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Migrant Worker Health Care in Windsor-Essex County
No full text['UNSDG 3: Good Health and Well-being (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal3)', 'UNSDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal8)', 'UNSDG 10: Reduced Inequalities (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal10)', 'UNSDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal16)']Viable, Healthy and Safe CommunitiesMigrant workers form the backbone of Canada's agricultural industry, with more than 50,000 migrant agricultural workers hired annually that largely work in the Windsor-Essex region. Largely from Mexico, the Caribbean, Guatemala, Thailand and the Philippines, these workers are usually hired through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) through temporary contracts with no direct route to permanent residency. With employment in a relatively high-risk industry and the temporary nature of their residency, treatment of workers with critical illnesses is often interrupted by the end of their contracts, with the majority unable to access the same standard of healthcare in their country of origin. Additionally, many refuse to seek initial treatment due to fear of losing employment. Our research aims to understand and prevent this outcome through a multifaceted approach. Through a mixed methods research platform, in which we perform a retrospective case analysis, interview critically ill migrant workers, and collaborate with the Mexican consulate we strive to determine the impact of this interruption on the continuity of care and discover barriers faced in accessing treatment. Through surveying healthcare professionals in the Windsor-Essex region, we aim to discover barriers faced by healthcare practitioners and potential avenues of policy change to better support their care. The ultimate objective of this project is to reform Canada's policy on the continuation of care for migrant workers. By allowing continuity of care for these critically ill migrants, Canada can fulfill an ethical obligation to support these temporary workers who play a vital component in our society
Now What: An Examination of Touch Through the Artistic Form of Contact
No full textWhat does it mean to touch another person
The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Context of Increased Living Costs in Ontario
Get PDFThis research highlights the crucial role of non-profit organization in supporting the well-being of local communities in Ontario, particularly amidst increased cost of living. The increased cost of living has led to a higher CPI, negatively impacting the quality of life for many Ontarians and Canadians. While the vulnerable population become increasingly uncertain about the future, the role of non-profit organizations becomes prominent as effective community leaders. This research will illustrate how non-profit organizations address the most significant challenges the vulnerable population face today in terms of their quality of life, which are: housing insecurity, food insecurity, and transportation. The research methodology section will illustrate a case study of a local non-profit organization within the Windsor-Essex region in Ontario. The results indicate a growing demand and reliance on non-profit organizations of their services
Reviewing the Interdisciplinarity of Professors at Colleges and Universities Globally Through a Meta-Analysis of Current Literature
Get PDFThe lineage of interdisciplinarity throughout history pushes us towards understanding the need for interdisciplinarity more than ever in a modern climate. Through a meta-analysis of current literature, topics and themes will be discussed to find answers on how interdisciplinarity of professors are present within institutes of higher learning on a global scale; in addition, the implications that can be drawn from interdisciplinarity of higher education professors. This global outlook of research will focus on a continental approach to observing the divergent forms of interdisciplinarity in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania with nineteen different articles across nineteen different nations across the globe. Themes discussed in the literature relate to creating a free and autonomous interdisciplinarity in higher education, the need for sustainable education, new and integrative ways of learning, university frameworks for administration and professional development, and a global interdisciplinarity framework to consolidate the many socio-geographic forms of interdisciplinarity. Implications arose with the need to address the impact of inherent and biological interdisciplinarity, and the potential limitations of interdisciplinarity when used as a policy lever inside institutions. Ultimately, the need for interdisciplinarity relating to our innate convictions of making knowledgeable connections is not a new idea, rather a reinvigoration of primal concepts relating to knowledge attainment
Mechanisms of Relative Age Effects
Get PDFDavid Hancock is an Assistant Professor in Health Sciences at Indiana University Kokomo. Originally from Canada, he moved to the United States five years ago to continue his academic pursuits. He teaches a range of Health Sciences courses including Sport Psychology, Talent Development, Motor Development, and Motor Learning. His main research interests lie in youth sport, particularly understanding talent development, relative age effects, birthplace effects and sport officials. He proposed a theoretical model to explain the influence of social agents on relative age effects, published in European Journal of Sport Science in 2013. David played organized hockey for 13 years, and is entering his 21st season as an on-ice official.Several mechanisms potentially contribute to relative age effects, including sport structure, physical, and social mechanisms. A brief description of each is provided. Sport Structure Mechanisms To maintain fair athletic competition, organizations often institute one- or two-year age bands (e.g., players born in 2008 and 2009 compete in U8 soccer). Even in a one-year age band, athletes' ages can differ by 364 days. While smaller age bands and rotating cut-off dates have been proposed, these solutions provide many administrative challenges. Thus, the inherent sport structure lends itself to relative age effects. Physical Mechanisms Though not guaranteed, being chronologically older than one's peers can lead to growth and maturation advantages. The average child who is 8 years and zero days old (e.g., born January 1) weighs 58lbs and stands 51" tall; meanwhile the average child who is 7 years and one day old (e.g., born December 31) weighs 51lbs and stands 48" tall. Both children play in the same age division, but the older child has a distinct physical advantage. Additionally, maturation advantages (e.g., better coordination, advanced cognitive efficiency) often exist for relatively older children. Social Mechanisms Parents appear to register their relatively older children in sport at younger ages. This initial experience results in more practice, competition, and instruction. It has been proposed that such initial advantages lead to later advantages (i.e., a Matthew Effect), including selection to elite teams. Further, it is suggested that parents and coaches place higher expectations on relatively older players, also leading to increased practice, competition, and instruction. These expectations (i.e., a Pygmalion Effect) are then met by players, who show advanced skill development
A Fish By Any Other Name Would Taste as Sweet: Applied Ethics of Transgenic Fish Commercialization
No full textModern aquaculture has grown into a vital industry over the past half-century, such that it now supplies half of all the fish we consume. Nevertheless, it has been found to cause significant economic, environmental, and health problems, while commercial fishing has led to the decline in wild fish stocks. In response to this dilemma and the growing demand, AquaBounty Technologies has created a genetically modified “AquAdvantage” Atlantic salmon using foreign genetic elements from the ocean pout and Chinook Pacific salmon, in hopes of improving their fish farming efficiency. These modifications allow the AquAdvantage salmon to grow twice as fast as their domesticated counterparts and four times as fast as their wild brethren.
