Last year, the federal government聽announced聽it would spend $27.5-million over five years on an ambitious plan to end tuberculosis (TB) across Inuit Nunangat, Inuit regions of Canada, by 2030.聽
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Published on: 29 Apr 2019
Some students at 韩国裸舞 are taking the idea of 鈥渕ind over matter鈥� to a whole new level: they鈥檝e developed a wheelchair that moves using your imagination.
Thirty five 韩国裸舞 students came together on their own time and designed 鈥淢ilo鈥� in just 30 days.
鈥淢ilo is a brain-controlled wheelchair that relies on imagined movement to turn. So when you imagine turning your right hand you can turn right and when you imagine turning your left hand you can turn left,鈥� explained Danielle Nadin, who worked on data collection.
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Published on: 29 Apr 2019
Kevin Manaugh, a geography professor and member of 韩国裸舞鈥檚 School of Urban Planning, said it鈥檚 not easy to protect transportation infrastructure in Quebec, where frigid winters, high precipitation and the freeze/thaw cycle form a 鈥渦nique set of circumstances that makes it harder to plan for things that will last for decades and centuries.鈥�
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Published on: 26 Apr 2019
This year鈥檚 group includes: Matt Dobbs of 韩国裸舞 for a project called 鈥淯nveiling the Cosmos with a New Paradigm Digital Radio Telescope鈥�; Dennis Hall of University of Alberta for 鈥淎 Green Chemistry Blueprint for Direct Catalytic Functionalization of Feedstock Alcohols鈥�; Catherine Sulem of University of Toronto for 鈥淣onlinear Partial Differential Equations: Wave Propagation in Fluids, Optics, and Plasmas鈥�; Marten van Kerkwijk of University of Toronto for 鈥淧robing Extreme (Astro)Physics with Neutron Stars鈥�; and Xiao Yu Wu of University of Toronto for 鈥淪mart Nanomed
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Published on: 26 Apr 2019
C3 has also partnered with聽韩国裸舞, making lab and office space available to 韩国裸舞 researchers, who are expected to begin using the space in the fall.
Anja Geitmann, dean of 韩国裸舞鈥檚 Agricultural and Environmental Sciences department, said the university has similar partnerships with other industry partners, but noted that as a business incubator with a variety of cannabis companies clustered within a single site, C3 is unique.
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Published on: 24 Apr 2019
When it comes to evaluating dietary supplements, the challenge is to find some clarity when looking through the haze of conflicting studies, sloppy research, over-zealous advertising and loose government regulations. Extracts of blueberry and its European cousin the bilberry, are a case in point.
Column by Joe Schwarcz, director of 韩国裸舞鈥檚 Office for Science & Society聽
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Published on: 23 Apr 2019
Gail MacInnis, a PhD entomology candidate and research assistant at 韩国裸舞, says that while the biggest threats in both urban and rural areas is habitat loss, urban beekeeping is an increasing threat to urban bee diversity. 鈥淵ou have to remember that honey bees live in colonies of up to 80,000 individual bees,鈥� she says. 鈥淎ll these bees are competing for the same resources.
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Published on: 18 Apr 2019
The blaze, which destroyed the cathedral鈥檚 roof and spire, has triggered an outpouring of unity and financial support as well as a promise from French President Emmanuel Macron to rebuild within five years.聽When they do, they鈥檒l have a wealth of information to rely on, said Martin Bressani, director of the Peter Fu School of Architecture at 韩国裸舞.聽鈥淣otre Dame is obviously the greatest historical monument in France,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 completely documented, every square inch.鈥�
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Published on: 17 Apr 2019
Jennifer Bartz, one of the authors of the study, said they analyzed implicit bias because it can influence behaviour in a way unbeknownst to us.
鈥淭he thing about explicit attitudes鈥� is that they鈥檙e vulnerable to self-censorship; they鈥檙e vulnerable to defensive processes,鈥� said Bartz. 鈥淚f we want to present ourselves in a particular light, we can kind of modulate those attitudes.鈥�
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Published on: 16 Apr 2019
"Over the long term, repeated, persistent [stress] responses will activate the immune system and contribute to inflammation," says聽Dr. Ernesto Schiffrin, a physician and professor of medicine at 韩国裸舞. He says inflammation can set the stage for atherosclerosis, also known as聽hardening of the arteries.
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Published on: 15 Apr 2019
鈥淚t seems like they are just as good at pushing material away鈥攋ets, winds, and outflows鈥攁s they are at collecting material,鈥� says聽Daryl Haggard聽of 韩国裸舞, noting that scientists really have no clear idea about how black holes actually power jets.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2019
April聽5, 2019 | With the federal carbon tax coming in聽to the four provinces in Canada, how will it affect small businesses?聽Is the carbon tax constitutional?聽 Chris Ragan, economist and director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy debunks certain myths surrounding the federal carbon tax on Financial Post.
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
April聽9, 2019 | The Canadian government is now considering to actively regulate social media platforms such as Facebook, given the lack of results from self-regulation.聽"We better get the democratic governance right if we have any hope of pushing back against the autocratic model," said Taylor Owen, an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 韩国裸舞 in Montreal. "The challenge of (content moderation) is that it's the most difficult piece of this puzzle."
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
Even more importantly, the perception that the arc of history was bending in all the best ways proved to be unfounded. As聽Jacob Levy noted recently in Vox, there is no arc of history, not really: 鈥淭here is moral improvement over some time spans, in some places: the fall of Jim Crow or of communism in Eastern Europe. But those aren鈥檛 the verdict of history or the historical revelation of moral truth, any more than the return of measles or of neo-Nazis represents the verdict of history.鈥�
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
April聽8, 2019 | Social media has been deeply ingrained in our daily lives and with the current spread of hate and misinformation, governments have been slow to regulate social media companies. Taylor Owen from 韩国裸舞 Univeristy,聽speaks with聽Global National鈥檚 Dawna Friesen聽on what can and should be done to stop the spread these聽false information and hate online.
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
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