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• Indigenous Geographies in the Yucatan: Learning From the Responsibility- Based Maya Environmental Ethos

  This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "being part of the land," specifically among the Mayan community of Xuilub (Yucatan), Mexico, is guided by the cultural precept of 'responsibility-based' thinking. The work uniquely adds much needed insights into 'responsibility-based' thinking for land-use practices, and develops a theoretical framework for assessing historical impacts on Indigenous cultures and livelihoods. In six chapters, the text bridges Western and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) approaches to achieve deeper understanding of IKs, focusing on more Indigenous-centered methods, with the goal of expanding the disciplinary perspectives of postcolonial scholarship and Indigenous geographies.
• Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies Chapter: An Unprecedented Dichotomy: Impacts and Consequences of Serbian Internment in Canada during the Great War

  Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures - past and present - which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. This volume offers a unique blend of personal memoirs of survivors and their descendants, alongside the work of community activists, public historians, and scholars, all of whom raise questions about how and why in Canada basic civil liberties have been (and, in some cases, continue to be) denied to certain groups in times of perceived national crises. The book received the Manitoba Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Award for the best scholarly book in 2020.
• Satellite dynamics in a Yukawa correction to the gravitational potential as predicted of many gravity theories today

  Many of today’s gravity theories predict the existence of a non-Newtonian Yukawa-type correction to the gravitational potential. New experimental techniques, such as Sagnac interferometry, may help in exploring the range λ ≥ 1014 m where such forces are possibly measurable. It is expected that future space missions will operate in this range, which has not been examined for a very long time. Restricting ourselves to an Earth orbiting satellite we follow a perturbing-potential approach applied on the Lagrange planetary equations, in order to study the effect of such a non-Newtonian potential in the range λ ∼= 1.073RE. This is achieved by calculating the time rates of change of the orbital elements for the earth orbiting satellite GRACE-A. All these time rates have been calculated on the Keplerian and the precessing Keplerian ellipse of the body under study. Of all the orbital elements, the argument of the perigee is most affected by this potential.
• MAPLE in Mathematics Education and Research Conference

  Published proceedings of the Maple in Mathematics Education and Research: Third Maple Conference, MC 2019, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 15–17, 2019.
• Learning and Intelligent Optimization

  This volume captures revised selected papers from the 14th International Conference, LION 14, held in Athens, Greece, May 24–28, 2020. Articles include the following: Early Detection of Eating Disorders Through Machine Learning Techniques Travel Times Equilibration Procedure for Route-Flow Traffic Assignment Problem Impact of the Discretization of VOCs for Cancer Prediction Using a Multi-Objective Algorithm
• Dynamics of Disasters: Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions

  This book provides an overview of the tactical points involved in disaster relief. It outlines hurdles from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery. Finally, it uses mathematical models to describe natural and man-made disasters.
• Algorithm Portfolios: Advances, Applications, and Challenges

  This book is designed to be a primary reference point for researchers and doctoral students seeking a quick guide to algorithm portfolios. It provides essential insights about choices of algorithms and configurations to tackle optimization problems. The book concluded with exploring future directions, new challenges, and open problems.
• The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning

  Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this Handbook, written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are covered and organized thematically across sections dealing with skill development, individual differences, pedagogical interventions and approaches, and context and environment.
• Public Health Survey

  The objective of the research project was to better understand the demographics, attitudes and professional concerns of public health professionals in Canada with particular emphasis on the interaction between scientific evidence and policymakers. The team designed and executed a pair of surveys that was fielded to two different populations: Canadian public health professionals and the general population. These surveys asked questions that solicit respondents’ experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic, their general political attitudes, and demographic characteristics. Public health professionals were also asked unique questions about how they interacted with policy makers and political leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The information gleaned from this analysis will improve the capacity to advocate for public health measures and provide effective advice to the public and policymakers.
• My 15 Minute City - StoryMaps about Downtown Kitchener

  My 15 Minute City is a multimedia project with oral narratives, videos and maps specifically about walking to discover the virtues of downtown Kitchener as a 15 minute city. It presents a multimedia, digital, multi-dimensional, and multidisciplinary representation of the place, and the experience of people in that place. This project is a collection of StoryMaps that provide a multimedia virtual experience of walking around My 15 Minute City in downtown Kitchener (DTK), Ontario. I define My 15 Minute City as the area encompassed by a 15 minute walking radius (1,000 metres) around the intersection of King and Queen Streets. The area is shown on the map by the purple circle and includes the downtown core and its surrounding neighbourhoods. The collection is organized into two parts, stories about downtown Kitchener as-a-whole, and stories about specific places and events in the downtown. The project is an outcome of my living, learning, teaching, and doing research in DTK for 30 years.
• WinSights: Research-backed Resources for Inclusive Science by the Laurier Centre for Women in Science (WinS)

  In collaboration with over 40 talented students from 2018-2021, the Laurier Centre for Women in Science (WinS) presents research-backed resources for inclusive science.
• Research Chat Episode 2: Signpost Creation to Envision a More Just, Safe Climate
• Numerical Methods: Basics and Coding in MATLAB

