VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Entangled modernities: feminism, Islamization and citizenship in a transnational locale women and the Pakistan nation-state
Keywords: Women, Social conditions
Women, Pakistan
Women, Social aspects
Women, Pakistan
Women, Social aspects
Feminism, Religious aspects
Muslim women, Pakistan
Women, Legal statues, laws, etc. (Islam)
Women, Pakistan

This thesis undertakes a feminist deconstructive reading of the discourses of state-sponsored Islamization and the feminist response to it in an attempt to answer the question: What does it “mean” to be a “woman” and a “citizen” in Pakistan at this juncture? Going beyond the ontological and universalist liberal debates usually evoked by this question, I examine how social and political contexts are discursively constituted to both obfuscate and enable the possibilities of subject-production. Noting that citizenship and human rights have become the major demands of activists in Pakistan, I seek to map how contemporary configurations of local and global entail the assertion of particularly problematic notions of citizenship and rights. Theoretically, the thesis is an attempt to locate feminist and Islamist discourses of citizenship and human rights in Pakistan within the conditions of transnationality and diaspora as explicated by postcolonial scholars who have differently broadened these terms to include not just population movements, migrant labour and settlement but also global financial, political and cultural relations. Neither a social history of Islamization nor of the “women's movement” in Pakistan, this thesis attempts to investigate a wide range of practices that are divided into the political, legal, economic and social spheres and their intrication with transnational relations of power. It therefore draws from a variety of theoretical perspectives including feminist theory, poststructuralism, critical cultural studies, Marxist theory and Foucault's ideas of power and governmentality, in order to question the notions of the public and private, politics and culture that are entangled with the issues of citizenship in Pakistan. By contextualizing both Islamization and oppositional discourses within the historical, economic and social context of national politics, and global economic and political conditions, I attempt to bring into conceptual scrutiny a fundamentally different “problem-space” in which issues relating to women, Islam and democracy are staged in Pakistan and to problematize the demands this places on critical theory.
Optimal tracking benchmark and optimized filter evaluation methods for motion drive algorithms in driving simulators
Keywords: Aerospace engineering

Motion drive algorithms (MDA) provide a tradeoff between simulation of motion cues and using the motion states of the simulator optimally. Although many proposed motion drive algorithms claim to be optimal in the sense of motion cue tracking, several do not take into account the necessary motion required to achieve this control. This thesis will outline a method that will provide the best possible motion displacement (e.g. minimum required displacement) for perfect motion cueing. This method uses a Linear Optimal Tracking Control (LOTC) based on prior knowledge of the input maneuver and can be used as a benchmark to compare other motion drive algorithms in terms of displacement and motion efficiency. The thesis will also outline a method to evaluate the coefficients used in the low and high-pass filters in a classical version of the motion drive algorithm based on a MATLAB optimization routine to control various quantitative states.
The possibilities of hope in drama
Keywords: Drama in education
Drama, Study and teaching
Acting teachers
Art, Study and teaching

The purpose of this study is to discover elements of hope schemata for drama teachers. Theories of hope, of education and of drama education were examined to ground the study. Hope is that useful construct which creates directed action and propels it towards an imagined worthwhile goal. Portraiture, Story and Mantle of the Expert were used as analytical tools in a case study, which investigated one drama teacher and one drama teaching practice. The research investigated how hopefulness/hopelessness shape practice and how practice informs and adjusts both. This is the story of one teacher's hope both lost and gained. A qualitative examination was conducted by analyzing empirical data from observation notes, transcribed formal and informal interviews and from an analysis of the drama creation led by the teacher. The combined findings indicate that doing drama in partnership with students maintained or strengthened hope. Artfulness, mindfulness, aesthetic knowing, respect and reciprocity in a conditional present built inquiry-based performance from the interests, imaginations and experience of participants. These are the conditions, which this research found sustained hope. Repetition and renewal of experiential knowledge together with skill and wisdom in teaching practice sustain and maintain hope. Teachers gain hope by: (1) overcoming stressful or challenging situations; (2) creating new but obtainable goals; (3) encouraging students; and, (4) re-energizing self and student creativity. Teachers lose hope by: (1) excluding creative offers made by others; (2) retreating to positions of safety; (3) by misplaced extensive praise; and, (4) not dealing with the realities of student response.
The differential population success of two non-indigenous elms (Ulmus pumila and U. glabra) introduced into river valleys in Toronto, Canada
Keywords: Siberian elm
Elm, Ontario

