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Queen`s and RMC receive funding for University Research under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

Royal Military College

Queen's University: $3,868,833 total

Name

Department

Prog.

Inst.

Awarded

Application Title

Bendena, WG

Biology

RGPIN

1/4

$43,000

Insect neuropeptides: identification, expression and function

Boag, PT

Biology

RGPIN

1/5

$72,000

Vertebrate Molecular Ecology and Conservation Biology

Lougheed, SC

Biology

RGPIN

1/4

$26,000

Origins and patterns of diversity in Neotropical vertebrates

Robertson, RJ

Biology

RGPIN

1/5

$75,000

Selective factors, evolution of breeding strategies and conservation biology of birds

Snedden, WA

Biology

RGPIN

1/4

$41,900

An investigation into calcium signal transduction in plants

Tufts, BL

Biology

RGPIN

1/4

$45,000

The comparative molecular physiology and evolution of vertebrate carbonic anhydrase

Walker, VK

Biology

RGPIN

1/5

$73,200

The molecular basis of resistence in insects

Wang, YS

Biology

RGPIN

1/4

$37,100

Metabolic adaptation to environmental oxygen:: sub-cellular and molecular mechanism in fish

McGill, JI

Business, School of

RGPIN

1/2

$20,000

Revenue management in the service sector

Petersen, ER

Business, School of

RGPIN

1/4

$17,000

Models for railway operations and planning

Taylor, AJ

Business, School of

RGPIN

1/4

$13,000

A comprehensive railway analysis model

Tombak, MM

Business, School of

RGPIN

1/4

$17,000

Supply Chain Design

Cunningham, MF

Chemical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$32,000

Design and kinetics of emulsion polymerization processes

Grandmaison, EW

Chemical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$24,000

Turbulent mixing, combustion aerodynamics and combustion efficiency; Dry forming technology

Hutchinson, RA

Chemical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$26,500

Modeling and measurement of free-radical polymerization for solvent-borne acrylic coatings

Kontopoulou, M

Chemical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$19,000

Properties and processing of novel polymer blends containing metallocene-catalyzed polyolefin elastomers

McAuley, KB

Chemical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$40,000

Modeling of polymerization reactors

Neufeld, RJ

Chemical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$45,000

Elevating alginate hydrogels to the status of smart gels for bioencapsulation

Baird, MC

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/4

$93,500

Organotransition metal chemistry

Buncel, E

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/4

$69,300

Dynamic aspects of organic chemistry

Cann, NM

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/2

$35,800

Theory and simulation of chiral fluids

Lemieux, RP

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/4

$69,000

Investigation of chiral induction phenomena in smectic liquid crystals

Loock, HP

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/2

$51,000

Photofragment imaging

Oleschuk, RD

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/2

$35,000

The development of microfluidic systems for the analysis of proteins and peptides

Stolow, A

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/4

$25,000

Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron-photoion coincidence imaging

Thatcher, GRJ

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/4

$62,500

Biomimetics

Wu, G

Chemistry

RGPIN

1/4

$55,000

Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance: chemical and biological applications

Novakowski, KS

Civil Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$18,000

The sorption and attenuation of gasoline-related compounds in organic-poor carbonate rock

Raymond, GP

Civil Engineering

RGPIN

1/5

$28,000

Geotechnical aspects of shallow foundations

Watt, WE

Civil Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$31,500

Effect of climate variability on storm rainfall and floods

Tu, D

Community Health and Epidemiology

RGPIN

1/4

$15,000

Evaluation and development of statistical procedures for cancer clinical trials

Browse, RA

Computing and Information Science

RGPIN

1/4

$20,000

Human-machine interaction and neural network research

Cordy, JR

Computing and Information Science

RGPIN

1/1

$33,000

Source transformation systems

Glasgow, JI

Computing and Information Science

RGPIN

1/4

$42,000

Molecular imagery

Martin, TP

Computing and Information Science

RGPIN

1/4

$23,000

Self-tuning database management systems

Tennent, RD

Computing and Information Science

RGPIN

1/4

$30,000

Semantics analysis of programming languages

Afsahi, A

Electrical and Computer Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$22,000

Communication issues in network-based parallel computing systems

Bayoumi, MM

Electrical and Computer Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$22,300

Spape recognition using wavelet transform and application to Robot control

Hashtrudi-Zaad, K

Electrical and Computer Engineering

RGPIN

1/2

$24,000

Adaptive transparent impedance reflecting teleoperation control

Saavedra, CE

Electrical and Computer Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$22,000

Microwave and millimeter-wave MEMS for wireless communications

Sen, PC

Electrical and Computer Engineering

RGPIN

1/5

$48,700

Control strategies for performance enhancement in power electronics and electrical drive systems

Tavares, SE

Electrical and Computer Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$27,000

New stream ciphers based on substitution boxes and connections to block ciphers

Dalrymple, RW

Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$42,700

Tides, tectronics and sedimentation

Dixon, JM

Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering

RGPIN

1/2

$31,000

Analog modelling of foreland fold-thrurst belts and basement cover interactions in convergent orogens

