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speaker: kevin donald willison, (phd - community health, social and behavioral health sciences, university of toronto).

after a period of three months an e-module knowledge mobilization tool was developed as of february 2023.  this was created by a student it team from nait (the northern alberta institute of technology) as well as a content developer (dr. kevin willison) from 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . spearheaded (funded) by the canadian association of research ethics boards this e-module will help educate research ethics board members and stakeholders across canada on the importance of ethics within community-based participatory research initiatives.  careb is a national membership organization intended to represent the interests of all canadian research ethics boards, and to reflect reb perspectives and concerns. associated with the theme for this year's r&i week "improving our lives through research" this particular project aims to beneficially impact the lives of individuals as well as communities, not only for those within ontario but also across canada (and possibly beyond).

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dr. kevin willison completed his honours undergraduate degree (major: sociology) at queen’s university (kingston) and his master’s degree (major: sociology) at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 (thunder bay). he earned his ph.d. (major: community health) via the division of social and behavioural health sciences from the university of toronto (faculty of public health sciences). he has served as a faculty member with 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 continuously since 2007. he is currently a faculty member of the department of sociology as well as the department of health sciences at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . moreover, since 2021 dr. willison has served as an alternate research ethics board member with the thunder bay regional health sciences centre. a sample of kevin’s 12+ internationally distributed peer-reviewed publications may be found on academia.edu, research gate and, within such databases as sociofile, psycinfo, cinahl and, pubmed.

date/time:  april 18, 2023; 1:00 pm
to register for this event, please click here.

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please join denise baxter, vice-provost of indigenous initiatives, to learn how to work towards reconciliation in your organization. participants will explore ways to demonstrate a commitment to indigenous relations through their leadership actions, employment initiatives and recruiting activities, business development and relationship building with indigenous businesses, and through their community engagement.

date: wednesday, march 8
time: 7 to 8 p.m.
location: oa 1022, simcoe hall, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 | 500 university ave., orillia

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denise has served as vice-provost of indigenous initiatives since 2017. she also teaches in the department of indigenous learning and department of continuing education. denise is completing her phd in equity and indigenous education at york university. as an established education leader, denise has worked in multiple contexts including public school boards, the ministry of education, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , and first nations private schools for the past 28 years. within each of these contexts, she has built capacity and partnerships with multiple community stakeholders. her work with the community has involved education conferences, workshop presentations, and traditional pedagogy. she currently serves on three services boards in thunder bay, as trustee for keewatin patricia dsb and an edi advisory committee provincially.

a marten falls first nation member, she maintains that preserving and practicing cultural traditions and ceremony keeps her connected to the community, indigenous cultures, traditions, and protocols. she works to establish networks, strengthen relationships with indigenous communities and governments, and build capacity between indigenous, public, and private partners which have supported multiple initiatives that advance educational outcomes for indigenous 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 .

join 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 on thursday, march 9, to learn about how it takes a community to be cyber-secure. regional experts, dr. amir ameli, assistant professor in the faculty of engineering at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , detective sergeant vern crowley, opp cyber crimes investigation team, and laura payne, chief enablement officer and vp security consulting at white tuque, will discuss how to keep yourself, business and community safe.

sponsored by the town of innisfil, county of simcoe, city of barrie, city of orillia, and georgian college.

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the event will feature new music composed and performed by lu 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and faculty. this music presentation showcases creativity as a significant part of the 2023 research and innovation week theme "improving our lives through research.”                                                         

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阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 new music ensemble, dr. aris carastathis (director).

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lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries are commonly used in electric vehicles (evs). however, the li-ion battery performance degrades over time due to problems such as capacity degradation and impedance growth over time. a reliable battery health monitoring and prognostics system is very beneficial to diagnose the battery's state-of-health and predict the remaining-useful-life in order to improve battery performance. this speech presents a new technology to improve battery state-of-health monitoring and remaining useful life prediction. an enhanced particle filter technique is proposed to reduce the impact of sample degeneracy and impoverishment in state estimation. an evolving neurofuzzy predictor is developed to deal with the lack of new battery measurements during the prognostic period.

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dr. wilson wang received his bsc in electromechanical engineering (sit in china), msc in mechanical engineering (northeastern university in china), meng in industrial engineering (university of toronto), and phd in mechatronics engineering (university of waterloo) in 2002. from 2002 to 2004, he was a senior scientist at mechworks systems inc. in waterloo, ontario. he joined 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 in 2004, and is currently a professor in the department of mechanical engineering. his research interests include mechatronics, artificial intelligence, machinery diagnostics, system state prognostics, and smart sensors. he received the lu distinguished research award in 2017, and was a lu research
chair from 2019-2022. he has supervised 35 thesis-based msc 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 , 16 phd, and 10 postdoctoral fellows. he is also a fellow of international society of engineering asset management.

