VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
My self-in-relation-to learning Oneida

How the English language is a filter from which I view and interpret the world is explored in detail in this thesis. I am neither Oneida/Onyota'a:ka nor North American Indigenous. I would be incapable of understanding the Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language or culture on a deep level. I write about how the English language can be a hindrance to interpreting, understanding and researching, by Outsiders, of Indigenous nations and their culture. I have endeavored to unmask my own Outsider, Western English intellectual worldview by utilizing Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language and culture to investigate my own culture. There are two facets to the research: the interviews of Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language teachers and my endeavor to acquire Oneida/Onyota'a:ka language. Academics practicing de-colonizing work, need to grapple with Indigenous languages to comprehend Indigenous cultures, and in doing so, they will find out more about their own language, its cultural biases and worldview.

Keywords: Oneida language, Canada
English language, Canada
Language and culture, Canada
Language attrition, Canada
Navigating the community college landscape: toward relationship and community

This is a qualitative community college landscape study using historical details and temporal qualities to point out the challenges and dilemmas of applying curriculum to real-world experience. The author uses the concreteness of the Canadian community college context and her own experience there to talk about student/teacher relationships, teacher identity and community, curriculum, and adult education. This study is based on the authors teaching experience in the community college system. It draws on curricular issues and the narratives of three female community college students who were participants in the study. Chapter 1, "Teaching Touchstones: Community, Conversation, and Curriculum," introduces the authors early teaching experiences. Chapter 2, "Crossing the Border into Post-Secondary Education," analyzes curriculum planning and raises questions about the intersection between theory and practice in the classroom. Chapter 3, "In the Literature: Looking for Terra Firma," is a review of the literature on adult education. Chapter 4, "In the Literature and Out of Bounds," continues to contextualize this examination. Chapter 5, "Using Narrative Inquiry to Find Open Ground," describes the tensions lived out in the researcher/teacher inquiry. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 tell classroom stories and offer narrative reflections. Includes three appendices and 151 references. (NB)

Keywords: Adult education
Universities and colleges
College teachers
College teaching
Experiential learning
Factors that facilitate or impede colorectal cancer screening in women from Ontario: A representative regional study

Purpose. To investigate the prevalence and factors associated with women's use of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. Analyses were guided by Andersen's Behavioral Model of predisposing, enabling and need factors. Methods. Using the Ontario sub-sample of the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, women aged 50-74 who had never screened for CRC (n=3,676) were compared to women who had screened (n=2,105). Chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses were used. Results. Approximately one-third (38.1%) of women had used CRC screening. Predisposing factors (older age, higher education, not working, history of cancer, use of other screening tests), enabling factors (urban location, having a doctor, 5+ doctor visits annually), and, need factors (non-smoking, normal weight, higher activity level) were associated with higher odds of screening. Conclusions. Healthier respondents with lower risk of CRC were more likely to screen, indicating inequitable access to screening. Findings will improve targeting of CRC screening campaigns.
Non-sequential reading in people with age-related macular degeneration

Patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) use magnification to improve recognition ability. As magnification increases, the amount of information presented in the visual scene is reduced, impairing the viewer's ability to perform non-sequential reading tasks. To improve AMD patients' access to electronic text, a visual aid that multiplexes global screen layout with a magnified image was developed. In a study comparing the non-sequential reading performance of a Multiplexed Magnifier (MM) to a Permanent Magnifier (PM), AMD patients performed 13% faster with MM. Improved task performance was the result of faster reading, facilitated by increasing the size of the magnifier. The increases in magnifier size improved reading performance by reducing the need for coordinated hand-eye movements. The results demonstrated that AMD patients performed non-sequential reading more effectively (in less time and with fewer errors) when aided by a Multiplexed Magnifier.
Teaching English in an age of literacy: a descriptive case study of teachers as curriculum decision-makers in an era of reform

