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Climate Change Education: An Exploration of Curriculum Enactments in Canadian Post-Secondary Educational Institutions
Climate change is indisputably one of the most pressing issues of our time. This dissertation is a study of curricula in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions (PSIs). I conducted a survey of 225 PSIs for climate change courses during the calendar year of 2014-2015 and then focus on four PSIs with climate change programs to explore factors influencing processes of formation and implementation of climate change curricula. This research draws upon elements from literature in climate change policy, cultural studies, and curriculum studies to understand the formation of climate change programs. The study seeks to deepen understanding of institutional change in what I believe is unprecedented times. The first part of this study uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis of course syllabi. Courses were coded according to their focus into Tiers-of-Concentration and Streams according to their area/discipline of concentration. The second part of this dissertation includes a series of in-depth interviews with climate change program creators, administrators, directors, faculty and faculty committee members in particular PSIs. My selection of four PSIs is based on their programs these institutions offer undergraduate and graduate climate change programs as well as their institutional reputations, inclinations and characters. Interviews with curricula innovators reveal some features shaping climate change curricula formation. I focus on four features: (1) The emergence of climate champions in bureaucratic procedures; (2) The culture of economics; (3) Disciplinary allegiances; and (4) Climate leanings. My study seeks to better understand climate change curricula innovations and cultures with a commitment to the importance of PSIs as sources of climate change expertise and leadership within democratic societies
New Trends in Using Augmented Reality Apps for Smart City Contexts
The idea of virtuality is not new, as research on visualization and simulation dates back
to the early use of ink and paper sketches for alternative design comparisons. As technology has
advanced so the way of visualizing simulations as well, but the progress is slow due to difficulties
in creating workable simulations models and effectively providing them to the users. Augmented
Reality and Virtual Reality, the evolving technologies that have been haunting the tech industry,
receiving excessive attention from the media and colossal growing are redefining the way we interact,
communicate and work together. From consumer application to manufacturers these technologies
are used in different sectors providing huge benefits through several applications. In this work,
we demonstrate the potentials of Augmented Reality techniques in a Smart City (Smart Campus)
context. A multiplatform mobile app featuring Augmented Reality capabilities connected to GIS
services are developed to evaluate different features such as performance, usability, effectiveness and
satisfaction of the Augmented Reality technology in the context of a Smart Campus
Part 5: Organized Criminal Activities
This part contains references to literature that examine the activities associated with criminal organizations. This includes both strategic (i.e., profit-oriented ventures such as drug trafficking, fraud, counterfeiting, prostitution, etc.) and tactical activities (i.e., activities that support the criminal organization and its profit-oriented activities, such as money laundering, violence, corruption, etc.) References are provided for the criminal activities listed below. Within each category are also references to publications that address the control of a particular criminal activity (e.g., enforcement, prevention, laws)
The right to privacy through the development of smart technologies : how our personal health data is affected
LâĂ©volution de la technologie, nonobstant ses apports, peut enfreindre certains de nos droits
fondamentaux puisquâelle se dĂ©veloppe plus rapidement que ces derniers. Ce mĂ©moire vise Ă
relever les défis que les technologies intelligentes peuvent poser tant sur la santé des
communautés que sur les droits fondamentaux. La thÚse porte sur les contraintes juridiques,
prĂ©sentes et Ă venir, notamment sur le droit Ă la vie privĂ©e Ă travers le dĂ©veloppement et lâusage
des technologies intelligentes qui captent notre information personnelle en lien avec la santé. Plus
prĂ©cisĂ©ment, ce travail analyse si les bĂ©nĂ©fices de lâaccĂšs Ă notre information Ă travers les
technologies intelligentes en vue dâamĂ©liorer la santĂ© et la sĂ©curitĂ© des populations surpassent les
conséquences juridiques.
Ce travail explore, entre autres, le potentiel des technologies intelligentes, leurs avantages
individuels et collectifs, notamment en matiÚre de santé publique, et les violations des droits de
lâHomme que leur usage peut gĂ©nĂ©rer. Mais encore, il prĂ©sente des innovations technologiques
qui permettent dâamĂ©liorer les systĂšmes de santĂ© Ă©tatiques afin dâĂȘtre en mesure de mieux rĂ©agir
aux futures Ă©pidĂ©mies, notamment au niveau international, comme Ă lâOMS. Ces donnĂ©es, suivies
des autres complications possibles du fait dâun usage accru des technologies intelligentes qui
restreignent notre vie privĂ©e, permettront de conclure si une telle intrusion peut ĂȘtre justifiĂ©e dans
une société libre et démocratique.
Finalement, ce travail regarde les limites de lâacceptabilitĂ© sociale de lâintrusion dans la vie
privée en échange à de meilleures conditions de santé afin que les organes étatiques et supraétatiques puissent prendre des décisions éclairées, sans que les droits constitutionnels soient
violés. Ce travail permettra de comprendre les enjeux que notre systÚme judiciaire inévitablement
devra surmonter en proposant des stratégies visant la prévention des maladies et autres problÚmes
de santĂ© Ă travers lâusage des technologies intelligentes. Une des solutions principales proposĂ©es
est la crĂ©ation de bases de donnĂ©es nationale et internationale Ă lâOMS qui captent les donnĂ©es
des appareils intelligents portables.The evolution of technology, notwithstanding its benefits, can negatively impact some of our
fundamental rights as it develops faster than the latter. Indeed, this thesis aims to meet challenges
generated by smart technologies and the impact they can have on the health of communities as
well as on our fundamental rights. This thesis focuses on the legal constraints, present and to
come, including the right to privacy, through the development and use of smart technologies that
seize our personal health information. More specifically, this work seeks to analyze whether the
benefits of accessing our information through smart technologies to improve the health and safety
of populations outweigh the legal consequences.
