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Evaluating Effect Of Tree Canopy Cover On Human Thermal Comfort, Arthur Dolinar
Evaluating Effect Of Tree Canopy Cover On Human Thermal Comfort, Arthur Dolinar
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No abstract provided.
The Right To Repair: (Re)Building A Better Future, Jumana Labib
The Right To Repair: (Re)Building A Better Future, Jumana Labib
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The goal of this research project was to take a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach to research and examine the Right to Repair movement’s progress, current repair practices, impediments, and imperatives, and the various large-scale implications (environmental, economic, social, etc.) stemming from diminished consumer freedom as a result of increased corporate greed and lack of governmental regulations with regards to repair and the environment. This poster exhibits the highlights of my general research project on the Right to Repair movement over the course of this four month internship, and aims to disseminate information about the movement to the wider public in an …
The Influence Of The Social Determinants Of Health On Para-Sports Involvement Throughout The Caribbean And Americas, Laura Misener
The Influence Of The Social Determinants Of Health On Para-Sports Involvement Throughout The Caribbean And Americas, Laura Misener
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As the number of individuals with a disability grows worldwide, the Paralympic Games and para-sports have seen a growth in participation (WHO, 2011). However, international sporting competitions including the Paralympic Games remain dominated by developed countries (Andreff, 2001). In the last Paralympic Games, the USA, Canada, and Brazil made up nearly 70% of participants from the North and South American region with 17 of the 28 committees sending five or less participants (Maleske & Sant, 2020). The present study investigates the social and cultural determinants in the Caribbean and Americas of para-sport participation in the region and their relation to …
Peer Mentorship And Support Patterns Among Paramedics, Ting Hsueh
Peer Mentorship And Support Patterns Among Paramedics, Ting Hsueh
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My USRI project involved partnering with staff at a regional organization and a Western researcher to conduct a study with aims involving: 1.Examine how staff at MLPS share information and support others in their network. 2.Identify key areas where organizations may want to intervene to foster an optimal peer network.
Cultivating A Definitive Volunteer Training Program For Large Disability Sport Events, Avery M. O'Neil
Cultivating A Definitive Volunteer Training Program For Large Disability Sport Events, Avery M. O'Neil
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Disabled sport is significantly less funded than able-bodied sport. Because of this discrepancy, volunteers are heavily relied on for the functioning of large-scale disability sport events. Volunteers are critical to any disability sport event, and it is of utmost importance that they are trained correctly so that these events are successful celebrations of sport. The purpose of this study is to attain current disability sport volunteer training programs and integrate these findings with new qualitative data collected through interviews with athletes with disabilities, event organizers, and previous volunteers. The collection of information will be multi-phased and include data analysis using …
Money And Local Democracy: Local Campaign Finance Regimes In Canada, Brittany L. Bouteiller
Money And Local Democracy: Local Campaign Finance Regimes In Canada, Brittany L. Bouteiller
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Prof. Zack Taylor plans to apply for a major research grant to research the effects of campaign finance regimes. To provide a comprehensive assessment and to lay the groundwork for the grant application, I collected data on 65 municipalities across Canada, which together comprise 50% of the national population, to determine their campaign donation and spending limits, candidate disclosure requirements, and availability of disclosure statements over the last 3 election cycles. As well, I looked at the number of candidates and offices available in each of the municipalities for the last 3 election cycles.
Does Culture Affect The Ability To Learn And Use Categories?, Maya Ghai, Zarah Ghulamhussain
Does Culture Affect The Ability To Learn And Use Categories?, Maya Ghai, Zarah Ghulamhussain
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The rapid advancement of cross-cultural research in recent decades has raised questions on the extent to which findings in cognitive psychology can be generalized to a global population. The majority of subjects in scientific literature, being WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations, only represent a sliver of the world’s diverse demographics, limiting our scope of psychological data to a highly specific subgroup. Emerging research has made us increasingly aware of the variances in cognition across cultures, including the learning and utilization of categories. Many lab-based categorization tasks have demonstrated that cognitive processes may be contingent on cultural factors. …
The Orgasm Gap: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Noemie Bouchars
The Orgasm Gap: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Noemie Bouchars
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Background
Global perspectives on sexual health emphasize that everyone has the right to pleasurable sexual experiences (WHO, 2006). However, research suggests that men and women may not experience orgasms with the same frequency—a phenomenon termed the orgasm gap (Wade et al., 2005). Past research has found that men experience orgasm more frequently than women (e.g., Garcia et al., 2017; Piemonté et al., 2019). Researchers have offered several theories in an attempt to explain and predict the size of the orgasm gap, in a growing and varied literature (Mahar et al., 2020).
Aims
Our aim was to conduct a meta-analysis on …
Using Centrality And Standardness Measures To Provide Insights Into Our Knowledge Of Common Events And Activities, Beatrice Valmana Crocker
Using Centrality And Standardness Measures To Provide Insights Into Our Knowledge Of Common Events And Activities, Beatrice Valmana Crocker
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No abstract provided.
