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Giving your clothes an afterlife
No full textSpeakers of English as an additional language study in ELLA to improve their language abilities. This poster was presented to the Douglas College Community during the Waste Reduction Week at the New West Concourse (Oct 2023) pointing out key global issues and solutions. The purpose was to engage students in examining ways to solve current waste problems.Not peer reviewedTextile wasteClothing wast
Ri'pin'tsas ílti skv́lhta, ílti spl’úkwa muta7 i skcúsa. Raised in mud, wood smoke, and tears: Reclaiming Indigenous Identity Post Sixties Scoop
No full textIntergenerationalSixties ScoopResurgenceVideoActivismReclamationRaised in mud, wood smoke, and tears is a personal exploration through research/praxis that investigates ways of re-connecting to oral storytelling and land-based forms of knowledge that were ruptured by the Sixties Scoop. My praxis involves the unfolding of an intergenerational narrative that is presented: both my mother, Maria Mae Pascal, and my late grandmother, Theresa Attsie Pascal of the Lil’wat Nation are survivors of the Sixties Scoop which was the mass apprehension of Aboriginal children from their families into the child welfare system that began during the 1960’s and is said to have continued until the 80’s, but I believe it continues still today as our children are still being taken. This thesis is a response to the profound losses left from this part of my colonial history; the land-based elements are representations of these places of disconnection and reconnection. It is an MFA journey that grapples with the intergenerational effects of cultural genocide but is also a story about the reclamation of ancestral heritage. This thesis support document tracks the forces and processes of my research and final MFA project. It is a multi-sensorial installation that invites viewers to inhabit the space and feel the loss and hope that is being evoked through the work.Hide tanningMaterial practiceKnowledge transmissionIndigenous identityLand-based practice
The functional characterization of a Haloarcula marismortui putative TrkE
No full textArchaea, a domain of organisms possibly linked to the ancestry of eukarya and bacteria, displays a dichotomic evolutionary pattern. Haloarcula marismortui (H. marismortui), an archaeon discovered in the Dead Sea, has unique traits enabling survival and thriving in hypersaline environments. Research in this study includes investigating the Trk potassium transport system, which may contribute to stability of this archaeon in varying extreme environmental conditions. A primary focus on the TrkE protein role in the system, also known as SapD , which in Haloarcula marismortui is OppD1. The Trk system has been studied in several species, and through each it has been consistently found to be homologous to the E. coli sapABCDF operon, which has been found to encode an ABC transporter. Within this operon in E. coli TrkE is coded for by the SapD gene. The goal of this study was to clone the TrkE homolog from Haloarcula marismortui and continue with further research into the characterization of the protein to aid in the prediction of its overall function in potassium transport. Data in this study strongly suggest the size of the H. marismortui homolog of TrkE, OppD1, is larger than its E.coli homolog by approximately 10,000 Daltons. Further analysis also identified that the mainly alpha-helical protein has a significant sequence identity with SapD. Future considerations include looking at the purpose of the N-terminal extended region of OppD1 not seen in SapD, and further analyzing OppD1 for structure changes in varying salt conditions and possible binding partners. The exceptional survival skills of H. marismortui in high-salinity environments, possibly facilitated by the Trk system, make it an excellent model for studying halophiles. These
insights offer valuable understanding into how halophiles maintain cellular integrity under harsh conditions, especially regarding OppD1's potential role within the Trk system for ion transport and osmotic regulation in different environmental settings
Star sapphire pendant
No full textInspired by the concept of "want" and textures of planet surfaces designed with a heavy influence from Catholic art. Materials: sapphire, 14k gold.Second year student.rubysapphiregol
Pieces of me ring, palm cuff
No full textThe collection Pieces of Me is about being. Not being this, not being that, but just being. When you look at jewellery you always see beyond what it actually is, and similarly I want people to stop focusing so much on each other's frame. Stop following labels and stop putting on the labels. This piece connects the sense of touch to the ring and palm cuff. Materials: silver, cubic zirconia.Second year student. Mountain Gems Artistic Achievement Award recipint, offered to a student for their Artistic Achievement.a very cool piec
Exploring the awareness and perceptions of the Canadian 24- Hour Movement Guidelines in the development of recommendations for rural and remote communities
No full textThe present study evaluated the awareness and knowledge of the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines in rural and remote communities, and explored how to adapt guideline communication material to improve their impact and relevance. People living in rural and remote communities completed a cross-sectional survey (N = 76) and individual interviews (N = 12) to explore what is known about the guidelines and provide recommendations to help adapt the materials to local context. Overall, most participants were aware of the guidelines (44.7%) and had moderate knowledge of recommendations and dosages (64.5%). Deductive thematic analysis was used to code the barriers and facilitators to meeting guideline recommendations and map them onto the Behaviour Change Wheel. Recommendations for adapting the guidelines were created which included: providing additional information on being active outdoors and at home, information discerning sedentary behaviour and inactivity, and tips to combat seasonal changes in daylight
Episode 36: Blossom Social: The Future of Investing
No full textOn this week's episode of Innovation Fuel, Dave Keighron and Dr. Gelareh Farhadian explore the story of Blossom Social. They talk to Maxwell Nicholson and Kartik Bhutani, two out of the three co-founders, about how their app offers a unique approach to social investing
Episode 35: Preparing Brands for the Future as a Consultant
No full textIn this episode of Innovation Fuel, UCW alumnus Massimo Bellini, CEO and Founder of Bellini Consulting, joins hosts Dave Keighron and Dr. Gelareh Farhadian to discuss global events like COVID-19 and breakthroughs in technology that affect a business’ brand
Modeling ingress losses into a horizontal landfill gas well: Reconciling 2D turbulent flow and quasi-1D approximation
No full textThis document details on the steps that the author has followed to try to incorporate turbulent ingress head losses with the Darcian flow head loss through porous media in a horizontal landfill gas well to produce a model for calculating the head loss characteristics across the gas well for efficient extraction of landfill gas[2]. The horizontal well is a pipe with equidistant apertures penetrating the length of a landfill, with a vacuum inducing pump at the outlet and the far end blocked. The well is supported by a thin lamina of gravel and drains a cylindrical volume of gas generating medium around it. In [2], a quasi-1D model for this system was developed and implemented in MATLAB/Octave, but a computational study in COMSOL [1] has shown that the quasi-1D construction overlooks the highly localized turbulent structures at the ingress apertures. The purpose of the current project was to attempt to incorporate these local head losses into the quasi-1D model.Mitacs Globalink Internshiplandfill gas flowhorizontal wellporous medium flowhead lossturbulent flo
Maladorme and the Pan-demon
No full textPandemonium is unavoidable. When Maladorme the magician activates a portal to a mixed-up world, not being able to get back becomes the least of his problems. With the original inhabitiants lured in by Maladorme's pressence, the window for his escape begins to shrink. Exploring his options, he must find a way to get home before the world suffocatess him… or the monsters rip him apart