Ulmus pumila and U. glabra have been introduced intentionally into two river valley systems in Toronto, Canada. Ulmus pumila has become invasive, possibly displacing the indigenous U. americana, whereas Ulmus glabra remains uncommon. This research sought characters that might explain why U. pumila has become invasive, and U. glabra did not. I found that Ulmus pumila has the potential to produce more propagules than the other Ulmus spp. studied. The estimated dispersal distance of fruits released from a height of 20 m in a 7.0 m/s wind was 192 m for U. glabra, 41% farther than U. pumila and 58% farther than U. americana. Germination success in an old field community was 12% for U. pumila, 8% for U. americana and <1% for U. glabra. The comparison of two non-indigenous species—one invasive, the other not—found that poor germination was the most important factor influencing failure as an invasive.
National information infrastructure development in Canada and the U.S.: (re) defining universal service and universal access in the age of techno-economic convergence
Keywords: Information superhighway, Government policy
Information superhighway, Canada
Information superhighway, Government policy
Information superhighway, United States

This exploratory and descriptive research compares the policy-making processes and policy recommendations regarding universal service and universal access developed by the U.S. National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC), the Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC), and related federal government agencies. Created in 1993 and 1994, respectively, the Councils were charged with “bringing forward” the concepts of universal service and universal access to adjust to the effects of deregulation, new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and neo-liberal economic competition that included acknowledging the private sector as the primary creator of the Information Highway. Both Councils were informed by the history, narrative, and discourse pertaining to the concept of universal service and telephony; they received submissions from the public, private, and NGO sectors and individuals; both Councils delivered policy recommendations to their respective governments, pointing to traditional information and public access institutions such as libraries, schools, and hospitals as the most feasible points to begin to guarantee access to the Information Highway. As its primary data this study relied on the Councils' preparatory briefing documents and their final reports as well as interviews with Council members and government agency and NGO members. This qualitative study used as its methodology organizational, policy, narrative, and discourse analyses to create a critique of what universal service and universal access were and what they became in the NIIAC, IHAC process. The research showed that the U.S. had started with a more clearly defined universal service tradition than Canada, and undertook a more complex, broad-based policy-making process with more experienced personnel. It was also clear that IHAC had in many ways adopted the U.S. model and arrived at many similar recommendations as NIIAC. Because of the inevitability of technical, economic, and social change related to the Information Highway, no definitive outcome to the universal service and universal access “story” can be determined. Because the Canadian government did not follow up on some of IHAC's most crucial recommendations, the Information Highway “story” in Canada has been left less complete and less clear than in the U.S.
Elucidation of Met receptor tyrosine kinase signaling events through activation by the Listeria surface protein Inlb: 1. Differential signaling and receptor fates through activation of Met by mutant InlB proteins. 2. Characterization of the unusual SH3 domain of the host adaptor CrkII and its role in Listeria entry
Keywords: Molecular biology
Cytology
Microbiology

Bacterial pathogens have become a common and extremely useful tool in elucidating host defence mechanisms as well as other biological processes, such as cytoskeletal rearrangements, endocytosis, phagocytosis, and trafficking. The gram positive food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has not only sparked interest in scientists for its role in human infection but also because it is relatively amenable to experimental analysis making it a powerful tool for identifying and elucidating several different cellular processes. A significant amount of research has focused on the ability of L. monocytogenes to force its own uptake in non-phagocytic cells. The two main mechanisms by which it does this, is through the InlA and InlB surface proteins which bind to E-cadherin and Met, respectively.
Myths of war and nation: towards an understanding of culture and citizenship in Canada
Keywords: Minorities, Civil rights
Minorities, Canada
Citizenship, Canada
War and society, Canada
Unknown military personnel, Canada
War memorials, Canada

