VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Holism, 'whole' personality, and disintegration: a case study of the impact of homeloss on Kurdish families displaced from Kirkuk

Grounded in the perspective of Dynamic Anthropology, which studies human beings through their expression, psycho-physiologically indivisible from life experience, the present study locates the case of homeloss of a Kurdish family displaced from Kirkuk within the theoretical framework of Mimodrama, introduced/explicated in Chapter Two and developed throughout the present thesis. Within this theoretical framework, human development and learning are understood as an outcome of the dynamic multileveled inner/outer interactions between the intussuscepted impact of (the) event(s) in the visceral memory of the human being and the subsequent conscious expression of that memory in performance. Holistic learning and development are viewed as contingent on an unimpeded balance of visceral impressions and their expressions in performance. Whenever the balance of expressions and expressions is impeded, the holistic authentic self-development and learning are disrupted, ultimately leading to (self- ) colonizing development, which culminates in ethnostress: the disruption of the 'whole' personality and its eventual disintegration.

Keywords: Kurdish diaspora
Kurds, Migrations
Internally displaced persons, Iraq
Holistic education
Vegetation and sea-level history of a mangrove swamp at Levera Pond, Grenada

Grenada is a tropical, mountainous island in the Caribbean (12°1', 61°4'). Levera, a national park on the northeast coast, has a brackish pond (3 m deep, 0.5 km2) and mangrove swamp, sheltered by a beach barrier. Rhizophora fringes the pond and tidal inlet, followed by an Avicennia zone, mixed mangrove zone, and Hippomane zone. Surface pollen samples reflect local vegetation, but Rhizophora and Conocarpus are over-represented, while Avicennia and Laguncularia are under-represented. Sediment lithology, pollen, and macrofossil analysis indicate that the mangrove swamp was formerly a bay. Two sediment cores (445 cm long) have a basal horizon of marine shelly sand, overlain by Rhizophora peat, mixed mangrove peat, and then clay. A sharp contact between shelly sand and Rhizophora peat indicates a sudden decrease in energy of deposition. Approximately 2300 years ago, formation of a beach barrier and accumulation of sediments caused the mangrove swamp to prograde into the bay. The succession from Rhizophora peat to mixed mangrove peat indicates a progressive drying of the swamp. In historic times, forest clearance and agriculture have increased erosion, causing deposition of clay. Pollen from weeds and Hippomane increase, while Conocarpus declines.

Keywords: Mangrove ecology, Grenada
TrebleCast: A structured DHT capable P2P overlay topology for extremely heterogeneous networks

TrebleCast is a novel loosely consistent structured peer-to-peer network which uses an unstructured Newscast gossip substrate to repair and maintain a distributed hash table capable overlay. Under static conditions, the protocol has an average search time of O(log n), however the protocol is also designed to be highly resilient to churn and is effective in networks with very heterogeneous nodes with an average search time of log n and a worst case bound of n . The TrebleCast superstructure maintains a grid type lattice that is indexed in a spiral fashion. Each successive layer in TrebleCast incorporates more nodes than the previous and data is consistently hashed to each layer which allows TrebleCast to intrinsically support data redundancy. TrebleCast is best suited to networks with high churn and very heterogeneous nodes performing periodic maintenance which makes it more robust than other DHT capable overlays at the cost of extra messaging.
Spirituality in education to work transitions: synergy of mind, body and soul

This work gave consideration to how spirit injury affects dominant and minority students' outlooks of the education to work transition and to further an understanding of the role of spirituality in this life stage. Maintaining that spirituality is fundamental for individuals' development, the project revealed how valued spiritual development and a sense of interconnectedness enables young adults to relocate from education into the world of employment while making informed life choices. The interrelations of spiritual and emotional development gave breadth and importance to outlooks as both spirituality and spirit injury are closely tied to the manifest perceptions held by students. Utilizing a sample of various Canadian cultural groups aided an exploration of the pivotal function played by different forms of spiritual expression and how spirit injury leads to a sense of disconnection. The work incorporated spirituality as a pervasive, meaningful and universal energy defined religiously and non-religiously. The interview process revealed the role of spiritual development in confidence building and consideration was given to the relationships shared between minority and dominant students' perspectives with respect to spirit injury, education and work. The nuances that exist across cultures produced clarity toward appreciating how spirituality informs the critical intermediary stage and further, what happens when spiritual development is not fostered at the educational level and how spirit injury may ultimately affect work paths and lifelong goals.

