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Visualizing radical democratic citizenship in the Chilean higher education system

At a time when neo-liberal political economy and its expression of individualized citizenship has been the predominant model in western countries, this thesis examines whether corporate higher education landscapes can be complemented with progressive models of citizenship. Radical democratic theory is the framework employed as a powerful discourse and which, in contrast to traditional liberal democracy, calls for active citizenship exercised by all individuals. The analysis focuses on the Chilean higher education system since the period of re-democratization. Though the Chilean case has been continuously pointed out as an exemplary model to be followed by Latin American countries, this thesis interrogates if a corporate higher education landscape can fulfill conditions for radical democratic citizenship. Through the dialogue between the theoretical framework of radical democracy, the Chilean higher education system, and examples of violence experienced by citizens, I examine radical democratic theory in the lives of higher education students and faculty.
Erwartung and the scene of psychoanalysis: interpreting Schoenberg's monodrama as a Freudian case study

Traditional analytic approaches to Erwartung are also considered in this study. This survey is revelatory in two respects: firstly, it often provides insight into the motivic, structural and textural details of the monodrama; secondly, it reveals the desire of musical analysis to impute conscious logic where it does not exist and to impute tonality where it does not and cannot function. This study offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of the monodrama that considers the work as Schoenberg's own case history. The influence of other psychological operas are examined, and a chain of interpretation linking these works and a number of Schoenberg's own early songs is constructed, pointing to the monodrama as haunted by the past, as hysterical in its own right. Erwartung and its sole character serve as Schoenberg's analytical surrogates: the monodrama is a Freudian work, a dramatization of the scene of psychoanalysis and the act of psychoanalysis. Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 monodrama Erwartung is regarded as his first major work in a free atonal idiom, written without keys, recurrent themes or functional harmony. The text of the work is the fragmented monologue of an unnamed woman, lost in the woods at night. Given this and the work's milieu, Vienna ca. 1909, Erwartung has come to be seen as a monodrama about hysteria, perhaps even based on a Freudian case history. This study contends that the monodrama, as a surrogate analysis of Schoenberg himself, constitutes a case history in its own right. This study addresses not only the work's genesis and historical context, but also decades of musicological discourse that has often uncritically characterized Erwartung as related to psychoanalysis and hysteria. This characterization, based on the assumption that the monodrama's text was based on a Freudian case history, is examined in detail in this study.
Juvenile defense representatives and the lawyer-juvenile relationship from the perspective of youth: a pilot study

Despite the critical role of lawyers in North American youth justice proceedings, there has been little empirical investigation into the lawyer-juvenile relationship, especially from the perspective of young clients. The present study explored the factors affecting youths' appraisals of juvenile defense representatives. Fifty-three young offenders were interviewed regarding their perceptions and evaluations of their experiences with defense lawyers and lawyer-client interactions. Hypotheses were made surrounding the effects of perceived fairness and understanding about lawyers on youths' satisfaction with lawyers and their services. Questions were raised regarding other potentially influential variables. Results indicated that perceived fairness and various lawyer-client interpersonal issues were related to participants' satisfaction with their lawyers. Young people's appraisals were not related to their level of understanding about lawyers, nor to any other variables explored. Findings are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications, and directions for future research are outlined.

Keywords: Juvenile delinquents, Relations with lawyers
Attorney and client
Juvenile delinquents, Attitudes
L'etoile dans la poesie parnassienne