This work explores the potential of smart technologies, the interest in using them individually
and collectively, especially in the public health sector, and the human rights violations their use
can generate. Moreover, it looks at technological innovations that help improve State health
systems to be able to better respond to future epidemics, particularly at the international level,
such as at the WHO. These data, followed by other possible complications due to the increased
use of intelligent technologies that restrict our privacy, will allow us to conclude whether such an
intrusion in our right to privacy can be justified in a free and democratic society.
Finally, this work examines the limits of the social acceptability of the invasion of privacy in
exchange for better health conditions so that States and supra-State bodies can make informed
decisions, without violating constitutional rights. This work will help us understand the issues
that our judicial system will inevitably face while proposing strategies for the prevention of
diseases and other health problems through the use of smart technologies. One of the main
proposed solutions is the creation of a national and international database at the WHO generated
by the data of smart health devices
Trends in Global and Canadian Lawyer Education
Globalization and technology have changed the practice of law in dramatic ways. This is true not only in the U.S. and Canada, but around the world. Global regulatory trends have begun to emerge as lawyer regulators have had to respond to new developments. In 2012, Australian regulators Steve Mark and Tahlia Gordon and the author, who is a U.S. academic, documented some of these global trends in lawyer regulation. See Laurel S. Terry, Steve Mark, & Tahlia Gordon, Trends and Challenges in Lawyer Regulation: The Impact of Globalization and Technology, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 2661 (2012), https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/95/. Their article concluded that regulators face issues in common regarding âwhoâ is regulated, âwhatâ is regulated, âwhenâ and âwhereâ regulation occurs, âhowâ it occurs, and âwhyâ it occurs. The current article examines Canadian lawyer regulation in light of the global trends Terry, Mark, and Gordon previously identified. The current article asks whether there is evidence in Canadian lawyer regulation of these same who-what-when-where-why-and-how issues. The article concludes that these trends are indeed present in Canada and explains why it is important for Canadian lawyers, regulators, clients, and other stakeholders to be aware of these global trends. The article also addresses the issue of whether these trends matter in a jurisdiction such as Saskatchewan that is not a global financial center on the order of New York, London or Toronto. The answer the article provides is âyesâ â these trends are relevant to Saskatchewan and to jurisdictions throughout the world that care about lawyer regulation
A Low-Cost System Using a Big-Data Deep-Learning Framework for Assessing Physical Telerehabilitation: A Proof-of-Concept
The consolidation of telerehabilitation for the treatment of many diseases over the last
decades is a consequence of its cost-effective results and its ability to offer access to rehabilitation in
remote areas. Telerehabilitation operates over a distance, so vulnerable patients are never exposed to
unnecessary risks. Despite its low cost, the need for a professional to assess therapeutic exercises
and proper corporal movements online should also be mentioned. The focus of this paper is on
a telerehabilitation system for patients suffering from Parkinsonâs disease in remote villages and
other less accessible locations. A full-stack is presented using big data frameworks that facilitate
communication between the patient and the occupational therapist, the recording of each session,
and real-time skeleton identification using artificial intelligence techniques. Big data technologies are
used to process the numerous videos that are generated during the course of treating simultaneous
patients. Moreover, the skeleton of each patient can be estimated using deep neural networks for
automated evaluation of corporal exercises, which is of immense help to the therapists in charge of
the treatment programs.This work was supported by project PI19/00670 of the Ministerio de Ciencia, InnovaciĂłn y Universidades, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NVIDIA Corporation and its donation of the TITAN Xp GPU used in this research. In addition, this work was partially supported by the European Social Fund, as the authors JosĂ© Miguel RamĂrez-Sanz, JosĂ© Luis Garrido-Labrador, and Alicia Olivares-Gil are the recipients of a pre-doctoral grant (EDU/875/2021) from the ConserjerĂa de EducaciĂłn de la Junta de Castilla y LeĂłn
Extending the Exposure Score of Web Browsers by Incorporating CVSS
When browsing the Internet, HTTP headers enable both clients and servers send extra data in their requests or responses such as the User-Agent string. This string contains information related to the senderâs device, browser, and operating system. Yet its content differs from one browser to another. Despite the privacy and security risks of User-Agent strings, very few works have tackled this problem. Our previous work proposed giving Internet browsers exposure relative scores to aid users to choose less intrusive ones. Thus, the objective of this work is to extend our previous work through: first, conducting a user study to identify its limitations. Second, extending the exposure score via incorporating data from the NVD. Third, providing a full implementation, instead of a limited prototype. The proposed system: assigns scores to usersâ browsers upon visiting our website. It also suggests alternative safe browsers, and finally it allows updating the back-end database with a click of a button. We applied our method to a data set of more than 52 thousand unique browsers. Our performance and validation analysis show that our solution is accurate and efficient. The source code and data set are publicly available here [4].</p
Mapping Digital Media: Canada
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs.Canadians are among the most engaged and active users of digital media in the world, and digitization has had particular consequences for such a vast, largely urbanized and sparsely populated country. Although progress in some aspects has been exemplary, geographic complexities and a lack of leadership by the federal government have produced challenges and delays in others. In particular, while Canadians lead the world in areas relating to digital media take-up, the federal government has yet to finalize an official, comprehensive digital strategy similar to the EU's Digital Agenda for Europe or the National Broadband Plan in the United States.It is essential that the federal government tables a cohesive and comprehensive Digital Economy Strategy in consultation with all stakeholders, including the public. Such a unified, forward-thinking approach is needed if Canada is to forge a comprehensive and progressive agenda for the continued development of digital media infrastructure, services, and access
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