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Le soutien au développement d’un réseau de soutien professionnel auprès de futurs enseignants du français langue seconde
(Centre canadien d’études et de recherche en bilinguisme et aménagement linguistique (CCERBAL), 2025) Garrett, Melissa Dockrill; LeBouthillier, Josée
Cette étude de cas qualitative porte sur la mobilisation des forces de caractère dans un programme de formation initiale en enseignement afin de favoriser le développement d’un réseau de soutien professionnel de futurs enseignants de français langue seconde (FLS). L’étude visait à examiner la façon dont trois candidats à l’enseignement (CAE) construisaient leur réseau professionnel de soutien quand leur professeur de didactique du FLS, aussi leur mentor de stage, adoptait une approche de conseils appréciatifs. Le journal de réflexion tenu par les CAE du FLS pendant les trimestres d’automne et d’hiver, les rapports de stage, les courriels et les notes de recherche tenues lors de conversations entre le CAE, leur mentor de stage/professeurs ont fait l’objet d’une analyse qualitative. Les résultats démontrent les avantages d’adopter une approche fondée sur les forces dans un programme de formation en enseignement pour favoriser le développement du réseau de soutien professionnel des futurs enseignants du FLS ainsi que les obstacles systémiques.
Niche champions under environmental distress: an organizational resilience perspective
(Springer Nature, 2025-07-04) Wang, Lucas L.
Studies on niche champions have assumed a largely stable and benign environment, thereby neglecting the exogenous jolts that can cause widespread and significant disruptions. To bridge this gap, this research examines niche champions amid an environmental jolt. Adopting a multi-level analytical framework, I differentiate between the cross-sectional and longitudinal dimensions of their performance and, building on the organizational resilience literature, identify financial slack and operational focus as two antecedents. I argue that these two antecedents diverge in their effects on the two performance dimensions during periods of environmental distress: they enable a niche champion to outperform its peers (the cross-sectional dimension) but also cause a steeper decline in its own performance over time (the longitudinal dimension). Evidence from a sample of Chinese niche champions during the COVID-19 pandemic strongly supports my framework. The findings reveal the sources of resilience in niche champions, highlight their vulnerabilities to environmental disruptions, and underscore the trade-offs involved in managing slack and corporate scope.
Injecting care and negotiating pleasures with weight loss pharmaceuticals
(Sage Journals, 2024-10-22) Warin, Megan; Bombak, Andrea; George, Bailey
The recent rise of injectable ‘wonder drugs’ for weight loss has been rapid and unregulated (so rapid that it has resulted in a worldwide shortage of Ozempic). We analyse the commercialisation of these drugs, and the political manoeuvres companies engage in to leverage and manufacture the gendered capitalism of ‘care’. Marketing relies heavily on situating ‘obesity’ as a chronic disease influenced by genes or other aspects of biology, working therefore to supposedly mitigate the blame and shame of the taken-for-granted aetiology of ‘obesity’, overwhelmingly understood as excess food intake and insufficient activity. Armed with this evidence, women are told to ‘stand up against weight care judgement’ and to engage in ‘shame free’ care. Pharmaceutical interventions are at the ready to inject this weekly dose of care, producing freedom through neoliberal pleasure but, ironically, in doing so, sacrificing the pleasure of food and non-conditional self-acceptance as vital forms of self-care.
Sexual exchanges explain the association between attachment insecurities and sexual satisfaction in long-term couples
(Sage Journals, 2023-10-17) Péloquin, Katherine; Byers, E. Sandra; Beaulieu, Noémie; Bergeron, Sophie; Brassard, Audrey
Although attachment insecurity has been linked to sexual dissatisfaction in cross-sectional research, little is known about the mechanisms by which attachment is associated with sexual satisfaction over time. This study examined the role of attachment insecurities in sexual satisfaction over time using the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction (IEMSS) as a theoretical framework. Participants were 151 Canadian mixed-gender couples in a long-term relationship (M = 9.7 years) who completed questionnaires at two time points. The results demonstrate that sexual exchanges explained the associations between attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) and sexual satisfaction in both men and women in long-term relationships, although the specific pathways differed by gender. These results are discussed in the context of the IEMSS and attachment theory.