Si l'imagerie cosmique est omnipresente dans les textes sacres et profanes du passe, le XIXe siecle francais, temoin de bouleversements scientifiques et politiques, en a renouvele et enrichi l'interpretation et l'usage. La mythocritique (de Gilbert Durand, Pierre Brunel et Antoine Sirois) permet de saisir les diverses strates de sens des mythes et les trois etapes, celles de l'emergence, de la flexiblite et de l'irradiation comme fondements d'un mode d'analyse litteraire qui souligne le role preponderant de l'arriere-plan scientifique, ideologique et litteraire du contexte dans lequel les oeuvres litteraires apparaissent. Les Parnassiens en particulier adaptent les mythes stellaires en repondant aux doctrines scientifiques et politiques de l'epoque. Il est donc indispensable de considerer avec serieux cet arriere-plan de la stellarisation a l'epoque du Parnasse pour comprendre la refection des mythes stellaires par ces poetes et d'evaluer son apport. Le discours poetique du Parnasse, qu'on pourrait dire " engage ", s'inspire des doctrines egalitaires de l'epoque dans sa relecture du ciel etoile, et reinscrit l'ideologie politique dans un nouveau regime d'enonciation du texte poetique. D'autre part, le discours scientifique enterine l'institutionnalisation de la science. Une analyse raisonnee des qualifications du ciel etoile qui interessent l'etude des mythes stellaires permet de constater l'existence d'un reseau de recurrences organisees dans la poesie de la premiere moitie du XIXe siecle et dans la poesie du Parnasse. Cette typologie des corps stellaires montre la fascination cosmique qui traverse la poesie parnassienne et la formation des paradigmes mythises de stellarisation. La specificite du Parnasse se definit par le remaniement des mythes stellaires, notamment Herakles et le Centaure. L'etude de ces mythes cosmiques permet de comprendre son aspiration a l'ordre et a l'harmonie et son inquietude de la fin de l'univers. Notre etude d'Herakles et du Centaure, les deux etant figures mythiques, visions du cosmos et visions de l'histoire, suit les trois etapes de la mythocritique: nous observons le choix d'Herakles et du Centaure pour incarner des doctrines egalitaires et apocalyptiques. Les interrogations sur la place de l'homme dans l'univers et sur l'organisation de la creation dirigent l'inflechissement parnassien de ces deux mythes stellaires. En dernier lieu, nous sommes temoins de leur degenerescence. Chez Herakles, sa mort sur le bucher devient unite symbolique. Chez le Centaure, sa dualite adopte ce role. En tant que point de jonction entre l'ideologie et les discours du XIXe siecle, le cliche concretise un renouvellement des qualifications stellaires: les theses des mythologues influents, en particulier Max Muller, rassemblent le retour a l'antiquite, le mythe comme symbole et aussi comme degenerescence du langage.
Degradation kinetics and mobility of chlortetracycline, tylosin, and monensin in an agricultural soil in Northumberland County, Ontario

A robust high-throughput method was developed to extract the three growth-promoting antibiotics, tylosin (TYL), chlortetracycline (CTC), and monensin (MON) from soil with analysis by Electrospray Liquid Chromatography tandem Mass Spectrometry (ESI-LCMS-MS). Dissipation rate studies in a farm field soil revealed TYL, CTC, and MON followed first order dissipation kinetics with half-lives of 4.5, 24, and 3.3 days with manure addition, and 6.1, 21, and 3.8 days without manure. Manure application significantly increased TYL dissipation rate, perhaps due to the introduced microbial flora, but had no significant effect on CTC or MON. CTC was the only antibiotic detected at 25 to 35 cm depth and only up to 2% of the initial concentration in a sandy loam soil. These antibiotics are therefore expected to primarily degrade in agricultural soils with similar or more retentive soil properties before moving to a greater depth or to groundwater in significant concentrations in most agricultural systems.
Defining a neurotrophic factor concentration gradient to guide neurite outgrowth

Well-defined neurotrophic factor concentration gradients were prepared using a compartmented diffusion chamber. This model system was employed to study the chemotactic effect of neurotrophic factors to guide neurite outgrowth. The information obtained from this model system may provide insights into the designs of a biomimetic device to enhance nerve regeneration after spinal cord injuries. Specifically, by maintaining the concentrations in both the source and sink compartments constant (and different), a linear NGF concentration profile was achieved within the agarose membrane through which a steady state diffusion was established. The well-defined linear NGF concentration profile enabled the quantification of the minimum concentration gradient required to guide neurite outgrowth using PC12 cells as a model cell line for neurons. Furthermore, multiple concentration gradients of different neurotrophic factors were prepared using similar compartmented diffusion chambers. The synergistic guidance effect of multiple factors observed in this model system suggests that peripheral dorsal root ganglion cell neurite outgrowth can be guided over an extended distance. This result could warrant the incorporation of neurotrophic factor concentration gradient into a nerve regeneration device to guide and augment nerve fiber regeneration. Finally, in an attempt to translate the neurotrophic concentration gradient guidance into an artificial device that may enhance CNS regeneration, efforts were also made immobilize biomolecules in a three-dimensional agarose hydrogel using photoimmobilization. The improved photoimmobilization yield using the photoactive agarose gel approach, as a result of the enhanced interactions between the photoactive moieties and the agarose gel, represented a viable approach to immobilize biomolecules in 3D hydrogel matrices. This approach could also be further advanced to photoimmobilize biomolecule concentration gradients in situ.
Village effects on fertility interdependence: The influences of the market transition on individual fertility in rural China

