bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
An Investigation of Backscatter Power Spectra from Cells, Cell Pellets and Microspheres
Authors: Kolios Michael , Taggart L. , Baddour Ralph E. , Foster F. S. , Hunt J. W. , Czarnota G. J. , Sherar Michael D.
Published: May 2021

 It has been previously shown that high frequency ultrasound (20 - 100 MHz) can be used to detect cellular structure changes in tissues and cell ensembles. However, the changes seen in the backscattered ultrasound intensity and frequency spectrum are not fully understood. In this paper we attempt to better understand the nature of these changes by examination of the backscatter power spectra from cell ensembles (in pellet form) that have undergone two different types of cell death: by exposure to the chemotherapeutic cisplatin and by withdrawal of nutrients (decay). Three different ultrasound transducers were used, centered at 20MHz and 40MHz. In both death pathways, an increase of the midband fit of 10-12dB was measured, and there were significant changes in the spectral slopes. Furthermore, our initial analysis of the backscatter from single cells and polystyrene microspheres demonstrates the potential of the technique to assess scatterer size.  
Creating a Human-Centric Engineering Design Course
Authors: Salustri Filippo , Neumann Patrick
Published: May 2021

In 2009, the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University introduced a new course, MEC325: Introduction to Engineering Design, intended to address various perceived shortcomings in the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering undergraduate programs. The authors realized that there is very little literature on how human factors can be embedded ubiquitously in engineering design processes. As a result, MEC325 has become anchored on the concept of “human-centric engineering design.” This paper will describe the course’s initial state and summarize many of the efforts taken by the authors to tightly integrate engineering design and human factors, and to provide a valuable learning experience to both mechanical and industrial engineering undergraduate students.
Extreme Dependence in International Stock Markets
Authors: Ning Cathy
Published: May 2021

This paper investigates the structure and degree of extreme dependence in international equity markets using carefully selected tools from the theory of copulas. We examine both the static and dynamic dependence via unconditional and conditional copulas. We Önd signiÖcant asymmetric tail dependence in equity markets, with the overall larger lower tail dependence than upper tail dependence. Moreover, in Europe and East Asia but not in North America, the extreme dependence is time-varying in both its structure and degree. Our results also indicate a higher intra-continental than inter-continental tail dependence. Our Öndings have important implications in global risk management strategies. 
Review [untitled]
Authors: Gunster Shane
Published: May 2021

Online version of a book review, originally published as: Gunster, Shane, Review: [untitled], Gramsci and Contemporary Politics: Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect by Anne Showstack Sassoon, Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 220-222.
Introduction: Critical Scholarship, Practice and Education
Authors: Bauder Harald , Engel-di Mauro Salvatore
Published: May 2021

1Introduction:Critical Scholarship, Practice and Education Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel ­Di Mauro1“Critical geography” is both an approach to scholarship and a practice of scholarship. The term “critical” refers to a tradition of critical theory. An often cited representative of this tradition is the so­ called Frankfurt School. This “school” consisted of a network of researchers affiliated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which operated from 1923 to 1933, moved to New York during the Nazi regime, but reopened in Frankfurt in 1950. Although the label “Frankfurt School” is problematic and inexact (Behrens, 2002), it does permit associating some basic ideas with the notion of “critical”. According to Herbert Marcuse (1964: x), a prominent member of this school: “To investigate the roots of [social] developments and examine their historical alternatives is part of the aim of a critical theory, a theory which analyzes society in the light of its used and unused or abused capacities for improving the human condition.”
Latin Americans in a Canadian Primary School: Perspectives of Parents, Teachers and Children on Cultural Identity and Academic Achievement
Authors: Bernhard Judith K. , Torres Fidelia , Nirdosh Suparna , Freire Marlinda
Published: May 2021

Newcomers of ever increasing diversity, if not themselves of high socio-economic status, are seen by many Canadians as struggling -- with some success -- to ensure a brighter future for their children. Yet some minority immigrant children do not eagerly scramble for better lives; for some immigrant groups and cohorts, high-school performance proves elusive, and the educational system in fact seems consistently to undermine motivation. As Monica, a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl in our study said, “First I thought I was going to be a ballerina; then I thought I was going to be a singer; then I thought I was going to be a painter; then I thought I was going to be a doctor for people, then I thought I was going to be a doctor for pets; then I thought I was going to be nothing”.
COVID-19 and Venezuelan Refugees
Authors: Escobar Olivo Veronica
Published: May 2021

