VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Investigation of thermal flame structure in lean turbulent premixed methane-air flames by Rayleigh scattering
Keywords: Flame
Rayleigh scattering

Flame front structure in turbulent premixed methane-air and propane-air flames was investigated. Flame images were obtained using Rayleigh scattering on an axisymmetric Bunsen-type burner. Normalized turbulence intensity, u'/SL, was varied from 3.4 to 15.92 for methane-air flames, and 3.31 to 8.61 for propane-air flames. Instantaneous thermal flame thicknesses and gradients were found from normal temperature profiles. For methane-air flames, flame front thickness decreased as equivalence ratio increased and preheat zone and reaction zone thicknesses increased slightly as u'/SL increased. When normalized by laminar flame values, the thicknesses decreased. Strain was found to play an unimportant role in determining flame front thickness. Fewer than 30 profiles were found that exhibit a temperature Bump in the low temperature region of the profile, indicating that turbulent eddies convecting heated matter into the preheat zone probably do not cause the change in the preheat zone structure. For propane-air flames preliminary results are presented.
Creative activities and their influence on identity formation in science
Keywords: Science, Study and teaching
Sex differences in education
Women in science
Sex role

Members of the dominant culture in science, such as scientists and successful science students, are often perceived as unemotional, detached and politically unbiased. Success is attributed to the maximization of objectivity and rationality. (Hodson, 1998; Letts, 2001). Unfortunately, these predominantly masculine-associated traits are often in conflict with the personal identities of many students. This conflict is a major factor in causing them to turn away from science (Brickhouse 2001). This thesis explores creative activities as a way of expanding school science identities and allowing students of diverse identities to feel confident participating in science. It investigates, using quantitative and qualitative methods, how a group of girls and a group of boys are affected by three lessons involving creative activities. It explores the effects of these activities on students' enjoyment and confidence in science and their perceptions of science and themselves as good science students.
Cultural sensitivity as a problematic in Ontario nursing policy and education: an integrated feminist con
Keywords: Nursing
Health
Health promotion

Transcultural nursing (TCN) theory is one of the most visible forces shaping the dialogue about inclusivity in nursing. TCN theory advances a liberal, humanistic approach to race and race difference that frames nursing research, policy, education, and practice. Using an integrated feminist con/textual analysis, this research interrogated the articulation of TCN theory in three sets of nursing texts that organize the social relations among nurses and between nurses and clients. This investigation highlights the links between a College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) standard of practice on culture care, curricular texts introducing cultural sensitivity and the TCN literature that supported the development of both in two concrete locations. The institutional texts and the contexts in which they operate were viewed in light of the anti-racism discourse advanced in sociological and educational literature. My general orientation was to explore what nursing institutions were saying about race and race difference through the texts they developed and used, and to expose and name the logical implications of this discourse. From there, I imagined what these same institutions might say and do in moving toward a more inclusive, anti-racism nursing discourse. Conclusions emerging from my analysis demonstrate the power of nursing con/texts to assert the dominant white discourse about race and other social differences that sustains rather than challenges the racialized social order. These findings contribute to the theory and practice of nursing and the broader dialogue about inclusive education in three ways: First, these conclusions illustrate the links between TCN literature, CNO policy and educational practice, and the value of looking to anti-racism discourse for a revisioning of inclusive education. Second, a set of diagnostic questions provides a tool for exposing racist discourse in textual knowledges. Third, using a broadly defined discursive framework, I identify spaces for systemic change in a revisioning of inclusive nursing research, policy and curricula.
A fitting discipline: Fat subjects, femininity and the university
Keywords: Overweight women, Social conditions
Overweight women, Ontario
Obesity in women, Social aspects
Obesity in women, Ontario
Women college students, Social conditions
Women college students, Ontario
Femininity

This thesis demonstrates how university institutions construct and perpetuate normative discourses of the body through the exclusion and denial of fat women. Universities are important sites for the production of truth and within these institutions particular bodies and subjects are normalized. This project focuses on two southern Ontario universities and is informed by a feminist poststructuralist perspective that understands the body as having numerous socially constructed meanings ascribed to it. I conducted three semi-structured interviews and one focus group and analyzed the experiences of six, self-identified plus-sized women who attend university. Their experiences and reflections reveal how normative bodies are validated and fat bodies are regulated and excluded through numerous disciplinary regimes and practices.
A new theory for symmetric laminated plates
Keywords: Plates (Engineering)
Laminated materials

