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Investigation of natural organic matter (NOM) character and its removal in a chlorinated and chloraminated system at Rand Water, South Africa
Authors: Marais S. S. , Ncube E. J. , Msagati T. A. M. , Mamba B. B. , Nkambule T. I.
Published: March 2017

In its natural environment, natural organic matter (NOM) is not problematic. However, during water treatment NOM does affect water quality specifically during the disinfection step, where if NOM is present it reacts with disinfectants resulting in the formation of disinfection by-products. To emphasize the importance of NOM monitoring during potable water treatment this study aimed to characterize NOM and evaluate NOM removal by a conventional water treatment plant considering seasonal trends. NOM was characterized by making use of NOM polarity and specific ultraviolet absorbance. NOM removal was monitored with high-performance size exclusion chromatography, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and UV254 analyses. The polarity rapid assessment method indicated that the hydrophobic and hydrophilic NOM fractions within the surface water increased during a period of heavy rain when floods occurred, but conversely decreased during an average rain season. Although NOM character showed variability during the 5-year study period, seasonal relationship during high and low flow seasons between aromatic NOM and total trihalomethane (TTHM) formation was not evident. Aromatic NOM was not the only precursor to TTHM formation, which stresses the need to implement advanced NOM characterization techniques during NOM monitoring to study reactivity of the individual NOM fraction with the disinfectant used at the water treatment plant.
PROMOVENDO A AUTOESTIMA NA GESTAÇÃO: FOCO NO ACOLHIMENTO
Authors: Tomaschewski-Barlem Jamila Geri , Bordignon Simoní Saraiva , Da Costa Cesar Francisco Silva , Da Costa Carla De Oliveira , Barlem Edison Luiz Devos
Published: March 2017

Objetivo: relatar a utilização de ensaios fotográficos na promoção da autoestima de gestantes, tomando por objeto a experiência de um projeto de extensão desenvolvido em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde da Família. Metodologia: as ações realizadas visaram a utilização da fotografia na promoção da autoestima da gestante, estimulando sua participação no Grupo de Gestantes e no processo completo de pré-natal. Resultado: acreditamos que foi possível proporcionar às gestantes uma interação com o bebê de maneira prazerosa, valorizando suas crenças, valores, projetos pessoais, histórias de vida, sentimentos e expectativas frente à gestação. Conclusão: as atividades em grupo devem ser pensadas como meio de oportunizar a socialização, a integração e trocas de experiências.Descritores: Enfermagem; Obstetrícia; Assistência; Gestante.PROMOTING SELF-ESTEEM DURING PREGNANCY: FOCUS ON USER EMBRACEMENTObjective: this paper aimed at reporting the utilization of photo shoots to promote self-esteem in pregnant women. Its object was the experience of an extension project developed at a Basic Family Health Unit. Methodology: the actions accomplished aimed at the use of photography for the promotion of self-esteem in pregnant women, stimulating their participation in the Pregnant Women Group and in the whole prenatal process. Results: we believe it was possible to provide the pregnant women with an interaction with their babies in a pleasurable way, valuing their beliefs, values, personal projects, life experiences, feelings and expectations for pregnancy. Conclusion: group activities should be thought of as a meant to create opportunities for socialization, integration and exchange of experiences.Descriptors: Prenatal Care, User Embracement, Family Health, Photography.PROMOCI ÓN DE LA AUTOESTIMA EN EL EMBARAZO: ENFOQUE EN EL ACOGIMIENTOObjetivo: este estudio tuvo como objetivo relatar el uso de ensayos fotográficos en la promoción de la autoestima de las mujeres embarazadas, teniendo por objeto la experiencia de un proyecto de extensión desarrollado en una unidad básica de salud de la familia. Metodologia: las acciones realizadas visaron la utilización de la fotografía en la promoción de la autoestima de las mujeres embarazadas, avivando su participación en el grupo de mujeres embarazadas y en el proceso completo de la atención prenatal. Resultados: creemos que fue posible proporcionar a las mujeres embarazadas una interacción con el bebé tan agradable, valorando sus creencias, valores, proyectos personales, historias de vida, sentimientos y expectativas en relación al embarazo. Conclusión: actividades de grupo deben ser considerados como un medio para crear oportunidades para la socialización, la integración y el intercambio de experiencias.Descriptores: Atención Prenatal, Acogimiento, Salud de la Familia, Fotografía.
Ameliorative effect of aqueous extract of bitter leaf on egg yolk induced kidney toxicity in adult wistar rats
Authors: Ehimigbai Richard Agbonluai
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study is to assess the effect of aqeueous extract of  bitter leaf on egg yolk induced kidney toxicity in adult wistar rat. A total of 44 (forty four) adult wistar rats weighing between 220 g to 250 g were separated into 4 groups of 11 rats per group. Group A rats were placed on normal diet only while Group B rats received 300 mg/ kg body weight / day (BWT/D) of egg yolk. Group C rats received 250mg / kg BWT/D of bitter leaf. Group D rats received 300 mg/ kg BWT/D of egg yolk and 250mg / kg BWT/D of bitter leaf. The dosage were given for 32 days via orogastric method. The biochemical outcome showed that group B revealed marked elevation in the urea, SOD, cholesterol level when compared with the other groups. Histologically, group B showed a mild vascular obstruction and patchy tubular necrosis, while group A, C and D revealed normal architecture of the kidney. We can therefore concluded that the aqueous extract of bitter leaf have antioxidative and neproprotective properties against egg yolk induced kidney toxicity in wistar rat.
Anatomical variations of A1 and A2 segments of anterior cerebral artery.
Authors: Ligha Aloysius Ebi , Ligha Aloysius Ebi
Published: March 2017

