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Creating a Livable Region through Sustainable Development Practices: Reorienting Development in Windsor-Essex through the Implementation of Light Rail Transit
Full text linkWindsor-Essex County lacks proper regional transportation, a major sustainability issue compounded by poor land use strategies, resulting in low-density suburban communities defined by extensive sprawl and heavy dependence on private automobile use. The current development direction of Windsor-Essex County is unsustainable on multiple levels, turning the region into space in which residents have limited options for how they can efficiently travel within their own municipality and to other municipalities. The downtown core of Windsor needs serious regeneration and the communities that make up the larger metropolitan region need an effective means of travel that is both environmentally sustainable and affordable. In order for Windsor-Essex County to be competitive in a global market place, the local governments within the region need to work on a regional development plan which will create strong economic clusters that are accessible by various means of transit
Best practices of teaching and engaging international students in online learning: An Australian perspective
Full text linkTeaching international students can be challenging, either online or face-to-face. However, it can also be fruitful if one knows how to engage with international students in the learning and teaching environments, especially online. In Australia, traditional delivery of teaching was still going on for schools and higher educational institutions until the end of March 2020, but this changed within weeks to remote or online methods, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At La Trobe University in Australia, teaching was paused for a week to cope with the learning and teaching 'shock' – that is to re-orientate teaching from face-to-face to completely offering courses remotely to international and domestic students. The symbiotic relationship between learning and teaching, as well as between students and teachers, must go on via the online medium. Therefore, this presentation illustrates the journey of reflections of an award-winning, early-career, international, academic unpacking of the best online practices of teaching and engaging international students in online learning environments at La Trobe University
Attempted formulation of nutraceutical grade double emulsions using a simple bench-top protocol
No full text['This presentation explores something other than the conference theme.']Viable, Healthy and Safe CommunitiesDESIGN AND CREATION OF OPTIMIZED DOUBLE EMULSIONSJ. Neil, R. Salama, Dr. A. Banerjee, and Prof. J. F. TrantDouble emulsions, containing multiple phases embedded within each other, are unique systems because they allow us to combine hydrophilic and lipophilic components with complementary functionalities within the same emulsion droplet. In this study, we attempt to repurpose the method used by Wang et al. to create single-cored perfluorinated oil double emulsions in water, for the generation of cannabinoid double emulsions. THC or CBD dissolved in carrier lipids with a range of density and viscosity values was used as the lipid phase in these experiments.. The double emulsions were created by initially preparing a water-in-oil emulsion, which was then pipetted into a secondary aqueous phase, and vortexed to produce the final double emulsion (Wang et al., 2021). The emulsions thus produced were analyzed and examined under an optical microscope. While double emulsions were, in fact, created, they all contained multiple cores embedded within a single shell, and were unstable to storage over a period of days, thus confirming that this method is unlikely to succeed in cases where either the lipid or the aqueous phase is made to carry an API. While careful matching of density and viscosity of both phases might produce a solution to this problem, it is unlikely that this protocol will have widespread applicability over a library of APIs. Wang, J., Hahn, S., Amstad, E., & Vogel, N. (2021). Tailored double emulsions made simple. Advanced Materials, 34(5), 2107338. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.20210733
Marxism and the Animal-Industrial Complex
No full text['UNSDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal8)', 'UNSDG 10: Reduced Inequalities (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal10)']Viable, Healthy and Safe CommunitiesTechnology can be seen as an extension of human beings. This is certainly Karl Marx's position, whereby the contemporary use of machines is one of the relations of our present economic system, but the way in which machinery is utilized is distinct from the machinery itself (Marx and Engels 1975, 33). Technology changes the relations between humans and the larger biophysical environment. In Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx introduces the term commodity fetishism to his theory. Marx believed that once a good is produced and enters the market, the monetary value that is ascribed to the product works to sever its ties from the production process. Potential buyers no longer equate the product with the work that was put into it. Instead, its value comes from its price tag. The consumer, in turn, sees only one glowing perspective of the product, while a veil is cast over the hard, sometimes dreary, labour that is put into it. Technology is a part of this alienating system. The main area where this is seen is the Animal-Industrial Complex (AIC). This paper will attempt to cohere an examination of the current production of consumer meat products, using a Marxist analysis
The Solid Phase Synthesis Approach to Making Peptides
No full text['UNSDG 3: Good Health and Well-being (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal3)']Viable, Healthy and Safe CommunitiesA solid phase synthesis reaction creates a peptide chain using an insoluble solid support phase, often a resin (1). The resin contains a functional group that starts the coupling and loads the first amino acid using the functional group to attack. After the first amino acid has been loaded, it can continue to bond with more amino acids and generate a peptide chain, all the while using the resin as a solid support. Traditional peptide synthesis occurs in a solution simply with the amino acids and no solid phase, but peptides in solution have poor solubility (2). Solid phase synthesis provides a work around. The advantages of solid phase synthesis are that it allows for easier purification of the products and a faster synthesis of peptides with longer chains (3). Any excess reagents can be washed out easily. Potential applications of solid phase synthesis are making complex antibiotics in short time periods with much fewer steps, making hormones, and even with drug delivery (4). In the future, it may even be possible to utilize solid phase synthesis to make antibiotics and drugs using AI (5). This presentation will provide a deeper look into solid phase synthesis and why it should be used over solution phase methods. Peptides have become crucial to the development of drugs, and this work highlights why more work needs to be done on solid phase to optimize the process of making them as there are still issues like requiring costly resins and large quantities of solvents
Focus on Great Lakes Water Quality (ISSN 0711-0855): vol.8 iss.4
No full textWhen the International Joint Commission meets in Indianapolis November 15 — 17 those who attend will note some innovations. One is a theme, which will continue in the future: Great Lakes Connections - people’s connections with the Lakes, land drainage connections with the Lakes, institutional connections, economic connections, recreation connections...the list is endless. Further, the International Joint Commission is the one continuing link connecting the people of Canada and the United States in the Great Lakes clean—up effort...and IJC can be your “Great Lakes Connection."