The recent approval for commercialization of the AquAdvantage salmon as the first genetically modified animal by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. market has sparked substantial controversy, with no small number of people urging for a moratorium or ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) altogether. The significance of this approval cannot be overstated, as it sets a regulatory precedent for other pending commercializations of genetically engineered animals and future axioms of molecular and synthetic biology.
In this article, I identify and evaluate some of the leading arguments for and against the adoption of GM salmon on store shelves, and this product’s position in terms of deep ecology, the precautionary principle, virtue ethics, and non-anthropocentrism. I rely on this pluralistic presentation to ensure that the key aspects are recognized, and that possible consequences are assessed from a plurality of positions to avoid a one-eyed perception of the topic and allow judgments to be made on a rational and informed basis, all ethical concerns considered
The Role Student Partners Play in Conducting Course Feedback
No full textModifying the delivery of a course can be a long and arduous process, fraught with seemingly more pitfalls than strides. Having student partners can make the process more streamlined, and reduce the frustration often encountered. Student partners who are made to feel like valuable members of an interdisciplinary team can provide constructive feedback from the student perspective. Furthermore, they can help with the iterative design process, while simultaneously gaining valuable experience. Capitalizing on the strengths of the students can result in innovations, such as videos created by the student partners to present confusing pedagogy to students in a relatable manner. The process of modifying course is when the delivery method, assessment and evaluation techniques, and/or class structure is changed with the intent to provide a benefit to the students' learning. This modification is an on-going process, taking place while the course is in session, as well as before and after, and is guided by the iterative design process. Student partners for this presentation were hired by the Office of Open Learning and are working on content for a class they are not enrolled in. Based on an in-depth review of the current literature on the topic, there is a need for qualitative analysis from both the perspective of the student partners and the faculty that they work with. This presentation will feature how course delivery can be modified from the perspective of student partners, outlining the process from a literature review, to the collection of feedback, to the assessment of whether the proposed change is beneficial to the learning environment. The data presented is both qualitative and quantitative and comes from three different semesters. The preliminary findings suggest there to be a large benefit to both the course coordinator and the student partner, as well as enriching the learning environment for the students enrolled in the course
Can Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) smell a toxic compound produced by Algal Blooms?
No full textAlgal blooms in the Laurentian Great Lakes produce the neurotoxin, β-N-Methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA). This compound causes severe damage and fatalities to fish through its agonistic effect on glutamatergic receptors in the central and peripheral nervous system. Sea lamprey are an invasive species to the Great Lakes and parasitically feed on native fish species such as trout and salmon. As lampreys migrate downstream of lakes to feed and upstream to spawn, they may contact algal blooms responsible for producing this neurotoxin. Exposure to this toxin may reduce their sensitivity to odorants used for trapping lampreys, leading to inefficient traps. In this study, we are using electrophysiology to determine if sea lamprey have the ability to detect this toxin using their olfactory system, and what kind of effect this toxin has on their sensitivity to other odorants. The results of this study will contribute to a wider knowledge for understanding the effect of algal blooms on aquatic species and of potential factors that may be considered when developing new control methods for managing lamprey populations
Alpha, Beta, Sigma: A Critical Analysis of Sigma Male Ideology
Get PDFIn the online environment, the Manosphere has been identified as an unstructured network of groups who express harmful anti-feminist, and anti-progressive views. Informally associated with the Manosphere, Sigma Male ideology has emerged as an allegedly unique classification of men who are successful and popular, but also silent and rebellious. Despite assertions that they adhere to their own principles, Sigma Male ideological expressions, as conveyed through video memes of select fictional role models, demonstrate that they are more intimately connected to the Manosphere than acknowledged. This research paper applies critical qualitative meme analysis to TikTok videos that feature the specific Sigma Male inspirational figure of Travis Bickle from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver. The objective of this study was to establish how Sigma Male representational practices reflect a comparable, or distinct ideology from the Manosphere. The resulting analysis of Sigma Male memes revealed that while their ideological perspectives correspond with the reactionary values of the Manosphere, they differ in being implicitly political. The ideological sentiments of Sigma Males are rather affectively charged and represent a point of political orientation where regressive political views are likely to develop
Great Lakes Focus on Water Quality: vol.1 iss.4
No full textThe Great Lakes Water Quality Board presented its Third Annual Report to the Com- mission July 30, 1975. Members provided the Commission with an assessment of water quality of the lakes and connecting channels and a review of the municipal, industrial and other remedial programs being implemented to achieve the objectives of the 1972 United States/Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. In addition, the Board presented new and revised specific water quality objectives and a basin-wide surveillance pro- gram for the Commission‘s consideration