VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
The President Salvador Allende School: a case study in the education of Chilean refugee children in Toronto
Keywords: Chileans, Education
Chileans, Ontario
Refugee children, Education
Refugee children, Ontario

This thesis is the first to examine the historical development and eventual demise of a Spanish heritage language school founded and operated by Chilean refugees in Toronto during the late 1970s to early 1990s. The President Salvador Allende School, or in Spanish, La Escuela Presidente Salvador Allende (EPSA), named after the socialist president of Chile for the years 1970–1973, mirrored the Toronto Chilean community's cultural, social and political agenda. As political exiles passionate about sustaining a unique worldview, infused with liberal values hailing from Allende, parents hoped their refugee children would embrace and share their progressive ideals. The EPSA was a vehicle through which Chilean youth gained knowledge of the Toronto Chilean historical consciousness that was shaped by Allende's legacy. More a cultural school than a language school, the EPSA was an experiment in Chilean nationalism, humanitarian outreach and socialist idealism delivered in the guise of a community language school.
Newcourt Credit Group: a case study of employee ownership
Keywords: Employee ownership, Canada
Industrial relations
Management, Employee participation
Employee, Social networks

This study examines the history of Newcourt Credit Group, particularly its employee share ownership programs. Newcourt was a significant Canadian leasing corporation, particularly during the years from 1994 to 1999, when it grew from 143 employees to over 6,000 dispersed in more than 25 countries. The heart of the firm's human resources and compensation program was founder and Chief Executive Officer Steven Hudson's “wealth creation” programs, wherein all staff might share in the financial successes of the firm, and to some degree be exposed to the vagaries of the stock market. Hudson wanted to accomplish this goal through a number of employee share ownership programs aimed at four different levels in the organization: the three founders, the executive group, the managers and the remainder of the employee population. The overall goal of this research was to understand how different levels of the organization relate to the ownership plans introduced by the firm. Specifically, it explored how different perceptions are coloured by their stake in the company, the performance of that stake, and their degree of participation in management. In addition, it examined the role of communications as related to the employee share ownership programs. The research was conducted through a series of focus groups and individual interviews with the four different population groups. The study reveals the value of these programs to some publicly owned corporations. It shows the necessity of explaining to all employees how the various share ownership programs work, and in particular, the risks associated with these financial instruments. The dissertation illustrates that different programs appeal to unique segments of the employee population, and that some groups are more risk averse than others either through choice or necessity. The work also concludes that the share ownership plans must be amended from time to time to meet the changes in the organization as it grows and matures. It confirms the necessity of having all levels share in decisions that may impact them, by providing input and/or their reactions. Finally, the work shows the importance of continuous communications relative to the plans themselves, the health of the corporation and its mission, vision and values. Key to this success is the chief executive officer and the executive team who lead by example.
Telomeres and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma in the development of human breast cancer
Keywords: Genetics

Breast cancer is the most common internal malignancy afflicting North American women. The development of breast cancer involves a sequential progression through defined clinical and pathological stages beginning with normal epithelium and progressing to hyperplasia, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), and culminating in metastatic disease. This progression into metastatic disease is characterized by many molecular alterations, including the shortening of total telomere length. Cancer cells containing critically short telomeres activate telomerase to avoid cell death and it has been demonstrated to occur in 90% of breast carcinoma. Furthermore, telomerase activity has been shown to be modulated by ligands for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ). The integral role of telomeres in cancer progression has motivated extensive research into targeting telomeres for diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. In the present study, the telomere shortening on chromosome 17q was analyzed in relation to average telomere length in normal epithelium, DCIS and IDC to determine if the shortening of specific telomeres can be used as a molecular marker for breast cancer progression. Furthermore, the effect of the PPARγ ligand troglitazone on telomerase activity and gene expression was examined in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells to determine if PPARγ ligands have an anti-telomerase effect. Results indicated that telomere shortening on chromosome 17q, harboring several genes involved in breast cancer development, is higher than the average shortening of all telomeres. Furthermore, troglitazone reduced telomerase activity in MDA-MB-231 cells independently of PPARγ activation. In addition, troglitazone inhibited cell proliferation and the cell cycle signaling pathway on MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines through different mechanisms. Results from microarray comparative genomic hybridization also indicated that the PPARγ gene is lost or deleted in 58% of clinical breast cancers. In conclusion, the high shortening of telomere on chromosome 17q suggests that telomere shortening is not a linear process and may serve as a marker for breast cancer progression. Furthermore, troglitazone demonstrated anti-telomerase and anti-proliferative activity in breast cancer cells. However, these effects vary depending on the cell type and experimental models employed. Finally, the loss of the PPARγ gene in over 50% of breast cancers indicates a potential tumor suppressor role for PPARγ in the development of breast cancer.
The voice of women for animal rights and welfare
Keywords: Animal rights
Animal welfare
Animal rights activists
Women political activists
Animal rescue