In an era of wide-scale educational reform, classroom teachers may find themselves awkwardly positioned among multiple and conflicting expectations. A review of the history of English as a discipline and as a secondary school subject since the middle of the 20th century points to the secondary school English classroom as a site of particular disruption in response to recent policy changes. This dissertation examines the influences of results-based policy curriculum, increased external accountability, and a high-stakes literacy test on a group of Ontario secondary school English teachers working in grade 9 or 10 classrooms in a single Ontario school district during the spring school semester of 2004. This qualitative study examines ways in which teachers negotiate among paradigms and inside---outside influences in order to make classroom curricular decisions. A collective case study included 5 focus groups and a purposive sample of 9 secondary school English teachers and it results in a snapshot look at teachers' work, decisions and responses to wide-scale reform. Teachers' responses to semi-structured interviews provide the primary data for analysis. Findings indicate that changes associated with mandated provincial polices are influencing teacher decision-making and interpersonal interactions. Teachers demonstrated both compliance and resistance to mandated policies, negotiating with policy curriculum in order to make space for a classroom curriculum that aligns with their own personal values, beliefs and conceptions of English as a school subject. The study also suggests that recent policy reforms may interact with deeply embedded historical and cultural factors both to impede the implementation of policy and to promote change in teachers' conceptualizations of the school subject.
Formation and stabilization of aggregates in a Vertisol from Northeastern Mexico

Formation and stabilization of soil aggregates involves the interaction of physical, chemical, mineralogical and biological factors, all of which are highly variable within and between soils. Soil organic matter is the most important factor controlling aggregation processes in many soils, but studies on clayey soils have reported contradictory results. This study explored aggregation processes in a Vertisol dominated by smectitic clays from a semi-arid region in Northeastern Mexico. Changes in aggregation were studied in relation to the decomposition of added organic material under controlled laboratory weathering conditions. The study evaluates the role and relative importance of particulate organic matter (POM), microbial communities, and wetting and drying. Results showed that all three factors studied and their interrelationship influenced aggregation. However, their relative influence varied depending on aggregate size. Large macroaggregate (>2.00 mm) formation was largely controlled by the addition of organic residues increasing the amount of these macroaggregates by five to six-fold. Furthermore, POM formed nucleation points for adhesion of mineral particles, and also served as a source of energy for microbial activity. Wetting and drying increased large macroaggregate formation by 26% after organic amendment and enhanced the stability of the large macroaggregates formed. In addition, formation of small macroaggregates (0.25–2.00 mm) was increased by 20% in unamended soil compared to amended samples after one wetting and drying event. However, repeated wetting and drying events also accelerated small macroaggregate turnover. The enhancement of aggregate formation and stabilization with wetting and drying correlated with increased microbial biomass, and fungal and bacterial populations, indicating the important role of soil structure on microbial protection. Furthermore, the variability on the microbial community composition due to wetting and drying was greater for the fungal community than for the bacterial community. Reduction of the amount of C evolved as CO2 from added organic residues with wetting and drying, compared to constantly wet soil, indicated a decline on the decay of added organic matter. This result suggests that amended Vertisols undergoing shrinking and swelling conditions could play an important role on soil C sequestration due to promotion of physico-chemical reactions that slow the decay of added organic matter.
Genomic rearrangements associated with the t(9;22) in CML

A microdeletion on the derivative chromosome 9 (der(9)) formed by the Philadelphia translocation, has been identified in 10--20% of CML patients and results in a poor prognosis. Haploinsufficiency of one or more genes in the deleted region could alter chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) oncogenesis leading to more aggressive disease. Alternatively, the presence of this deletion may be indicative of an intrinsically unstable genome and a disease phenotype with a greater adaptive response. Microarray comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) allows for a high-resolution interrogation of the entire genome in a single experiment. aCGH of CML patients with a deletion on the der(9) resulted in the identification of a new DNA polymorphism on chromosome14, a large-scale copy number polymorphism (CNPs), called CNP14q12. CNP14q12 was shown to occur more frequently in DNA samples from cancer patients than in cytogenetically normal individuals (p
The use of traces in optimization

We build trace collection systems for Jupiter and the Jikes Research Virtual Machine. We use the systems to create traces based on the execution of the SPECjvm98 and Java Grande benchmarks. We characterize these traces and show that they contain the most frequently executed instructions, that traces are a compact representation of a program, and that traces are a good means of predicting the control flow of a program. Furthermore, we evaluate the use of traces for inlining. We execute the benchmarks using Jikes while providing information based on previously collected traces. We find that the use of traces leads to lower execution time, by 10%, compared to providing similar information from Jikes's adaptive system from a previous execution. This increase in performance, however, has an associated code expansion of 47%. Our work indicates that traces are beneficial for a single optimization and may also be beneficial for general optimizations.
Music in Canadian visual narrative -- musical collaborations in five films of Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema

