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(Unsettling) White Queer Complicities
Cameron David Ian Greensmith
Sep 24, 2018
This article expands upon important and growing dialogue around how non-Indigenous peoples can work in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to support their nationhood and sovereignty in the wake of ongoing white settler...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
White Rose Extension Project
Bohua Bian
Apr 09, 2013
The White Rose Extension Project is pursued by Husky Energy, and it will be completed by 2016 or 2017. The project is mainly used by extending the field of White Rose platform. There are two options to finish this project well....
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Not White Saviors, but Critical Scholars
Angela Novak
Nov 12, 2021
Gifted Black and Brown students are not voiceless; their voices are suffocated under the knee of systemic racism and white supremacy. This chapter proposes that the field of gifted education advocates for needed structural and...
Published by: IGI Global
Resisting the White Settler Colonial Nation-State
Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
Jun 06, 2022
Land-based teachings are normatively understood as being unique to Indigenous philosophy, ethics, and politics. Liberal political realities and worldviews, particularly as they appear in normative scholarship on the welfare...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The State Route 520 Floating Bridge in Seattle, Washington
Cheryl L White
Apr 09, 2013
The four longest floating bridges in the world are located in Seattle, Washington on the North West Coast of the United States of America. At 2.3 km long and 35 m wide, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the...
Civil Engineering (ENGI 8751) (Case Study) (Civil) (Floating Bridge) (SR 520) (Concrete Pontoons) (Seattle, Washington) (Evergreen Point Bridge)
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mothers and Whores
Sydney White
Sep 25, 2012
This research paper argues that the intimate link between popular culture stereotypes and the media manifests in, and influences, the experience of women in politics. It analyses two major stereotypes and applies these themes to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
An Intersectional Exploration
Intersectionality is gaining ground as a desired way of deepening our understanding of persisting inequalities engendered by poverty. Combining an intersectional framework and the idea of strategic gender needs developed by...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Lesions Detection of Multiple Sclerosis in 3D Brian MR Images by Using Artificial Immune Systems and Support Vector Machines
This paper presents a segmentation method to detect multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in brain MRI based on the artificial immune systems (AIS) and a support vector machines (SVM). In the first step, AIS is used to segment the...
Published by: IGI Global
Book Review
Amy White
Oct 01, 2021
Dr. Hogan has pinpointed a much-needed discussion about the nature of online degrees. The idea of borderless degrees is interesting and in need of exploration. Currently most degrees are location specific, and international...
Published by: IGI Global
The Proposed Strait of Belle Isle Cable Crossing
Renee White
Apr 09, 2013
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Introduction
Methods XII, the Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology,was held at the Universite de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada,from I to 5 August 2005, The event was hosted by the Centre de recherche...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Pandemic Possibilities in Crip Time
COVID-19 allows for new possibilities of entry into social work education by reconceptualizing professional white time. Prior to the pandemic, students were often required to engage in learning at prescribed times, or white...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Infrastructure Cyber-Attack Awareness Training
Garry White
Jan 01, 2022
The purpose of this study is to provide insight as to how infrastructure countermeasures awareness training will impact individuals dealing with a nationwide catastrophic cyber-attack. Can this awareness training lessen the...
Published by: IGI Global
Observations of Chaotic Behaviour in Nonlinear Inventory Models
This article describes the use of simulation to investigate incipient chaotic behaviour in inventory models. Model structures investigated were either capacity limited or of variable delay time, implemented in discrete and...
Published by: IGI Global
Factors Influencing Security Incidents on Personal Computing Devices
Organizations expect their employees to connect securely to the organization's computer systems. Often these employees use their personal computers to access the organization's networks. This research explores whether these same...
Published by: IGI Global
At the Juncture of TESL, Multicultural Education, and Newcomer Integration
Xuemei Li
Dec 20, 2018
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) may not be a familiar term for many people in Newfoundland and Labrador, and TESL professionals in the province are a very small group. One can easily count the numbers of ESL...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Lesions Detection of Multiple Sclerosis in 3D Brian MR Images by Using Artificial Immune Systems and Support Vector Machines
This paper presents a segmentation method to detect multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in brain MRI based on the artificial immune systems (AIS) and a support vector machines (SVM). In the first step, AIS is used to segment the...
Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Medical Diagnosis and Practice Medical Imaging Computer Science and Information Technology Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Men, Masculinities, and the Global Pandemic
This article reflects on and analyzes interlocking relations of power pertaining to the politics of masculinities during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Situated within the context of the current global pandemic, we...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
"Rape me, I’m Irish"
Jemma Tosh
Dec 31, 2015
Well documented experiences of the Irish diaspora in England include humiliation, discrimination, and higher rates of suicide and psychiatric intervention (Hickman, 2000). However, the construction of the Irish in relation to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Colonial Encounters
Harjeet Kaur Badwall
Jan 07, 2015
This article examines the ways in which racialized social workers negotiate the values and practices of a social work profession that is constituted through scripts of whiteness. In particular, I examine how social work imagines...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
An Exploration of COVID-19 and Its Consideration as a Black Swan for the Construction Industry in Switzerland
COVID-19 and its devastating yet unforeseeable effects affect the entire global economy value chain. Effects will be long-lasting and interfere with the way construction worked so far. Losses in the industry are expected to run...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
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