An interview study was conducted with women who are active in the animal rights and welfare movements. The purpose of conducting the research is to contribute to the existing literature on women who rescue, save, and/or protect animals and who also act as teachers and possibly role models for those people with whom they come in contact through their rescue work. Another purpose of the research is to determine whether the thoughts, values, and practices of the participants correspond with ecofeminist theory. The researcher interviewed, in one-on-one sessions, six women who share philosophies and beliefs with regard to animals and their need to be rescued. In addition, two women were interviewed (in a similar manner to the first group of women) but who act and work within an alternative framework with regard to their attitudes, philosophies, and beliefs toward animals. The research method used in this study is snowball sampling. By conducting interviews and giving the women the opportunities to express their voices, the researcher explored the significant and influential experiences and motivations in the lives of women who sincerely care and worry about animals, and who, through their actions and initiatives, demonstrate their care through rescuing, saving, and/or protecting animals from dangerous and life threatening situations. The researcher has attempted to determine what these women try to accomplish in their rescue work, whether and how they act as teachers and role models, why they work toward rescuing, saving, and/or protecting animals, and the extent to which their voices have been heard.
Municipal planning, land development and environmental intervention: an institutional ethnography
Keywords: Community development
Sociology, Urban
Urbanization
Oral communication
Ethnology, Methodology
Land use

Municipal planning and land development politics are increasingly central to public and scholarly debates on the governing and restructuring of public institutions and their effects on people's quality of life and environment. This thesis begins in the author's experience as a resident being drawn into a planning process and public decision making regarding a developer's proposal to build a housing development in a small ravine. It explores land use planning as a complex of work processes that actively puts together and mediates relations of land use, governing, and city politics. From a location inside planning relations, accounts of planning and urban politics are found to presuppose the routine textual and communicative practices that one encounters as a participant. This inquiry makes the extended work processes and their routine textual practices that put together institutional action the object of study in order to explicate them. The study uses Institutional Ethnography (IE) as its method of inquiry. It develops IE's focus on textual practices and work processes that connect people's diverse activities in multiple settings and examines how these routine practices coordinate those activities into the ‘macro’ institution of land development and produce its power and agency. The study explores how standardized texts, in the form of reports, letters and site plans, operate in complex exchanges where people do their work in the temporal process of planning and approving development in the ravine. Texts shape essential aspects of institutional action: ‘the public’ is notified, informed and participates; the public decision making by elected officials comprising a local government ‘council’ is carried out; and ‘commenting agencies’ with protective jurisdiction over physical features of the land are consulted and produce legal ‘conditions’ of development approval. The close examination and analytic descriptions and diagrams of text based processes make visible how environmental interventions are incorporated into the complex interchanges that produce the main business of land development routinely so that the ‘neutral’ public institution is produced, interventions and concerns are given ‘fair hearing’ and ‘resolved’ and the production of land development for profit and ‘systematic’ destruction of the physical environment goes on.
Executive coaching as a leadership development strategy
Keywords: Leadership
Management, Study and teaching
Executives, Training of
Business consultants
Mentoring in business
Organizational behavior

