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2019 — Investigating the Effects of Task Characteristics and Educational Interventions on Intuitive Statistical BiasesRésumé
Past research indicates people have some capacity to intuitively (i.e., informally) detect, estimate, and apply information derived from important data characteristics (e.g., mean, sample size, SD) in various statistical judgment tasks. This research has also found that people are generally capable of making intuitive between-group comparisons, which involve comparing groups of data and making judgments on these data. However, people also tend to exhibit a bias in such comparisons against normatively integrating the withingroup variability (e.g., standard deviation; SD) of the groups with the between-group variability (e.g., mean differences) while making between-group comparisons. This can lead to errors in judgment, … Lire la suite
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2016 — Yi Sang and Global ModernismRésumé
Yi Sang (1910-1937), born Kim Haegyŏng, wrote in Korea in the early part of the twentieth century under Japanese rule, composing in both Japanese and Korean. His work has been variously labelled as Modernist, Surrealist, and Dadaist. Despite the past fifty years of Yi scholarship acknowledging his stylistic and thematic affinities with Japanese modernists, Yi has typically been read as a specifically Korean, nationalistic figure who wrote experimental works in a spirit of anti-colonial resistance. These readings, however, are complicated by the fact that Yi’s works and life exhibit no sign of such political leanings. Moving away from these interpretations, … Lire la suite
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2017 — Discourse and the Construction of the Science-Teacher-Subject: An Examination of why we say the Science Teacher is EliteRésumé
Science education has found itself in a paradoxical state of stagnant flux. Despite numerous calls for reform and a near consensus amongst science educators on the teaching techniques that hold the most promise, new pedagogical approaches have hardly been implemented. Scholarship advocating for pedagogical change tends to focus on examining teachers’ beliefs, instructional methods and student engagement. These approaches are limited as they often fail to account for the political, social and historical groundings of these practices. This study explores the relations of power, discipline and domination implicated in the construction of the science-teacher-subject. It employs a poststructural conceptualization of … Lire la suite
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2024 — Settler school psychologists readiness to decolonize practiceRésumé
This study presents a modified grounded theory analysis of settler school psychologists’ engagement with the idea of “decolonizing” their professional practice in working with Indigenous students and their families. Data was gathered through two rounds of interviews with seven settler school psychologists across Western and Northern Canada who are active in the profession. A personalized “self-location” situates the researcher as a settler school psychologist as a means of challenging psychology’s perception of itself as an “objective” science. Decolonization theory is explored from a variety of perspectives beginning with the work of Frantz Fanon (1961/2021). A variety of critical frames, including … Lire la suite
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2013 — Walking My Talk as an Intentional, Embodied (Co)constructed Environmental EducatorRésumé
Exploring the question (how) can I use personal change to inspire educational and social/cultural change, this work was embodied and action orientated with a thesis that the doing (action) is as important as the thinking and talking about it. A threedimensional model of exploring personal change through transformative education leading to social/cultural change was employed throughout this research. A critical poststructural ecofeminist frame undergirded an autoethnographic self-study where I changed my living practices to become more sustainable while living within society, and used this as a platform for how I could become a better environmental educator and activist. I reduced … Lire la suite
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2018 — Physiological and Cellular Responses Used By Lake Whitfish (Coregonus Clupeaformis) in Response to Thermal and Hypoxic Stress at Different Points in DevelopmentRésumé
Early life stages of fish are particularly susceptible to environmental change and even brief exposures to thermal or hypoxic stress can have detrimental effects. Fish may be able to respond to stress, using physiological and cellular mechanisms, to mitigate some of the damaging effects of stressor exposure and maintain homeostasis. I investigated the development of the hypothalamus-pituitary-interrenal axis (HPI-axis) and two key cellular stress responses, the heat shock response (HSR) and hypoxia response, in lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) at several life-stages, to understand when these responses could be activated in response to stress. The HSR and HR are mediated by … Lire la suite
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2013 — Quality Over Quantity: An Experimental Evaluation of Interviews Containing a Practice NarrativeRésumé
Investigative interviews with children are meant to give children the opportunity to provide forensically relevant information to investigators. One recommendation to improve the quality and quantity of information gained during forensic interviews is to provide children with the opportunity to learn and practice responding to open-ended prompts in an informative way (i.e., a practice narrative). In the present study, the topic of the practice narrative (unique event vs. commonplace event) and the duration of the practice narrative (0 minutes vs. 2 minutes vs. 5 minutes) was manipulated to determine which components of a practice narrative are essential for increasing the … Lire la suite
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2016 — Ontology Driven Software Engineering GeneratorRésumé
