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In this study we explore how incorporating an arts-based pedagogical approach, specifically, the use of film, art, and music, into a second-year sociological theory course enhances students' overall learning experiences. We report on data collected from a survey given to students enrolled in this course in 2020. Findings reveal that employing this arts-based pedagogy helps students to sustain an interest in the course material, understand the theoretical course material, engage in a higher level of thinking/analysis, feel more confident in their abilities to write about theories covered in the course, apply theory in the real world, contextualize historical content, and enhance their memory of theories and concepts. Findings are also compared with data collected from a similar survey conducted in 2009, revealing that the overall favorable responses to arts-based resources have remained consistent over time and that this pedagogy remains an enduring approach that contributes to positive student learning experiences.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including clinical trial registration, its importance for transparency, and the role of peer review in ensuring compliance.

Anecdotes of children in a Hawaii homeless shelter illustrate the ways in which play therapy helps sibling groups manage family crises, resolve conflicts, and express difficult feelings. (LB)

Cet article compare les affiches publiques pour annoncer la campagne de prevention au sida entre 1986 et 2004 par le gouvernement federal (Sante Canada), le gouvernement de l'Ontario (Ontario Ministry [...]

Existing theoretical models in the trade-industrial-organization literature assume almost exclusively that firms are 'national enterprises', so that there is no international coordination by multinational firms. We develop a model in which multinationals compete among themselves but coordinate production, pricing, and sales decisions across multiple plants and markets. Free entry and exit is assumed, and cases in which the multinationals can and cannot segment markets are considered. The model is simulated using data from the North American auto industry. Results are compared with a counter-factual model, calibrated to the same data, which assumes national ownership of firms. Key words: NAFTA; Multinationals; Auto industry

Queues for in-patient surgery are commonplace in universal health care systems. Clinicians and hospitals usually manage these waiting lists with informal criteria for determining patient priority - a form of implicit rationing. To understand the workings of implicit rationing by queue, we took advantage of a natural experiment in the Canadian province of Ontario. Unprecedentedly severe supply-demand mismatch led to long waiting lists for coronary surgery (CABS) in Ontario during 1987-88. The crisis was resolved by increased funding and widespread adoption of a multifactorial clinical index for patient priority that was developed by an expert panel in 1989. Thus, we audited randomly chosen charts of patients who underwent coronary angiography at four Toronto hospitals during the crisis period, and calculated urgency scores for each case based on the multifactorial index. From 413 charts, 193 eligible patients were identified who proceeded to CABS. Waiting times did correlate with urgency ratings (r = 0.42, P < 0.0001). However, mean wait from catheterization to CABS varied among hospitals by as much as 8 weeks (P < 0.0001 after controlling for urgency scores). At the hospital with shortest queues, waiting times were twice as long for patients catheterized by cardiologists off-site vs those referred by on-site practitioners (P < 0.0001, after controlling for urgency scores); a similar form of bias was found at a second coronary surgery centre (P = 0.056, after controlling for urgency scores). Over half the patients waited longer than the maximum suggested for their category by the expert panel. Thus, implicit rationing by waiting list partly reflected clinical urgency - an advantage over American-style rationing by price or insurance cover. However, if these findings are generalizable, it appears that explicit queue-forming criteria, audits for institution-specific referral biases, and mechanisms to redistribute patients, are necessary to optimize queue-based allocation of scarce hospital services.

Narrow phonetic transcriptions and prosodic judgments were made of single-word imitations by apraxic (AOS), conduction aphasic (CA), and ataxic dysarthric (AD) speakers. AOS and AD subjects showed similar vowel error patterns, particularly predominant errors in low, tense, and back vowels, more distortions than other types of vowel errors, and predominant errors in initial position of words and in monosyllabic words. The CA subjects displayed a different vowel error pattern, notably more substitutions than distortions, more errors in polysyllabic than monosyllabic words, and more errors in noninitial than initial positions of words. Analysis of prosodic features identifiable at the single-word level (e.g., syllabic stress, juncture, and struggles to initiate or complete productions) indicated that syllabic stress errors and and more difficulty initiating than completing word production were characteristic of AOS and AD but not CA subjects.

The article emphasizes the significance of language choice in scholarly writing, particularly in describing the populations served, to avoid unintended biases. It outlines three principles for inclusive language, including the necessity of respectful language, the acknowledgment of socially constructed identities, and the importance of specificity and accuracy.