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Développement d’un système de dosimétrie à scintillation multipoints

En 2019, environ 200 000 Canadiens seront diagnostiqués d’un cancer. La moitié de ces patients seront traités par radiothérapie. Si l’objectif est de maximiser l’irradiation de la tumeur et minimiser l’impact sur les organes sains environnants, des erreurs pouvant avoir des conséquences désastreuses se produisent. Actuellement, aucune vérification en temps réel de la dose radioactive envoyée à la tumeur et aux organes à risque n’est effectuée. Afin d’assurer l’intégrité des traitements qui sont de plus en plus dynamiques et complexes, l’objectif du présent projet est de finaliser le développement d’un système commercialement viable permettant la mesure de dose de radiation en temps réel, à de multiples positions, simultanément le long d’une fibre optique. Pour se faire, des technologies de pointe seront utilisées comme par exemple la spectroscopie optique, l’intelligence artificielle, les techniques de fabrications optiques microscopiques avancées.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Louis Archambault;Marcel Babin;Luc Beaulieu;Luc Beaulieu

Student:

Partner:

Medscint Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Environmental Science and Technology; Ocean Tech

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Stéréotypes, traduction et reconstruction de l’image dans les comédies américaines : les immigrés indiens.

Dans mon doctorat, j’étudie les traductions des représentations audiovisuelles des immigrés indiens en comédie. Depuis les années 2010, des artistes prolifiques comme Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari ou Hasan Minhaj contribuent à proposer des images médiatiques nouvelles des Américains d’origine indienne, aidés par des plateformes de diffusion comme Netflix. Ces nouvelles représentations, que je considère comme une traduction d’identité, viennent contrebalancer les images défavorables de la communauté Indienne-américaine, marquées par un imaginaire colonial, traditionnellement proposées par des réalisateurs d’origine européenne. J’observe également si cette dynamique de décolonisation et de réappropriation culturelle survit aux processus de doublage et de sous-titrage, si elle est altérée, et quel est le rôle des agents du secteur de la traduction audiovisuelle dans l’ajout, conscient ou non, d’une couche idéologique au discours contenu dans les productions audiovisuelles humoristiques de mon corpus. J’espère ainsi entamer une conversation sur le rôle de la traduction de l’humour audiovisuel comme vecteur idéologique, son éthique, et son poids sur la représentation d’autrui à l’écran.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Georges Bastin

Student:

Partner:

University of Tartu

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; Other

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Distribution de charges produite par un actionneur de plasma annulaire

L’application de certains types de plasma sur une surface biologique permet la stérilisation du milieu en question. Il est également possible de rendre cette stérilisation sélective par rapport au choix des cellules devant être affectées par le plasma. Ce faisant, la stérilisation sélective de cellules cancérigènes ou de pathogènes par un actionneur à plasma est rendue possible et pourrait permettre des manœuvres médicales plus simplifiées. La stérilisation est obtenue par l’envoi de réactifs et de particules chargées dans le milieu biologique. Il sera question lors de ce projet de l’optimisation des paramètres affectant l’envoi de ces particules chargées dans l’environnement considéré. Parmi les paramètres à optimiser, le temps d’exposition au plasma, les paramètres électriques de la source de tension de l’actionneur (tension, forme d’onde, fréquence et rapport-cyclique) ainsi que le diélectrique de l’actionneur seront modifiés afin de maximiser la création de charges actives dans le plasma. Ce projet porte particulièrement sur les actionneurs de plasma de forme annulaire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Gosselin

Student:

Partner:

University of Bologna

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Clean Technology; Nanotechnology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Secure Distributed On-Device Learning Networks With Byzantine Adversaries