imaging of the cerebral arterial circulation is key in neurological diseases and knowledge of anatomical variants is very important in both radiologic interpretation and interventional procedures. We present a case of A1 segment hypoplasia and azygos A2 anterior cerebral artery anomalies with the aim of discussing the normal anatomy, embryological perspectives and the most common variants of  anterior cerebral artery
Pengaruh Penambahan Rempah dan Bentuk Minuman terhadap Aktivitas Antioksidan Berbagai Minuman Tradisional Indonesia
Authors: Septiana Aisyah Tri , Samsi Mohammad , Mustaufik Mustaufik
Published: March 2017

Indonesia traditional beverages such as minuman jahe, kunyit asam, beras kencur, and minuman temulawak are usually made with the addition of spices. They can be served in the form of  liquid or powder. This research was aimed to study the effect of  the beverage type, addition of spices, and the form of product on their antioxidant activity. The type of sugar used in this study was palm sugar juice. Total phenolic contents were measured to  indicate the level of antioxidants. Measurement of antioxidant  activity was conducted by analyzing malonaldehyde from linoleic  acid and capturing capacity of DPPH radical. The results showed  that Indonesian traditional beverage could inhibit the oxidation of linoleic acid and capture free radicals. Free radical capturing  capacity of curcuma beverage greater than other beverages, but  the malonaldehyde (MDA) inhibitor effect was not different. Total phenolic content of curcuma tended to be higher than the other traditional beverages. The addition of spices could raise the level  of total phenolic content in beverages and increase free radical  trapping capacity. Drying the beverages into powder could reduce the levels of total phenolic content and but did not reduce the  antioxidant activity. ABSTRAKMinuman tradisional Indonesia seperti minuman jahe, kunyit  asam, beras kencur, dan minuman temulawak biasanya dibuat  dengan tambahan berbagai rempah. Minuman tersebut dapat  disajikan dalam bentuk cair maupun serbuk. Penelitian ini  bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh jenis minuman,  penambahan rempah tambahan, dan bentuk minuman terhadap aktivitas antioksidan minuman. Jenis gula yang ditambahkan  adalah gula nira. Jenis antioksidan yang diuji adalah total fenolik. Pengukuran aktivitas antioksidan dilakukan dengan uji  penghambatan malonaldehid dan kapasitas penangkapan radikal  DPPH. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa minuman  tradisional Indonesia dapat menghambat oksidasi asam linoleat dan menangkap radikal bebas. Kapasitas penangkapan radikal  bebas oleh minuman temulawak lebih besar dibandingkan  minuman yang lain tetapi kemampuan penghambatan  malonaldehid (MDA) oleh minumaan tradisional tidak berbeda.  Total fenolik minuman temulawak cenderung lebih besar  dibandingkan minuman tradisional yang lain. Penambahan  rempah-rempah dapat meningkatkan kadar total fenolik  minuman dan meningkatkan kapasitas penangkapan radikal  bebas. Pembuatan minuman serbuk pada penelitian ini dapat  menurunkan kadar total fenolik tetapi tidak menurunkan aktivitas antioksidan.
Aplikasi Analisis Multivariat Berdasarkan Warna untuk Memprediksi Brix dan pH pada Pisang
Authors: Akbar Yohanita Maulina , Masithoh Dr. Rudiati Evi , Khuriyati Nafis
Published: March 2017

In this research, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) model was used to predict Brix and pH of banana based on RGB and Lab color values. Banana samples varied in color and ripening level from less ripen to ripen. RGB and Lab values were measured non-destructively using colormeter, while Brix and pH were determined using conventional method in laboratory. Multivariate analysis was done using the Unscrambler ® X 10.3 (CAMO, AS, OLSO, Norway, and trial version). Results showed that calibration model using MLR was able to predict Brix and pH of banana based on RGB and Lab color values. Furthermore, validation data were used to test the selected models. MLR model to predict Brix based on RGB and Lab validation resulted in 0.8 and 0.84 of determination coefficient between observation and prediction data. The model was also able to predict pH based on RGB and Lab values with 0.71 and 0.79 of determination coefficient between observation and prediction data. ABSTRAKPada penelitian ini, model Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) digunakan untuk memprediksi Brix dan pH pada buah pisang berdasarkan nilai warna Red Green Blue (RGB) dan Lab. Pisang yang dianalisis mempunyai variasi warna dari kurang masak sampai masak. Parameter warna RGB dan Lab dilakukan secara non-destruktif dengan menggunakan colormeter, sedangkan pengukuran kualitas internal yaitu Brix dan pH ditentukan secara destruktif atau dengan prosedur konvensional di laboratorium. Aplikasi analisis multivariat yang digunakan adalah Unscrambler ® X 10.3 (CAMO, AS, OLSO, Norway, versi trial). Analisis data menunjukkan bahwa model kalibrasi MLR dapat digunakan untuk memprediksi Brix dan pH berdasarkan parameter warna RGB dan Lab pada buah pisang. Selanjutnya, data validasi digunakan untuk menguji model MLR terpilih. Model kalibrasi MLR dapat memprediksi Brix berdasarkan nilai RGB dan Lab dengan nilai koefisien determinasi (R2) sebesar 0,8 dan 0,84, secara berurutan. Sedangkan koefisien determinasi (R2) untuk pH berdasarkan warna RGB dan Lab adalah 0,71 dan 0,79.
Locking Out the Mother Corp: Nationalism and Popular Imaginings of Public Service Broadcasting in the Print News Media
Authors: Ferguson Sue
Published: March 2017