A new approach to plate theory is implemented and evaluated for accuracy. Unlike most formulations based on initial assumptions of a polynomial shape for the though-thickness distribution of displacements, the only hypothesis is the following: well-chosen elementary loads are identified as a basis of the ‘load space’. Hence, any load can be expressed as a linear combination of these Fundamental Loads. Therefore, the three dimensional solution is approximated as a combination of the through thickness solutions (Fundamental States) corresponding to these Fundamental Loads. This yields an internally consistent formulation, with newly defined degrees of freedom. The intent of this thesis work is to prove this concept for the case of the plate, as a previous study on the equivalent beam theory gave excellent results. For this purpose, the scope is restricted to the Second Approximation : Only the first two Fundamental States, pure bending moment and pure shear resultants, are used to approximate the solution state. This is therefore equivalent to a shear deformation theory, like the Reissner-Mindlin plate formulation. Comparison to Reissner-Mindlin results, and to full three dimensional (3D) results for a sandwich panel under different loading conditions, shows the capability of this new theory to accurately capture the three dimensional distribution of stresses and strains, especially the transverse shear components.
Six case studies of professed sisters who left the same religious congregation between 1977-2003
Keywords: Ex-nuns, Attitudes
Monasticism and religious orders for women

Current literature related to retention within women's religious congregations focus on specific circumstances that result in membership withdrawal from a congregation. This current study goes beyond preceding studies and contributes to the existing literature by considering tensions between charism fundamentals and other influences as probable factors related to membership withdrawal. The study analyzes participants' perceptions of the congruence or dissonance between charism fundamentals and specific influences that may have conflicted with a woman's ability or desire to remain in a religious congregation after she made final vows. Thirteen former members of one Canadian women's religious congregation, identified by the pseudonym of The Sisters of Elizabeth Thomas (SET) provide data by participating in questionnaires and interviews. These women withdrew from the congregation between 1977 and 2003. Insights associated with this research were gained by examining the personal values and ideologies of each research participant. This research also considers the possible impact that a religious congregation, society, and the Roman Catholic Church, may have on participants' decision to withdraw from a congregation. Findings reveal that participants share numerous commonalities. First are their personal experience, knowledge and affiliation with SET. The second is the process related to the participants' withdrawal from the congregation. The third commonality relates to their continued interest in SET'S current and future undertakings. Fourth are the firm opinions participants have regarding the congregation's charism fundamentals. The fifth, and last commonality, is that each participant believes that her withdrawal from SET was personally necessary. Analysis of the data reveals that tensions between the charism fundamentals of SET and various influences, within and outside the congregation, result in members' withdrawal from the congregation. This study concludes that the congregation's focus, function and viability are maintained through the preservation of its charism fundamentals as the congregation's founder intended these to be enacted.
Sustainability in graduate business curriculum: Implications for business schools
Keywords: Sustainable development, Study and teaching (Graduate)
Sustainable development, Canada
Business schools, Curricula
Business schools, Canada
Business education, Curricula
Business education, Canada
Business, Environmental aspects
Business, Canada
Business ethics, Study and teaching (Graduate)
Business ethics, Canada

A recent wave of environmentalism has begun to wash over many parts of the world. This wave has affected much of the consumer society which is increasingly asking the business community to show how the products and the services they provide have less of an impact on the environment and human health. This has caused a ripple effect in the corporate business community with businesses needing to change the way they draw on resources, manufacture goods and run their businesses. To make this change, businesses will require employees that have a new skill set focused on sustainability. One place that these employees can gain this new skill set is as part of their graduate business education. This thesis reviews and analyzes the literature around business and sustainability and curriculum and examines why, and in what ways, business schools are educating their students about environmental sustainability.
Challenging the limits of the grounds of discrimination: towards a flexible, contextual approach
Keywords: Discrimination, Law and legislation
Discrimination, Canada
Discrimination, Law and legislation
Equality before the law, Canada

