Empathy Activators: Strategies for Developing Empathy in Service-Learning Students

This poster presentation explores the link between service-learning and the development of student empathy. It will share the initial research results of a pilot study on student empathy, service-learning, and key ingredients for cultivating empathy. It also offers instructors concrete ideas for teaching tools that activate student empathy

Barnardo Boys

The opera Barnardo Boys, with music by Clifford Crawley and libretto by David Helwig, was premiered in Kingston, Ontario in May 1982. Inspired by the example of Benjamin Britten, the creators of the opera regarded community involvement and cooperation between amateurs and professionals as essential to the production of the work. There was only one imported professional singer in the cast—Jan Rubes, who was hired to play the lead role of Albert Ashby. Both the libretto and the music of the opera make use of a combination of pre-existing and newly created source materials. This approach is seen to be typical of a Canadian preference for the genre of documentary opera, which parallels an engagement with historical fiction on the part of Canadian novelists.La première de Barnardo Boys, sur une musique de Clifford Crawley, d’après un livret de David Helwig, a eu lieu à Kingston (Ontario) en mai 1982. Inspirés par la démarche de Benjamin Britten, les créateurs de cet opéra considèrent essentielles à la production de l’oeuvre l’implication dans la communauté et la coopération entre amateurs et professionnels. On ne trouvait dans la distribution qu’un chanteur professionnel provenant de l’extérieur : Jan Rubes, engagé pour jouer le rôle principal de Albert Ashby. Le livret et la musique de l’opéra font tous deux appels à un mélange de matériaux préexistants et nouveaux. Cette approche est considérée comme étant typique d’une préférence canadienne pour le genre de l’opéra documentaire, pendant musical de l’implication des romanciers canadiens dans l’écriture de fiction historique

Entropy and entanglement bounds for reduced density matrices of fermionic states

Unlike bosons, fermions always have a non-trivial entanglement. Intuitively, Slater determinantal states should be the least entangled states. To make this intuition precise we investigate entropy and entanglement of fermionic states and prove some extremal and near extremal properties of reduced density matrices of Slater determinantal states.Comment: 20 pages. This version of the paper is a substantial revision of the previous versio

Doctor of Philosophy

dissertationThough many who walk along roadside cambers and hill edges may have an interest in making their travels sure and effective, those most concerned may be soldiers in the infantry. They need to be injury free and have as much energy as possible when they march into battle. Walking on uneven ground without being injured by falling down (particularly with a heavy backpack) is generally accomplished by maintaining stability. This present study was conducted to determine an individual’s most stable position (using a stability formula which compares dynamic center of mass with center of pressure) when wearing a backpack under differing load positions - low back, middle back or high back â€" and differing walking angles: level, as well as along a cross-sloped surface. Furthermore, this study investigated the stability of persons walking along a cross-slope without a load. Finally, this study attempted to determine which combination of backpack load location and slope tilt best conserved metabolic energy. To carry out this backpack stability research, a group of 15 participants were asked to walk along an indoor track under the varying conditions mentioned (i.e., low to high backpack load positions and level to 10 degree tilted cross-slopes). The trials of their walks were performed randomly. The participants were recorded in a motion capture system and force plates documented their stepping times and locations. Again, the same 15 participants walked along the track under the same conditions, but without the loads to determine the effect of different cross-slope angles on their stability. Lastly, the same participants walked the track under the various conditions wearing portable oxygen sensors to analyze their energy expenditure. The results of these limited tests indicate no significant stability differences between 0, 5 or 10 degree angles in cross-slope walking loaded or unloaded. Nor was any significant stability differences noted between the various load locations of the backpacks. Nor was there a significant energy difference between the conditions

A Tribute to Helmut Kallmann

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