Early promoters of public-service broadcasting (PSB) in Canada emphasized its democratic and nationalist merit. Of these twin pillars, only nationalism appears to still be standing. In this article, the author surveys the vision of PSB that emerged in the national English-language print media during the 2005 CBC/Radio-Canada lockout and suggests that our peculiar brand of multicultural nationalism (which underestimates the divisions within civil society) has subsumed democratic values. Yet, she argues democratic principles—particularly those of access, participation, and publicness—are critically important to defending the relevance of PSB in the current environment of seemingly endless media choices and borderless technology.
Victims’ Rights and the Struggle over Crime in the Media
Authors: Rentschler Carrie A.
Published: March 2017

This paper seeks to explain how crime victims have become increasingly visible in the criminal justice system and in media portrayals of crime by looking to the U.S. victims’ rights movement and its strategic mobilization of a particular construction of “crime victim” into the public sphere. Through analysis of the movement’s documentation of its media strategies and new forms of victim-oriented journalistic practice, the paper demonstrates how the movement portrays crime through its construction of crime victims as a class of citizens without rights, through which the families of murder victims become proxy-victims.
Spreading the News: Social Determinants of Health Reportage in Canadian Daily Newspapers
Authors: Gasher Mike , Hayes Michael , Hackett Robert , Gutstein Donald , Ross Ian , Dunn James
Published: March 2017

As part of a research program called CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) devoted to examining health literacy in Canadian daily newspapers, and operating from a theoretical framework that posits journalism as a practice of representation, this article is based on a series of formal interviews with English-language and French-language health reporters. The interviews sought answers to three central questions about health reportage: how do journalists demarcate such a vast topic as health? where do they find their stories? and to what extent are they familiar with research into the social determinants of health? It concludes that in spite of their dependence upon published scholarly research as a source of news stories, Canadian health reporters overemphasize the roles of the health care system and personal health habits in the production of Canadians’ health, and they underemphasize the role of social determinants.
Pink!: Community, Contestation, and the Colour of Breast Cancer
Authors: Elliott Charlene
Published: March 2017

This article focuses on the vibrant communicative media of colour, outlining its “codification” in public space and various challenges levelled at particular colour “codes.” Colour codification is presented as an active site where the visual is framed and deployed to advance particular ideas and goals—but is also strongly contested. Pertinent literature on the use of colour in public space is reviewed, providing a grounding for the analysis of ribbon campaigns and, more specifically, the contested use of pink in the breast cancer awareness movement.
Respite: Cultural Values in North American and Caribbean Caregiving
Authors: Dysart-Gale Deborah
Published: March 2017

Providing home health care to family members presents many physical and psychological stressors. Health care professionals frequently counsel family caregivers to seek respite by temporarily delegating caregiving responsibilities to others. However, when viewed from the perspective of rhetoric, definitions of respite as private time away from the care recipient are culturally bound ideographs and may not be appropriate outside North America. This qualitative study explored North American–trained social workers practising on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts as they promoted a concept of respite care defined by North American norms. Family caregivers interviewed rejected this model of respite care, situating their caregiving within the context of established family relationships.
Mobile Knowledge: HIV Patients’ Encounter with Endocrinology
Authors: Patton Cindy
Published: March 2017

Tracing the movement of new medical information from the laboratory to individual consumers is a challenge to communications theorists and social scientists alike. This article adopts the position of the social study of medicine, which takes into account the impact of people’s perceptions of disease on treatment decisions and outcomes, to locate instances of the movement of information—and its limitations—in a unique setting: a metabolic disorders clinic for HIV-positive patients. Analysis of data from a participatory observation study at the clinic reveals that the clinician, inculcated into endocrinology, must adapt new information to enable communication with patients, who hold a different view of the body heavily informed by virology. This adaptation also occurs in the reverse, as patients adjust their thinking to make room for new information that will directly impact their treatment decisions.
Political Marketing Canadian Style? The Conservative Party and the 2006 Federal Election
Authors: Paré Daniel J , Berger Flavia
Published: March 2017