Pearce, TH

Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering

RGPIN

1/2

$15,000

LaserLab: imaging, dynamical and neural net applications

Price, RA

Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$39,600

Cordilleran Tectonics

De Caen, D

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$20,000

Association schemes and combinatorial constructions

Herzberg, AM

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$16,000

Design of experiments and methods for multivariate data analysis

Hirschorn, RM

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$8,000

Singularities in nonlinear control

Levit, BY

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$21,000

Optimal adaptive non-parametric estimation for infinitely smooth curves

Offin, DC

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$8,000

Variational methods for instability and stability of symmetric extremals

Roberts, LG

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$15,000

Algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory

Speicher, R

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$30,000

Combinatorial and probabilistic aspects of free entropy

Taylor, PD

Mathematics and Statistics

RGPIN

1/4

$33,000

Inclusive fitness models of behaviour in evolutionary ecology

Birk, AM

Mechanical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$32,000

Thermal protection and hazards from liquefied gases

Bryant, JT

Mechanical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$32,250

modelling and analysis of orthopaedic bearing materials

Matovic, MD

Mechanical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$25,000

Advanced turbulent combustion modelling

Moore, TN

Mechanical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$26,000

Sensor based monitoring of metalworking processes

Pollard, A

Mechanical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$55,000

Simulation and experiments of turbulent flows, including combustion

Wild, PM

Mechanical Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$29,000

Measurement and effect of cyclic forces on fibres in a mechanical wood-pulp refiner

Kropinski, AM

Microbiology and Immunology

RGPIN

1/4

$37,400

Bacteriophages as toolboxes for pseudomonas molecular genetics

Raptis, LH

Microbiology and Immunology

RGPIN

1/4

$32,000

Signal transduction from membrane tyrosine kinases

De Souza, EM

Mining Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$25,000

Centrifuge modelling for the improved design of stable mine pastefill exposures

Pickles, CA

Mining Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$29,500

Microwave pretreatment of ores and concentrates

Yen, WT

Mining Engineering

RGPIN

1/4

$26,500

Electrochemistry and selective flotation of non-arsenic and arsenic-bearing sulfide minerals

Bartfay, E

Oncology - (Ont. Can. Res. Found.)

RGPIN

1/4

$11,000

Inference on correlated Polychotomous Data

Stevenson, JM

Physical/Health Educ., School of

RGPGP

1/5

$29,000

Development of statistical and biomechanical strategies to determine the underlying factors of techique and strength that affects lifting performance

Atherton, DL

Physics

RGPIN

1/5

$57,245

Tensor magnetomechanical behaviour and electromagnetic inspection of pipelines

Dignam, MM

Physics

RGPIN

1/4

$34,000

Coherent dynamics of excitons in semiconductor nanostructures

Fletcher, R

Physics

RGPIN

1/4

$36,000

Transport properties of novel systems

Lake, KW

Physics

RGPIN

1/5

$35,000

Studies in strong gravitational fields with the aid of computer algebra

Stott, MJ

Physics

RGPIN

1/4

$32,000

Theoretical studies of the electronic structure and energetics of condensed matter

Taylor, DR

Physics

RGPIN

1/4

$27,000

Random field effects on structural and magnetic phase transitions

Hill, CE

Physiology

RGPIN

1/4

$27,000

Functional and molecular associations between potassium channels and anion transporters in epithelia

Beninger, RJ

Psychology

RGPIN

1/4

$42,100

The role of brain neurotransmitters in the control of behaviour

Lee, K

Psychology

RGPIN

1/4

$20,000

Eye gaze perception and cognition in adults and children

 

Royal Military College of Canada: $444,009 total

Name / Nom
Department / Département

GSC / CSS
Project Title /
Titre du projet
Term /
Durée
Program / Programme

$ awarded /
$ accordé

Akhras, Georges
Civil Engineering
6
Reliability and ultimate strength assessment of deformed imperfect stiffened panels for ship hulls 4 RGPIN

$19,000

Al-Khalili, Dhamin
Electrical and Computer Eng
334
Synthesis of embedded IP blocks and clock distribution networks for SoCs 4 RGPIN

$23,000

Bathurst, Richard
Civil Engineering
6
Geosynthetic reinforcement of soil retaining structures under static and seismic loading 1 EQPEQ

$70,389

Bonin, Hugues
Chemistry & Chemical Eng.
4
Design of containers made of polymer-based composite materials for disposal of radioactive materials with:
  • Bui, Van-Tam
4 RGPGP

$31,500

Chan, Francois
Electrical and Computer Eng
334
Space-time coding for wireless communications 1 RGPIN

$12,000

Chan, Yiu Tong
Electrical and Computer Eng
334
Passive Localization of an Emitter 2 RGPIN

$20,000

DuQuesnay, David
Mechanical Engineering
13
Fatigue behaviour of plasma spray coated metals 4 RGPIN

$20,000

Hurley, William
Business Administration
20
Research Program 4 RGPIN

$18,000

Lewis, Brent
Chemistry & Chemical Eng.
4
Fuel and fission product release behaviour during reactor accidents and aircrew radiation exposure 4 RGPIN

$26,500

Marsden, Richard
Physics
9
Investigation of internal waves under land-fast ice with:
  • Ingram, Grant
  • Gratton, Yves
1 EQPEQ

$71,620

McGaughey, Donald
Electrical and Computer Eng
17
Improving adaptive optics with phase diversity 1 RGPIN

$4,000

Peppley, Brant
Chemistry & Chemical Eng.
4
Ionomeric membranes for fuel cells based on chitosan with:
  • Creber, Katherine
4 RGPGP

$32,000

Roberge, Pierre
Chemistry & Chemical Eng.
4
Atmospheric Corrosivity Reasearch: Modelling and Monitoring 4 RGPIN

$21,500

Rochon, Paul
Physics
29
Photonics in azopolymers 4 RGPIN

$19,000

Thompson, William
Chemistry & Chemical Eng.
4
Thermodynamic properties of metallurgical systems 4 RGPIN

$37,500

Wight, Gordon
Civil Engineering
6
Prestressed carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets for strengthening concrete slabs 4 RGPIN

$18,000