Addressing First Nations' Concerns In Water Sharing Agreements, Cynthia Huo
Addressing First Nations' Concerns In Water Sharing Agreements, Cynthia Huo
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Water sharing agreements are a potential solution to the issue of ongoing water insecurity in First Nations' communities. They involve a First Nation connecting their water system to that of a nearby municipality, and paying that municipality a fee for water provision. However, some First Nations have been reluctant to enter into these types of agreements. We identified 3 categories of concerns that First Nations may have: capacity, cultural protection, and sovereignty. We analyzed and coded 54 existing water sharing agreements to see how well they responded to these concerns, and conclude with recommendations about how agreements might be amended …
Social Cognition Across Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review, Jina C. Kim
Social Cognition Across Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review, Jina C. Kim
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Social cognition refers to the cognitive processes involved in social interactions. Deficits in social cognition may play a role in the onset and maintenance of eating disorders (ED). The goal of this review was to examine the current literature on social cognition across EDs, specifically, anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED).
The search revealed 79 studies which were organized according to six domains of social cognition: alexithymia, theory of mind, empathy, social processing, emotion recognition, and emotion processing. Most studies examined AN, finding evidence for deficits in some domains of social cognition. Literature on BN …
Partner Effects May Be Weaker Than We Thought. What Does That Mean For Relationship Science?, Madeline J. Bloomberg
Partner Effects May Be Weaker Than We Thought. What Does That Mean For Relationship Science?, Madeline J. Bloomberg
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In relationship science, researchers focus on studying interpersonal effects among dyads or romantic couples, as well as common relationship outcomes like quality, satisfaction, and commitment. To do so, a statistical analysis known as the actor-partner interdependence model is used to examine dyadic effects, such as how an individual’s variable may affect the other member of the dyad. Within this model, there are actor and partner effects. An actor effect can be defined as the effect of partner 1’s independent variable on their own dependent variable. A partner effect can be defined as the effect of partner 1’s independent variable on …
Assessing Reading Comprehension And Memory Recall Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jasmeen Mander
Assessing Reading Comprehension And Memory Recall Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jasmeen Mander
Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference
This project examined the influence of background knowledge on reading comprehension and memory recall of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in comparison to typically developing children. Furthermore, the true or false scores and average story recalls of the two groups of children, ADHD and without ADHD were also compared. The participants varied in ages 9-14 years old and were assigned a self-paced reading task followed by 24 true or false questions and two memory recall questions. For both groups of children, the amount of background knowledge an individual conveyed did not correlate to their reading comprehension and memory recall. …
Familiarity As A Motivator For Information-Seeking, Danielle Raynes-Goldfinger
Familiarity As A Motivator For Information-Seeking, Danielle Raynes-Goldfinger
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Curiosity is an integral part of motivation and results in information-seeking behaviors to obtain rewarding information. Theories on curiosity suggest that it occurs when an information gap is detected. Here, we explored whether the assessment of familiarity may result in the induction of curiosity. We employed 3 phases, the first involving memorization of face-name pairs. Next, participants were presented with new and the old faces and were asked to judge whether they fully remembered the name, whether the face was familiar despite the name being unrecallable, or whether the face nor name was familiar. To conclude, we allowed participants to …
Oxytocin Does Not Mediate Lithium Chloride (Licl)-Induced Non-Social Environmentally Conditioned Disgust Behaviour (Anticipatory Nausea) In Male Rats, Vangel Matic
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Introduction. Anticipatory Nausea (AN) is a form of classical conditioning in which the effects of a nausea-inducing substance, such as lithium chloride (LiCl), become associated with a social or environmental context. In rats, AN can be measured by the frequency of conditioned gaping behaviour, displayed when rats are re-exposed to a context previously associated with LiCl. Oxytocin (OT) may be involved in the mediation of socially conditioned disgust, though its role in mediating non-social environmentally conditioned disgust is unclear. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of OT in mediating environmentally conditioned disgust. It was hypothesized …
Neural Representation Of Stimulus Category Membership Across Modalities, Carson Rumble-Tricker
Neural Representation Of Stimulus Category Membership Across Modalities, Carson Rumble-Tricker
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Category learning is a process through which common features among category members, distinctive features among non-members, or even both, are identified (Hammer et al., 2009). This process is a critical aspect of cognition and can guide decision making and information inference. Furthermore, category learning is involved among a large number of stimuli, including visual (Folstein et al., 2013), auditory (Ley et al., 2012), olfactory (Qu et al., 2016), and multisensory (Viganòa, Borghesani, & Piazza, 2021) stimuli.
The aim of this systematic review is to determine and qualitatively analyze studies that investigate the changes in the neural representations of stimuli that …
Catch Me If You Can: Questionable Modelling Assumptions And Parameter Choices And Their Impact On Drug Reimbursement Decisions, Lina Ghattas
Catch Me If You Can: Questionable Modelling Assumptions And Parameter Choices And Their Impact On Drug Reimbursement Decisions, Lina Ghattas
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The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) is a health technology assessment (HTA) agency. CADTH conducts appraisals on health technologies and makes reimbursement recommendations to Canadian public drug plans to guide their reimbursement decisions. When being considered for reimbursement, drug companies submit pharmacoeconomic reports, which typically include long-term decision models. These models make assumptions and use parameters that may favour one intervention over the other. In this study, we comprehensively review the last year of drug submissions appraised by CADTH, with the aim of identifying, categorizing, and critically reviewing key methodological flaws made by drug companies in …
A Descriptive Review Of Sexual Dysfunction Treatments, Yuemei Wu
A Descriptive Review Of Sexual Dysfunction Treatments, Yuemei Wu
Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference
No abstract provided.