This study investigates the change in Conservative Party behaviour during the 18 months between the 2004 and 2006 Canadian federal elections. It asks: How did the Conservative Party strategy influence the shift in voter preference during the 2006 Canadian federal election? The approach taken to address this question is rooted in the emerging field of Political Marketing. Using the Lees-Marshment taxonomy of party behaviour as a framework for analyzing the election outcome, this paper demonstrates how market intelligence was incorporated into the Conservative Party’s strategy to influence voter perceptions.
Communication dans un centre de répartition des urgences 911
Authors: Grosjean Sylvie
Published: March 2017

Résumé : Nous présentons dans cet article les résultats d’une recherche ethnographique dans un centre de répartition des urgences 911. L’objectif de cet article est de décrire les « savoir-faire communicationnels » de répartiteurs d’urgence afin de souligner, d’une part, le caractère peu formalisé de ces savoir-faire et, d’autre part, la dépendance de ceux-ci aux conditions et contextes de leur mise en oeuvre. Pour conclure, nous discutons du fait que ces savoir-faire sont en fait des pratiques qui s’actualisent au sein d’une communauté.
Sonic Signage: [murmur], the Refrain, and Territoriality
Authors: Wershler Darren S.
Published: March 2017

[murmur] is an archival audio project that collects and curates stories set in cities around the globe. At each location, a distinctive [murmur] sign with a telephone number and location code marks where stories are available. While [murmur]’s signs evoke the tradition of neo-Situationist and neo-Lettrist signage, it is the sonic supplement to these signs that is of particular interest. This article contextualizes the relationships that [murmur] establishes between physical signage, recorded sound, and specific geographic locales in both historical and theoretical terms. Thomas Edison originally only permitted demonstrations of the phonograph according to a strict system of territorial licensing, suggesting that there has always been a link between visible language, recorded audio, and territoriality. The article’s argument contextualizes and expands on this historical relationship via Deleuze and Guattari’s essay “1837: Of the Refrain.”
Calling Dick Tracy! or, Cellphone Use, Progress, and a Racial Paradigm
Authors: Nicholson Judith A.
Published: March 2017

The hero and phone-watch from Dick Tracy are evoked regularly in news and studies of cellphone use. This paper argues that the racial paradigm of White law enforcer and Dark law-breaker in the comic strip resonates in contemporary evocations and in discussions of cellphone use and crime. Representations of mobile communication and racialized criminality in Dick Tracy were inspired by the 1930s “war on crime” that intersected with wireless innovations and with lynching. This paper interprets that repeated evocation of the comic strip is a “perverse nostalgia” for an old-fashioned form of law and order premised on racialized violence and viewing.
Reality TV Formats: The Case ofCanadianIdol
Authors: Baltruschat Doris
Published: March 2017

This paper discusses narrative development and audience interactivity in reality television, with a particular focus on the “format franchising processes” involving Canadian Idol. The staging of media events, recruitment of semi-professional performers, and immersive online environments emphasize the complexities of reality format adaptation, which involves the localization of global media texts.
The Paradox of National Identity: Region, Nation, and Canadian Idol
Authors: B’béri Boulou Ebanda de
Published: March 2017

This paper focuses on the 2006 season of the reality television show Canadian Idol and the manufacturing of Canadian identity. Our analysis looks specifically at the way Canadian identity was articulated in the production of the show, the comments of the judges to contestants, the comments in news releases, and the viewers’ discussions on the message board accompanying the show. We argue that the show produces a version of Canadian identity that sustains a logic of regional difference, with a key point of distinction between urban and non-urban Canadians. However, we also indicate that this representation is ruptured by the viewers’ debates on their feelings of Canadian identity.
That’s Me: Nationalism and Identity on Balkan Reality TV
Authors: Volcic Zala
Published: March 2017

In this article, we consider the themes and reception of To Sam Ja ( That’s Me) , a Big Brother–style Balkan reality TV show filmed in Macedonia in 2004 and 2005 that featured several cast members from former Yugoslav republics living together. Drawing on examples taken from the production and reception of To Sam Ja, we explore the way in which the show manages political and economic conflicts by transposing them into the realm of the personal.
“I Just Say I’m in Advertising”: A Public Relations Identity Crisis?
Authors: Thurlow Amy
Published: March 2017

This study uses a critical sensemaking approach and draws upon role identity theory to explore individual understandings of the public relations identity. Public relations practitioners are asked to share their own sensemaking about their professional identities within the context of negative societal perceptions of the field.
Marketing After the Election: The Potential and Limitations of Maintaining a Market Orientation in Government
Authors: Lees-Marshment Jennifer
Published: March 2017

Political marketing—the utilization and adaptation of marketing techniques and concepts by political parties—is increasingly used by opposition leaders seeking to win elections the world over. They can adopt a market orientation and develop a product in response to market demands. However, how they maintain a market orientation while in government has rarely been considered. This article discusses how marketing can be used after the election, utilizing new theoretical perspectives and comparative empirical research to create a framework for market-oriented government. It also discusses the potential for marketing to be a tool of good government.
Comparing Digital Divides: Internet Access and Social Inequality in Canada and the United States
Authors: Howard Philip N. , Busch Laura , Sheets Penelope
Published: March 2017

