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Title: Go to the river: Understanding and experiencing the Liard watershed.
Contributors: Jeremy Staveley (author), Ang~le Smith (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This study contributes to an emerging space of interdisciplinary literature that explores the cultural dynamics people and rivers and the associated contestations. A network of rivers in northern British Columbia, all within the Liard River watershed, provides a relevant case study to examine such topics. Data and analysis are presented using a phenomenological approach that employs archival and participatory fieldwork. Through this research, I ask: why do people go to the river ? In attempting to understand the significance of rivers in people's lives, Go to the River addresses questions concerning the Liard watershed, including: how interpretations of rivers are represented in historic maps the significant transitions during the nineteenth and twentieth century that redefined human-river relations and how rivers are still experienced through direct lived engagements. I argue that past and present direct experiences with rivers are essential in reframing the dialogue about the future of rivers in western Canada. --P. ii.
Discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:12:36.195Z

Title: Hollow her out: Gendered corporeality and violence in Edna O'Brien's "Down by the River".
Contributors: Nicole Stiles (author), Dee Horne (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This thesis combines literary representation of hollow feminine bodies with contemporary cases of patriarchal authority over woman's bodies. Attorney General v. X (1992), an abortion case reflected in O'Brien's Down by the river (1998), outlines the control Irish courts hold over women. Because notions of hollow feminine bodies, or female bodies as vessels for political, religious and filial meaning are longstanding, their effects on female body identity are ultimately excessive. I outline how patriarchal political and religious constructions divide feminine experience by separating the feminine body from feminine identity. Aligning women with Ireland herself, the thesis illustrates an entrenched ideology of Irish feminine insecurity over possession of self and body. Ireland is an interesting case study because inseparable politics and religion create unavoidable, violent, and forceful oppressions of woman's agency. Colonization of feminine bodies further perpetuates the repressive culture of gendered corporeality, and validates masculine authority's possession of bodies as vehicles for cultural transference.
Discipline: English
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:05:35.782Z

Title: Face recognition using convolutional macropixel comparison approach
Contributors: Yunke Li (author), Liang Chen (thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution), Jernej Polajnar (committee member), Jianbing Li (committee member)
Abstract: Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a widely used deep learning framework and is applied in the field of face recognition achieving outstanding results. Macropixel Comparison Approach is a shallow mathematical approach that recognizes face by comparing original pixel blocks of face images. In this thesis, we are inspired by ideas of the currently popular deep neural network framework and introduce two features into the mathematical approach: deep overlap and weighted filter. The aim is exploring if the idea of deep learning could benefit mathematical method which might extends the scope of face recognition research. Results from our experiments show that the new proposed approach achives markedly better recognition rates than the original macropixel method.
Discipline: Computer Science
Date added: 2019-03-31T20:16:03.958Z

Title: Experimental study of multi-level regional voting scheme and its application in human face recognition.
Contributors: Jian Zhang (author), Liang Chen (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Based on previous regional voting scheme model studies and assumptions, we extend studies from two-level voting scheme models to multi-level voting scheme models. Due to mathematical complexity, we use the Monte Carlo approach in studying the stability of the multi-level regional voting scheme with respect to region sizes and levels. Using this model, we are able to obtain the stability characteristics of the national voting scheme, the two-level regional voting scheme, and the multi-level regional voting scheme, and apply it in FERET human face database. According to our study, we verify again that the regional voting scheme (including the two-level regional voting scheme and multi-level regional voting scheme) is always more stable than the national voting scheme. We find that the stability of the multi-level regional voting scheme is not as good as the stability of the two-level regional voting scheme when region size is within a certain range. Out of this range, the multi-level regional voting scheme may compete with the two-level voting scheme. We conclude that the multi-level regional voting scheme may be comparable to the two-level regional voting scheme and prove our conclusion in the face recognition application.
Discipline: Computer Science
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:03:44.07Z

