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Review of Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook
No full textReview of Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Coo
Review of Soldiers in Peacemaking: The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800–present edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Frédéric Dessberg and Thomas Vaisset
No full textReview of Soldiers in Peacemaking: The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800–present edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Frédéric Dessberg and Thomas Vaisse
Review of For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War by Oleg Beyda
No full textReview of For Russia with Hitler: White Russian émigrés and the German-Soviet War by Oleg Beyd
Mapping Climate Risks & Building Resilience: A Participatory Approach to Harvester Safety in Kakisa, NWT.
No full textThe Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation (KTFN) community in the Northwest Territories is experiencing rapid environmental changes which are driven by climate change. These changes are threatening the community’s food security. The community is seeing a disruption to its traditional land-based food systems due to increasing climate risks such as unpredictable weather, thawing permafrost, wildfires, and flooding. These changes are reducing access to traditional foods and intensifying threats to harvester safety. Building on the existing relationship with the community through previous projects, this thesis examines the impacts of climate risks on the availability and access of the KTFN’s on the land harvesting practices with a particular focus on harvester safety. Using a Participatory Action Research approach, the study conducted a community-led workshop that included the use of semi-structured interviews and a participatory mapping session to document harvester experiences on the land amidst climate change.
The research reveals three core themes: declining availability and access to traditional food sources, increased environmental risks to harvesters such as unstable ice, wildfires, flooding, predator encounters, and community-driven adaptation and resilience efforts. Changes driven by climate change, such as permafrost thaw, shifting migration patterns, and unpredictable weather, have made the community’s traditional harvesting routes riskier and more difficult to access. Despite these challenges, the KTFN community is coming up with adaptation strategies which include the expansion of safety infrastructure on the land, community-led environmental monitoring, and active advocacy for their land sovereignty. This thesis, therefore, highlights the ongoing impacts of climate change on the KTFNs’ ability to access and maintain traditional food security and reveals the community’s proactive efforts in adapting and sustaining their cultural harvesting practices
Characterizing the chloroplast outer membrane targeting signals of Outer Envelope Protein 6
No full textChloroplast biogenesis and function relies on proper import of nuclear-encoded proteins and their post-translational targeting to the chloroplast via a cleavable, N-terminal transit peptide (TP). Many of these proteins are destined for and function within the chloroplast outer membrane, having been identified to utilize a variety of targeting mechanisms, including traditional TPs, signal- and tail-anchored mechanisms, β-barrel signals, and reverse TP-like C-terminal sequences. Recent expansion of the known and predicted chloroplast outer membrane proteome has prompted the idea that some OEPs may not utilize or rely on previously established targeting signals or mechanisms. My research focuses on a novel OEP, OEP6, which has been recently identified in the chloroplast outer membrane of Arabidopsis thaliana. OEP6 contains a single ⍺-helical membrane spanning domain, with a poorly understood targeting mechanism and classification. This study aimed to examine molecular features believed to be important in OEP6 targeting, such as its ⍺-helical transmembrane domain and positively charged flanking regions, as well as investigate its previous identification as a tail-anchored protein. A series of OEP6 deletion and truncation mutants fused to EGFP (Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein) were transformed into onion epidermal cells using biolistic bombardment and introduced into Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts using polyethylene glycol-mediated protocols, where their intracellular localization was determined using epifluorescence and confocal microscopy, respectively. The localization patterns were complemented by biochemical analyses, involving cellular fractionation and Western blotting, as well statistical analyses. These analyses determined N-terminal positive charges flanking the transmembrane ⍺-helix of OEP6 are key features in its chloroplast targeting signals. A reverse-mutation involving mitochondrial outer membrane protein, Tom7, revealed a C-terminal charged sequence responsible for organelle-specific targeting. A combination of these findings determined that OEP6 may utilize a novel targeting mechanism, one that is reliant on the presence of a bipartite charged signal, contradicting its previous tail-anchored classification and supporting the existence of novel targeting mechanisms for smaller outer membrane proteins. Overall, the findings generated from this study contribute to the broader understanding of intracellular protein trafficking; with specific advances to the understanding of chloroplast protein import and targeting having potential applications to both the agricultural and biotechnological industries
