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Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance in Manitoba
No full textMusical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are performed, author Byron Dueck outlines a compelling theory of musical publics, examines the complex, overlapping social orientations of contemporary musicians, and shows how music and dance play a central role in a distinctive indigenous public culture
Evidence-Based Food Policy Project: Partnerships in Food Systems Research - Lessons Learned from a Multidisciplinary Research Project in a Rural Setting
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Defining leisure from the perspectives of working women: How do full-time working women define and characterize their leisure lifestyle?
No full textLeisure provides comfort and consistency for individuals who have many responsibilities and challenges in their lives (Parry & Shaw, 1999). However, people cannot experience the benefits of leisure if they do not have access to it. Working women face many barriers when it comes to partaking in leisure experiences (Eroğlu & Özsoy, 2017). The purpose of this study was to explore how full-time working women defined leisure and the characteristics of their leisure lifestyle. Research methods included a quantitative online survey administered through SurveyPlanet. Sixty-two Canadian women between the ages of 18-55+ participated as research participants. Findings included women’s definition of leisure as a time to relax; six common types of leisure pursuits; and domestic duties as barriers to leisure involvement. Recreation Therapists should use women’s definitions of leisure to guide their interventions in order to provide meaningful, gender-based leisure opportunities.Not peer reviewedStudent Research Day Poster (2019)Student Research Day (2019) 3rd Place Winne
Strabo's Mediterranean
No full textThe Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE c. 24 CE), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment
Performing Pannkotis Identity in Haiti
No full textThis chapter focuses on transnational networks of Pentecostal practice. It explores the use of “Pannkotis” to identify musical practice among a variety of Haitian churches, including some tied historically to Protestant and Pentecostal organizations in the United States. It also discusses the author’s roles as a Western ethnomusicologist and a Pentecostal believer, reflecting on the power shifts in transnational engagement that shared faith can engender: the author was often not only a learner about Haitian Pentecostals themselves, but also a religious learner with them; at other times, by virtue of the “portable” religious capital of the author’s status as a Pentecostal minister, he was placed as a musical and religious teacher. The chapter points provocatively to the discontinuities the author experienced as an ethnomusicologist because of the understandings and beliefs he shared as a coreligionist with Haitian Pentecostals
Transparency and access to records at intergovernmental organizations: IAEA and NATO
No full textArchives of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have not been the subject of systematic inquiry in the archival literature despite the central role IGOs have played in the history of 20th century international relations and governance. It is therefore essential that the records of these institutions, as well as the institutional archives that facilitate access to them, are properly understood. Historically though, access to records of IGOs, especially those concerned with national security information, such as the IAEA and NATO, has been a privilege afforded only to internal staff and not to external researchers.
This thesis aims to address this gap, in part, by examining the challenges that archives in IGOs face in providing access to their corporate records, balancing the need to safeguard sensitive information with the responsibility to be transparent in their operations by providing access to their institutional archives. I argue that the Global Principles on National Security and the Right to Information, otherwise known as the Tshwane Principles, provide a useful framework for analyzing this balancing act in IGOs. I examine these challenges through case studies of two IGO archives: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).October 202
Effects of carpal tunnel syndrome on adaptation of multi-digit forces to object weight for whole-hand manipulation.
No full textThe delicate tuning of digit forces to object properties can be disrupted by a number of neurological and musculoskeletal diseases. One such condition is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), a compression neuropathy of the median nerve that causes sensory and motor deficits in a subset of digits in the hand. Whereas the effects of CTS on median nerve physiology are well understood, the extent to which it affects whole-hand manipulation remains to be addressed. CTS affects only the lateral three and a half digits, which raises the question of how the central nervous system integrates sensory feedback from affected and unaffected digits to plan and execute whole-hand object manipulation. We addressed this question by asking CTS patients and healthy controls to grasp, lift, and hold a grip device (445, 545, or 745 g) for several consecutive trials. We found that CTS patients were able to successfully adapt grip force to object weight. However, multi-digit force coordination in patients was characterized by lower discrimination of force modulation to lighter object weights, higher across-trial digit force variability, the consistent use of excessively large digit forces across consecutive trials, and a lower ability to minimize net moments on the object. Importantly, the mechanical requirement of attaining equilibrium of forces and torques caused CTS patients to exert excessive forces at both CTS-affected digits and digits with intact sensorimotor capabilities. These findings suggest that CTS-induced deficits in tactile sensitivity interfere with the formation of accurate sensorimotor memories of previous manipulations. Consequently, CTS patients use compensatory strategies to maximize grasp stability at the expense of exerting consistently larger multi-digit forces than controls. These behavioral deficits might be particularly detrimental for tasks that require fine regulation of fingertip forces for manipulating light or fragile objects
Effects of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome on adaptation of multi-digit forces to object mass distribution for whole-hand manipulation
No full textAbstract Background Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a compression neuropathy of the median nerve that results in sensorimotor deficits in the hand. Until recently, the effects of CTS on hand function have been studied using mostly two-digit grip tasks. The purpose of this study was to investigate the coordination of multi-digit forces as a function of object center of mass (CM) during whole-hand grasping. Methods Fourteen CTS patients and age- and gender-matched controls were instructed to grasp, lift, hold, and release a grip device with five digits for seven consecutive lifts while maintaining its vertical orientation. The object CM was changed by adding a mass at different locations at the base of the object. We measured forces and torques exerted by each digit and object kinematics and analyzed modulation of these variables to object CM at object lift onset and during object hold. Our task requires a modulation of digit forces at and after object lift onset to generate a compensatory moment to counteract the external moment caused by the added mass and to minimize object tilt. Results We found that CTS patients learned to generate a compensatory moment and minimized object roll to the same extent as controls. However, controls fully exploited the available degrees of freedom (DoF) in coordinating their multi-digit forces to generate a compensatory moment, i.e., digit normal forces, tangential forces, and the net center of pressure on the finger side of the device at object lift onset and during object hold. In contrast, patients modulated only one of these DoFs (the net center of pressure) to object CM by modulating individual normal forces at object lift onset. During object hold, however, CTS patients were able to modulate digit tangential force distribution to object CM. Conclusions Our findings suggest that, although CTS did not affect patients’ ability to perform our manipulation task, it interfered with the modulation of specific grasp control variables. This phenomenon might be indicative of a lower degree of flexibility of the sensorimotor system in CTS to adapt to grasp task conditions.</p
Strabo's Mediterranean
No full textThe Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE c. 24 CE), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment
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