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Comfort Level with Technology and Perceived Support Among Community College Faculty
No full textTechnology has become prevalent in all aspects of the teaching and learning process, from communication to content delivery. The successful integration of technology appears to be mediated by several factors, including comfort level with technology and the quantity and quality of support available. However, the relationship between comfort level with technology and support has not been explored in detail. In this study, faculty from a community college in Toronto are surveyed on their attitudes toward technology and the type of technology support they receive at their institution. Results show a strong correlation between positive indicators of comfort level with technology and support tactics that centre on communication and the creation of environments conducive to experimentation and innovation. The findings demonstrate the need for institutions to engage with faculty in intentional, meaningful dialogue around technology, and to provide support and designate time to foster experimentation and innovation
Oral L-Carnitine Supplementation and Exercise Performance
No full textCarnitine is an endogenous compound essential for energy production, playing dual roles as a component of fatty acid translocation through the mitochondrial membrane and as a buffer for accumulating acetyl CoA. In addition, it has been shown to improve muscle recovery and up-regulate androgen receptors, and has various effects on the brain. In the absence of either primary or secondary deficiencies, it is rare for healthy individuals to become deficient in carnitine. Studies have found that chronic training causes decreases in muscle carnitine concentration below baseline; thus, supplementation is recommended to at least stabilize carnitine levels. In this project, we review clinical studies that assess the effect carnitine has on exercise performance and metabolism in aerobic, anaerobic, and resistance training. Although findings have been inconsistent, research has demonstrated carnitine’s ability to improve exercise performance by increasing fatty acid oxidation, sparing glycogen, reducing lactate accumulation, increasing efficiency of glycogen utilization, decreasing rate of perceived exertion, and allowing a higher work output. We conclude that chronic ingestion of ~30 mg/kg/d of L-carnitine taken with carbohydrates can effectively increase muscle total carnitine concentration, enabling its ergogenic effects. More studies are necessary to determine optimal dosing of L-carnitine, the optimal dose of carbohydrates with L-carnitine, and the effect of L-carnitine on chronic training. No prior study has investigated the effect of chronic L-carnitine supplementation on chronic resistance training. We propose a 24-week parallel design, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Participants will be healthy, resistance-trained men, observed to determine whether carnitine can be used to improve recovery, muscular endurance, and strength
“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: Early Child Development in Relation to Other Social Determinants of Health
No full textThis project examines early childhood development in light of other key social determinants of health. A literature review of secondary sources shows that the social determinants of health are interrelated, and are shaped by broader social and local spheres—family, place of residence, and workplace. Of the fourteen social determinants of health, early child development is crucial because it influences adult health and involves irreversible changes, such as those brought about by mental or physical damage to the fetus, and the development of mental capacity by age two. Moreover, early child development is distinguished from other social determinants of health as it holds greater promise for change. While eradicating poverty at any life stage is difficult, minimizing the effects of poverty may be easiest during early childhood. This is because children interact with both the broader social and the local family spheres, allowing them to engage in other positive environments, even if their own parents are victims of poverty. Thus, health policy should prioritize early child development because it may contribute to ending the cycle of poverty
Looking Through the Lens: Changing Interpretations of Edward S. Curtis's Photographs of Western Canada
Get PDFEdward S. Curtis was a professional photographer, film maker, and amateur ethnologist who set out on a journey in 1900 to document the last of the “Vanishing Indians” in the North American West. Curtis had spent around 30 years of his life fixated on capturing photographic evidence of the traditional First Nations’ way of life, but after his death in 1952, his photographs would not return to the public and academic eye until the 1970s and 1980s counterculture era. Since the late twentieth century to early twenty-first century, historians have heavily debated the authenticity of his ethnographic work in Western Canada due to his tendency to stage the settings or pose the models in his photographs and films. Through the analysis of writings by historians of the mid-1990s, Mick Gidley’s work from the late 1990s, examinations of Curtis’s work from different perspectives by Professors Pauline Wakeham and Catherine Russells, as well as journal articles from the 2000s, a distinct shift from a singular accusatory and critical view in the late twentieth century has become a relatively more-positive view with analysis by professionals from a multiplicity of disciples in the early twenty-first century
Accelerometry of Self-Paced Children's Games During Guided Active Play
Get PDFAccelerometry (ACC) estimates of oxygen cost from linear regression equations (treadmill calibrated) are limited when assessing children’s self-paced active play. The purpose of this study was to determine if the magnitude and direction of ACC estimates were implicated in the poor predictions of children’s self-paced active play. Children’s (n=15, 9.3±1.2 yrs; BMI 20.5±4.0) cardiorespiratory and metabolic responses to treadmill activity (4, 6 and 8 km/h [0% grade]) and active playing of 6 games were determined using FITMATE. Accelerometers (ActiGraph GT3X) collected PA counts (10sec epochs) for all activities. The linear regression equations (VM for time, VO2) generated for each activity, and relative contribution of each axes, were compared (ANOVA) and assessed at p=0.05. During treadmill activity the linear relationships for VM with speed (at 4, 6, and 8kmh) and oxygen consumption (VO2) were 0.90±0.03 and 0.82±0.05, respectively (p>0.05). The linear relationships (VM with time and measured VO2) averaged over 6 self-paced games were 0.061±0.035 and 0.006±0.002 (p<0.05). Linear regressions for each game resulted in a range of intercepts, for VM and time, from 520±198 cnts/10sec to 1189±196 cnts/10sec (p<0.05) compared to treadmill values of 193±95 cnts/10sec (p<0.05). The measured VO2 values for self-paced games were higher at lower counts (VM) for all games. The percent difference in axis contribution to VM between the dominant and lowest axis was 41±14% and 7±5% for treadmill activity and self-paced games, respectively (p<0.05). This study reveals that characteristics of children’s self-paced PA impacts the linear relationship identified by ACC for locomotion activities
