VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Following the thread: a writing teacher's memories and arts-based transition to a new technology of meaning-making

In this postmodern arts-based autoethnographic inquiry, I investigate the impact of the online computer on composing and teaching, penetrating to the core of the labyrinth of what it means to be a teacher of writing in this computer-mediated age. The online computer is my composing tool as I shape both my text and the appearance of my text in order to uncover and display the effects of this new technology on writing and on teaching writing. I have composed narratives from my experiences as a writer and as a teacher of writing and reveal my understandings through a chorus of voices, all mine yet none with the "whole" story. While my Academic and Teacher voice provides a conventional "ground" for my thesis, my other voices each have their own stories of my writing experiences: (1) my Oracles Voice, my homage to the writers from whom I have learned; (2) my Writing Process voice reveals how I write using the online computer; (3) my Illuminal Voice with hermeneutical overtones, reveals my musings, my insights, and my significant memories; (4) my Published Voice reprints articles, and excerpts, written over a number of years, showing how I experienced my journey of discovery at different points in time; (5) my Living While Writing voice displays my quotidian existence while I write this thesis; (6) my Querulous Voice exposes my fears and resentments connected with learning and teaching writing; (7) my Artist's Voice includes the arational leaps of understanding I gain from my own and other's poetry; and (8) Ariadne's Voice speaks the thoughts of a rewritten Greek mythic character who seeks the core of the labyrinth and the secret of the Minotaur (one of my guiding metaphors)---an allegory about creativity mediated by technology. I use the visual potentialities of word processing to provide different fonts, colours and borders for each voice in a bricologe structure that reveals meaning cumulatively through connections not argument. As well, I am guided by my second metaphor---this autoethnographic thesis is my home, and the reader, my guest. The online computer is both my tool and my subject.

Keywords: English language, Written English
Language arts teachers
English language, Written English
Creative writing, Computer-assisted instruction
Creative writing, Study and teaching
L'enseignante francophone vivant en situation de mariage exogame

Ce memoire de maitrise porte sur le double role d'agentes de reproduction linguistique et culturelle de six enseignantes francophones qui sont mariees avec des anglophones et qui parlent francais a leurs enfants. L'etude qualitative, effectuee au moyen d'entrevues semi-dirigees avec les femmes et leurs conjoints, s'est deroulee dans le Centre de l'Ontario. L'objectif principal de l'analyse a ete de voir si les experiences professionnelles de ces enseignantes aupres d'une clientele scolaire heterogene sur le plan linguistique influencent la facon dont elles transmettent la langue et la culture francaises a leurs enfants au sein d'un foyer linguistiquement mixte. L'examen des discours des informatrices devoile que les participantes ont une vision traditionaliste du francais en tant qu'enseignante et une vision mondialisante en tant que mere par rapport au contact du francais et de l'anglais. Elles utilisent des strategies de reproduction communes au travail et des strategies plus individuelles en milieu familial.

Keywords: French-Canadians, Ontario
Women teachers, Ontario
Husband and wife, Ontario
Parent and child, Ontario
Husbands, Language
Husbands, Ontario
Wives, Language
Wives, Ontario
Mothers, Language
Mothers, Ontario
Fathers, Language
Fathers, Ontario
Children, Language
Children, Ontario
Legality and legitimacy in Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law

My thesis attempts to show that Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law successfully occupies a middle ground between natural law and legal positivism. I argue that the strength of the Pure Theory of Law cannot be brought out fully unless it is read in the light of Kelsen's political theory which has received very little attention in previous scholarship. Kelsen's theory of the basic norm, if interpreted against the background of Kelsen's political theory, turns out to be related to a constitutional ideal I call the 'utopia of legality'. This constitutional ideal is based on the claim that the full conformity of exercises of political power with standards of positive legality can potentially amount to a sufficient condition of the legitimacy of the exercise of political power. Positivist legal theorists inspired by Kelsen's work failed to appreciate the political-theoretical potential of the Pure Theory of Law and thus turned to a narrow agnosticism about the functions of law. The Pure Theory of Law, I conclude, may offer a paradigm of jurisprudential thought that could reconnect jurisprudence with political theory as it was traditionally understood: namely as a reflection on the best constitution and on the contribution that different legal actors and institutions can make to its realization. The utopia of legality, I argue, is an attractive and stable constitutional ideal because it is independent of a 'thick' conception of community and compatible with the persistence of a high degree of substantive moral disagreement. I defend the view, moreover, that Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law provides us with the outlines of an understanding of the rule of law, of democratic legislation, and of formal constitutionalism which undercuts the common assumption of an inevitable tension between these three key elements of modern western polities.
Principals' responses to interpersonal conflict occurring in secondary schools

