Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Science and Technology Studies (3)
- Sociology (3)
- Gerontology (2)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (2)
- Psychology (2)
-
- Social Work (2)
- Anatomy (1)
- Cognitive Psychology (1)
- Communication (1)
- Communication Technology and New Media (1)
- Community-Based Research (1)
- Criminal Law (1)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (1)
- Education (1)
- Education Policy (1)
- Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication (1)
- Geriatrics (1)
- Health Psychology (1)
- Health and Medical Administration (1)
- Higher Education (1)
- International and Comparative Education (1)
- Kinesiotherapy (1)
- Law (1)
- Legal Studies (1)
- Medical Humanities (1)
- Medical Specialties (1)
- Mental and Social Health (1)
- Other Rehabilitation and Therapy (1)
- Physical Therapy (1)
- Keyword
-
- Bullying (2)
- Older adults (2)
- Senior to Senior bullying (2)
- ACL injury (1)
- Alexnet (1)
-
- Anterior cruciate ligament injury (1)
- Anti-bullying (1)
- Argumentative policy studies (1)
- Athletic therapy (1)
- Automated continuity analysis (1)
- Automatic generated summaries (1)
- Automatic text summary (1)
- Autonomous vehicle (1)
- Canadian (1)
- Community (1)
- Community based research (1)
- Community focus groups (1)
- Continuity editing (1)
- ConvNet model (1)
- Convolutional neural network (1)
- Coreferent resolution (1)
- Creative problem solving (1)
- Discourse coalition framework (1)
- Discursive policy (1)
- Diversity (1)
- Driverless vehicle (1)
- Employment services (1)
- Generated summaries (1)
- Halton Region (1)
- Housing (1)
- Publication
-
- Publications and Scholarship (6)
- Faculty of Applied Science and Technology - Exceptional Student Work, Applied Computing Theses (3)
- Investigation One: Bullying Between Older Adults: What is happening in Ontario. Investigation Two: Seniors Anti-bullying Implementation and Evaluation Project (2)
- Community Ideas Factory (1)
- Featured Student Work (1)
- File Type
Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Verbal Working Memory Load Dissociates Common Indices Of The Numerical Distance Effect: Implications For The Study Of Numerical Cognition, Erin A. Maloney, Nathaniel Barr, Evan F. Risko, Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Verbal Working Memory Load Dissociates Common Indices Of The Numerical Distance Effect: Implications For The Study Of Numerical Cognition, Erin A. Maloney, Nathaniel Barr, Evan F. Risko, Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Publications and Scholarship
In four experiments, we explore the role that verbal WM plays in numerical comparison. Experiment 1 demonstrates that verbal WM load differentially impacts the two most common variants of numerical comparison tasks, evidenced by distinct modulation of the size of the numerical distance effect (NDE). Specifically, when comparing one Arabic digit to a standard, the size of the NDE increases as a function of increased verbal WM load; however, when comparing two simultaneously presented Arabic digits, the size of the NDE decreases (and here is eliminated) as a function of an increased verbal WM load. Experiment 2, using the same …
Automatic Description: A Novel Approach To Documenting Character Description For Consistency In Long – Form Prose, Samantha Akulick
Automatic Description: A Novel Approach To Documenting Character Description For Consistency In Long – Form Prose, Samantha Akulick
Faculty of Applied Science and Technology - Exceptional Student Work, Applied Computing Theses
Currently, continuity editing for narrative fiction is performed manually. Many hours of human effort are required to comb through written works for inconsistencies. This study investigates the use of syntactic patterns of descriptions in narrative text and subject identification techniques like named entity recognition (NER) and coreferent resolution in narrative text as a step toward automated continuity analysis. This investigation involved examining natural English language to identify patterns used in descriptions and using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to identify those patterns and sentence subjects programmatically. Results were assessed by using the content of well-known works of fiction and two …
Detection Of Distracted Pedestrians Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Igor Grishchenko
Detection Of Distracted Pedestrians Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Igor Grishchenko
Faculty of Applied Science and Technology - Exceptional Student Work, Applied Computing Theses
The risk of pedestrian accidents has increased due to the distracted walking increase. The research in the autonomous vehicles industry aims to minimize this risk by enhancing the route planning to produce safer routes. Detecting distracted pedestrians plays a significant role in identifying safer routes and hence decreases pedestrian accident risk. Thus, this research aims to investigate how to use the convolutional neural networks for building an algorithm that significantly improves the accuracy of detecting distracted pedestrians based on gathered cues. Particularly, this research involves the analysis of pedestrian’ images to identify distracted pedestrians who are not paying attention when …
International Education As Policy: A Discourse Coalition Framework Analysis Of The Construction, Context, And Empowerment Of Ontario's International Education Storylines, Amira El Masri
Publications and Scholarship
This study aims to examine the international education (IE) policy-making context in Ontario for the period from 2005 to mid-2017 while also taking into account the announcement of the new policy document Ontarios International Postsecondary Education Strategy 2018. It sets out to answer three research questions: (a) How is international education constructed as a policy discourse in the postsecondary sector in Ontario? (b) Who are the policy actors who are contributing to the postsecondary international education policy-making process in Ontario? and (c) What role do they play in influencing IE policy and empowering and silencing different discourses? To answer these …
Canadian Association On Gerontology (Cag) Poster, Kirsten Madsen, Liza Franses, Rebecca Rodrigues, Jordyn Sousa
Canadian Association On Gerontology (Cag) Poster, Kirsten Madsen, Liza Franses, Rebecca Rodrigues, Jordyn Sousa
Investigation One: Bullying Between Older Adults: What is happening in Ontario. Investigation Two: Seniors Anti-bullying Implementation and Evaluation Project
No abstract provided.
