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- ItemEmbargołuk’é náte (A Child Called Dream)(2024-02-05) Purcell, Kaitlyn; Prud'homme-Cranford, Rain; Srivastava, Aruna; Whitehead, Joshua; Markides, Jennifer; Donald, Dwaynełuk’é náte (A Child Called Dream) is a work of research-creation that moves between autobiographical accounts of my childhood and my life in university over the last thirteen years. I reflect on the process and publication of my first book, ʔbédayine, as well as the grief of losing my sister Lorrie, the intergenerational traumas passed down from my mother, and the creative research practices I have embraced over all these years. Through my doctoral studies and the writing of this thesis, I found ways to heal myself and embrace the parts of my way of thinking and being that I had been ashamed of. My mind riddled with attention and trauma disorders. My mind which struggles to communicate verbally as well as I can write. My mind tangled by a lifetime living in fear as a result of intergenerational violence passed down by the residential and day school systems. Through my intuitive research-creation practices as an urban Dënë Sųłınë́ person, I write my childhood memoir while exploring my lineage of thought from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, poets, and artists, such as Rob Cardinal, Kablusiak, CAConrad, Anne Boyer, and Marilyn Dumont. The critical exegesis is woven into the creative elements, and the creative is woven into the critical. It is a genre-bending work of research-creation, storyweaving and intuition as theoretical practice. It is a carefully curated amalgamation of poetry, story, personal archival material, photos, and art. I storyweave my childhood with reflections on my journey becoming sober and becoming an academic—and that which induced moments of either a regressed or reclaimed sense of self and autonomy. This creative process becomes instrumental in my ability to transform trauma cycles, and use art for restorative grieving, clowning, and holistic self-acceptance.
- ItemEmbargoAddition of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment for Youth with Chronic Pain(2024-02-09) Epp, Spencer Daniel; Miller, Jillian Vinall; Rasic, Nivez; MacMaster, Frank; Birnie, KathrynBackground: Pediatric chronic pain is highly prevalent. The current gold standard of treatment are Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment (IIPT) programs, providing a multimodal range of therapies over a short time frame. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the middle frontal gyrus (MFG) has been shown to be a safe and effective treatment for adults with chronic pain but has not yet been used in youth chronic pain populations. Justifying the use of rTMS to the MFG and determining the safety and tolerance of this application in a pediatric population is critical to advancing pediatric chronic pain management. Methods: 20 youth with chronic pain aged 12-18 years underwent fMRI task-based neuroimaging and completed pain questionnaires before and after IIPT at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. These patients were assessed for changes in brain response to emotional stimuli following treatment in absence of rTMS, and these brain changes were compared to changes to pain interference. 15 further patients completed the IIPT program with the inclusion of rTMS as an additional therapy and were assessed for their tolerance of rTMS and attitude towards the treatment. Results: The non-rTMS group demonstrated a significant positive correlation between a reduction in pain interference and a decrease in MFG activity over the course of treatment. The rTMS group reported similar reductions in pain interference and no major adverse events. Although uncommon, headache, light-headedness, and neck pain were the most frequently reported adverse symptoms. Neck pain was the only symptom found to be consistently exacerbated by rTMS. Pre-IIPT, participants generally expected rTMS to provide great benefit, but post-IIPT reported physio- and psychotherapies as most helpful to their recovery. Conclusions: The fMRI results from the non-rTMS group help justify the use of rTMS in the IIPT. rTMS does not appear to influence established outcomes of the IIPT positively or negatively at this time, though greater sample sizes are needed for more powerful analyses. Action should be taken to minimize minor adverse symptoms during stimulation, however, rTMS is shown to be broadly safe and tolerable for this youth chronic pain population. Future analyses should focus on the magnitude and longevity of influence of rTMS on IIPT outcomes.
