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Interrogation of pedagogical practices of mother tongue bilteracy in French and English: a Francophone case study

This 2004 ethnographic inquiry, set in the evolving Winfield-Wessex context of French colonization in Ontario, interrogated the informal and formal pedagogical practices of mother tongue biliteracy in "francais langue maternelle" and English as constructed through changing language policies, language ideologies, and inherited "f/Francophone" illiteracy. I focused my case study on examining the embodied interactions and effects of these practices on the study's participants within the two grade 9 languages/literacies classrooms and everyday school life at l'Envol, the French-language secondary school. I define mother tongue literacy development and related pedagogical practices as ideological concepts that contain underlying views of language, literacy, identity, and power relationships. To attend to participants' language/literacy interactions and practices, to understand them, explain their sources, how they work and their effects, I adopt an experiential framework based on my reflections and insights as a Franco-Ontarian researcher that is couched within an interpretive and critical approach to the ethnography of communication and d/Discourse analysis. My study took account of the perceptions and practices of differently positioned adolescent students, teachers, parents, members of the secondary school staff, and school board administrators all of whom reflected multiple individual, family, and community interests. By using selected excerpts from my interviews, my observations, and relevant documents that reveal a disjuncture between language ideology, pedagogy, and situated practice, I argue that the pedagogical practices of French mother tongue (in its restricted meaning and its "francais langue maternelle" school literacy incarnation) create constraints and tensions for the diverse participants in Room 101 and the educational community at l'Envol as a whole. These restrictive practices invalidate students' other mother tongue identities and act against incorporating student background experience and knowledge as scaffolds for their biliteracy development. I invoke the concept of third space to bring together the divisive ideological language views and pedagogical practices of the dominant "francais " space of mother tongue biliteracy and those of the English mother tongue space to build students' unified bi/multilingual repertoires as they evolve in the in-between spaces of a globalized world.

Keywords: French-Canadians, Education
French-Canadians, Ontario
Bilingualism, Ontario
English language, Study and teaching
English language, Ontario
French language, Study and teaching
French language, Ontario
Native language and education, Ontario
Identifying human in vitro cell models to assess the ability of modulated aryl hydrocarbon receptor expression to influence functional outcomes

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor involved in xenobiotic metabolism as well as physiological and developmental processes. It is found in virtually ail vertebrate tissues, although expression and activity vary widely. Similarly, AHR levels are modulated in some tumours compared to healthy surrounding tissue. Since the relationship between AHR expression level and AHR function remains poorly understood, we sought to develop human in vitro models to clarify this interaction. Two experimental approaches were employed determining the impact of AHR levels on AHR-regulated functions: (1) Comparison of wildtype MCF-7 human breast cancer cells with their AHR-deficient variant, AH 100 cells; and (2) Creation of an inducible human AHR expression vector, pEGSH-AHR, using Statagene's Compiete ControlRTM dual-vector system. Our results show AHR level can influence induction of target genes and cell proliferation. AHR expressed from pEGSH-AHR was inducible, and able to bind ligand and drive reporter plasmid gene expression.
Determination of metal-mold heat transfer coefficient for aluminum alloys

The objective of this work was to focus on the effects of various parameters on the heat transfer coefficient at the metal-mold interface. These parameters include surface roughness, metal superheat, metallostatic head, and interface gas. Experimental work was conducted in an apparatus developed to measure heat transfer at this interface. Consisting of two cylindrical sections, which form a horizontal T-shape casting. Quantitative evaluation of these parameters required the use various types of sensors, thermocouples and Linear Variable Differential Transformers. Monitoring of these sensors was carried out simultaneously to collect temperature histories and air gap development. A356 alloy and A319 alloy were studied for their industrial use. These were cast against copper, steel, and cast-iron molds. The molds were chosen to have a wide variety of heat transfer properties. An inverse heat conduction procedure was developed to estimate the interfacial heat transfer coefficient and heat flux at the metal mold interface.
Developmental coordination disorder: exploration of a cerebellar hypothesis

Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) represent a significant portion of the school-aged population. They experience coordination deficits which considerably impact their performance of daily activities at home, in play, and at school. While their coordination abilities have been extensively studied, the nature and mechanisms of the disorder remains poorly understood. Given the identified coordination deficits of these children and the evidence gathered from studies characterizing those deficits, the hypothesis of a cerebellar dysfunction warrants investigation. Accordingly, the objectives of this study were to explore the performance of children with and without DCD on a throwing task, designed to measure cerebellar function. A two-group comparison design was used to evaluate between-group and individual differences. Results demonstrated that, as a group, children with DCD are more variable and less accurate than their peers, and that some children with DCD may have a cerebellar dysfunction. Further studies are needed to examine this hypothesis.
Mixed media: intention and contrariety in Blake's art

This dissertation examines William Blake's use of artistic media and his metaphorical representations of those media in his poetry, prose, and visual art. Blake's images of media have generally been considered to have rather monological meanings, but I argue that he destabilizes their moral associations so that they fluctuate between positive and negative possibilities. I contend that the ambiguity of these images allegorizes Blake's ambivalence about artistic intention itself. While his work often manifests a vehement desire to communicate vital intentions, it also reveals uncertainty about the potential of such intentions to reach beyond the artist's imagination. This uncertainty is also operative in larger ontological and metaphysical dimensions of Blake's art, because his idea of intention is implicated in the oppositional phenomenon of “contrariety,” which is related to his theories of the “contraries” in his poems. For Blake, intention itself is contrary, which means that every intention necessarily invokes its opposite. Blake cultivates these contrary associations not in order to stymy interpretation, but rather to avoid Urizenic monologism and to create a kind of representation which is open to the imperatives of oppositional thinking. Contrariety generates semantic excess, which requires Blake's readers to undertake extraordinarily active forms of interpretation. Each of the four chapters examines a specific medium in Blake's work and tries to demonstrate how this medium embodies contrary intentional trajectories. Chapter One studies Blake's language, giving particular attention to his use of emphasis and his invocations of the prophetic voice. Chapter Two looks at Blake's theory and practice of linearism, showing how his lines embody the contrary functions of limitation and transgression. Chapter Three examines Blake's mirror metaphors and the mirror-effects of his graphic media, arguing that he alternates between a distortive Platonic mirror and a divine reflective surface which contains perfect representations. Chapter Four focuses on Blake's images of mechanism and his use of mechanical processes in his graphic media, arguing that he portrays technology as both an aid to human agency and a hindrance to it. Each of these chapters shows how Blake's contrariety of intention creates excess, which moves beyond the limits of system.
A hybrid object recognition system for planetary exploration robots

One of the most useful tools for mobile robotics is vision. A proposed hybrid recognition system that combines the outputs of two different recognition algorithms is presented. The combined outputs include identified objects as well as confidence measures. The system is evaluated on a series of real world unstructured scene images of the Argo class rover network. The hybrid system is able to effectively integrate these modules and successfully utilize their respective strengths to improve robustness and identification capability. Its architecture presents many advantages over traditional object recognition systems with regards to environment versatility as well as decentralized fault tolerance and communications for network robotics.

Keywords: Computer vision
Optical pattern recognition
Image processing, Digital techniques
Roving vehicles (Astronautics)
Large eddy simulation using tetrahedral finite elements

A large eddy simulation (LES) code is developed from an existing incompressible Navier-Stokes solver based on the finite element method. Taylor-Hood, [special characters omitted], and Crouzeix-Raviart, [special characters omitted], tetrahedral elements are implemented for the spatial discretization. The time discretization uses a second order accurate, semi-implicit, split time advancement scheme. The semi-implicit scheme employs a backward differentiation time integration scheme for the viscous term and the Adams-Bashforth scheme for the convective term. Convergence results in space and time are reported for the variable viscosity Navier-Stokes solver. The Smagorinsky model is implemented for the sub-grid scale approximation. The resulting algebraic system is solved using a matrix-free conjugate gradient iterative method. Results of isotropic decaying turbulence in a triple periodic cube are compared with direct numerical simulation (DNS) and experimental data. Preliminary conclusions regarding the performance of the element-wise divergence-free Crouzeix-Raviart element compared to the Taylor-Hood element which only assures divergence-free in a weak sense (i.e., over the entire domain) are presented.
MCurve: A crossing-based system for graphical music composition

