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La perception du Canada dans l’opinion publique française : une étude de la Gazette de France entre 1701 et 1763

Colonie française depuis le début du XVIe siècle, la Nouvelle-France est cédée à la Grande-Bretagne à l’issu de la guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763). Chez les Britanniques, une volonté de conquête du Canada est clairement exprimée dans l’opinion publique. Dans le cadre de ce projet, nous souhaitons voir au-delà des « quelques arpents de neige » mentionnés par Voltaire au sujet du Canada et de voir comment se construit la perception du Canada chez les Français par l’intermédiaire de l’analyse d’un discours écrit dans la presse. Par le fait même, nous souhaitons comprendre comment évoluent les intentions exprimées par la France envers cette colonie nord-américaine dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Nous souhaitons donc démontrer, par le biais de la presse française, comment les arguments pour le maintien et les investissements au Canada ont évolué vers un retard dans l’envoi des troupes pour la sauvegarde de ces territoires en Nouvelle-France.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Turcot

Student:

Jacinthe De Montigny

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Discipline:

History

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University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Design and Implementation of Bio-Inspired Student Clustering Approach Based on Students’ Annotations on Web-based Reading Materials

When students read a book, they usually annotate important words in the text. Students may perhaps miss some important information while reading the book. If students are reminded about the potentially important annotations, they may achieve better academic performance later, in terms of having better marks for written exams, quizzes, and other learning activities. With an annotation system’s help, teachers can create online reading activities for students and review students’ annotations on the e-text. This project aims to design and implement a bio-inspired clustering method. The proposed method can cluster students into groups according their annotation behaviours. The clustering results will be used by the annotation system to find content that might be important for students, but that, they did not annotate, and remind them to review the content again. The expected outcome of the proposed method is to produce fast and accurate clustering results.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maiga Chang

Student:

Miao-Han Chang

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Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

Athabasca University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Effect of super absorbent polymer on the water use efficiency of tomato in saline soils as affected by drought conditions

Global food demand of ever increasing population requires almost double the food production in the near future posing a great threat to our limited natural resources, such as soil and water, from the overutilization and upbringing of vulnerable lands into cultivation while the changing climate exacerbates these problems. While soil salinity may directly affect the production, the water stress in arid and semi-arid areas make the agri-food production system more vulnerable. Adding soil conditioners such as superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) showed promise to hold more water in soil and make available to growing plants. This laboratory and greenhouse experiment will investigate the right concentration of SAP and its efficiency in modifying soil condition as well as the growth, development and production of tomato in variable saline soils affected by droughts. The expected output will provide recommendations to agri-food sectors on the usability of SAPs in saline soils affected by changing climate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Asim Biswas

Student:

Paul Hrycyk

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Discipline:

Environmental sciences

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University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

National ID Systems and Techniques of Population Control: The development of surveillance-assisted political economy from colonial to neoliberal times in Japan

My project investigates the colonial development of Japan’s national identification (ID) systems, and the transformation of those surveillance techniques in our digital age. National ID systems identify individuals with a centralized ID number, collect and use the different kinds of personal data for multiple purposes. Those ID techniques have spread rapidly in the “war on terror” and the globalized economy. However, many of them are historically rooted in colonialism. Fingerprinting was invented in India under the British Empire. Early fingerprinted ID cards were issued in Manchuria in Northeast China, under Japan’s occupation in the 1920s-1945. Compulsory ID cards systems allowed the Japanese colonizers to identify the Chinese workers, residents and migrants, and track their movements, to eliminate potential resistance and use them as cheap labour power. Many Chinese who were categorized as “risk” to Japan’s colonization encountered the direct violence by the Japanese military. It is important to disclose the colonial origins of the ID techniques, and construct a mutual understanding of the colonial past among global communities, in order to develop the more peaceful relationships in the future. My research will bring ethical considerations to the current expansion of ID systems as surveillance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Lyon

Student:

Midori Ogasawara

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Discipline:

Sociology

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University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Embodied Cognition: Poetry, Process, and Alternative Epistemologies

Participating in Mitacs Globalink will offer me the unique opportunity to engage in cross-cultural dialogue with scholars in the historic region of Sarnath, Varanasi, India, at the Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS), a unique institution founded by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. I would be working with eminent scholar, Ven. Lobsang Norbu Shastri, Vice-Chancellor (until 2015) of CUTS. Through this research, I hope to further the conversation between the philosophical humanities and the sciences, for the promotion of an interdisciplinary understanding of embodied cognition. This groundbreaking research will inform the future trajectory of my work in writing journal articles, designing university courses, and presenting at international conferences, such as the International Symposium for Contemplative Studies, an annual gathering of the world’s leading neuroscientists, psychologists, educators, philosophers, and contemplatives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bo Earle

Student:

William Ilan Rubel

Partner:

Discipline:

Literature

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University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Chemically Modified Graphene-Like Carbon for Water Purification and Charge Storage Applications

This internship will focus on the chemical modification of a graphene-like material developed by 3M Canada towards membranes for the removal of divalent cations from water and chargestorage materials (supercapacitors). The need for improved purification technologies, specifically those that target the removal of divalent cations, such as calcium and magnesium, which are found in hard water, has never been greater due to the growth of our population and the related industrial and agricultural sectors of the Canadian economy. Furthermore, the use of low-cost carbonaceous materials as replacements for relatively expensive and toxic heavy metals in charge-storage devices is extremely important as our nation continues to develop strategies for the sustainable production and efficient use of our energy resources. The research conducted during this Mitacs-funded project will explore the transformation of 3M Canada’s graphene-like material into graphene and graphene-oxide derived hybrid materials through a variety of chemical modification approaches. The proposed research will occur at Western University and within the laboratories of 3M Canada in London, Ontario and will help 3M Canada produce a range of filtration membranes and charge-storage devices for distribution to the Canadian and global markets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joe Gilroy