As populations around the world adjust to a new reality shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, across Latin America an estimated 113 million people living in low-income neighbourhoods are struggling to make ends meet with the ongoing lockdown and social isolation procedures (Phillips et al., 2020). In addition to the looming threat of infection, more impoverished populations must contend with the day-to-day struggle of trying to stay afloat financially and the actual feasibility of practising social distancing. Among the most vulnerable populations are refugees and migrants, who are exposed to even more significant hardships as governments attempt to navigate the pandemic (UNHCR, 2020). The already precarious financial situations and housing of most refugees have worsened as host countries make efforts to provide supports and programs for their populations – initiatives which do not necessarily take into account the situations of most refugees. For Venezuelan refugees in particular, the threat to their safety, security, and futures has been further compounded in the course of the pandemic.
The Decision of Work and Study and Employment Outcomes
Authors: Peng Amy , Yang Ling
Published: May 2021

The paper studies factors that contribute to student's work study decision while attending postsecondary institutions using SLID and YITS data. It further tests that how the work decision can affect their future employment outcomes.
The impact of volunteer community service programs on students in Toronto's secondary schools
Authors: Foster Mary K.  Meinhard  Agnes G.
Published: May 2021

[First paragraph of introduction]: One of the many challenges facing the nonprofit sector in Canada today is developing public awareness of the important role voluntary organizations play in the everyday lives of Canadians. Ranging from food banks, children’s aid societies, and immigrant service organizations, to opera companies and sporting societies, nonprofit and voluntary organizations offer a startlingly wide array of services which cannot be adequately provided directly through the open marketplace or the state. There are approximately 200,000 nonprofit organizations, 75,000 of which are registered charities. They account for 12% of the country’s GDP employing 5% of the national labour force and comprising nearly 10% of service sector employment (Stewart, 1996). In the past five years this sector accounted for 13% of job growth in Canada (Hall, 1996). The value of donated labour output was 13 billion dollars (Day and Devlin, 1996), representing an estimated half a million full time, full year jobs (Duchesne, 1989).

Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management

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Providing a uniform design experience in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program
Authors: Salustri Filippo A. , Neumann W. Patrick
Published: May 2021

The design experience of 3rd year undergraduates in Mechanical Engineering at Ryerson University, and the assessment of student design work, was found to be disjointed and highly variable across the program. To attempt to address this, the authors are constructing courseware to help instructors of non-design engineering courses embed rich and consistent design projects into their courses. A “lightweight” Fast-Design process was developed. Course - specific design project examples of the process are being developed for five 3rd year courses using this design process. Current versions of all courseware are freely available. This paper details the nature of the courseware and how it was designed, developed, and deployed for the project.
To date, one case has been deployed, two developed, and two more are under development. While results are so far only anecdotal, there is reason to believe that our approach can noticeably improve the design experience of students in non-design engineering courses.
Want to understand local news? Make a map
Authors: Lindgren April , Wong Christina
Published: May 2021

Critics have suggested that scholars seeking to advance journalism studies must adopt a more multidisciplinary approach to research, one that looks beyond the strict confines of sociology, history, language studies, political science, or cultural analysis. This paper argues that the geography of news coverage is a valuable starting point for scholars who wish to understand what local news gets reported, why and how it gets reported, and the potential consequences of such news coverage. The work of the Local News Research Project at Ryerson University is introduced to illustrate how maps that reveal the geospatial aspects of local news can foster multidisciplinary investigations that push researchers beyond the traditional silos of journalism scholarship.
Solving Exchange Rate Puzzles with neither Sticky Prices nor Trade Costs
Authors: Moore Michael J , Roche Maurice J
Published: May 2021

Solving Exchange Rate Puzzles with neither Sticky Prices nor Trade Costs
Undressing Fashion Metadata: Ryerson University Fashion Research Collection
Authors: Eichenlaub Naomi , Morgan Marina , Masak-Mida Ingrid
Published: May 2021

The purpose of this poster is to provide insight into the processes involved in making a unique fashion research and teaching collection discoverable in an online environment at Ryerson University. The online collection will provide a means for the users to identify what artifacts are available for research purposes and facilitate teaching in the classroom. The poster will highlight effective metadata standards and elements, cross-domain metadata uses, metadata mapping and implementation.
The promise of migration : a companion to the International Metropolis Conference 2019, Ottawa, Canada
Authors: Bauder Harald , del Castello Enrico , Hellreich Eva , Siemiatycki Myer , Wright Erica , Parada Henry , Bushell Riley , Shields John , Reesor Rachel , Ha Belinda , Tyyska Vappu , Juffs Lorelle , Mohammad Sunbal , Teelucksingh Cheryl , Mohammad Aisha , Ali Mehrunnisa , Homer Jasmine , Romo Adriana Espinosa de los Monteros , Jarmasz Lidia-Gabriela , Hare Francis , Olinto Berti , Osborne Dana
Published: May 2021

