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China’s Cultural and Social Influences on English Language Learning in Public Chinese Education

Students in China learn the English language differently than students living in Canada. The goal of this project will be to compare, contrast, and find connections between English education in China and in Canada. The objective of this proposed research project is to examine and investigate the teaching of English in Chinese classrooms, as well as the use of everyday English in China. This will be done by observing classroom applications of speaking, writing, and listening to English words and sentences and comparing it with Chinese everyday language. Expected outcomes of this project will be the observation of differences between English in a Chinese classroom and its practical outside of a school environment, which should be the result of English education and other social factors. This will be used to examine how English is separated into different categories in China, due to cultural influences. From there, an analysis of English education in China and Canada will be conducted to show a growing relationship with English language learning.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shi Jing Xu

Student:

Partner:

Southwest University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Sustainability and energy independence for Indigenous communities in BC

Indigenous people, particularly on reserves, suffer from some of the worst housing conditions in Canada today. Inadequate housing contributes to mental and physical health problems, poor educational outcomes, family conflict, and outright homelessness. This research project will contribute to the housing solutions space through partnering with Cleantech Community Gateway and the T’Sou-ke First Nation to develop and model a sustainable, culturally appropriate prototype building and simulate its energy performance. Through research and community engagement, cultural and environmental influences specific to the T’Sou-ke Nation will be considered in the prototype design and energy modelling process. Concurrently, a review of the community’s existing building stock will be undertaken to determine building retrofit options that could increase their energy efficiency potential. Adhering to open-source standards, building and retrofit analyses will be incorporated into a modelling environment where simulations of performance and energy efficiency will be assessed. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Evins

Student:

Partner:

Cleantech Community Gateway;T'Sou-ke Centre for Sustainability

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Single Cell Investigations of Mechanically-Induced Arrhythmias during Acute Regional Ischemia

The heart is an electrically driven pump. A major cause of death world-wide is a disturbance of the heart’s electrical activity (arrhythmias) due to a reduced blood supply (ischemia). We have shown that stretch of the heart during ischemia triggers deadly arrhythmias, which may be caused by changes in cellular processes. This project will discover the specific cell-level causes of arrhythmias in ischemia.
Experiments will be performed using single heart cells. Cells will be exposed to ischemia and subjected to controlled stretch. This will be combined with state-of-the-art fluorescent microscopy to determine the effects of stretch on specific cell behaviour.
Overall, this research will help us to understand why arrhythmias occur during ischemia, so that new treatments may be created. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

T. Alexander Quinn

Student:

Partner:

Okayama University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Martial Art Destination Training Camps as Racial, Classed and Gendered Sporting Projects: A Global Comparative Study

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 Judo in Japan, Muay Thai in Thailand and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Brazil. Regardless of the martial art being studied, all these training camps use similar discourses to sell their services such as invoking discourses and rhetorics of ‘authenticity’, commoditizing race and advertising comfort. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Caroline Fusco

Student:

Partner:

Waseda University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Spectroscopic and microscopic study of heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry phenomena on ice surfaces

Ice surface chemistry plays a major role in determining the chemical composition over snow in the polar boundary layer, as well as in the presence of ice aerosols under tropospheric/stratospheric conditions. This project aims at elucidating heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry phenomena on ice surfaces using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy. The molecular adsorption at ice surfaces under near equilibrium condition with water vapour is studied by microscopy in a unique sample cell designed in Prof. Gen Sazaki laboratory. Therefore, a new sample cell design was discussed and preliminary technical drawings were produced by undergraduate student Josée Maurais in Ayotte’s laboratory at UdeS (Summer of 2017) in order to adapt the sample cell for spectroscopic measures. A visit to Hokkaido University by Maurais in the Summer of 2018 is thus timely as she will then have built the sample cell, and begun preliminary spectroscopic characterization of ice films. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Ayotte

Student:

Partner:

Hokkaido University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Agriculture; Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Molecular observation of the synergistic contributions of diet and exercise to the metabolic changes induced by these neuroprotective therapeutic approaches

Disorders, such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s, have metabolic profiles that are detrimentally affected by the course of the disease. Both diet and exercise have demonstrated an ability to slow the progression of neurodegenerative illnesses and their symptoms. We hypothesize that this benefit is a direct result of an increase in the brains ability to efficiently metabolize both glucose and alternative substrates, brought upon by a change in either diet, exercise or both. We estimate that diet and exercise will protect against the typical decline in metabolite transport and metabolism observed both in normal aging and pathological states. This will be examined by quantifying the changes in various transport systems and enzymes crucial to various metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation. These changes will be observed in normally aging mice and subsequently compared to observations in pathological conditions such as models of Alzheimer’s, diabetes and chronic malnutrition.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claude Messier

