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Motion sickness with fore-and-aft and pitch oscillation: effect of the visual scene
No full textBraking and acceleration expose car passengers to complex fore-and-aft and pitch motions that
can cause carsickness, with the effect depending on the visual scene. Previous studies in various
motion environments have suggested that external viewing reduces motion sickness relative to
internal viewing or wearing a blindfold however the influences of motion and vision on motion
sickness are thought to be interactive. The types of motion for which a visual scene can and cannot
modify sickness are yet to be established. The aim of this research was to advance understanding
of the effect of the visual scene on motion sickness caused by fore-and-aft oscillation,
combinations of fore-and-aft and pitch oscillation, and pitch oscillations.
The first experiment investigated the effect of the visual scene on motion sickness caused by low
frequency low magnitude fore-and-aft oscillation. Six groups of 20 subjects experienced one of six
visual scenes: an internal view of shapes; an external view of shapes; an external view of
horizontal lines; a ‘real’ three-dimensional external view; no view (blindfolded); or an internal
collimated view of shapes. Variations in the visual scene had no significant effect on motion
sickness caused by 0.1 Hz fore-and-aft oscillation with an acceleration magnitude of 0.89 ms-2
r.m.s. The absence of an influence of vision differs from the effects of the visual scene on motion
sickness in cars and coaches and suggested that carsickness is not solely caused by low
frequency fore-and-aft acceleration.
In a second experiment, six groups of 20 subjects were exposed to 0.1 Hz fore-and-aft oscillation
combined with 0.1 Hz pitch oscillation with a peak pitch displacement of 3.69°. For three groups of
subjects, the pitch displacement was 180° out-of-phase with the fore-and-aft displacement, such
that the resultant peak acceleration acting on subjects in the fore-and-aft direction was 1.89 ms-2.
The other three groups of subjects experienced the same fore-and-aft and pitch oscillations, but
presented out-of-phase so that the peak fore-and-aft acceleration of ±1.26 ms-2 r.m.s. was partially
offset by the pitch displacement of ±3.69°. Each subject experienced one of three viewing
conditions from the first experiment: internal, blindfolded or external. The visual scene influenced
the motion sickness caused by combined fore-and-aft and pitch oscillation regardless of whether
pitch motion was in-phase or out-of-phase with the fore-and-aft motion: there was less sickness
with an external forward view than with either an internal view or a blindfold. The effect of the
phase between the fore-and-aft and pitch motion depended on the visual scene: the phase
influenced motion sickness with a blindfold and with internal viewing but not with external viewing.
The effect of internal, blindfold and external viewing on motion sickness caused by 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4
Hz pitch oscillation was investigated in a third experiment with 180 subjects, 20 subjects in 9
conditions. The visual scene influenced motion sickness similarly with 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 Hz pitch
oscillation: external viewing reduced motion sickness relative to internal viewing. There was no
significant effect of pitch oscillation frequency.
Experimental results suggest that there is no effect of the visual scene on motion sickness caused
by fore-and-aft oscillation but the visual scene is influential when pitch motion is part or all of the
motion stimulus. The effect of the visual scene on motion sickness cannot be predicted without
specifying the motion stimulus causing sickness. Unlike previous models of motion sickness, a
conceptual model is suggested in which the expected visual signal is defined for a given vestibular
input. The model predicts that external viewing reduces motion sickness relative to internal or
blindfolded conditions when sickness is caused by motions inclusive of pitch oscillation. Model
predictions for the effect of the visual scene on motion sickness caused by other directions of
oscillation are considered
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'A daughter come home?': the travel writings of Colleen J. McElroy
No full textDiversifying health promotion
No full textThe chapter, "Diversifying health promotion" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). In this innovative collection, leading thinkers in clinical medicine, sociology, epidemiology, kinesiology, education, and public policy reveal how health promotion is failing communities by failing women. Despite a longstanding consensus that social inequalities shape global patterns of illness and opportunities for health, mainstream health promotion frameworks continue to ignore gender at relational, household, community, and state levels. Exploring the ways in which gendered norms affect health and social equity for all human beings, Making It Better invites us to rethink conventional approaches to health promotion and to strive for transformative initiatives and policies. Offering practical tools and evidence-based strategies for moving from gender integration to gender transformation, this anthology is required reading for policymakers, health promotion and healthcare practitioners, researchers, community developers, and social service providers. -- From publisher description.book chapterPublished
Addressing diversity and inequities in health promotion: The implications of intersectional theory
No full textThe chapter, "Addressing diversity and inequities in health promotion: The implications of intersectional theory" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). Health Promotion in Canada is a comprehensive profile of the history and future of health promotion in Canada. Now in its third edition, it maintains the critical, sociological, and historical perspective of the previous two editions and adds a greater focus on health promotion practice.
