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Exploring And Attending To The Wellness Needs Of Teachers In A Trauma And Violence-Informed Care Framework, Guannan Song

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

The work of teachers is increasingly complex. This research project explores the effects of this work, current knowledge and attitudes, and the possibilities for professional development and support in teacher wellness, inclusion, and working with students who have difficult experiences.

An online survey was sent to Associate Teachers and Teacher Candidates in the B.Ed. program at Western University. The questions in this survey asked participants about their wellness, beliefs about learning and teaching, and the effects of trauma. Participants were also invited to share what types of professional development and resources related to teacher wellness (such as specific topics and …

Constructing An Array For The Measurement Of Aquatic Oxygen And Temperature Profiles, Chad Dickson

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For this research, we sought to investigate the oxygen and temperature characteristics of Tumbleson Pond. As such, we needed to construct a data logger array which was suitable to the conditions in Tumbleson Pond, while also having the capability to provide accurate temperature and dissolved oxygen measurements for a prolonged period of time.

Child-Focused Mhealth Apps Used In Collaborative, Real-World Interventions: A Scoping Review, Simrin Pardal

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The use of mHealth apps as part of rehabilitation-based interventions for pediatrics in real-world environments has not previously been researched extensively. This scoping review aimed to gather, synthesize, and summarize the existing literature on pediatric-focused mHealth apps that have been used in real-world environments as interventions by healthcare professionals within rehabilitation sciences, as part of a collaborative care practice.

Conceptualizing Gbsv And Culture Change In A Post-Secondary Academic Institution, Alyssa Madhani

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This project dives into the Gender-Based and Sexual Violence (GBSV) issues at Western University in Ontario, Canada, highlighting its party culture that leads to rape culture and GBSV issues. It emphasizes the need for a comprehensive cultural shift towards safety, respect, and inclusivity, advocating for top-down actions and alignment of beliefs and actions across all levels of the university leadership. The project calls to foster and empower staff and faculty, and calls for active community engagement as essential components for creating a safer and more inclusive campus environment.

Reliable Detection Of Bone Alterations: Developing A Reproducible Ct Texture Analysis Pipeline, Muhammad Faisal Ahmed

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Develop a robust and reproducible pipeline for texture analysis of CT scans to detect microarchitectural changes in bone structure near orthopaedic implants

Immigrants’ Political Participation In Canada, Hongshu Wang

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Study Canadian immigrants’ likelihood of voting and participating in noninstitutional political activities

Predictors Of Infant Size At Birth, Madeline E. Hubbard

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The Ascension Processes Of Women Ceos Within The Ontario Hospital System: Expediting Gender Equality In Health Care Leadership, Rachel Pizzonia

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08. Syntactic Vs. Morphological Verbal Concord Across Austronesian Languages, Yvette Yi-Chi Wu, Tamisha L. Tan, Giovanni Roversi

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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07. Bipartite Negation In Nduindui: Underlying Structures And Movements, Saurov Syed, Aly Turrell

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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06. Malagasy Framing Demonstratives, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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05. Two Sides To The Same Coin: Reappraising Indonesian-Type ‘Passive’ And Object Voice In Javanese, Hero Patrianto, Victoria Chen

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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04. Two Types Of Negation In Samoan And Tokelauan, John Middleton

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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03. Definiteness Of Classifier-Noun Phrases In Nung, Esther Lam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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02. Non-Pivot Relativisation In Javanese, Tsan Tsai Chan

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

01. A Unified Semantics For Kaman In Hijazi Arabic, Shatha Alahmadi

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

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Financial Wellbeing Of Working Canadians, Michael Ritacco

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The National Payroll Institute (NPI) conducts an annual survey to measure the financial situation of their members. Using this data, the Financial Wellness Lab (FWL) then analyzes and applies advanced machine learning techniques to gain meaningful insights on the respondents. Of the many areas the FWL investigates regarding this data, the primary focus is identifying similar groups of individuals (clusters), and how these groups differ from one another. Aspects such as financial residency, savings, spending, and debt all play an important role in differentiating between these groups, and also play a role in financial wellbeing. Since this survey has been …