Title: Human trafficking: an examination of available services and support in Prince George, B.C.
Contributors: Carolyn E. Emon (author), Neil Hanlon (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Human trafficking is an abhorrent crime that exists throughout the world, affecting communities of all sizes. Men, women, and children are treated as slaves and are forced into exploitive situations for both labour and sexual services. While the body of research on global human trafficking is growing, there are fewer studies that look at community-level care and support of victims, and even fewer that look at conditions in smaller urban centres where human trafficking is less prominent. The purpose of this interdisciplinary research is to address both these gaps by examining service provision for victims of trafficking in Prince George, British Columbia. I employ the conceptual lenses of intersectionality and heteronormativity to understand human trafficking victimization and the theory of social care to account for systems of care and support organized in response to this victimization. Using a case study approach, I conducted key-informant interviews with service providers in Prince George and Vancouver in order to understand the nature of service coordination and how service delivery differs in a small urban centre compared to a gateway metropolitan centre where human trafficking is more prevalent. My findings indicate that service providers' understandings of human trafficking differ, and that resource access and institutional conditions create barriers for victim identification and service coordination. Finally, I offer recommendations for policy and practice intended to enhance the capacity of local care and support networks to identify and offer help to victims. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
Date added: 2017-03-29T17:30:29.945Z

Title: Face recognition using Dual Linear Regression based Classification
Contributors: Yuan Wang (author), Liang Chen (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This project discusses a face recognition algorithm that uses Dual Linear Regression based Classification (DLRC) and a voting approach. Each face image used is first converted into a cluster of images each image in the cluster is obtained by shifting the original image a few pixels. The similarity of a pair of face images can be measured by comparing the distance between the corresponding image clusters, which is calculated using DLRC approach. To further improve performance, each cluster of images, representing a single face image, is then partitioned into a union of clusters of sub images. DLRC is then used to measure similarities between corresponding sub-image clusters to provide temporary identity decisions a voting approach is applied to make final conclusions. We have carried out experiments on a benchmark dataset for face recognition. The result demonstrates that the proposed approach works best in certain simple situations, while its performance is also comparable to known algorithms in complicated situations. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Computer Science
Date added: 2017-03-29T17:30:05.64Z

Title: Clinical supervision
Contributors: Katherine Marchand (author), Linda O'Neill (thesis advisor), John Sherry (committee member)
Abstract: Clinical supervision has been identified as a key component in combatting attrition in the human services field. Unfortunately, clinical supervision is not utilized in its full breadth, leaving workers to continuously suffer the consequences of cumulative stress from their complex work. This project is a result of a review of the literature on clinical supervision. The literature has indicated that clinical supervision is an essential tool for supporting workers to manage the emotional and psychological workplace hazards that they frequently encounter. The literature has identified three functions of clinical supervision and highlights that the administrative function is the one most often used.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2019-08-19T21:12:25.853Z

Title: That's phat
Contributors: Dominic Reiffarth (author), Ellen Petticrew (thesis advisor), Phil Owens (thesis advisor), Kerry Reimer (committee member), David Lobb (committee member), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Rivers and lakes are subject to various forms of pollution from anthropogenic activity and natural sources. Many pollutants, such as those from agricultural runoff, are transported in rivers by binding to sediment. Sediment itself is a pollutant, and is often an indicator of terrestrial erosive processes. Common methods of establishing sediment provenance on a broad scale include the use of fallout radio nuclides and geochemistry. In 2008, Dr. Max Gibbs published a sediment tracing article on the use of compound-specific stable isotopes (CSSIs) of plant origin which identified sediment sources based on land use in sub-tropical New Zealand. The objective of the research undertaken here was to apply the CSSI concept to agricultural watersheds in a northern, temperate climate. Two watersheds were selected: the Horsefly River Watershed (HRW) near Horsefly, BC, Canada and the South Tobacco Creek Watershed (STCW), near Miami, Manitoba, Canada. The HRW represented a mostly pristine watershed. The STCW represented a heavily cropped agricultural watershed. The HRW samples were used to develop laboratory methodology, while the STCW samples were used to evaluate the CSSI technique using carbon stable isotopes. The dissertation addresses the following: (i) literature review of plant biomarkers and spatial/temporal variability of CSSIs due to biological, environmental and analytical factors; (ii) methodology, analysis and variability associated with bulk soil and sediment isotope determination; (iii) methodologies for processing soil and sediment from sampling to isotope analysis; and (iv) spatial and temporal variability of CSSI tracers. The CSSI tracers were evaluated to reveal spatial and temporal variability of VLCFA concentrations and isotope signatures at the point, transect and field scales. Weighted t-tests were used to differentiate sediment sources spatially and temporally. The use of bulk carbon as a proxy for VLCFA concentrations in source apportioning was also explored. The work presented here demonstrates the ability of CSSIs to differentiate sediment sources based on land use. The development of analytical methods and the resulting analysis of soil and sediment extracts have indicated that VLCFAs may be isolated and quantified to generate reliable isotope data. The methods will hopefully lead to the standardization of CSSIs protocols.
Discipline: Natural Resources & Environmental Studies
Date added: 2019-03-29T17:46:55.274Z

