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- Title
- Using chemistry to explain climate change and inspire students
- Author(s)
- Brenda Addison-Jones (Presenter)
- Date
- 2023-03-03
- Abstract
- Presented at the Research Café on March 3, 2023.
- Subject(s)
- Climatic changes, Climate change mitigation, Environmental chemistry, Research Cafés (Douglas College)
- Department
- Chemistry
- Title
- Sport in a changing environment: Rethinking the way we play
- Author(s)
- Dominique Falls (Presenter)
- Date
- 2023-03-03
- Abstract
- Presented at the Research Café on March 3, 2023.
- Subject(s)
- Sports--Environmental aspects, Sport clothes--Environmental aspects, Sporting goods--Environmental aspects, Athletics--Environmental aspects, Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects, Research Cafés (Douglas College)
- Department
- Sport Science
- Title
- The 'ghosts' of lawn tennis past: Exploring the forgotten lives of early working-class coaching-professionals
- Author(s)
- Simon J. Eaves (author), Robert J. Lake (author), Stephen Cowdrey (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- This article examines the lives of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century lawn tennis coaching-professionals, notably Tom Burke, Harry Cowdrey, Charles Haggett and George Kerr. These men, considered equally if not more gifted than the first-ranked amateur players of the period, have received scant attention or recognition, either as “expert” players or for their role as coaches/instructors within the “amateur” game. Ostensibly, these working-class boys/men sought employment in clubs, as ball-boys, groundskeepers, stringers and instructors, but, being immediately classified as “professionals”, were subsequently marginalised within clubs and barred from amateur competitions. Few outside of the club environs encountered them, few observed or learned of their skills, and fewer still reported their exploits. While many of the top amateur players of the period recognised the need for coaching-professionals, the British Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) was intransigent. They staunchly refused to sanction professional competitions in Britain, fearing they would provide a pathway away from amateurism, and propel the amateur to seek remuneration from their tennis. Coaching-professionals had little choice but to remain as “servants” within their clubs, confined by the rigid class system and unyielding amateur ethos. Hitherto largely ignored within lawn tennis historiography, these men are the “ghosts” of lawn tennis past.
- Subject(s)
- Tennis--History, Tennis--Great Britain--History, Tennis--Social aspects--Great Britain, Coaching--Great Britain--History, Tennis coaches
- Department
- Sport Science
- Title
- Footnotes, Endnotes, and HTML5: Blogging and the future of literary criticism
- Author(s)
- Brenna Clarke Gray (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- Conference paper presented at the ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English), Calgary 2016. Literary scholars were among the earliest adopters of digital dissemination of research; indeed, the field of Digital Humanities is populated heavily by people with PhDs in English, especially from areas like Renaissance literature where a large body of material is available in open source formats. As the Digital Humanities have expanded and other fields have embraced digital culture for dissemination of information, new issues around publishing and peer review, including the utility of open access journals, have emerged. These venues for publication and conversation offer a democratic approach to scholarly debate, often engaging academics and non-academics alike, and demanding acknowledgement of fan communities and their unique approaches to the close readings of texts. This intersection can frustrate traditionally-trained academics, but it can also enrich academic conversations and help connect the scholarship of literature to the real-world experiences of readers.
- Subject(s)
- Scholarly publishing--Research, Humanities--Research, Blogging, Digital humanities--Research, Scholarly electronic publishing, Information dissemination
- Department
- English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts
- Title
- Teach first, research questions later: Understanding the role of the college teacher-scholar for “The spectrum of the professoriate and the rise of the teaching stream”
- Author(s)
- Brenna Clarke Gray (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- Conference paper presented at the ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)conference, Calgary 2016. Last year at Congress, I presented a paper titled “Off the Sides of Our Desks: Research in a Community College Context” on a Professional Issues panel here at ACCUTE. I’m heartened to be asked back to this panel to discuss these issues further as part of a larger conversation about teaching-centred work in the academy, and I’m grateful to the organizers for the opportunity. I think we are at a crossroads in the profession wherein we can either find a way to support teaching-focused academics in remaining part of the scholarly conversation, or risk losing recent PhD graduates from our community. This short paper is a bit of a meditation on why that is, and what comes next.