  This book teaches the basics of numerical methods and how to code them in MATLAB. This book has been written by four authors from different universities: Foad Ghasemi (Laurier, Canada), Ahmad Ghasemi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA), Hamed Ghasemi (Shiraz University, Iran) and Hamed Aderang (Hormozgan Regional Water Company, Iran).
• Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation

  The second edition of this defining handbook provides an up-to-date reference on approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration. It includes the origins, development, and prospects of electronic negotiation, as well as on-line or computer-based arbitration. It constitutes a comprehensive guide to how traditional issues in negotiation, such as knowledge, language, strategy, fairness and justice, have been transformed by technology.
• Field Guide to Solid State Physics

  This Field Guide provides an overview of the basic principles of solid state physics, focusing on the practical aspects and device applications. Topics include crystal structures and dynamics, band structures, quantum structures, semiconductors, superconductors, and magnetism. Essential equations and simple diagrams efficiently convey the concepts that form the core of this field.
• Linear Algebra

  This book is intended as a textbook for a one-term undergraduate second linear algebra course, which prepares students for both applied mathematics and pure mathematics, in particular, for Galois Theory.
• Group Dynamics in Sport

  Group Dynamics in Sport, 5th edition, provides readers with the most current theories and practices of group dynamics in sport teams. In this updated edition, each chapter identifies and discusses key theoretical concepts of group dynamics and offers extensive and relevant examples that reinforce the principles covered.
• Classroom Activity Breaks Improve On-task Behaviour and Physical Activity Levels Regardless of Time of Day

  Abbey Broad completed her Master’s research examining how classroom activity breaks improve on-task behaviour and physical activity levels regardless of time of day, under the supervision of Dr. Tom Hazell. Dr. Jennifer Robertson-Wilson and Dr. Pamela Bryden were on Abbey’s thesis committee. The work has been accepted for publication in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. The Sun Life Centre for Physically Active Communities (CPAC), under the direction of Dr. Bryden, realized the importance of Abbey’s work so commissioned her to create a series of short activity videos. Given the impact on physical activity in the last year and half with the Covid-19 pandemic and the closures of schools in Ontario, such quick activity breaks are even more important. CPAC has begun to circulate the videos and positive reviews from teachers have already been heard. Forty brief activity break videos have been made featuring Abbey Board (MKin, currently working on her B.Ed).
• Aging of Atmospheric Aerosols and the Role of Iron in Catalyzing Brown Carbon Formation

  This review in Environmental Science: Atmospheres highlights the role of the element iron in changing the physical and chemical properties of atmospheric particles and how these changes contribute to climate change.
• Temperature Regulation of Plant Hormone Signaling During Stress and Development

  It is important to understand how fluctuating temperatures regulate important plant hormone signaling pathways so that we can develop climate-smart crops that can withstand weather extremes in our dynamically changing world. Increasing average temperatures and more frequent heat waves have negative effects on the food we grow and wild species in natural ecosystems and causes stress in plants. How a plant responds to these temperature extremes is governed by plant hormones. In this review, we highlight our current understanding of how changing temperatures regulate plant hormone pathways during immunity, stress responses, and development. Here we present an overview of known temperature-sensitive or temperature-reinforced molecular hubs in hormone biosynthesis, homeostasis, signaling, and downstream responses. These include recent advances in temperature regulation at the genomic, transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and post-translational levels—directly linking some plant hormone pathways to known thermosensing mechanisms. Where applicable, diverse plant species and various temperature ranges are presented, along with emerging principles and themes.
• Grasslands and Climate Change

  Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects of climate change on world grasslands, a process we are only just starting to understand.
• The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games

  We envisioned The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games as means of sharing 30 years of our research on the two economic engines that forever changed the look and feel of the Olympic Games – television and corporate sponsorship. In setting out a plan for this book, Bob and I isolated the ten most important milestone events during the IOC presidencies of Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Jacques Rogge, and devoted a chapter to each of them. We used historical storytelling and biography as the means of driving the narrative, inviting both specialist and general readers into the story of the evolution of the Olympics.
• Canada's Holy Grail: Lord Stanley's Political Motivation to Donate the Stanley Cup

  In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Stanley Cup to crown the first Canadian hockey champions. Canada’s Holy Grail documents Lord Stanley’s personal politics, his desire to affect Canadian nationality and unity, and the transformations in Anglo-liberal political thought at the time. This book posits that the Stanley Cup fit directly within Anglo-American traditions of using sport to promote ideas of the national, and the donation of the cup occurred at a moment in history when Canadian nationalists needed identifying symbols. Jordan B. Goldstein asserts that only with a transformation in Anglo-liberal thought could the state legitimately act through culture to affect national identity. Drawing on Lord Stanley’s archives and statements by politicians and hockey enthusiasts, Canada’s Holy Grail integrates political thought into sport history through the discussion of a championship trophy that still stands as one of the most well-known and recognized Canadian national symbols.
• Anthropocene Geopolitics

  We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth’s major extinctions. The rapid, large-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways.
• The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

  Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. The Death of Asylum won the 2020 Globe Award from the Association of American Geographers for advancing public understandings of geography.