Published proceedings of the Maple in Mathematics Education and Research: Third Maple Conference, MC 2019, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 15–17, 2019.
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
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Larissa Sloutsky won a Prix Maupassant 2020 for her doctoral thesis on the famous short story by Guy de Maupassant, "Boule de suif", and its cinematographic adaptations.
Dr. Sloutsky received her PhD in French Literature, entitled 'Consécration d'Élisabeth Rousset: de l'encre à l'écran 'Boule de Suif' de Guy de Maupassant par l'iconographie filmique,' from Western University. The Awards Ceremony took place virtually on August 5, 2020.
Les Prix Maupassant is an exclusive annual event organised by the Maupassant museum to celebrate and commemorate the life, great achievements and contributions of the French and international author, Guy de Maupassant.
Victorian Whitechapel is synonymous with Jack the Ripper and not much else. And yet this was a vibrant, complex, and multifaceted community. This pilot project looks at newspaper representations of Whitechapel before, during, and after the 1888 murders.
The heart of the project is an interactive map that tracks stories about Whitechapel associated with a specific location, and charts whether they were positive, negative, or neutral. In this way, users can get a fuller picture the place of this fascinating neighborhood in popular culture.
This digital humanities resource provides several open access sources for the Libellus de patientia, a treatise composed in 1524 by the Dutch humanist Cornelius Aurelius (d.1531) while he was in prison suspected of Lutheran sympathies.
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.
A series of academic research projects relating to the structure and efficiency of financial markets were presented and discussed. PhD students presented their research via a poster session.
Presented at the Guitar Foundation of America online conference in June 2020, this lecture is a history of women's contributions to Guitar Orchestras from the 1800s to present day.
The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (formerly the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies), in partnership with the Canadian Battlefields Foundation and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society and the Juno Beach Centre Association, presented the Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series.
Airing every two weeks, from May to September, the series followed Canadian and British Commonwealth soldiers as they landed on D-Day in June 1944 and fought their way inland at the Battle of Normandy.
The fourth episode of Research Chat features Allison Petrozziello, a feminist migration researcher and human rights advocate who is pursuing a PhD in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is affiliated with the International Migration Research Centre. A specialist in gender, migration, human rights, and development, she spoke about her research on the exclusion of migrant and refugees’ children from birth registration and how it creates a risk of statelessness.
Handpicked: Stories from the Field features stories about sustainable food systems research and action affiliated with the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. The podcast series includes conversations with researchers, community partners, students, and food systems actors.
Great Battles in History explores some of the most famous battles in world history. Each three- to four-hour episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes.
A hybrid co-op primer and research report, Sharing Like We Mean It: Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors is based on a survey of more than 100 co-operatives in Canada, the UK, and the US. It offers a snapshot of the co-op landscape in creative industries, explores what co-operative work can look like in practice, and features profiles of several worker co-ops.
From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits is a practical primer on the ways of understanding, building, designing and innovating an effective digital fundraising program. With a strong foundation, there’s no limit to what you will be able to build.
As games grow ever-more ubiquitous in our culture and communities, they have become popular staples in public library collections and are increasing in prominence in academic ones. Many librarians, especially those who are not themselves gamers or are only acquainted with a handful of games, are ill-prepared to successfully advise patrons who use games. This book provides the tools to help adult and youth services librarians to better understand the gaming landscape and better serve gamers in discovery of new games.
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).
This book contains a wealth of practical arts activities that creatively bring positive psychology concepts to life. It gives overviews of different positive psychology concepts, with accompanying arts activities and case illustrations.
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.