[Para. 1 of Introduction]: Migration is shaping societies around the world. It has long defined settler countries, such as Canada; it is affecting communities of departure and return, ranging from the Azores to Zimbabwe; and it is increasingly impacting countries that have traditionally not considered themselves as major immigrant destinations, like many European countries. Meanwhile, individual migrants and their families experience departure, migration, and arrival differently than the communities shaped by them. From both societal and individual perspectives, we can ask whether migration accomplishes what it promises to achieve. Does migration contribute to the economic, social, and cultural well-being of societies? Do migrants and their families find a pathway to security, achieve social and economic upward mobility, and gain opportunities to participate in the political and cultural life of their arrival communities? The Promise of Migration addresses these questions through a critical lens.
The Protect Air Film of an Exterior Window
Authors: Dianat Sanaz
Published: May 2021

The research paper investigates the impact of a window’s exterior air film on the assembly temperature. The exterior air film constitutes a vital portion of a window’s insulating values. The air film increases the temperature of the window exterior pane to a temperature above ambient temperature. The air film also rises the interior glass temperature and reduces the heat transfer from the interior surface. According to computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the air film is removed in windy conditions, decreasing the window temperature on the outside as well as on the inside. The idea behind the project is to carry out an experimental procedure on three different windows to validate the CFD results, which indicates the effect of various wind speeds.

Keyword: Exterior air film, computational fluid dynamics, window assembly, wind speed
The Library's Place in a Mobile Space
Authors: Wilson Sally , McCarthy Graham
Published: May 2021

The Library's Place in a Mobile Space
What the Death of Local News Means for the Federal Election..In the absence of media scrutiny, politicians have started to spin their own stories
Authors: Lindgren April
Published: May 2021

Resignation and outrage colour veteran journalist Mary-Ann Barr’s voice as she reflects on the Red Deer Advocate and its coverage of the recent Alberta provincial election. “There was a brief in the paper yesterday about who the candidates are—buried on page four,” says the former editor and reporter who spent thirty-one years at what is now Red Deer’s last remaining local newspaper. Black Press Media, which owns almost a 100 papers in western Canada, announced last month it could no longer afford two competing titles in the same city and shut down the weekly Red Deer Express.
An action-based approach to improving pain management in long-term care
Authors: Kaasalainen Sharon , Brazil Kevin , Coker Esther , Ploeg Jenny , Martin-Misener Ruth , Donald Faith , DiCenso Alba , Hadjistavropoulos Thomas , Dolovich Lisa , Papaioannou Alexandra , Emili Anna , Burns Tim
Published: May 2021

Purpose: The study purposes were twofold: (1) to explore barriers to pain management and those associated with implementing a pain management program in long-term care (LTC); and (2) to develop an interprofessional approach to improve pain management in LTC.
Methods: A case study approach included both qualitative and quantitative components. We collected data at two LTC sites using six focus groups for the licensed nurses, unregulated care providers, and 10 interviews with other health care provider groups, administration, and residents. We reviewed documents and administered a short survey to study participants to assess perceptions of barriers to pain management.

Results: The findings revealed barriers to effective LTC pain management at the resident/family, health care provider, and system levels. We then developed a six-tiered model with proposed interventions to address these barriers.

Conclusions: This model can guide the development of innovative approaches to improving pain management in LTC settings.
Optoacoustic Detection of Thermal Lesions
Authors: Arsenault Michel G. , Kolios Michael , Whelan William M.
Published: May 2021

Optoacoustic Detection of Thermal Lesions
A Trade Policy Perspective On Import Quotas And The Substitution Effect
Authors: Cadogan Godfrey
Published: May 2021

This paper focuses on the necessary conditions required in order to exploit the substitution effect which arises when there is a shift in demand induced by import quotas under imperfect competition. The protective policy succeeds if the substitution effect shifts in favor of goods produced by the domestic industry and this shift offsets foreign firms quota rents and the decrease in consumer welfare. While extant literature tends to focus on welfare loss associated with import quotas, in this paper social welfare analytics are produced and a trade policy decision rule for net welfare gain is obtained.

