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"Nurturing Individuals, Kinship, and Culture: Kitchens as Social Spaces in Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony and Ruby Slipperjack’s Silent Words"
Authors: Goldsmith-Milne Danya 
Published: April 2021

Developing a strong sense of community and preserving cultural identity are key components of Chinese Canadian and Indigenous literatures; this shared identity provides a sense of ethnic and cultural solidarity for so-called “visible minorities” in Canada, a key concern in both Wayson Choy’s novel The Jade Peony and Ruby Slipperjack’s novel Silent Words. In these novels the locus of culture becomes the kitchen or the campfire, sites where culture is made tangible through the preparation and consumption of traditional cuisine. In The Jade Peony, the Chen family kitchen is a social space where three generations of Chinese Canadians reinforce their kinship ties by sharing meals and other elements of Chinese culture. Kitchens and campfires function similarly in Silent Words: Danny connects with other Ojibwa people in these sites, strengthening his cultural identity and alleviating his isolation while simultaneously learning traditional methods of subsistence hunting and food preparation. By comparing passages from Choy’s The Jade Peony and Slipperjack’s Silent Words, it is shown that kitchens and campfires are both sites of strengthened kinship connections and also function as vehicles for the preservation of culture through the preparation and consumption of traditional meals.
Performing Material Objects: Reconnecting the “now, then and since”
Authors: Horner Mariah 
Published: April 2021

The Cellar Door Project is a theatre company in Kingston dedicated to producing historically authentic, site-specific original plays. Opting out of “pioneer village” style re-enactment and instead turning to slightly romanticized stories based on archival research, we believe that by animating sites that are present but affectively invisible in our daily lives, we inspire a rethinking of our connection to the past. Each show invites audience members to make a pilgrimage to historical local spots (City Hall, City Park, The Royal Tavern, etc.) to watch a semi-fictional re-telling of the stories of the site. Through performance, we hope to strengthen and modify our contemporary connection, create a bridge between that sties’ original historical moment and the multitude of stories that exist between. By inviting people to remember the “now, then, and since” through the material world that has survived, we remind ourselves that we are a part of something bigger, reaching not only into the past but also to an imagined future.
This presentation will explore the creation process and audience response to two of our productions. Both Stones in the Woods (City Park) and The Eliza Show (The Royal Tavern) animated spaces that were still active in their real world functions at the time of performance, effectively asking our audience to peer into the past with the present still in view.
Questions to be considered include: Is a strictly educations approach the best way to encourage historical connectedness? Can we ask contemporary audiences to apply the same kind of environmental stewardship to the historical past?
Works Cited
Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History: Les lieux de mémoire." Representations. 26 (1989): 7-24. Print.
Huis Clos: La Signification de "L'Enfer c'est les autres"
Authors: Dawan Neal 
Published: April 2021

“L’Enfer c’est les Autres” s’avère être une expression appropriée pour définir la cinquième scène de la pièce de théâtre Huis Clos, écrite par Jean-Paul Sartre. Écrivain existentialiste du début du vingtième siècle, Sartre a publié cette pièce en 1944 pour illustrer la vie après la mort de trois défunts qui sont piégés ensemble en enfer pour l’éternité.
Je propose de présenter l’analyse littéraire de cette scène à partir de la comparaison entre des êtres humains et l’enfer, et le lien qu’il existe entre les deux du point de vue de l’auteur.
Je vais tout d’abord me concentrer sur les indices du texte qui dévoilent le cadre de cette scène, et je mettrai notamment l’accent sur une conversation qui se déroule entre deux des personnages présents sur scène: le personnage masculin qui s’appelle Garcin, et le personnage féminin qui se prénomme Inès. Ensuite, j’examinerai alors le conflit qui oppose les deux personnages et, notamment, la réaction de Garcin en réponse aux insultes d’Inès. Finalement, j’étudierai encore plus précisément la réplique la plus connue de la pièce, c’est-à-dire « L’enfer, c’est les Autres », et la raison pour laquelle Garcin arrive à cette conclusion.
Panorama de la poésie québécoise/Panorama of Québécoise Poetry
Authors: Miller Jacob 
Published: April 2021

L’essor de la production poétique au Québec s’avère parfois difficile pour certains d’y aborder, le public autrefois intéressé se laissant impressioner par son évolution accélérée ; mais, en connaissant la place qu’occupe la poésie québécoise dans l’histoire, on apprécie mieux les poètes et leur poésie. L’histoire de la poésie québécoise se déroule selon des étapes bien distinctes jusqu’à nos jours et c’est surtout l’histoire selon Jean Royer qui donne un aperçu de l’ensemble des voix et des oeuvres marquantes. Le présent discours n’a d’autre but que de commenter l’itinéraire de la poésie québécoise, à partir duquel le goût personnel pourrait enfin se prendre.
The surge of poetic production in Quebec sometimes proves difficult to get into, the otherwise interested public intimidated by its rapid evolution; yet, by learning the place that Québécoise poetry holds in history, one comes to better appreciate the poets and their poetry. The history of Québécoise poetry unfolds by rather distinct stages from its origins up till now and its history overall, according to Jean Royer, which gives insight into the group of voices and vital works. The present talk has no other aim but to discuss the path that Québocise poetry has led, whence personal taste can finally take off.
A New Method for Change Detection in Stone and Concrete Structures with Digital Photogrammetry
Authors: Jones Kristen 
Published: April 2021

