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De nouvelles voies pour l’enseignement et l’apprentissage : l’approche posthumaniste
(Commission canadienne pour l’UNESCO, 2020)La pédagogie, c’est-à-dire la méthode et la pratique de l’enseignement, est relationnelle et complexe, et elle dépend des conditions du moment. Si l’enseignement à distance en ligne peut sembler judicieux, le fait d’y ... -
New pathways for teaching and learning: the posthumanist approach
(Canadian Commission for UNESCO, 2020)“How does one “posthuman” teach another? Applying a posthumanist approach to education involves rethinking pedagogy, knowledge production and dissemination. If there is a need to understand the world differently, we must ... -
Imaginer le futur de la mobilisation des connaissances
(Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines, 2021)La Commission canadienne pour l’UNESCO (CCUNESCO) et le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) partagent un engagement profond envers le soutien à la production et l’accès à un savoir diversifié et inclusif ... -
The Un-Making of Difference: The Winding Road of Deinstitutionalization in Ontario, 1960-2018
The institutionalization of people with an intellectual impairment lives in the shadows of Canadian history. In Ontario, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, social and medical ideas about human difference emerging from ... -
Connecting Memories with Nature: Opportunities for Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities in Mid-Sized Cities
(Evergreen, 2018)Canada, like other Western countries, is facing the challenge of providing care for an increasingly large elderly population. Indeed data suggest that the Canadian elderly population will double by 2036 (Statistics Canada ... -
Is Science a Human Right? Implementing the Principle of Participatory, Equitable, and Universally Accessible Science
(the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, 2019)The right of every human being to have access to scientific knowledge and participate in its development (also called “the right to science”) is enshrined in Article 27.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ... -
Rewilding for human health
(The Resurgence Trust, 2020)Exploring the connections between zoonotic diseases, human health and well-being, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss. -
Canadian UNESCO Chairs : reflections on the futures of education
(Canadian Commission for UNESCO, 2020)'UNESCO's Futures of Education is a global initiative to reimagine and rethink education by 2050. Through an open consultation process involving youth, educators, civil society, governments, businesses, and other stakeholders, ... -
Pursuing Excellence in Research Reflections from UNESCO Research Chairs in Canada
(Canadian Commission for UNESCO, 2020)Assessing or even just defining what excellence in research means can become a monumental task that can lead to frustration. The main reason is that research can take many forms depending on the discipline in which a ... -
Imagining the Future of Knowledge Mobilization : Perspectives from UNESCO Chairs
(Canadian Commission for UNESCO, 2021)These themes weave through a new portfolio of thought leadership papers reflecting on the subject of Knowledge Mobilization (KMb): the process described by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ... -
Mechanism and consequences for avoidance of superparasitism in the solitary parasitoid Cotesia vestalis
(Nature Research, 2020)A parasitoid's decision to reject or accept a potential host is fundamental to its fitness. Superparasitism, in which more than one egg of a given parasitoid species can deposit in a single host, is usually considered ... -
An analysis of aquatic invasive species management in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada: establishment of a database to improve knowledge sharing
(Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC), 2020)The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has declared invasive species a global threat and requested increased data sharing to prevent further impact. Existing worldwide and local databases mainly focus on distribution, ... -
Differential Profiles of Gut Microbiota and Metabolites Associated with Host Shift of Plutella xylostella
(MDPI, 2020)Evolutionary and ecological forces are important factors that shape gut microbial profiles in hosts, which can help insects adapt to different environments through modulating their metabolites. However, little is known ... -
Are Yellow Sticky Cards and Light Traps Effective on Tea Green Leafhoppers and Their Predators in Chinese Tea Plantations?
(MDPI, 2020)In Chinese tea plantations, yellow sticky cards and light traps are increasingly used to control insect pests, especially the tea green leafhopper . In this study, a 16-week open-field experiment with daily weather monitoring ... -
How Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change Can Help Coastal Communities through a Participatory Approach
(MDPI, 2021)Coastal rural communities worldwide face many challenges not only related to climate change but also extreme events, environmental degradation, population growth or aging, and conflict usage of the ecosystem. Historically, ... -
Visualizations as a tool to increase community engagement in climate change adaptation decision-making
(NRC Research Press (Canadian Science Publishing), 2021)Many barriers to behavioural change exist when it comes to climate change action. A key element to overcoming some of these barriers is effective communication of complex scientific information. The use of visualizations, ... -
Analysis of the Niching Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
Multimodal optimization (MMO) techniques have been researched and developed over the years to track multiple global optima concurrently. MMO algorithms extend traditional unimodal optimization algorithms by using search ... -
Comparative Study On Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization Decomposition Methods for Large-scale Optimization
The vast majority of real-world optimization problems can be put into the class of large-scale global optimization (LSOP). Over the past few years, an abundance of cooperative coevolutionary (CC) algorithms has been proposed ... -
Analysis of the effect of genetic heterogeneity on de novo genome assembly using Xylocopa virginica as a model.
Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology has revolutionized genomic and genetic research, and as a result, de novo genome sequencing and assembly for non-model organisms has now become a common task in genome research. ... -
Advancing Marine Conservation through Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs): Expert Perspectives from a Delphi Study
To reverse unprecedented rates of global biodiversity loss, conservation efforts have focused on area-based conservation tools: protected areas (PAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). Recently, ...