Keywords: Import quota, social welfare, substitution effect, trade policy decision rule.
Getting growth on track: aligning transit investment and growth planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
Authors: Birnbaum Leah
Published: May 2021

Policy solutions, tools, and approaches to strengthen the links between transit investments and planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. To support the Province of Ontario’s 10-year co-ordinated land use planning review, CBI convened subject matter experts to address the most serious planning issue in Ontario: how we plan for growth in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. How we manage this growth is paramount to the sustainability and economic prosperity of our region.
Can Assembly Performance and Work Environment be Jointly Optimized? An Example Discreet Event Simulation Study
Authors: Neumann Patrick , Medbo P
Published: May 2021

We demonstrate here how discreet event simulation can be used to integrating ergonomics into design processes. In this case we test the effect of two different ways of organizing work within a conventional production line layout. We pay special attention to the sensitivity of the system to human factors such as work autonomy and reduced work pace. Results indicate the general superiority of a ‘dual-cell’ over a ‘chase-the-rabbit’ organization in accommodating human variability. The study shows how human considerations can be tested in the design process using flow simulation.

 Keywords:  Flow, Simulation, Production System Design,   Psychosocial Conditions, Work Organization 
The New Interim Federal Health Program: How Reduced Coverage Adversely Affects Refugee Claimants' Employment
Authors: Jackson Samantha
Published: May 2021

The New Interim Federal Health Program: How Reduced Coverage Adversely Affects Refugee Claimants' Employment
Civic Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society: the role of nonprofit organizations in Canada’s four most diverse cities
Authors: Meinhard Agnes , Faridi Farhat , O'Connor Pauline , Randhawa Manveer
Published: May 2021

Newcomer engagement or participation in the nonprofit sector has been shown to be an important pillar for upholding democracy, linked to voting behaviour and political participation; the creation of social capital; and enhancement of newcomer involvement in local decision making. This paper presents results of a study that focuses on two ways in which immigrant minorities have their interests represented in community decision-making: the first through the formation of ethno-specific voluntary organizations that represent their specific interests; the second via participation as leaders, board members and volunteers in ‘mainstream’ nonprofit and public organizations.

Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management

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Institutionalizing Precarious Immigration Status in Canada
Authors: Goldring Luin , Berinstein Carolina , Bernhard Judith K.
Published: May 2021

This paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry, but some entrants lose work and/or residence authorization and end up with variable forms of less-than-full immigration status. We argue that binary conceptions of migration status (legal/illegal) do not reflect this context, and advocate the use of ‘precarious status’ to capture variable forms of irregular status and illegality, including documented illegality. We find that elements of Canadian policy routinely generate pathways to multiple forms of precarious status, which is accompanied by precarious access to public services. Our analysis of the production of precarious status in Canada is consistent with approaches that frame citizenship and illegality as historically produced and changeable. Considering variable pathways to and forms of precarious status supports theorizing citizenship and illegality as having blurred rather than bright boundaries. Identifying differences between Canada and the US challenges binary and tripartite models of illegality, and supports conducting contextually specific and comparative work.
Social Simulations Teach Engineering Student to Gain 'Buy-In' for Human Factors
Authors: Neumann Patrick , Rosen Rheta
Published: May 2021

Social Simulations Teach Engineering Student to Gain 'Buy-In' for Human Factors
Syrian brides and the Global Compact on Refugees: How Canada’s FIAP can reimagine refugee women’s empowerment
Authors: Taha Dina
Published: May 2021

The current Liberal government has publicly endorsed a feminist agenda which has led to initiatives such as Canada’s feminist international assistance policy (FIAP), initiated in 2017. At the same time, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report (TRC) of 2015 reiterates how the histories of colonialism are still persistent and need to be addressed in our curriculum, research, and policy. This essay argues that a fully feminist agenda must be anti-colonial in nature, rejecting Eurocentric, stereotypical and universalizing explanations and leaving space for cultural interpretations, local solutions and listening to the voices of marginalized groups as experts. In short, FIAP and the TRC must be brought together in practical and policy-orientated ways to promote women’s empowerment and gender equity through a decolonizing framework. In support of Canada’s leading role in the advancement of refugee issues and the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), and informed by its feminist approach to foreign policy and FIAP which “comes with “aggressive” funding targets for gender equality and women’s empowerment” (CCIC, 2017), it is important to scrutinize the notion of gender empowerment and related notions, such as forced marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Drawing on doctoral fieldwork conducted in Egypt summer of 2017, this paper uses the case of Syrian refugee women who marry ‘for refuge’ to explore how certain groups of refugee women and their stories challenge international humanitarian perceptions that often stigmatize similar arrangements as exploitation, sex trafficking and/or forced marriages. I use what I refer to as marriage for refuge and marriage immobility to demonstrate how humanitarian notions such as empowerment and related notions such as SGBV and forced marriage can be reimagined. The study aims to offer insights for a gender-responsive refugee policy that is feminist, decolonizing and sensitive to culture, context and diversity.
A Case Study of the Ergonomic Consequences of Engineering Decisions
Authors: Neumann Patrick , Kihlberg S. , Medbo P. , Winkel Jorgen
Published: May 2021