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in the last ten years, particularly in the last five, research involving pre-trained language models has expanded rapidly. these language models are expected to assist in fabricating text devoid of human prejudices and biases, and in order to meet such high standards, it is essential that key application areas are clearly delineated and accepted by subject matter experts. this will help determine whether the results obtained by these models are credible and may be implemented in practical applications.

in this research presentation, i will introduce the applications and novelties of natural language processing based solutions to better tackle the computational, as well as ethical issues arising from the domains of education, political discourses on social media and news channels, and the emotions expressed in conversation. the key areas of research include semantic similarity of words and sentences; sentiment, stance and emotion analysis of text and recognizing despondency in text. given that these research projects have direct applications in government agencies, i will further discuss the partnership projects with thunder bay regional health sciences centre.

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vijay mago is an associate professor and faculty-based research chair in computational ethics for natural language processing at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , on. he received his phd in computer science from panjab university, india in 2010, and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the irmacs centre, simon fraser university, bc. before joining 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 in 2015, he worked as a tenure-track assistant professor in the united states. his research interests include big data analytics, health informatics, text analysis, natural language processing and modeling and simulation of complex systems. within the past six years, vijay’s research lab has received over $2.5m fundings from nserc, sshrc, mitacs, canada revenue agency, ontario council on articulation & transfer (oncat) as well as other industry partners. with his 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and collaborators, he has published over 100 papers, many of which have been patented and implemented directly by industrial partners. vijay serves as an associate editor for bmc medical informatics and peerj computer science journals and is an active member of ieee, acm and the american medical informatics association.

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enhancing the prevention of injury and disability @ work (epid@work) is a research centre that focuses on increasing workplace health and safety.  this panel will present three current opportunities for employers, employees, 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 , and researchers to get involved with community-based research.  come and join us to learn about new and exciting projects on mental health stigma, improving sleep for high risk workers, and an upcoming cohort study.                                                               

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kathy sanderson

dr. kathy sanderson is an associate professor of human resources and organizational behaviour in the faculty of business administration.  she is the assistant director and theme lead for equity, diversity, and inclusion with epid@work research centre.  kathy’s research focuses on reducing pain at work, in the areas of emotional abuse, newcomer welcoming, mental health stigma and employee retention in northwestern ontario.  she is a registered psychotherapist (ontario) and provides employment-based crisis intervention services.

deborah scharf

deborah scharf, phd (university of pittsburgh, 2009) is a clinical and health psychologist and an associate professor of psychology at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . she is also the mental health lead for epid@work. dr. scharf's research includes studies of healthcare access for poor and underserved groups; behavioural health delivery systems; cannabis and tobacco use, treatment, and policy; behavioural healthcare services for injured workers, military personnel, and veterans; and innovations in in vivo electronic data capture. dr. scharf provides psychological services to injured workers in the community and trains graduate 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to do the same.

vicki kristman

dr. vicki kristman is a professor in the department of health sciences and director and senior scientist of the epid@work research institute at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . she holds a 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 -ontario research chair in injury & disability prevention. she conducts research to better understand factors associated with health and disability in the workplace to develop and test interventions to improve the lives of workers.

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media fandom has been an object of academic inquiry since the 1990s, with much of the early theories of fandom describing it as a largely subversive subculture. however, media fandom became increasingly mainstream with the rise of digital culture in the second decade of the 21st century. this has led to conflicts between fans, and between fans and producers, over who gets to speak for fans, and what power they should have to shape contemporary popular culture. i will discuss the history of media fandom and its transformation over time, with a focus on how the mainstreaming of fandom has influenced current political discourse in the u.s. and canada.

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dr. monica flegel is a professor in the department of english and researches in the field of cultural studies, focusing on child studies, animal studies, and fan and media studies. she has developed courses on all of these subjects, covering everything from social media culture to representations of animals in popular culture. her past sshrc grant, with dr. jenny roth from women’s studies, focused on fanfiction and its relation to legitimate authorship and copyright law.  she has published extensively, both as a single author and with co-authors, in victorian literature and culture, the journal for critical animal studies, transformative works and culture, continuum, the journal of fan studies, and the australasian journal of popular culture. her most recent book, co-authored with dr. judith leggatt, superhero culture wars: politics, marketing, and social justice in marvel comics (2020).