By Katarina Ost, PhD Student, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Manisha A. Kulkarni, Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Researchers placed woodchips along the side of two trails in the Ottawa Greenbelt and found that the woodchips notably lowered the number of ticks.
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By (Reva) Laurel Young, Professor of Music Therapy, Concordia University
Music has value in dementia care, but re-envisioning its role beyond treatment involves engaging individuals in music experiences that foster self-expression, identity and meaningful interactions.
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By Teresa Behrend Fletcher, Professor/Director of Sport and Human Performance program, Adler University
Team sports like soccer or hockey can include situational pressures on specific positions such as goalies or anyone taking a penalty shot.
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By Thomas M. Pitot, Chercheur postdoctoral en microbiologie, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Catherine Girard, Professeure-Chercheure en microbiologie, Université Laval
Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, flow of matter and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet despite their abundance and ecological importance, many of them have long remained invisible to science.
This gap is largely due to the methods environmental virologists have used —isolating viruses by filtering out larger organisms from natural samples.
This approach was effective for isolating most viruses we knew about.…
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By Xiaoying Wang, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Wilfrid Laurier University
Seok-Woo Kwon, Robson Professor in Entrepreneurship, University of Calgary
With entrepreneurial ambitions at an eight-year high in Canada, new research suggests the structure of a business matters more than the decision to start one.
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By Guest Contributor
A new 7amleh report finds Palestinians are systematically excluded from digital payments, e-commerce, and remote work — structural barriers that deepen economic strangulation under occupation
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By Gwen Ansell, Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
Miriam Makeba sang a famous song about the 16 June 1976 uprising in her birthplace, South Africa. The protest was a pivotal point in the fight against apartheid and white minority rule in the country. The song was called Soweto Blues and its opening lines go:
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By Kobus Maree, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria
Thirty-two years after South Africa became a democratic state, the futures of millions of young people in the country are shaped to a large degree by uncertainty, exclusion, poverty and discouragement. As one lens on this scene, unemployment in the age group 15-34 borders on 46%.
I am an educational psychologist who has done 35 years of research on the career-life stories of young people growing…
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By Mbali Sunrise Dhlamini, Lecturer on the New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) in African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
Russell H. Kaschula, Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) at school.
At the time, under apartheid laws, language, ethnicity and race were all treated as characteristics that defined identity and belonging. Geographic settlement (the artificial system of
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By Maria Suriano, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand
While many men are remembered as heroes of political struggles, women seldom get enough attention. Vesta Smith is a good example. She fought for South Africa’s liberation from white minority rule, called apartheid.
Historian Maria Suriano has written a biography of this activist. With the 50th anniversary of the momentous
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