A Case Study of the Ergonomic Consequences of Engineering Decisions
The Influence of Religion on Philanthropy in Canada
Authors: Berger Ida
Published: May 2021

Recognition of the multi-cultural nature of the Canadian population has led companies across a wide array of business domains to reach beyond their traditional bases of support to focus on hitherto untapped communities as potential markets for their goods and services. Competitive conditions within the voluntary sector have pushed non-profits along this same path. However, no systematic Canadian research reports on the attitudes, social norms, benefits sought, expectations, opportunities, experiences, or behaviors of sub-communities in the voluntary sector. This paper examines philanthropic behavior by religion using data from the Statistics Canada 2000 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (NSGVP). The paper compares and contrasts the voluntary and philanthropic behaviors of the Canadian population across religious groups; compares and contrasts the motivations for and perceived impediments against such behaviors; and articulates and examines a model that traces the influence of religion on voluntary and philanthropic behavior in Canada’s multicultural society.

Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management

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Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Authors: Caponi Vincenzo
Published: May 2021

This paper presents an intergenerational self selection model of migration and education that is capable of explaining the evolution of earnings and education across three generations of immigrants. By structurally estimating the model it is possible to quantify the human capital level of Mexicans in light of the self-sacrifice made by the first generation of Mexican immigrants. The results suggest that there is a significant one time loss of human capital faced by immigrants upon migration that is not transmitted to their children. Also parents with larger amounts of human capital tend to migrate more and tend to choose to remain high school educated. However, given the better educational opportunities offered in the US, they migrate with the expectation of their children becoming college educated. Therefore, measures that rely on the earnings performance and educational attainment of immigrants underestimate the amount of human capital they bring into the host country.
Suburbs on track : building transit-friendly neighbourhoods in the Toronto region
Authors: Burda Cherise , Collins-Williams Mike , Kingdon Alicia
Published: May 2021

The province of Ontario is investing over $32 billion in new subways, light rail, rapid busways and regional express rail over the next 10 to 15 years outside of downtown Toronto. These suburbs and regional municipalities have an opportunity to realize the benefits of transit-oriented communities that are walkable and safe, support local businesses, generate ridership to pay for transit operations and provide more mobility choices and affordable housing options.

A collaboration with the Ontario Home Builders’ Association that provides several recommendations for developing transit-oriented communities.
Expressing Tonal Closure in Music Performance: Auditory and Visual Cues
Authors: Caeser Donovon K. , Forde Thompson Willam , Russo Frank
Published: May 2021

We examined whether musical performers communicate tonal closure through expressive manipulation of facial expressions and non-pitch features of the acoustic output. Two musicians hummed two versions of Silent Night: one ended on the tonic of the scale and exhibited tonal closure; the other ended on the dominant and was therefore tonally unclosed. In Experiment 1, video-only recordings of the hummed sequences were presented to 15 participants, who judged whether the (imagined) melody was closed or unclosed. Accuracy was reliably above chance, indicating that the musicians expressed tonal closure in facial expressions and listeners decoded these cues. Experiment 2 was conducted to determine whether musicians also communicate tonal closure in acoustic attributes other than pitch. All tones in the hummed melodies were pitched-shifted to a constant mean value, but performances still differed in loudness, microtonal pitch variation, timing, and timbre. Participants judged whether audio-only recordings were closed or unclosed. Accuracy was not above chance overall, but was marginally above chance for judgement of one of the two singers. Results suggest that tonal closure can be mapped onto non-pitch aspects of performance expression, but is primarily restricted to the use of facial expressions.
Good news, bad news: a snapshot of conditions at small-market newspapers in Canada
Authors: Lindgren April , Jolly Brent , Sabatini Cara , Wong Christina
Published: May 2021

[Para. 1 of Introduction]: We set out with this survey to find out about conditions at small-market newspapers in Canada and to explore the sector’s prospects at a time when newspapers in general face major challenges. The survey, which was in the field from February 5, 2018, to April 25, 2018, is a joint initiative by the Local News Research Project run by Ryerson University journalism professor April Lindgren, and the non-profit National NewsMedia Council, a voluntary self-regulatory organization that promotes editorial standards and news literacy. Together, we sought answers to questions about workload; the use of digital tools; how employees stay up to date with ethical, technological and other changes; and how publications engage with audiences. Respondents were also asked for their views on the future and industry challenges and opportunities.
Analysis of Ultrasound Backscatter from Ensembles of Cells and Isolated Nuclei
Authors: Kolios Michael , Czarnota Gregory J. , Hussain Mohammed , Foster F. Stuart , Hunt John W. , Sherar Michael D.
Published: May 2021