Student:

Anastasia Colomba

Partner:

3M Canada

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

A business case study of the automotive cluster around the city of Ahmedabad

In 2010, Tata’s first Nano rolled off the assembly line near Ahmedabad, India; the plant was the first automotive manufacturing facility in the area. However, within just a few years, Ford, GM and Suzuki had opened new plants close by, and the region now produces a million cars annually.
It is accepted that businesses or commercial units agglomerate around a certain area – commonly known as clustering. In this way, the firm can take advantage of numerous spillover effects from its surroundings including lower transportation costs, a larger labor market, and heightened competition.
The object of this research for Harvard Business School’s Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness is to undertake a comprehensive case study on the intricacies of Ahmedabad’s automotive cluster. This will consist of a background on the competitive position of both India and Gujarat, an analysis of the cluster and its challenges, along with a series of recommendations on how both public and private stakeholders can further improve the cluster’s productivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Ross

Student:

Varun Banthia

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Discipline:

Business

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University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Transborder Food Systems: Prospects for Regional Coordination in the Paso Del Norte

This project aims to discover how policies around food security circulate. It seeks to understand what makes certain policies attractive and other not. The relevant literature ackowledges that local territories react differently to projects, because every locality has a unique configuration of actors which influence policy outcomes. Because of the bi-national context of the regional economy of the Paso Del Norte (El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and Las Cruces), it offers opportunities to discover what factors are helping or hindering the implementation of “best practice” policies. This requires an analysis of local networks of actors and their spheres of influence, the linkages between these actors and the physical territory. Research will be primarily qualitative, involving interviews, ethnographies and both participant and non-participant observations. Databases of relevant contacts will be created to map out actor networks and to help promote collaboration and coordination between stakeholders seeking to inprove regional food security planning initiatives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norma Rantisi

Student:

Jeremy Tessier

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Discipline:

Environmental sciences

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University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Multi-Axis Experimental Assessment of Prototype suspension for Heavy Commercial Vehicles

Different types of the interconnected suspension systems have been suggested, designed and demonstrated. Although the ample work has been done in the area of interconnected suspension, the work for overcoming or satisfying practical limitations and commercialization of the suspension considering all the space and size constraints is not sufficient. The proposed research work involves In-Lab testing and validation of the prototype of the new type of the suspension design suggested for the heavy vehicles with possibility of different types of interconnections and the flow control technologies. The extensive testing with required sensors and parameters will be done. The final aim is to make the evaluation of suspension parameters and the validation with the characterization of the prototype. The all activities listed are very essential and will help in progressing the dissertation research work in the required direction. Also the testing exposure will help in understanding of the parameters and better tuning in future work. Starting from the mid of September 2016, it is expected to finish all the listed activities in 3 month period of time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Subhash Rakheja

Student:

Niranjan Mehendale

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Children’s Participation in Health-Related Decisions in a Pediatric Oncology Setting in New Delhi, India

The aim of this project is to better understand children’s actual and desired participation in discussions, decisions, and actions that affect them in a pediatric oncology setting in New Delhi, India. This study is within the emerging field of childhood ethics and will be guided by a moral experience framework, which means it aims to encompass the child’s sense that values he or she believes to be important are being realized in their every day life. While using the moral experience frame, the methodology that will be used for this study is focused ethnography, a form of participatory research. This includes participant observation, interviews, and key document analysis. The results of this study have the potential to be used to tailor nursing interventions to the direct needs of the children whose perspectives will be heard through this project. It is expected that the results will highlight the capacity children have to participate in matters that affect them and advance the understanding of children’s experiences with cancer in India for health care professionals, policy makers, families, and interested others.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Franco Carnevale

Student:

Justine Behan

Partner:

Discipline:

Nursing

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Social Lab on Poverty in South India

Globally, poverty is a continuing problem that is not easily resolved. 650 million people in India live below the poverty line. In the south of India in the rural region around the city of Mysore, half of women are illiterate, and lack equal opportunity of employment. Although research has been done on technological and financial solutions to poverty, a key gap in the research is understanding the social inhibiting patterns (personal and social habits) that limit creative solutions toward change. My research will build off of a ten year established relationship with University of Mysore to advance the work into cutting-edge creative processes towards change that rely on local wisdom. The outcomes will offer rural communities new ideas on how to empower women in income generation, create a toolkit of processes for organizations locally and worldwide to deal with complex social problems like poverty, and advance academic knowledge in creativity, social innovation, and social habits.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ashok Mathur

Student:

Mike Unrau

Partner:

Discipline:

Cultural studies

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Investigation of Quantitative Analysis for OCT Angiography

The purpose of this project is to develop novel technology for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a technique for imaging the back of the eye. We propose to developed novel computer algorithms for visualizing and quantifying blood flow in the eye using OCT. The partner has expertise in the ocular vasculature, and has specialized test equipment for evaluating the performance of the OCT image processing algorithms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marinko Sarunic

Student:

Morgan Heisler

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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