The goal of this project is to promote an awareness of some important recent contributors to Canadian film music, and draw attention to the collaborative process between composers and filmmakers in Canada. My investigation of film music through a multi-contextual framework engages the larger question of how music adds layers of meaning to film. Music is an agent of narrativity in film, and the case studies benefit our understanding of Canadian film music's potential to inform the multiple narratives through which it passes. This project examines the work of two Canadian independent feature filmmakers, Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema, and the film composers---Mychael Danna, and Lesley Barber and Mark Korven, respectively---with whom they have collaborated since their emergence in the 1980s. Their works serve as case studies for an understanding of the ways film music can engage visual narrative and how the convergence of music and story can inform broader and Canadian considerations. In the first chapter, I discuss film as social text and as personal and cultural expression within a context of national cultural policies. I consider how music, in its ability to mediate and interpret film, and as the product of creative interactivity, becomes a site through which individual and national identities can be negotiated. In a national and social sense, I investigate some of the ways music can be "heard" differently when we acknowledge its particular social, cultural and ideological contexts---within and outside the film. In the spirit of the multidisciplinary approach necessitated by the subject matter, this project brings together interpretive strategies informed by cultural and anthropological studies, film music theory, postmodernism and gender theory, among others. Using cultural studies and ethnographic methods as the backbone for examination of the music's "extrafilmic" contexts, while applying detailed musical analyses in consideration of music's "extrafilmic" roles, the second and third chapters provide layered and multi-variable discussions of the music and music makers of five Canadian films. Egoyan's films, Family Viewing (1987) and Exotica (1994), and Rozema's films, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987), White Room (1991), and When Night is Falling (1995) fuel the discussion.
Urban spaces of racialization: White ethnicity and gentrification in Toronto

This thesis examines the way in which notions of race are constructed and produced in and through space. Building on a body of work on race and space, gentrification, and whiteness studies, this project explores the way in which ideas about race function in both the maintaining of heritage sites and production of new urban developments. I argue that the gentrification of Corktown, Toronto, which draws on notions of white-Anglo ethnicity, provides a case study of the way in which whiteness is constructed and maintained in and through space. Using print and web media analysis, I examine the way in which claims are made through white ethnic identification to urban space. This white ethnic identity is produced and functions to invest innocence in the processes of gentrification which in fact displaces local low-income residents and social service agencies.

Keywords: Gentrification, Social aspects
Gentrification, Ontario
Racism, Ontario
Minorities, Housing
Nobility and nihilism: Nietzsche's science of souls

Nietzsche is denounced or lauded as the philosopher who established the idea there is no such thing as the good. Through an examination of On the Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil, I argue Nietzsche argues there is a supreme good. It is not located in a moral doctrine. Instead, it lies beneath these moral doctrines in the super-abundant vitality that generates positive moral values. This good is content-free. It is a formal good. It is shaped by the act of valuation, which imparts content. The content-rich account of the good, which is offered by every positive or noble morality, does not persist nor do all human beings recognize it as authoritative. By contrast, the formal good is persistent and is universally recognized at some level by all human beings. What Nietzsche finds is that the structure of the soul, which he claims is revealed by moral values, is fundamentally the same in all human beings. Thus, though he claims there are two human types with two opposing moralities, he also argues these differences are secondary to a primary similarity. All human beings are characterized by will to power, which expresses itself in human beings through moral values. The difference between noble and slave values is quantitative, not qualitative. Nietzsche discovers the human consensus about the formal good by means of the science of souls as practiced by Socrates. Nietzsche, like Socrates, examines human opinions about the good as a way of trying to see whether there is an underlying similarity between human opinions. Regardless of the secondary differences that exist between noble and slave morality, fundamentally, all human beings think more vitality is better. He argues the careful employment of psychology reveals slave morality actually endorses the super-abundant vitality it seems to condemn.
Working smarter and harder: an investigation of learning information technology in the Ontario Public Service sector

This study investigates the learning and work relationships between information technology and the Ontario Public Service sector using a symbolic interactionist analysis and data derived from interviews with the workers themselves based on the 'Working ... IT' project (undertaken in partnership with CUPE-Ontario; project leader, Dr. P. Sawchuk). This piece details the stories of social benefits delivery workers who struggle daily to effectively service their clients using Service Delivery Model Technology (SDMT)--a software program implemented by the Ontario government in 2001. An examination of the formal and informal learning processes that workers employ in their daily routines reveals a whole new universe of language and meaning as they create what I refer to as a "culture of 'workarounds'" in order to bypass the inherent flaws in this software. Though the workarounds allow these workers to perform their duties more effectively, they are often troublesome and those who create them do so without financial compensation. Additionally, workers find themselves addressing the contradictions inherent in the attempts by management to change the nature of their occupation. Symbolic Interaction theory provides a useful posture on which to couch the differences between what is real and what is fabricated in the workplaces of these dedicated social service workers. Given a chance to speak after being silenced by an oppressive technological master, workers are quick to note the differences between the value of the formal learning provided by their employer and the informal learning that still takes place seven years after the introduction of this system. What becomes increasingly evident is that the workarounds they have created are not simply means by which they can achieve a greater end, they are in fact, survival tools they depend on to perform required duties.