Lived Experiences of Cognitive Dysfunction in Fibromyalgia: How Patients Discuss Their Experiences and Suggestions for Patient Education
(Sage Journals, 2024-02-06) Millar, Kayla A; Crump, Lyndsay; LaChapelle, Diane L
Cognitive dysfunction (CD) is a common, impairing symptom experienced by persons with fibromyalgia (FM). This study explored how individuals with FM describe their experience of CD in an online peer support environment. Posts referencing cognitive symptoms were extracted from two Facebook FM peer support groups at two timepoints. Using inductive Thematic Analysis, key discussion themes were identified and compared across groups and time. Four themes represented the way members described their cognitive experiences in FM: understanding and describing CD experiences, distrust of cognitive abilities, choosing between pain and medication side effects, and misunderstanding and judgement from others. Two themes represented the impact of CD on members’ lives: impaired social interaction and loss of identity. Group members described broad impairments in daily functioning that significantly and negatively impacted their quality of life, indicating CD symptoms may play a more prominent role in the FM experience than previously understood. An infographic is included to aid patient education and help facilitate patient-provider discussions of CD symptoms.
Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Safer Supply Programs for People Who Use Drugs: Findings From an Atlantic Canadian Province
(Sage Journals, 2023-10-05) Thornton, Adrienne N.; MacQuarrie, Amy L.; Brunelle, Caroline
Safer supply programs (SSPs) are harm reduction services where people who use drugs can access regulated pharmaceutical drugs (e.g., hydromorphone). Public attitudes, and factors that influence attitudes towards SSPs must be considered as they impact policy and funding decisions. A total of 384 participants were recruited from the community (n = 160, 41.7%) and an Atlantic Canadian University (n = 224, 58.3%) to complete an online survey. The majority of the sample was supportive of SSPs (n = 316, 82.3%). Being of European origin, a younger age, identifying as female, displaying higher levels of Openness to Experience, and reporting less stigma towards people who use drugs were predictive of more positive attitudes towards SSPs. Openness to Experience mediated the relationship between stigma levels and attitudes towards SSPs. The findings of the current study suggest that when developing public awareness campaigns, considering the impact of demographic and psychological factors is important.
Temporal Seeing as Visual Literacy
(Sage Journals, 2024-03-28) Saul, Roger; Gerbrandt, Julianne; Burkholder, Casey
Temporal seeing is a mode of visual perception that interrupts the spatial bias we bring to visual literacy practices. Although an image only captures one moment in time, there are multiple spatioanalytical tools we can use to consider any image. Spatial literacy, which is the practice of analyzing objects through their properties in space, tends to be the default analytical mode for making sense of imagery. For people to bring a commensurate temporal richness to their articulated visual readings, we first highlight the perspectival richness of time and temporality. We next present five precepts that can guide enriched temporal seeing: contextual histories; relational chronologies; internal rhymicity; desequenced and resequenced narrative; and critique and meaning-making. Finally, we suggest that temporal seeing holds a series of educative possibilities for expanding the interpretive frames and perceptual apparatuses of literacy researchers and practitioners.
Transcendental Meditation Enriches Nurses’ Authentic Presence Through Caring for Self and Others
(Sage Journals, 2024-07-26) Aquino-Russell, Catherine; Bonamer, Jennifer I; Hartranft, Susan; Kutash, Mary; Johnson, Ayesha
Purpose of Study: Given the enormity of the most recent challenges to clinician well-being, intensified by the pandemic, we decided to explore the influence of Transcendental Meditation® (TM)® on the well-being of clinical nurses. The purpose of our study was to use qualitative analysis to enhance our understanding of the experiences of clinical nurses who practiced TM, as viewed through the lens of our conceptual model and Watson's holistic unitary caring science theory. Design and Method: This qualitative study involved a thematic analysis of clinical nurses’ written descriptions following the completion of the TM program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings: The nurse participants shared their experiences with the practice of TM as creating present moment focus, leading to enhanced self-care, and development of authentic presence with others. The overall theme uncovered in the analysis is that authentic presence is veritas (truth) in knowing, being, doing, and becoming. Conclusions: The findings were congruent with Watson's unitary caring science theory and provided illumination of the holistic value of TM as a self-care strategy for supporting nurses’ well-being with the goal of retaining nurses in practice. When nurses care for themselves, they are more likely and able to care for others, thus helping them to enjoy their nursing careers.
