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Regulation of muscle stem cells during embryogenesis

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severely debilitating and lethal disease affecting approximately 1in 3,500 male births. In a seminal discovery, the Rudnicki lab discovered that deficits in muscle stem cell asymmetric divisions is a part of the underlying mechanism that results in the progressive wasting of skeletal muscles found in DMD. Dystrophin protein, the DMD disease gene, is primarily expressed in skeletal and cardiac muscle. DMD-deficient satellite cells exhibit a 10-fold reduction in the number of asymmetric satellite stem cell divisions that dramatically decreases the generation of myogenic progenitors needed for efficient muscle regeneration. The balance between self-renewal and differentiation of muscle progenitors is regulated by DMD during embryonic and/or fetal myogenic differentiation. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Rudnicki

Student:

Partner:

Université de Lyon 1

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Collision avoidance between two walkers: an understanding of children’s behaviours

Collision avoidance can be described as a whole-body movement control problem in which visual information is used to elicit accurate movement adaptations. Previous research has demonstrated that children lack knowledge about their own action capabilities as well as the ability to use vision to properly guide actions in static environment. Little is known about how children avoid moving objects (i.e., other individuals) in the environment. The purpose of the proposed project is to understand the strategies used by children when avoiding a collision with another child when walking along crossing trajectories. Young adults are able to anticipate the risk of a future collision with another adult and collision avoidance is performed collaboratively. We expect that behaviours produced in the proposed study will not be performed collaboratively because children lack the ability to: 1) anticipate future events; and 2) accurately control their movements with respect to another person when avoiding collisions.

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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

Test de généralisation d’une méthode de quantification de fertilité du sol

Ce projet de thèse vise à étudier les relations entre les traits fonctionnels des plantes et un gradient de fertilité du sol. Pour ce faire, il est nécessaire de développer une méthode et un modèle pour quantifier la fertilité générale d’un sol, qui soit applicable à l’échelle d’une communauté à un ensemble d’espèces.
En effet, les outils existants actuellement, développés dans le contexte des cultures agricoles monospécifiques, ne sont pas appropriés pour i) étudier des communautés multispécifiques, ii) comparer les sites entre eux, iii) étudier les relations traits/fertilité à l’échelle d’une communauté.
Le but, ici, est d’appliquer la méthode et le modèle développés au Québec à des sols français pour i) étudier les relations traits/fertilité à l’échelle des communautés, ii) comparer les résultats entre le Québec et la France et ainsi déterminer s’il existe des patrons de réponse communs aux espèces et généralisable à l’échelle globale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John William Shipley

Student:

Partner:

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

French Leadership in the Communications of International Health Organizations 1851-1907

I will be studying within the Archives Nationales and the Bibliotheque Nationale of France to uncover information regarding the foundations of how the international community created communications regarding health and disease to try to prevent epidemics. I will be focusing on the International Sanitary Conferences and the records of the Office International d’Hygiène Publique to understand the French role in establishing policy on the international response to disease and quarantine. I will look at how states communicated amongst each other, and how French initiatives led to the development of international health organizations and conferences. I also want to study the difficulties these states faced in creating these communications, their failures in doing so, and the means by which they found success, particularly in the case of France. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heidi Tworek

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris-Sorbonne 

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Compréhension et réduction de la fissuration dans le béton projeté: mise en place et composition des mélanges

La fissuration au jeune âge des bétons est trop souvent présente et difficile à prédire. Les bétons développent d’importantes contraintes de traction internes qui peut mener à la fissuration lorsqu’ils sont soumis aux effets du séchage. L’objectif de recherche est de développer des bétons qui auront une tendance à la fissuration significativement réduite. Le programme expérimental comporte l’étude des mécanismes du fissuration de retrait des bétons coulé et projeté. La première phase a consisté en une caractérisation des propriétés des bétons coulé dont dépend le changement volumétrique. La seconde partie, consiste à évaluer l’influence des paramètres de composition sur le potentiel de fissuration des bétons projeté par voie sèche. La troisième partie, en cours visant à comprendre l’impact de l’adjuvant ainsi que l’effet d’ajout de polymère sur la fissuration. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Jolin;Bissonnette Benoit

Student:

Partner:

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Optimized Non-invasive Cuff-less Continuous Blood Pressure Measurement Technique Using Artificial Neural Network

Continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring is highly of assistance for detection of the major public health issue which is cardiovascular problems. Nowadays the BP monitoring technique which are commonly used are mostly using an uncomfortable cuff that makes continuous monitoring impossible since it slows the blood flow. However, measuring continues blood pressures are necessarily and crucial in some cases such as diagnostic of hypertension, for CVD patients, Sleep apnea and etc. The purpose of this study is to develop an optimized non-invasive cuff-less and continuous BP measuring technique which is capable of estimating BP in each heartbeat using arterial pulse waveform. The mentioned approach is based on the optical sensor integrated into the VitalTracer smartwatch which utilizes artificial neural network and genetic algorithm to optimize the structure and performance of the networks to obtain better results. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hilmi Dajani

Student:

Partner:

VitalTracer Ltd (QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Deer browsing effects on understory diversity

