Community dynamics in restored salt marshes

Salt marshes are important coastal ecosystems that provide many services. Due to their high soil fertility, they have a long history of being converted to farmland. There is now growing interest in restoring salt marshes to protect against coastal erosion, mitigate sea level rise, and provide increased habitat for birds, fish, etc. Ducks Unlimited Canada […]

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Transformative approaches to sustainability in small and medium enterprises

This research involves observing and evaluating sustainability experiments in the small business community, which will contribute to a database that will integrate knowledge from previous research created at the university. The web-based repository will highlight case studies of transformative sustainability entrepreneurship endeavors and supporting legal, political and governance arrangements. The research will focus on the […]

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Winthrop Pickard Bell: Digital Archives at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany and Mount Allison University, Canada

This project consists of archival work on the lecture notes taken by Winthrop Pickard Bell at Universität Göttingen in the beginning of the twentieth-century. Bell was a Canadian philosopher who taught at Harvard University in the 1920’s after completing his doctorate with Edmund Husserl, a prominent German philosopher, at Universität Göttingen. Bell took meticulous notes […]

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Analysis of sleep and circadian rhythms in Alzheimer’s disease

I will be developing analysis tools for studying sleep and circadian rhythms in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This project is a continuation of the project I worked on last summer at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is a sub-study of a clinical trial that aims to evaluate the optimal dose of an […]

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A comparison of neurocognitive performance in individuals with advanced Parkinson’s disease in Hong Kong and Canada

Over 100,000 Canadians are living with Parkinson’s disease. Difficulties with cognition such as memory, fluency saying words, controlling impulses, and processing visual information are very common. Accurate cognitive assessment is critical and directly affects key decisions about the patient’s eligibility for medical and surgical care. However, a problem is that most cognitive tests are developed […]

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Reconstitution paléolimnologique des effets des activités anthropiques de la péninsule de Fildes, Îles Shetland du Sud, Antarctique

Les sédiments de sept lacs de la péninsule de Fildes, située dans les Îles Shetland du Sud en Antarctique seront analysés afin de savoir si les activités humaines sur la péninsule ont eu un effet sur le milieu aquatique. Les diatomées, des microalgues unicellulaires, serviront d’indicateur pour déceler les changements dans le milieu puisque celles-ci […]

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Exporting Canada’s Private Sponsorship Refugee Model

Canada has an unique model called the private-sponsorship model where private citizens and organizations can come together and apply to sponsor a refugee. Canada has been quietly exporting this model to countries around the world who are adopting the private sponsorship model to address refugee issues in their countries such as Germany and the United […]

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Antibiotic prescribing attributable to paediatric respiratory viruses: a population-based study of Scottish children

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue and antibiotic prescribing patterns are increasingly being recognized as the main cause of resistance. Antibiotic stewardship activities have highlighted the role of over- and inappropriate use of antibiotics in driving antibiotic resistance. Prior research has shown consistent temporal patterns in antibiotic prescribing, such that prescribing rates tend […]

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Comparative Study of ‘systems of justification’ among Indian students of business/management institutions; Cases of study: Private and Public business/management institutions in province of Karnataka’

This thesis deals with how Indian students of business/management schools adapt themselves with neo-managerial and entrepreneurial discourses presented in such schools. More specifically, I study the ways by which the aforementioned students adapt their socio-cultural background with the discourses of justification presented to them during their MBA program. In other words, I analyze how Indian […]

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Dutch Green Farms: A systematic review of dementia care in the Netherlands

This project will be an in-depth Systematic Review of the current literature surrounding the topic of Dutch Green Care Farms. Dutch Green Care farms are a new, innovative approach to Dementia Care primarily in the Netherlands, which work to address a person-centered approach while maintaining and improving the functional abilities of residents with dementia through […]

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Amélioration de la performance en fatigue de l’alliage INC0718 avec du grenaillage à deux étapes

L’objectif est d’augmenter la vie du matériau en fatigue par traitement de surface. Le grenaillage consiste à bombarder la surface du matériau par des particules dures afin de générer des contraintes résiduelles. Par contre, le grenaillage conventionnel induit un mauvais fini de surface en raison de l’empreinte laissée par les particules. Par conséquent, le deuxième […]

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