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Regulation of Immunity through Intracellular Trafficking in Drosophila
No full textNo abstract available.
Faculty Mentor: Agata Becalska
Department: Biological Science (Honours)
 
International Law: "to comply or not to comply, that is the question"
No full textInternational law in the globalized era has become the framework for state interactions and how best to create a functioning community between sovereign nations and multi-national actors. This paper examines the major issues involved with that which compromises international legal standards, the issues of enforcement and compliance, with specific focus towards the case of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the ongoing issues emerging in the South China Sea.
Faculty Mentor: Chaldeans Mensah
Department: Political Scienc
Time to Recall and Type of Firm: The moderating effects of Country of Origin on Product Recall.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to understand the time what influences the time to recall defective products. Especially, the influence of public firms and perceived country of origin image of manufacturing countries on promptness/delay to recall. The paper collects recall data from Consumer Products Safety Commission database from 2007 to 2018 and The Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic Forum for the same period. With the application of signalling theory and shareholder/stakeholder perspective, the findings suggest that public firms tend to recall defective products faster in general. Specifically, they recall products fast when the country of origin image is low (perceived positive image of local suppliers’ quality). The findings are empirical in nature and uses single-industry data for a specific period. The article has implications on discussions pertaining to ethical communications, corporate social responsibility and managerial biases of other countries. The paper also discusses future avenue of crises management into service industries and B2B relationship. While previous research has studied antecedents and consequences to product recall from consumer and shareholder perspective, this paper focuses on perceived image of local suppliers on time to recall process of U.S. toy companies dealing with complex global supply chain.
Keywords: product recall, quality of products, institutional environment, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, World Economic Forum
Faculty Mentor: Etayankara Muralidharan
Department: International Business (Honours
Preservation of Oral Tradition: Why Monkey Beach Isn\u27t a Gothic Novel
No full textEden Robinson uses a variety of Haisla stories in her novel Monkey Beach. Some critics have viewed her novel as a gothic story, however, the novel is filled with cultural dimension that outshines any gothic elements. These elements and stories, not only preserve Haisla culture; but make it available to a variety of readers.
Faculty Mentor: Jack Robinson
Department: Englis
Today’s Offender, Tomorrow’s Victim: Analyzing the Connections Between Offenders and Victims
No full textThis paper examines the link between victims and offenders and how these roles are often interchangeable when it comes to a youth’s involvement in crime. Usually, this connection is disregarded because of the focus on the immediate situation and not the youth’s experiences with both roles. Because of this strong association between offenders and victims, the focus of this paper is about what stops a victim from becoming an offender and vice versa. The aspects focused on are individual and social factors, as well as the interactions and overlap between these factors. Generally, it was found that the criminal justice system and social service supports tend to only focus on individual factors while ignoring the social environmental aspects. This paper demonstrates the importance of not only acknowledging a youth\u27s role as both an offender and victim, but also the importance of addressing all aspects around how and why they got involved in criminal activity. By understanding the significance of these factors, this information can be used and integrated into the criminal justice system to help youth reduce their involvement in crime or to provide supports that address the cycle of victimization and offending
Perspective taking journaling in grade 4 students: Building resilience through the reframing of learning objectives
No full textResearch has described the negative impacts of early adversity and disrupted attachments throughout the life course and suggests the primary mechanism for these negative impacts is delayed social learning and bonding. Social and emotional learning interventions are shown to facilitate academic and social improvements for both atypical and typical children. The supported explanation is these interventions improve student’s social skills, and facilitate social identity that then improves grades, prosocial behavior, sense of self, and conduct. This research will examine the impact of social learning via perspective taking in journaling exercises in grade 4 students on conduct, pro-social behavior, academic performance, sense of self, and classroom discipline. We hypothesize that perspective journaling, which asks students to assume the perspective of fellow classmates, will show similar results to social and emotional learning interventions when compared to the control of personal journaling.
