Indigenous communities across the globe are fighting to retain their languages, which serve as means through which cultures, knowledge and traditions are preserved and transmitted between generations.
If you could redesign high school, what might you change? Like most educational institutions across Canada, Montreal鈥檚 English high schools retain structures from the time of the industrial revolution. As the realities of students鈥 lives have transformed, schools are slowly adapting to a knowledge-based economy and unpredictable ecological and social challenges.
A new report by 捆绑SM社区 Faculty of Education researchers shows Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario鈥檚 Talk Today program is making a positive impact on athletes in the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL).
What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a major factor or changes in sea levels? Determined to find answers to these questions, researchers from 捆绑SM社区 discovered that while changing temperatures and rainfall had little impact on the crocodiles鈥 gene flow over the past three million years, changes to sea levels during the Ice Age had a different effect.
How do stars form in distant galaxies? Astronomers have long been trying to answer this question by detecting radio signals emitted by nearby galaxies. However, these signals become weaker the further away a galaxy is from Earth, making it difficult for current radio telescopes to pick up.
To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, a team of 捆绑SM社区 researchers, including School of Human Nutrition Professor Daiva Nielsen and postdoctoral fellow Katherine Labont茅, conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from Quebec to compare grocery shopping behaviours in 2019 and 2020. The study showed that at the beginning of the pandemic, people reduced the frequency of in-store shopping expeditions. This reduction occurred in tandem with a rise in curbside pick-up and delivery.
In the electronic dance music (EDM) community, what is viewed as intellectual property theft isn鈥檛 always up to the law鈥攊t鈥檚 up to the community. Norms around unlawful activities, such as illegal remixing, are often ambiguous and situation-specific. Ironically, illegal remixes can garner support, even career-launching acclaim.
Certain tech companies are promising dazzling futures when it comes to transportation, like Uber鈥檚 vision of skies buzzing with helicopter-like flying cars, and Elon Musk鈥檚 design for layers upon layers of automobile tunnels below city streets.
About a quarter of the world鈥檚 electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas. These contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (amounting to 10% of energy-related emissions according to the most recent figures from 2017) and climate change.
Women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by 捆绑SM社区 researchers. In regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of intimate partner violence and HIV.
鈥淲orldwide, more than one in four women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime," says 捆绑SM社区 Professor聽Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.
Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards 鈥 and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ecosystem of dinosaurs.
Circular economy may alleviate environmental impact of holiday shopping
Artificial intelligence chatbots that show positive feelings 鈥 such as adding an 鈥淚 am excited to do so!鈥 or a few exclamation marks 鈥 do not necessarily translate into positive reactions or contribute to higher customer satisfaction, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of South Florida, the Georgia Institute of Technology and 捆绑SM社区.
To better understand the evolution of flowers, researchers from Montreal are harnessing photogrammetry 鈥 a technique commonly used by geographers to reconstruct landscape topography. This is the first time scientists have used the technique to study flowers.
The team, including researchers from 捆绑SM社区, Universit茅 de Montr茅al, and the Montreal Botanical Garden, published the results of their work in the journal .