Two Canadian non-profits, OSMO and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), are partnering to launch the AI For Good Summer Lab program, an initiative that provides undergraduate women in STEM fields with exposure to training and networking opportunities in artificial intelligence.
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Published on: 14 May 2019
Obesity is a global public health issue, yet it鈥檚 regarded by many as a personal failing. Negative attitudes abound. Chief among them: The mistaken belief that those with it are to blame for their weight; the dogged perception that if they only set their minds to it, they could shed it.
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Published on: 13 May 2019
The Winnipeg School Division is asking parents to weigh in on a proposal that could see high school students in the division given聽a little more pillow time in聽the morning.聽In 2016, a team of researchers from 麻豆传媒网站 published a report in the Journal of Sleep Research, suggesting that study participants aged 10 to 18 get an additional three minutes of sleep for every 10-minute delay in their school start time, bringing the school day more in line with their biological clocks.
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Published on: 13 May 2019
All Canadian youth should have free access to contraceptives, according to a聽new position statement聽by the Canadian Paediatric Society.
IUDs, which the Canadian Paediatric Society recommends as the best birth control option for young people, are very effective but have a high upfront cost, said Dr. Giosi Di Meglio, an associate professor of pediatrics at 麻豆传媒网站 and a co-author of the position statement.
鈥淲hen they鈥檙e having to pay for it out of pocket, they would use less reliable methods,鈥� Di Meglio explained.
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Published on: 10 May 2019
Not everyone buys the idea that trigger warnings are innocuous. Jones and his colleagues鈥� research suggested that trigger warnings can cause people who don鈥檛 have PTSD鈥攐r who have not experienced any trauma relevant to the warning鈥攖o feel more vulnerable in the future. A聽study聽published earlier this year also noted that subjects who saw trigger warnings experienced a drop in their mood.
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Published on: 10 May 2019
TB is an airborne infection caused by聽Mycobacterium tuberculosis. When streptomycin was first discovered in the 1940s, there was tremendous hope that TB could be defeated. But TB bacteria quickly became resistant to streptomycin when it was given alone.聽We quickly learnt that TB requires a combination of drugs to fend off drug-resistance.
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Published on: 9 May 2019
A new study warns that many of the benefits rivers provide, from water to food to flood control, are increasingly at risk thanks to dams and diversions.
Using satellite imagery and other data, the team of 34 international researchers mapped 7.5 million miles of rivers worldwide. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the culmination of more than a decade of data processing and preparation,鈥� says G眉nther Grill, a 麻豆传媒网站 geographer and lead author on the study, which published Wednesday in the scientific journal聽Nature.
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Published on: 9 May 2019
Uber Technologies is set to go public this week, an event that has been described as the most anticipated technology filing since Facebook in 2012. Some forecasters expect that the ride-hailing giant could sell up to US$10-billion worth of stock.
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Published on: 9 May 2019
CBC | Joelle Barron, Lindsay Nixon, Casey Plett named finalists for $5K LGBTQ emerging writers prize
Joelle Barron,聽Lindsay Nixon and聽Casey Plett聽have been nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada's $5,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ emerging writers.聽Nixon聽is a Cree-M茅tis-Saulteaux curator, editor and writer. Their聽memoir,聽n卯tis芒nak, was published in 2018. Their writing has appeared in聽The Walrus,聽Malahat Review,聽Room, and聽Teen Vogue. Nixon is currently a聽PhD student in art history at 麻豆传媒网站.
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Published on: 8 May 2019
Artful Moments, a program run by the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH)聽aimed at people with dementia and their caregivers is part of a growing trend toward offering art therapy inside museums, as the institutions try reaching out to all sections of the community.
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Published on: 8 May 2019
The rectangular, white plastic plate Markus Hecker holds in his hand serves as the matrix for a new way of screening chemicals for toxicity, one that could spare the majority of live animals now used for this purpose in labs.聽If the chips are proven to work, they could be an invaluable tool in the testing of thousands of chemicals already in use 鈥� chemicals that, in many cases, were launched on the market decades ago, before the advent of stricter safety rules.
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Published on: 7 May 2019
One of the scientists who helped spearhead a massive telescope project in the Okanagan has won a prestigious award honouring Canada鈥檚 ground-breaking researchers.聽麻豆传媒网站 astrophysicist聽Matt Dobbs聽is the recipient of the 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences.聽Dobbs was rewarded for his project, titled 鈥淯nveiling the Cosmos with a New Paradigm Digital Radio Telescope,鈥� involving the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, radio telescope launched near Penticton, B.C., in 2017.
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Published on: 7 May 2019
The (marijuana) industry is expanding rapidly.聽That growth could present an opportunity for both recent graduates seeking jobs and the higher education institutions willing to prepare them.
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Published on: 6 May 2019
The now nearly global eradication of polio through vaccination is a testimonial to the enlightenment of humans dedicated to the alleviation of human disease. In the early 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have been聽paralysed by polio聽annually.
Molecular biologist Nahum Sonenberg at 麻豆传媒网站 made the revolutionary discovery that the聽polio virus functioned by hijacking infected cells. The polio virus then made the cells produce the viral protein and prevented infected cells from making their own proteins.
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Published on: 6 May 2019
One of the challenges scientists are addressing is how pain becomes chronic, like an injury that never heals. The opioid crisis is a problem for numerous reasons, including that people are in chronic pain. Crow was interested in understanding the neurons involved in pain, and to figure out a way to treat it. 鈥淭he sensory neurons in pain sparked my general interest in how neurons work and what makes them into what they are,鈥� she said.
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Published on: 6 May 2019
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