Predicting Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes Following Major Scoliosis Surgery in Adolescents: A Latent Class Growth Analysis
(Sage Journals, 2022-09-20) Kerr, Jack; Abraham, Edward; Vandewint, Amanda; Bigney, Erin; Herbert, Jeffrey; Richardson, Eden; El-Mughayyar, Dana; Chorney, Jill; El-Hawary, Ron; McPhee, PORSCHE Study Group; McPhee; Manson, Neil
Study Design: Prospective cohort study. Objectives: To identify patient trajectories of recovery defined by change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) following surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). To explore possible predictors of trajectory membership. Methods: Adolescent patients scheduled to undergo spinal fusion for AIS were enrolled in the Post-Operative Recovery following Spinal Correction: Home Experience (PORSCHE) study. Responses to the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory–version 4 (PedsQL–4.0) were collected prior to surgery and 4 to 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 12 months post-operatively. Latent class growth analyses identified patient subgroups based on their unique trajectories of physical health (PH) and psychosocial health (PSH) outcomes using the PedsQL–4.0 subscale scores. Predictors included demographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors.
Individual differences in views toward healthcare conversational agents: A cross-sectional survey study
(Sage Journals, 2025-03-20) MacNeill, A. Luke; Luke, Alison; Doucet, Shelley
Background and Objective To date, there has been limited research on people's attitudes and design preferences with respect to conversational agents (CAs) that are used for healthcare. Individual differences in attitudes and design preferences have received particularly little attention. The purpose of this study was to gain greater insight into this topic. Methods We recruited American and Canadian residents through the online research platform Prolific. Participants completed a cross-sectional survey assessing demographic, personality, and health factors, as well as attitudes and design preferences with respect to healthcare CAs. Hierarchical regressions were used to determine demographic, personality, and health predictors of attitudes and design preferences. Results A total of 227 participants (116 women; M age = 39.92 years, SD = 12.94) were included in the analysis. Participants tended to report slightly positive attitudes toward healthcare CAs, with more positive attitudes among American residents and people with lower income, lower education levels, and higher levels of the personality factor conscientiousness. In general, participants preferred CAs that use text communication, have unrestricted language input, are disembodied, and simulate health professionals in their presentation. CAs that use text communication were preferred to a greater degree among people with higher levels of digital health literacy, and disembodied CAs were preferred to a greater degree among people with lower levels of conscientiousness. Conclusion The results of this study provide insight into people's attitudes and design preferences with respect to healthcare CAs. This information will help guide developers on how to better design and market CAs for the health sector, which may increase people's adoption and use of these programs.
Expanding infrastructure ontologies: Integrative and critical insights for coastal studies and governance
(Sage Journals, 2024-09-23) Foley, Paul; Moro, Lorenzo; Neis, Barbara; Stephenson, Robert; Mellin, Robert; Singh, Gerald; Hall, Pamela; Kelly, Rachel; Kulsum, Umme
Diverse knowledge insights are essential to inform action on bringing about transformations in how societies live with changing Earth, ocean and coastal systems. However, knowledge forms typically used in governance systems are stubbornly limited. This paper analyses the extent to which an expanding ontology of the concept of ‘infrastructure’ can contribute to building more integrated knowledge for governance in ocean and coastal contexts. This paper asks: What can creative and critical engagement with infrastructure thinking offer to efforts to bring together diverse forms of knowledge and to develop more effective and ethical governance in changing coastal contexts? Employing a qualitative assessment of how the concept of infrastructure is defined in multiple disciplines and contexts, the paper identifies three heuristic types of structures, things and processes that can collectively inform interdisciplinary dialogue and governance dialogue: (i) built/physical infrastructure, (ii) environmental infrastructure, and (iii) societal/cultural infrastructure. Drawing on insights from critical infrastructure studies and more-than-human perspectives, the paper then identifies ontological and methodological challenges of integration, values, and power/agency for those who engage a multi-faceted conception of infrastructure to frame analysis and action. Bringing these insights together, the paper argues that infrastructure thinking provides a means to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue, and a useful lens with which to analytically integrate diverse forms of knowledge about/in ocean and coastal contexts. However, cautious and critical perspectives are needed to support efforts in (re)thinking and integrating for collective action and governance.