Point clouds, generated by Photogrammetry and LiDAR, allow us to detect far more complex deformation processes, with greater speed and accuracy, than previous surveying techniques. The accuracy of any monitoring is determined, in part, by the method used to align the two epochs in the same space. Surveying equipment can be used to stake-out ground control points visible in either the laser scan or the photogrammetry and so provide absolute positioning for each epoch. As an alternative, 3D shape-matching algorithms like RANSAC and Iterative Closest Point (ICP) can be used downstream to align the two epochs based only on the invariant features visible in the dense clouds. Shape-matching is, however, limited in accuracy because a) operator proficiency in guiding the algorithms leaves room for error, and b) the point clouds used for alignment are usually insufficiently dense to guarantee sub-centimeter change detection. Proposed is a new method of alignment between monitoring epochs for photogrammetry. Photogrammetry has the ability to match features between images down to the accuracy of 0.15 pixels, and provides us with a robust statistical model to predict both accuracy and error. Using invariant features in photographs shared between monitoring epochs, we can use the algorithms of Normalized Cross Correlation and Least-Squares Matching to very accurately "pin" one monitoring epoch to another. In a series of simple experiments we demonstrate that sub-centimeter change detection is easily accomplished on highly textured surfaces such as stone and concrete. This has applications in Archaeology, Architecture, and Civil Engineering surveys.
Developing a Model to Study Commensal Translocation during IBD
Authors: Yu Kathy 
Published: April 2021

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. This can lead to a breakdown of mucosal barriers, causing dissemination of commensal bacteria throughout the body. To better understand bacterial translocation during IBD, aim to develop a fluorescent microbiota in mice that we can interrogate using live imaging techniques.
Our preliminary experiments depleted commensals using broad-spectrum antibiotics, and replaced these microbiota with a fluorescent E. coli strain. The length of time that E.coli stays in the mice gut were monitored. We show that E. coli can persist in the ‘germ-free’ mouse gut for at least 21 days; control mice lose all added E. coli by 8-14 days. The establishment of the E. coli colony suggests this could be a reasonable model to study bacterial translocation. We are currently going to treat the colonized mice with DSS to induce colitis, and then to study translocation of E. coli by intravital microscopy. Considering E. coli is only a fraction of the normal microbiota and perhaps not a relevant model, future work aims at making a fluorescent microbiota consisting of multiple endogenous murine microbes. This will entail the use of a bacterial conjugation system capable of ubiquitously transforming many microbial species.
The Building Blocks of Defensive and Accusatory Language in Canadian Question Period
Authors: Blyth Emily 
Published: April 2021

The idea that there are grammatical structures which form accusations and defenses in language has been explored in the context of isolated instances of political debate (Rasiah 2009). This paper goes beyond that, looking at the specific linguistic strategies that compose such a structure, and evaluating those strategies over time. A discourse analysis is used to isolate, contrast and compare argumentative strategies in two different sections from the Canadian Hansard corpus. The first section consists of transcriptions of question period recorded in 2005 while the second is from 2014, allowing for a comparison that explores these trends through time. The strategies found in each section consist of specific linguistic elements which are relevant in the context of grammar structure analysis. Beyond this the individual strategies can also be sorted into larger groups, such as temporal distancing and diverting agentivity, which map the grammar of evasion on a more general scale. These groups expose language trends in political debate, and allow for an analysis of general evasion tactics used in Canadian government. By exploring the implications of said trends, this paper raises the question of political integrity in our Country’s leadership. A presentation of this thesis would explore the specific strategies, however would focus on the general groups, the trends that they expose and their implications. This information could be found relevant in many academic contexts including sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, politics, and English studies.
Arctic Plant Responses to Climate Warming: It’s Not all about Nitrogen
Authors: Masud Sanna 
Published: April 2021