Overall Summary Of Ontario-Wide Thinktanks, Seniors Bullying Project
Overall Summary Of Ontario-Wide Thinktanks, Seniors Bullying Project
Investigation One: Bullying Between Older Adults: What is happening in Ontario. Investigation Two: Seniors Anti-bullying Implementation and Evaluation Project
People of all ages can be bullied. The Centre for Elder Research is working with Sheridan faculty member Dr. Kirsten Madsen and Elder Abuse Prevention (ON) to better understand bullying between older adults age 55+ in Ontario. This work is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and aims to support the development of best practices and strategies for this diverse population. Our project aims are to collect data on the prevalence and nature of Senior to Senior bullying in Ontario, and to use this data to create a resource package outlining best practices for seniors …
‘It’S Kinda Punishment’: Tandem Logics And Penultimate Power In The Penal Voluntary Sector For Canadian Youth, Abigail Salole
‘It’S Kinda Punishment’: Tandem Logics And Penultimate Power In The Penal Voluntary Sector For Canadian Youth, Abigail Salole
Publications and Scholarship
This paper draws on original empirical research in Ontario, Canada which analyses penal voluntary sector practice with youth in conflict with the law. I illustrate how youth penal voluntary sector practice (YPVS) operates alongside, or in tandem with the statutory criminal justice system. I argue that examining the PVS and the statutory criminal justice system simultaneously, or in tandem, provides fuller understandings of PVS inclusionary (and exclusionary) control practices (Tomczak and Thompson 2017). I introduce the concept of penultimate power, which demonstrates the ability of PVS workers to trigger criminal justice system response toward a young person in conflict …
Mostly White, Christian, And Straight: Informational And Institutional Erasure Of Lgbtq And Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adults On Long-Term Care Homes Websites, Ferzana Chaze, Sulaimon Giwa, Nellie Groenenberg, Bianca Burns
Mostly White, Christian, And Straight: Informational And Institutional Erasure Of Lgbtq And Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adults On Long-Term Care Homes Websites, Ferzana Chaze, Sulaimon Giwa, Nellie Groenenberg, Bianca Burns
Publications and Scholarship
The website of a long-term care home is the face of the organization, providing not only a snapshot view of the home’s programs and services, but also an insight into the organization’s vision, mission, policies, and culture. The website provides information—either purposefully or inadvertently—about the manner in which the organization responds to diversity among its residents. Guided by an intersectional analysis, this study uses content analysis to examine websites of long-term care homes run by companies, municipalities, and not-for-profit organizations in two provinces in Canada to understand how these websites demonstrate inclusion towards ethnoculturally diverse and LGBTQ older adults. Findings …
The Community Ideas Factory: Using Qualitative Research To Solve Community Issues, Sara Cumming, Dr. Michael J. Mcnamara
The Community Ideas Factory: Using Qualitative Research To Solve Community Issues, Sara Cumming, Dr. Michael J. Mcnamara
Community Ideas Factory
No abstract provided.
Automatic Extraction Of Useful Information From Food -Health Articles Related To Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease And Cancer, Ken Sunong
Faculty of Applied Science and Technology - Exceptional Student Work, Applied Computing Theses
Food-health articles (FHA) contain invaluable information for health promotion. However, extracting this information manually is a challenging process due to the length and number of articles published yearly. Automatic text summarization efficiently identifies useful information across large bodies of text which in turn speeds up the delivery of useful information from FHA. This research work aims to investigate the performance of statistical based summarization and graphical based unsupervised learning summarization in extracting useful information from FHA related to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Various combinations of introduction, result and conclusion sections of three hundred articles were collected, preprocessed and used …
Living Environment And Social Welfare Policies For Seniors In Ontario Canada, Qing Wang
Living Environment And Social Welfare Policies For Seniors In Ontario Canada, Qing Wang
Publications and Scholarship
The population growth and longevity of the elderly is a common issue and challenge all over the world. Through a literature research and case study of living environment and social welfare policies for seniors in Ontario Canada, this article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of seniors' living in Canada
Tweenage Volunteer Engagement In Peel: A Community Based Research Project, Abigail Salole
Tweenage Volunteer Engagement In Peel: A Community Based Research Project, Abigail Salole
Publications and Scholarship
How young is “too young” when it comes to volunteerism? If you were to look to the majority of research on volunteerism and volunteer opportunities to answer this question, you might conclude that high-school age (or about the age of 15) is when youth should start volunteering. Volunteering research includes the exploration of youth volunteering but, often, the research excludes youth under the age of 15. For example, the 2007 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, uses the age bracket of 15-24 to refer to young people (Hall et al., 2009). There remains, then, a significant gap in research …
Kinesiophobia And Its Impairment Of Successful Return To Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury And Reconstruction, Gabrielle Boulding
Kinesiophobia And Its Impairment Of Successful Return To Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury And Reconstruction, Gabrielle Boulding
Featured Student Work
The rehabilitation of an athlete after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury includes both physical and psychological barriers. One such psychological barrier is kinesiophobia, more commonly referred to as the fear of reinjury. All individuals experience some level of kinesiophobia, or fear of reinjury, related to the return to sport after ACL injury and reconstruction. Kinesiophobia can have a negative impact on an athlete’s short-term rehabilitation and long-term goals of return to sport. In many cases the fear of reinjury has been found to be one of the key reasons that an athlete does not return to sport or to …