Interpersonal conflicts occurred in all secondary schools that participated in the study. Three categories of conflict emerged: interpersonal conflicts between teachers, interpersonal conflicts between school principals and teachers, and interpersonal conflicts between teachers and students. This study examines how principals deal with interpersonal conflicts occurring in secondary schools. The impetus for the study was based on the researcher's own experiences as a secondary school principal. In my experience as a school principal, it became evident that a considerable portion of my time and energy was devoted to managing interpersonal conflict among stakeholders. For this reason, I believe that the management of interpersonal conflict is an essential component of school leadership in secondary schools. Participants were selected from 6 secondary schools located in a single school district in Eastern Canada. A qualitative research methodology was employed to investigate two social constructs: school leadership, and interpersonal conflict found in those secondary schools. A total of nineteen interviews are conducted with school principals and secondary teachers. Implications for practice focus on the nature of conflict found in secondary schools, sources of those conflicts, strategies for resolving interpersonal conflict, and approaches to leadership in managing interpersonal conflict. Implications for future research are also suggested. It is evident that interpersonal conflict pervades the cultural landscape of secondary schools. The results of the study suggest that school principals varied their style of school leadership depending on the nature and frequency of the interpersonal conflict encountered amongst stakeholders. It appears that principals typically adhere to aspects of participative leadership in the early stages of interpersonal conflict; however, if resolution to conflict is not achievable in this way then school principals become managerial in their approach to school leadership.

Keywords: School principals, Attitudes
Conflict management
Interpersonal conflict
Educational leadership
Electronic commerce jurisdiction: are forum selection clauses in online contracts enforceable? An analysis focused on Canadian and American case law and the works on jurisdiction of The Hague Conference of Private International Law

Forum selection clauses appear as a mechanism that may provide jurisdictional certainty and predictability to electronic commerce. Nevertheless, those clauses may not be always a satisfactory solution to parties in online contracts because such clauses may not be enforced in certain circumstances. By examining the law of forum selection clauses in Canada and the United States, this thesis discusses the circumstances in which forum selection clauses may not be enforced due to the application of discretionary tests and their inclusion in consumer contracts. This thesis also reviews the enforceability of forum selection clauses in 'clickwrap' and 'browsewrap' contracts in Canadian and American case law. Moreover, this thesis studies whether discretionary tests and non-enforcement of forum selection clauses in online business to consumer transactions favour the development of electronic commerce. Finally, this thesis addresses the enforcement of forum selection clauses within the works of The Hague Conference of Private International Law.
Mechanisms of insulin action on GABA-A receptors

Insulin is an important neuromodulator that plays multiple roles within the brain. One such effect of insulin, is to enhance inhibitory GABA-ergic synaptic transmission, by increasing the number of GABAA receptors on the surface of neurons. This thesis examines the molecular mechanisms underlying insulin-induced changes in GABAA receptor function, including cell surface expression of the receptor. As PI3-kinase (PI3-K) is a key mediator of the insulin response, and because it plays a well-known role in protein trafficking, we have chosen to focus our studies on this enzyme. We have found that PI3-K, which is activated in the brain following insulin treatment, plays a role in the insulin-stimulated potentiation of GABA A receptor-mediated currents. Additionally, PI3-K is necessary for the increase in GABAA receptor numbers at the plasma membrane after insulin stimulation. Tyrosine residues within the beta2 subunit of the GABA A receptor may mediate this effect. We have also shown that the interaction between PI3-K and the GABAA receptor is enhanced in response to insulin, and that this association is dependent on tyrosine phosphorylation. The N-terminal SH2 domain of the p85 regulatory subunit of PI3-K appears to mediate this association. The activation of GABAA receptor-associated PI3-K is increased following insulin treatment. The beta2 subunit of the GABAA receptor may be important for this increase. Taken together, our results suggest a mechanism whereby insulin can regulate changes in synaptic transmission through its downstream actions on the GABAA receptor.
Culture conditions for generating human bone marrow stromal cells influence cell immunophenotype and in vivo biodistribution in immune deficient mice