Although liberalism claims that citizenship is a universal status that is extended equally to all members of the national community, in reality individuals experience their citizenship differently depending on their social identities. Recently, in an effort to address these inequalities, attention has shifted to the terrain of culture as a key site for the conditioning of political subjects and, as a result, relations of governance. This development has influenced citizenship theorists to consider expanding their conception of rights to include cultural rights. However, many of these attempts reflect an inadequate understanding of how culture is implicated in ruling relations. The first chapters of this thesis investigate the limitations of liberalism, particularly with regards to its proven inability to deal effectively with difference, as well as the theories of Gramsci, Althusser and Foucault in an attempt to plot an alternative theoretical framework; one that promotes a more expanded notion of the political and is therefore more conducive to recognising all the sites and means in/by which power operates. This theoretical review is undertaken in preparation for the research that lies at the centre of this thesis, which consists of a cultural analysis of a particular moment in public culture, the honour rituals that marked the interment of Canada's Unknown Soldier in May 2000, in which common sense knowledges of Canadian-ness are produced and promoted. By undertaking a discourse analysis of the texts that accompanied the ceremonies, I demonstrate the extent to which the representations that are generated therein are very particular expressions of race, gender and class power and thus, are instrumental in conditioning unequal relations of citizenship. I conclude the work by offering recommendation towards a re-definition of citizenship, particularly in the area of cultural rights, as well as some suggestions for the policy and practice of civic education. As a sustained discussion of the cultural origins of political relations, this thesis represents a valuable contribution to citizenship theory, particularly with regards to the issue of cultural rights.
Towards an examination of theory and method in diversity education in clinical and counselling psychology programmes
Keywords: Psychologists, Training of
Multiculturalism, Study and teaching

Scholarship in the area of diversity studies has flourished in counselling and clinical psychology over the past four decades. However, a literature review suggests that current diversity training approaches are insufficient for then marginalization of certain oppressed groups and their exclusive focus on the American context. To investigate these issues, the objectives of the present study were: (a) to identify approaches to diversity education used by diversity educators in counselling and clinical psychology programmes; (b) to identify barriers and problems associated with different approaches to diversity education; and (c) to propose a new model for diversity competence that could guide the future development of diversity studies in counselling and clinical psychology. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with diversity educators from counselling and clinical psychology programmes across Canada. The themes that emerged in interviews were compiled to form a more comprehensive picture of diversity education in counselling and clinical psychology.
Interlocking directorates and corporate governance in Trinidad and Tobago
Keywords: Interlocking directorates, Trinidad and Tobago
Corporate governance, Trinidad and Tobago

The is paper examines the occurrence of the interlocking directorate in Trinidad and Tobago from the point of view of corporate governance. In that country the interlocking directorate seems to have been charactersised as a negative feature of publicly listed corporations in Trinidad and Tobago. In this paper however an attempt is made to argue that this is not the case. In fact, when one examines the consequences of interlocks and the impact which those consequences has on the ability of financial investors in corporations to gain a return on their investment together with relevant securities and corporate laws which seek to protect such investors a different picture is painted. The argument made in this paper is therefore that interlocks have been mischaracterized and that in reality they may be an asset to publicly run corporations and their financial investors rather than a burden.
The impact of special needs students on the reading, writing and mathematics achievement scores of typically achieving grade 3 students
Keywords: Reading (Primary)
Reading (Primary), Ability testing
Academic achievement
English language, Written English
Inclusive education
Exceptional children
English language, Written English
Mathematics, Study and teaching (Primary)
Mathematical ability, Testing

The results of this study provide empirical evidence supporting the previous findings that the performance of typically achieving Grade 3 students educated in single-grade, inclusive classrooms seems not to be compromised due to the inclusion of special needs students in the class group. This study focused on the impact of the number of special needs students, total class size, and socio-economic status of the school on the achievement of typically achieving students in single-grade inclusive classes of publicly-funded English-language schools on the 1997--1998 Education Quality and Accountability Office Grade 3 assessments. These assessments were conducted in reading, writing and mathematics. The inclusion of special needs students into regular classrooms has generated much discussion and debate among parents, teachers, administrators, and policymakers. The discussions have centered on the concern that having special needs students in the classroom would adversely affect the academic growth of typically achieving students. The research base on the outcomes of typically achieving students in inclusive classes is limited. Regression analyses were conducted on 2247 single-grade classes. The major findings were a strong significant relationship between socio-economic status of the school and the achievement of typically achieving Grade 3 students in single-grade classes, and that both the number of special needs students and total class size were suppressor variables in the regression equation and increased the predictive ability of socio-economic status of the school. Implications for policymakers and educators and recommendations for future research were discussed.
How secondary schools promote themselves: the case of Catholic schools in Ontario
Keywords: Catholic high schools, Public relations
Catholic high schools, Ontario
High schools, Public relations
High schools, Ontario