This study examines the phenomenon of executive coaching, a leadership development strategy, from the perspective of executive coaches and executive clients. Grounded theory, an inductive qualitative research methodology, was used to generate a theory of executive coaching that emerged from the reported experiences of study participants. A conceptual framework, derived from the literature review, located executive coaching within a learning-centred, work-based development paradigm. A six-phase coaching model was developed to identify key stages in the coaching process. Interview questions addressed gaps brought out by the literature review. The literature failed to address properly both the conceptual framework and aspects of the executive coaching process. Nine executive coaches, nine executive clients, and one former client who had become an executive coach were located through theoretical sampling. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at specific points in the coaching process in order to explore participants' experiences of executive coaching and to locate its benefits, limitations, and factors that contribute to its success. Responses were analysed and coded using open, axial and selective coding. Coaches' and clients' responses were compared through the constant comparative method, and four primary categories and properties were identified. A storyline that captured the main concern of the participants was woven into a grounded theory of executive coaching. This theory states that executive coaching is a confidential partnership between a skilled coach and a willing client that is based on motivation, trust, action, and reflection, and which works through the medium of dialogue and continuous feedback. Executive coaching sets in motion a chain of learning with a broad sphere of influence. Its direct beneficiaries are the executive and the organization; but its benefits filter beyond the local arena to include the executive's personal life and the organization's employees. Interpersonal concerns such as leadership, authenticity, and self-awareness are typical coaching goals, and the effectiveness of executive coaching in achieving these goals is best measured qualitatively.
The biochemical basis of hepatocyte cytotoxicity induced by hydrogen sulfide or allyl sulfide
Keywords: Toxicology
Pharmacology

Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) is a toxic gas predominantly found in the petroleum industry. The cytotoxic mechanism of H 2 S is thought to involve mitochondrial respiration inhibition as a result of H 2 S binding to heme a 3 -Cu B 2+ of cytochrome c oxidase but the following suggests the mechanism is more complex. Chapter 2 showed that H 2 S caused hepatocyte glutathione (GSH) levels to decrease. GSH was also decreased in a cell-free system containing GSH and H 2 S only. Furthermore, the iron chelator desferoxamine prevented H 2 S cytotoxicity and GSH depletion, whereas EDTA/Fe increased cellular GSH depletion. An oxygen electrode showed that NaHS added to phosphate buffer pH 7.4 formed hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by ferric iron whereas EDTA/Fe increased autoxidation. Chapter 3 showed that hydroxocobalamin (vitamin B 12a) was more effective at preventing NaHS induced mouse lethality than the currently used H2S antidote nitrite. Hydroxocobalamin also prevented hepatocyte cytotoxicity induced by NaHS. Oxygen consumption increased when hydroxocobalamin was added to buffered NaHS and NaHS disappeared.
Polynomial divisor problems
Keywords: Mathematics

Asymptotic formulae for the following expressions are found and proved: [Special characters omitted.] and [Special characters omitted.] First, the convolution is opened. and the expression is re-written as a sum over arithmetic progressions of various lengths; then Poisson's summation formula is applied, which introduces an expected main term and an expected error term. The main term is evaluated using standard techniques, while the error term is shown to be negligible by applying a large sieve inequality. The methods used develop the methods in a paper by Friedlander and Iwaniec, where they give the asymptotic formula for [Special characters omitted.].
Deportation on national security grounds within a culture of legal justification
Keywords: National security, Great Britain
Deportation, Canada
Deportation, Great Britain
National security, Canada
Emigration and immigration law, Canada

The thesis addresses the capacity of the legal system to deal with the deportation of non-citizens perceived to threaten national security in Canada and the UK. Gross has argued that in response to emergencies explicit provision should be made for extra-legal measures. However, Gross' endorsement of extra-legal measures overlooks available constitutional models. The thesis outlines a conception of constitutionality overlooked by Gross: Legality as an exercise in public justification. It then develops a response to threats to national security modelled on that conception. In terms of the principles of substantive review, the model builds on Canadian Charter jurisprudence, primarily that relating to s 7, to argue for a demarcation between constitutional rights and their limitation. Turning to procedures, the thesis refers to those of the Special Immigration Appeals. Commission (U.K.) to illustrate a reconciliation between procedural fairness and confidentiality in the area of national security.
Environmental justice in a toxic economy: community struggles with environmental health disorders in Nova Scotia
Keywords: Environmental health, Social aspects
Environmental health, Nova Scotia
Environmental justice, Nova Scotia
Poor, Health and hygiene
Poor, Nova Scotia
Poor, Health risk assessment
Poor, Nova Scotia
Minorities, Health risk assessment
Minorities, Nova Scotia
Pollution, Health aspects
Pollution, Nova Scotia