We studied the immunophenotype and transplantation potential of human BMSCs derived from both the standard LTBMC and novel SSBC system. CD45 ( - ) BMSCs were generated and maintained early in the SSBC system, suggesting that it is applicable for stromal cell growth. By the end of the culture period, the LTBMC system demonstrated a 19.1 fold expansion of CD45 ( - ) cells. In contrast to, the LTMBC-derived cells, flow cytometry revealed that 66% of the SSBC-derived CD45 ( - ) cells were negative for HLA Class I and II antigens and that they also expressed very low levels of VCAM-1 and CD44. Biodistribution patterns were examined in unconditioned SCID mice using PCR and FISH. LTBMC BMSCs were detected in bone marrow, bone, and lung. The SSBC BMSCs were only detected in heart tissue. This study underscores the importance of culture conditions in influencing the BMSC phenotype possibly leading to altered biodistribution patterns.
A multivariate analysis of fouling in kraft recovery boilers

Operating data from three recovery boilers was collected and analyzed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares Analysis (PLS). Variability in the operating data due to deposit accumulation on heat transfer surfaces, commonly called fouling, was visualized using PCA. This allowed a high-level comparison between operational periods of high fouling and low fouling in all boilers. This also serves as a proof-of-concept for the monitoring of recovery boiler fouling. PLS was used to extract the correlation structures between model input and output variables unique to each recovery boiler. The correlation structures showed that some variables were disproportionably associated with fouling. This suggests that controlled changes in these variables could improve operation. Together, these two techniques represent a major step forward in identifying operating variables that may be adjusted to minimize fouling in recovery boilers, and in developing an on-line fouling monitoring technology.
Controllability and indistinguishability in coherent control

We calculate the controllability, purity, and indistinguishability for two model systems: a double well linearly coupled to a bath of two of harmonic oscillators, and a system of two harmonic oscillators linearly coupled to a bath of N harmonic oscillators initially in thermal equilibrium. In both cases we find that the indistinguishability of the excitation pathway in the bath provides a good measure of the controllability, while the purity does not. However, in the case of the large bath, more work remains in understanding the relationship between controllability and indistinguishability when the bath is initially mixed. The relationship between the coherent controllability of a quantum system in the presence of a bath and the ability of the bath to distinguish between alternate excitation pathways is investigated. The central idea is that if the bath can somehow determine the excitation pathway then quantum control of the system becomes impossible.
Individual rights in the unionized workforce conflict between minority needs and majority interests

This thesis examines potential problems caused by the interplay between the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Ontario Labour Relations Act in unionized workplaces. Due to the majoritarian structure of unions, the interests of minorities may be ignored. This can be problematic for a human rights complainant who is in need of accommodations that interfere with the labour relations rights of other employees, as the union may therefore not wish to accommodate. However, due to forums jurisprudence, the union may be the 'gatekeeper' that must be approached by the employee. The paper looks firstly at the individual nature of human rights and contrasts this with the representative function of the union. It then explains areas of potential conflict, the role of forums rules, and the issues caused by Labour Board jurisprudence that is overly deferential to unions. Recommendations for change are made in the conclusion of the paper.

Keywords: Labor laws and legislation, Ontario
Civil rights, Ontario
Labor unions, Law and legislation
Labor unions, Ontario
A feasible approach to disjunctive knowledge in situation calculus

In this thesis we present LP, a reinterpretation of situation calculus based on intuitions from many-valued logics. The key difference is that the notion of truth is based on the fact that a term is interpreted into a set of objects rather than one single object and equality is interpreted as "possibly equals". LP is suitable for defining action theories that capture fluent-based disjunctive knowledge, which means that any incomplete knowledge the theory captures is limited to be about the value of one fluent each time. This essentially enforces an independence assumption on the fluents which allows for efficient evaluation mechanisms. We show that like situation calculus a similar regression theorem holds in LP . Furthermore, we prove that LP can be embedded in situation calculus and show how a special form of LP theories can be soundly implemented in Prolog and the agent programming language Indigolog.
An educational remix: global youth and/in the academy

This project seeks to explore the relations between current modes of academic practice and production which student's have access to alongside the "global youth" who have (potentially) called the conventionalities of academic practice and production into question in a significant way. While "Cultural Studies" has historically attempted to make "(sub)culture" its object of study in the academy, this project addresses the problematic of including and incorporating a technologically charged (in this case "youth") culture into academic practices. My focus is on DJ-ing and "remix" as specific aspects of youth culture. I am suggesting that "remix" could be an academic practice for students but that the contemporary academy has not tuned in to this practice as having methodological weight or potential pedagogic significance.