Keywords: School-to-work transition, Psychological aspects
Spiritual life
Minority students, Attitudes
Students, Attitudes
An inquiry into the use of stories about scientists from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in broadening grade one students' images of science and scientists

Students' "images of science" (Driver, Leach, Millar Scott, 1996) and their images of scientists are widely accepted as important aspects of their scientific literacy (National Research Council, 1996) and have important implications for how they learn and engage with science in a classroom context (Hofer, 2001). While numerous studies have documented primary (grades 1 to 3) students' stereotypic images of scientists as sexist, racist, asocial, few have examined instructional strategies effective in broadening these views. Studies (Solomon, Duveen Scott, 1994; Tao, 2003) involving intermediate and senior students have suggested that science stories can help students develop more authentic views of the nature of science. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how stories about scientists from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds (i.e., physical ability, gender, ethnicity), presented over a 15-week period, influence grade one students' images of science and scientists. Data sources included: pre and post audiotaped interviews, draw-a-scientist-test (Chambers, 1983), participant observation and student work. Results indicated that while students' stereotypic images of scientists were not eliminated, students acquired additional images more inclusive of less dominant socio-cultural backgrounds. Gains were noted in students' images of the purpose of science, the nature of scientific work and the social nature of scientific work. Less positive results involving student resistance to non-stereotypic images of scientists and a loss of interest in becoming a scientist highlight the complexity of using stories about scientists with primary students. The implications of these findings for research and classroom practice are discussed.

Keywords: Science, Study and teaching (Elementary)
Scientists
School children, Attitudes
Storytelling
Early childhood education, Activity programs
Math engagement, perceptions, and performance across high school and post-secondary education

The effects of an educational intervention intended to enhance the performance, persistence, and engagement of high school girls in mathematics and science was investigated in a series of three studies. The intervention consisted of all-girls classroom instruction in math and science during grades 9 and 10. The all-girls courses were carried out in the context of a public co-educational high school (and the girls in the special program took the balance of their coursework in co-educational classrooms). The 474 subjects in this longitudinal investigation included 57 girls in the intervention group, 172 girls in the regular co-educational program, and 245 boys in the co-ed program. In all three studies, a range of pre-existing achievement, background, and psychological characteristics were used for screening and/or as covariates to ensure comparability of the groups. Study 1 examined the effects of the intervention at the high school level. There were significant program effects found for math and science achievement, and for science enrolment as well as for perceived math competence and effort expended on math. However, girls in the intervention maintained high levels of math anxiety. In Study 2, when these outcomes were examined at the post-secondary level, there were no longer any notable achievement or math attitude differences associated with the program. Study 3 used individual growth curve modeling to examine how math achievement and perceived math competence changed over the course of high school and post-secondary education. Change was found to be non-linear for both constructs (with math achievement starting high, dipping, and then recovering; and with perceived competence doing the opposite). The all-girl intervention appeared to act as a protective mechanism by not allowing the temporary decline in achievement experienced by both co-ed boys and co-ed girls.

Keywords: Sex differences in education
Mathematics, Study and teaching (Secondary)
Science, Study and teaching (Secondary)
Mathematics, Study and teaching (Higher)
Science, Study and teaching (Higher)
Performance anxiety
Academic achievement
Girl seeks suitable boy: Indian marriage dot com

This thesis examines the use of marriage dot com websites by diasporic Indians in Canada and the U.S. My primary interest is how diasporic Indians practice identity and produce community, and I see these websites as the loci where this is done. My data consists of interviews with 10 North American Indians and a textual analysis of two Indian matrimonial websites (A1 Indian Matrimonials.com and Shaadi.com). From one of these websites, I construct meaning out of 100 online postings. I examine the racialized positioning of diasporic Indians as the 'model minority' in the U.S. and as a 'visible minority' in Canada. I do this (a) to elucidate the 'push' factors that motivate diasporic Indians to seek other Indians as marriage partners, and (b) to show how the 'educated native' of colonial times makes for a diasporic Indian identity that is educated, male and Hindu-Brahmin dominated. I mobilize Brah's notion of the Indian diaspora as a contested, heterogeneous entity, one that is fissured along lines of race, class, caste, nation, and gender. I then comment on the on- and off-line marriage expectations and practices among diasporic Indians and the extent to which they represent a continuation, rupture or negotiation along these axes. What emerges is a complex picture of diasporic Indian identity in which notions of love, family, marriage, community and feminism have points of difference and sameness from Western and Indian notions. In this context matrimonial websites allow a fusion of tradition with technology in which there is a simultaneous opening up of possibilities within highly specific cultural constraints. I explore how hybridity and mobility have different meanings for men and women website users. I also point out the various ways in which examination of matrimonial websites can inform diasporic theory, such as the reformulation of 'Indian-ness', 'homeland' and 'community', and the polyphonic discourse made possible by internet practices.
Orientation towards 'clerical work': institutional ethnographic study of immigrant women's experiences and employment-related services