Thoroughly updated and reorganized, the book now contains 18 chapters by prominent academics, researchers, and practitioners. The authors cover a broad range of topics, including key theories and concepts in health promotion; ecological approaches; Aboriginal approaches; health inequalities; reflexive practice; ethics; issues, populations, and settings as entry points for intervention; and the Canadian health promotion experience in a global context. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions and carefully chosen resources for further study, making this an ideal text for courses in health sciences, nursing, and related disciplines.book chapterPublished
Indecorous thinking: style, form, and Spenserian poetics
No full textThis dissertation considers how questions of poetic form in literary studies converge with questions of epistemology in the early modern period. As early modern pedagogues sought to define the relationship between the arts of speaking and of thinking – rhetoric
and dialectic – they spent a good deal of time describing what poetic figures might and might not do in an attempt to preserve thinking, and the mind itself, from the threat of linguistic mutability. I examine how Edmund Spenser’s poetic practices pushed against
prevailing pedagogical proscriptions, driving a wedge between an ideal of decorous proportion and the natural limitations this ideal claimed to represent. Drawing on a range of humanist theories and practices – from Latin lectures on rhetoric and dialectic to
vernacular handbooks of eloquence – I argue that Spenser experimented with poetic forms as instruments of thinking at a moment when the university characterized these same forms as the mere ornaments of speaking. While recent scholarship has done much to revive form as an object of study, Spenserian poetics teaches us to read form not as an effect of ideology or circumstance but as the engine of a certain kind of thinking that early modern schoolrooms were looking to exclude. I call this thinking “indecorous” and my dissertation tracks its activity from the disciplinary reforms of 1570s Cambridge to the borders of Elizabeth’s empire, arguing that forms as varied as the pun, the couplet, and the simile offer a model of the mind in which thinking is embedded in the time and
labor of poetic production.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Colleen Ruth Rosenfel
Pig Girl
No full textWinner of the 2014 Carol Bolt Award.Intro -- Author's Preface -- Production History -- Characters -- Note -- THE BEGINNING -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- CopyrightWinner of the 2014 Carol Bolt Award.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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No full textFall 1992
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An Autoethnographic Perspective on Restorative English Education in Marginalized Communities
No full textIn this autoethnographic study, the author explores how restorative English education can meet the needs of minoritized English learners with a particular focus on Indigenous learners of English. After reviewing the literature on several interrelated pedagogies, she braids together 1) stories from her childhood and adolescence in Toronto where she faced numerous types of discrimination as a Patois speaker and the child of Caribbean parents new to Canada, with 2) stories from her 10 years as a teacher in Attawapiskat as well as her time as a teacher in the ‘South”, and 3) stories shared by elders and other members of the Attawapiskat community. This autoethnography shines light on why it is problematic to impose a ‘one size fits all’ curriculum on minoritized English learners and provides concrete suggestions on how to implement restorative English education to help English learners develop a sense of self-worth while addressing social justice issues.M.Ed
The Miser [Production]
No full textCAST: Ayesha Cummings (Courtier), Tod Cyr (Minstrel), Kevin Donnelly (Courtier), Jonathan Freeman (Courtier), Sharon Schmidt Hart (Minstrel), Sarah Hennessey (Courtier), J Austin Hijar (Valere, in love with Elise), Gene Hullender (Anselme, a Count), Casey Jones (Frosine, a matchmaker), Colleen Kehoe (Courtier), Sean Kilpatrick (Minstrel), Rob Kischuk (Courtier), Joe Lontai (La Fleche, Cleante's servant), Heather (Stehman) Lott (Mariane, in love with Cleante), Michael Lott (Cleante, his son), Heather Maloney (Minstrel), Amy Maxwell (Elise, his daughter), Mark Peppers (Comissioner/Simon), Rachel Post (Courtier), Wes Schrader (Jacques, chef, coachman & butler), Brian 'Egon' Smith (Harpagon, the miser).CREW: John Cairney (Director), David Darwin Clark (Production Manager), Tim 'Dad' McIlvenna (Stage Manager), Salley-Ann Crider (Assistant Stage Manager), Suzy Robinson (Assistant Stage Manager), Adam 'CJB' Feingold (Assistant Stage Manager), Akio Kita (Assistant Stage Manager), Clif McCormick (Set Designer), David 'Dave' Deshazer (Master Carpenter), Jeremy Minor (Lighting Designer), Jerred (Light Operator), Brian de Martin (Sound Designer), Brian de Martin (Sound Operator), Inna Mebel (Properties Designer), Jennifer Vucic Jordan (Costume Designer), Colleen Kehoe (Costume Assistant), Christina (Cole) Sickbert (Makeup), Christina (Cole) Sickbert (Hair), Jill Conley (Publicity), Kin Houck (House Manager), Matthew Trautwein (Composer)
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