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La gentrification par le prisme des études critiques de la race et de la blanchité

De New York à Portland, les ménages aisés sont de plus en plus nombreux à (re)conquérir les quartiers populaires – souvent racisés – des mégalopoles étasuniennes, un phénomène complexe inédit communément appelé « gentrification » (Glass, 1964). Impactant le quotidien de milliers d’individus marginalisés, la gentrification a paradoxalement peu fait l’objet d’études sociologiques critiques (Slater, 2006). Le présent projet se propose de prendre le contre pied de cette tendance. Via l’analyse ethnographique de Crown Heights (Brooklyn), quartier Afro-caribéen en pleine gentrification, nous analyserons le positionnement social adopté par les nouveaux arrivants blancs : comment ces derniers se définissent-ils dans ce nouvel environnement urbain, auparavant ségrégé ? Dans quelle mesure le contexte gentrifié les stimule-t-ils dans la défense de leurs intérêts de race ?
Grâce à notre travail de terrain, nous chercherons donc à vérifier si et comment cette mutation urbaine encourage les tensions raciales et impacte la cohésion sociale aux Etats-Unis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vincent Romani

Student:

Partner:

City College of New York

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Monitoring the response of tropical dry forests to drought driven by El Niño

Tropical dry forests(TDFs), comprising of 42% tropical forests worldwide, are considered as the first frontiers for economic development in Latin America because TDFs not only provide a source of agricultural and urban land but also a source of goods and ecosystem services for people who live around them. Due to the driving force for economic and social advance, TDFs are considered as the most heavily utilized and disturbed ecosystem in the world. As TDFs undergo tremendous human disturbances, ongoing climate change is affecting the provision of ecosystem services. Much of these changes are via droughts. Droughts can introduce great damages to tropical forests in terms of their biophysical properties and ecosystem services. Many of drought events are driven by El Niño events. However, the studies about the response of TDFs to drought driven by El Niño events are limited. In my project, we attempt to narrow the gap. The objective of the project is,for a latitudinal cross section of TDF across the Americas, to assess the response of vegetation drought conditions induced by El Niño (2002-2003, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2009-2010, and 2014-2016).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gerardo Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Student:

Partner:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Efficient Cross-Platform Data Communication for Smartphones & Tablets

To compare how the two basic application model, namely pure native app and embedded browser app can access NFC, Bluetooth for inter device communication and HTTP (e.g. long polling, comet, websocket) and push protocols for state synchronization. This research will offer a better understanding of the abilities and limitations of using native or embedded browser approaches with these communication approaches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Partner:

College Mobile

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Student Intentions Study – 3 Years Later

This project will provide some insights into the change or durability of student intentions and perceptions in the province with regard to key skilled trade and ocean industry careers, and provide evidence of progress (or not) relating to coaching, awareness building and teacher development initiatives that have occurred during the three years between studies. This data will give us an idea if we are making progress in shifting the perceptions of these career opportunities that are essential and crucial to economic progress for this region. The data from this study will show us if current initiatives are having an impact, where there is still work to be done, and what is having the best/least influence on youth perceptions of career opportunities in our region. This data will help to inform future teacher development initiatives, community outreach, ocean literacy, career literacy, and industry involvement as they relate to raising and improving awareness of key regional career opportunities in the broader ocean economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tamara Franz-Odendaal

Student:

Partner:

Centre for Ocean Ventures (COVE)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Mount Saint Vincent University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a biosensor for high-throughput screening of novel ezrin inhibitors for treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

Treatment of metastatic breast cancer is often unsuccessful and lead to 5000 deaths in Canada each year. Therefore, there is an unmet need for new drugs for prevention and/or treatment of metastatic disease. Ezrin is a protein marker commonly over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. Preclinical studies show that blocking ezrin can significantly reduce metastasis in breast cancer models. In this proposal, the intern will develop novel biosensors to screen large numbers of compounds with the ability to block ezrin’s activity in cancer cells. The results of this project can be used to identify novel therapeutics to minimize metastasis in breast cancer. Additionally, the path to developing of new drugs can be expedited to clinical trials through our industry partner, Tika Therapeutics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Greer

Student:

Partner:

Tika Therapeutics Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Influence of walking speed and trunk sway on collision avoidance with a virtual human

During human navigation, vision plays a key role in efficiently guiding movements towards a goal by taking into account the interaction between the environment and the observer. Collision avoidance is comprised of two main aspects: visually perceived information, and behavioral adaptations. Previous research has demonstrated that humans alter their collision avoidance behaviours depending on situational characteristics, such as initial angle and distance. Little is known about the effects of personal characteristics such as an approaching person’s walking pattern. The purpose of the proposed study is to decipher the behavioural variables during collision avoidance with a human avatar at various walking speeds and degrees of trunk sway.
We expect that the walking speed and sway degree of an approaching person will influence navigational strategies, resulting in more conservative behaviours. It is suggested that successful collision avoidance around a human avatar will result in slower reaction and regulation phases when the avatar is walking at a faster rate and with a greater degree of trunk sway to allow for more visual processing of the situation to adequately anticipate future events.

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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

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

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