Due to the huge data volume in the big data era, the dimension of feature parameters and the size of datasets continue to increase. This trend induces a paradigm shift for the learning networks from the centralized in-cloud learning ones to the distributed on-device learning ones. Benefit from the parallel computation and local training, the distributed on-device learning networks have lower communication cost than the in-cloud learning networks. Moreover, the distributed on-device learning networks also have several good characteristics, such as scalability and privacy preserving. However, the distributed on-device learning networks are vulnerable to the malicious functions across the networks. The worse-case malicious functions are the Byzantine adversaries, where the malicious terminals compromise the learned model based on the full knowledge of the networks. Hence, the design of secure learning algorithms in the distributed on-device learning networks becomes an emerging topic. In the proposed research, we work on the development of a learning algorithm, which can secure the learning process and accelerate the convergence rate of the current learning algorithms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victor C.M. Leung;Julian Cheng

Student:

Partner:

University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Transdiagnostic Features of Gambling Disorder and Substance Use Disorders

Increasingly, addictions are being conceptualized by their similarities. These similarities, or transdiagnostic processes, are thought to underlie addictions. That is, addictive disorders are thought to be distinct manifestations of similar underlying pathologies. Being able to understand the similarities of multiple addictive disorders may enable the simultaneous treatment of numerous addictions, creating a more effective treatment process for those with addictive disorders. However, research investigating the transdiagnostic processes of substance use and behavioural addictions is in its infancy, preventing the development of an effective treatment program. Therefore, this project will investigate the transdiagnostic processes of treatment-seeking individuals with gambling disorder and substance use disorders in São Paulo, Brazil. This study will be an important first step in the development of a transdiagnostic treatment program, in which we may develop a more effective treatment program for addictive disorder by targeting similar underlying symptoms of multiple addictive disorders.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Hodgins

Student:

Partner:

Universidade de São Paulo

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Perception-Action Integration in Collision Avoidance in Older Adults

Collision avoidance can be described as a whole-body movement control problem in which visual information is used to elicit accurate movement adaptations. Age-related visuomotor degradation is a potential factor contributing to mobility difficulties in older adults. However, there remains a gap in understanding what age-related visuomotor changes are causing older adults to be more susceptible to collisions and falls. Movements are planned based on visual information received from the environment, as well as from situational cues. Older adults may be missing visual cues from the environment or situation, thus contributing to improper actions which could lead to an increased risk of collisions and falls. The purpose of the proposed project is to understand the behavioural strategies used by older adults when avoiding a collision with another older adult while walking along crossing trajectories. Young adults are able to anticipate the risk of a future collision with another individual and collision avoidance is performed collaboratively. We expect that older adults will have delayed visuomotor processing, thus leading to more cautious behaviours than their young adult counterparts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Cinelli

Student:

Partner:

Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes 2

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Enabling Rich Internet Applications with HTML5 & JavaScript over unreliable, high latency and low bandwidth connections.

This project investigates the use of HTML5 & JavaScript as a means to ensure rich engaging interactions for remote clients that are using low bandwidth connections with high latency and frequent interruptions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Partner:

Environmental Instruments Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Representations of the Colonization of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian and Australian Picture Books

This project will compare representations of the colonization of Indigenous populations in Canada and Australia in picture books. The paper will explore how authors and illustrators express the complexity of colonization to child audiences. I intend to examine which textual and visual techniques most effectively and accurately communicate colonization and post-colonial stories to young readers, ultimately considering whether Canadian or Australian texts employ these techniques more successfully. Some primary texts I intend to study include A Coyote Columbus Story by Canadians Thomas King and William Kent Monkman and The Rabbits by Australians John Marsden and Shaun Tan. Conducting research for this project in Canada and Australia alike will allow me to engage intimately with the history, art, literature, and picture-book culture that inspired each text I examine. The Globalink program will ultimately enable me to produce a rich, timely, and authentic analysis of significant Canadian and Australian picture books representing the colonization of Indigenous peoples.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naomi Hamer

Student:

Partner:

Deakin University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Indigenous

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Grimm Boom’s Translation: Beyond Akai Tori