Climate change is increasing air and soil temperatures in the Arctic, likely enhancing microbial activity. Consequently, increased decomposition rates of soil organic matter and increasing nutrient supply to tundra vegetation can be expected. The impacts of experimental warming and fertilization on growth have been investigated by studying the availability of macronutrients such as N, P and C. However, other
macronutrients such as S, Ca, Mg, K, and micronutrients such as Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn have received little research attention to determine their function, biogeochemical cycling, and effect on vegetation growth in response to warming. This study investigated the impact of experimental warming responses on availability and accumulation of the latter nutrients in the principal plant species located in mesic birch hummock tundra near Daring Lake, Northwest Territories in the Canadian Low Arctic Tundra. Plants were sampled in 2011 from the replicated summer greenhouse treatment that was established in 2004.
In response to warming, the principal evergreen shrub (Rhododendron) had the most enhanced growth, followed by the deciduous shrub (Birch). Since the total plant pools of these nutrients were also enhanced in the evergreen, my results strongly suggest that availability of these nutrients was not limiting growth. By contrast, the birch total plant nutrient pools were not enhanced and significant decreases in Mg, S, and K leaf concentrations were observed, suggesting that these elements may be limiting birch growth. Together, our results suggest that plant growth response to climate change in the low Arctic may depend on previously overlooked nutrient elements, and that deciduous shrub growth may be constrained relative to the evergreen response as the arctic climate warms.
Tropicality and the Choc en Retour of Covid-19 and Climate Change
Authors: Clayton Daniel 
Published: April 2021

This article reads ‘pandemic, plague, pestilence and the tropics’ through Covid-19, climate change and the discourse of tropicality. It asks: What happens, as seems to be the case today, when the temperate/tropical oppositions around which tropicality revolves start to unravel because the aberrations and excesses (here of epidemic disease and extreme weather) hitherto deemed to belong to tropical areas, and as constitutive of their otherness, are found in temperate ones? This question is broached with a focus on the United Kingdom as one such ‘temperate’ place that currently finds itself in this situation (although the argument has broader resonance), and with Aimé Césaire’s ideas about the choc en retour (boomerang effect) of Western colonisation and la quotidienneté des barbaries (the daily barbarisms) by which this effect works. Evidence and feelers from science, theory, politics, and the media are used to consider how sensibilities of tropicality, and especially (as Césaire enquired) distinctions between the ‘normal’ and ‘pathological,’ and ‘immunity’ and ‘susceptibility,’ permeate the way Covid-19 and climate change are perceived and felt in the temperate world.
Diabetes Mellitus Blunts the Symptoms, Physical Function, and Health-Related Quality of Life Benefits of Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis of Data From More Than 17 000 Patients
Authors: Na Annalisa , Oppermann Laura M. , Jupiter Daniel C. , Lindsey Ronald W. , Coronado Rogelio A. 
Published: April 2021

Objective To compare physical function, pain, impairments (stiffness, range of motion, and strength), and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes between patients with and without diabetes mellitus, before and after a total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Design Prognosis systematic review. Literature Search We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science to August 2019. Study Selection Criteria We included longitudinal studies that examined physical function, pain, impairments, and HRQoL outcomes among patients receiving a TKA and with or without diabetes. Data Synthesis For quantitative synthesis, we stratified outcomes based on time relative to TKA: preoperative, less than 1 year after a TKA (early postoperative), and 1 year or more after a TKA (late postoperative). We used random-effects meta-analysis to calculate standardized mean differences (SMDs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). We used the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation system for qualitative synthesis. Results We included 21 studies (n = 17 472 patients). Patients with diabetes mellitus had worse preoperative physical function (SMD, −0.16; 95% CI: −0.24, −0.08) and HRQoL (SMD, −0.16; 95% CI: −0.26, −0.05), worse early postoperative pain (SMD, −0.22; 95% CI: −0.39, −0.05) and strength (SMD, −0.45; 95% CI: −0.77, −0.14), and worse late postoperative physical function (SMD, −0.23; 95% CI: −0.40, −0.06), range of motion (SMD, −0.23; 95% CI: −0.46, 0.00), and HRQoL (SMD, −0.19; 95% CI: −0.29, −0.08) than patients without diabetes mellitus. The overall risk of bias across studies was high, and the certainty of evidence ranged from low to very low. Conclusion Patients with diabetes mellitus had worse patient-reported and clinician-assessed outcomes before and after a TKA. Given the limitations of included studies, these results may change with future research. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2021;51(6):269–280. Epub 19 Apr 2021. doi:10.2519/jospt.2021.9515
Neurochips: Considerations from a neurosurgeon’s standpoint
Authors: Rabadán Alejandra T. 
Published: April 2021