Memoir Dataset: Quantifying Image Memorability In Adolescents, Gal Almog, Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Memoir Dataset: Quantifying Image Memorability In Adolescents, Gal Almog, Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference
Every day, humans observe and interact with hundreds of images and scenes; whether it be on a cellphone, on television, or in print. Yet a vast majority of these images are forgotten, some immediately and some after variable lengths of time. Memorability is indeed a property intrinsic to all images that can be extracted, as well as predicted. While memory itself is a process that occurs in the brain of an individual, the concept of memorability is an intrinsic, continuous property of a stimulus that can be both measured and manipulated. We selected images from the MemCat data set that …
The Experiences Of Healthcare Workers And Lawyers Engaging In Remote Work, Desha Puri, Tracey L. Adams Dr.
The Experiences Of Healthcare Workers And Lawyers Engaging In Remote Work, Desha Puri, Tracey L. Adams Dr.
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This study aims to compare the experiences of healthcare workers and lawyers engaging in remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research poster presents a content analysis of the current research on the experiences of professions in the two fields mentioned above. In engaging in content analysis, the study advances a select number of thematic value codes that effectively characterize the similarities and differences between the two professions. With these thematic values codes, it has been found that the healthcare profession and law profession have had a similar experience working from home. With these similarities and differences, one can propose …
Implicit Statistical Learning Facilitates Second Language Acquisition In Adult Learners, Elise Alexander, Laura Batterink, Steven Van Hedger
Implicit Statistical Learning Facilitates Second Language Acquisition In Adult Learners, Elise Alexander, Laura Batterink, Steven Van Hedger
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No abstract provided.
Parkseek Canada, Alyssa O. Aglipay
Parkseek Canada, Alyssa O. Aglipay
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ParkSeek Canada is a pan-Canadian initiative aimed at collecting and disseminating information about the population health impacts of parks, recreational facilities, and protected areas. This infographic gives an overview of the objectives of the study and goes into detail about the current progress of the study which includes discussing the pilot study that recently started and the pickleball and tennis court sub-study that is taking place.
How The Pandemic Ravaged The Food Retail Environment, Anand Singh Kukreja
How The Pandemic Ravaged The Food Retail Environment, Anand Singh Kukreja
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A blogpost regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food retail environment.
Star Political Candidates In Canada, Mateo Larrazabal
Star Political Candidates In Canada, Mateo Larrazabal
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A brief overview of the work that I completed over the Summer of 2021. I examined star political candidates in Canada, a field in political science that has not been researched thoroughly nationally. I discuss a few of the key findings in my blog post and offer a brief overview of everything in my video.
Running Behaviour In Impalas In Response To Various Levels Of Predation Threat, Alisiia Glushak
Running Behaviour In Impalas In Response To Various Levels Of Predation Threat, Alisiia Glushak
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No abstract provided.
Predicting Altruism With Personality “Beyond” The Big Five, Sereena Dargan
Predicting Altruism With Personality “Beyond” The Big Five, Sereena Dargan
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Research investigating individual differences in personality and altruistic behaviour has focused predominantly on traits described within the Five-Factor Model (FFM). The objective of the present study was to explore the role of age, gender, and 10 personality traits outside of the common FFM in predicting altruism. An online survey including the Supplementary Personality Inventory (Paunonen, 2002), the Self-Report Altruism Scale (Rushton et al., 1981), and the Compassionate Altruism Scale (O’Connor et al., 2015) was completed by 256 participants. Regression analysis revealed the SPI to account for significant variance in both measures of altruism. Specifically, age, integrity, and risk-taking positively predicted …
Policing Perspectives Of Human Trafficking, Joanne V. Silva
Policing Perspectives Of Human Trafficking, Joanne V. Silva
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This study incorporates a criminological and feminist analysis of policing perspectives surrounding the power dynamics within human trafficking.
Is Tik-Tok Body Positive?, Grace N. Solylo
Is Tik-Tok Body Positive?, Grace N. Solylo
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No abstract provided.
Assessing Metacognition In Rats, Abagail Hennessy
Assessing Metacognition In Rats, Abagail Hennessy
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Metacognition in humans refers to the ability to reflect upon one’s own state of knowledge, and to be able to make inferences based on that knowledge. Evidence of metacognition has been most often found in nonhuman primates. However, there may be evidence suggesting metacognitive skills in nonprimate animals as well, such as rats. The present study investigated whether Long Evans rats will utilize information they have about two 8 arm radial mazes to efficiently locate a food reward.
Expanding Horizons: China’S Perception And Management Of Globalization, Xiaofan Mu
Expanding Horizons: China’S Perception And Management Of Globalization, Xiaofan Mu
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No abstract provided.