Title: Local binary pattern network: a deep learning approach for face recognition
Contributors: Meng Xi (author), Liang Chen (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Deep learning is well known as a method to extract hierarchical representations of data. This method has been widely implemented in many fields, including image classification, speech recognition, natural language processing, etc. Over the past decade, deep learning has made a great progress in solving face recognition problems due to its effectiveness. In this thesis a novel deep learning multilayer hierarchy based methodology, named Local Binary Pattern Network (LBPNet), is proposed. Unlike the shallow LBP method, LBPNet performs multi-scale analysis and gains high-level representations from low-level overlapped features in a systematic manner. The LBPNet deep learning network is generated by retaining the topology of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and replacing its trainable kernel with the off-the-shelf computer vision descriptor, the LBP descriptor. This enables LBPNet to achieve a high recognition accuracy without requiring costly model learning approach on massive data. LBPNet progressively extracts features from input images from test and training data through multiple processing layers, pairwisely measures the similarity of extracted features in regional level, and then performs the classification based on the aggregated similarity values. Through extensive numerical experiments using the popular benchmarks (i.e., FERET, LFW and YTF), LBPNet has shown the promising results. Its results out-perform (on FERET) or are comparable (on LFW and FERET) to other methods in the same categories, which are single descriptor based unsupervised learning methods on FERET and LFW, and single descriptor based supervise learning methods with image-restricted no outside data settings on LFW and YTF, respectively. --Leaves i-ii.
Discipline: Computer Science
Date added: 2017-03-29T17:29:47.121Z

Title: Identifying and examining the social support services available to survivors of human trafficking in Prince George, B.C.
Contributors: Audrey Amponsah Fordjour (author), Heather Peters (thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia College of Arts, Social, and Health Sciences (Degree granting institution), Glen Schmidt (committee member), Bally Bassi (committee member)
Abstract: Human trafficking victims are exposed to traumatic experiences which require the attention of social workers. This practicum focused on identifying and examining the social support services available to survivors of human trafficking in Prince George, British Columbia (BC).This report details my educational experiences with the Prince George and District Elizabeth Fry Society. It also discusses some implications for social work practice. This unique practicum enabled me to gain and develop professional knowledge and skills to help and advocate for survivors of trafficking. It afforded me the opportunity to practice as a master of social work student and explore the experiences of practicing professionals within the agency. The findings of this practicum may enhance social work practice in the area of human trafficking. In particular, social workers would be able to use the outcome of this practicum to guide their delivery of services to survivors of human trafficking in BC.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2019-04-15T20:32:04.329Z

Title: Human trafficking in BC from 2000 to 2016
Contributors: Ursula M. Kroetsch (author), Heather Peters (thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution), Dawn Hemingway (committee member), Catherine Nolin (committee member)
Abstract: Public discourse on human trafficking in British Columbia has shifted from a primarily international narrative in the early 2000s, towards a more complex narrative that considers both international and domestic crimes in 2016. Based on fourteen semi-structured qualitative interviews, this research compares government personnel and front-line service providers’ observations about the narrative shift, as well as their overall understandings of what human trafficking crimes look like in the province. The findings indicate that an individual’s understanding of who is most commonly victimized, as well as their perceptions about overall rates of victimization are largely influenced by their professional interactions with victims. Education was perceived by both data groups to be a key component in developing more effective anti-trafficking strategies; however, participants divergent understandings of who is most at-risk continue to confuse the human trafficking debate and many of the structural causes of the crime remain unaddressed.
Discipline: Social Work
Date added: 2019-03-31T20:16:03.24Z