What is the best way to measure and track the digital divide, in a comparative manner, over time? What impact have differing policy interventions had on the digital divide in Canada and the United States? We offer a way of benchmarking equality in Internet access using Gini coefficients and demonstrate that overall the digital divide has been closing in both countries. We find that in terms of income, the digital divide in Canada has closed most dramatically, and that in terms of education, the digital divide remains most pronounced in the United States. We suggest that Canada has been more successful in reducing the concentration of Internet access among wealthy educated populations, in part due to the active role of the state in supporting the production of culturally relevant digital content.
Build It and the Women Will Come? WTSN and the Advent of Canadian Digital Television
Authors: Neverson Nicole
Published: March 2017

In fall 2001, over 200 digital television channels were launched in Canada. One of those channels was WTSN (Women’s Television Sports Network)—the world’s first 24-hour television network exclusively dedicated to broadcasting women’s sports. In the fall of 2003, however, WTSN ceased broadcasting operations. This analysis of CRTC policies and personal interview data with Canadian media members argues that while the demise of WTSN can be attributed to the unfortunate pitfalls associated with early digital television rollout and cultural policies, the network’s downfall is best explained in substantially more ideological terms. From the outset, WTSN entered uncharted waters in the Canadian television sport landscape, attempting to showcase women’s sports to a predominantly female audience—a demographic that has yet to materialize for mainstream sports programming.
Neoliberalism in Provincial Cultural Policy Narratives: Perspectives from Two Coasts
Authors: Murray Catherine
Published: March 2017

This article outlines the historical trajectories of cultural policy evolution in two provinces not often studied in Canada—Nova Scotia and British Columbia—to determine the extent to which they may be said to conform to the spread of tenets of neoliberalism. The article first examines evidence in conformity with neoliberal cultural policy convergence at the provincial level and then explores divergences. Two very different provincial narratives or policy styles are identified—clientelist and place-based—which, while they contain common elements, have differences that cannot be dismissed as superficial. The authors conclude that analyses seeking evidence of convergence with neoliberal trends that are overly generalized may obscure historically embedded, distinctive political and cultural activities.
Going with the Flow: Neoliberalism and Cultural Policy in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Authors: Jeannotte M. Sharon
Published: March 2017

This article examines the impact that the neoliberal “tide” of the 1980s and 1990s has had on cultural policies in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It analyzes these developments in the context of the dominant political ideology that preceded neoliberalism in these provinces—social democracy. In Manitoba neoliberalism has been tempered by tensions between the centre and the hinterland, while in Saskatchewan it has been mitigated by tensions between the professional and community-based cultural organizations. Decision-makers have “gone with the neoliberal flow” in some respects, but have had to balance this with the traditional forces that have shaped cultural policy during the past 50 years.
Le pourquoi du spectacle : motivations relatives à la consommation de pornographie chez les hommes gais
Authors: Corneau Simon
Published: March 2017

Pornography consumption appears to be more accepted and normalized among gay males than among heterosexual men. Nevertheless, what motivates the consumption of pornography remains understudied. Using a poststructuralist approach, we conducted an exploratory audience research that allowed us to document the motivations of consumers of gay male pornography through the narratives of twenty users from Toronto (Canada). Using a thematic and a critical discourse analysis, we found that the motivations can be grouped around four main concepts: sexual satisfaction, fantasy exploration, escapism, and finally, protection from others. Our critical discourse analysis suggests that participants construct their subjectivity from alternative discourses on sexuality, dominant discourses on individualism, consumption and health, and contradictory discourses on risk. Using society of spectacle, society of consumption, scientia sexualis and ars erotica as main theoretical concepts, we conclude that pornography is part of the apparatus [dispositif] of sexuality in the Foucauldian sense, an apparatus that maintains sex at a discursive level.
Silent Alarm: The Mosquito Youth Deterrent and the Politics of Frequency
Authors: Akiyama Mitchell
Published: March 2017

The Mosquito is an ultrasonic device that uses sound to deter young people from loitering. The sound it emits is inaudible to most people over the age of 25 but is intolerable to those younger. By emitting this sound, the Mosquito stratifies space through sonic frequency and creates zones that are inhospitable to young people. Although the device has been marketed as a benign means of controlling space, the author argues that the Mosquito causes pain and therefore constitutes a weaponization of sound. Not only does the Mosquito threaten to deepen an already perceived rift between young people and adults, it abets the very notion of youth and adulthood as biologically different categories.
La couverture médiatique des accommodements raisonnables dans la presse écrite québécoise : Vérification de l’hypothèse du tsunami médiatique
Authors: Giasson Thierry , Sauvageau Marie-Michèle
Published: March 2017

