Spatial distribution of plastic pollutants in a transit from Puget Sound to outside Nootka Sound Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Analysis of zooplankton species composition and depth-based habitat preference in Nootka Sound, B.C., Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Internationalization strategy of Quinta dos Termos to Canada

Quinta dos Termos, a Portuguese winery, currently faces the need to expand internationally due to difficulties in distributing its current production in Portugal. This work project will analyze the firm’s characteristics, its development in the Portuguese market and the value proposition it offers. A market analysis will also be performed prior to evaluating the internationalization need of Quinta dos Termos. The Canadian market will be assessed as an opportunity to expand internationally by evaluating factors supporting that strategy; namely the market attractiveness, the most adequate implementation plan and a competitive analysis to better understand the success expectations in the market.

Canada, a child's play

Science4you, a Portuguese developer, producer and seller of scientific and educational toys, leveraged the worldwide growth of this category to successfully expand its operations abroad. Following a recent entry into the United States market, the purpose of this report is to help the company define the next step in its international expansion. A customized scoring model, based on a set of relevant macro and micro-criteria was developed for Anglo-Saxon and Asian countries, yielding Canada as the market with the highest potential. The recommended entry mode is direct exporting via an independent distributor, being complemented with a financial and risk analysis.

Genetic algorithm for shipping route estimation with long-range tracking data : automatic reconstruction of shipping routes based on the historical ship positions for maritime safety applications

Ship tracking systems allow Maritime Organizations that are concerned with the Safety at Sea to obtain information on the current location and route of merchant vessels. Thanks to Space technology in recent years the geographical coverage of the ship tracking platforms has increased significantly, from radar based near-shore traffic monitoring towards a worldwide picture of the maritime traffic situation. The long-range tracking systems currently in operations allow the storage of ship position data over many years: a valuable source of knowledge about the shipping routes between different ocean regions. The outcome of this Master project is a software prototype for the estimation of the most operated shipping route between any two geographical locations. The analysis is based on the historical ship positions acquired with long-range tracking systems. The proposed approach makes use of a Genetic Algorithm applied on a training set of relevant ship positions extracted from the long-term storage tracking database of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The analysis of some representative shipping routes is presented and the quality of the results and their operational applications are assessed by a Maritime Safety expert.

Arthur Meighen, nouveau premier ministre du Canada : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 60001

Missions du Canada, lettres de Jésuites, etc. (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles).

Contient : Relation des affaires des Iroquois (1692-1693) ; « Lettre du R. P. Dablon », sur la mort du P. Chaumont, missionnaire au Canada (28 févr. 1693) ; « Lettre du P. Jacques Gravier, en forme de Journal de la mission de l'Immaculée-Conception de N.-D. aux Illinois, ce 15 févr 1694 » ; « Parolles dites par Tegamsorens à Mgr. le comte de Frontenac, au nom des cinq nations Iroquoises,... a Québec, le 23 may 1694 » ; Lettres de la mission de Saint-François de Sales (1694) ; Lettres de différents PP. Jésuites ; plusieurs de ces lettres sont adressées aux PP. Le Gobien et de Vitry, à Nantes, et de Lynières, à la Flèche (1693-1694) ; Lettre relative au collège d'Auxerre (1762) ; « Bureau universel d'adresses et de renseignemens pour les mariages, les établissemens de commerce... » (XIXe siècle) ; « Lettre à un docteur en théologie par un de ses amis, au sujet de l'emprisonnement de M. Blache »

Recueil de pièces sur l'histoire du Canada, dédié à l'abbé Le Pelletier, par l'abbé BELMONT.

Contient : Histoire du Canada (1608-1700) ; « Histoire de l'eau de vie au Canada » ; « Diverses exhortations aux sauvages yvrognes » ; « Les trois principales raisons pour lesquelles l'évesque de Québec, Mgr. de Laval, s'est réservé le péché qui se commet dans la traite des boissons aux sauvages du Canada » ; « Deux sermons contre l'yvrognerie » des sauvages du Canada ; « Oraison funèbre de... Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac,... gouverneur... dans toute l'Amérique septentrionale, prononcé,... le 19 déc. 1698, par le R. P. Olivier Goyer,... supérieur de tous les Récollets de la Mission du Canada » ; « Entretien charitable d'un missionnaire et d'un vendeur d'eau-de-vie » ; « Récit de ce qui s'est passé au voyage que Mr de Courcelles, gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France, a fait au lac Ontario, ou des Irocquois, » par l'abbé Dollier