Deer populations have increased in recent years throughout Europe; deer browsing of plants and tree seedlings is an important contributor to the overall species composition of the forest. Over the last decades, data has been collected in several forests throughout France, measuring deer browsing activities and their effects on the understory diversity, based on fencing experiments, some dating from the 1970s. The proposed project will involve analysing changes over time of plant communities composition and diversity. R statistical software (mutivariate analyses, analyses of variance by mixed models) will be used to identify vegetation changes and to test their significance. Since deer selectively browse, the overall diversity of the forest might have decreased. It is expected that browsing will influence the composition and abundance of the understory, shifting the species composition towards grasses, sedges, ferns and other less palatable species.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Verena Griess

Student:

Partner:

Université de Lorraine

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Romanitas Perdita ? Une germanisation de la Gaule postromaine

D’où vient la langue française ? Du latin c’est sûr, mais plus précisément, elle viendrait des ténèbres du Moyen Âge, une époque durant laquelle Gaulois, Romains et Francs établissent de nouveaux modèles de cohabitation. Étant donné que les dialectes se développent par l’isolation des régions ou par l’apprentissage imparfaite d’une langue seconde, il est maintenant possible de suivre l’évolution de la langue sur le terrain. C’est grâce à cette rencontre des sources latines et de témoignages linguistiques dans l’espace et dans le temps que l’on parvient à découvrir les différentes couches sociales de l’ancienne Gaule, dont les parlers s’entendent encore dans nos dialectes et les patois. Cette recherche propose une différente histoire dans la langue, une qui se lit dans l’encre de Grégoire de Tours et qui s’entend sur les lèvres de Charlemagne. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Raschle

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris 8

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Centre for Operations Excellence Summer Internship Cluster 2011

The Summer Internship Cluster project organized through the Centre for Operations Excellence at UBC is a

cluster of nine Operations Research sub-projects done for a number of different clients. These projects form the

centerpiece of the Master of Management in Operations Research at UBC and are the key link in the three part

mission of the COE.

i) Education: to provide outstanding masters level and professional training in Operations Research to ten

student interns, each leading a team on one sub-project,

ii) Research: to use mathematical Operations Research techniques to solve challenging problems in

industry and to use these to generate an informed research agenda within the Sauder School of

Business at UBC, and

iii) Outreach Value: to provide significant value to partners through creative solutions to problems.

The summer 2011 cluster will again include a variety of challenges in a variety of settings including shift

scheduling, resource planning, R&D project management, patient flow planning, health treatment planning,

logistics optimization and location…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harish Krishnan

Student:

Partner:

Rick Hansen Institute;Boeing Vancouver (Richmond, BC);WorkSafeBC (Vancouver, BC);Vancity;Seaspan International Ltd

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and cultural industries; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Recommandations française en acides aminés chez les ruminants laitier (chèvres et vaches)

Le projet de recherche s’inscrit dans l’amélioration des systèmes d’alimentation des chèvres et des vaches laitières. Une meilleure maitrise des apports en acides aminés (AA) des rations doit favoriser leur utilisation pour la synthèse de protéines du lait et limiter leur catabolisme qui engendre la production d’azote urinaire, néfaste pour l’environnement. Le nouveau système INRA d’alimentation des vaches laitières permet de calculer ces variations d’efficacité d’utilisation de deux AA (Lys et Met) entre les synthèses de protéines et le catabolisme. Ce projet a pour objectif d’analyser si les nouvelles recommandations en Met formulées pour les vaches peuvent s’appliquer aux chèvres en lactation au travers l’analyse d’un essai de supplémentation en Met de deux rations de chèvres. Pour cela, l’étudiant s’appropriera les concepts du système INRA de recommandations en AA des vaches laitières. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hélène Lapierre

Student:

Partner:

Institut national de la recherche agronomique (Paris)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Foreign capital and state intervention: the political economy of inward FDI opposition to Chinese Investment in France

Do levels of state-owned capital and regime type explain countries’ decisions to refuse foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals from authoritarian regimes? Do democratic institutions – with separation of powers, a mature civil society, and unrestricted lobbying – add an element of unpredictability to FDI decision making? This project investigates how business interests, security concerns, and political bargaining combine to limit foreign capital inflows. It revolves around a case study on political reactions to FDI proposals from China in France. The project also uses archival research and interviews with stakeholders to trace the historical evolution of institutions restricting FDI since their inception in the 1930s and identifies the critical junctures that shaped their transformation into the system we see today. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guoguang Wu

Student:

Partner:

Cergy-Paris Université

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Unistructuralité des algèbres amassées provenant de surfaces

Les algèbres amassées sont des objets d’études mathématiques générés par un ensemble de variables initiales. Pour construire une algèbre amassée, on modifie cet ensemble de variables en échangeant une à une n’importe quelle variable par une nouvelle variable construite grâce à des règles de mutation. Toutes les variables obtenues par ce procédé récursif répété une infinité de fois sont appelées des variables amassées et chacun des ensembles de variables traités à chaque étape est un amas. La conjecture dite d’unistructuralité stipule qu’il est possible de déterminer comment les variables amassées se séparent en amas si l’on connait uniquement l’ensemble des variables amassées. Cette conjecture a effectivement été prouvée pour certains types d’algèbres amassées précises. Le but du projet est de la prouver dans un cadre un peu plus large, soit celui de toutes les algèbres amassées provenant de surfaces. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hugh Thomas

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris Saclay

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award