Despite their educational and professional backgrounds, many highly educated Chinese immigrant women in Toronto decided to enter or re-enter the host labour market at the clerical level. Engaged in this problematic, I probe into the social processes regulating women's choice of clerical work as a 'natural'. The first social process involves the women's perception of their language proficiency, skill levels and suitable occupations in Canada, which is formed and transformed at the converging force of their gendered division of family responsibilities and their gendered and racialized experiences in the host labour market. The second social process pertains to the institutional practices of training and employment services that the women stumbled into. I argue that the service organization is dismissive of gender and racial issues facing immigrant women and contributes to channeling immigrant women to the clerical sector, reinforcing the gendered and racialized segmentation of the labour market.

Keywords: Women immigrants, Ontario
Sexual division of labor, Ontario
Chinese, Ontario
Labor supply, Ontario
Chinese, Cultural assimilation
Chinese, Ontario
Women immigrants, Employment
Women immigrants, Ontario
Women immigrants, Education
Women immigrants, Ontario
Occupational training, Ontario
English language, Study and teaching
Vocational guidance, Ontario
Educational change, Ontario
Sex role in the work environment, Ontario
Women immigrants, Social conditions
Women immigrants, Ontario
Wages, Effect of education on
Wages, Ontario
Women clerks, Ontario
Chinese language, Social aspects
Chinese language, Ontario
Determining the prevalence of anemia and investigating factors associated with hemoglobin concentration and anemia at six months of age in rural Bangladesh

Anemia remains the most common disease in the world. Iron deficiency (ID), its most common cause, affects over one-third of the world's population. While infants aged 6 to 24 months are at increased risk, some of them are already anemic by 6 months of age, and thus have already been exposed to its negative effects. To determine the prevalence of anemia and investigate factors contributing to hemoglobin (Hb) and anemia (Hb
Striving towards optimal antenatal care for pregnancies complicated with fetal anomalies in Canada: A single center retrospective study

Background. Birth defects remain one of the primary contributors to infant mortality. This study describes the practice patterns for two sub-specialties: Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) and Prenatal Medical Genetics (PMG) who provide antenatal care for high risk pregnancies. Methods. A tertiary care medical center in Toronto was selected for the retrospective study. A total of 3704 and 7831 charts were reviewed in MFM and PMG departments for the years 2002--2004 inclusive. Results. 447 and 457 patients seen by MFM and PMG respectively and 58 patients were consulted by both subspecialties. Mean maternal and gestational age, postnatal outcomes (interruption of pregnancies) and referral patterns were found to be significantly different between the two groups (p
A parallel high-order discontinuous Galerkin solver for the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in complex geometries

We verify the accuracy and stability of the method on several two- and three-dimensional benchmarking problems. On the challenging Orr-Sommerfeld test problem, the equal-order polynomial approximation of the velocity and pressure (Pk - Pk) leads to a stable and accurate solution, while the mixed-order method (Pk - Pk-1) yields a non-physical instability. In simulating vortex shedding past a square cylinder at Re = 100 and in simulating a three-dimensional backward-facing step flow using the equal-order method, excellent agreement with other computational and experimental results are obtained. The developed solver is used to study flow through a two-dimensional bileaflet mechanical heart valve geometry. We conclude that the proposed discontinuous Galerkin method with the Pk - Pk formulation is a suitable scheme for simulations of flows through mechanical heart valve geometries. We develop a parallel method and corresponding code for the numerical solution of the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, with application to the direct numerical simulation of transitional and turbulent flows through mechanical heart valves. The solver is based on a simple and efficient scheme, namely a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method on triangular and tetrahedral elements. Spatial discretization of the Stokes operator employed both equal-order (Pk - Pk) and mixed-order (Pk - Pk-1) velocity and pressure approximations. The interior penalty method and local Lax-Friedrichs fluxes are used for the discretizations of the viscous term and the nonlinear term in the divergence form, respectively. A second order approximate algebraic splitting is used to decouple the velocity and pressure calculations leading to an algebraic Helmholtz equation for each component of the velocity and a consistent Poisson equation for the pressure. The consistent Poisson operator is replaced by an equivalent operator, namely that arising from the interior penalty discretization of the standard Poisson operator with appropriate boundary conditions. An explicit lower bound is derived for the penalty parameter of the interior penalty method that ensures the coercivity of the bilinear form. Efficiency aspects of the scheme include knowing an explicit expression for the penalty parameter of the interior penalty method and compact stencil size for the discretizations of the velocity and pressure equations and the nonlinear term.
Mandibular deficiency in knockout mice lacking bone sialoprotein expression

