Janice Williamson : Sounding Differences. Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers

Modeling Individual Differences among Writers Using Readerbench

The current study builds upon a previous study, which examined the degree to which the lexical properties of students’ essays could predict their vocabulary scores. We expand on this previous research by incorporating new natural language processing indices related to both the surfaceand discourse-levels of students’ essays. Additionally, we investigate the degree to which these NLP indices can...

Exploring differences in Canadian adult men and women with Diabetes management: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey

BACKGROUND Over 2 million Canadians are known to have diabetes. In addition to the economic burden placed on the healthcare system, the human cost associated with diabetes poses a heavy burden on those living with diabetes. The literature shows that apparent differences exist in diabetes complications and diabetes management between men and women. How self-care management and utilization of hea...

fMRI Reveals Differences in Attention Associated with Developmental Conversations

This paper addresses key theoretical and methodological challenges that have been raised regarding the use of neuroscience in organizational research. In doing so, we present the results of an fMRI study that integrated theories of attention and intentional change in proposing that coaching interactions focused on the Positive Emotional Attractor state (PEA) would be associated with big picture...

Gender Differences in Mixed-Sex Conversations

Diabetes in Canadian Women

HEALTH ISSUE: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic health condition affecting 4.8% of Canadian adults >/= 20 years of age. The prevalence increases with age. According to the National Diabetes Surveillance System (NDSS) (1998-1999), approximately 12% of Canadians aged 60-74 years are affected. One-third of cases may remain undiagnosed. The projected increase in DM prevalence largely results from...