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Fulfilling Dreams Through Education: An Immigrant Mother’s Sociocultural Narrative
There are bodies of literature that exist on motherhood; however, the focus of these studies is on mothering in a European context. This sociocultural study focuses on my lived experiences as a mother navigating through ... -
#FemEdTech Cartography: Shifting Academic Culture Through Collaborative Policy Creation
Recognizing the need to equip and empower individuals and societies, intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations have created policy recommendations for member countries. Many of these recommendations include ... -
Electrophysiological measures of flexible attentional control and visual working memory maintenance
Top-down attentional control can be used to both guide attention toward and away from items according to their goal relevance. When given a feature-based cue, such as the colour of an upcoming target, individuals can ... -
Distress Effects in Stock Returns
This thesis addresses a fundamental topic in financial economics: the effects of distress risk in the cross section of equities returns. Initial results show that both raw and risk-adjusted excess returns are rising in ... -
Applying Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Protect Biodiversity of Avian Species in Coastal Communities in the Greater Niagara Region
Communities located in the coastal zone are increasingly vulnerable to climate change. The effects of climate change may push coastal ecosystems to undergo irreversible changes. This is especially true for shorebirds as ... -
Sustainability Through Accessibility: Evaluating the Accessibility of Toronto’s Public Transportation
Public transportation is one of the most sustainable transportation options in terms of greenhouse gasses emitted per rider due to the high capacity of transit vehicles. Resultantly the sustainability of public transportation ... -
Epidemic Simulation and Mitigation via Evolutionary Computation
A global pandemic remains a public health event that presents a unique and unpredictable challenge for those making health related decisions and the populations who experience the virus. Though a pandemic also provides ... -
Incidencia de las TIC en la Comercialización de los Productos de las Comunidades Rurales Indígenas en el Ecuador
(Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2019-11-25)Given the fact that many Indigenous communities produce various types of products, the use of ICTs to promote and sell their goods could provide them with important income and thus increase their economic independence. ... -
Indigenous Movements, Collective Action, and Social Media: New Opportunities or New Barriers?
(SAGE Open, 2020-04)Indigenous peoples remain among the most marginalized population groups in the Americas. The decline of the Indigenous protest cycle in Latin America by the mid-2000s meant that research on collective action turned elsewhere ... -
A Mixed-Methods Efficacy Study of Teaching Adolescents to Think and Act Responsibly–The EQUIP Approach: A Narrative Filmmaking Pedagogy
Ontario’s Ministry of Education requires Character Development to be integrated into regular subject curricula (OME, 2008), yet the initiative is devoid of clearly defined research-based strategies for implementation ... -
Use of Information and Communications Technologies by Indigenous Civil Society Organizations in Ecuador
(Information, Communication and Society, 2019)Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized population groups in the Western Hemisphere. In Latin America, they have engaged in diverse forms of collective action with varying degrees of success. Previous research ... -
Who Am I? Unpacking My Identity as a Physical Education Teacher
Abstract This research project presents a narrative inquiry and autoethnographic stories that make up my identity that in turn informs my teaching practice. By writing a collection of narratives from my life and analyzing ... -
The End of Libraries and Librarianship - Part 34
(The Informed Librarian Online, 2021-01-04)Librarians have bemoaned the constant clatter overheard from commentators that libraries are obsolete and no longer relevant. This observation is contrary to the lived experiences of those that serve in and depend upon ... -
An examination of self-compassion among Canadian youth with and without a caregiving role
Self-compassion occurs when people apply the same compassion towards themselves as they would towards others (Neff, 2003a, 2003b). Self-compassion has been shown to relate to positive mental health outcomes, such as reduced ... -
Environmental Justice Activism in Context: A Case Study of the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment in Kern County, California
Kern County, California is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the United States and to one of the oldest and most active chapters of the environmental justice movement (EJM) in the country, known ... -
The Impact of Teachers' Trust in Principal on Teacher Burnout
This explanatory mixed methods study explored the relationship between teachers’ perceived trust in their principal and teacher burnout. This study also explores novice teachers’ lived experience of trust in their ... -
An Examination of Stakeholder Perceptions in Conventional and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Management
Effective environmental management is integrally linked to well-designed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. Within the need for M&E to manage our environments in the most effective ways, there is an emerging trend ... -
Management Perspectives: Implications of Plastics Free Sport Facilities’ Beverage Service
Water is vital in supporting all life on Earth, and without it, all living things would cease to exist. Despite this vitality, water resources are steadily polluted and mismanaged. The challenge of pre-eminence, however, ... -
Assessing the Effect of Functional Electrical Stimulation Training with the Xcite on Hand and Arm Function in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects functional electrical stimulation (FES) training of the hand and arm in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). This is a case series of four individuals with MS with varying ... -
Just be There! Athlete Motivation and Parental Support: A Phenomenological Study
The purpose of the study was to gather and understand the lived experiences of athletes of a young adult age, who lacked parental support during their athletic careers. Furthermore, the purpose included understanding the ...