From March 2006 to May 2008, the province of Québec engaged in a contentious public debate on diversity and reasonable accommodation practices. This study examines the evolution of press coverage in eleven Québec dailies dedicated to the issue of reasonable accommodation over the intensive twelve-month period during which the concept entered the public agenda. We examine the “media tsunami” hypothesis, an expanded version of the media hype theory developed by Vasterman (2005). The hypothesis posits that the media, in dealing with an emergent social issue in a relatively short period of time, amplify the importance of the issue through successive waves of press coverage that gain in intensity and magnitude over time. In doing so, they can manufacture social “crises.”
Reading Chatelaine: Dr. Marion Hilliard and 1950s Women’s Health Advice
Authors: Mendes Kaitlynn
Published: March 2017

This article explores key themes and discourses surrounding women’s health advice written by Dr. Marion Hilliard between 1954 and 1957. Her works, published in eight Chatelaine articles and a 1957 book, are of particular significance because they demonstrate some of the many paradoxes Canadian women faced: women were told to stay at home and be housewives, but that they could have an identity of their own; that women too were sexual beings, but that their sexuality was confined within heterosexual, monogamous limits. Hilliard’s articles are important because they not only demonstrate the extent to which patriarchy defined women’s roles, nature, and sexuality, but also how the mass media at times provides opportunities to challenge these dominant ideologies.
Way to Play: Analyzing Gambling Ads for Their Appeal to Underage Youth
Authors: Sklar Alissa
Published: March 2017

This study is the first in Canada to look at gambling ads from a variety of media sources from different provincial lotteries, with 127 television, radio, print, and public-display ads obtained from the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Loto-Québec, and the Western Lottery Corporation. Ads were coded for recurring themes, symbols, and discourses using a qualitative software program and analyzed, with their appeal to youth forming the framework for analysis. Major findings include the discussion of nine key themes: easy money, dream, social status, glamour, regular folks, sports, excitement, humour, and youth culture. These themes are discussed in terms of their specific appeal to youth audiences, and their significance is related to existing literature.
Interpreting Privacy on Campus: The Freedom of Information and Personal Privacy and Ontario Universities
Authors: Dowding Martin R.
Published: March 2017

When the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) was imposed on Ontario’s university campuses in 2006, faculty and students were made to look closely at their own habits and to reconsider campus traditions relating to privacy. The backdrop to the legislation is a complex matrix of campus relations, policy, sharing of health information, and the use and abuse of information and communication technologies. Part 1 of this article examines the recent history of privacy in general and privacy on campus in Ontario, Canada, and the United States. Part 2 reports the outcome of a series of focus groups held on two Ontario university campuses in which faculty and undergraduate students were asked about their perceptions of privacy on campus and their knowledge and comprehension of FIPPA.
Pervasive Computer Games and Processes of Spatialization: Informational Territories and Mobile Technologies
Authors: Lemos André
Published: March 2017

Pervasive computer games (PCGs) combine digital mobile technologies and location-based systems by creating an interface between electronic and physical spaces for playing. PCG is a general name for mobile games such as hybrid reality games (HRGs), location-based mobile games (LBMGs), and urban games. Our goal here is to show how these games, along with new digital mobile technologies, have the potential to produce “spatialization,” i.e., to socially produce the space in which they are embedded. I suggest that spatialization is achieved through the use of technology such as sensors and digital mobile networks (smartphones, PDAs, global positioning systems [GPSs], and augmented reality [AR] devices; radio frequency identification [RFID] tags and global system for mobile communications/general packet radio service [GSM/GPRS]; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth). The goal of this article is to examine the forms of spatialization created by the use of location-based services and location-based technologies.
The Theology of Sound: A Critique of Orality
Authors: Sterne Jonathan
Published: March 2017

This article offers an intellectual history and critique of the concept of orality as developed by writers of the Toronto School, focusing especially on the work of Walter Ong and, to a lesser extent, Marshall McLuhan. It argues that common scholarly uses of orality, especially as a theory of acoustic or sound-based culture, are derived from the spirit-letter distinction in Christian spiritualism and a misreading of Hebraic philology by mid-twentieth-century theologians. It argues for a new history of early media and for a new global anthropology of communication that does not operate under the sign of orality. We can thereby honour the curiosity of scholars such as Harold Innis and Edmund Carpenter without taking their findings as timeless truths.
Death Comes to Town, Irreverent Humour, and Accessibility for the Blind and Low-Visioned
Authors: Aspevig Kristen
Published: March 2017

This article focuses on described video (DV), which makes television accessible to persons who are blind or who have low vision by providing voice-over descriptions of shows. The article highlights the lack of DV content in Canada and outlines the factors inhibiting more DV production, including policy, the commercial and organizational structure of television, and the established conventions that were developed for certain genres (e.g., documentary and drama). It uses the described version of the recent CBC mini-series Death Comes to Town, created by the comedy troupe Kids in the Hall, to illustrate how different genres of television, such as comedy, require unconventional styles of description to convey their full cultural meaning. Finally, it argues that true accessibility and participation in national media culture for people who are blind or have low vision, as mandated in Canadian and international law, depend on adequate DV.
Mystery Ships and Risky Boat People: Tamil Refugee Migration in the Newsprint Media
Authors: Bradimore Ashley , Bauder Harald
Published: March 2017

