intelligent transportation systems to smart grids. In exchange of the benefits supplied by these systems, participating agents are required to continuously share data with these complex systems. This data often consists of highly privacy-sensitive information, including but not limited to location, power […]

Coastal areas are some of the most biodiverse environments in the world, and are constantly changing. Therefore, mapping projects for this near-shore area are extremely important. Many mapping procedures include optical methods, such as satellite imagery or underwater video, which is limited in effectiveness by cloud cover or water clarity. Other instruments, such as boat […]