Student:

Partner:

Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Structural constraint as a method to improve OLED device lifetimes

We propose to develop a structurally constrained analog to the electron transport molecule TPBi. If our new molecule shows superior device lifetimes compared to TPBi, it will have broad implications to the field of solid state lighting. TPBi is currently a “gold standard” electron-transport material for OLEDs fabricated industrially, and as such success in this project is likely to generate significant interest in our new strategy for the stabilization of OLED materials. In addition, a preliminary study of the patent literature indicates that our strategy for kinetic stabilization has not yet been applied to OLED materials. Due to the substantial commercial potential of stabilized OLED lighting, we will pursue patent protection of our discoveries pending positive results for our materials in devices. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zachary Hudson

Student:

Partner:

Nagoya University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

New Proton Conducting Materials

Hydrogen fuel cells have potential as a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and highly efficient energy alternative. The proton conduction properties of fuel cells are important in improving existing fuel cells and developing new fuel cell technologies. Imidazole and its derivatives are promising for their proton conducting properties, especially when confined in a porous support framework. In this project, we hope to develop a novel class of proton conducting materials with cellulose nanocrystals and silica as the porous framework. These materials will be developed in collaboration with the Mizuno group at Kanazawa University. The synthesis will be performed at The University of British Columbia, whereas the proton conduction characterization and solid state NMR spectroscopy will be performed at Kanazawa University.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark MacLachlan

Student:

Partner:

Kanazawa University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

mm-Wave Metasurface Antennas for 5G Wireless Networks

Extrapolating from current market trends and financial growth in mobile technology, it is predicted that next generation wireless networks will be required to support about a 1,000-fold increase in data capacity to handle over 100 billion devices featuring peak rates of 10 Gb/s. Consequently, there is a rapid transition to devise and innovate novel mm-wave systems covering the 60 GHz mm-wave spectrum (IEEE 802.11ad) owing to the large unlicensed bandwidth, capable of supporting the required multi-gigabit communication systems. mm-Wave propagation features a highly directive communication, where the electromagnetic (EM) signal follows a near line-of-sight (LOS) communication between the intended transmitters and receivers. Recently, there has been a great interest in a new class of antennas, called metasurface antennas, which are 2D antenna structures whose physical apertures are engineered at a sub-wavelength scale, to generate arbitrary EM radiation for smart beam-forming applications.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shulabh Gupta

Student:

Partner:

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Role of Smoking-Induced Surfactant Protein-D in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition of the digestive system. Symptoms can include abdominal pain, persistent diarrhea, rectal bleeding, bloody stools, weight loss and fatigue. IBD is caused by a combination of genetics, environmental factors and irregular immune responses to normal gut bacteria. As the incidence of IBD is increasing in Asia, more research needs to be done on its’ treatment and management to improve patient quality of life and healthcare costs.
Previous studies have shown that smoking has a variable effect on IBD depending on which area of the digestive system is affected. Smoking has also been linked to increases in blood levels of surfactant protein d (SP-D) which has been shown to be associated with IBD.
This project would help investigate how IBD is affected by smoking-related increase of SP-D which could potentially be used as a target for treatment or prevention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Don Sin

Student:

Partner:

Keio University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of microfluidic paper-based device for rapid detection of selective pesticides in foods

Agriculture and food production heavily rely on the use of pesticides to kill weeds and bugs. To ensure the food is safe, we need to test the concentration of pesticide residues in food products. The standard pesticide analysis in laboratories is complex, slow, expensive, and requires expertise. This project aims to design and make a small piece of special paper that can detect toxic pesticide residues in foods in several minutes with very simple operation and extremely low price. With the aid of a special inkjet printer, all required (bio-) chemicals can be printed onto the modified paper with great efforts on optimization. This project will take selected pesticide model to explore the potential of such a paper device to test real food sample and to be used by not only food industry but also consumers. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaonan Lu

Student:

Partner:

Keio University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

3D printed ammonia sensors from vapochromic coordination polymers suspended in Solgel

Previous work creating ammonia sensors using vapochromic coordination polymers involved either deposition via thin films or via immobilization in post arrays. This project will continue to explore new and novel deposition methods for vapochromic coordination polymers via the use of 3D printers using suspension polymers such as Sol-gel and other 3D-printable polymers. The anticipation of using 3D printers to do the deposition is that more complex geometries can be made that may aid in the creation of a more sensitive and responsive sensor compared to the previous work in thin films and other immobilization techniques. The expected outcome of this work is to show that chemical sensors fabricated by this method will have similar or better response to previously explored methods. In addition it is expected to show that this method may be more suitable in creating a low-cost, high-yield fabrication method for chemical sensors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bonnie Gray

Student:

Partner:

Yamagata University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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