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- ItemOpen Access50,000 years of Japanese prehistory : a transcript of the symposium of November 1, 1978, University of Manitoba(2012-04-11) Monks, Gregory G.; Kobayoshi, Tatsuo; Pearson, Richard; Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko; Koike, Hiroko; Matsushima, YoshiakeThis volume contains two presentations. The first is a transcript of a seminar on Japanese prehistory, which was given in conjunction with (and to provide context for) the exhibit, "50,000 Years of Japanese Prehistory" at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. It has been edited heavily (by G.G. Monks) in places to ensure clarity, eliminate redundancy and improve grammar. The second presentation is a paper on seasonality estimation using bivalve mollusc shells.
- ItemOpen AccessA First-Century Receipt from the Receivers of Public Clothing in Tebtunis (P.Tebt. UC 1607c)(2019) Gibbs, Matt; Sampson, C. MichaelAn edition of a first-century Tebtunis papyrus containing a letter from the receivers of public clothing, with analyses of both this liturgical office as well as the practice of compulsory sale for the supply of military clothing.
- ItemOpen AccessAdvances in the indirect, descriptive, and experimental approaches to the functional analysis of problem behavior(Psicothema, 2014) Wightman, Jade; Julio, Flávia; Virués-Ortega, JavierBACKGROUND: Experimental functional analysis is an assessment methodology to identify the environmental factors that maintain problem behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities and in other populations. Functional analysis provides the basis for the development of reinforcement-based approaches to treatment. METHODS: This article reviews the procedures, validity, and clinical implementation of the methodological variations of functional analysis and function-based interventions. RESULTS: We present six variations of functional analysis methodology in addition to the typical functional analysis: brief functional analysis, single-function tests, latency-based functional analysis, functional analysis of precursors, and trial-based functional analysis. We also present the three general categories of function-based interventions: extinction, antecedent manipulation, and differential reinforcement. CONCLUSIONS: Functional analysis methodology is a valid and efficient approach to the assessment of problem behavior and the selection of treatment strategies.
- ItemOpen AccessAeschylus on Darius and Persian Memory(JSTOR, 2015) Sampson, C. MichaelThis paper considers how Aeschylus dramatizes the memory of his Persian characters, and argues that the contradictory recollection of Marathon in Persae reflects an imperial ideology with which failure is incompatible: the dramatis personae frame Xerxes' defeat at Salamis as unprecedented even as they summon Darius as a semi-divine benefactor. With recourse to what historians and anthropologists term “social” or “collective” memory, the paper then considers how such a portrayal of Persian memory would have resonated with an Athenian audience in 472 engaged in democratic debate over the nature of the burgeoning Delian League.
- ItemOpen AccessAggression and older adults: news media coverage across care settings and relationships(Cambridge University Press, 2020) Funk, Laura; Herron, Rachel; Spencer, Dale; Thomas, Starr Leeystematic, in-depth exploration of news media coverage of aggression and older adults remains sparse, with little attention to how and why particular frames manifest in coverage across differing settings and relationships. Frame analysis was used to analyze 141 English-language Canadian news media articles published between 2008 and 2019. Existing coverage tended towards stigmatizing, fear-inducing, and biomedical framings of aggression, yet also reflected and reinforced ambiguity, most notably around key differences between settings and relations of care. Mainstream news coverage reflects tensions in public understandings of aggression and older adults (e.g., as a medical or criminal issue), reinforced in particular ways because of the nature of news reporting. More nuanced coverage would advance understanding of differences among settings, relationships, and types of actions, and of the need for multifaceted prevention and policy responses based on these differences.
- ItemOpen AccessArea G and the Digging of Kom Aushim(de Gruyter, 2024-01-17) Sampson, C. MichaelAn analysis of the early history of digging at Kom Aushim and the Museum archaeology of Karanis papyri purchased on the Egyptian antiquities market is combined with archaeological data from the University of Michigan’s excavations to locate purchased papyri in the archaeological record.
- ItemOpen AccessAustralian Literature and the Canadian Comparison(1979) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen AccessBlack Canadas: Rethinking Canadian and Diasporic Cultural Studies(2001) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen AccessBone strength in Medieval Denmark: robusticity analyses from a rural and urban sample(University of Florida Press, 2022-07-27) Parker, Kaela; Larcombe, Linda; Stock, Jay T.; Boldsen, Jesper; Marx-Wolf, Heidi; Hoppa, Robert D.Objectives: The aim of the current study was to understand the transition in lower limb loading and terrestrial mobility during the urbanization revolution in medieval Denmark. This was accomplished by comparing the cross sectional geometric properties of the femora from two populations, the rural cemetery of Tirup and the urban Black Friars cemetery. Materials and Methods: Using two skeletal samples, the rural cemetery of Tirup, Jutland (1150-1350 A.D.), and the urban Black Friars cemetery, Funen (1240-1607 A.D.), cross sectional geometric properties of the right femora were examined. The cross sectional geometric properties of adult long bones are reflections of in-vivo loading. General patterns of relative mechanical loading during life can be interpreted by calculating the cross sectional geometric properties of a long bone’s diaphysis. Compressive and tensile rigidity and strength (CA), maximum and minimum bending rigidity (Imin, Imax), torsional rigidity (J), bending rigidity along the anteroposterior and mediolateral axes (Ix, Iy), and diaphyseal shape (Imax/Imin; Ix/Iy) at the femoral midshaft were calculated from 104 CT scans, 48 from Tirup (32 males, 16 females) and 56 from Black Friars (38 males, 18 females). Results: The results indicate significantly greater robusticity among the Black Friars sample for both males and females. Discussion: In opposition to the prevalent understanding of physicality in medieval communities, the results suggest that lower limb loading (and inferred terrestrial mobility) was greater in the urban setting. Cemetery make-up and population variation between the samples cannot, however, be discounted.