Cnn-Lstm Vs Ann: Option Pricing Theory, Edward Chang

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The modern derivatives market has been steadily growing since the development of the first accurate option pricing model by Fischer Black, Robert Merton, and Myron Scholes. Since then, there have been many different approaches to more accurately price options like the binomial option pricing model and approaches using technology such as machine learning. There are many different research papers on option pricing with artificial neural networks (“ANN”) but not many with other neural network types. We contribute to the existing literature by developing a convolutional neural network – long short-term memory (“CNN-LSTM”) model to price options and compare it to …

The Birth Of A Fempreneur: A Neoliberal Guide To Going Viral And Making Millions, Liana S. Forsyth

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Social media has created a new way of feminist activism in the world, including a rapid rise in 'fempreneurs' feminist entrepreneurs. With many fempreneurs turning to social media apps such as Tik Tok and Instagram as a platform to post their activism, and turn it into a profitable career for personal financial gains.

I analyzed a popular Tik Tok influencer who is famous for being a feminist advocate on the platform calling out men, and analyze her posts in order to observe the types of feminism that goes viral on social media. Overall, it is evident from my research that …

Investigation Of Neurotransmitter’S Knockdown Effect On Drosophila Melanogaster Female Aggression, Asil N. El Galad

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Drosophila melanogaster (D. melanogaster) is a popular model organism in neurobiology. While aggression has been studied heavily in male drosophila, there's minimal research on aggression in female drosophila. Neurotransmitters influencing aggressive behaviour in female D. melanogaster are poorly understood. Various neurotransmitters such as dopamine, octopamine, and serotonin influence aggression in D. melanogaster Further investigation of the role of neurotransmitters on aggression is thus important. The purpose of our experiment is to observe the effect of the knockdown of dopamine, octopamine and glutamate on aggression in female D. melanogaster.

Proving Dirichlet's Theorem On Arithmetic Progressions, Owen T. Abma

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First proved by German mathematician Dirichlet in 1837, this important theorem states that for coprime integers a, m, there are an infinite number of primes p such that p = a (mod m). This is one of many extensions of Euclid’s theorem that there are infinitely many prime numbers. In this paper, we will formulate a rather elegant proof of Dirichlet’s theorem using ideas from complex analysis and group theory.

The Effect Of Innovation Performance On The Pricing In Private Placement, Tong Liu

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We propose a research project examining the effect of firms’ innovation performance in the pricing of private equity placements, namely private investments in public equity (PIPEs). We investigate whether firms’ previous innovation outputs have been considered in the PIPE issuance. Innovative activities are important for firms to gain strategic advantage against their competitors. Firms with innovative opportunities frequently lack capital. However, financing innovation tends to be more difficult due to the uncertainty and information asymmetry (Acharya and Xu, 2017). Compared to public firms, private firms have the limitations to access the broader investor pool and higher cost of capital. Unlike …

The Effects Of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure On The Basolateral Amygdala, Karen Kw Wong

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Clinical and preclinical studies indicate prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) pathologically affects fetal brain development and may increase vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and mood/anxiety disorders. In review research from our lab suggests that fetal exposure to Δ9-THC sex-selectively impairs mesocorticolimbic (MCL) circuit function. However, there is a distinct lack of focus on PCE models on the BLA. The BLA plays a central role within the MCL where it directly interacts with the VTA, PFC and HIPP. Importantly, our model exhibits significant VTA hyperdopaminergic activity, and sex-specific alterations to PFC/HIPP glutamate firing, alongside region- and sex-specific changes in dopamine (DA), …

Project Khepri: Mining Asteroid Bennu For Water, Erika Frost, Gowtham Boyala, Adam Gremm, Ahmet Gungor, Amirhossein Taghipour, Massimo Biella, Jiawei "Jackson" Qiu, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Arjun Chhabra, Adam Gee, Saanjali Maharaj, Erin Richardson, Julia Empey, Haidar Ali Abdul-Nabi, Lindsay Richards, Ariyaan Talukder, Aaron Groh, Brie Miklaucic, Jd Carlson, Kristina Kim, Maverick Cue