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is a non-collagenous bone matrix protein whose high expression is associated with de novo bone formation. To address non-redundant functions of BSP in osteoblasts and bone, BSP knockout mice were prepared (Aubin et al., 1996). Craniofacial abnormalities were evident in these knockout mice. The objectives of this study were to compare the craniofacial parameters between BSP knockout mice and normal littermates by cephalometric analysis of the skulls. Twenty-seven BSP +/+ (wild type), 24 BSP+/- (heterozygotes) and 30 BSP-/- (homozygous knockout mutants) mouse skulls were radiographed. Statistical analysis revealed a very highly significant decrease in the mandibular length and height and a significant open-bite in knockout compared to wild type mice. These results provide a better understanding of BSP function in craniofacial development. These animals may also be useful as a model to study further the etiology and treatment of mandibular deficiency.
Downlink resource allocation in cellular and multi-hop cellular CDMA systems

A novel framework to model the problem of downlink resource allocation in conventional cellular systems and multi-hop cellular networks is presented. In conventional cellular CDMA systems, we use the dynamic pricing platform to formulate downlink resource allocation based on a novel defined cross-layer utility function. This utility function quantifies the degree of utilization of resources. Unlike the previous works, we solve the problem with the general objective of maximizing the total network utility instead of achieved utility of each Base Station (BS). In the second part of the thesis, we consider the problem of downlink resource allocation in multi-hop cellular networks where, using the concept of capacity regions, we propose an algorithm for joint optimum rate allocation and routing scheme in order to maximize the total throughput of multi-hop cellular CDMA networks. The notion of infeasibility factor is then defined and used to propose an adaptive scheme on top of the above algorithm to manage fundamental coverage-capacity tradeoff for the downlink.
Mentors' experiences in schools

This study addressed the following two-part research question: Does participating in a mentoring programme affect mentors' attitudes and beliefs about mentoring, and their reported mentoring behaviours? And if it does, in what way(s) do(es) such experiences affect the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of these people? In accomplishing this, the study presents descriptions of five mentors' attitudes and beliefs about mentoring, and mentoring behaviours, as seen and told through their own eyes while participating in a school-based mentoring programme. Accordingly, the mentors were interviewed at the beginning of the mentoring process and at the end of the mentoring process. This before-and-after format allows for the assessment of possible effects that the mentors' experiences in the programme might have in modifying their mentoring attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, such that where changes are observed, these changes could be attributable to their involvement in the mentoring programme. After completing the interviews with the mentors, one additional interview was conducted with the mentoring programme co-ordinator about his experiences in running the programme and working with the mentors. The interview was included for the purpose of providing a comprehensive perspective of the programme. All of the participants were retired individuals, with male and female, white and non-white, and first-time and experienced mentors and the mentoring programme co-ordinator comprising the group participating in the study. The findings suggest that the mentors' experiences influenced their mentoring attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, particularly for the first-time mentors. Experienced mentors displayed more stability in their responses between the two interview times. Both similarities and dissimilarities emerged among the participants. The findings are discussed in the dissertation with plausible explanations also presented. This study's contribution to the mentoring field is threefold: (1) it examines the mentor-protege relationship from the mentor's perspective; (2) it documents the mentoring attitudes, beliefs and experiences of older adults; and (3) it clarifies the role of mentoring within the educational setting. Thus, the study has important implications for programme planners and education officials concerned with improving current mentoring programmes or developing new mentoring initiatives that involve older adults serving as mentors in schools. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords: Mentoring
Mentoring in education, Methodology
Mentoring in education, Evaluation
Master teachers, Attitudes
Pyridyl(methyl)ketenes: preparation, detection and trends in reactivity

Methyl substituted ketenes 17 are less reactive than their monosubstituted counterparts 14 because of steric hindrance to water attack in the ketenyl plane by the methyl group. Conversion of 3- 23 to 3-24 is unaffected by the methyl group, whereas conversion of 2- and 4-29 to 2- and 4-24, respectively, are affected by steric crowding associated by with the methyl group. 2-, 3-, and 4-Pyridyl(methyl)ketenes 17 were generated by photochemical Wolff rearrangements and detected by IR spectroscopy. Generation of 17 in water by flash photolysis with detection by UV spectroscopy, revealed formation of transient species which were converted to the corresponding 2-pyridylpropanoic acids 24. 3-17 reacts with water to form the ene-diol 3-23, which tautomerises to 3-24. Hydration of 2- and 4-17 occurs by addition of water to form dihydropyridine intermediates 2- and 4-29, respectively. Proton transfer via water bridges, converts 2- and 4-29 to 2- and 4- 24, respectively.