To test our hypothesis, we will randomly assign prospective students to two grade 4 classrooms that will be shared by two teachers. One teacher will teach English to both classrooms and administer the treatment of perspective journaling, or the control of personal journaling, and will provide little instruction beyond the hypothetical situations on which they write. The second teacher will remain blind. Teachers will be given weekly questionnaires to track disciplinary actions, and classroom environments. At six months, a cooperative building exercise will be used to compare prosocial behaviors. We expect to see that perspective journaling will improve children’s prosocial behavior, achievement, conduct, and sense of self.
Faculty Mentor: Sean Rogers
Department: Psychology (Honours)
 
Body Image in an Online Environment: A Content Analysis of Reactions to a Body Positive Post on Facebook
No full textThis study examined public reactions to a Facebook post depicting Taz Jane’s love for her “before” and “after” body where her before self was a thin young model versus an older average-sized nude. A content analysis on the 150 most recent comments about Taz Jane’s contributions to the positive Body Image Movement identified seven themes including: physical appearance, body standards, children and family life, gender, health and fitness, media, and self-esteem. The most prevalent theme was physical appearance, comprising approximately 48.7% of the comments. While mainly encouraging towards Taz Jane’s current body and efforts, the views also emphasized ways in which females continue to be negatively impacted by society’s preoccupation with weight and unrealistic body image ideals.
Faculty Mentor: Diane Symbaluk
Department: Sociolog
Athletic Role Model Representation in Nike\u27s 2019 Black History Month Advertising
No full textEvery year Nike releases a series of products and advertisements for Black History Month (BHM). In 2019 nine commercials were released. Each commercial depicts a Black athletic role model. This study is concerned with how Black athletic role models are framed in Nike’s BHM commercials and the implications of those frames. In comparison to the vast majority of corporations, Nike is one of the few to actively support BHM. Because these commercials are one of the only forms of media that incorporates BHM to the public, it is important to understand what themes are present within them. The goal of this study was to examine the stories that these athletes communicate about blackness and leadership responsibilities. The findings showed that athletic role models described a complex relationship with athletics. Athletics served as both an escape from social realities and a means to change them. Additionally, sports dominated discussions about community engagement. Other channels of societal change such as academia and politics were absent from discussion. As a result, Nike’s BHM commercials frame a narrow experience of Black Americans.
Faculty Mentor: Kalyani Thurairajah
Department: Sociolog
Why Does Incest Occur? A Distinction Between Genetic and Sociolegal Incest
No full textThe present study compares and contrasts intrafamilial biological parent, intrafamilial step parent, and extrafamilial sex offenders who are ages 19 and older and have sexually offended against victims ages 12 and under, on several variables of interest. Sexual assaults reported to the Edmonton Police Service from 2010 to 2014 were included in the sample. The aim of this study was to explore whether there were distinct differences among the three groups. Based on past literature, we hypothesized the following: (a) Intrafamilial offenders will likely be older than their extrafamilial counterparts; (b) There is likely to be no difference in perpetrators’ sex; (c) Any difference in perpetrator’s ethnicity is uncertain; (d) The likelihood to reoffend will likely be greater for extrafamilial offenders; (e) Intrafamilial victims will likely be younger than extrafamilial victims; (f) There is likely to be no difference in victims’ sex; (g) Intrafamilial sexual abuse will likely last longer than extrafamilial sexual abuse; and (h) There will be greater delay in time to report abuse by intrafamilial offenders than extrafamilial offenders. We further expected to find that intrafamilial step parent sex offenders would reoffend more than biological parent sex offenders. The findings will be presented in this poster presentation.
Faculty Mentor: Sandy Jung
Department: Psycholog
Culture, Boundaries and Space
No full textPoster presentation applying the theories presented by Durkheim (1895) and Gupta and Ferguson (1992) regarding culture and whether its boundaries are fixed or fluid. The theories will be applied to contemporary data about immigrants/immigration and the purpose of my research is to discern whether the individual application of each theory to the same dataset provides significant insight when compared against each other.
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Long
Department: Anthropology