I hope to conduct research on the growth and cultivation of the Grimm Brothers’ folktales in Japan. To do this I will be analyzing the first adaptations of the folktales seen in an early Japanese Children’s Magazine known as Akai Tori and will be contrasting it to more contemporary adaptations. I specifically wish to study the illustrations that were used along with Grimm Brother’s tales that were retold through Japanese authors. To do this I will analyze the content of the retold narratives, the art style in the illustrations as well as how these translations helped to cement an early growing Japanese national identity. I hope to further English research conducted on the magazine as well as provide further insights behind Mayako Murai’s “Grimm boom” era in Japan where the tales were utilized as critiques of modern gender norms in Japanese society. The tales themselves continued to be used afterwards for various media such as games, manga and television series, I hope to provide insight behind what this “Post Grimm Boom” era may be attempting to critique through its depictions […]

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naomi Hamer

Student:

Partner:

Shirayuri University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Transition metal-catalyzed nitrene and related species transfer reactions

A major challenge in the field of synthetic organic chemistry consists in the formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds. These types of bonds occur frequently in molecules found in nature, and often under the form of heterocycles. The design of new reactions which provide access to both known and unknown heterocyclic motifs in a rapid and efficient manner, therefore, has a direct and important role in breaking down synthetic boundaries in the pharmaceutical and agricultural chemistry industries. In fact, many nitrogen-containing cycles have biological activities, and have found applications in the pharmaceutical industry. Nitrenes can be used as versatile building blocks, but are however inherently highly reactive. Transition metals can instead be used to fine-tune their reactivity. In this research project, I will participate in the development of novel methods to incorporate nitrogen and carbon atoms in complex molecular structures through the use of transition metal-catalyzed nitrene transfer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabien Gagosz

Student:

Partner:

Kyoto University

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Female Empowerment: Exploring the Influence of Living and Working in Informal Settlements

Poverty and insecurity disproportionately affects poor, urban women in Global South cities which negatively contributes to their status and sense of empowerment. Female empowerment is important because when a woman feels empowered, she is better able to positively contribute to society. It is therefore important to explore the relation of both living and working in a slum and whether this positively contributes to a woman’s increased sense of empowerment and ultimately the gender dynamics within the community. The study aim of this project and case study is to better understand how both living and working in an informal settlement setting impacts a woman’s sense of empowerment in the West Bengal state of India. To understand this, I want to compare types of employment, levels of status within a job, and social life with a woman’s sense of empowerment. More specifically, the following research questions must be answered: Does living living in a slum and working in the informal economy positively affect one’s life? What cultural norms are in place that shape a woman’s life and ability to work? TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Frayne

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Étude de l’implémentation de la Transition Énergétique au niveau des territoires français

Le programme de recherche dans lequel ce projet s’inscrit porte sur la trajectoire et la gouvernance de la transition énergétique en France. Le programme consiste à analyser la politique de transition énergétique à l’échelle du territoire pour comprendre les enjeux d’un nouveau mix énergétique qui combine des sources renouvelables et est connecté à un réseau intelligent. Les nouvelles sources d’énergie renouvelable peuvent être issues d’une production régionale, communale et parfois même individuelle; avec les réseaux intelligents, une dynamique inédite d’échange énergétique bouscule les logiques de distribution et les besoins de stockage. Sur le plan de la gouvernance, la gestion d’une production décentralisée pose aussi des défis quant au volume d’énergie produite, aux pics de production et de consommation, sans compter le développement et la couverture du réseau, ainsi que la participation de nouveaux acteurs aux décisions. Enfin, d’autres enjeux émergent dont, par exemple, la sécurité d’installations décentralisées, parfois autonomes, la sensibilisation, la connaissance et éventuellement la formation requise en lien avec ces installations, l’accès aux données associées aux flux d’échange énergétique et leur confidentialité.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Corinne Gendron

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris Dauphine

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Green/Alternative Energy; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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