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Deportation on national security grounds within a culture of legal justification

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.

Keywords: National security, Great Britain
Deportation, Canada
Deportation, Great Britain
National security, Canada
Emigration and immigration law, Canada
LIMK-1 and CREB regulation of long-term memory and synaptic function

Regulation of neuronal structural plasticity has been found to be important for learning and memory. LIMK1 is an important regulator of postsynaptic structural morphology. In addition, LIMK1 has been found to regulate CREB, which is an important and well studied transcription factor that facilitates the changes from short-term memory to long-term memory. In light of this, I have shown that LIMK1 exists in an immunocomplex with CREB in mature hippocampal neurons. Moreover, mice deficient in LIMK1 were shown to be deficient in late long-term potentiation (L-LTP) induced by high frequency stimulation and L-LTP induced by strong theta burst stimulation, suggestive of a role for LIMK1 in L-LTP and long-term synaptic plasticity. Important regulators of LIMK1 and downstream targets of the RhoGTPases were to be important in long-term memory.
Use-wear analysis on cuprous materials: method and theory

This thesis provides an overview of the methodology used in the analysis of cuprous artifacts from the Thomson-Walker site. This analysis involves use-wear analysis, through the production of experimental tools and their recording via digital media. These experimental tools are used to examine the wear traces left on the cuprous materials found in the midden context of the Thomson-Walker site, a contact-period Huron site dating between the late 1620's and 1640's. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the efficacy of use-wear analysis for cuprous materials, as well as examine the role of these pieces of trade brass and copper in proto-historic Huron society and technology.
Environmental justice in a toxic economy: community struggles with environmental health disorders in 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.

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
Iterative improvement of database configurations

Autonomic systems are motivated by the increased scale, complexity and cost of managing the current information infrastructure. Database configuration advisors are a very successful class of autonomic tools (they suggest desirable indexes, materialized views, and so on). Giving advice on configurations is a challenging task, yet the rewards on system responsiveness and performance can be huge. In this thesis we describe an iterative framework to provide on-going recommendations. We present algorithms that re-assess recommendations every step of the way until the DBMS reaches a satisfactory level of performance. Our proposal should be contrasted with the current approach of applying all of the recommender suggestions in one big batch. The proposed iterative framework allows the user to control the process of implementing new physical structures while observing the improvement in performance.
The revolution: the wholeness of blackness

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.

Keywords: Black race
Change
White supremacy movements
Liberty
Afrocentrism
Putting the pieces together: the development of children's interpretive judgment through irony

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.

Keywords: Irony
Philosophy of mind in children
Cognition in children
Children, Language
The culture of confession

This thesis considers analyses of confession in continental philosophy, and interprets examples of confession in film and literature in light of these philosophical texts. There are three main objectives to this study: the first objective is to refute common notions about confession such as that it is an innate impulse or psychological need, that it reveals the truth of a pre-given subject, and that it function as a form of psychological catharsis. Instead it is argued that confession as we know it is a uniquely modern product of disciplinary power and that it serves to fix identities rather than to relieve minds of their memories. The first part of this thesis therefore pieces together and supplements Foucault's writings on confession in order to sketch a genealogy of what he calls the "confessing animal." These chapters aim to show that confession is a contingent rather than a transhistorical compulsion. and that it is often constraining rather than liberatory of confessing subjects. The second objective of this thesis is to consider the relation between confessor and confessant not only according to what Foucault calls the "axis of power," but also according to the "axis of ethics." While for Foucault the "axis of ethics" concerns relations with the self, ethics will here be taken as a relation of responsibility for the other. The confessional other will therefore be considered insofar as she is called upon both to listen and to respond. This concern for the ethical aspects of the confessional relation bring discussions of Hegel, Derrida, and Lévinas into dialogue with Foucault. The third and final objective of this thesis is to explore both discursive and non-discursive alternatives to confession, including silence, non-confessional autobiography, and political and artistic practices.