Although fertility transitions in developing countries have been the topic of much discussion, there is still no consensus over the mechanism through which large-scale social changes affect individual fertility. This unresolved question, to a large extent, is attributed to two major limitations in past studies. First, little attention has been paid to community heterogeneity, and second, the fertility process and fertility interdependence have been neglected. A more adequate research model, therefore, would characterize the determinants of fertility behaviors within the social-historical context and individual life history. By integrating a social ecological perspective with a life-course perspective, this study is intended to develop a new analytical model on fertility and explore how the Market Transition affects individual fertility in rural China. Using individual-level data from the 2001 China Demographic and Reproductive Health Survey (DRHS) and village-level data from 1997 and 2001 DRHS and administrative statistics, this study examines the effects of three dimensions of changing village context---socioeconomic development, social disdevelopment, and social isolation---on individual fertility in the transitional period 1990--2001. Statistically, a multilevel multi-spell competing risks model is built to test three forms of village effects on individual fertility behaviors: direct effect of village context, interaction effect between village context and individual life-course, and interaction effect between village context and individual socioeconomic characteristics. The study has significant theoretical and policy implications. On the theoretical side, the mechanisms of social changes on fertility are clarified, and the effect of social disdevelopment is stressed. From a policy perspective, this study calls for greater attention to the negative side of the Market Transition. From the analysis, all three dimensions of village context, particularly the two greatly affected by the Market Transition---socioeconomic development and social disdevelopment---were found to exert significant impacts on individual fertility. Their effects could be directly imposed to individuals. They could also be interaction effects, moderating the effects of individual life course or individual socioeconomic characteristics on fertility. Two different mechanisms were identified through which the village effects operate: changing living patterns and reduced economic resources. Both significantly reduce individual likelihood of fertility.
Synthesis and solution self-assembly of polyferrocene diblock copolymers: a route to organometallic nanospheres and nanowires

Narrow polydispersed diblock copolymers containing either amorphous polyferrocenylphenylphosphine (PFP) or semicrystalline polyferrocenyldimethylsilane (PFDMS) segments were synthesized by sequential living anionic polymerization. These block copolymers form novel micellar aggregates in block selective solvents. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) were used to characterize these nanostructures. It was found that diblock copolymers with PFP blocks formed spherical micelles, as expected from the amorphous nature of the core-forming block. These spherical micellar structures could be further derivatized by using the reactive groups present in the aggregates. On the other hand, diblock copolymers with PFDMS segments formed either cylindrical or lamellar aggregates, depending on the block length of the corona-forming block. These results suggest that the interplay of the crystallization of the core-forming block and chain stretching of the corona-forming block is responsible for the micellar morphologies observed from semicrystalline diblock copolymers in dilute solution. It was also demonstrated that continuous ceramic nanolines on semiconducting substrates with lengths of micrometers and widths of as small as 8 nm could be fabricated by selective etching of cylindrical polyferrocenyldimethylsilane block copolymer micelles.
The neural basis of planning: a virtual step forward in ecological validity and the practice of clinical neuropsychology

The present study sought to develop a task that was ecologically valid and available for integration with modern neuroimaging techniques. Virtual Reality technology was utilized to create a spatial-navigation task that employed roadblocks in an effort to articulate the neural basis of planning. A virtual Tower of London test was also created to allow for a direct comparison to a traditional measure of planning. fMRI procedures were performed at 3.0 Tesla on a young healthy male subject. Moderate overlap in activation was observed; however, substantial differences in location and overall intensity of activation were also found. These results suggest that traditional measures of planning are multifactorial and have less neuroanatomical specificity when compared to more ecologically valid tasks. This finding is important in keeping with the goal of clinical neuropsychology where one is faced with the task of elucidating brain behaviour correlation in the context of making a clinical diagnosis.
Investigation of some methodological issues related to the glycemic index