- Subject(s)
- Universities and colleges--Faculty, College teachers, Professional role, Teacher role
- Department
- English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts
- Title
- Troubling Canadian community in Brian K. Vaughn’s 'We Stand on Guard'
- Author(s)
- Brenna Clarke Gray (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- Conference paper presented at the CACLALS (Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), 2016. Last year, I presented some preliminary thoughts on how Canadianness is coded on the page in mainstream — meaning not indie; think Marvel, not D&Q — comics designed primarily for the American market, and in particular how Indigenous bodies are used as a short-hand for Canadianness, tracing this heritage from Nelvana of the North from the WWII-era Canadian Whites comics all the way to 2014’s Justice League Unlimited run by Canadian indie-artist-turned-big-2-superstar Jeff Lemire. Today’s paper builds on that work as I continue to interrogate how Canadian identity is constructed and exploited in mainstream American media for thematic ends, and what identities are appropriated and issues elided in the process.
- Subject(s)
- Canadian identity, United States--Relations--Canada, Canada--Relations--United States
- Department
- English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts
- Title
- English as a trademark of modernity and elitism
- Author(s)
- Dilia Hasanova (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
-
Conference presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain (June, 2016).
A case study of the presence of English in shop and service names in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan. The use of English as a trademark of modernity and elitism in the commercial contexts in Uzbekistan is a new phenomenon which has emerged as Uzbekistan entered the global village as an independent and developing country in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. While during the Cold War (1947–1991) and the Soviet era by and large, English was considered ‘the language of Western imperialism’ (Dushku, 1998), today it is seen as a symbol of advanced education, modernity, prestige, and elitism. In order to have a better understanding of how common and widespread English is on the streets and commercial contexts of Uzbekistan, this study examines the use of written English in shop signs and different service names.
- Subject(s)
- English language--Influence on foreign countries, English language--Research, Language & languages, Internationalism, Linguistic imperialism, Globalization--Social aspects, Modernity
- Department
- English Language Learning & Acquisition, Language, Literature and Performing Arts
- Title
- 'They treat me like I'm scum': Social exclusion and established-outsider relations in a British tennis club
- Author(s)
- Robert J. Lake (author)
- Date
- 2013
- Abstract
- Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the Lawn Tennis Association introduced numerous policies to remove barriers associated with social exclusion in tennis clubs. Ethnographic research was conducted within one club to analyse the incidence of social exclusion, and consider the success of LTA policies in these regards. Findings suggested the club made structural changes to receive LTA funding, such as removing exclusive membership and clothing restrictions, hiring coaches and establishing school–club links, yet its culture remained almost entirely inaccessible to new members. For analysis, Elias and Scotson’s ‘Established-Outsider Relations’ theoretical framework is applied: to discover who was excluded, how and why, and, to set the outcomes of power struggles between members in the wider social and historical contexts of changing LTA policies.
- Subject(s)
- Sports--Social aspects--Great Britain, Tennis--Social aspects--Great Britain, Marginality--Social aspects, Norbert Elias, Lawn Tennis Association
- Department
- Sport Science
- Title
- 'Things are a lot more gray now, as opposed to black vs. white': student uncertainty on the edge of a threshold in Introductory Sociology
- Author(s)
- Alison M. Thomas (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- Conference presentation delivered at the Threshold Concepts Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia (June, 2016)
- Subject(s)
- Sociology--Methodology, Sociology--Study and teaching
- Department
- Sociology
- Title
- The "Bad Boys" of Tennis: Shifting gender and social class relations in the era of Nastase, Connors and McEnroe
- Author(s)
- Robert J. Lake (author)
- Date
- 2015
- Abstract
- Tennis from the mid-1970s until the mid-1990s witnessed a global downturn in on-court manners. This was exemplified by players such as Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors, and John McEnroe, who built reputations on their “bad-boy” images by exhibiting lower levels of sportsmanship, honesty, courtesy to officials, and behavioral restraint; and concomitant higher levels of ostensible petulance, aggressive posturing, and disrespect toward opponents, umpires, and spectators that had been customary in the past. The aims of this article are to examine the extent that this phenomenon was the result of wider shifts in class and gender relations during this period, alongside the rise of consumerist, neoliberal, free-market philosophies in American and British societies. In short, the overall objective is to offer a partial explanation of this phenomenon by locating it in the broader social context of marked changes in society and tennis more specifically.
