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Pip bolo tie and pin
No full textOval bolo with two 14k gold dice. Pin back handmade chain with tube bolo ends. The dice bolo tie plays on compulsion and the randomness of a roll of the dice. There is juxtaposition in locking them to a fixed position, as "loaded dice." The number 7 is often associated with good luck, as well as the win condition in some casino games. Materials: sterling silver, 14k gold, handmade chain.Second year student.dicebolo tiepi
Episode 32: What Full Time Means for International Students
No full textOn this week's episode of Innovation Fuel, Pat Chaisang, Founder & CEO of Isempower, joins hosts Dave Keighron and Dr. Gelareh Farhadian for part two of the discussion around breaking down the door for international students. They talk about the recent announcement allowing international students to work more than 20 hours per week and break down if this helps students tackle the challenge of finding a job in Canada
Episode 37: An Honest Conversation About Motherhood
No full textOn this week's episode of Innovation Fuel, Dave Keighron and Dr. Gelareh Farhadian dive into deeply personal motherhood journeys with their guests Jamie Samhan, Founder and CEO of Hop, and Paige Mowbray, counsellor and registered social worker
Is the Challenge by New Atheists Against God’s Actions in the Old Testament More Problematic for Theism or Atheism?
No full textThere are troubling texts in the Old Testament that depict God commanding the death of innocent people. New Atheists judge that God acts immorally when he makes such commands and expect their judgments to have force. For moral judgments to have force, however, morality must be objective, otherwise, they are merely subjective opinions. If objective morality is required, and atheism is true, then objective morality must be grounded within an atheistic framework. A growing number of atheists attempt to do this through versions of atheistic moral realism. I argue, however, that these attempts do not succeed. Theism, however, does sufficiently ground objective morality as even many atheist thinkers agree. Therefore, New Atheists are left with a dilemma: either morality is subjective, and their moral judgements lack force, or morality is objective, and God is the best explanation for it.Theology, Morality, Objective Morality, Moral Realism, Divine Command Theory, Moral Argument, Euthyphr
Space
No full textA short freeverse poem about identity and a sense of relationship to reality and others
Determining contamination and sources of sediment in response to recent and historical landscape disturbances
No full textLandscape level disturbances occur in nearly every watershed throughout the globe, and as the climate changes, these disturbances will continue to have a significant impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Wildfire, timber harvesting, and agricultural expansion are only a few of these disturbances, but each uniquely impacts the sediment regime. While sediment is a necessary and beneficial input to streams and rivers, it also can have negative impacts on the aquatic ecosystem because it can carry contaminants and also be physically detrimental when it settles, clogging spawning habitat. All of these disturbances have occurred historically and in the present in the Nechako River Basin (NRB), a large, regulated watershed in north-central British Columbia, Canada. In the NRB, chinook and sockeye salmon and the Nechako White Sturgeon are species that have been declining in population, in part due to the clogging of their habitat by sand and fine sediment. One way to determine sources of sediment is by using the sediment fingerprinting technique, whereby sediment samples and samples from potential sources are collected and analyzed for a series of physical or biogeochemical properties, and the proportion of sediment coming from each potential source is identified using an unmixing model. After catastrophic wildfires in 2018, research was undertaken to determine the spatial and temporal contamination of soils and sediment by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), to determine if burned areas were contributing more sediment than unburned areas to tributaries and the Nechako River mainstem, and to determine the suitability of PAHs as a novel fingerprint. The results found that concentrations of PAHs in the burned soils were elevated immediately
post-wildfire, but decreased significantly in subsequent years, and concentrations in sediments were very low. While PAHs were deemed to be non-conservative properties, unmixing modeling using colour showed that burned sources were an important contributor to the tributaries, but less so in the mainstem Nechako River. Agriculture is an important and growing industry in the NRB and is also an important source of sediment. Results from fingerprinting research undertaken in Murray Creek, an important watershed due to its proximity to spawning habitat, found that agriculture was the primary source of sediment in the basin, though channel banks were also important. While the intention was to use compound specific stable isotopes of long chain fatty acids to more specifically pinpoint agricultural fields that were contributing more sediment to the watershed, this semi-novel tracer was unable to discriminate between C3 plant types on a large scale. Taking the entire disturbance regime of the NRB into account, a broader scale fingerprinting study found that sources of sediment are tributary specific, though banks and agriculture were consistently most important. This study also identified that the predicted shift to a rain dominated watershed and earlier freshet will lead to increased potential for erosion from various sources, and that increased incidence of wildfire followed by heavy precipitation may increase sediment loads. Therefore, a number of management changes are suggested, including improving farming practices, post-wildfire landscape rehabilitation, and altering water release practices
