Wilfrid Laurier University

Empowering Communities and Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Developing Community-Engaged, Culturally Responsive, and Multi-Perspectival History Education Curricula and Resources

Across many contexts, classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse. New diaspora communities are growing as a consequence of migration caused by conflict and increased global mobility. Despite this, curricula and teaching in general—and history curricula in particular—tend to be...

A standardized permafrost ground temperature collection for Canada 2025

Abstract. Ground temperature is an essential variable for monitoring the thermal state of permafrost, developing models, and conducting fundamental research. However, the usability of GT data in Canada is often hampered by inconsistent file formats, a lack of metadata standardiza...

Do Kinesiology Students Think Differently About Low Back Pain? Low Back Pain and Spinal Health Beliefs Across University Academic Programs

Low back pain is influenced by physical, lifestyle, and psychological factors. Education in human health is linked to improved outcomes in disability and pain. A survey of 201 undergraduate students documented self-reported low back pain and examined how program specialty, includ...

Organized communities as pre-existing infrastructures of care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A transnational dialogue

This article draws from a community-engaged study of how ordinary people's social justice mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, Canada, Germany, and Peru placed demands on local and national governments for equitable social policies. It challenges celebratory narra...

Exploring virtual pathways of immersive experiences in social work through extended reality technology

Ethical, practical, privacy, confidentiality and professional concerns have impeded the broader use of technology in social work practice. The de-humanizing effects associated with technology also raise concern due to the human connections that the profession values. Arguably, th...

Impact of tumor anti-immunity: Dynamics of a simple tumor-immune model with two-stage lymphocytes

To investigate the impact of tumor anti-immunity on tumor development, we develop a simple tumor-immune model which incorporates the two-stage development of T lymphocytes (naive and effector cells). With qualitative analysis, we not only derive threshold conditions for the stabi...

On recent measurements of toponium threshold enhancement in entire-function-regulated nonlocal quantum field theory

Abstract The recent (not so recent now) data from the LHC has a reported threshold enhancement in top-antitop production, we want to present a reinterpretation of the the recently published data. We do this in nonlocal quantum field theory and we show that the observed threshold...

Reclaiming Black Identity: Resistance, Religion, and Liberation

The rise of European imperialism proved catastrophic for peoples of African descent [...]

From strategy to execution: how green marketing orientations influence sustainability performance through sequential mediation

Purpose This research aims to analyze the impact of strategic and tactical green marketing orientations (TGMO) on the sustainability performance (SP) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the textile manufacturing sector. It further examines the mediating roles of inter...

Strategy for modular assembly of tetravalent, multispecific antibodies

Multispecific, multivalent antibodies (Abs) are a burgeoning class of drugs that dramatically expand the pharmacological repertoire beyond traditional therapeutic Abs. Here, we present a simple, modular approach to developing multispecific, multivalent Abs based on a Fab-phage li...

Prevalence and Risk of Heart Failure Among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background Understanding the prevalence and risk of heart failure (HF) among older adults is crucial for informing the design and implementation of interventions and guiding equitable healthcare delivery. Methods A systematic search was conducted in MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Data...

Storytelling as a public health competency: a call for training that responds to contemporary challenges

Public health has long emphasized letting quantitative data “tell the story”. Large, representative datasets allow researchers to answer questions about disease occurrence, risk, and interventions with rigor and precision. Yet, for many small, heterogeneous, historically-neglecte...

Navigating the Early Years: A Guide for New Faculty

ABSTRACT The transition from doctoral student to tenure‐track assistant professor marks a critical juncture in an academic career. This conceptual commentary offers experience‐based insights for early‐career accounting faculty, addressing the distinct pressures of a discipline sh...

Does thinking about (in)active others influence physical activity intentions? An experimental investigation of availability heuristics and descriptive norms

Substantial nonexperimental research has demonstrated that individuals’ perceptions that personally important others are physically active (i.e., positive descriptive norm perceptions) are positively associated with physical activity (PA) intentions. However, little experimental...

World’s population susceptible to water risks is concentrated in two of the 58 IPCC reference regions

The use of climate reference regions is a common practice in climate change research and impact assessment studies 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , having been utilized especially within the context of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Assessment Reports (ARs) over the past 2...

Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study

Abstract Refugee children's school adjustment is often associated with host country language proficiency, peer victimization, and school belonging, but longitudinal associations among these constructs may reflect both stable child differences and time‐varying school‐experience pr...

MODFLOW-informed machine learning for interpretable groundwater level prediction under sparse monitoring conditions in the Eastern Mitidja Aquifer, Northern Algeria

Predicting groundwater levels in semi-arid regions is challenging because groundwater systems are controlled by complex processes and monitoring data are often scarce. This study compares six machine learning models—Random Forest (RF), XGBoost, LightGBM, RBF-SVR, LSTM, and CNN—fo...

What “Taylor’s Up To Now”: Branding Media, Constructing the Self, and Selling Taylor Swift’s Star Persona

Taylor Swift’s self-branding and persona construction are deeply intertwined with her co-branding partnerships, which transform advertising into extensions of her autobiographical storytelling. Through Easter eggs, home videos, photographs, diary excerpts, and musical references,...

Collaboratively building teaching resources for EDI in epidemiology and biostatistics

Abstract Objectives The objective of this workshop was to collaboratively co-create concrete, practical teaching resources that embed equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) concepts into epidemiology and biostatistics teaching in Canada. Methods The 3-h interactive session develo...

The opposing effects of shortened days and cooling temperatures on tundra plant senescence

Plant responses to global change are well-studied in spring and early summer but less so in late summer, particularly in tundra ecosystems. It remains unclear whether senescence is driven more by temperature or photoperiod, and whether species respond similarly under late-season...