- Subject(s)
- Tennis--Great Britain--History, Tennis--Social aspects--Great Britain
- Department
- Sport Science
- Title
- The effects of mullein plants (Verbascum thapsus) on the population dynamics of Dicyphus hesperus (Heteroptera: Miridae) in tomato greenhouses
- Author(s)
- Robert R. McGregor (author), Juan Antonio Sanchez (author), David R. Gillespie (author)
- Date
- 2003
- Abstract
- The response of Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Heteroptera: Miridae) to whitefly populations in tomato greenhouses was measured in the presence and absence of mullein (Verbascum thapsus L.) as an alternative host plant. The dynamics of the D. hesperus population on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) and on mullein plants were followed through an entire growing season. In houses with mullein plants, more predators occurred on mullein when whitefly density was low on tomato. A mark-release-recapture experiment where rabbit IgG was used as an external marker showed that D. hesperus adults moved from mullein plants to tomato plants. D. hesperus was always more abundant in houses with mullein than in the houses with tomato plants alone. Movements between tomato and mullein plants are discussed as a strategy to optimize predator foraging. The use of mullein as an alternative host plant may contribute to the establishment of D. hesperus and help to preserve the predator population when prey on tomato crops is scarce.
- Subject(s)
- Dicyphus hesperus, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, Predatory Heteroptera, Generalist predators, Verbascum thapsus, Alternative host plant, Omnivory
- Department
- Biology
- Title
- A revised mechanism for the Kinugasa reaction
- Author(s)
- Thomas C. Malig (author), Jason E. Hein (author), Diana Yu (author)
- Date
- 2018
- Abstract
- Detailed kinetic analysis for the Cu(I)-catalyzed Kinugasa reaction forming β-lactams has revealed an anomalous overall zero-order reaction profile, due to opposing positive and negative orders in nitrone and alkyne, respectively. Furthermore, the reaction displays a second-order dependence on the catalyst, confirming the critical involvement of a postulated bis-Cu complex. Finally, reaction progress analysis of multiple byproducts has allowed a new mechanism, involving a common ketene intermediate to be delineated. Our results demonstrate that β-lactam synthesis through the Kinugasa reaction proceeds via a cascade involving (3 + 2) cycloaddition, (3 + 2) cycloreversion, and finally (2 + 2) cycloaddition. Our new mechanistic understanding has resulted in optimized reaction conditions to dramatically improve the yield of the target β-lactams and provides the first consistent mechanistic model to account for the formation of all common byproducts of the Kinugasa reaction.
- Department
- Chemistry
- Title
- George Eliot's feeling for the Jews
- Author(s)
- Richa Dwor (author), Research and Innovation Office (Douglas College) (Funder)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- Conference paper presented at the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba (April, 2016).