This thesis presents the Ontology Driven Software Engineering (ODSE) generator for the creation of software based on a domain ontology and software ontology. These ontologies are built upon the established Inferential Modeling Technique (IMT) through the use of Protégé and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The IMT technique enables the ontologies to distinguish the different parts of a complex system. The ODSE Domain ontology is designed to describe a problem domain, which in the case of this thesis, is a chemical plant. The software ontology is designed to describe a specific genre of software, which in the case of this … Lire la suite
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2014 — Code-Switching and Language Ideology in a Northern Dene CommunityRésumé
This study explores the occurrence of and motivations for code-switching between Dene Sųłiné and English on the Buffalo River Dene Nation, a small community in northern Saskatchewan. The complex history of social scientific research in indigenous communities in North America, together with the bodies of scholarly literature on the language and language family, and on code-switching and language shift, provide the background and context for this study. A fusion of linguistic (language documentation and conversation analysis), ethnographic (participant observation) and sociolinguistic (semi-structured interviews) research methods is described. Evidence of language shift in the community is discussed, along with community members’ … Lire la suite
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2014 — Awakening in/to School, Self, Society and Animate Earth: An Autoethnographic Métissage of One Woman’s Journey with/in Liminal SpaceRésumé
This dissertation is the journey of one woman with and in liminal space as I awaken to the discourses of Modern Western School, society and self in order to understand the possibilities for changing educational provision. For most of my lifetime I had being trying to transform the existing system of education, motivated by the environmental devastation and social upheaval of our times and the impact these conditions have upon the lives of children. Being very influenced by liberal ideals of activism and the discourses of environmental education and critical theory, this dissertation began as an action research process, where … Lire la suite
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2016 — Trapped river otters (Lontra canadensis) from central Saskatchewan exhibit differences in total and organic mercury concentrations with sex and geographic locationRésumé
Human activities have resulted in increasing amounts of mercury Hg(II) in the atmosphere, oceans, and terrestrial systems. Biological processes convert inorganic forms of mercury released into the atmosphere into the neurotoxic and bioaccumulating methylmercury (MeHg) species resulting in increased concern for Hg emissions entering the biosphere. Once deposited from the atmosphere, in-situ methylation of inorganic Hg in sediments is believed to be the largest source of MeHg to freshwater aquatic systems compared to input from the terrestrial environment (i.e. run-off) or atmospheric deposition. Methylation of Hg is predominantly a microbial mediated process that is facilitated by some sulfate and iron … Lire la suite
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2020 — Money and Drugs: An Examination of Proceeds of Crime and Forfeiture LegislationRésumé
The illegal drug trade is a remarkably profitable venture that attracts a variety of people into the business. The appeal of the industry to a young person is the prospect of seemingly limitless amounts of money and a lifestyle that traditional employment cannot offer. These people often join organized crime groups to participate in one of the largest illegal industries in the province of British Columbia that seldom results in a criminal conviction or punishments such as incarceration. For these people the prospect of traditional sanctions by the criminal justice system is simply a cost of doing business and the … Lire la suite
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2021 — Identification and Characterization of Antibiotic Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in PantoeaRésumé
Antimicrobial resistance is a global health crisis for which new antibiotics are needed. Natural products (secondary metabolites) produced by microbes have been our primary source of antibiotics; however, the search has been predominantly limited to a few genera. One underexplored bacterial genus is Pantoea, which produces a variety of compounds with antimicrobial activity. Chapter one describes a general overview of secondary metabolites, antibiotic resistance, strategies to overcome resistance, and Pantoea. Chapter two describes the identification and characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster for Pantoea Natural Product 3 (PNP-3), an antibiotic produced by P. agglomerans 3581r and SN01080r. The cluster contains … Lire la suite
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2017 — A Two-Dimensional Heterogeneous Numerical Model for Auto-Thermal Reforming of Synthetic Crude Glycerol in a Packed Bed Tubular ReactorRésumé
Hydrogen (H2) production has garnered attention amongst renewable energy researchers and intergovernmental agencies because of its potential to be an energy carrier and ability to satisfy the energy requirements of society. To date, the primary resource for H2 production is methane (CH4) found in natural gas, and to reduce fossil fuel utilization, other hydrocarbon sources have been identified. Glycerol is the by-product of biodiesel production, and with excess crude glycerol on the market, it proves advantageous to apply reforming methods to this feedstock to produce hydrogen. This work presents numerical models for a catalytic auto-thermal reforming (ATR) process developed for … Lire la suite
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2020 — Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the ContradictionsRésumé