Keywords: Philosophy
The art of improvisation: English education, technology and pedagogy

This thesis examines issues at the intersection of three domains: a revisioning of English curriculum, expanding views of textuality and an intensifying integration of technology in English teaching. It reviews the current literature and research in technology, textuality and pedagogy and then examines the changes in educational policy in English Education in four jurisdictions as they relate to these specific domains. Using methodologies of case-by-case studies and a cross-case analysis, the thesis examined these themes in the teaching practices of three English teachers' in predominantly literature-based classrooms over six months. The results of the study support the hypothesis that shifting definitions of text and technology are indeed reshaping English Education practices. However, this inquiry demonstrates three other subtle elements affecting the teaching transaction in contemporary English classrooms. First, teachers' understanding of students' construction of knowledge continues to be a more significant factor in engaging students in transformative teaching than access to state-of-the-art technology. Second, as has been shown in other studies, access to and use of technology alone cannot transform teaching; teachers are much more willing to take risks in their practice if they are able to share and collaborate in small groups. Third, English practices continue to move from a knowing what to a knowing how paradigm that involves discernment, critical thought and an ability to access knowledge. This study also demonstrates that other issues continue to hinder English teaching and learning. First, there is a pronounced breach between educational policy and current teaching practices, manifesting itself in the divergence between mandated government expectations and local school constraints of economics and time. Second, a significant gap persists between literacy specialists who advocate for multi-literacies including electronic literacies, and English teachers who more often work in the traditional paradigms of literature and writing. Hence enhancements in technology and widening views of textuality broaden and deepen English teaching. Nevertheless, other factors also shape the learning transaction in significant ways because teaching and learning is never fixed or predictable but always contextual, surprising and human.
Where men are for sale: caribbean male representations and western female identities through sex tourist narratives

This thesis explores the practice of “female sex tourism” in the Caribbean where Western female tourists travel to the region for the purposed of engaging in sexual encounters with local men. I argue that through these arrangements, Western women are able to construct dominant and desirable identities through the sexualization and racialization of the Caribbean male body. By analyzing two texts written by Western female authors, Lucretia Stewart and Terry McMillan, who describe the female tourist/male local relationship in the Caribbean, I examine the means by which both principal female characters come to know themselves through their sexual relationships with Caribbean men.

Keywords: Sex tourism, Caribbean Area
Sex tourism
Travelers, Sexual behavior
Travelers, Caribbean Area
Women travelers, Sexual behavior
Women travelers, Caribbean Area
Sex-oriented businesses, Caribbean Area
Men, Social conditions
Men, Caribbean Area
Gender identity, Caribbean Area
Causes of primary air port tube temperature excursions in recovery boilers

Corrosion and cracking of waterwall tubes at primary air ports in kraft recovery boilers have been reported frequently in recent years. A general consensus is that tube cracking is strongly related to the temperature excursions observed on the air port tubes. Laboratory and field experiments have been performed to investigate the tube temperature excursion phenomena, using test sections equipped with thermocouples. In conclusion, direct contact of the tube surface with hot molten smelt seems to be the main cause of high tube temperature excursions at primary air ports. In addition, the heat transfer results suggest that the tube enters a transition boiling regime when molten smelt contacts the tube surface. The results also confirm that the magnitude of the temperature spikes depend on thickness of the frozen smelt layer attached to the outer tube surface, the movement of the molten smelt, and coolant velocity inside the tube.
Molecular chronobiology of myocardial hypertrophy and the chronotherapeutic effects of captopril

Molecular and physiologic processes follow a diurnal pattern to meet the differing demands of the organism. We have shown that>10% of cardiovascular (CV) genes express diurnal rhythmicity and in compensated heart disease there is conservation of rhythms; this may have important implications for CV function. We hypothesized the efficacy of drug therapy in CV disease may also exhibit a diurnal rhythm. We investigated the diurnal efficacy of captopril (ACEi) in cardiac remodelling, by using the transverse aorta constriction (TAC) murine model of pressure overload induced hypertrophy, and administered captopril(15mg/kg)/placebo I.P. to TAC and sham mice for 8wks starting 1 wk post-surgery:1h after lights-on (AM) or 1h before lights-off (PM) (12L:12Dcycle). The effect of time of treatment on cardiac gene expression, structure and function was investigated. We showed captopril given when the mice normally slept (AM) significantly improved CV function, reversed adverse remodelling and effectively targeted the underlying molecular processes.
Community pharmacists' perceptions of their collaborative working relationships with physicians for drug therapy management: An exploratory study

Purpose. To determine community pharmacists' perceptions of their collaborative working relationships (CWRs) with physicians and of factors that contributed to or hindered collaborative drug therapy management (C-DTM). Methods. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with medical building pharmacists in Toronto who varied in gender and years of practice experience in Canada. Interpretive content analysis was performed. Results. Pharmacists desired a role in C-DTM to reduce the number of drug therapy problems; however, collaboration was uncommon. Pharmacists' best CWRs were at low, mid, and high levels. Attributes ascribed to CWRs were trust, working together, communication, sharing decisions and patient information, and patient referral. Factors that contributed to or hindered the development of CWRs at the practice and system levels were described. Conclusions. C-DTM is infrequent and does not occur to the extent that participants perceived was necessary to improve prescribing and patient outcomes. McDonough and Doucette's CWR Model (2001) should include third-party (i.e. receptionist) and systemic factors as influences on pharmacist-physician CWRs.
Cardiac restoration with a biodegradable cardiac patch

