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Source apportionment of black carbon in Calgary, Canada

Black carbon (BC), generated from incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuels, is one of the two major airborne pollutants that drive climate change and degrade regional air quality. With a warming potential second to CO2, BC contributes the most uncertainty to climate modeling due to its short retention time in the atmosphere and poorly understood mixing, deposition, and contribution from various emission sources. BC from fossil fuel and biomass burning possesses distinct light absorbing properties and aging processes, and hence differing warming potentials. Therefore, improved source characterization is crucial for determining targets, formulating mitigation strategies, and increasing the accuracy of input anthropogenic aerosols in climate models. In our study, we specify the source apportionment of black carbon in Calgary and the outcomes will enable a better simulation of the Calgary climate system by providing more accurate source parameterization. The simulation results will in turn impact the regulatory sector by providing specific constraints for emission inventories, which will assist policymakers to develop regionally tailored mitigation strategies for black carbon by selecting the right sector to target.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ke Du

Student:

Kuangyou Yu

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

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University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink

Generating Large-scale Schrödinger Cat States and Exploring the Quantum to Classical Boundary

Although quantum mechanics is arguably the most successful physics theory, its implications still challenge our understanding of nature. Indeed, many of the predictions it makes on the outcome of experiments appear to be at odds with our daily experiences. For example, in quantum mechanics the proverbial Schrödinger’s Cat can be both dead and alive at the same time. This superposition state can never be observed in macroscopic scales mainly because of decoherence introduced by the environment. Recent progresses in building systems with long coherence lifetimes make it possible to study the borderline of classical and quantum worlds. In this project we will use rubidium atoms coupled to superconducting cavities with a very high quality factor. The very long lifetimes of this system allows us to generate large-scale Schrödinger Cat states. These states shed light on the dynamics of decoherence process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Houde

Student:

Fereshteh Rajabi

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Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

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University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink

Reproducibility of Instruments to Measure School Performance and Cognitive Function in Brazilian Schoolchildren

When assessing academic performance and cognition, it is important to use a test that will accurately measure an individuals abilities. Tests that are created in one country or language may not be applicable in another region. To solve this, culture fair tests are ones that can be applied to any person, regardless of their culture, language, or location. In the present study a number of tests, most of which are culture fair, created in English speaking countries will be assessed for their validity in Brazilian schoolchildren. Based on a review of the literature, tests that have been used to assess cognition in North American children have been selected to determine their test-retest reliability in Brazilian children. The selected tests will be administered to a group of Brazilian schoolchildren (ages 8-12), and then re-administered seven days later. The tests with the best test-retest reliability will be selected for use in future studies investigating effects of physical activity on cognition in children.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linda Rohr

Student:

Amanda George

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Discipline:

Kinesiology

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University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink

Narrative Form and Visual Sequence: The New Photography in 1970s American Practice and 1980s French Discourse

My dissertation investigates the narrative photography emerged in the US around the 1970s and its influence on the formation of photographic discourse in France throughout the 1980s. By narrative photography, I refer to the photographic experiments that appropriate certain qualities of narrative forms, ranging from books to theater. With the financial support of Mitacs Globalink Research Award, my stay in Paris will allow me to examine the original photobooks and critical writings produced in France during the 1980s. The result will buttress my argument that the transatlantic fascination with narrative photography originated in a specific epistemological aspiration for the medium during the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to the successful completion of my dissertation and the publication of its chapters as independent papers, the proposed research will weave a vast network of institutions and individuals, which opens up fecund potentialities for future collaborations across the Atlantic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine M. Soussloff

Student:

Anton (Kyoung Yong) Lee

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Discipline:

History

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University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink

Simultaneous analysis of amphetamine and derivatives in drug seizures and natural weight loss pills by capillary electrophoresis tandem mass spectrometry

This proposed research project is to develop and validate a method based on Capillary electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry to analyze amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylenedioxy-amphetamine, methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, and methylenedioxyethylamphetamine in real samples of drug seizures and natural weight loss pills, by first getting a basic understanding of CE-MS/MS technique and then applying it. The expected outcome is to obtain more results on the analytical technique of CE-MS/MS by experimenting with it and be able to use this technique to show it’s advantages as better separation and easier identification for real samples such as the drugs and weight loss pills compared to the other analytical techniques used daily. Also, experimenting more with this technique, an expected outcome could be that it opens up new doors into findings other compounds/chemicals within certain substances and potentially find ways to make it a more cost efficient technique for laboratories.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Drouin

Student:

Melina Singh

Partner:

Discipline:

Chemistry

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University:

Bishop's University

Program:

Globalink

Housing inequality in China: patterns and processes

China has experienced a rapid process of urban growth and its housing market has expanded greatly in the past 30 years. It is evident that urban housing consumption and overall housing quality have been elevated significantly in China. Yet, the improvement in housing provision is clearly not shared equally among all residents in Chinese cities. A burgeoning number of studies have been done to capture the social and spatial manifestation of unequal housing distribution in urban China and to explain the causal mechanism behind. Theoretically, these research can be summarized as two
distinguished analytical frameworks. One focuses on the housing delivery system and its historical evolution path, the other focuses on the housing assess capacity and constrains. This research will combine two frameworks. Based on a 300 people survey and an in-depth interview with 44 individuals conducted in two big cities in China, we attempt to unravel the hidden story behind the complicated mechanism, to truly understand the formation process of unequal urban housing distribution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wei Xu