Analysis of Ultrasound Backscatter from Ensembles of Cells and Isolated Nuclei
Correlation of Steady State and Transient Temperature Profiles in Perfused Fixed Kidneys: Implications for Thermal Models
Authors: Kolios Michael C. , Sherar Michael D. , Worthington A. E. , Hunt J. W.
Published: May 2021

1. INTRODUCTION
Thermal models are used in hyperthermia to predict temperature distributions for treatment and
applicator optimization. It is known that blood flow can significantly influence temperature profiles
but an accurate description of this effect is unknown. Two models that have been used to model
microvascular effects are the Pennes Bioheat Transfer Equation (BHTE) and the Effective Thermal
Conductivity Equation (ETCE) [1], while an advection term is used in combination with the above
to model large vessel effects [2]. The purpose of this work is to compare model predictions in an
experimental system and to critically examine the effects of thermally significant vessels.
Information access and systematic reviews: a discussion
Authors: Fredericks Suzanne , Schwind Jasna , Metersky Kateryna
Published: May 2021

The conduct of systematic reviews is prevalent across various healthcare disciplines. However, it remains one of the least engaged methodologies in nursing. Increasingly, large numbers of individuals across healthcare are publishing in various mediums, on an annual basis, which has made it difficult for nurses to keep up with primary research evidence. The purpose of this discussion paper is to present a methodology that can be used to search for relevant materials, sort through large volumes of information, and make decisions regarding possible study selection. The intention of this paper is to describe the process involved in mapping out what is known from the existing literature about a specific area of interest, as well as the strategies used to delimit the number and type of materials to be included in a systematic review. An overview of the process of identifying relevant materials to include in a review is presented. Specifically, determining inclusion and exclusion criteria, search strategies, and selecting studies for inclusion in a systematic review are discussed. A case study of an existing systematic review that evaluated interventions for reducing the number of hospital readmissions following heart failure was used to guide this discussion.
Case studies, cuts, and critical information literacy
Authors: Steinberg Reece
Published: May 2021

Post-secondary institutions are responding to cuts in government funding by prioritizing skillsbuilding directly related to employment. Conservative governments ignore employers’ call for transferable skills in new graduates, and use funding cuts to pressure educational institutions’ focus. Librarians face the challenging task of offering instruction in both specific technical skills and transferable thinking skills in a limited time period. Critical information literacy is increasingly included as part of instruction in post-secondary libraries, in addition to technical use of library resources. This paper includes practical examples of critical library instruction using case studies, and explores the relationship between case studies and critical information literacy. Case studies in library classes or workshops fit within required guidelines for careerfocused learning and practical skills-building while providing opportunities for students to engage in analysis of information. Cases lend themselves well to progressive, learner-focused, and flexible modes of instruction. This paper argues for case studies as a radical, relevant tool in post-secondary library teaching
The Immigrant's Journey: Race and Trauma in The Sopranos
Authors: Tabasinejad Pouyan
Published: May 2021

David Chase’s series The Sopranos (1999-2007) was a wildly successful and popular show which has attracted rich analysis from both critics and academics. However, what has not been adequately analyzed by scholars is the central role that race (specifically Whiteness and Whitening) plays within the series. By using theories of Whiteness (especially Sheshadri-Crooks’s idea of Whiteness as master signifier), Whitening, and racialization, this paper shows how Italian- Americans’ history of racialization, oppression, and eventual Whitening and deracialization expresses itself in complex ways within the series. Specifically, this paper focuses on how the trauma of historical Italian-American oppression and racialization are a constant theme within the seemingly Whitened Italian- American communities and relations portrayed in the series. This intergenerational trauma is considered in the context of historical developments in the Italian-American community and dialogue and plot developments within the series.
How cheating undermines the perceived value of justice in the workplace: the mediating effect of shame
Authors: Hillebrandt Annika , Barclay Laurie J.
Published: May 2021

Scholars have devoted significant attention to investigating whenand whypeople cheat in organizations. However, there is increasing recognition that these behaviors can be difficult to eradicate, which points to the importance of understanding the consequencesof cheating. Given that cheating violatesmoral norms that govern social relationships, it is critical to understand how cheating can influence social dynamics in the workplace. Drawing upon appraisal theories, we argue that cheating can have damaging consequences for individuals and their social relationships by eliciting shame. In turn, shame can reduce the extent to which individuals value receiving justice –a critical facilitator of social relationships in the workplace. We test our predictions across sixstudies using different samples and methodologies. In Study 1, we find that cheatingis negatively associated with the importance people place on others upholding justicefor them (i.e., overall justice values). In Studies 2-6, we demonstrate that shame plays a mediating role in this relationship, even in the presence of guilt and embarrassment.In Studies 3-5, we identify organizational identificationas a moderator and show that the effect of cheating on shame isstronger for those with high (versus low) identification. Theoretical implications include theimportance of identifying the outcomes of cheating for individuals within organizational contexts, understanding the functionaland dysfunctional consequences of shame, recognizing the differential effects of discrete emotions, and elucidating the role of identity within the context of cheating. We conclude with practical recommendations formanaging cheating behaviors and their outcomes in the workplace.