Title: Anlagasimdeex : the history of a Gitxsan settlement
Contributors: Erica Ball (author), Margaret Anderson (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The recent discovery (1995) of a petroglyph located within the traditional territories of the Gitxsan people leads me to an investigation of settlement at this site and the relocation of the residents. Information about the settlement at Anlagasimdeex, located on the Babine River three kilometers west of the village of Gisaga'as, is researched in the ethnographic, historical, and archaeological literature. As well, interviews with Gitxsan and non-Gitxsan informants are conducted, to add to the description of Anlagasimdeex obtained from these secondary sources. Settlement at Anlagasimdeex is shown to have extended over a time period of at least two hundred years, and possibly much longer. The settlement was notable for its excellence as a salmon harvesting site, of which the petroglyph may be a graphic representation. The relocation of Gitxsan people from Anlagasimdeex, and, at a later date, from the village of Gisaga'as, during the period 1880-1950, is found to be result of a number of factors. Finally, village residency is understood to be of secondary importance to the overarching definitions of Gitxsan identity through adaawk, wilp, and wilnaa'tahl.--Page ii.
Discipline: First Nations Studies
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:14:12.359Z

Title: Conservation and consumption : conflicted bedfellows in sea turtle conservation
Contributors: Cherise Anne Chrispen (author), Zoe Meletis (thesis advisor), Tracy Summerville (committee member), Philip Mullins (committee member), University of Northern British Columbia College of Science and Management (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This thesis explores relationships between consumption and conservation, via a case study of North American conservationists. I conducted an online survey (n=24), and examined respondent statements about their own consumption and that of others. Here, I consider these within contexts of community messaging, and related literatures (political ecology; consumption studies; social marketing). Four key themes emerge: 1) a primarily negative association with the term consumption, which influences and limits engagements with consumption; 2) mixed messaging about some encouraged consumption (e.g. sustainable seafood is promoted within this community, but is debated by respondents and researchers); 3) over-confidence in information provision as key to changing consumer behaviour, despite evidence to the contrary; and 4) limited recognition of ISTCC community success and power with respect to promoting and benefitting from “consuming to conserve” activities. This thesis ends with academic and applied recommendations for more comprehensive engagements with intersections between consumption and conservation.
Discipline: NRES-Geography
Date added: 2019-02-06T23:48:17.228Z

Title: Knowledge appurtenancy: Universities, regional development, and the knowledge-based economy.
Contributors: Robert van Adrichem (author), Tracy Summerville (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Northern regions in Canada are being left behind in the knowledge-based economy. Long dependent on natural resource extraction, these regions have powered provincial and national economies but are seeing their political and economic influence decline relative to metropolitan centres. Academics, public officials, and commentators suggest that, in order to survive, resource-based regions require government policies that will enable them to participate in an economy that now favours human capital over resource endowments. Appurtenancy is one such policy option. Originally used in the management of water and forest resources, appurtenancy provided the conditions for regional sustainability by formalizing a relationship between a community and its adjacent resources. This thesis illustrates that appurtenancy remains relevant in a knowledge-based economy. The literature on regional development in the knowledge-based economy emphasized the importance of universities in providing regions with human capital and the capacity for economic development. By analyzing the experiences of northern British Columbia and northern Manitoba in creating universities, this thesis shows how the principles and characteristics of appurtenancy are present in formalizing the relationship between these universities and their adjacent regions. The data from the case studies provide evidence of how the universities have a strong relationship with their regions, provide local benefits, and embody a new social contract involving these regions and the state. At its foundation, knowledge appurtenancy is based on regional responsibility and providing the capacity for sustainability in a knowledge-based economy. --P.ii.
Discipline: Political Science
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:05:43.888Z

Title: Human Rights and the Duty to Accommodate in Employment: Stakeholders' Knowledge and Attitudes.
Contributors: Daniel Huang (author), Shannon Wagner (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to measure the level of knowledge and the type of attitudes of key stakeholders on human rights and the duty to accommodate in employment in Canada. Two survey instruments, a 20 item true or false knowledge questionnaire and a 20 item seven point Likert scale attitudes questionnaire, developed by the researcher based on literature review, were administered to 160 participants. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were utilized for this study. Among all participants, the results indicated a general low level of knowledge with a mean score of 11.20 (SD = 2.317) and slightly positive attitudes with a mean score of 90.17 (SD = 14.098) on human rights and the duty to accommodate. Specifically, analysis indicated participants in the human resource occupation, in higher income brackets, working in larger organizations, in a unionized environment and in the public sector have more knowledge than their counterparts. There was also statistical significance for participants in the higher income brackets and working in a unionized environment demographic on the attitudes questionnaire. With respect to correlation factors, both academic attainment/knowledge level and knowledge/attitudes were slightly positively correlated at a statistically significant level. However, in both cases the coefficient of determination (R²) was relatively low at 0.021 and 0.068 respectively. Therefore, the variability of knowledge based on academic attainment and attitudes based on knowledge share 2.1% and 6.8% respectively. In essence, 97.9% and 93.2% of variability can be accounted for by other variables. --P. ii.
Discipline: Disability Management
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:11:37.974Z