On October 17, 2009, seventy-six Tamil refugees arrived off the coast of Victoria, British Columbia. This study examines how the Canadian newsprint media portrayed this event and in which policy context this coverage occurred. We analyze articles published between October 2009 and January 2010 from the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Star, and the National Post. A discourse analysis addresses issues of framing, representation, and identity to understand how the Tamil refugee migration was represented in media debate. Our results show that there was an overall negative representation of the Tamil refugees as the press emphasized issues of criminality and terrorism, and constructed the refugees as risk. The discussion established security—rather than human rights—as a focal point and portrayed the immigration system as both “failing” and “abused” by “bogus claimants.” This security-oriented framework provided a discursive background for the refugee reform Bill C-11 to be ushered through Parliament later that summer.
Developing a matrix for assessing serviceability of U.S. online travel agency websites
Authors: Lee Kwang-Woo , Han Heesup , Hwang Jinsoo
Published: March 2017

We examined the importance of website serviceability of online travel agencies (OTAs). We collected data from 283 users of OTA websites in the USA. Statistical differences were found for 8 out of 10 website serviceability items that were examined. In addition, 2 dimensions of functional
website serviceability and technical website serviceability were derived from the website serviceability items. Last, both dimensions of website serviceability positively affected customer satisfaction, which, in turn, positively affected brand attachment and loyalty. These results will be
useful for developing effective and efficient marketing strategies.
Maternal emotional expressiveness affects preschool children's development of knowledge of display rules
Authors: Wu Xixian , Wang Yifang , Liu Aizhen
Published: March 2017

We explored the development of knowledge of display rules in preschool children aged between 3 and 5 years and its relationship with the emotional expression of mothers, using a sample of 183 Chinese children together with their mothers. Children were tested individually with 6 scenario
stories, and mothers completed a measure to assess their expressiveness within the family. Results suggested that the mother's positive expressiveness was significantly and positively related to the child's knowledge of display rules, but there was no significant correlation between the mother's
negative expressiveness and the child's knowledge of display rules. In addition, knowledge of display rules improved significantly between the ages of 3 and 5 years. These findings indicate that the preschoolers had some knowledge of display rules, and that this improved with age. Thus, mothers
should regularly express positive emotions to promote their children's development of knowledge of display rules.
Corporate governance disclosures in the New Zealand agricultural companies
Authors: Roudaki Jamal , Shahwan Yousef
Published: March 2017

Livestock, agriculture, and horticulture products are essential in the New Zealand economic sustainable development. Consequently performance and governance of active companies in these areas of business are constantly monitored by the public through legislators, stock market, government agencies, and media. Practically corporate governance disclosures are providing essential information for such monitoring and analysis. This paper intention includes critically evaluate corporate governance disclosures of agriculture companies. Implementation of the content analysis methodology enables this research project to present analysis of the level of compliance with the 2004 Corporate Governance Principles and Guidelines that put forwarded by the New Zealand Stock Exchange (governance related disclosure and their non-listed counterpart as expected providing even less disclosure in this area. The financial and governance reports of these companies are suffering from deficient transparency in the area of corporate governance.
Esterase and peroxidase isoforms during initial stages of somatic embryogenesis in Fritillaria meleagris L. leaf base
Authors: Petric Marija , Subotic Angelina , Jevremovic Sladjana , Trifunovic-Momcilov Milana , Tadic Vojin , Grujic Marica , Vujcic Zoran
Published: March 2017

The aim of this study was to determine the enzymatic profile of esterases and
peroxidases during early stages of somatic embryogenesis of Fritillaria
meleagris L. Somatic embryogenesis was induced using the leaf base as explant
on a medium supplemented with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).
Zymography showed the presence of different moieties, six isoforms of
esterases and peroxidases, during morphogenesis as compared to control
explants. One isoform of esterases was detected only during the process of
somatic embryogenesis, and one isoform was detected in control explants.
Analysis of esterases with 1-naphthyl butyrate proved that esterases, which
participate in somatic embryogenesis of F. meleagris, belong to the family of
aryl esterases. For the first time it was proved that five isoforms of
esterases, which are involved in morphogenesis of F. meleagris, belong to the
family of aryl esterases, while two isoforms are carboxyl esterases. One
isoform of carboxyl esterases was visible in control explants. This is also
the first description of peroxidases during the morphogenetic process, and of
the difference between aryl and carboxyl esterases. More isoforms of
esterases during morphogenesis as compared to control explants are probably
responsible for some early physiological process during somatic embryogenesis
of F. meleagris.
Spatial varying relationship between financial development and new firm formation: Evidence from a developing country
Authors: Karahasan Burhan
Published: March 2017

This study investigates the spatial varying relationship between financial development and new firm formation in Turkey. Even preliminary findings show that regional financial development spurs new firm formation; evidence from Geographically Weighted Regression stresses the heterogeneous impact of finance, which mostly favours the developed regions. Results for the 2002 to 2009 epoch show impact of finance fluctuates within a range of 0.189 for deposits and 0.082 for credits with the lowest impact observed in Eastern Turkey. This points to the necessity of considering the spatial heterogeneity of regional policies, which underlines that one size does not fit all regions.
Aperçu - Surveillance des brûlures thermiques et des échaudures dans les services d’urgence, d'après la base de données électronique du Système canadien hospitalier d’information et de recherche en prévention des traumatismes, 2013
Authors: Crain Jennifer , McFaull Steven , Rao Deepa , Do Minh , Thompson Wendy
Published: March 2017

Introduction

Bien que les taux de mortalité et d’hospitalisation
associés à des brûlures au Canada
aient diminué avec le temps1,2 des cas moins
graves se présentent encore couramment
aux services d’urgence.