- Subject(s)
- Jews in literature, George Eliot, 1819-1880--Criticism and Interpretation, English literature--History and Criticism
- Department
- English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts
- Title
- Trenches, embankments, and palisades: Terraforming landscapes for defensive fortifications in Coast Salish Territory
- Author(s)
- Bill Angelbeck (author)
- Date
- 2016
- Abstract
- Conference paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting (April 6-10, 2016), Orlando, Florida. Also includes maps, diagrams, depictions, images and historic pictures of residential Coast Salish constructions, defensive sites (30 images) appended to conference paper. The Coast Salish hunter-gatherer fishers of the Northwest Coast built substantial defenses, involving the labor of multiple households and entire villages. These fortifications, perched upon high bluff promontories or at the points of narrow coastal sandspit ridges, often involved deep trenches and steep embankments that were enclosed by tall palisades of cedar planks. Such constructions would have dominated the viewshed of their seascape. In this presentation, I’ll highlight the degree of terraforming involved in their constructions and consider the monumental aspects of these defensive works. Further, I will also address the collective monumentality of numerous sites, wherein fortifications appear to be built in conjunction with neighboring sites. In so doing, they exhibit both the material manifestation of their own autonomous power in defense at individual sites, while also establishing and signifying their allied power in closely-networked fortifications to serve needs at intercommunity scales.
- Subject(s)
- Coast Salish Indians--British Columbia, Defensive fortifications (Coast Salish Territory), Terraforming, Collective monumentality
- Department
- Anthropology
- Title
- Vivipary in cuban cacti and an assessment of establishment success in Leptocereus scopulophilus
- Author(s)
- José A. García-Beltrán (author), Duniel Barrios (author), Luis R. González-Torres (author), Alina Cuza (author), Sandy Toledo (author)
- Date
- 2021
- Abstract
- Vivipary is the germination of a seed inside of a fruit before it is separated from the mother plant. In the present study, the populations of several Cuban cactus species are explored in search of vivipary and Leptocereus scopulophilus is used as a model species to evaluate the effectiveness of vivipary in the establishment of offspring. Vivipary is a relatively common phenomenon in Cuban cacti from different ecosystems with variable temperature, rainfall and salinity, whose frequencies of population vivipary and average of viviparous seedlings per fruit are usually low. In L. scopulophilus, vivipary does not constitute a more efficient reproductive strategy that favors establishment, which is typically the limiting factor for the perpetuation of viviparous species. On the other hand, viviparous seedlings will be favored in environments with high levels of humidity and availability of safe sites, which are sporadic in semiarid environments.
- Department
- Biology, Biology
- Title
- Wood anatomy of Cuban species of Leptocereus (Cactaceae)
- Author(s)
- Alina Cuza (author), Duniel Barrios (author)
- Date
- 2015
- Abstract
- Leptocereus, a genus with its centre of diversity in Cuba, has about five different assemblages of species based on floral features. However, flowers are not always available when identifying plants. Considering wood as a conservative tissue and its previous contributions to the taxonomy and systematics of flowering plants, the wood anatomy of L. arboreus and L. scopulophilus is described and compared with other species of the genus. In wood anatomy, L. arboreus, from central Cuba, differs from the western species by the presence of scalariform intervessel pits, a feature also reported for L. quadricostatus, a species of Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands. This fact might indicate that L. arboreus is probably more similar to the eastern species of the genus. Leptocereus scopulophilus is characterized by the predominance of septate fibres and solitary vessels. All the studied Cuban species of Leptocereus have druses in ray cells, a distinct characteristic in Cactoideae.
