On November 24, 2021, Dr. Ratna Ghosh, a Distinguished James McGill Professor and W.C. Macdonald Professor of Education at McGill University, presented on Bridging Education and Law Enforcement for ...Countering Violent Extremism at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question and answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed included the utilization of soft versus hard power approaches against violent extremism, how radicalization triggers can be addressed in schools, and how communities can contribute to the prevention of youth radicalization.
Although international students have been a notable research topic in higher education for more than 100 years, to date only one qualitative literature review has been published on the topic. In ...order to help researchers better understand the intellectual landscape of global research related to international students, we conducted a quantitative scientometric review of 3685 relevant journal articles published between 1900 and 2018 and indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. The findings show that the number of articles published in the field has increased rapidly, especially since 2006, and this expansion has been led primarily by Australia, the U.K., and the USA, as these three countries not only produced most of the high-yielding research institutions and productive authors, but also published a majority of the prolific journals. Among the numerous topics discussed in these selected articles, cross-cultural adjustment, mental health problems, second-language acquisition, intercultural development, and student migration were most frequently studied, while social integration, graduate employability, and student satisfaction have emerged as new trends. These results complement the existing qualitative literature review from a quantitative perspective and provide valuable insights into and implications for global research related to international students.
The Invisible Community Bakhshaei, Mahsa; Mc Andrew, Marie; Ghosh, Ratna ...
2021, 2021-02-01
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The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of ...immigration in Canada.
Canada resettled over 74,000 Syrian refugees since 2015. However, education programs lack awareness needed to successfully promote refugee academic integration. Little research focuses on young adult ...refugees (YARs) aged out of traditional schools due to asylum displacement and disrupted education, left with adult education schools as their only alternative to complete high school. Drawing upon 29 semi-structured interviews with Syrian YARs in Montreal, findings suggest that this subgroup is unintentionally excluded by educational policy-makers. Although YARs are survivors, their drive was found to be insufficient when confronted with systemic barriers that prevent at-risk students from proceeding smoothly through school to reach their highest potential.
The material characterizations of piezo elements are often done using their modal analysis. Vibration of the piezo element depends on its geometry, poling directions and recommended aspect ratios. Of ...these, the choice of the aspect ratio is most common in order to ensure the modes of resonance, which generate vibrational motion in a specified direction. It is widely reported that for a disc type piezo element or buzzer, both sides of which are plated and which is excited across its thickness, the dominant mode is the thickness longitudinal mode of vibration. In this paper, the material characterization of such thin radial disc piezo buzzers and of the same piezo buzzer attached with an aluminium substrate of same shape and size has been inferred from their impedance characteristics, considering the thickness longitudinal mode of vibration. For this, the impedance characteristics have been determined from an impedance model that has been derived using the constitutive laws in the audio frequency range. Thereafter, the equivalence of this model to an electrical equivalent impedance model, which consists of series connected passive impedance blocks, has been established. This provides the basis for the estimation of two complex material characteristics of the piezo buzzer as well as its modification.
Radicalization is a complicated phenomenon, which is caused by multiple factors, including poor housing, low education, and unemployment, according to a study by the French Institute of International ...Relations (Hecker, 2018; Macaluso, 2016). France has a high number of radicalized terrorists, most of whom are homegrown, often with strong cultural ties to former French colonial countries in North Africa (IFRI, 2018). This paper aims to illustrate how social exclusion and marginalization created and perpetuated by the inequalities in the French society and education system (Bourdieu, 1971; Croizet et al, 2019; Goodman 2019; Jetten et al., 2020; Vanten, 2016), may be contributing to the radicalization of many young French citizens. This push factor could be a key precondition for radicalization in many Western societies (Ghosh et al., 2016). While critiquing the French education system, this study insists that schools can and must create a sense of connection with their students and construct resilient and inclusive communities (da Silva, 2017, Ghosh et al., 2017; OECD, 2012). Finally, some pedagogical approaches, especially care in education, are suggested for educational institutions and school agents to effectively build a sense of belonging among young students that would enhance their resilience against radicalization.
Phosphoinositides represent only a small percentage of the total cellular lipid pool. Yet, these molecules play crucial roles in diverse intracellular processes such as signal transduction at ...membrane‐cytosol interface, regulation of membrane trafficking, cytoskeleton organization, nuclear events, and the permeability and transport functions of the membrane. A central principle in such lipid‐mediated signaling is the appropriate coordination of these events. Such an intricate coordination demands fine spatial and temporal control of lipid metabolism and organization, and consistent mechanisms for specifically coupling these parameters to dedicated physiological processes. In that regard, recent studies have identified Sec14‐like phosphatidylcholine transfer protein (PITPs) as “coincidence detectors,” which spatially and temporally link the diverse aspects of the cellular lipid metabolome with phosphoinositide signaling. The integral role of PITPs in eukaryotic signal transduction design is amply demonstrated by the mammalian diseases associated with the derangements in the function of these proteins, to stress response and developmental regulation in plants, to fungal dimorphism and pathogenicity, to membrane trafficking in yeast, and higher eukaryotes. This review updates the recent advances made in the understanding of how these proteins, specifically PITPs of the Sec14‐protein superfamily, operate at the molecular level and further describes how this knowledge has advanced our perception on the diverse biological functions of PITPs.
In this paper, the conventional Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm has been systematically extended to the estimated measurement (EKF-EM) paradigm. The derivation of the EKF-EM state and state ...error estimates establishes the relation of the robustness and sensitivity metrics to the measurement projected Kalman gain. Recently, these metrics are being used ad-hoc for obtaining desired EKF performances in various signal processing applications. The EKF-EM is used to develop a process noise adjustment algorithm to tune the EKF for balanced performances. This proposed method is applied and validated in 3 diverse applications:(a) ensure convergent comparable filter performances for an originally divergent EKF in the 3D Lorenz attractor problem, (b) obtain spectral and audio improvement of a practical noise corrupted speech signal and (c) determine a suitable process model out of several options for balanced filter performances in a realistic 2D ballistic target tracking scenario.
•Systematic extension of EKF in estimated measurement (EKF-EM) paradigm.•EKF-EM based process noise adjustment algorithm for balanced performances of EKF.•Ensured convergence of originally divergent EKF in the 3D Lorenz attractor problem.•Spectral and audio improvement of practical noise corrupted speech signal.•Informed choice of suitable process model for 2D ballistic target tracking scenario.
The emergence of religiously motivated terrorist attacks and the increasing xenophobia expressed in Europe concern religions in many ways. Questions related to religion also lie at the core of ...educational aims and practices used to create national cohesion and understanding about different types of values and worldviews. However, despite the topicality of the issue, we have little knowledge about the ways in which young adults experience religions in a secular state. In order to contribute to the discussion regarding the relationships between religion, nationality, security, and education, this study focuses on investigating how politically active young adults experience the role of religions in Finnish society. The qualitative data of this study were collected from young adults (18–30-year-olds) through an online questionnaire distributed through political youth organisations. The content analysis of the responses (altogether 250 respondents) identified five main orientations towards religions. The findings highlight the importance of providing young people with education about different faiths and worldviews for reducing prejudices, especially those related to Islam. The findings also highlight the need to address in education and society the possible but not as self-evident relationship between violence and religion, and to do this more explicitly than is currently done.
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