Predictors of Individual and Interpersonal Adjustment Among Non-offending Partners of Individuals With Histories of Sexual Offenses
(Sage Journals, 2023-11-11) Cassidy, Katie; Ronis, Scott T
Recent research indicates that the consequences of sexual offenses extend beyond target victims, including to non-offending partners of individuals with sexual offense histories. However, little research has focused on non-offending partners’ wellbeing and relationships with persons with sexual offense histories leading up to and following acts of sexual aggression. Non-offending partners may be secondary victims of their partners’ offenses in managing psychological difficulties (e.g., guilt, shame), social stigma and isolation, fear for their safety, or difficulties in their romantic relationships resulting from their partners’ sexual offenses, often with minimal supports. The current study examined key correlates of individual and interpersonal adjustment among 207 non-offending partners of individuals with histories of sexual offenses who were residing in Canada (n = 36) or the United States (n = 171). Findings indicate that positive changes due to the offense (i.e., improved finances), self-esteem, interpersonal adjustment, instrumental support, lower levels of acceptance, and humor positively predicted individual adjustment. Interpersonal adjustment was predicted by trust, intimacy, partner’s stress communication, and problem-focused and emotion-focused common dyadic coping. Findings highlight the need for services for non-offending partners, including interventions that address self-esteem and practical difficulties resulting from the offense, and couples therapy to address trust issues, intimacy concerns, and shared coping with stressors related to the offense.
Location-Dependent Task Allocation for Collaborative Mobile Users with Social Awareness
(IEEE, 2025) Muntaha, Mahjabin; Song, Wei
It has been found in many areas that crowd intelligence can be exploited to effectively handle complex tasks. For instance, sensing tasks can be allocated to a group of mobile users (known as workers) to complete them efficiently. A key to success is to match tasks with workers properly so that various constraints are satisfied while a mediator for the matching can also earn a profit as an incentive for their effort. This task allocation problem has been studied in the literature from different perspectives. One aspect that is less addressed is the collaboration efficiency when a group of workers need to work together to fulfill the requirements of a task. In this paper, we attempt to solve a collaborative task allocation problem, which takes into account social connections among workers and their impact on collaboration efficiency and achievable profits. As this problem is proved to be NP-hard, we formulate a temporal heterogeneous graph and develop a deep reinforcement learning method based on an expressive neural network model for the graph. By decomposing the heterogeneous graph into smaller and simpler subgraphs, we try to reduce the network dimensionality while extracting essential features. Our experiments also show that the proposed method offers competitive advantages over other heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms.
Des pratiques d’autorégulation basées sur les forces des élèves
(Association canadienne des professionnels de l'immersion, 2024) Garrett, Melissa Dockrill
Synchronous Rectification for High-Speed Resonant Wireless Power Transfer Under Variable Coupling and Load
(IEEE, 2025) Herpers, Christian; MacMillan, Matthew; Belliveau, Ethan T.; Rouse, Chris D.
A synchronous rectifier (SR) for efficient and compact wireless power transfer (WPT) in applications involving variable coupling, variable load, and lower voltages, e.g., 60 V or less, is presented. The proposed SR employs the load-independent class E topology and a relatively simple synchronization circuit based on a tuned delay line. Analytical, simulation, and experimental results are presented for SRs implemented in resonant capacitive power transfer systems operating at 13.56 and 27.12 MHz. Both systems exhibit load independence over transmission distance variations of ± 25% from nominal. At 13.56 MHz, 300 W is delivered with a dc-to-dc efficiency of approximately 81% at nominal coupling, which translates to an SR efficiency of 93%, and the system can deliver 220 W over the full coupling range. At 27.12 MHz, 150 W is delivered at a dc-to-dc efficiency of approximately 76% at nominal coupling, translating to an SR efficiency of 89%, and 110 W can be delivered over the full coupling range. The performance of the proposed SR for resonant WPT applications is very encouraging, particularly at 27.12 MHz
Defamiliarizing Concussions: Sports Fandom, Injury, and Potential Attitudinal Shifts
(Sage, 2024-11-15) Kalman-Lamb, Nathan; Silva, Derek
In this article, we examine whether modes of representation that disrupt and defamiliarize the naturalized understandings fans share about the legitimacy and necessity of spectacular violence and sacrifice in sport can have the potential to reframe fan attitudes and investments. We explore the social cognitive and attitudinal shift towards traumatic brain injury (TBI) and injury more broadly in American football of first year students with a stated investment in the spectacle of high-performance sports after viewing Josh Begley’s 2018 short film Concussion Protocol. By comparing the responses of students at the beginning of the semester to their responses immediately after viewing the film, this project reveals how placing fans of sport in a face-to-face relationship with athletic laborers can challenge preexisting assumptions about normalized violence in sport, ultimately effectuating a potentially new and more humane attitude to athletic spectatorship.
