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Title Citizenship Learning of Adult Immigrants in ESL Programs: It will help you pass the citizenship test, but it won’t make you (m)any Canadian friends

Excerpt This study explores which concept of citizenship is typically promoted in ESL programs available to adult immigrants in Canada: citizenship as status, citizenship as identity, citizenship as a set of civic virtues or citizenship as agency. Is there a difference between the stated purpose of ESL programs, the integration and active participation of immigrants in […]

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SDGs Quality Education

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Title Oxidative Stress and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Associated with Low- and High-monounsaturated Fat Portfolio Diets

Excerpt The objective was to assess the effect of a high-monounsaturated fat (MUFA) dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods on oxidative stress and cardiovascular risk. Twenty-four hyperlipidemic subjects followed a very low-saturated-fat therapeutic control diet for 4 weeks after which they were randomized to receive the dietary portfolio, consisting of soy protein (20g/1000kcal), viscous fibre (10.3g/1000kcal), plant […]

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Author Chiavaroli, Laura

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Title Examining the Wrongs Against the Present African Women: An Enquiry on Black Women’s Roles and Contributions from Antiquity – A Black African Male Scholarly Comparative Perspective

Excerpt The thesis examined the roles and contributions of Black women during the African ancient civilization by analyzing the lives, roles and contributions of Queen Hatshepsut and Nefertiti as case studies and interrogates how Black women positioned themselves as political, military and spiritual leaders during the age of antiquity. The argument is that African women were […]

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Author Cankech, Onencan Apuke

Advisor Wane, Njoki

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Title Farmers’ Markets and their Practices Concerning Income, Privilege and Race: A Case Study of the Wychwood Artscape Barns in Toronto

Excerpt The popularity of Farmers’ markets is on the rise; in Canada there are 425 farmers’ markets, with over 130 in Ontario alone (Feagan, Morris, & Krug, 2004). Farmers’ markets provide high quality, local produce and are often considered an environmentally sustainable food practice (Taxel, 2003; King 2008). United States studies have scrutinized farmers’ markets as […]

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Author Campigotto, Rachelle

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Title Spatial Patterns of Zooplankton and Water Currents Near the Confluence of Two Major Fetches in Lake Opeongo,Ontario

Excerpt This study combines Optical Plankton Counter data on zooplankton abundance and Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data on water currents to test hypotheses about spatial zooplankton distributions near a major point of land affecting local wind and water current patterns. Data were collected by repeatedly sampling a 2 km linear transect in the South Arm of […]

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Author Bridgeman, Sean

Advisor Gary, Sprules

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SDGs Life on Land

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Departments Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Title Japan’s Colonized Other: A Case Study of the Media Representations on the Deportation of a Filipino Family

Excerpt This research investigates Japanese society’s gaze towards those former colonized subjects, who now reside in Japan as foreign residents. More specifically, it explores the representations, in two leading Japanese newspapers and a popular internet discussion board, of a Filipino family facing deportation in 2009. Using Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge as the main analytical framework, it […]

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Author Bessho, Yuko

Advisor Coloma, Roland Sintos ||Kathy, Bickmore

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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Title The Trimentoring Program: A study of a Unique Mentoring Program to Engage Students

Excerpt This research project explores the Tri-mentoring Program’s impact on enhancing the student experience, specifically for the new emerging population of racialized and first generation undergraduate students in a Canadian urban university. The study examines how the TMP model attempts to address these students’ unique challenges by creating a holistic student experience, that acknowledges and addresses […]

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Author Arnason, Liza

Advisor Olson, Paul

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Title Connecting with the Global Garment Industry: Can Ethical Consumption Promote Sustainability?

Excerpt In the globalized garment industry (GGI) most clothing is involved in complex networks that exploit both people and the environment. This system is unsustainable yet supported by Canadian consumers, who have become disconnected from their clothing’s production and disposal processes as a result of the development of increasingly complex social and technological systems since the […]

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Author Alexander, Rachel

Advisor Ng, Roxana ||Sumner, Jennifer

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureResponsible Consumption and Production

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Title Access to Dental Care for a Selected Group of Children and Adolescents with ASD

Excerpt Objectives: 1) to determine if children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encounter difficulties accessing dental, 2) to identify barriers that diminish access to dental care for this population. Methods: This descriptive study is based on a web-survey conducted at the Geneva Centre for Autism in Toronto between November 2008 and March 2009. Forty-nine […]

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Author Abbasnezhad-Ghadi, Banafsheh

Advisor Lawrence, Herenia P.

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Dentistry

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Title Maternal-infant Predictors of Attendance at Neonatal Follow-up Programs

Excerpt Attendance at Neonatal Follow-up (NFU) programs is crucial for parents to gain access to timely diagnostic expertise, psychosocial support, and referral to needed services for their infants. Although NFU programs are considered beneficial, up to 50% of parents do not attend these programs with their infants. Non-attending infants have poorer outcomes (e.g., higher rates of […]

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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