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Provincial-Federal Relations: Limits and Possibilities in Petroleum Management in Alberta and the Kurdistan Region

This project is comparing two systems of petroleum management between a province and its federal government by looking at two case studies: Alberta and Canada on the one hand, and Kurdistan and Iraq on the other. Alberta’s oil reserves are ranked third in the world and Iraq is the second largest crude oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Alberta’s management of petroleum resources is in harmony with the Canadian federal government because ownership and profit-sharing are both enshrined in the Canadian Constitution. However, in Iraq, petroleum management still remains a contentious issue. Because securing energy supply is so important for economic security, Canada’s example could prove insightful for Kurdistan and Iraq and help stabilizing the region. This project will break new ground in research related to Kurdish management of oil resources and allow for a collaborative and mutually beneficial oil policy for all geopolitical actors in the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bessma Momani

Student:

Justine Salam

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Discipline:

Public administration

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University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink

Tailoring the Anisotropy of First-Row Transition Metal and Their Interactions

The proposed collaboration project between the Richeson and Journaux groups has a primary purpose of identifying new magnetic phenomena derived from common, inexpensive transition metals. The focus is on compounds containing cobalt and iron metal centers since these metals have larger than usual magnetic anisotropies. In order to design these compounds, specific chemical groups will be bonded to them in order to direct their behaviour. Prior research has shown promising candidates for this approach using bis(imino)pyridine, which will be a good starting points. The effect of studying the correlations between different bonded substituents, variation of the metal centers and these effects on the magnetism of the compounds will lead to the discovery of novel magnetic compounds in a rational way. These magnetic molecules can then be used to create single molecule magnets (SMM) which have a wide range of application including quantum computing, high density information storage and magnetic refrigeration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Darrin Richeson

Student:

Jeremy Dawkins

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Discipline:

Chemistry

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University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink

Thermal breakdown of analog lunar rocks

The proposed research will study the rock breakdown on the Moon due to thermal fatigue caused by the thermal stresses arising from diurnal temperature changes. This is done through data analysis, modeling, and physical experiments. This work is important because it fills a key gap in our understanding of the processes by which the lunar regolith – the name given to the fine debris layer, tens to hundreds of meters thick, that covers the surface of the Moon – forms and evolves. Additionally, understanding the nature and origin of the regolith will be important because the regolith will undoubtedly serve as a key resource for future human exploration and habitation of the Moon.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Ghent

Student:

Sara Mazrouei

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Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

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University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink

Mexican Mining Policy and its Relationship with Canadian Investment

Currently, Mexico receives more international investment in the mining sector than any other Latin American country. Throughout the past five years Canadian private investment has accounted for between 70-75% of all international investment. This project aims to explore Canadian investment in the Mexican mining industry in order to determine how, why and when investment occurs. It is expected that the two most important variables of analysis will be the evolution of Mexico’s economic policies in the mining sector throughout the past 30 years, and a steep increase in the price of metals on a global scale in the 2000s. It is hoped that this research will allow government, business and nongovernmental actors to better understand the climate of Canadian investment in the Mexican mining industry which will lead to increased cooperation and partnerships.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura MacDonald

Student:

Sean Cornelissen

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Discipline:

Economics

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University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink

The relation of distance and abstraction across cultures: variations in construal level theory.

The present study explores how concretely or abstractly individuals imagine objects and events in different situations, which we call “construal levels”. Previous theory proposes that we construct our environment more abstractly the more distant it is, for example when we think of eating food this morning, it might be concrete such as “eggs and toast”, while eating last year in the morning can be “breakfast”. We want to research whether individuals from different cultures use these processes in different ways, for example when they categorize objects or when they use stereotypes. We also want to explore whether these construal levels impact performance. Based on some previous research in related areas of psychology and cognition, we would expect to find some differences in processing, and we would expect for these differences to also impact both stereotyping and task performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Craig Hall

Student:

Celina Sylwia Kacperski

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Discipline:

Kinesiology

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University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink

BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDAS PROJECT

The research project will investigate agenda-setting processes in Brazil. It is intended to contribute to the studies in the field of public policies in Brazil, especially focused on agenda-setting, as well as for the analysis of processes of policy change related to changes in government priorities. This perspective, unprecedented in Brazil, has been developed in different countries, in which researchers have gathered around the same theoretical and methodological framework, providing an international network of researchers called Comparative Policy Agendas Project . The Brazilian Policy Agendas Project seeks to integrate this network, initially through analysis of three types of documents: Presidential speeches; laws approved by the House of Representatives (at the Federal level) and the main themes of public opinion reflected in the media (newspaper). These documents will enable identification of topics present in the presidential agenda, in the legislature and also in public opinion. Outcomes include dissemination of the research in academic journals, at conferences, as well as international comparisons in collaboration with the international researchers through the Comparative Policy Agendas Project. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Evert Lindquist

Student:

Ramsay Malange

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Discipline:

Public administration

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University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink

Fresh Water Geography in Sao Paolo

Fresh water is becoming an increasingly precious resource, and correct management plans are vital to the continued survival of groundwater aquifers and rivers for human use. 2013/2014 was the driest year in São Paulo State, and this drought is still affecting agricultural land use. In parallel with the decreasing water supply, we have an increasing consumption for urban, industrial and agricultural purposes. Part of management involves predicting available freshwater. We are conducting a research project to explore freshwater resources in several locations across São Paulo State. Through the proposed research project, field data such as water flow, climate information, and the influence of land use on water resources will be collected and analyzed in a laboratory. We expect to explore the link between land use, climate, and water resources in a way that will be pertinent to future water management plans in São Paulo State.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maycira Costa

Student:

Theresa Dearden

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Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

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University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink

Climate change and meltwater supply from debris covered Himalayan glaciers

With the benefit of three months supervision from Dr Argha Banerjee at the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, my research on glacier dynamics and hydrology in High Mountain Asia (HMA) will make an important contribution to understanding the likely impacts of climate change, understanding that will improve people’s resilience. HMA is the most glacierized region in the world after the Poles and glacial meltwater is vital to hundreds of millions of people downstream. Research there has so far been limited and is now a high priority. There is evidence that extensive ice surface debris cover and avalanching significantly influences melt from glaciers in HMA and neither has been adequately quantified. My aim is to precisely and accurately measure these variables and model the annual and seasonal meltwater flux from glaciers in HMA over the coming century with cutting-edge methods at higher resolution than ever before.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michele Koppes

Student:

Alexandra Winter-Billington

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Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

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University:

Program:

Globalink

Multivariate polynomial interpolation: efficient algorithms and applications

This research project aims at providing efficient methods to solve a mathematical problem which has practical applications in digital communication and online storage. In the domain of communications, these methods perform the decoding stage of some error-correcting codes, which are used to ensure reliable data transmission over an unreliable or noisy communication channel such as in Digital Video Broadcasting (digital television), or when reading Blu-Ray discs or bar codes. Concerning storage, the methods are used in private information retrieval, which refers to techniques that allow the user to retrieve information from an online database without letting the server know the keywords that were used to search for this information; this has applications such as anonymous email, or domain name registration. With the steady growth of the size of the manipulated data, conceiving efficient methods for such practical problems becomes crucial; it requires both a thorough theoretical study, which is already partially done in our case, and a careful implementation relying on state-of-the-art building blocks for its most basic components.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Schost

Student:

Vincent Neiger

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Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exploring the Uptake and Impact of Using the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework to Enhance Leadership Capacity in Health Systems Year Two

The health system in Canada is increasingly recognized as a complex adaptive environment requiring system wide perspectives and approaches for improving outcomes. The World Health Organization has identified leadership as a key building block of systems change, yet evaluating the value of investment in leadership development is challenging. LEADS is an evidence-based leadership development framework offered through the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), complemented by four 360 LEADS© self-assessment tools. Working with a team including one of the original developers, Fenwick Leadership Explorations, Dr. Vilches will use action research with key partners and feedback data from prior LEADS implementation, exploring how complexity in health care delivery systems impact and influence leadership development outcomes. The immediate outcome will be a better understanding of how to apply the broadly adopted LEADS framework, as well as a better understanding of leadership development in complex adaptive environments, specifically in the Canadian health system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ronald Lindstrom

Student:

Silvia Vilches

Partner:

Canadian College of Health Leaders

Discipline:

Public administration

Sector:

Education

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Elevate

Accelerate development of new technologies and applications for advanced water treatment.

Global population growth, urbanization and changing climate patterns have increased the demand for potable water, wastewater reuse and value recovery from wastewater, and treatment of industrial process water. Population growth also results in increased demand for the shipping of goods by ocean freight, with the associated risk of the transport of unwanted marine life from one location to another by the discharge of ballast water. Also, the increasing sophistication of food and drug production requires a corresponding development of fluid protection technologies to prevent contamination by undesirable microbes. Consequently, there is increased demand for improved technologies that can provide sustainable treatment of water and wastewaters, protection of the water supply, and development of new fluid treatment methods. This research project will develop knowledge and technologies to allow the development of new Trojan Technologies products in these three areas. Treatment technologies to harvest energy from wastewater, treat ballast water with
ultraviolet light and filtration to treat invasive species, and remove harmful bacteria from liquid foods and drug fluids, are examples of proposed outcomes of this project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Nakhla

Student:

Shimin Mao

Partner:

Trojan Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing the Community Partnership Network-Local Immigrant Partnership for enhanced community integration in the Capital Regional District

The overall purpose of the Community Partnership Network (CPN) of the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) is to develop the Capital Region’s capacity to more effectively attract, welcome and integrate newcomers into our community, workplaces, organizations and institutions. Through this research project, the CPN will develop a wellfounded and sustainable Local Immigrant Partnership (LIP) based on an analysis of the assets and barriers for newcomer integration in the Capital Regional District. This research will also support a successful partnership design towards a more integrated and welcoming experience for newcomers to the CRD.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leslie Brown

Student:

Rhianna Nagel

Partner:

Inter-Cultural Organization of Greater Victoria

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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