Geometric foundations for classical U(1)-gauge theory on noncommutative manifolds
(Springer, 2024-08-22) Ćaćić, Branimir
We systematically extend the elementary differential and Riemannian geometry of classical U(1)-gauge theory to the noncommutative setting by combining recent advances in noncommutative Riemannian geometry with the theory of coherent 2-groups. We show that Hermitian line bimodules with Hermitian bimodule connection over a unital pre-C∗-algebra with ∗-exterior algebra form a coherent 2-group, and we prove that weak monoidal functors between coherent 2-groups canonically define bar or involutive monoidal functors in the sense of Beggs–Majid and Egger, respectively. Using this, we prove that a suitable Hermitian line bimodule with Hermitian bimodule connection yields an essentially unique differentiable quantum principal U(1)-bundle with principal connection and vice versa; here, U(1) is q-deformed for q a numerical invariant of the bimodule connection. Finally, we formulate and solve the interrelated lifting problems for noncommutative Riemannian structure in terms of abstract Hodge star operators and formal spectral triples, respectively; all the while, we account precisely for emergent modular phenomena. Thus, the spin Dirac spectral triple on quantum CP1 does not lift to a non-pathological twisted spectral triple on 3-dimensional quantum SU(2), but its formal lift nonetheless induces Kaad–Kyed’s compact quantum metric space on quantum SU(2) for a canonical choice of parameters
Conflict, hope, and mathematics education storylines: Pivoting away from a pathology-based orientation.
(North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics, 2023-06) Gerbrandt, Julianne; Wagner, David
In this paper, we play with the ideas of conflict and hope in reported storylines from subaltern contexts of mathematics learning. The concept of storyline comes from positioning theory, which suggests that people make choices about communication acts according to known or familiar storylines. By drawing attention to aspects of conflict and hope within storylines, we identify pivot points that permit reorientation. By deconstructing several storylines from the Mathematics Education in Indigenous and Migrational contexts project, we noticed how storylines that feature conflict offer more opportunities to pivot than do storylines that feature appeals to hope. This process of reorientation resists the dominance of pathology-based storylines about mathematics education for students from minoritized groups and draws attention to the impact of orientation on storylines.
Challenges, opportunities, and key questions in research for Mathematics in Indigenous and Migrational (MIM) contexts through a language-focused lens.
(North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics, 2023) Culligan, Karla; DeWolfe, Sacha; Simensen, Anita Movik
This paper presents some challenges, opportunities, key questions, and ways forward for research in mathematics in Indigenous and Migrational (MIM) contexts as discussed by the two featured panelists and mediated by the moderator in the closing symposium of the MIM Conference in Alta, Norway in November 2022. Punctuated with quotations, photos and images, the paper begins by introducing the three researchers, their contexts, and their respective research interests. Next, the paper unfolds as a discussion organized around the four main points (challenges, opportunities, key questions, ways forward). The moderator invited the panelists to examine these discussion points with a view towards the role of language in their respective contexts and research, therefore the theme of language features throughout. The paper concludes with a synthesis of common threads that emerged through the discussion and a focus on action moving forward.
Wading Into Murky Territory: Hunting for Storylines at an Academic Conference
(North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics, 2023) Gerbrandt, Julianne; Foyn, Trine
In this paper we share a process for identifying storylines from the Mathematics Education in Indigenous and Migrational contexts (MIM) conference in November 2022. Drawing from the scheduled presentations and the informal discussions that took place, we identified three connecting storylines: ‘We need more space’, ‘There will be tensions’ and ‘Perhaps it is okay to be uncomfortable’. By examining these three threads, we suggest there is an underlying storyline that connects them: ‘The need for change in the ways we approach teaching, learning, and researching school mathematics’. This process surfaced questions about the relationship between positionality, personal identity and the identification of storylines.

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