Incel, an online community of men connected through their shared lack of intimate relationships with women, is often described as a monolithic misogynist group of privileged and entitled white men. My research has revealed that, contrary to this dominant narrative, Incel is a racially diverse space and that this description overlooks the complexities and nuances that define this community. Incel is the product of both twenty-first century communication technology and the rhetoric of mid-twentieth century men’s movements. The Manbox, the foundation for Western hegemonic masculinity after the Second World War, is the form of masculinity that was both critiqued and … Lire la suite
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2014 — Situating the Immersive Experience: Exploring Intermedial Situations in Art/Cinema InstallationsRésumé
This thesis performs an analysis of three art/cinema case-studies in relation to a selection of cinematic, art historical and cultural theory. The text is split into three theoretical chapters with accompanying case-studies, each of which connects to the others in order to develop contemporary critical theory which corresponds to the experience of affective spectatorial engagement. The first chapter analyzes the 20th century philosophical, psychoanalytic and cultural theories of “aura” as per Walter Benjamin and filtered through Miriam Bratu Hansen, Henri Bergson's conception of “memory”, and Julia Kristeva's “chora” in regards to the creation of equivocal experiences in William Kentridge's The … Lire la suite
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2024 — Responses to hawking attack and distress call sequences by bats in SaskatchewanRésumé
Eavesdropping on acoustic signals can be an important decision-making tool for many animals. Despite how much research has gone into how bats use sound for orientation and foraging, surprisingly little research has focused on eavesdropping as a decision making and survival tool. I assessed how four insectivorous bats in North America, the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus), silver haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans), and little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) responded to conspecific and heterospecific call sequences. I played distress and aerial hawking attack sequences along Battle Creek in Southwest Saskatchewan, Canada and used acoustic detectors to determine … Lire la suite
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2019 — A Shape for Queerness: Glimpses, Loops, Holes, LanguageRésumé
A Wreath of Snakes, A Lexicon Devil, A Hole in Time, A Single Thought is a sculptural installation of 24 large-scale drawings and an artist’s book. The work is concerned with the formation of consciousness and the ways that the shared experience of queerness affects notions of time, lineage and orientation. It examines the way queerness creates a non-reproductive lineage which stops, starts and skips across time. This installation is an articulation of the contradictory bumps and associations, both obvious and esoteric, which accompany my prolonged contemplation on the subject of queerness and the making of this work. This support … Lire la suite
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2017 — What You Carry and Surrender No. 40Résumé
This critical engagement paper is intended to accompany the play What You Carry and the solo performance text Surrender No. 40. Part one, the introduction, argues that both texts are intended to contribute to the process of reconciliation between descendants of settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada, by telling the truth about this country’s colonialist history and by making gestures towards reconciliation. Part two outlines the six methodologies employed while writing these two texts: writing and narrative inquiry, autobiography and/or autoethnography, new play development, historical research, walking-as-performance, and solo or autobiographical performance. Part three discusses two theoretical contexts of the … Lire la suite
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2022 — Walking and thinking: Critical reflections on “Walking the Bypass: A Meditation on Place”Résumé
ôma kihci-kiskinwahamasinahikan âpacihtâmakan êsa kwayask itahkamikisiwina taitwêstamâkêmakahk ôma pimohtêwin-êkwa-masinahikêwin kiskinwahamawi-osîhcikâsowin kihci-kiskinwahamasinahikan “ê-pimohtêhk âsokanihk: ê-mâmitonêyihcikêhk ôma itâpatakêyimisowin,” ê-itwêmakahk kwayask âcimowin ôma pêyakwan wîhowin ohci. Nîkân masinahikanêkinohk atamiskawikow ôma atoskêwin, tânisi ê-pimakotêk, êkwa mîna kakwêcihkêmowina: “pimohtêwin cî ka-kî-mêskwacipayin pakwâcaskiy isi ôma kihci-askiy?” êkwa, misawâc ê-kihcêyihtakwâhk, “môniyâwak cî ka-kî-nisitohtamwak ôma ôta askîhk ê isipimohtêcik?”. nîso masinahikanêkinohk pîkiskwêmakan tânisi kâ-pimohtêhk naspasinahikân ôma ê-isi-âniskôstêk isi ôma atoskêwinihk; nôkohcikêmakan nanâtohk âcimowina kâmiyonâkwahk êkwa kâ-isîhcikêhk isi-pimohtêwin êsa ê-kikinikâtêk ôma atoskêwin. Nisto masinahikanêkinohk pîkiskwêmakan tânisi kâ-itahkamikisihk kwayask, tâpiskôc kwayask itahkamikisiwina êwako askiy êkwa kâ-nisitohtamâhk; iyiniwi-kiskêyihtamowin ôma ê-miyoitôtâmiyit askiy êkwa atâhko-kiskinwahamâtowin; êkwa tânisi kâ-nisitohtâsoyahk êsa askiy ohci, ê-mêskwacipayihk itahkamikisiwina, … Lire la suite
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2015 — Rheology and Flow Behaviour of Non-Newtonian, Polymeric Fluids in Capillaric and Porous Media: Aspects Related to Polymer Flooding for Enchanced Recovery of Heavy OilRésumé
Heavy oil reservoirs under consideration for polymer flooding typically contain greater than 85% of the original oil in place (OOIP) after primary recovery and waterflooding. Many of these fields are operated at high producing water/oil ratios (WORs) only marginally above their economic limit due to additional production, handling, and treatment expenses that can average $3/m3 of water. Depending on timing of implementation, operators could achieve very high incremental recoveries approaching 20% OOIP and beyond, as suggested by the experiments conducted in this work. The main premise behind this thesis study is to develop fundamental knowledge of the rheology and flow … Lire la suite