In 1997, the Ontario government introduced new legislation for secondary schools. This new legislation cascaded into a series of educational changes that came to be known as Secondary School Reform. This study deals with the promotion of secondary schools within the context of educational reform. The research questions are aimed at investigating what schools are actually doing to promote themselves, whether participants make a distinction between school promotion, public relations and marketing, and what strategies facilitate or inhibit schools' promotional efforts. The study also attempts to investigate the sphere of "reputation management" with possible applications to schools needing to manage public perceptions in the context of educational reforms. This study is based on the notion that schools need to engage in school promotion to make the general public feel that they are being responsive to current government reform initiatives. The design of the study is a case study analysis of two Catholic secondary schools engaged in promotional efforts. The research study involved semi-structured interviews of two principals, five parents from each school, five teachers from each school, five students from each school, five members of the business community, the two priests associated with the schools in the study, and the school board's Public Relations Officer. This study also includes a review of documents and observations of school Open Houses. School board policy on enrollment exists that defines schools with catchment areas. However, Catholic schools seem to attract non-Catholic students as well as Catholic students because both Catholic and public feeder schools exist within the same catchment areas. Both Catholic Schools in the study engaged in school promotion, public relations and marketing techniques at different times of the school year and through different events. However, the participants in the study, even within each school, differed in their perception of what they were doing with regard to school promotion, public relations or marketing. Some participants felt that they were engaging in promotional efforts to attract good students, while some thought that they were building the public perception of the school, and others thought that they were engaged in promotional efforts to make students, parents and the general community feel good about belonging to the school-community. Further studies need to be conducted on mechanisms by which the educational community might inform the political community, which is the current policy-making body. Further studies also need to be done to include the voice of the trustees as a stakeholder group in policy promotion. This study has implications for school practitioners and policy makers.
The contested terrain of citizenship and exclusion in Canada: Sri Lankan women's narrative accaounts of school and social exclusion in the diaspora
Keywords: Sri Lankans, Social conditions
Sri Lankans, Canada
Sri Lankans, Education
Sri Lankans, Canada
Women immigrants, Social conditions
Women immigrants, Canada
Women immigrants, Education
Women immigrants, Canada

Research on the experiences of minority ethnic women tends to generalize across many nationalities. The experiences of Sri Lankan women are often regarded as similar to those of their South Asian counterparts. First and foremost, the aim of this project is to eradicate this problem by conceptualizing how social, cultural and structural power relations surrounding the marginalized voices of young Sri Lankan female immigrants become manifest in their personal accounts of the diaspora, and by revealing the forms of exclusion they attribute to such experiences in education and society. To achieve this purpose, the thesis recounts the migration, education and social experiences of five young women of Sri Lankan origin currently residing in Toronto, Canada, who have experienced the education systems and cultural contexts of both Sri Lanka and Canada. A number of themes relating to exclusion and gender are uncovered in these narrative accounts: the school and social experience in Sri Lanka and Canada; the ways in which such experiences expose something about the social order of the two nations; and notions of diaspora, citizenship, home, and nation. The ultimate aim, then, is to arrive at an understanding of how issues of exclusion and gender, through an examination of their expression in these women's narrative accounts, shape the social and educational experiences of young Sri Lankan female immigrants.
An errorless approach to social skills training with children with antisocial behaviour problems
Keywords: Problem children
Behavior disorders in children, Treatment
Social skills, Study and teaching

Errorless acquiescence training was used to improve the social skills of three children referred to a clinical classroom for severe antisocial behaviour. Pre-treatment observations of peer interactions revealed low levels of cooperation and high levels of antisocial behaviour. During intervention, an errorless paradigm was used to teach children to concede to the will and provocations of other children without retaliation (i.e., acquiescence). Through a process involving graduation of demand difficulty, number of children involved in treatment, and level of adult support provided, the complexity of peer interactions were increased at a slow enough rate to ensure successful social interactions by the children, providing numerous opportunities for praise and acknowledgement by trainers. Throughout and following intervention, acquiescent responding increased significantly and antisocial behaviour was reduced. Although one observational measure, prosocial responding outside of acquiescence situations, showed little improvement, positive changes were noted on several pre/post questionnaire measures of child social skills.