In this thesis we created the MCurve prototype, a system for composing graphical music scores using pen-based interaction techniques. This prototype is based on early twentieth century graphical scores and the psychological and ethno-musicological research into the way humans perceive melodies and create them. Within MCurve, we developed new pen-based techniques for phrase-based musical input, linear curve editing and chord progressions. We performed a quantitative study comparing Char-rec, Piano-Roll and our own crossing-based technique for transcribing western melodic phrases.
Deconstructing habeas corpus: a tale of sovereignty, governance and the non-citizen subject

This thesis takes as its starting point the enactment of the 2005 REAL ID Act in the United States. It explores the theoretical implications of its foreclosure of habeas corpus to non-citizen subjects challenging their removal from the United States. The thesis initially theorizes the curtailment of habeas corpus as a legal measure deployed to manage the perception of crisis. In order to justify and sustain this legal maneuver, the State manufactures a social narrative, depicting the alien subject as a threat to the administration of law, as well as to the safety of the dominant population. The thesis then posits that by excluding a subpopulation from the field of habeas corpus, the State metaphorically re-conceptualizes its sovereign boundaries around access to an adjudicative site. In doing so, the adjustments to habeas jurisdiction purportedly operate to exclude a subpopulation; manage crisis; construct a desired order, and correct the biopolitical governance of the population.

Keywords: Habeas corpus, United States
Deportation, United States
Aliens, United States
Reginald Pecock's vision of religious education for 'alle cristen peple' in fifteenth-century England

While a range of religious works written for lay-folk in late medieval England are prefaced by the author's hesitance to add to the growing "multitude of bokes and tretees drawne in englische, "1 the surviving works of Reginald Pecock boldly announce that they are the only necessary books for both lay and religious audiences, and furthermore, that they must be studied daily. This dissertation points to the ambitious nature of Pecock's comprehensive program for lay education, investigating the reasons why Pecock felt so strongly about the need for his rational, philosophical texts among pious lay readers. The first two chapters examine continuities between the sophisticated religious prose of the late fourteenth century and Pecock's corpus in terms of the way that these works sought to influence the pious laity through instruction on devotional practices: these chapters work from the understanding that critical focus on Pecock's rational approach to lay religion has obscured his commitment to challenging lay readers to develop spiritual practices rooted in both stirring the affect and stimulating the intellect. Chapter three analyzes Pecock's position on the controversial issue of lay Bible reading, highlighting his efforts to draw readers away from the Lollard textual community into a new community structured around the authoritative book of reason. Chapter four focuses on the relations that Pecock envisions between members of this textual community: Pecock's vision of friendship, love, and "felawlik comunycacioun" 2 between clergy and laity in his imagined textual community is situated within a range of late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century ideas about how to define proper relations between the clergy and laity at a time when knowledge and learning is passing out of the hands---and the control---of the trained clergy and into the hands of the untrained laity. The fifth chapter studies Pecock's views on the best way to educate the lay reader to ensure the most stability, spiritual profit, and harmony within the community, focusing on the way Pecock structures his works to facilitate the integration of various groups in the community through the progress and evolution of the lay reader.1 "Orologium Sapientiae or The Seven Poyntes of Trewe Wisdom aus MS Douce 114," ed. Karl Horstmann, Anglia 10 (1887) 326. 2 Reginald Pecock, The Folewer to the Donet, ed. Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS o.s. 164, London: Oxford University Press, 1924, New York: Kraus Reprint, 1981) 8.
The premise of computer science: Establishing modern computing at the University of Toronto (1945--1964)

This dissertation explores the introduction and acceptance of electronic computers at the University of Toronto, from the first vague intentions of 1945 to the creation of the first Department of Computer Science in Canada that offered a doctoral degree in 1964. It is not the aim of this project to provide a history of computer science, per se, as the discipline did not coalesce until after most of the events discussed herein. Instead, as the historical literature concerning computer science is still underdeveloped, this pre-history provides both a useful case study and a foundation for further research on the history of computing and computer science in Canada. In the second half of the 1950s, less expensive and more reliable commercial computers appeared on the market and other Canadian organizations began making plans to acquire one of their own. As the Toronto computing centre was self-financed through the sale of computer time and federal grants, the changing environment reduced the national significance of the centre and forced a reevaluation of values. Two interrelated plans were made to regain its fortune: to obtain the most powerful computer in Canada, and establish a new, autonomous academic department dedicated to computing research. Success was elusive until the early 1960s, and neither concluded in the expected manner. The story begins shortly after World War II, when a group of professors with an interest in modern computing devices petitioned the university and several federal agencies for funding to build or buy an electronic computer. Though located in Toronto, it was hoped that all Canadian scientists could use the new machine for their computations. There were setbacks, including a failed attempt to design and construct a full-scale electronic computer, and successes, ironically involving older, premodern equipment. In 1952, the first electronic computer in Canada was installed at Toronto, though few knew how to use it. With assistance from programmers at Manchester University, the Toronto computing centre mastered the computer and made it available to the rest of the country.
Plant performance at low atmospheric CO2: interactions with phosphorus supply and growth temperature

