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Aboriginal people in Canada want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages. They want an education that will foster their children's sense of engagement and identity, putting them on the path to success. When students enter public school systems, however, they encounter curriculums and pedagogies that marginalize them as learners. Lorenzo Cherubini investigates the effectiveness of attempts to introduce culturally relevant programs in Ontario, where the province has documented an achievement gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students. He turns the spotlight on a rare success story one high school's attempt to recognize Aboriginal students' cultural and academic needs while helping them to build relationships with non-Aboriginal students. In this insightful study, teachers, students, youth counsellors, parents and caregivers, community leaders, and administrators share their thoughts on the effectiveness of the program, adding their voices to the existing literature and a human face to quantitative data on Aboriginal education and public policy in Ontario. Aboriginal students constitute one of the fastest-growing groups in Canada's public schools. This timely, incisive study reveals how the current system is failing indigenous students and offers recommendations for enhancing their academic achievement levels in Ontario, Canada, and abroad. [Foreword by Lyn Trudeau.]

In this paper we present an extension of the generalized linear equivalence relation, proposed in [7]. This mathematical tool can be helpful for the classification of non-linear functions f : Fpm→ Fpn based on their cryptographic properties. It thus can have relevance in the design criteria for substitution boxes (S-boxes), the latter being commonly used to achieve non-linearity in most symmetric key algorithms. First, we introduce a simple but effective representation of the cryptographic properties of S-box functions when the characteristic of the underlying finite field is odd; following this line, we adapt the linear cryptanalysis technique, providing a generalization of Matsui's lemma. This is done in order to complete the proof of Theorem 2 in [7], also by considering the broader class of generalized affine transformations. We believe that the present work can be a step towards the extension of known cryptanalytic techniques and concepts to finite fields with odd characteristic. Keywords: Boolean functions, generalized linear equivalence, linear cryptanalysis, S-boxes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 6Li + d reaction was studied in order to investigate the quasi-free 6Li(n, α)3H reaction, off the proton in 2H. A kinematically complete experiment was performed at a beam energy of 14 MeV. Coincidence spectra show the contribution of the quasi-free n+6Li reaction in the relative energy range from 1.5 MeV down to zero. The extracted 6Li(n, α)3H quasi-free cross-section was compared with the behavior of direct data throughout the investigated energy range. No penetrability corrections were introduced on the quasi-free data, being the 6Li(n, α)3H direct reaction free of Coulomb suppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]