Browsing by Subject "Diversity"
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Automatic Extraction of Closed Contours Bounding Salient Objects: New Algorithms and Evaluation Methods
(2015-08-28)The problem under consideration in this dissertation is achieving salient object segmentation of natural images by means of probabilistic contour grouping. The goal is to extract the simple closed contour bounding the ... -
Be(coming) the Change You Want to See in the World: Social Justice Teacher Education as Affective Craft
(2015-01-26)This dissertation begins from the difficulty faced by the field of social justice teacher education (SJTE) in setting itself apart from other aspects of teacher education. SJTE’s history of internal and external evidence ... -
Canadian Society Is Not Just Multicultural; It Is Multiversal
(2010)Multiversalism is a positive alternative to multiculturalism. Canada is a multiverse made up of many different identities and realms, which intersect and overlap. Canadian identity isn’t fixed or homogenous. Viewing Canada ... -
CERIS- The Ontario Metropolis Centre: Knowledge Exchange
(2013)Research symposia held by CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre were effective in promoting knowledge sharing between government, community organizations and universities. While the public sector creates policy, partnerships ... -
Diversity Is an Important Classroom Resource
(2008)After-school programs, focused on immigrant students and their parents, can improve the performance of students and also get parents more involved in their children’s schooling. It is important to use diversity as a resource ... -
"Ethnolects" and Varieties of Canadian English
(2013)‘Foreign’ language features of first-generation Canadians do not persist in their children and grandchildren. ‘Ethnolects’ should be viewed as ways that speakers of different ethnic backgrounds construct and convey their ... -
Extending Plant-Plant Facilitation Theory to Pollinators: Do Desert Shrubs Act as Magnets?
(2018-03-01)The magnet hypothesis proposes that flowering plants that attract pollinators can increase the relative pollination rates of neighbouring plants. The principal objective of this thesis was to 1) systematically review the ... -
"Girl You Better Apply to Teachers' College": The History of Black Women Educators in Ontario, 1940s - 1980s
(2017-07-27)Girl You Better Apply to Teachers College examines the role of black women educators in Ontario from the 1940s to the 1980s. In an attempt to contribute to historical analysis on black identity, citizenship and racial ... -
Groundbreaking Program Helps Make York Region More Inclusive
(2008)The IAP has begun the work of making York Region a more welcoming place for newcomers and visible minorities. It needs to continue to collaborate with the community and to raise awareness of its goals. -
How Does Diversity Affect Homelessness?
(2012)Diversities such as social class, culture, sexual orientation, disabilities and psychiatric conditions impact poverty and homelessness. -
Interculturalism and Physical Cultural Diversity in the Greater Toronto Area
(Cogitatio Press, 2017)The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is one of the most multicultural communities in the world. Frequently, this description is based on ethnic, linguistic, and culinary diversity. Physical cultural diversity, such as different ... -
Let's be Honest, Resident Participation and Inclusion in Hamilton's Neighbourhood Action
(2016-11-25)This research is a qualitative case study of a collaborative, resident-led community development initiative in Hamilton, Ontario. The study investigated how the initiative, known as Neighbourhood Action (NA), engages ... -
Multilingualism Strengthens Multiculturalism in Local Communities
(2012)Institutional spaces like schools provide opportunities for language preservation. They also help redefine integration in community-defined ways. However, many schools offer some resources in the way of ESL classes, but ... -
Not-for-Profit Boards Need to Be More Diverse
(2009)Women have made great strides in being represented on not-for-profit boards. But board members from different ethnic backgrounds and visible minorities have made much less progress. Boards with greater diversity are the ... -
Planners Need to Address the Needs of Diverse Communities in Toronto
(2008)City planners need to learn to work with increasingly diverse communities. Planners need to accept the fact that they cannot know the answer to a planning problem in advance. -
Statistical Modeling to Information Retrieval for Searching from Big Text Data and Higher Order Inference for Reliability
(2015-01-26)This thesis examined two research projects: probabilistic information retrieval modeling and third-order inference on reliability. In the first part of this dissertation, two research topics in the information retrieval ... -
Theorizing the Local: Diversity, Race and Belonging in the City of Toronto
(2016-11-25)This thesis engages with critical race and postcolonial theories to explore how race is reproduced and organized through diversity discourse in the City of Toronto. The central question of my research is: which historical ...