New high performance cooling fluids based on boron nitride for power electronic applications

Pour bien fonctionner, l’électronique de puissance, par exemple les moteurs électriques, doit être refroidie avec des liquides qui conduisent bien la chaleur, tout en étant de bons isolants électriques. La disponibilité de ces fluides est actuellement une limite importante si on veut utiliser des puissances plus élevées. L’objectif général de ce projet est de développer […]

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Amélioration de la convergence d’un modèle PEEC d’électromaimant supraconducteur

L’objectif du projet de stage sera d’améliorer la convergence et la vitesse de résolution des problèmes électromagnétiques et thermiques fortement couplés pour simuler le phénomène d’emballement thermique (i.e. « quench ») dans des électro-aimants supraconducteurs soumis à des variations rapides de courant et/ou de champ magnétique. Les électro-aimants ont de nombreuses applications pratiques, la plus […]

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From Violent Ideation to Early Detection: Social Media and Mass Shootings

Les tueries de masses font maintenant partie du quotidien aux États-Unis. Depuis 1966, le nombre d’incidents à augmenter de manière significative et la fréquence semble s’accélérer depuis 2012. Afin de mieux comprendre les dynamiques sous-jacentes à ce phenomène, nous proposons d’explorer un angle particulier: l’influence des médias sociaux sur l’idéation de violence des tueurs et […]

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Personalizing gamification strategies to improve young adult life skills training

By making life skills education more game-like, we propose to help young adults improve valuable life skills and feel empowered in their choices. There is a growing body of evidence to show that adding game elements into non-game contexts, a persuasive strategy known as gamification, is effective at improving students’ motivation and skill learning. In […]

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Uncharted Waters: Indigenous Water Ethics and Water Governance

With two Indigenous communities, one in Northern Canada and one in Southern Australia, my research explores Indigenous water ethics and water governance models. During my proposed project, using a Participatory Action Research approach, we will video document interviews and collectively edit them to make a short video documentary focused on caring for water. This proposed […]

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Polar edge localization in the early-diverging Bryophyte land plants

The process of cell division and polarization is a relatively well-known phenomenon in yeast and animals. The gene expression during development and growth in multicellular organisms is key for the formation of body axis and cell division. If gene expression is altered, the body of the organism of interest can undergo modifications during growth. In […]

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Do you take this couple as your lawfully wedded residents?

Sham marriages or marriages for immigration purposes have been a common occurrence in many parts of the Global West for some time now. A highly controversial subject, sham marriages has been shunned by the gatekeepers of the western countries. The very core and understanding of what a ‘marriage’ looks differs from culture to culture, in […]

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Modelling of Ecosystem Services Provided by Agriculture in Hungary

The aim of this project is to evaluate non-marketed ecosystem services that arise in Hungarian agriculture when producing market outputs by implementing and calibrating the Biome-BGCMuSo 4.0 ecosystem model adapted to the Hungarian setting (AgroMo), and by developing econometric models for evaluating the impact of rural development support schemes in facilitating the provision of environmental […]

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Opportunities for climate change adaptation: comparative research on Indigenous fisher communities in the Canadian Arctic and Eastern Sri Lanka

The aim of the study is to examine the opportunities for adaptation to climate change in rural fisheries communities. Rural Indigenous fisher populations in particular have been identified as being uniquely sensitive to the effects of climate change, reflecting their often-close relationship to the environment and their dependence on natural resources for their livelihoods, culture, […]

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Optimizing meta-parameters for quantum machine learning

Variational quantum circuits allow to do machine learning on near-term quantum hardware. The success of the algorithms strongly depends on the choices made during the model design. These choices can be quantified and are called meta-parameters. Examples are the number and type of quantum gates in the circuit, the number of layers of circuit template, […]

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