The Langweil Model of Prague, constructed in the early 19th century, provides an unparalleled perspective of the city. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Historic Centre of Prague remains an exemplary urban space, ...
This research project examines ancient discourses concerning the limits of authoritarianism. In circa 55 CE, Seneca, a Roman philosopher and a senior advisor to the emperor Nero, published the treatise De Clementia, in ...
Acadieman is the protagonist of the animated series Acadieman by Dano LeBlanc, which aired on Rogers Television from 2005 to 2009. An inhabitant of Moncton, New Brunswick, the superhero (sort of) and pirate of the French ...
The purpose of this project is to explore which theatrical conventions and story-telling techniques nurture inclusivity as children grow. One of the main objectives is to discover if children and young adults can respond ...
In this project, I will examine the use of telepresence robots to increase accessibility into physical classroom environments. Despite the supports we provide at UVic, students with special needs for access are underrepresented ...
As for many genetic disorders, the novel Base Editing system derived from the CRISPR/Cas9 system, and its ability to mediate genome editing serves a potential tool for correcting the point mutation largely responsible for ...
This project explores the aesthetics of urban space in contemporary Mexico City. I am interested in Mexico City because it embodies the highs and lows of the aesthetic experience in the public space: on the one hand, it ...
Land extensification is a land-use pattern that involves the clearing of forests for short-
lived, unsustainable pastoral and agricultural operations. This pattern of razing forested
landscapes, cultivating them briefly ...
This project examines the process of writing a high-fantasy novel from a STEM background. High-fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy defined by the use of a completely alternate world from the main setting. The second draft ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novel Lady Audley’s Secret (1860–61) was a Victorian bestseller, helping found the scandalous 1860s British genre of sensation fiction with its shocking portrayal of bigamy, arson, insanity, and ...
Starlink, as it continues to grow, brings the idea of a robust global network coverage one step closer to reality. Even though Starlink's performance has been a breakthrough for satellite internet by utilising low-earth ...
A crowd simulation is a computer-based simulation of a large number of characters. Crowd simulations are used, with increasing frequency, in fields such as movies, games, building design, and evacuation scenarios. For ...
This project investigates how ideology influences intervention through analysis of the National Security Strategies [NSSs] of former Presidents George W. Bush and Barrack Obama and their decisions regarding both intervention ...
Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a water treatment process that can turn seawater, wastewater and brackish water into freshwater by applying pressure and forcing water molecules through a semi-permeable membrane. For this reason, ...
Bruce Ravelli and I have created a resource for applied sociology and community engagement. Members of this discipline as well as people with an interest in this field now have a space to find research taken place in the ...
The original placement of stage directions in the marginal space of quartos and octavos provides evidence that stage directions are paratextual material. When the folio format emerged, stage directions were forced from the ...
This study explores the relationship between human development and subjective well-being (SWB), specifically analyzing the correlations between the Cantril Ladder measure of life satisfaction and the dimensions of the Human ...
Radiotelemetry is a widely-used tool for studying behavior of animals. It involves the attachment of a radio transmitter to an animal, either externally or internally, allowing individuals to be located over time. A critical ...
Glaciers offer scientists valuable insights into past, present, and future climates. However,
these insights are currently limited by the time depth from which the record of spatial data exists. Methods to track glacial ...
The purpose of my internship was to acquaint myself with the methods that are used to determine the age-at-death of zooarchaeological finds, and to assess whether the systems that have been in use for the past fifty years ...