Conclusions. An acellular cardiac patch can integrate with the heart by cell engraftment, collagen deposition and angiogenesis. BMC infusion may increase angiogenesis in the patch. Objective. We evaluated the feasibility of using an acellular patch to repair the left ventricular (LV) apex. Methods. Rats underwent LV apical resection and replacement with gelatin mesh. At 2 days, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 weeks, LV function, cell infiltration, neovascularization, matrix formation and biomaterial degradation were evaluated. Enhancement of patch remodeling was also investigated by intravenous bone marrow cell infusion. Results. The acellular patch repaired the LV apex. Biomaterial resorbed over time and was replaced by infiltrated cells and collagen. Blood vessels were observed in the newly formed tissue, which was enhanced by cell infusion.
Exploring the DNA-binding specificities of mouse transcription factors

Two striking findings of vertebrate genome sequencing are the presence of large numbers of DNA binding proteins and the high proportion of conserved non-coding sequences, much of which is cis-regulatory. Lack of comprehensive knowledge about binding specificities of transcription factors (TFs) complicates de novo computational searches for novel cis-regulatory elements. To address the paucity of information on binding affinity of TFs, I aimed to characterize the DNA-binding specificities of sim;1500 murine TFs. I was involved in the construction of a library of DNA-binding domains (DBDs) of mouse TFs. I utilized this library to express/purify the DBDs for application on Protein Binding Microarrays, an array-based approach used to determine binding specificity of TFs. Analysis of preliminary PBM results are consistent with known binding specificities for TFs. Data for uncharacterized TFs yielded diverse new motifs. The data will provide a valuable resource in understanding the relationship between TFs and their cis-regulatory elements.
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation for a research uninhabited aerial vehicle control

In this thesis, a multi-objective control for a research uninhabited aerial vehicle is presented. Using the eigenstructure assignment approach, a flight controller is developed to meet multiple design specifications during a flight mission. The controller is implemented into a digital control system with commercial off-the-shelf actuators. Real-time simulations and hardware-in-the-loop experiments are performed to verify the feasibility of this design. In addition, a comparative analysis of different digital implementation are made. The Kalman filter is further employed to improve the performance of the digital control system.

Keywords: Drone aircraft, Control systems
Effect of local anaesthesia on capsaicin-induced neurogenic inflammation

Neurogenic inflammation has been associated with the development of temporomandibular disorders and noxious stimulation of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) region has led to reflex excitation of masticatory muscles. The aim of this study was to evaluate the neurogenic component in acute TMJ inflammation by investigating the effect of local anesthetic blockade of afferent innervation on the development of capsaicin-induced edema in the rat TMJ region and on reflex jaw muscle activity. The application of capsaicin into the saline pre-treated TMJ region led to edema development and reflex jaw muscle activity. However, pre-treatment with bupivacaine failed to inhibit capsaicin-induced edema; whereas, reflex jaw muscle activity was abolished. Therefore, edema of the rat TMJ region developed independent of axonal conduction, suggesting inflammatory mediators such as neuropeptides may be directly released from primary afferent nerve terminals regardless of functional nerve conduction. Moreover, capsaicin-induced reflex jaw muscle activity appears to be centrally mediated.
Effect of surface chemistry on the rate of osseointegration of sintered porous-surfaced Ti-6Al-4V implants

The effect of adding a thin sol-gel-formed calcium phosphate (Ca-P) coating over sintered porous-surfaced Ti-6Al-4V implants on the rate of bone ingrowth to achieve implant fixation has been investigated. Control implants (sintered Ti-6Al-4V surface zone alone) and sol-gel Ca-P-coated implants were placed distal femoral condyle of New-Zealand white rabbits and sacrificed at 6, 9, 12 and 16 days. Significantly greater mechanical pull-out force (N) and interfacial stiffness (N/mm) were found for the Ca-P-coated implants (p < 0.05) in the 6 and 9 day groups. Secondary electron image and backscattered scanning electron microscopy observations suggested greater bone interdigitation and contact with the Ca-P-coated porous surface region than with the control implant surface region at 6, 9, 12 and 16 days. The sol-gelformed Ca-P surface film significantly enhances the early rate of bone ingrowth into sintered porous-surfaced implants.