Labour Relations in Canada in Light of Provincial Cleavages for Migrant Farm Workers
No full textDespite the Seasonal Agricultural Worker and Temporary Foreign Worker programs existing under federal legal jurisdiction, provincial authority encroaches upon many issues that are relevant to the lives of migrant workers. Policy areas like health, housing, and labour codes constitutionally operate under the provincial governments. The asymmetrical standardization of various jurisdictions exacerbates a huge cleavage in the Canadian human-rights regime in relation to migrant workers. Using an array of reports, which vary in their respective source bases from labour unions to academic and government publications, this paper examines inter-provincial differences in the aforementioned areas of issues to demonstrate that the federal/ provincial division of powers acts as an impediment for the development of rights for temporary migrant workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Temporary Foreign Worker Program. To advance this argument, this paper also illustrates how various provincial governments have interacted with the governments of Canada and Mexico to limit access to healthcare, housing, and collective bargaining. This paper then proceeds to promote the notion that in the absence of federal uniformity, the dispersed jurisdiction in these areas of issues allows the provinces leverage to experiment with different labour-relations regimes. This paper asserts that although provinces are given room to differ from one another, different provinces have attempted to systematically restrict the rights of migrants to housing, healthcare, training, and collective representation
Canada's New Residential School: Exploring the Impact of Cultural Racism on Federally Imprisoned Aboriginal Women
Get PDFBy comparing the residential school system to the contemporary prison system, this paper examines the issue of cultural racism in regards to issues Aboriginal women face. This paper argues that the treatment Aboriginal women face under the Correctional Services of Canada (CSC) is an extension of the colonial past, bearing similar goals and principles. To support this, the paper examines Section 12 1 (b) of the Indian Act of 1876, and proceeds to provide similarities between residential schools and prisons, connecting it to cultural racism and its impacts today. Data has been collected from several academic journals ranging in the fields of social science, women’s studies, sociology, and criminology, along with a debate and case study. Residential schools promoted ideals of whiteness by viewing children as threats to the white Canadian “norm,” taking away traditional practices, and beating children as an attempt to rid them of their Aboriginal identity. In a similar manner, prisons placed Aboriginal women far away from their families, they were denied visitation rights and cultural programs, and dehumanized in an attempt to make them conform to mainstream white culture. This paper ends with criticism of Harper’s Bill C-10, the Safe Streets and Communities Act, as well as a case study of Ashley Smith, a 19-year-old Aboriginal woman who died under the de-humanizing treatment of CSC. Suggestions for change are discussed, showing that this issue needs to be recognized in order for the prison system to reclaim its true purpose of rehabilitation rather than a system that destroys identity
Strange Women Lying Around in Ponds Distributing Swords Is not a Basis for a System of Government: How Monty Python and the Holy Grail Provides a Scathing Attack upon British Culture in the 1970s
No full textThis topic was chosen as an “out-of-the-academic-box” approach to examining the volatile nature of British culture in the 1970s. Using satire as political commentary, Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes one of Britain’s best-known culturally referenced myths and attacks it via Britain’s almost-nationalistic brand of humour. Better known as comedy-by-embarrassment, this film’s use of awkwardness provides a skewed vantage point for investigating the changes lobbed at what constitutes Britishness by criticizing class, sovereignty, and, to a lesser extent, gender; racial tension, however, was glaringly omitted. This omission provided a unique aspect for studying this film as a cultural text.The Holy Grail was definitely a product of its time that deftly used cultural or mythological history to criticize historical events, past and present. Its keen use of anachronism provides an effective mirror that reflects the modern 1970s British zeitgeist as a cauldron of confusion and discomfort. It is through this source of friction that one is both amused and somewhat reflective, thus begging the question, was what occurred in the British cultural past really much different from what is occurring here and now
Re-Entry Challenges—Bigger Than You Think: An Analysis of the Difficulties Faced by Returnee Students and Coping Strategies
No full textIn today’s increasingly globalized economy, having an international education or experience is a valuable asset in the job market. Therefore, more and more universities and colleges are expanding their exchange, study abroad, or international internship programs. Great effort is put into making sure students smoothly adjust to the new country overseas and succeed in the new environment, both academically and socially. However, while it is important that students be adequately prepared to go abroad, it is also crucial that they receive the same level of assistance upon returning home—something that many schools are not doing enough. This results in students facing numerous “re-entry challenges,” such as reverse culture shock, boredom, and identity confusion. The purpose of this paper is to identify and examine some common re-entry challenges that students experience, and to explore and propose some effective coping strategies. This will give students the tool to transform their international experiences into truly meaningful learning opportunities