Keywords: Social service
Economics
Public administration
Organizational behavior
The tuning of state and soul: Rousseau and Nietzsche on music and politics

Music plays a central role in the political philosophy of antiquity, particularly in the works of Plato and Aristotle. And yet, modern political philosophy is notably tin-eared when it comes to music's place in the cultivation of souls and cities. This study explores the reflections of the two most important modern political philosophers who take seriously the role of music in the good life: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche. Both were aspiring musicians and composers, both struggled against the most influential composers of their age, and, more significantly, both married these musical concerns to their wider philosophical projects. The dissertation discusses Rousseau and Nietzsche's views regarding the nature of music and its relation to cognition, the socio-political functions of music, the potentially explosive mixture of nationalism and art for the achievement of political unity, and finally, the role of aesthetic experience for the molding of good citizens. Taking seriously their respective desires to recapture something of antiquity, I indicate the degree to which both writers separated what the ancients had united: the sky, the city, and the soul. If Rousseau abandoned the sky (i.e. metaphysics) in an attempt to marry music to political practice, Nietzsche abandoned the city in his hyper-subjectivist aestheticism. In the musical reflections of Rousseau and Nietzsche, we are thus confronted with two distinctive manifestations of modernity's reluctance to recapture the unity of the ancient heritage.
Effect of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on mouse brain fatty acid composition, cyclooxygenase-2 expression and amyloid precursor protein expression

N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are associated with reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), but mechanisms are poorly understood. The first study investigated the effect of n-3 PUFA on brain fatty acid composition and inflammation markers using the fat-1 mouse which converts n-6 to n-3 PUFA. Higher cortex docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and lower cyclooxygenase-2 expression were observed in fat-1 relative to wildtype mice fed an n-3 deficient diet. The second study characterized double transgenic mice from fat-1 and CRND8 mice overexpressing the amyloid precursor protein (APP). Cross-breeding did not interfere with brain phenotypic expression of either DHA or APP. Irrespective of fat-1 status, presence of the CRND8 genotype associated with lower brain DHA levels, lower brain weights, and higher mortality at 11-12 weeks of age. These results suggest that fat-1 and fat-1 x CRND8 mice could be used to investigate mechanisms by which n-3 PUFA regulate neuroinflammation and amyloidogenesis.
The game of bingo: A review of the literature and study of women players in Ontario

Research addressing problematic bingo play is sparse. Existing literature is reviewed and supplemented by this Ontario study of women bingo players versus slot players. It compares demographic, gambling patterns, personal and family histories and treatment needs. Bingo players belonged to more impoverished and marginalized groups. They report higher levels of trauma, abuse, psychiatric issues and co-occurring problems, and different treatment needs. Bingo plays an important role in the women's leisure lives. Findings suggest that social and economic considerations play a dominant role in determining game choice. A serious public health concern issues from the current closure of many bingo halls and migration of bingo players to slot play, which can deplete financial resources more quickly. The more limited resources of bingo players increase the risk of rapidly developing gambling problems, causing a ripple effect in both personal and social costs, interventions should be formulated to specifically target these players.

Keywords: Bingo, Social aspects
Bingo, Ontario
Dissertations, Academic
Women gamblers, Ontario
Compulsive gambling, Ontario
A holistic approach to teacher education

A teacher candidate reflects on her experience in, what she terms as, a “holistic, soulful” pre-service elementary teacher education program that focuses on student-teacher wellness and student-centered learning. The commitment of the faculty to nurturing the “teacher-as-person” is reflected in the structure of an integrated program that promotes connections between personal dimensions, connections among people, connections between program components, and connections between theory and practice through the use of inquiry-oriented practice. She examines the impact of a compulsory action research project within the program that fosters reflective thinking among the teacher candidates. It is within the practice of this program what the faculty team advocates for education in general: care for the well-being and soul of teachers and their students.

Keywords: Teachers, Training of
Teaching, Standards
Teachers, In-service training
Learning
Educational change