Students whose minds are not yet overburdened by existing knowledge often make groundbreaking discoveries. Do creativity and progress lie on a spectrum of learning? If so, where do they fall?
Full text linkLove and Difference: Refuting the ‘Risk-Free’ Conception of Romance
No full textLove and Difference: Refuting the ‘Risk-Free’ Conception of Romance
Love, as a philosophical topic, has a convoluted history. Modern considerations of love, which inherit this history, oscillate within a spectrum that ranges from pessimistic conceptions of love as merely instrumental reproductive sexuality (attributable to Schopenhauer), to an ecstatic fusion that presents love as the harmony of two into one (expressed in the work of Simone de Beauvoir). Each of these positions can be characterized as difference-evading, escapist, and ‘risk-free’ approaches to love, which, Alain Badiou claims, denies the necessary elements that make love possible; namely, a commitment to chance, the experience of vulnerability, and perseverance and fidelity in love. By way of Badiou, this paper attempts a refutation of Schopenhauer’s pessimistic rejection of love, and, following this, attempts to think beyond the relationship of insecurity and dependency that Beauvoir associates with the plight of the ‘woman-in-love.’ As I intend to show, Badiou’s theory of love, which is existential in nature, denies the escapism that is inherent to riskless love. Badiou’s solution to both the pessimistic and fusional hypotheses is to present authentic love as a ‘truth procedure’ wherein lovers form a common subject known as “the Two” which operates beyond the non-connected and incommensurable positions Badiou calls ‘man’ and ‘woman.’ This re-invented conception of love fills up (supplements) and compensates this non-related Two, who, together, experience a truth made possible by difference—a pursuit which requires the continuous declaration and affirmation that the procedure is worth the risk.
Keywords: difference, fidelity, fusion, love, pessimism, risk, the Two, truth-procedure
A Participatory Action Research inquiry into experiential teacher education for the prevention of sexual violence in schools
Full text linkConsistent with the TCPS 2 (4.7) this is a research summary provided to participants and should not be considered a formal publication of results
Competitive exclusion of pulmonate landsnails in an invasion context
No full textInvasive species are non-native organisms that become established in an ecologically naive environment to the detriment of the local environment and/or economy. However, some species become established but fail to expand their range or have a significant impact. The European native grove snail Cepaea nemoralis has been widely introduced to new areas through human activities, and now occurs in a wide variety of locations owing to its ecological generalism and broad native distribution. The species occurs in SW Essex County, where it is abundant in urbanized and disturbed areas of Windsor but scarce in native woodlands. We hypothesize that the native forest-inhabiting, similarly-sized, and fellow detritivorous Mesodon thyroidus competitively excludes the grove snail from this habitat type. In order to test this, a functional response (FR) or feeding rate framework was applied to individual snails collected from urban areas of Windsor (C. nemoralis) and from Kopegaron Conservation Area (C. nemoralis and M. thyroidus). Feeding trials were conducted under controlled conditions, whereby identically sized leaf squares, analogous to 'prey items' in traditional FR methods, were consumed over a fixed time period of 24 hours. Statistical analyses of FR curves (feeding rate as a function of food supplied) and their derived parameters were conducted in 'R', using maximum likelihood model fitting of nonlinear FR curves. Results showed significantly greater resource acquisition parameters for the native M. thyroidus in comparison to the non-native C. nemoralis, indicating that the native snail competitively excludes the invasive from the forest interior. FR methods can be used to test all aspects of invasion biology, but this study represents the first time that FR has been used to test the competitive exclusion of terrestrial invertebrates in an invasion ecology scenario