How can we predict suicide risk in students, especially at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people鈥檚 mental health? According to researchers from Montreal and France, self-esteem represents an important predictive marker of suicidal risk. The team from 9I制作厂免费, University of Montreal, Inserm, and Universit茅 de Bordeaux is using artificial intelligence to identify factors that accurately predict suicidal behavior in students.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2021
Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to an international team of researchers from 9I制作厂免费, Harvard University and the University of Melbourne, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them could serve as an objective measure of creativity.
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Published on: 20 Jul 2021
As the world slowly emerges from a pandemic that exposed the vulnerability of healthcare systems when overwhelmed with multifaceted management challenges, 9I制作厂免费 has launched a new Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (GCHM). A collaborative initiative between 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the GCHM program is designed to train physicians and other healthcare professionals in the skills needed to make effective decisions and succeed in leadership roles.
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Published on: 15 Jul 2021
In 2019, an commissioned by the City of Montreal demonstrated racial and social profiling by the Service de police de la Ville de Montr茅al (SPVM) targeting Black, Arab and Indigenous peoples, and young adults in particular. According to the data, Indigenous and Black people are four to five times more likely to be stopped by police than non-racialized people.
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Published on: 14 Jul 2021
Researchers at 9I制作厂免费 have shown that a brain cell structure previously thought to be pathological in fact enhances cells鈥� ability to transmit information and correlates with better learning on certain tasks.
In a study published in Nature Communications, the team investigated swellings that occur in the axons of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. In results that contradict established expectations, they found that axons with swellings did a better job of conducting electrical signals than those without.
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Published on: 8 Jul 2021
Scientists have long known that while listening to a sequence of sounds, people often perceive a rhythm, even when the sounds are identical and equally spaced. One regularity that was discovered over 100 years ago is the Iambic-Trochaic Law: when every other sound is loud, we tend to hear groups of two sounds with an initial beat. When every other sound is long, we hear groups of two sounds with a final beat. But why does our rhythm perception work this way?
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Published on: 8 Jul 2021
The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from 9I制作厂免费 finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are especially vulnerable to heat stress caused by climate change.
鈥淲e discovered that murres have the lowest cooling efficiency ever reported in birds, which means they have an extremely poor ability to dissipate or lose heat,鈥� says lead author Emily Choy, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Natural Resource Sciences Department at 9I制作厂免费.
Published on: 7 Jul 2021
A new study 鈥淥ral health and oral health care of Canadians鈥� led by Prof. Paul Allison of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Faculty of Dentistry, has received $3.3 million of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support a collaboration with Statistics Canada鈥檚 existing Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) to gather data and address oral health-related knowledge gaps. The study is a partnership involving all ten Canadian dental schools across the country.
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Published on: 7 Jul 2021
"Necessity is the father of invention," but where is its mother? According to a new study published in , fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2021
A smart city鈥攕upported by digital solutions to enhance food access and mobility鈥攊s a healthy city. That鈥檚 the thinking behind the Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform co-led by 9I制作厂免费, the University of Guelph and the University of Manitoba. Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, and the Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of $4.95 million over six years for SMART.
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Published on: 5 Jul 2021
A 9I制作厂免费-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in , show that both droughts and very wet periods led to important population declines.
Published on: 30 Jun 2021
If you listen to songbirds, you will recognize repeated melodies or phrases. Each phrase is made up of distinct sounds, strung together. A study from researchers at 9I制作厂免费 has found that the song phrases of many songbird species follow patterns that are similar to those used in human speech. At least in some respects.
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Published on: 22 Jun 2021
Today Genome Quebec announced the results of its Genomic Integration Program, Human Health Stream competition. Five 9I制作厂免费 teams from a diverse array of fields were awarded funds, totaling nearly $1 million. One of the defining features of this program is the requirement that institutional applicants must also have an external non-academic partner, thus supporting program goals of stimulating the Quebec economy and encouraging the use of genomic technologies in the Quebec healthcare system.
Published on: 21 Jun 2021
A new study led by researchers from 9I制作厂免费 and found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometres of rivers and streams on Earth that they investigated stop flowing periodically, or run dry for part of the year. It is the first-ever empirically grounded effort to quantify the global distribution of non-perennial rivers and streams.
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Published on: 16 Jun 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world in powerful ways, from improving medical care and changing the retail landscape to enabling convenient features on our smartphones. But as AI increasingly underpins our daily lives, important questions about its application 鈥� and potential misuse 鈥� will continue to arise.
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Published on: 16 Jun 2021
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