Alien Registration- Gouchie, John (Farmington, Franklin County)

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The Relationship Between Community Capitals and Quality of Life in Rural and Aboriginal Western Canadian Communities: Improving Policymaking Using a Place-Conscious Approach

Policymakers around the world now recognize that quality of life is an important indicator of what actually matters to communities. Also referred to as well-being, satisfaction, or happiness, quality of life is a complex, multidimensional construct pertaining to one’s place of residence, physical environment, social characteristics, experiences, and access to services within one’s local environment. Given the close relationship between local conditions and quality of life, using community capitals, or latent measures of the current state of communities’ various resources and capacities, to measure quality of life may provide policymakers with a more useful quality of life measure. This study uses secondary survey data to examine whether there is a relationship between community capitals and reported quality of life in rural western Canada. To explore quality of life as a product of the communities in which community capital stocks are created and experienced, this thesis will also examine whether and how the relationships between quality of life and community capitals may differ across Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in the study region. The results may help policymakers understand how different types of communities conceptualize themselves, as well as how they may pursue place-conscious policies that build upon current community capitals to maintain or improve quality of life in these communities in the future

Altered Cognitive Function in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer with LHRH Analogues and Cyproterone Acetate: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Objective. Luteinising hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) analogues have been associated with memory impairments in women using these drugs for gynaecological conditions. This is the first systematic investigation of the cognitive effects of LHRH analogues in male patients. Methods. 82 men with non-localised prostate cancer were randomly assigned to receive continuous leuprorelin (LHRH analogue), goserelin (LHRH analogue), cyproterone acetate (steroidal antiandrogen) or close clinical monitoring. These patients underwent cognitive assessments at baseline and before commencement of treatment (77) then 6 months later (65). Results. Compared with baseline assessments, men administered androgen suppression monotherapy performed worse in 2/12 tests of attention and memory. 24/50 men randomised to active treatment and assessed 6 months later demonstrated clinically significant decline in one or more cognitive tests but not one patient randomised to close monitoring showed a decline in any test performance. Conclusion. Pharmacological androgen suppression monotherapy for prostate cancer may be associated with impaired memory, attention and executive functions

Visual Laterality of Calf–Mother Interactions in Wild Whales

Behavioral laterality is known for a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Laterality in social interactions has been described for a wide range of species including humans. Although evidence and theoretical predictions indicate that in social species the degree of population level laterality is greater than in solitary ones, the origin of these unilateral biases is not fully understood. It is especially poorly studied in the wild animals. Little is known about the role, which laterality in social interactions plays in natural populations. A number of brain characteristics make cetaceans most suitable for investigation of lateralization in social contacts.) in the greatest breeding aggregation in the White Sea. Here we show that young calves (in 29 individually identified and in over a hundred of individually not recognized mother-calf pairs) swim and rest significantly longer on a mother's right side. Further observations along with the data from other cetaceans indicate that found laterality is a result of the calves' preference to observe their mothers with the left eye, i.e., to analyze the information on a socially significant object in the right brain hemisphere.Data from our and previous work on cetacean laterality suggest that basic brain lateralizations are expressed in the same way in cetaceans and other vertebrates. While the information on social partners and novel objects is analyzed in the right brain hemisphere, the control of feeding behavior is performed by the left brain hemisphere. Continuous unilateral visual contacts of calves to mothers with the left eye may influence social development of the young by activation of the contralateral (right) brain hemisphere, indicating a possible mechanism on how behavioral lateralization may influence species life and welfare. This hypothesis is supported by evidence from other vertebrates

The Influence of Behavioral, Social, and Environmental Factors on Reproducibility and Replicability in Aquatic Animal Models

The publication of reproducible, replicable, and translatable data in studies utilizing animal models is a scientific, practical, and ethical necessity. This requires careful planning and execution of experiments and accurate reporting of results. Recognition that numerous developmental, environmental, and test-related factors can affect experimental outcomes is essential for a quality study design. Factors commonly considered when designing studies utilizing aquatic animal species include strain, sex, or age of the animal; water quality; temperature; and acoustic and light conditions. However, in the aquatic environment, it is equally important to consider normal species behavior, group dynamics, stocking density, and environmental complexity, including tank design and structural enrichment. Here, we will outline normal species and social behavior of 2 commonly used aquatic species: zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Xenopus (X. laevis and X. tropicalis). We also provide examples as to how these behaviors and the complexity of the tank environment can influence research results and provide general recommendations to assist with improvement of reproducibility and replicability, particularly as it pertains to behavior and environmental complexity, when utilizing these popular aquatic models. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. All rights reserved.A.V.K. research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant 19-15-00053. He is the Chair of the International Zebrafish Neuroscience Research Consortium (ZNRC). This collaboration was supported, in part, through the NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748. The authors would like to thank Gregory Paull for sharing his photographs and insight into the natural habitat of zebrafish in Bangladesh

Alien Registration- Gouchie, John (Farmington, Franklin County)

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Counting Recidivism, and Achieving Sentencing Goals: A comparative study of the Canadian and Australian criminal justice systems with policy reform recommendations

When comparing recidivism rates between Canada (23.4%) and Australia (54.9%), Canada comes across as faring well above Australia in rehabilitation and deterring crime. This leads to the question, is Canada counting recidivism in a way that allows us to achieve our policy goals? Through a literature review, data is compiled on what recidivism data measures, sentencing, and rehabilitation programs – education and employment, all in relation to their impact on recidivism. The purpose of this paper is not only to compare Canadian and Australian measures of recidivism, but the countries’ criminal justice policies. In this sense it is a comparative study of the downstream effects of different approaches to measuring recidivism, sentencing and rehabilitation. The rate of recidivism, which is often referred to as the rate of return, is merely the count of how many individuals continue to commit crime after their initial offence. It is difficult to study recidivism comparatively due to the various nuances when measuring and counting recidivism across jurisdictions. This report will look at methods to count recidivism, sentencing, and rehabilitation programs