While previously the grounds of discrimination presented a barrier to recognizing more complex inequalities, such as those occurring from an intersection of characteristics, I argue that this no longer need be the case. The problem lies not with the grounds themselves, but with the way in which they are interpreted. The grounds tend to be treated rigidly, with their content seen as static and incapable of changing to respond to new situations. I argue that this rigid approach can be avoided through a flexible, contextual approach to the grounds in which the three-stage inquiry of the Law test is approached holistically, so that each stage is examined contextually. It is only then that we will we be able to identify and examine the social systems that construct and maintain certain individuals and groups in positions of disadvantage, as well as explore the ways in which these systems of disadvantage interlock to create unique experiences of inequality for certain groups.
Learning among adults in online courses
Keywords: Computer-assisted instruction, Ontario
Teachers, Training of
Teachers, Ontario
Computer conferencing in education, Ontario

Both courses were similar in the frequency and distribution of interactions, but individual learners displayed distinct patterns in the time and organization of interactions. In responding to the instructor, learners described their current understandings, provided examples of applications to classrooms or schools, and suggested implications for practice. Many of the responses of learners to other learners involved connecting with others' belief statements and supporting or challenging those beliefs through examples of applications in classrooms or schools from their own experiences. Those interactions that featured improvable ideas, epistemic agency and diversity of ideas supported progressive discourse. This study examined learning among adults taking research-based professional development online courses. Individual learners' activities were chronicled as learning pathways, captured in course transcripts. The learners within a course interacted by reading and/or responding to each others' postings. A subset of those interactions can be characterized as progressive discourse, resulting in learning. The data were drawn from the transcripts of two computer-mediated courses for teachers. Patterns of course activity across all learners were examined. In addition, the learning pathways, interaction patterns, and the content and nature of the discourse were investigated for several students from each course.
Under the microscope: 'race', gender, and medical laboratory science in Canada
Keywords: Women medical technologists, Canada
Sex discrimination in medicine, Canada
Sex discrimination against women, Canada
Race discrimination, Canada

Canada's third largest health profession, medical laboratory science, is a feminized and largely invisible profession in which the practitioners are not permitted to claim the knowledge that they create in their everyday work. My research documents inequitable practices as they can be seen in the experiences of medical laboratory technologists as well as in the institutionalized practices that discount their work. I describe my historical document analysis and survey of practitioners, situating myself as an insider making use of a critical feminist perspective. I address the social and historical foundations of the profession, issues of race and gender in laboratory work, and the implications of these findings for professional change in medical laboratory science. I advocate several means of re-visioning of medical laboratory science to acknowledge the role of medical laboratory technologists in knowledge creation. As well, I suggest that research on the professions encourage inquiry into intersecting racist, sexist and classist practices; that researchers on race enhance their awareness of the potentially disadvantaging assumptions built into certain research practices; and that health policy-makers address the issue of toxic work environments, unvalued health care workers, and inequitable policy-making practices in order to safeguard health practitioners and the quality of patient care. My historical analysis reveals that laboratory work and the division of labour in the laboratory arose within racist, sexist and classist practices of nineteenth-century science and medicine; my discussion lays out the relations of dominance by the medical profession that characterized the health professions throughout the twentieth century. I discuss 'race', gender and medical laboratory science, showing how men's and women's experiences in the profession differ in terms of their educational attainment, career advancement, workplace activities, and participation in part-time and contingency work. The racialized division of labour becomes apparent when laboratory workers above and below medical laboratory technologists are considered. My analysis of the experiences of medical laboratory technologists during health care restructuring demonstrates the impact of reductionist ideologies of cost and efficiency on the lives and work of laboratory practitioners, revealing the shift of control over laboratory work from the medical profession to administrators and corporate interests.
The indifferent smile on the faces of oppression: an expansion of Iris Marion Young's theory of oppression
Keywords: Oppression (Psychology)
Elite (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)

This thesis enlarges Iris Marion Young's theory of oppression by offering a reading of the function of Privileged Social Group indifference in oppressive North American group relations. In four chapters, I conduct an incremental philosophical analysis that links together Privileged Social Group indifference and oppression. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical framework consisting of useful elements from Larry May's and I.M. Young's work on group structures. In the second chapter, I employ parts of this framework to explain the three major features of the Privileged Social Group. Chapter three consists of a discussion about how the Privileged Social Group is implicated in each of Young's five forms of oppression. Finally, in the fourth chapter, I explain Privileged Social Group indifference and argue that it is a social imperative for the operations of oppression.
Exploring wounding: The experiences of a Jewish educator
Keywords: Jewish educators, Psychology
Jewish educators, Attitudes
Distress (Psychology)
Educational leadership

