Improving Research to Practice: Investigating the Feasibility of Community Organizations Developing Methods to Ensure Implementation Efforts Address the Needs and Priorities of the Spinal Cord Injury Community

Members of the SCI community must be involved in the process of designing and implementing SCI research to ensure the largest impact possible. SCI Ontario, an organization that supports people with SCI, is strategically planning their efforts to ensure research is used in practice. Understanding the needs and priorities of SCI communities and their families […]

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Employee Reactions to Talent Management

About 65 percent of organizations worldwide have talent management (TM) practices in place, with 5 to 10 percent of their employees being identified as a talent annually. Seemingly unhindered by a lack of empirical evidence, in recent years organizations have decided to include more and more employees in their talent pools, with the goal of […]

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Adaptation, implantation et évaluation du modèle Attachement, Régulation et Compétences (ARC) auprès d’enfants de 6 à 12 ans en centres de réadaptation

Les jeunes placés en foyer de groupe et en centre de réadaptation constituent une population fort vulnérable car ils présentent des troubles importants dans plusieurs sphère de fonctionnement et de développement, dits « traumas complexes ». Pour répondre aux besoins de ces enfants, plusieurs modèles d’intervention spécialisés en trauma complexe ont été développés. Ce projet […]

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Smart Fitness Wearables for Safety and Performance

Measuring the workout intensity and duration is necessary to judge training effectiveness. For instance, a training modality called high intensity interval training (HIIT), involves exercising for short intervals with maximum intensity combined with longer low-intensity recovery intervals. This form of training would help the metabolism to use more fat as fuel, improving athletic endurance, and […]

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Using Wireless Communications to Enable Decentralized Analysis and Control of SmartDistribution Systems.

In this project we are proposing a framework that uses wireless communication links to enable decentralized and real-time load flow analysis of distribution systems. This analysis is performed by smart agents installed at each bus in the distribution system. Using the outcome of this analysis we can perform decentralized real-time control. The proposed framework allows […]

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Maximizing solar energy penetration in the smart grid using innovativepower system architecture.

Electrical Energy represents one of the fastest growing types of energy; however this growth is accompanied by diminishing fossil fuel resources. Renewable sources of energyespecially solar- represent one of the possible ways to meet this increased demand. For that reason , many countries have ambitious plans for increasing their electricity production from solar energy. Utilities […]

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STEAM Robotics for Teachers: How Educators Learn

Teachers are being challenged to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) across the curriculum more frequently and effectively. Many teachers are challenged with these aspects for several reasons. In particular, subject areas are still isolated in British Columbia (BC), and only a few schools truly have STEM/STEAM programs. Secondly, STEM is more often […]

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Les mécaniques de jeux sérieux et la didactique de la grammaire du français

Le projet de recherche a pour objectif d’identifier les composants des jeux numériques (les mécaniques de jeux et d’apprentissage) et les mettre en lien avec les stratégies d’apprentissage les plus efficaces pour faire apprendre la grammaire et l’orthographe du français langue d’enseignement aux apprenants du primaire et secondaire dans les écoles québécoises. Tout ceci dans […]

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Understanding and improving techniques to teach financial literacy in children

Youths spend over $141 billion annually. Yet, these same youth often demonstrate extremely poor understanding of healthy financial habits such as emergency funds and budgeting. The proposed project seeks to tackle two main questions through the Dojo financial literacy learning application. First, what principles/techniques have been shown to positively impact financial literacy (e.g., interactive games, […]

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Cultural Food Security: Building connections and capacities for new immigrants in Nova Scotia

Recent immigrants and refugees to Canada bring knowledge and skills that strengthen the economies, sociocultural aspects, and food systems of their new communities. However, challenges associated with being a newcomer, including access to culturally preferred foods compounds food insecurity – inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints – experienced by new immigrants. […]

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Refoulé.e.s de la naturalisation. Analyse des frontières de la communauté nationale (Canada, France, Royaume-Uni)

Depuis le début des années 2000, les conditions d’accès aux droits dans la société d’installation des résidents étrangers ont été reconfigurées dans l’objectif affiché de s’assurer de leur « bonne » intégration comme préalable indispensable à l’acquisition du statut de citoyen. Dans le but de comprendre ce que ces reconfigurations font aux frontières de la […]

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