Methods

Le Système canadien hospitalier d’information
et de recherche en prévention des traumatismes
(SCHIRPT), un système de
surveillance des blessures et des empoisonnements
administré par l’Agence de la
santé publique du Canada, est en place dans
les services d’urgence de 17 hôpitaux3. Nous
avons fait des recherches dans la base de données
électronique du SCHIRPT (eSCHIRPT)
afin de connaître le nombre de personnes de
tous âges s’étant présentées aux urgences
après avoir subi des brûlures thermiques ou
des échaudures en 2013. Les brûlures causées
par la friction, par des agents chimiques
ou caustiques ou par un contact direct avec
la foudre ont été exclues parce qu’il s’agit de
circonstances exceptionnelles.

Results

Au total, 1 682 cas ont été recensés, soit 1,2 % (1 682 sur 137 245; 1 226 pour 100 000 cas dans l’eSCHIRPT) des blessures déclarées en 2013. La moitié étaient des échaudures (52,3 %; 879 sur 1 682) et 29,9 % (503 sur 1 682) résultaient d’un contact avec un objet brûlant. Les deux principales causes d’échaudures étaient es boissons chaudes et l’eau chaude (excluant celle du robinet), avec respectivement 34,1 % (292 sur 856; information manquante dans 23 cas) et 28,9 % (247 sur 856; information manquante dans 23 cas) des cas. Les deux principales causes directes de brûlures par contact étaient les cuisinières et fours (22,0 %; 109 sur 495; information manquante dans 8 cas) et les foyers et leurs accessoires (19,6 %; 97 sur 495; information manquante dans 8 cas). Dans l’ensemble, 13,0 % des cas (218 sur 1 682) étaient assez graves pour nécessiter une hospitalisation, et la plus forte proportion d’hospitalisations a été enregistrée parmi les personnes exposées à un incendie, à des flammes ou à de la fumée, soit 38,9 % (72 sur 185). Si la proportion globale de brûlures était plus élevée chez les femmes, la proportion de brûlures autres que par échaudures était plus élevée chez les hommes.
“Un estudio acerca de «dos astros menores» en la obra de Benjamín Jarnés: Cardenio y Altisidora”
Authors: Muñoz Covarrubias Pablo
Published: March 2017

Indudablemente, las novelas y los relatos de Benjamín Jarnés representan una de las más interesantes manifestaciones de la prosa de la vanguardia española. El propósito de este artículo es explorar un conjunto amplio de textos con el objetivo de entender la importancia de Cervantes en la obra literaria de Jarnés. Particularmente, el artículo se enfoca en dos personajes que aparecen en diversos libros de este autor moderno: Cardenio y Altisidora. En ambos casos, Jarnés se interesa por recrear y transformar ambos personajes con la finalidad de originar interpretaciones novedosas y originales. Para Jarnés, Cardenio y Altisidora contienen dimensiones míticas.
Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
Authors: Palacios Lena
Published: March 2017

This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical women of color feminist activists—in particular, Black and indigenous feminists—identify, conceptualize, theorize, and resist the carceral state violence of white settler societies in both Canada and the United States. This critical ethnic studies intervention focuses on the theoretical interventions driven by indigenous and Black race-radical feminists and how this has placed these activists at the forefront of anti-violence movement-building. Such an intervention specifically upholds the tensions within and refuses to collapse the radical and revolutionary political traditions and approaches of Indigenous movements for sovereignty and Black race-radical liberatory traditions. This transnational, comparative focus helps us to not only identify and understand but to create multiple strategies that dismantle the carceral state and the racialized gendered violence that it mobilizes and sustains. This essay asks the following questions which move beyond introspection or interrogation of texts about violence into compelling conversations that highlight the interlocking nature of interpersonal, sexual, and carceral state violence: How have indigenous and race-radical feminists identified and theorized the legitimized violence of the carceral state? What questions have those diverse identifications and theoretical understandings led activist scholars currently theorizing the carceral state to ask? And what insights have those critiques generated in the activist scholarship on social movements dedicated to anti-racist, feminist anti-violence, Indigenous decolonial, and anti-prison abolitionist praxis? Proceeding from the argument that both prison abolitionist praxis and race-radical feminist praxis are inherently and primarily pedagogical, the accompanying lesson plan attempts to explore the multiple ways Indigenous and race-radical women of color feminists learn, teach, and organize about carceral logics and prison abolition inside and outside the classroom in a manner that teaches against the grain of carceral common sense.