A neurochip comprises a small device based on the brain-machine interfaces that emulate the functioning synapses. Its implant in the human body allows the interaction of the brain with a computer. Although the data-processing speed is still slower than that of the human brain, they are being developed. There is no ethical conflict as long as it is used for neural rehabilitation or to supply impaired or missing neurological functions. However, other applications emerge as controversial.
To the best of our knowledge, there have no been publications about the neurosurgical role in the application of this neurotechnological advance. Deliberation on neurochips is primarily limited to a small circle of scholars such as neurotechnological engineers, artists, philosophers, and bioethicists. Why do we address neurosurgeons? They will be directly involved as they could be required to perform invasive procedures.
Future neurosurgeons will have to be a different type of neurosurgeon. They will be part of interdisciplinary teams interacting with computer engineers, neurobiologist, and ethicists. Although a neurosurgeon is not expected to be an expert in all areas, they have to be familiar with them; they have to be prepared to determine indications, contraindications and risks of the procedures, participating in the decision-making processes, and even collaborating in the design of devices to preserve anatomic structures. Social, economic, and legal aspects are also inherent to the neurosurgical activity; therefore, these aspects should also be considered.
Co-existence of multiple sclerosis and germinoma in an adult male: Case report
Authors: Bian Jan , Westrup Alison , Sung Sarah , Anadani Nidhiben A. , Fung Kar-Ming , Conner Andrew K. 
Published: April 2021

Background:
Concurrent diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the central nervous system (CNS) germinoma is rare. The diagnostic criteria for MS rely primarily on clinical presentation, and CNS germinoma can present as an MS mimic. These factors contribute to the rarity of dual diagnosis.

Case Description:
A 28-year-old man presented initially with bilateral optic neuritis, manifesting as persistently worsening vision for 2 years, and demyelinating plaques identified within the corpus callosum on magnetic resonance imaging. Initial work-up, in addition to clinical presentation, led to diagnosis of MS. Three months following the diagnosis of MS, the patient then presented with obstructive hydrocephalus due to a newly diagnosed intraventricular mass. The patient underwent an endoscopic third ventriculostomy and biopsy which confirmed diagnosis of CNS germinoma.

Conclusion:
To the best of our knowledge, dual presentation of both MS and CNS germinoma has never been reported in the literature. The clinical presentation of bilateral optic neuritis (persisting for roughly 2 years before initial MS diagnosis), demyelinating plaques, and intrathecal oligoclonal bands before the development of an intraventricular mass indicates that both MS and CNS germinoma presented simultaneously in this patient. The treatment plan for this patient included carboplatin + etoposide, followed by adjuvant radiation and subsequent IVIG therapy.
Low Density Interior in Supercooled Aqueous Nanodroplets Expels Ions to the Subsurface
Authors: Malek Shahrazad Moh'd , Saika-Voivod Ivan , Consta Styliani 
Published: April 2021

The interaction between water and ions within droplets plays a key role in the chemical reactivity of atmospheric and man-made aerosols. Here we report direct computational evidence that in supercooled aqueous nanodroplets a lower density core of tetrahedrally coordinated water expels the Na+ ions to a denser and more disordered subsurface. In contrast, at room temperature, the radial distribution of a single Na+ ion in the droplet core is nearly uniform. We analyze the spatial distribution of a single ion in terms of a new reference electrostatic model that we present here. The energy of the system in the analytical model is expressed as the sum of the electrostatic and surface energy of a deformable droplet. The model predicts that the ion is subject to a harmonic potential centered at the droplet's center of mass. We name this effect ``electrostatic confinement''.The model's predictions are consistent with the simulation findings for a single Na+ ion at room temperature but not at supercooling. Because of the droplet's core organization at supercooling the distribution of multiple ions cannot be explained by the non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation.Our study provides insight into the chemistry of atmospheric aerosols. We anticipate it to be the starting point for investigating the structure of supercooled electrosprayed droplets that are used to preserve the conformations of macromolecules originating from the bulk solution.
The Role of Higher Education as a Catalyst of Peacebuilding in Conflict Affected Regions: The Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after FATA Amalgamation
Authors: Shahab Shabnam , Ullah Samee 
Published: April 2021

Purpose: The study critically reviews the educational structure, policies, emphasis, application of educational goals, achievements from rural to Higher education and protecting measures enabling the youth to get easy access to education. Since the creation of Pakistan emphasis laid down on the free and compulsory education for all but failed to address the nascent challenges surfaced in the form of violent extremism, sectarianism, intolerance, and lingual discrepancies. Although the literacy rate has been increased with the passage of time but the quality of education and practical application remains under darkness.
Methodology: To evaluate the educational targets and achievements of the elementary and secondary education in former FATA. Historical method of research was adopted and Education policies from the dawn of freedom 1947 to 2010 were studied. Moreover, The provincial initiative of Educational sector plan (ESP) and its practical outcomes were critically analyzed.
Findings: This research in its findings proposed that structure and curriculum of higher education be revisited and expanded promptly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) particularly within the newly merged areas for the restoration of social justice, cultural diversity, educational growth, state-building and peace building community.
Implications: The research addresses that after the amalgamation of Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa how these conflicts affected areas can be reconstructed or rebuild through higher education. The research has focused on the universal mechanism of peacebuilding education in post conflict areas keeping in view the three approaches namely, Stability, Restructuring and peacebuilding through higher education.