What causes depression? Of course, life circumstances such as traumatic events, severe stress or grief play a role, but heredity studies have shown that a genetic predisposition to depression is equally important as environmental triggers [1]. Until very recently, though, the genes that underpin such a predisposition have proven elusive.
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Published on: 10 Aug 2016
Phishing messages typically get 5-10% response rates, but a new system has boosted its rate to 40%.听John Seymour and Phil Tully, two听data scientists from the security company听ZeroFOX, presented their听system SNAP_R听at Black Hat, a Las Vegas conference on cyber-security, on August 4. SNAP_R uses a deep neural net to听study a person's past tweets and then mimics that person's writing style using听a Markov model, generating听a phishing tweet. So far, there is no reason to think that criminals are using a similar system, but Seymour and Tully's work show how it might be done.
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Published on: 5 Aug 2016
Online bullying and trolls are the darker side of social media. Twitter's Chief Executive Officer 听that he wanted听to make听it a corporate priority to听detect听abuse and hate speech on Twitter.
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Published on: 2 Aug 2016
The Gatineau native and 香蕉视频 student was named the first Canadian winner of the Infiniti Engineering Academy competition on Thursday. That earns him a yearlong paid internship in Europe, with his time split evenly between the Infiniti Research Centre in Enstone, England, and the Renault Formula One racing team, which has its headquarters in Cranfield, England.
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Published on: 30 Jul 2016
Autour combines GPS, Google Maps, public transit and other data with ambient sound to provide descriptions of businesses, landmarks and services near the user.
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Published on: 30 Jul 2016
"These games are built by humans and therefore they contain all the biases of humans." -- Geography professor Rene Sieber.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2016
A team of researchers in the Netherlands has听developed the means听to store data at the atomic level. This technique would allow 502 terabytes of data to fit into one square inch. According to the authors, "[t]ranslating the two-dimensional storage density presented here to three dimensions, would ... allow the storage of the entire US Library of Congress in a cube 100鈥吢祄 wide."听At the moment, the memory array can operate up to a temperature of 77 K (about -210 C), meaning that the technology would be restricted to data centres capable of maintaining such temperatures.
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Published on: 26 Jul 2016
reports on towns in Labrador West that are repositioning their economies for the 21st Century. These local economies once relied on mining minerals but are now housing data centres. The cheaper power and cooler air of the area make them ideal for data warehousing, since such centres use a lot of electricity and cause machines to heat up. Great North Data, a company based out of St.
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Published on: 26 Jul 2016
"Reut Gruber, a psychologist who is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at 香蕉视频, where she is director of the Attention Behavior and Sleep Lab, said that there is a close association between sleep and a wide range of cognitive functions, including attention, executive function and memory. When children go to school, 'they need to pay attention and plan and follow instructions, all of which fall under executive function, which is very much affected by sleep,'听she said."
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Published on: 25 Jul 2016
Donald Trump鈥檚 speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention was notable for its tone鈥� That is the conclusion of a new analysis by 香蕉视频 [Political Science]听PhD student Denver McNeney. 听听
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Published on: 23 Jul 2016
Review of new book听鈥淭he Grid鈥� by cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke.
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Published on: 18 Jul 2016
Back in 2012, a team led by Alain Brunet, a psychiatric professor at 香蕉视频 and researcher at the Douglas, set the trauma world on fire with a new treatment for PTSD, using a beta-blocker that reduces heart rate and blood pressure. Brunet鈥檚 work at the Douglas appeared to demonstrate traumatic memories could be healed and, furthermore, memories linked to addiction cravings could be reduced. His work was covered in The Atlantic and Wired magazines."Heartbreak, or relational trauma, is almost universal, and it鈥檚 one of the top reasons people seek help. 鈥� Alain Brunet"
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Published on: 18 Jul 2016
...In 2011, the mechanochemist Tomislav Friscic and his team used mechanochemical methods to make听bismuth subsalicylate, the active ingredient of Pepto-Bismol, by grinding together bismuth oxide and salicylic acid. The method not only does away with solvents, but also uses bismuth oxide, a safe reagent, in lieu of toxic bismuth salts.
Published on: 18 Jul 2016
Pain researchers' arguments for using only male rodents in preclinical pain research don't hold up to scrutiny, says McGill neuroscientist Jeffrey Mogil.
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Published on: 13 Jul 2016
Op-ed by听Howard Bergman, chair of the Department of Family Medicine and听Daniel Weinstock, director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy.
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Published on: 26 May 2016
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