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No full textImages and details from a studio-based sculptural practice from a Canadian artist who works only with plastic
Measuring Lessons Learned from Durham Region’s Community Hub Model During COVID-19: A Support Solution for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness and Other At-Risk Populations
No full textThe 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic severely limited the availability of community resources within the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. It disrupted the lives of persons experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable populations. To address the gaps in resources, community stakeholders developed two pilot community hubs to respond to the unmet health, housing, and support needs of those impacted. This research utilized a mixed-methods research design to determine the effectiveness of the community hubs in responding to the unmet needs of patrons utilizing the services and the scalability of the community hub model as a viable regional service approach. Surveys were administered in person with seventy-five community hub patrons. Fifteen direct service staff completed self-administered online surveys. Interviews were conducted with five community hub managerial staff and two subject-matter experts who collaborated with one of the community hubs. Results from the study showed that the needs of patrons were deep and entrenched and required a progressive, co-located, integrated health and social service response model. Staff described the services as critical and lifesaving for the patrons. The descriptive statistical analysis revealed that 93% of patrons indicated that services offered by the community hubs met their needs. The main challenge for the community hubs was the lack of core funding. Implications of this study include establishing a regional, evidence-informed, integrated system of care that addresses the healthcare, social service, and housing needs of populations experiencing homelessness
A Sparse Differential Algebraic Equation (DAE) and Stiff Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) Solver in Maple
No full textThis paper implements efficient numerical methods in Maple to solve index-1 nonlinear Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs) and stiff Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) systems. Single-step methods (like Trapezoid (TR), Implicit-mid point (IMP), Euler-backward (EB), Radau IIA (Rad) methods, TRBDF2, TRX2) and backward-difference formula of order 2 are implemented with adaptive time-stepping methods in Maple to solve index-1 nonlinear DAEs. Maple’s robust and efficient ability to search within a list/set is exploited to identify the sparsity pattern and automatically calculate the analytic Jacobian. The algorithm and implementation are robust and efficient for index-1 DAE problems and scale well for finite difference/finite element discretization of two-dimensional models with system size up to 10,000 nonlinear DAEs and solve the same in a few seconds. The computational efficiency of the proposed algorithm (provided as an open-access code) compares favorably with the commercial solver gPROMs, one of the most commonly used sparse DAE solvers in the industry
Du siècle classique au XVIIIe siècle
No full textCette introduction expose la motivation du volume, la présentation des articles et les remerciements aux éditrices qui ont contribué le plus aux sélections et suggestions éditoriales.Cette introduction expose la motivation du volume, la présentation des articles et les remerciements aux éditrices qui ont contribué le plus aux sélections et suggestions éditoriales
“Maybe We Have to Create Something Different”: Fostering Inclusion in Montessori Education
No full textHow Does Learning Happen: Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, the early childhood education framework for Ontario (Canada), aims to guide early-years programs across the province by recognizing children as competent, capable, and curious individuals from diverse backgrounds. The policy highlights the significance of ensuring inclusive learning environments that foster a sense of belonging and enable every child to flourish (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2014). Many Montessori schools across the province share this view (Hunt et al., 2022) and strive for inclusive programs that meet the learning goals of children with special education needs; however, at times, this objective can seem daunting. In this article, we highlight findings from a study involving the educators at one Montessori school focusing on the self-described goal of improving the quality of their inclusive practices through an examination of beliefs and a continuous professional learning process. The main themes identified in the study related to educators’ attitudes to inclusion and their beliefs about how the Montessori method challenges inclusion pedagogies. Moreover, we found that educators’ understanding and implementation of differentiated instruction (Tomlinson & Imbeau, 2023) was lacking. The results indicate that Montessori educators’ inclusive practices and learning environments benefited from participating in ongoing, scaffolded professional learning specifically targeted to their needs and context
Performing Plasticity: On Recycling, Prosthetic Memories, and the Precarious Working-Class Renaissance: — The Case of Disco Alaskan Wolves
No full textThis paper examines the representation of post-industrial malaise in post-socialist China through a case study of the plastic characters of the 2019 hit song Disco Alaskan Wolves (野狼disco). Gem Dong, the singer/composer from Northeastern China, inflects Cantonese with accented Mandarin, utilizing a "disco" motif to express his generation's traumatic transition to the market economy in a laid-off worker's family. Taking a threefold connotation of “plasticity” as references to the materiality of media affordance, the kitschy aesthetic form, and a mode reflective of neoliberalist flexible corporeal politics, I claim that lyrics, singing, and derivative amateur dancing videos of the song all demonstrate “plasticity” as a performing tactic that undermines the glorification of post-socialist economic reform through a paradoxical self-exploitation of underclass bodies. I argue that the song’s parody of Cantonese and stunt performances manifests prosthetic memories formed with spectatorial experiences of "plastic media waste" — cut-out disco CDs and pirate Hong Kong films. They simultaneously unsettle the neoliberalist aesthetic of flexibility through plastic clumsiness. Controversies around the copyright of choreography, however, reveal an uneven distribution of cultural capital in the global capitalist structure that may continuously mutate and ironize the social undertone. Plasticity thus embodies and delivers sensory knowledge of desire, trauma, and precariousness for the post-socialist working class and asks for an ecological understanding of the working-class cultural renaissance
A Primer on the Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance
No full textAntimicrobial resistance is a global issue that threatens to alter the treatment and management of infections. For many decades, antibiotics have successfully kept numerous bacterial pathogens at bay and have reduced post-surgery infection rates. This article presents research and projections on the economic implications of antimicrobial resistance. Development of new antibiotics comes at a substantial cost. The economic incentives of different stakeholders affected by antimicrobial resistance are also discussed
A Review of Locke on Persons and Personal Identity by Ruth Boeker
No full textA review of Ruth Boeker's recent book Locke on Persons and Personal Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).