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University of Windsor

EducationWindsor, Ontario, Canada
About: University of Windsor is a education organization based out in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Argumentation theory. The organization has 10654 authors who have published 22307 publications receiving 435906 citations. The organization is also known as: UWindsor & Assumption University of Windsor.


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TL;DR: Analysis on the discourses employed by a subset of gay and bisexual men who no longer practise protected sex more than twenty years into the HIV epidemic reveals competing and contradictory discourses that suggest new avenues of engagement for HIV prevention initiatives.
Abstract: This paper analyses on the discourses employed by a subset of gay and bisexual men who no longer practise protected sex more than twenty years into the HIV epidemic. In‐depth interviews with 102 men in Toronto are used to examine the moral reasoning of those for whom the language of barebacking provides a shared set of accounts and tacit understandings for unprotected sex. Barebacking raises some of the central issues of contemporary theory around risk, responsibility, and ethics, and poses new challenges to HIV prevention policy as barebacking discourses adapt some of the major tenets of neoliberal ideology by combining notions of informed consent, contractual interaction, free market choice, and responsibility in new ways. At the same time, interviews with barebackers reveal competing and contradictory discourses that suggest new avenues of engagement for HIV prevention initiatives.

193 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the determinants and consequences of survivors' coping responses to a recent workforce reduction involving permanent layoffs were examined, and they found that survivors with high optimistic predispositions and a strong sense of mastery were more likely to engage in control-oriented coping.
Abstract: This study examined the determinants and consequences of survivors' coping responses to a recent workforce reduction involving permanent layoffs. The participants consisted of 200 unionized technicians in the telecommunications industry. Survivors with high optimistic predispositions and a strong sense of mastery were more likely to engage in control-oriented coping. Perceived threat of job loss was positively related to the use of both control and escape coping whereas sense of powerlessness was negatively related to the use of control coping. Control coping was associated with positive outcomes and escape coping with negative outcomes. Coping had both additive and interactive effects on the outcome variables. The implications of these findings for management are discussed.

193 citations

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TL;DR: A new image indexing and retrieval algorithm using local mesh patterns are proposed for biomedical image retrieval application that shows a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared to LBP, LBP with Gabor transform, and other spatial and transform domain methods.
Abstract: In this paper, a new image indexing and retrieval algorithm using local mesh patterns are proposed for biomedical image retrieval application. The standard local binary pattern encodes the relationship between the referenced pixel and its surrounding neighbors, whereas the proposed method encodes the relationship among the surrounding neighbors for a given referenced pixel in an image. The possible relationships among the surrounding neighbors are depending on the number of neighbors, P. In addition, the effectiveness of our algorithm is confirmed by combining it with the Gabor transform. To prove the effectiveness of our algorithm, three experiments have been carried out on three different biomedical image databases. Out of which two are meant for computer tomography (CT) and one for magnetic resonance (MR) image retrieval. It is further mentioned that the database considered for three experiments are OASIS-MRI database, NEMA-CT database, and VIA/I-ELCAP database which includes region of interest CT images. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared to LBP, LBP with Gabor transform, and other spatial and transform domain methods.

193 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in the visible and near ultraviolet (NUV) band (285 nm-800 nm) to characterize the PEO plasma and found that the plasma discharge behavior significantly influenced the microstructure and morphology of the oxide coatings and hence the corrosion resistance.
Abstract: Magnesium alloys are increasingly being used as lightweight materials in the automotive, defense, electronics, biomaterial and aerospace industries. However, their inherently poor corrosion and wear resistance have, so far, limited their application. Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) in an environmentally friendly aluminates electrolyte has been used to produce oxide coatings with thicknesses of similar to 80 mu m on an AJ62 magnesium alloy. Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in the visible and near ultraviolet (NUV) band (285 nm-800 nm) was employed to characterize the PEO plasma. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the coated materials, and potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in a 3.5% NaCl solution were used to determine the corrosion behavior. It was found that the plasma discharge behavior significantly influenced the microstructure and the morphology of the oxide coatings and, hence the corrosion resistance. The corrosion resistance of the coated alloy was increased by changing the current mode from unipolar to bipolar, where the strong plasma discharges had been reduced or eliminated. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

192 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Jie Zhang1784857221720
Robert E. W. Hancock15277588481
Michael Lynch11242263461
David Zhang111102755118
Paul D. N. Hebert11153766288
Eleftherios P. Diamandis110106452654
Qian Wang108214865557
John W. Berry9735152470
Douglas W. Stephan8966334060
Rebecca Fisher8625550260
Mehdi Dehghan8387529225
Zhong-Qun Tian8164633168
Robert J. Letcher8041122778
Daniel J. Sexton7636925172
Bin Ren7347023452
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202327
2022178
20211,147
20201,005
20191,001
2018882