Chemical exposure and menstrual regulation
No full textIt is estimated that individuals are exposed to hundreds of harmful chemicals at any given time, where it is nearly impossible to find unexposed populations anywhere in the world. Exposure routes include eating, drinking, breathing, and dermal absorption. After chemicals enter the body, their impact depends on their properties, whether they are excreted or stored, and their rates of entry and excretion. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are of particular concern, as they may impact metabolism and interfere with homeostatic feedback regulation of various endocrine organs by interfering with hormone production. In women, this may increase the risk of negative reproductive health outcomes, such as during the menstrual cycle. Despite the inevitable exposure to EDCs, there is limited research that examines exposure routes and assesses which may have the greatest impact on female reproductive health. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to see if different levels of chemical exposure can cause menstrual irregularities and if additional factors modulate these effects.
Using an online survey, we collected information about lifestyle, nutrition, health status, and chemical exposure in women aged 18-35 who experience a menstrual cycle. The survey included questions regarding reproductive health, product use, general health, mental health, work, and additional factors that are known to impact reproductive health. The survey data was analyzed using a regression analysis to see which exposure routes, health statuses, or additional factors may
contribute to menstrual irregularities, and which may not.
A correlation was found between increase in age and a decrease in the risk of experiencing dysmenorrhea from 56% to 45% (p=0.016, OR=0.907). A correlation was found between high chemical exposure and a decrease in the risk of experiencing dysmenorrhea from 56% to 14% (p=0.015, OR=0.274). A correlation was found between menstruation that lasts eight or more days and an increase in the risk of both dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia from 56% to over 100% (p=0.014, OR=3.969) and 20% to over 100% (p<0.001, OR=17.943), respectively. A correlation was found between moderate alcohol consumption and a decrease in the risk of experiencing menorrhagia from 20% to 2% (p=0.001, OR=0.106). A correlation was found between moderate to heavy drug use and a decrease in the risk of experiencing menorrhagia from 20% to 4% (p=0.010, OR=0.210), and a correlation was found between moderate stress and a decrease in the risk of experiencing menorrhagia from 20% to 4% (p=0.016, OR=0.220).
Our study aims to encourage future research in the field of women’s health, where research in this area is often limited, especially regarding research looking at women’s health under a more holistic lens.EDCsLifestylechemical exposurefemale reproductive cycl
Should this exist?
No full textThis zine emerged from an assignment in an English Language Learning and Acquisition class (ELLA 0120-001) with Douglas College instructor Tina Fusco. Students were prompted to create zines inspired by their experiences of coming to Canada and their perceptions of Canadian culture.Not peer reviewe
Canadians love to complaints
No full textThis zine emerged from an assignment in an English Language Learning and Acquisition class (ELLA 0120-001) with Douglas College instructor Tina Fusco. Students were prompted to create zines inspired by their experiences of coming to Canada and their perceptions of Canadian culture.Not peer reviewedzine
Conditional intentions and shared agency
No full textShared agency is a distinctive kind of sociality that involves interdependent planning, practical reasoning, and action between participants. Philosophical reflection suggests that agents engage in this form of sociality when a special structure of interrelated psychological attitudes exists between them, a set of attitudes that constitutes a collective intention. I defend a new way to understand collective intention as a combination of individual conditional intentions. Revising an initial statement of the conditional intention account in response to several challenges leads to a specification of the properties these intentions need to have in order to be genuine commitments. I then show how a structure of conditional intentions with these properties settles a collection of agents on engaging in social interactions that display all the features typically associated with shared agency.Published