Keywords: cheating, behavioral ethics, justice, shame, organizational identification
Perceptual Considerations in Designing and Fitting Hearing Aids for Music
Authors: Russo Frank
Published: May 2021

The components of music shed light on important aspects of hearing perception.

To make music, musicians must be able to produce and keep track of subtle changes that occur along numerous dimensions of sound, often unfolding in parallel over time. To understand music, listeners must be able to perceive and make sense of these subtle changes.

The opportunities for masking in music abound, and compared with speech, the range of pitch and intensity levels can vary dramatically. Musical tones include important energy components infringing on both the lower and upper pitch limit. For example, the fundamental frequency of low piano tones fall below 20 Hz, and the upper partials of violin tones rise above 20,000 Hz. In addition, the difference between peak intensity and average intensity is considerably higher in music than it is in speech. This additional variability amounts to a formidable challenge for any auditory system—let alone one that is impaired in some manner.
Learning Analytics Dashboard for Twitter
Authors: Gruzd Anatoliy , Conroy Nadia
Published: May 2021

Considering the increasing use of Twitter for both formal and informal learning, the primary goal of this project is to design a Learning Analytics (LA) dashboard to support instructors’ evaluation of Twitter-based teaching. To achieve this goal, we conducted an online survey involving 54 higher education instructors who have used Twitter in their past teaching. The main purpose was to identify why instructors use Twitter and what types of analytics they would consider valuable. The results of the survey evidence that instructors use Twitter to help students engage with class material, promote discussion, and build learning communities. Instructors expressed interest in analytical tools to help them quantitatively and qualitatively interpret Twitter data. Coupled with an in-depth literature review in this area, we relied on the survey data to prototype a Learning Analytics dashboard (https://dashboard.socialmediadata.org/educhat). Our online dashboard uses a simple, easy-to-read interface in accordance with previous successful dashboard implementations. Graphical visualizations allow instructors to monitor discussion patterns, such as the frequency and times of posting. Visual content breakdowns by number of retweets, original posts, and topics in the form of hashtags and named entities reveal the constituents of students’ posts. The dashboard provides additional analysis in the form of sentiment and subjectivity ranking as a way to contextually aid qualitative assessment. To support instructors’ awareness of class participation, we incorporated two visualizations that highlight the most active users and individuals who are most frequently mentioned in others’ tweets. Instructors can use the dashboard to gauge the participation at the individual- or classroom-level, and further discover what topics and links students discuss and share on Twitter. Three instructors piloted the LA dashboard over a 4-month semester in the Fall of 2017. Following their use, we conducted evaluation interviews with these instructors. Instructor evaluations confirmed that the proposed design is aligned with their pedagogical needs; they favored an intuitive interface that combined summative metrics for the entire class and personalized assessment of individual students. Based on instructors’ feedback, our future work will iteratively refine the design by integrating additional interactive features to adjust time scales of the output, investigate source data, collect data from lists of Twitter users (as opposed to a single hashtag), and further integrate the dashboard with other LMS (Learning Management System) data.
What do Psychology and Civil Engineering have in Common to Promote Well-Being and Excellence?
Authors: Easa Said , Reed Maureen J. , Russo Frank
Published: May 2021

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Many people are probably not aware of the strong linkage between psychology and civil engineering. Psychology tools are used in many areas of civil engineering, some areas are old and some are recent. Other areas where psychology can play an important role are emerging. You may be surprised to know that almost half the psychologists, in the broader sense, work in areas related to civil engineering.
Strategies for instructor protection from false and frivolous human rights complaints
Authors: Neumann Patrick , Salustri Filippo
Published: May 2021