Injury to Insight: Exploring the Influence of Media on ACL Rehabilitation Experiences of Female Soccer Players
No full textParticipation in soccer inherently carries a risk of injury, with female athletes facing a significantly higher susceptibility to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries (Campbell et al., 2014; Le et al., 2025; Silvers-Granelli, 2021). The increasing participation in women’s soccer, coupled with the growing demand for its consumption through spectatorship, has contributed to a rise in ACL injuries, and increase in media coverage on this phenomenon (Parsons et al., 2021). Understanding how media narratives surrounding ACL injuries and recovery may influence rehabilitation experiences can educate coaches, mental performance consultants, athletic therapists, and female soccer players to better understand and navigate ACL injury experiences. However, research on the intersection of ACL injury and media influence remains underexplored. This study examines how media and social media surrounding female soccer ACL injuries shapes the psychological rehabilitation experiences of female soccer players recovering from or having recovered from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Drawing on Wiese-Bjornstal et al.\u27s (1998) Integrated Model of Psychological Response to Sport Injury, the research utilized semi-structured interviews and data-prompted interviewing to engage female soccer players at various recovery stages. Participants reflect on their rehabilitation journeys, interactions with media content, and the perceived impact of media narratives on their recovery processes.
The findings will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the psychological dimensions of injury rehabilitation, informing strategies to foster a more supportive media environment for injured female soccer players, offering a deeper understanding of the interplay between female soccer players experiences and broader sociocultural dimensions of sport injury rehabilitation
Jesus and Trees: from Separation to Connection
No full textThis essay was written for the course “TH530A-A: God and Theological Reflection,” taught by Mary (Joy) Philip at Martin Luther University College, Fall 2025
Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing
No full textBook Review Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing Hilary McBride Brazos Press, 202
Moral identity and cognitive mechanisms in moral decision-making
No full textMoral identity can be broadly conceptualized as the degree to which an individual places moral values as directly relevant to their personal identity. A recently introduced developmental framework of moral identity argues that moral identity can be conceptualized as a lifelong goal. According to this theoretical framework, the moral identity goal (i.e., to be a moral person and engage in moral action) becomes stronger over the course of development by becoming more abstract (i.e., general), internalized (to satisfy personal ideals) and promotion (i.e., action) oriented. Additionally, the strength of the moral identity goal predicts moral functioning. To date there has been little empirical research to explicitly test this framework. The current dissertation empirically tests some of the core features of this novel framework.
The first of three studies examined the effect of internal (i.e., to satisfy personal ideals) and external (i.e., for impression management) moral identity motivation on moral decisions in sunk-cost dilemmas. The sunk-cost effect is a decision-making bias whereby individuals tend to continue pursuing an unsuccessful activity due to previous unrecoverable investments (sunk costs). Study 1 examined decision-making when continued investment was dishonest and unfair. Results showed that the sunk-cost effect is smaller when continued investment is dishonest and unfair, and internal moral identity motivation but not external moral identity motivation predicts lower likelihood of continued investment when doing so is dishonest and unfair. The second study examined internal and external moral identity motivation in adolescents and adults, and how these moral identity goal orientations predict public and private moral decision-making. The results showed that internal moral identity motivation was stronger in adults than early adolescents. Moreover, internal moral identity motivation predicted moral decision-making in both private and public contexts for both age groups. However, only adults showed moral hypocrisy, whereby external moral identity motivation predicted moral decision-making in the public but not private context. The third study examined moral identity goal abstraction in adolescents and adults, and how moral identity goal abstraction predicts moral decision-making. The results showed that adults possessed greater moral identity goal abstraction than adolescents, and moral identity goal abstraction predicted more consistent moral decision-making across contexts.
Together these studies provide empirical evidence to support certain theoretical propositions made by the moral identity goal theory. Moreover, the studies suggest investigating moral identity goal characteristics may be a viable way to study moral identity developmentally
Review of “Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896–1921” by James Wood
No full textReview of Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896–1921 by James Woo