Students completing the Graduate Diploma in Translation (GDIT) must sit a comprehensive examination at the conclusion of the GDIT Program.Ìý The examination consists of an oral defense of a best-work portfolio.Ìý This portfolio represents a record of progress made by the candidate throughout his/her studies.Ìý Each candidate prepares a written introduction and comments on selected examples of coursework with a view to demonstrating his/her progress toward greater translation competence.

New research by º«¹úÂãÎè biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years – providing a textbook example of the consequences of climate change for small mammals.
The findings also reveal a stark reversal in the proportions of the two mice populations present in the area, adding to evidence that warming temperatures are driving wildlife north. Ìý

Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?Ìý º«¹úÂãÎè researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.
Kimberly Carrière, Bärbel Knäuper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.
The researchers found that:

Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city’s four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city’s nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?

Research has already shown that women who develop either diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease years later.ÌýNow, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the º«¹úÂãÎè Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and º«¹úÂãÎè shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women hadÌýbothÌýdiabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy. The study, published today in theÌýAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, doesn’t end with the mother’s risks.
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Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation that plants’ timing is shifting in response to warming temperatures?

By Chris Chipello
º«¹úÂãÎè researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.
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By Shawn Hayward
Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually sharpen sound perception, and this effect is increased when we move in rhythm with the sound.

By Julie Robert

By Katherine Gombay
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Muscle malfunctions may be as simple as a slight strain after exercise or as serious as heart failure and muscular dystrophy. A new technique developed at º«¹úÂãÎè now makes it possible to look much more closely at how sarcomeres, the basic building blocks within all skeletal and cardiac muscles, work together. It’s a discovery that should advance research into a wide range of muscle malfunctions.
Talk about finicky work