Title: The effect of semantic distance in yes/no and go/no-go semantic categorization tasks
Contributors: Paul D Siakaluk (author), Lori Buchanan (author), Chris Westbury (author)
Abstract: The effect of semantic distance (Lund & Burgess, 1996) was examined in three semantic categorization experiments. Experiment 1, a yes/no task that required participants to make animal/nonanimal judgments by responding to both sets of stimuli (Forster & Shen, 1996), revealed no effect of semantic distance. Experiment 2, a go/no-go task that required participants to respond to only the experimental (i.e., nonanimal) items, revealed a large effect of semantic distance. In addition, response latencies were longer and error rates were lower to the experimental items in Experiment 2 than to those in Experiment 1. These findings were replicated in Experiment 3, in which semantic distance and task condition were manipulated within subjects. We conclude that these results are consistent with (1) the view that the go/no-go tasks elicited more extensive processing of the experimental items and (2) a connectionist account of semantic activation, whereby processing is facilitated by the presence of semantic neighbors. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.; The effect of semantic distance (Lund & Burgess, 1996) was examined in three semantic categorization experiments. Experiment 1, a yes/no task that required participants to make animal/nonanimal judgments by responding to both sets of stimuli (Forster & Shen, 1996), revealed no effect of semantic distance. Experiment 2, a go/no-go task that required participants to respond to only the experimental (i.e., nonanimal) items, revealed a large effect of semantic distance. In addition, response latencies were longer and error rates were lower to the experimental items in Experiment 2 than to those in Experiment 1. These findings were replicated in Experiment 3, in which semantic distance and task condition were manipulated within subjects. We conclude that these results are consistent with (1) the view that the go/no-go tasks elicited more extensive processing of the experimental items and (2) a connectionist account of semantic activation, whereby processing is facilitated by the presence of semantic neighbors.; The effect of semantic distance (Lund & Burgess, 1996) was examined in three semantic categorization experiments. Experiment 1, a yes/no task that required participants to make animal/nonanimal judgments by responding to both sets of stimuli (Forster & Shen, 1996), revealed no effect of semantic distance. Experiment 2, a go/no-go task that required participants to respond to only the experimental (i.e., nonanimal) items, revealed a large effect of semantic distance. In addition, response latencies were longer and error rates were lower to the experimental items in Experiment 2 than to those in Experiment 1. These findings were replicated in Experiment 3, in which semantic distance and task condition were manipulated within subjects. We conclude that these results are consistent with (1) the view that the go/no-go tasks elicited more extensive processing of the experimental items and (2) a connectionist account of semantic activation, whereby processing is facilitated by the presence of semantic neighbors.; The effect of semantic distance (Lund & Burgess, 1996) was examined in three semantic categorization experiments. Experiment 1, a yes/no task that required participants to make animal/nonanimal judgments by responding to both sets of stimuli (Forster & Shen, 1996), revealed no effect of semantic distance. Experiment 2, a go/no-go task that required participants to respond to only the experimental (i.e., nonanimal) items, revealed a large effect of semantic distance. In addition, response latencies were longer and error rates were lower to the experimental items in Experiment 2 than to those in Experiment 1. These findings were replicated in Experiment 3, in which semantic distance and task condition were manipulated within subjects. We conclude that these results are consistent with (1) the view that the go/no-go tasks elicited more extensive processing of the experimental items and (2) a connectionist account of semantic activation, whereby processing is facilitat d by the presence of semantic neighbors.
Date added: 2015-09-03T22:35:01.667Z

Title: Reshaping the land: an environmental history of Prince George, British Columbia
Contributors: Robert Neil Diaz (author), W.R. Morrison (Thesis advisor), D. del Mar (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This thesis describes how people interacted with the natural environment of Prince George up to 1915. In general, the author notes that relationship was based on resource extraction, which resulted in unprecedented changes in the land.
Discipline: History
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:14:54.179Z