The impoverished communities of Whitney Pier and Pictou Landing in Nova Scotia are struggling against a toxic economy that degrades human and environmental health. Proponents of environmental justice see these communities as part of a larger pattern, in which the poor and people of colour are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards from toxic development. In the United States, considerable research shows a strong correlation between environmental health risk and the social positions of race and class. In Canada, however, prior to this study, no comparable empirical research had been conducted. Through two approaches—statistical and descriptive—the relationship, between equity and environmental health, was determined to be similar to that in the US. However, Aboriginal reserves and industrial towns, including pulp and paper and steel towns, appear more at risk, rather than inner cities. A strong relationship between environment and health was evident with worse health outcomes (i.e., more cancer, respiratory and circulatory deaths per 100,000 deaths) occurring in areas with higher environmental health risks (p < 0.01). Environmental health risks, specifically abandoned waste disposal sites, hazardous facilities and toxic emission scores, were statistically significantly greater for: reserves (p < 0.05), poor communities (p < 0.01); and minority or Aboriginal communities (p < 0.05). This research found reserves to be in “double jeopardy”, suffering from both race and class barriers. These findings were used to build on the Healthy City Model by adding another key input—equity—to create a new model called the Equitable Health Community Model. In addition to the statistical investigation, interviews with community activists provide recommendations for ecosystem-based policies relating to human health and political economy. Case studies for Pictou Landing Reserve and Whitney Pier in Sydney were contrasted with three white middle class communities in Halifax finding differences in government responsiveness and other areas.
The revolution: the wholeness of blackness
Keywords: Black race
Change
White supremacy movements
Liberty
Afrocentrism

The completion of the Revolution is the only solution for the Black man and woman to achieve true liberation. The preparation for this must be grounded in the understanding that the Black man and woman are the fathers and mothers of all of humanity with a specific goal of Blackness for Black people to take hold of in this day and age. To reclaim Blackness in its correct totality, it must be understood as the all regenerative force that sustains all of creation. Furthermore, a multi-faceted approach must be undertaken where contemporary theories held by Black people must be re-examined. This is necessary so that Black people may complete the Revolution in the only way it can be completed; the re-establishment of Black nationhood. This re-establishment can be done through the building of institutions as the building blocks of any nation. The enabling of the Black Renaissance must be achieved.
Putting the pieces together: the development of children's interpretive judgment through irony
Keywords: Irony
Philosophy of mind in children
Cognition in children
Children, Language

This study investigated 6- to 10-year-olds' ability to understand situational irony, verbal irony, and each of these in the presence of the other. It was hypothesized that children interpret situational irony using cognitive event representations and they interpret verbal irony using metalinguistic representations. Further, in the interpretation of irony, event and metalinguistic processing are separate, event processing precedes the development of metalinguistic processing, and both are dependent upon an understanding of mental states. The verbal irony condition examined children's ability to interpret the speaker's meaning, the speaker's intention (why s/he said what s/he did), and the listener's appreciation of the speaker's meaning and intention. Children relied on cognitive event representations to interpret speaker's meaning until age 10. The more discrepant the event from the speaker's utterance, the greater the likelihood of younger children's understanding. Beginning at age 10, children were able to distinguish between speaker's meaning and the literal meaning of the utterance, using a metalinguistic process separate from the event representation. However, even at age 10, children were generally unable to interpret the listener's understanding of the speaker's meaning and intention. The situational irony condition investigated children's ability to interpret scripts/counter-scripts and changes in character's perspective. Results showed that the success of children's event processing depends upon the number and complexity of the components to be represented, and the complexity of the changes in perspective. More complex counter-scripts and more complex perspective changes are understood only by older children. Children's ability to interpret both situational irony and verbal irony declined in a third condition that combined the two types. These results are taken as support for the view that event and metalinguistic processing are separate, and that higher-order mental state understanding of perspective is different from metalinguistic intention processing. Interpretation based on event representations and changes in perspective dominate children's understanding until middle childhood. Further, event representation continues to develop as both the complexity of scripts/counter-scripts and changes in perspective place demands on children's ability to represent events mentally. Metalinguistic processing of linguistic intentions is later developing than event representation processing and is challenging for children even at age 10.