False or frivolous human rights complaints against instructors, by students unsatisfied with their grades, have become a growing problem in some universities. These complaints and associated lengthy investigations are a form of mobbing that is harmful to instructors’ health and wellbeing.
This in turn is harmful to instructors’ families, professional relationships, the pedagogical environment and the instructors’ careers. This paper reports on a brainstorming exercise used to identify possible ideas for preventing such false claims of human rights violations. This work operates under the assumption that the institution is unwilling or unable to improve their complaint management process. The authors identified 12 viable ideas that might help reduce the probability of a student making false accusations when unsatisfied with their grades. These ideas could be clustered as “Acquiesce”, “Shift Blame”, “Interaction Monitoring”, and “Separation”. All ideas had problem associated with them. Some ideas, like separation, were consistent with current pedagogical trends in distance and asynchronous education. In the face of a lack of institutional engagement in the current problem, the only idea identified that could secure instructor safety and wellbeing was to leave the profession. Further investigation is needed.
Collapsing landscapes? The regional science contribution to spatial understanding
Authors: de Noronha Vaz Eric
Published: May 2021

Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented landscape change. Most of these changes have been brought by human impact on the environment, and excessive exploitation of resources. While economic growth has brought prosperity and better living conditions, much of the human impact has had irreversible consequences on environmental systems and destroyed fragile ecosystems and biodiversity. As much as our impact on earth has brought irreversible environmental change, our landscapes have in detriment of these choices witnessed a substantial change, most of it affecting our natural and historical heritage (Vaz and Nijkamp, 2009). In the context of regional development, economic geography and complex space-time dynamics are factors of continuous change (Nijkamp and Abreu, 2009). Monitoring of the transitions of land at regional level, is thus of utmost importance for founder regions in future. It is of utmost importance to preserve landscapes by enabling efficient economic growth, without jeopardizing the natural ecosystems and mitigating the impacts on the anthropogenic heritage and archaeological landscapes alike. This paper advances on the possible spatial interpretations of landscape change by means of defining the role at present of Geographic Information Systems as tools to allow sounder urban and regional interactions. Thus, I propose three pathways integrating regional development within a spatial landscape preservation framework. It draws inspiration from much of the work realized by Peter Nijkamp, concerning lessons learned from complex spatiotemporal interactions of regions. I arrive to the conclusion that we are facing what I designate as a general collapsing landscape, a result of rapid economic changes followed by landscape functionality. From a spatial perspective, regions can only become sustainable, when spatial memory – that is, the identity of place and time and economic traditions – are coherent and long lasting. From a regional science perspective, three types of landscape paradigms within the collapsing landscape are defined, posing as solutions for sustainable development in future: (i) the coherent landscape, (ii) the dominant landscape and (iii) the vertical landscape. All of these types of landscapes largely depend on our options taken in the next decades. The usage of Geographic Information Systems, in particular the recent advances in location based services, crowd sourcing and ambient information, play a leading role in the development of regions and may act as a visual tool for evaluation landscape change.
Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities : Case Studies
Authors: Chaze Ferzana , Osborne Bethany J. (Bethany Joy) , Medhekar Archana , George Purnima , Chahal Katrina
Published: May 2021

Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities: Case Studies” is a freely accessible eCampus Ontario Pressbook containing case studies of immigrant women experiencing domestic violence to be used as educational materials. The contents were created by analysing closed legal case files of 15 immigrant women living in Ontario who experienced domestic violence. The comprehensive case studies that emerge from this research present domestic violence experienced by immigrant women in all its complexity, highlighting their unique vulnerability at the intersections of race, gender and immigration status. The book also highlights the different legal processes that these women encounter in seeking justice and the challenges they face in relation to re-establishing their own lives and the lives of their children. In addition to the cases, the book contains questions for reflection; a description of legal processes involved in DV cases, and a glossary of the terms used throughout the case studies. This interactive Pressbook is an ideal resource for social work and legal practitioners, including students in social service work, social work and law programs, in order to increase their understanding about the complexity of domestic violence cases in immigrant families and develop strategies for culturally informed interventions.
Discrimination experienced by landed immigrants in Canada
Authors: Parveen Parveen
Published: May 2021

Immigrants land in Canada with great hopes and multiple dreams, but the General Social Survey 2009 shows that one-fifth of them face discrimination in various situations once they have arrived. Ethnicity, race, language, and religion are the major grounds of discrimination. In this paper, the experiences of discrimination of landed immigrants are compared with those of non-immigrants. A logistic regression analysis is used on GSS data to predict the probability of facing discrimination based on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of a person. Separate models are prepared for landed immigrants and non-immigrants. Results show that immigrants are much more likely to face discrimination than non-immigrants. Visible minorities and younger persons face higher levels of discrimination compared to non-visible minorities and older persons. Irrespective of their gender, household income, language, region of domicile, and number of evening activities, landed immigrants have similar chances of facing discrimination; whereas, for non-immigrants, these characteristics make a significant difference in their experiences of discrimination.

Key Words: Discrimination, immigrant, race, ethnicity, and human rights.