Keywords: Youth
College students
Education, Higher
3D finite element time domain methods

The finite element time domain (FETD) method in three dimensions with nodal elements is formulated. The method is applied to the scattering of a Gaussian pulse by a dielectric sphere and the frequency domain results are obtained by using discrete Fourier transform. It is shown that while the uniaxial perfectly matched layer (UPML) is suitable as an absorbing boundary condition for the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method and for the FETD with edge elements, in the case of nodal elements it is necessary to use the original Berenger's perfectly matched layer (PML). The reason is that PML and UPML differ in the divergence property of the electric field. FETD with nodal elements, FETD with edge elements and FDTD are compared and their important characteristics are verified. It is shown in a new way that FDTD is a special case of FETD with edge elements when rectangular brick elements with linear interpolation functions are employed.
An investigation into dedifferentiation stage-specific gene profiling, and a detailed examination of the expression of NvElastasei1 and NvSLPI during limb regeneration in Notophthalmus viridescens

The red spotted newt has the uncommon ability to fully regenerate many complex and diverse structures in response to amputation or severe injury. Consistent between the epimorphic regeneration of each structure is the requirement of tissues to undergo the process of dedifferentiation. This is a poorly understood process. Because of the heterogeneity of the regeneration process and limitations inherent in the newt as a model organism, a molecular characterization of dedifferentiation has not previously been performed. In order to improve the characterization of the dedifferentiation process, a subtractive hybridization strategy was employed to isolate 59 candidate cDNAs involved in the dedifferentiation stage from newt limb regenerates. Further analysis of 10 of them suggested that 5 of them were specifically expressed or upregulated during the dedifferentiation stage. One clone, NvElastaseI, was further examined for its temporal and spatial correlation to the dedifferentiation process. The same analyses were performed on a candidate inhibitor of Elastase I— NvSLPI. NvElastaseI demonstrated an expression pattern that suggested it may be involved in the dedifferentiation of intact tissues at the wound margin during the early stages of regeneration. In addition, based on the expression data and published accounts in other model systems, NvElastaseI, NvSLPI, and other clones identified by the screen may also contribute to the process of epithelial moulting. These results suggest that extracellular matrix remodeling and serine protease activity may be involved in the dedifferentiation stage and process, as well as suggest that newt moulting may represent a novel system within which to study the human psoriatic skin condition.
An examination of the ecology of the cisco (Coregonus artedii) in Ontario lakes

This research explores two aspects of cisco ecology: life history variation and behavioral variation. The life history investigation encompasses a spatial comparison of the life histories exhibited by populations from across Ontario; an assessment of changes made in life history exhibited by several populations over several decades; and an examination of the association between variation in life history and variation in the character of the higher trophic levels that are supported by cisco. Results indicate that there is a broad range in maximum attainable size, growth, condition and size at maturity, and these characteristics show strong positive correlations with one another. These traits had weak relationships with environmental measures of primary productivity (total dissolved solids), however the structure of the predator community (specifically the presence of walleye) was linked with larger body sizes and associated traits. Results from a detailed examination of the establishment of 3 new, independent and self-sustaining populations from the introduction of a single stock into three separate water-bodies in 1948, suggest that the life history strategy of a population of cisco can shift over short time scales (25 years or less). These life history shifts appear to be the result of plastic changes in phenotype, and are precipitated by significant changes in the predator community. Shifts in life history strategies can actually prevent the predator population from regaining the position once held in the community. The impact of predation on cisco behaviour was also examined. Results suggest that the presence of a visual predator increases the size of schools that cisco form during the day and forces those schools deeper into the water column, into less favorable environments. However, the presence of a visual predator does not impact the timing of school dissociation at the end of the day or the nighttime behavior itself. These findings are put into a larger context that emphasizes the importance of environmental characteristics and community characteristics in shaping the observed life history and behaviour of cisco populations.