Title: "They can't occupy this country": A symbolic anthropological approach to extraterrestrial encounter narratives in American culture.
Contributors: Lori J. Lees (author), Stan Beeler (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The mediums of film and television, both fiction and non-fiction, have significant influence on the construction of modern American culture. In the case of fictional media, public perception and experience is related to symbolic constructions that correspond to non-fiction subjects. In American culture, the extraterrestrial is given cultural significance as a symbol, in certain narrative incarnations, which poses a threat to the American values of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. These three values can be encompassed by the ideology of autonomy, and the ET can be seen as an encompassing symbol in opposition to autonomy. American media and culture are the primary focus of this study because, although themes of alien contact and encounter are also embedded in Canada and many other Western nations, the American media and entertainment industries are firmly established, have the broadest reach, and have the most impact worldwide. --P.ii.
Discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:03:10.113Z

Title: Exhuming Guatemala's gender-based violence: Justice, truth-telling, and rebuilding in a post-conflict society.
Contributors: Cristian Marcelo Silva Zuniga (author), Catherine Nolin (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This interdisciplinary thesis is grounded in forensic anthropology, feminist geography, and the violent history of the past century in Guatemala. I seek to determine a link between past and present gender-based violence in Guatemala. Historically, Guatemala has been gripped in periods of political, economic and social transitions. I argue that gender-based violence becomes most pervasive during these periods of transition, and suggest that the 36-year armed conflict that began in 1960 exacerbated the pre-existing forms of gender-based violence that began before the Spanish Conquest. I describe the characteristics of gender-based violence as they differ between men and women despite the fact that more men were and are murdered in Guatemala than women, the method by which women have been and are killed is personal, with greater physical contact than in the cases of men. This form of violence is labeled femicide, that is, the killing of women because they are women, a crime associated with the impunity that perpetrators are granted by the state. The research for my thesis was in collaboration with the Fundación de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala (Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Foundation) (FAFG), the Fundación Sobrevivientos (Survivor Foundation) (FS), and the Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres (Guatemalan Group of Women) (GGM). Based on this fieldwork conducted in Guatemala in May 2008, I share the interviews of family members of victims as they voice their testimonies of violence. I examine the history of violence that occurred in the preceding 100 years, since the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898-1920) who introduced the ideology of the Caudillo to the emerging nation state. Post-peace gender-based violence, the period of violence since the signing of the Peace Accord in 1996, is explored, and I provide evidence that there is an increase in gender-based violence, despite the declaration of peace. The challenges to reconciliation are described using a framework of forensic investigation to
Discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:11:25.179Z

Title: Stimulus-Specific Neglect in a Deep Dyslexic Patient
Contributors: Paul D Siakaluk (author), Lori Buchanan (author)
Abstract: We report a patient (B.V.) who appears to suffer from two dyslexic disorders. First, B.V. showed a severe impairment in reading aloud nonwords (e.g., reading TREST as TREE), in addition to making several semantic errors when reading aloud words (e.g., reading ILL as SICK) and in picture naming (e.g., responding KNIFE to a picture of a FORK). These results suggest that B.V. suffers from deep dyslexia. Second, B.V. showed an impairment in reading the final letters of both words and nonwords (e.g., reading SHOWN as SHORT and reading PROGE as PROOF). Thus, it appears that B.V. also suffers from neglect dyslexia. We discuss how these two forms of dyslexia could be interacting to account for B.V.'s pattern of errors in reading aloud words and nonwords and in picture naming.; We report a patient (B.V.) who appears to suffer from two dyslexic disorders. First, B.V. showed a severe impairment in reading aloud nonwords (e.g., reading TREST as TREE), in addition to making several semantic errors when reading aloud words (e.g., reading ILL as SICK) and in picture naming (e.g., responding KNIFE to a picture of a FORK). These results suggest that B.V. suffers from deep dyslexia. Second, B.V. showed an impairment in reading the final letters of both words and nonwords (e.g., reading SHOWN as SHORT and reading PROGE as PROOF). Thus, it appears that B.V. also suffers from neglect dyslexia. We discuss how these two forms of dyslexia could be interacting to account for B.V.'s pattern of errors in reading aloud words and nonwords and in picture naming.
Date added: 2015-09-03T22:35:00.533Z