School leaders face numerous ethical dilemmas. While attention has been given to the process school leaders go through in order to respond to these dilemmas, little attention has been given to the emotional impact of ethical dilemmas on school leaders. This study explores wounding experiences of a Jewish educator in a Jewish supplementary school. Wounding refers to the emotional wound that occurs when a leader is faced with dilemmas that expect or demand responses that are counter to his or her values and beliefs. This study reveals that the supplementary school environment is complex and dilemma filled, and that wounding is pervasive in the leadership lives of Jewish educators. Specifically, the primary cause of wounding is the existence of a community culture that does not support the expression of the educator's values and beliefs. Educators regularly make choices that are in conflict with their values and compromise their personal integrity.
Client perceptual processing in cognitive behavioural therapy and process-experiential therapy for depression
Keywords: Cognitive therapy
Emotion-focused therapy
Depression, Mental, Treatment
Depressed persons
Psychotherapy patients
Perception

The current study investigated how clients' perceptual processing changes over the course of therapy and how clients' perceptual processing at the late stage of therapy relates to outcome by comparing two types of therapy for depression, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and process-experiential therapy (PET). Data was drawn from the Watson, Gordon, Stermac, Kalogerakos Steckley (2003) archival database, wherein sixty six clients were diagnosed with major depression and received 16 weeks of treatment; 33 clients received CBT and 33 clients received PET. Three sessions for each client were selected, one from the early, middle, and late stages of therapy. Selection was based on clients' highest rating on the Client Task Specific Change Measure - Revised. The middle twenty minutes of each selected session were rated on the Levels of Client Perceptual Processing measure (LCPP; Toukmanian, 1986, 1992; Toukmanian Gordon, 2004). Clients' perceptual processing levels were examined over the course of therapy (three stages) and in relation to depressive symptoms, self-esteem, dysfunctional attitudes, interpersonal problems, general symptom distress, and problem-focused coping at posttreatment and follow-up. Results indicated that clients in both therapies became more reevaluative and integrated new perspectives over the course of therapy. Clients in CBT engaged in more differentiation with analytic focus to make meaning of their experiences than clients in PET while clients in PET engaged in more differentiation with internal focus to make meaning of their experiences than clients in CBT. Clients' use of reevaluative statements at the late stage of therapy was related to a decrease of depressive symptoms, dysfunctional attitudes, interpersonal problems, general distress, suppressive coping, and reactive coping, and to an increase in self-esteem, at posttreatment and at follow-up for clients in CBT and for clients in PET. Clients' use of integrative statements at the late stage of therapy was related to a decrease in dysfunctional attitudes, suppressive and reactive coping, and to an increase in reflective coping at posttreatment and at follow-up for clients in CBT and for clients in PET. Implications for clinical work and future research are discussed.
Disability matters: expanding the community
Keywords: Children with disabilities, Psychology
Exceptional children, Family relationships
Mother and child
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Parents of exceptional children, Psychology

Most academic literature on disability fails to examine the experience of adults with disabilities, and of parents of such adult children, in psychosocial rather than medical terms. Nor does it usually take into account the gendered aspect of caring for and about an adult with disabilities. Stereotypes of disability and of motherhood (persons with disabilities are dependent and inadequate; women are naturally nurturing) maintain the widely shared conviction that disability, and the mothering of children and adults with disabilities, pertain to individuals, and are not the concern of our society as a whole. Such stereotypes are detrimental to members of both groups, and do nothing to alert us to the fact that we are all interdependent, and need to support each other. This study of young adults with disabilities, and of mothers of such young adults, seeks to learn from their experience those insights which might contribute to the betterment of their lives, and the lives of all who are touched by disability. Data for this research were collected through many open-ended interviews with eight participants: four with disabilities, and four mothers of adults with disabilities who live at home with them. The persons with disabilities were in their twenties and thirties: two were wheelchair-users, one had a visual impairment, and one a hearing impairment. The mothers (who were in their fifties and sixties) had adult children with multiple disabilities, both physical and cognitive. Our in-depth conversations focussed on the participants' lived experience, on what they felt would be most important for other Ontarians to know about disability, and on how the lives of people with disabilities and their mothers might be improved. These conversations led me to posit the need for a new social movement, combining the strengths of members of the disability movement with those of mothers like the ones who participated in this research. Together with other parents like them, and feminist activists, they could form a new movement to mitigate those aspects of disability that lead to the oppression of both these groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)