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Communalism and Terrorism in India

The general theme of this project is homegrown Islamic terrorism in India. Since 1993, a new trend of religiously motivated terrorist activities involving bombings in urban areas with the primary aim of targeting civilians has been taking place in the major cities in India. While a number of attacks have been conducted by Pakistan-sponsored militant organizations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad as part of the jihad against India, Indian Muslims have formed militant organizations of their own such as the Indian Mujahideen and the Student Islamic Movement of India, claiming responsibility for a number of attacks in Indian cities. The discourse on terrorism in the early years related it as Pakistan sponsored or cross-border terrorism. It was primarily seen as asocial and any causes or relations to the society it targeted were considered secondary. In light of the rise of Hindu nationalism and its antagonism towards minorities, especially Muslims, domestic terrorism in India, I suggest, needs to be re-evaluated with a focus on internal or domestic factors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gavin Cameron

Student:

Partner:

University of Delhi

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Iceberg and Ice Island Drift Modeling Tools and Techniques

Icebergs off the East Coast of Canada pose a risk to shipping and offshore activities including offshore oil and gas platforms. All Canadians have an interest in understanding these risks and improving safety for individuals while safeguarding wildlife and the natural environment. Recently very large ice islands have been observed which could pose unique threats. A new collaborative research project will use the latest field data to compare and improve competing models which predict where icebergs and ice islands may drift under changing weather and ocean conditions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Derek Mueller

Student:

Partner:

ASL Environmental Sciences Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Can Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) developments in Northwestern BC contribute to social and financial sustainability in First Nations communities?

This thesis seeks to investigate initiatives that address the enhancement of benefits to indigenous people in northwestern BC while minimizing socioeconomic effects from LNG construction phase developments through to operations. Detailed education, training, employment, housing, health, mobility and business aspirations data and information from one community provides an example of the necessary detailed information is required for good baseline characterization for future monitoring and for the development of target specific programs to enhance benefits for First Nations and minimize socioeconomic effects. Interviews with industry, government, First Nations and special interest groups resulted in a list of common approaches to modify and add to the tools developed by others to address the very important issue of working towards reconciling past colonization effects and improve First Nations overall standard of living and financial and economic sustainability. The partner company is trying to increase local participation in its workforce and expand or establish new business opportunities with leverage provided by the LNG construction phases anticipated to occur in the near future in the Region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcello Veiga

Student:

Partner:

Kitsumkalum Economic Development Corporation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Mining; Public administration

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Caractérisation microstructurale et comportement en fatigue de l’acier 13Cr4Ni utilisée dans la fabrication des roues d’eau

La fatigue des matériaux est un phénomène d’endommagement. Ce dernier a donc un impact négatif sur les équipements qui sont sollicités de telle sorte dont les turbines hydrauliques servant à produire l’hydro-électricité. Il devient donc nécessaire d’enrichir les connaissances dans ce domaine pour diminuer l’importance de cette dégradation sur des composants aussi critiques que les turbines hydrauliques. L’acquisition de ces connaissances s’effectuera en partie par l’utilisation d’une nouvelle technique sophistiquée permettant d’obtenir les propriétés intrinsèques du matériau à l’échelle du nanomètre. Les informations recueillies permettront d’en savoir davantage sur le comportement des différentes constituants des aciers utilisés dans la fabrication des turbines et par le fait même, de prioriser certains constituants pour acquérir de meilleures propriétés en fatigue. D’autre part, des assemblages soudés simulant les zones critiques des turbines seront par la suite éprouvés de façon à reproduire les chargements en fatigue observés en service. Les résultats obtenus permettront d’améliorer la performance des équipements et choisissant des conditions de fabrication et de réparation optimisées pour la tenue mécanique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Myriam Brochu

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Creativity as Knowledge: Indigenous Film and Video in Brazil

The project Video in the Villages was founded by the Franco-Brazilian anthropologist and filmmaker Vincent Carelli in 1986 to promote film and video practices of indigenous communities in Brazil. The project provides training, production, and distribution of audio-visual resources in indigenous communities to strengthen and preserve cultural and territorial identities and heritages. My research project entails an in depth study of Video in the Villages. Through textual and filmic analyses of the Video in the Villages films, I will examine self-representation in contemporary Indigenous media, with a focus on indigenous women filmmaking. Archival research is essential to my project in order to compile and consult materials. The expected outcomes will be three articles to be published in top academic journals in the field, a doctoral dissertation to be published as a book in a top academic press in Canada, presentations in academic conferences, and a short documentary film to be disseminated through my website, film festivals, and social media.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alessandra Santos

Student:

Partner:

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Le modèle coopératif comme moyen de reconnaissance identitaire. Le cas des coopératives de la Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec

La Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec (FCNQ) est une fédération qui regroupe les quatorze coopératives situées dans chacun des villages du Nunavik. Ces coopératives mutli-services (alimentation, tourisme, commercialisation de l’art inuit, transport de biens et de personnes, distribution de carburant, etc.) existent depuis la fin des années 1950 et ont joué un rôle de premier plan du point de vue du développement des communautés inuites. L’activité des coopératives du Nunavik s’inscrit dans une perspective d’autonomisation et à partir d’une volonté de reconnaissance économique, politique, culturelle et sociale.
À l’aube de son 50e anniversaire, la FCNQ a identifié la question du rôle des coopératives dans le développement social des communautés comme prioritaire, particulièrement dans un contexte d’évaluation interne des cause du haut taux de roulement des employés. Une meilleure compréhension des spécificités du modèle coopératif inuit en matière de reconnaissance et une amélioration des pratiques de gestion des employés pourraient résulter en des impacts positifs pour l’ensemble de la communauté. Ce projet de thèse aura donc comme objectif principal de mieux comprendre la contribution des coopératives à la reconnaissance identitaire des individus et des collectivités et usera de l’exemple des coopératives inuit du Nuvavik afin d’en saisir les spécificités.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Couturier

