The Evolving Legal Services Research Project, Stage II

How can public legal education and information help Canadians get justice in our legal system? With the demand for publicly-funded or low-cost legal services far exceeding the supply, public legal education and information (PLEI) is filling an increasingly larger role in meeting the legal needs of people with modest means. Yet we know relatively little […]

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Attentional Mechanisms

Using psychophysics, we will investigate how selection mechanisms overcome the limited capacity in visual processing. Awaiting more information from the professor. Please check back soon. Do not contact Globalink Research Internships.

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Crosstalk between the two visual streams

We will vary the strength of a feature in one stream and measure perception (discrimination task), processing time, and action (eye movements) of a feature in the other stream. Prior relevant research: Tchernikov & Fallah (2010) Perry & Fallah (2012) Awaiting more information from the professor. Please check back soon. Do not contact Globalink Research […]

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Characterization of the type IV pilin from Coxicella burnetii

The gram negative bacteria Coxicella burnetii and Francisella tularensis are the causative agents of Q fever and tularaemia, respectively. Infection by either organism can result in high mortality rates, especially in immuno-compromised individuals; in addition, there are very limited options for detection of both C. burnetii and F. tularensis. Recent evidence shows that both bacteria […]

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Campus Public Health Emergency Simulations

School closure during an infectious disease outbreak has always been a public health mitigation option, with substantial social and economic cost and uncertain effects on outbreak control. The meaning of school closure differs from region to region and from country to country, for example, during the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic, very strict interventions including Fengxiao […]

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Smart Applications on Cloud

Cloud computing is a new deployment and operational model in which high level computation services and storage are provided by Internet (“cloud”). In this project we investigate how applications can become smarter and take advantage of many features that clouds provide. The project addresses the challenges in automating the cloud management and provides services for […]

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Variation in Hospital Resource Use: Systemic Predictors and Implications on Quality and Value

Research Project Vision: To promote attention to quality, appropriateness and accountability in hospital resource use. This vision is underpinned by the following four strategies: 1. Establish resource use variation reports specific to departments and individual providers. 2. Associate resource use with quality outcomes that measure accessible, effective, safe, efficient and appropriate care. 3. Use system […]

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Self-Centering Concrete Structures

Recent major seismic events, including the 2011 New Zealand Earthquake and the 2010 Chile Earthquake, have demonstrated similar trends to previous earthquakes; that current state-of-the-art seismic design codes ensure, for the most part, that loss of life is avoided. It is accepted in the engineering community that significant damage can be expected for major earthquakes. […]

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Global Innovators: Broadcasting to Digital Technologies

This position supports a research project on the changes in the communication technologies from broadcasting to digital technologies by examining the global innovators. This work will investigate the core elements of the people who were at the centre of the last century of communication technologiesÂ’ transformation. This research will focus on the catalysts of conversion […]

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Protesting Poverty: Mediated Global Protest and Images of Poverty

This position supports a research project concerning the representation of poverty in Western consumer society. Despite worldwide news attention reporting on the growing social unrest and protests facilitated by the unequal distribution of wealth and resources in countries such as Canada, the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Iceland, […]

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Field Robotics

The work here will investigate the use of quad rotors for pipeline inspection. Using simple quad rotors, the students will build software to have robots fly along pipeline infrastructure to build a visual model of the pipeline. The work will involve writing software (using ROS – Robot Operating System and Python).

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