Student:

Li Yu

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Globalink

The role of miRNA in the normal development of the brain and neuropathies

Proper brain development is required for normal cognitive functions in mammals. Recent studies have shown that both protein-coding genes and noncoding RNAs, especially microRNAs (miRNAs), play crucial roles in brain development. We have identified several miRNAs that are expressed in specific regions in the embryonic and adult mouse cerebral cortex, and demonstrated their important roles in cortical development and functions. Using mouse genetic and RNA-sequencing approaches, we show that miRNAs control brain size by regulating essential target genes that determine proliferation, survival and differentiation of cortical neural progenitors. We also show that proper expression of miRNAs is required for normal proliferation of adult hippocampal neural progenitors. Our results demonstrate miRNAs as important molecules that regulate both brain development and neurological disorders. The students will learn basic molecular biology techniques, neural stem cell cultures, gene sequencing analyses and so on. The students will develop skills of independent thinking and experimental designs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claude Messier

Student:

Jeremy Larcher

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Discipline:

Psychology

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University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink

Catalytic low cost carbon resources pyrolysis under natural gas for upgraded oil production

Fast pyrolysis followed by hydrodeoxygenation upgrading is the most popular way to produce bio-oil from biomass. A two-step process can be combined together as hydropyrolysis treatment. This approach usually involves continuous hydrogen flow and high operation pressure (15~100 atm), resulting in significantly increased capital and operational costs. Compared to hydrogen, which is not naturally available and thus
costly, methane can be readily obtained as natural gas. Metal loaded zeolites will be prepared as the catalysts by incipient wetness impregnation method. The catalyst will be used to upgrade the fast pyrolysis product of biomass under methane atmosphere. By adding methane into the pyrolysis product, upgraded crude oil with increased would be collected. The oil quality would be improved in terms of reduced total acid number (TAN) and higher hydrogen to carbon (H/C) ratio. The liquid yield would also be increased by adding methane into the oil molecules. The outcomes from this research will provide a more efficient and cleaner way to utilize low cost carbon resources and natural gas which are abundant in nature.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hua Song

Student:

Peng He

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink

Methods and Practices for Designing EOSID (Engine OutStandard Instrument Departure) in Terrain Airport

In China, there are several airports located in high altitude, mountainous and highly populated cities with many high-rise buildings and man-made obstacles nearby. In order to comply with flight safety regulations, civil aircraft must takeoff and climb-out under the requirements of relevant certification regulations (FAR25, CS25, CCAR25, etc.) and operation regulations (FAR121, JAA-OPS, CCAR121, etc.). In an attempt to improve the payload carrying capability and economy of commercial aircraft operations, while ensuring that flight safety requirements are met, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has enforced that airlines utilize a modified departure procedure out of airports surrounded by such challenging terrain. This project focuses on the creation of a redesigned procedure, known as an Engine-Out Standard Instrument Departure (EOSID), which may be used to improve aircraft MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight) by avoiding the critical terrain or obstacles altogether around a given airport while ensuring the regulatory climb gradients are met.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joon Chung

Student:

Jason Naipaul

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Discipline:

Aerospace studies

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University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Globalink

First-principle study on effects of electric field on perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy

The physical properties of materials not only depend on the chemical composition but also their microstructure. The properties and their relationship with the composition and microstructure were mainly studied by experiments and try-and-error method before. With the combination of physical principles and computers, now people may study the properties of materials through computer simulation. First-principle method, based on density functional theory, and molecular dynamics method are two often used methods for electron state level and atomic level calculations respectively. In this program, students will study how to use VASP and LAMMPS, a first-principle software and a molecular dynamics software respectively, and related concepts. They will perform a case study on some physical properties of a material, such as electron states or defects development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shantanu Basu

Student:

Chang Yu Sung

Partner:

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink

Experimental research on the synthesis of metallic glass by means of magnetron sputtering and cold rolling

As a major field of science, materials behavior plays vital role in engineering applications and various industries. Many researchers are investigating the properties of different materials to propose better and more reliable materials for different applications. Bulk metallic glasses are one of the most recent developments in material science. The aim of this research is to study the microstructural behavior of this type of materials, particularly Cu-Zr compositions that are capable of introducing some high strength and ductility characteristics. Furthermore, it is trying to propose some new mechanisms and manufacturing methods in optimizing the enhancement of mechanical properties. Focus will be on magnetron sputtering and cold rolling although microstructural analysis such as electron microscopy might be needed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chuang Deng

Student:

Ehsan Alishahi

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink

Spatial Optimization Modelling for China’s County-level Land Use Planning

Considering the research gap that there lack quantitative models and advanced techniques to solve the land spatial allocation problem in China’s county-level, my PhD project aims at developing spatial optimization models to assist land spatial allocation that reconciles the market value, social value and ecological value of land, land utilization zoning and boundary setting in constructive expansion regulation zoning for China’s county-level land use planning. The field work in Wuhan, China will finish the data collection, database establishment, personal interview and land suitability evaluation work for the project. The expected outcomes for the work in China include: (1) Build GIS Geodatabase of land use and environmental data for the study area; (2) generate land suitability map for land utilization zoning and land suitability map for agricultural utilization in the GIS raster format for the study area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

DongMei Chen

Student:

Mingjie Song

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink

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