Student:

Partner:

Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Predictive Model of Steel Prices for Decision-Making

The goal of this project is to create a statistical model to forecast the future price of steel, which will rely on sector indexes and material prices. We will identify which variable has the most explanatory power. Multiple models will be created to identify the one that performs best. In order to increase the accuracy of the information generated by the model, risk forecasting will be added. The resulting model is meant to aid internal buyers in decision making. As our partner buys over 100 M USD worth of steel annually, an improvement in profits will be of great benefit to him.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Labib

Student:

Partner:

Acier AGF Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

“Strands of Resistance: Art for the Desaparecidos in Brazil, Argentina and Chile, 1965-1980”

My research traces how Brazilian artists first grappled with their relationship to modernism as they sought to break out of narratives imposed by the West, and later with a contentious history and culture formed under military regimes. I am analyzing the social and historical stakes around the term “los desaparecidos” as many people went missing during the military dictatorship. “The disappeared” function as a framework to exemplify and parallel how indigenous populations have faced physical and territorial displacement, similarly to the historiographical disappearance and physical act of murdering groups of people by the state apparatus. My research is specific to
Brazil, as well as the transnational discourse that simultaneously occurred to escape the ongoing censorship that was occurring. The expected outcome is to gain access to archival research located within Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Conduru – a specialist in Brazilian art history.

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Faculty Supervisor:

T'ai Smith

Student:

Partner:

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Vocal and visual signal divergence in a Neotropical songbird

New species may arise when related animal populations diverge in their plumage and song mating signals and no longer respond to the signals of other populations. In many tropical birds, species limits are unclear because of a lack of studies on plumage, song, morphological, and genetic variation among closely-related populations. Even fewer studies investigate whether birds from different populations respond less to mating signals which differ from their own, which would prevent these populations from interbreeding. One such example is the Rufous-capped Warbler, a tropical songbird species consisting of two groups of subspecies which differ in plumage and song, but hybridize in southern Mexico. My research will resolve taxonomic relationships among Rufous-capped Warbler subspecies by measuring plumage, song, morphological, and genetic differences across the hybrid zone in Mexico, and experimentally testing the responses of three different populations of warblers to examples of plumage and song signals from both subspecies groups.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Mennill

Student:

Partner:

CIIDIR Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Applying visual analytics to effect real-time decision making in manufacturing environments

Along with industry partners, including NGrain, Convergent Manufacturing and Boeing, we are proposing to develop state-of-the-art visualization and interactive techniques for exploring sensor and manufacturing component data, in-situ. Through a combination of user research and user-centered design techniques, this project proposes the development of a technical demonstrator of a mobile manufacturing job aid as the foundation for evaluating the usability and effectiveness of novel 2D and 3D visual analytics techniques that could be suitable for use as a decision-support aid in a real-world manufacturing environment with end users who constitute a broad range of roles and skill sets. The expected outcome involves the design of novel interactive visualizations for temporal sensor datasets generated by Convergent for objects manufactured by Boeing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pourang Irani

Student:

Partner:

NGRAIN

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Real Time Monitoring of Water Content in Reclaimed Mine Waste using Cone Penetration – Time Domain Reflectometry

The research includes the development of a device that will measure the water content in soils. This device will be pushed into the soil and will provide a reading related to the volume of water stored within the soil. The device senses the dielectric properties of the soil, properties that are strongly controlled by the volume of water within the soil. The device is advanced into the soil using a conventional geotechnical engineering investigative test called a cone penetration test. The device will be used to obtain rapid, real-time profiles of stored water volumes within reclaimed mine waste. As a consequence, it can be used to rapidly map out the distribution of water over large areas of the reclaimed landscape – a measurement that is critical in assessing the migration of water into the mine waste and the performance of the closure design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lee Barbour

Student:

Partner:

O'Kane Consultants Inc (Saskatoon, SK)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Faculty Attitudes towards the Internationalized Classroom in Chinese Universities

An “internationalized classroom” is a space wherein many of the tensions, possibilities and change factors inherent in the internationalization process are expressed in relationships between and among host students, international students, and instructors. The proposed research is part of a Canada/China comparative study on faculty attitudes towards the internationalized classroom.
During Li Mao’s research trip in China, she will study the Chinese faculty in Beijing Normal University (BNU). Her work will focus on a number of specially designated first year classes for first-year international students offered BNU. The aim of the study is to learn, from BNU instructors’ perspectives, how international students, domestic students, and instructors are faring together in China’s “internationalized classrooms.” More specifically, the data will explicate: faculty’s understandings of internationalization, the challenges experienced by faculty in the internationalized classroom and the instructional/institutional supports that the faculty require to further the aims of the internationalized classroom.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joe Wu

Student:

Partner:

Beijing Normal University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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