- Department
- Biology
- Title
- Revisiting leniency: An intra-provincial study of sentencing variation in British Columbia
- Author(s)
- Andrew A. Reid (author)
- Date
- 2014
- Abstract
- The Canadian public is known to hold the belief that sentences for criminal offences are too lenient and this perspective is said to be magnified in the province of British Columbia. Despite these sentiments, recent research on Canadian sentencing patterns has demonstrated considerable evidence that British Columbia is no more lenient or harsh compared to other Canadian provinces. It is possible, however, that public concern about leniency in the courts stems not from a provincial comparative framework but, rather, a more local relative perspective. Given this proposition, there are a number of pressing research questions that may be posed. Does sentencing for specific offences vary by court jurisdiction in British Columbia? I f so, is the variation statistically significant? Do certain courts consistently sentence more leniently or harshly than others? This article advances a comprehensive research design to explore intra-provincial patterns of sentencing and respond to these questions. Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of prison sentences handed down in Provincial Courts in the province reveals that while there are many statistically significant differences between courts, few consistent patterns emerge. As a result, there is little evidence of leniency between court jurisdictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Department
- Criminology
- Title
- A matrix of measures of court workload
- Author(s)
- Andrew A. Reid (author), Graham Farrell (author), Shihong Mu (author), Wolfgang Richter (author), Amir Ghaseminejad (author), Paul J. Brantingham (author), Patricia L. Brantingham (author)
- Date
- 2014
- Abstract
- Performance measures depend on the clarity and consistency of their metrics. The standard unit of analysis of court proceedings is the “case.” Yet the definition of a case varies widely. It may include multiple accused persons and charges, a count of accused persons, the number of informations (a set of charges), or the number of charges. Likewise, whether new cases, completed cases, or the number of cases heard in court are counted make a tremendous difference. In theory, many dozens of caseload measures are possible. Here, a matrix of twelve measures is proposed which balances theoretical exhaustion with practicality. Using data for one year of adult criminal cases in the Provincial Court of British Columbia it is shown that the choice of measure introduces variability of workload over 400 per cent. The matrix is intended as a heuristic device for policy-makers to scrutinise case-based indicators.
- Department
- Criminology
- Title
- A case study of the transformative effect of peer injection drug users in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada
- Author(s)
- Ehsan Jozaghi (author), Andrew A. Reid (author)
- Date
- 2014
- Abstract
- This study was conducted not only to explore how peers intervene to shape social networks but to capture the transformative role of peer-led intervention by local needle exchange programs and a supervised injection facility in Vancouver, Canada. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with peer volunteers as they were involved in their routine work activities. Interviews were analysed thematically using two methods of coding analysis. Findings suggest that peers were taking on important education and safety roles and were able to alter the behaviour, attitude, and intention of injection drug users within the Downtown Eastside area of the city. Further, peer injection drug users were able to reach individuals who were reluctant to seek medical help, housing, or prevention services. Peers serve as an agent of change in the Downtown Eastside to disseminate information and riskreduction skills to the most marginalized people.
- Department
- Criminology
- Title
- A cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis of proposed supervised injection facilities in Ottawa, Canada
- Author(s)
- Ehsan Jozaghi (author), Andrew A. Reid (author), Martin A. Andresen (author), Alexandre Juneau (author)
- Date
- 2014
- Abstract
-
Background: Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) are venues where people who inject drugs (PWID) have access to a clean and medically supervised environment in which they can safely inject their own illicit drugs. There is currently only one legal SIF in North America: Insite in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The responses and feedback generated by the evaluations of Insite in Vancouver have been overwhelmingly positive. This study assesses whether the above mentioned facility in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver needs to be expanded to other locations, more specifically that of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa.
Methods: The current study is aimed at contributing to the existing literature on health policy by conducting cost-benefit and cost-effective analyses for the opening of SIFs in Ottawa, Ontario. In particular, the costs of operating numerous SIFs in Ottawa was compared to the savings incurred; this was done after accounting for the prevention of new HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) infections. To ensure accuracy, two distinct mathematical models and a sensitivity analysis were employed.
Results: The sensitivity analyses conducted with the models reveals the potential for SIFs in Ottawa to be a fiscally responsible harm reduction strategy for the prevention of HCV cases – when considered independently. With a baseline sharing rate of 19%, the cumulative annual cost model supported the establishment of two SIFs and the marginal annual cost model supported the establishment of a single SIF. More often, the prevention of HIV or HCV alone were not sufficient to justify the establishment cost-effectiveness; rather, only when both HIV and HCV are considered does sufficient economic support became apparent.
Conclusions: Funded supervised injection facilities in Ottawa appear to be an efficient and effective use of financial resources in the public health domain.
- Department
- Criminology