The effects of the current anthropogenic rise in the concentration of atmospheric CO2 on plants and primary productivity can only be fully understood by examination of past variation in atmospheric CO2 concentration. Selection pressure at the low atmospheric CO2 concentration of the Pleistocene may have left a genetic legacy that limits plant responses to future increases in CO2 concentration. This thesis addresses the question of plant performance at low CO2 concentration, and how it is affected by temperature and phosphorus (P) deficiency. The interaction of P deficiency with CO2 concentration was examined using white lupin (Lupinus albus L.), which obtains P through proteoid roots, which are easily assayed in hydroponic culture. Low P reduced the growth of lupins at ambient and elevated CO2 concentrations, but not at sub-ambient CO2 concentrations. Under P deficiency, high CO2-grown plants produced more proteoid root clusters, but the activity of each cluster was similar in low, ambient and high CO2-grown plants. Photosynthesis, like growth, increased with growth CO2 concentration only when P was not limiting. These experiments indicate that, at the current concentration of atmospheric CO2, P already limits the ability of plants to respond to increased CO2 concentration. The shift from carbon limitation at low CO2 levels to P limitation under elevated CO2 levels may result in plant adaptations that are not optimal for current and future atmospheric CO2 levels. The whole-plant CO2 compensation point is the point at which CO2 assimilation is balanced by CO2 loss through respiration. To determine this, the relative leaf expansion rate of tobacco was measured over a range of CO2 concentrations from 100 to 270 mumol mol -1 at 3 temperatures (19/15, 25/20 and 30/25°C). Plants grown under low concentrations of CO2 showed reduced growth and increased mortality, particularly at warmer temperatures. The whole-plant CO2 compensation point was estimated to be between 75 and 80 mumol mol-1. Stressful conditions that increase plant carbon requirements might increase this, and prevent successful reproduction of C 3 plants at low atmospheric CO2 concentration.
The impact of stroke survivors' behavioral and psychological symptoms on informal caregivers' mental health

Background. Behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPS) exhibited by stroke survivors are becoming recognized as significant contributors to informal caregivers' (IC) emotional distress (depression symptoms). Unfortunately, common methodological limitations, including sample, measures, and research design, limit the generalizability of findings. In addition, BPS are considered a global construct, but it is more likely that domains of BPS may differentially affect IC mental health. Method. Three studies were conducted to achieve these objectives. Study one (objective one) entailed a cross-sectional study of IC to stroke survivors. Linear regression determined the contribution of BPS to IC emotional distress after controlling for other important factors. Study two (objective two) determined the domains of BPS by exploratory factor analysis. Study three (objectives three and four) used a longitudinal repeated-assessment (one, three, six and 12 months post-stroke) cohort study of survivors of their first stroke and their IC. Individual growth curve modeling evaluated change in emotional distress over time and identified the domains of BPS associated with IC emotional distress. Results. In study one, BPS explained 8% (p
Time-interleaved continuous-time delta-sigma modulators

In this thesis, a method of time-interleaving continuous-time delta-sigma modulators is investigated. The derivation of the modulator starting from a discrete-time time-interleaved structure is presented. With various simplifications, the resulting modulator has only a single-path of integrators, making it robust to DC offsets. A third-order low-pass continuous-time time-interleaved delta-sigma modulator with an oversampling ratio of 5 is designed in a 0.18mu m CMOS technology with a 1.8V supply voltage. Experimental results show that an SNDR of 57dB and a dynamic range of 60dB are obtained with a sampling frequency of 100MHz. With a sampling frequency of 200MHz, an SNDR of 49dB with a dynamic range of 55dB is achieved. The power consumption is 101mW at 100MHz, and 103 mW at 200MHz.