As a result of climate change and human-mediated movement of plants and animals, the establishment of invasive species is increasingly prevalent, with global economic and environmental consequences. Establishment in a new habitat requires successful reproduction in novel environments in the short-term, and successful invasion requires local adaptation in the long-term. Thus, invasive populations may initially […]

This project aims to shorten patient wait time in precision healthcare treatments by speeding-up computerized DNA analysis. In precision or “personalized” medicine, a patient’s treatment is tailored specifically to his/her genetics. In contrast to one-size-fits all treatments, in a precision treatment the medication prescribed to the patient, as well as the medical decisions and practices […]

Lung cancer has a poor prognosis and a high incidence in low resource settings. Early detection of malignant nodules can enable prompt intervention and improve treatment outcomes. Despite the recognized benefits of early nodule detection, it is clinically and computational challenging. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a type of machine learning that has been applied […]

Combining semi-structured interviews of plastic surgery doctors and individuals interested in plastic surgery as well as content analyses of magazine and newspaper articles on plastic surgery, this research aims to inductively examine the intersubjective production of meaning among South Korean individuals in the context of the nation’s massive plastic surgery trend. To this end, this […]

Today, optical imaging technologies are used extensively for a wide range of advanced medical imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics applications. While current state-of-the-art pupil engineering has examined diverse mask types to enhance these imaging capabilities, binary phase masks (BPMs) have been suggested as the superior filter for achieving enhanced axial and transverse beam properties, offering the […]

Intravertebral disc degeneration is a common debilitating condition for which there is no cure and leads to back pain and disability. In order to provide sustained pain relief, research is investigating the use of local cell transplantation into the disc. However, many current cell delivery strategies suffer from low cell retention and survival following injection […]

In my proposed PhD project I will interrogate privilege at the nexus of sport, tourism and issues surrounding race, class and gender. There is a new trend emerging in sporting tourism: martial art training camps abroad. Martial art training camps are now established in the places of origin of certain martial arts such as Brazilian […]

The “RESOLUTION: Resilient Systems for Land Use Transportation” is an ongoing project that focuses on the ways in which the impact of transportation infrastructure in terms of operation and provision leads to social and spatial segregation across major metropolitan regions across the World. My job would be to collaborate with Federal University of ABC to […]

Organisms have enormous amounts of instructions encoded in their DNA. When DNA sequences are found using sequencing methods, such as New Generation Sequencing, they are stored as very large datasets. Merely knowing the sequence of an organism’s DNA is not enough, however, and there needs to be further processing of the datasets to extract meaningful […]

Since the 1990s, states have rolled back funding for social service provision. The conventional wisdom among researchers is that these cuts led to a groundswell of faith-based organisations seeking to respond to the gaps in social service provision left by the diminished capacity of the state. Around the same time, leading scholars asked a pertinent […]

This project aims at investigating the causes of Salafism appeal, especially on youth, in the historical context of the post-Arab spring, in Tunisia and in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. As Henri Lauzière extensively explained in his latest work, (2016) the Salafi ideology is complex and it doesn’t make consensus. Many scholars have already pointed […]

The proposed study evaluates The Core Connectors Initiative (CCI), a high school-based suicide prevention program designed to help youth gain peer support skills and mental health knowledge. CCI involves two phases, a 14-module training phase and an action phase. Facilitators who have backgrounds in counselling psychology or related disciplines will pilot the program in 5 […]