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Deep space asteroid mining presents the opportunity for the collection of critical resources required to establish a cis-lunar infrastructure. In specific, the Project Khepri team has focused on the collection of water from asteroid Bennu. This water has the potential to provide a source of clean-energy propellant as well as an essential consumable for humans or agriculture on crewed trips to the Moon or Mars. This would avoid the high costs of launching from Earth - making it a highly desirable element for the future of cis-lunar infrastructure. The OSIRIS-REx mission provided a complete survey of asteroid Bennu and is …

Individual Differences In Categorization, Urooj Anees

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The appearance of individual differences used to be regarded as noise in psychological experiments, but is slowly becoming a tool used to enhance and solidify findings in various fields of cognitive psychology. This presentation aims to very briefly discuss individual differences and categorization and what questions future research could aim to answer.

Human Augmentation Technology: Exploring Exoskeleton Patents, Mridula A. Debnath

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Human augmentation technology has numerous applications in rehabilitation medicine, disability management, military settings, workplace/industrial settings etc. Such technology can be studied through patent exploration, where the contents of each patent can highlight specific intentions and usage for the invention. This project uses a small sample of exoskeleton patents from China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States, to demonstrate how similar technology is designed for different purposes. Three distinct patent categories have been identified: Disability & Rehabilitation, Prevention of Injury, and Enhancement. Disability & Rehabilitation patents describe exoskeletal devices that are intended for use in medical settings. These may be …

Open-Source And 3-D Printed Autoinjector, Anjutha Selvaraj

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Autoinjectors have become popular modern injectable medical devices used as drug delivery systems. Due to its ease, capability and reliability compared to other conventional injectable medical devices, the market and manufacturing demand for autoinjector devices are increasing at a staggering rate. Although autoinjectors can offset healthcare treatment costs through self-administered medication, they are expensive for consumers. This paper describes the design and manufacture of a spring-driven and 3-D printed autoinjector using open-source hardware. By making it an open-source resource for everyone, the barrier of advanced research in design and production can be lifted, thus making it easily manufacturable and cost-effective. …

Race Disparities In Pain Among Canadian Adults., Harry Alorgbey Sardina

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Pain has significant quality-of-life implications for adults. We aimed to identify racial disparities in pain among Canadian adults. These results are crucial to uncovering which population groups are disproportionately experiencing pain-related suffering in Canada.

Developing A Nasal Organotypic Model To Investigate The Effects Of The Nasal Microbiome On Susceptibility To Pathogens, Victor H.K. Lam Mr.

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The microbiota is essential to the functioning of the immune system. The nasal milieu secretes immune molecules that can be influenced by diverse bacteria. Hence commensals that enhance anti-viral responses may confer resistance to respiratory viral infection.

Our collaborators have identified 7 microbial state types (CST) defined by indicator species in the nose and recently, through analyses of nasal immune molecules, we have categorized the nasal immune profile types into 8 groups (IPT). Although the IPTs correlated with certain CSTs, the influence of the nasal microbiome on susceptibility to respiratory pathogens is still unknown.

Defining this complex relationship requires a …

Learning Analytics In Post-Secondary Business Education: A Scoping Review Of Reviews Protocol, Jisu Kim Mr., Tiffany Bayley

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Learning Analytics is a growing discipline as educational institutions aim to exploit data and data analytics for several reasons, especially in higher education. Unfortunately, there is a lack of consensus on how learning analytics should be defined and what subjects fall under the purview of learning analytics. The blurred boundaries of what learning analytics encompasses have given rise to multiple studies and systematic reviews that have been published without any consistent agreement to develop the field in a particular direction. Consequently, we are outlining a protocol for a scoping review to map and summarize existing scoping reviews that have been …