This thesis addresses methodological issues of the glycemic index (GI) concerning within and between subject variation. The objective of study #1 was to determine whether controlling the subjects' prior activities reduces the within-subject variability of glycemic responses. The CV (%) of controlled trials was not significantly different from that of the uncontrolled trials, and tended to increase the variation. The objective of study #2 was to determine if relative blood glucose and insulin responses were the same in men with varying insulin sensitivity. Relative blood glucose responses were similar between insulin sensitive and insulin resistant men, although relative blood insulin responses significantly negatively correlated with fasting insulin concentrations. It is concluded that within-subject variation is not reduced by controlling prior activities, and the GI is a valid tool in people with varying insulin sensitivities, however the insulineamic index (II) may not be as useful due to the variation between people.
Boundaries of possibility: race, nostalgia and the Saskatchewan Centennial

In Boundaries of Possibility: Race, Nostalgia and the Saskatchewan Centennial, I draw from critical race theory and cultural studies to investigate moments from Saskatchewan Centennial celebrations. Through event observation, interviews with event organizers, and analysis of visual and textual materials, I examine how Saskatchewan is commemorated as a place, as people, and as a past. My analysis interrogates nostalgic identifications with a European invader-settler story toward developing increasingly equitable, heterogeneous and multi-cultured understandings of Canada and Canadian citizenship. This research takes up questions of nostalgia, attachments, irretrievable losses and desired returns, and I structure my line of questioning as a route through which to unsettle invader-settler Saskatchewan fictions and their hold on possibility—and on territory and history. The theoretical framework includes a recognition that the tension between coherence and fracture in commemorative practices means that this Centennial is not one monolithic event consistent in its productions. A critical race perspective further underlines that to the extent that the Centennial does appear consensual and unified, it does so through denials of or diversions from the ongoing and racialized iniquities of colonial nation-building. This analysis of race and nostalgia reveals ways that the intentionality and violence of colonization is neutralized or modified in what is imagined as a “reconciliatory” terrain of Saskatchewan, depicted as not so far removed from the processes of colonizing modernity, with a landscape that is not seen to be dramatically/excessively industrialized or urbanized. I argue that Saskatchewan is available and accessed in very particular ways in the sticking of colonial racism to nation in Canada—and that certain attachments to Saskatchewan as a knowable place, population and past contribute uniquely and persistently to ongoing racist national formations. The 2005 Centennial has presented a vital opportunity to decipher such attachments and their particularities; and, the analysis and conclusions of this thesis propose directions for intervention and for reconfigured possibilities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Influence of parenting style on cognitive strategies used by preschoolers

A perennial emphasis in both theoretical and applied research in child development has been on extrinsic, modifiable factors, of which parental influences are a large component. Although there is extensive literature outlining the influence of parenting style on many aspects of children's functioning, including cognitive development, there is little or no research examining the relation between parenting style and the cognitive strategies utilized by preschoolers. This thesis examines the influence of parenting style on the cognitive strategies used by preschoolers. The two primary research questions addressed the relation between parenting style and success on two cognitive strategy tasks and the relation between parenting style and observed parenting practices. In addition, this study offered the opportunity to examine relations between parenting practices and self-reported parenting style and between parenting style as reported by parents and that reported by teachers. Other factors influencing success on strategy tasks were explored, as well as whether parenting practices vary across tasks of differing difficulty. Forty mothers and forty-one preschool children from four parenting and readiness centres participated in this study. Each mother completed a demographic form and a Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire. Each child's teacher rated the mother's parenting style by completing an adapted version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire. Each child completed a Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and two cognitive strategy tasks. Each mother and child worked together to complete three drawings in an Etch-a-Sketch task. Data collected included success on strategy tasks, types and numbers of strategies used, parenting practices, parenting style factors, vocabulary level and demographic information. This study demonstrated several significant results. Although no direct effect of parenting style on cognitive strategy success was found, several parenting practices were related to success on strategy tasks, including mother's responsiveness and use of general direction or choice of direction. The child's raw score on the PPVT was also significantly related to success on strategy tasks. The parenting style scores of the mothers were significantly correlated to the scores of the teachers for authoritarian and permissive factors although not for the authoritative factor. Implications and future directions are also discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords: Parent and child
Parenting
Parental influences
Cognition in children