- ItemEmbargoAutomated Video-Based Rodent Behavior Analysis(2024-01-30) Le, Van Anh; Murari, Kartikeya; Forkert, Nils Daniel; Yanushkevich, Svetlana; Bento, Mariana Pinheiro; Ravichandran, AvinashRodents represent more than 95% of the laboratory animals used in preclinical and neuroscience research. Mouse behavior analysis is an important step to evaluate disease states and normal brain processes. This thesis focuses on developing automatic video-based mouse behavior analysis tools, which allow high throughput assessments and alleviate the limitations of manual analysis. Particularly, we investigated multiple machine-learning based approaches to fill the gaps of existing studies regarding rodent behavior measurements and create reliable computer-assisted frameworks. Firstly, we introduced MaSoMoTr which is a markerless mice tracking tool for social experiments. The tracking workflow incorporated deep-learning-based techniques with conventional handcrafted tracking methods to simultaneously track two mice of the same appearance in controlled settings. The proposed method achieved significant improvement compared to the state-of-the-art pose-estimation-based tracking frameworks. Following that, we developed a social behavior recognition system integrating our tracking tool to identify a set of mouse behaviors in continuous videos recording two interacting mice. Datasets collected and annotated during these two studies have been made publicly available for further research and development. Finally, two approaches were proposed for automatically recognizing single mouse behaviors in two different settings. We investigated the possibility of extracting spatio-temporal features from single mouse recordings using a deep learning structure which combined a 3D convolutional network and a recurrent neural network with Long Short-Term Memory cells. These extracted features were tested to recognize 8 single mouse behaviors in videos belonging to the largest public single mouse dataset and attained promising performance. Next, we proposed a noninvasive video-based method for mouse sleep assessment. The results obtained were highly correlated with commonly used invasive methods
- ItemEmbargoNot Indian Enough: The History of the Michel Indian Band(2024-01-26) Snyder, Henry Campbell; Colpitts, George; Colpitts, George; Elofson, Warren; Vogt, DanielMichel Callihoo signed Treaty 6 in 1878 on behalf of his Cree Nation, becoming the Michel band consisting of roughly 160 individuals. The bands’ reserve was located west of Edmonton, until it was dissolved in 1958 through involuntary enfranchisement. The Michel band remains the only Indian band in Canada to be wholly dissolved involuntarily. This thesis explores the history of the Michel band, and the Callihoo family as they navigated the tumultuous implementation of the Indian Act as opposed to the treaties. Chapter 1 explores the early history of the Callihoo family until treaty signing, paralleling the experiences of the Michel band at Lac Ste. Anne with the events of the Red River Valley. Chapter 2 looks at the non-implementation of the treaty agreement and the harsh measures imposed by the Canadian government in their attempts to expand control and “civilize” the Indians throughout the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century through means like Metis scrip and direct Indian Agent control. Chapter 3 finishes the history of the Michel band, as the Department of Indian Affairs took deliberate steps to enfranchise the members of the Michel band causing them and their descendants to lose Indian status to this day.
- ItemEmbargoShakespeare's Dramatic Style at the Curtain Playhouse (1597-99)(2024-01-31) Blyth, Benjamin Alfred; Bennett, Susan; Ellis, Jim; Jenkins, Jacqueline; Purcell, Stephen; Palacios, JoyMy project was prompted by the Museum of London Archaeology’s (MOLA) excavations of the Curtain site in 2016. These revealed a rectangular playhouse that was so well-preserved it provided an unprecedentedly detailed set of performance conditions to study Shakespeare’s Shoreditch plays. Approaching the term “style” as a composite of what a dramatic text is made of/from (aesthetics) and how it is used (utility), I develop a hybrid methodology in this study that reanimates features of John Russell Brown’s 1970 book Shakespeare’s Dramatic Style and applies the latest advances in textual studies, theatre history, and practice-as-research (PaR) to show a new style of Shakespeare at the Curtain. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men relocated to the Curtain in 1597 after suffering a series of personal, legal, and financial setbacks and remained there until the new Globe opened in the summer of 1599. During this time, Shakespeare was an ambitious but cash-strapped playwright who retooled old plays to pull in new crowds (Romeo and Juliet), cashed-in on popular characters with sure-fire spin-offs (The Merry Wives of Windsor), and found innovative solutions for the Curtain’s fluid audiences (Henry V). In a series of three sequential case studies, I demonstrate that Shakespeare adapted his dramatic style to account for the unique circumstances and challenges presented by Curtain performance. The result was a raucous, violent, and interactive style of Shakespeare, unlike any other stage in his career or at any other playhouse. My research was heavily impacted by Covid-19, and consequently these findings have implications that reach beyond the study’s motivating purpose. In addition to providing new critical territory that engages scholars from across a broad range of disciplines in productive new conversations about Shakespeare’s style, my study presents a model that connects dramatic texts with their sites of performance while reducing geographical barriers to participation.