- ItemOpen AccessBones at Home Supporting Haptic Learning and Universal Design beyond the Biological Anthropology Laboratory(2024-10-14) Gilmour, Rebecca J.; Gamble, Julia A.Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a range of pedagogical challenges for anthropology laboratory courses. In biological anthropology courses such as Human Osteology, hands-on experience is essential to achieving learning outcomes, including basic bone and feature (i.e., landmark) identification, identification from fragmentary remains, and age and sex estimation. To address the need for training that includes object-based, tactile (haptic) learning in fields such as biological anthropology and archaeology, all Human Osteology students at Mount Royal University and the University of Manitoba took home plastic model skeletons. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how well remotely educated undergraduates (REUs) met human osteology learning objectives when supported by plastic model skeletons at home. We present the results of a survey designed to test core osteological skills obtained by REUs in comparison with undergraduates educated with in-person laboratory components (IPUs) and experts in the field (zero to four and five or more years of experience). REU scores did not differ significantly from those of IPU or Junior Experts with less than five years of experience. Students performed well in bone identification but were limited in their ability to apply common sex and age estimation methods and to identify incomplete elements. Our findings reinforce the importance of haptic learning and years of experience in human osteological learning. They support the use of take-home models as valuable resources in both remote and in-person undergraduate teaching. This work is a step toward more inclusive universal instructional design that can be applied across various anthropology laboratory courses.
- ItemOpen AccessBuilding Emotional Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM): an open-pilot and feasibility study of a digital mental health and parenting intervention for mothers of infants(BMC, 2023-02-18) Xie, E. B.; Freeman, Makayla; Penner-Goeke, Lara; Reynolds, Kristin; Lebel, Catherine; Giesbrecht, Gerald F.; Rioux, Charlie; MacKinnon, Anna; Sauer-Zavala, Shannon; Roos, Leslie E.; Tomfohr-Madsen, LianneBackground Maternal mental health concerns and parenting stress in the first few years following childbirth are common and pose significant risks to maternal and child well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increases in maternal depression and anxiety and has presented unique parenting stressors. Although early intervention is crucial, there are significant barriers to accessing care. Methods To inform a larger randomized controlled trial, the current open-pilot trial investigated initial evidence for the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a newly developed online group therapy and app-based mental health and parenting program (BEAM) for mothers of infants. Forty-six mothers 18 years or older with clinically elevated depression scores, with an infant aged 6–17 months old, and who lived in Manitoba or Alberta were enrolled in the 10-week program (starting in July 2021) and completed self-report surveys. Results The majority of participants engaged in each of the program components at least once and participants indicated relatively high levels of app satisfaction, ease of use, and usefulness. However, there was a high level of attrition (46%). Paired-sample t-tests indicated significant pre- to post-intervention change in maternal depression, anxiety, and parenting stress, and in child internalizing, but not externalizing symptoms. Effect sizes were in the medium to high range, with the largest effect size observed for depressive symptoms (Cohen’s d = .93). Discussion This study shows moderate levels of feasibility and strong preliminary efficacy of the BEAM program. Limitations to program design and delivery are being addressed for testing in adequately powered follow-up trials of the BEAM program for mothers of infants. Trial registration NCT04772677 . Registered on February 26 2021.
- ItemRestrictedCanada and Brazil: Shifting Contexts for Knowledge Production” (“Canadá e Brasil: Contextos de mundança para a produção de conhecimento)(2013) Brydon, DianaThis paper addresses the shifting contexts for knowledge production as they affect researchers in the humanities and social sciences working within Canada and Brazil on dimensions of Canadian studies in the twenty-first century. It argues for closer attention to the meanings that words carry within localities and when they travel, and to the contexts in which they make sense. Using a series of brief case studies, the paper suggests that interdisciplinary attention to democracy and governance questions may require a shift in focus and a widening of responsibility beyond traditional academic and institutional actors, as well as deeper attention to the role of English in politics and higher education, and a shift in focus from the nation-state alone to the sub-regional and supra-regional levels. The rise of a global higher education regime further highlights the need for researchers, teachers, and students to question not only the methodological natio- nalism of nation-based studies, but also the methodological cosmopolitanism that works at the global level alone, locating both of these within the frames afforded by those decolonial and postcolonial studies that value place-based knowledges and the transnational literacies they can generate. In short, globalization is cre- ating conditions in which the development of transnational partnerships in the co-creation of knowledge seems both desirable and necessary.
- ItemOpen Access"Canada" in The Year That Was.(1986) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen Access"Canada" in The Year That Was.(1985) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen Access"Canada" in The Year That Was.(1984) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen AccessCanada, Brazil, and Beyond: extending the dialogue.(2017) Brydon, Diana; Nunes, Vanessa
- ItemOpen AccessCaribbean Revolution and Literary Convention(1982) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen AccessThe Colonial Heroine(1980) Brydon, Diana
- ItemOpen AccessCompeting Autonomy Claims and the Changing Grammar of Global Politics.(2009) Brydon, DianaThis article argues that contending ideas about autonomy lie behind current discourses of human rights, claims to nation-state and cultural autonomy, and democracy promotion. Globalizing processes are bringing these contested understandings of autonomy, and their often silent framing within assumptions about sovereignty, into a new prominence. Locating itself within agonistic views of autonomy and politics, the article argues that it is necessary to pay closer attention to the perspectives that feminist and postcolonial analyses bring to understanding how autonomy, community, culture, and nation are co-constructed within imaginaries, such as liberal multiculturalism, that are no longer adequate to current demands for justice. To succeed, this renewed attention needs to locate itself within an effort to rethink academic community and the research protocols and collaborative practices this community permits and legitimizes.
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