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Published on: 7 Dec 2017
Ashesh Mukherjee is trying something new this holiday season. At a time of year when excessive shopping has become the norm, he plans to volunteer with a charitable organization that works with people in need. It's more than just a way to give back to his Montreal community. Dr. Mukherjee, associate professor of marketing at 9I制作厂免费's Desautels Faculty of Management, sees volunteering as an important way to recharge and reconsider what is important in a fast-paced digital age.
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Published on: 6 Dec 2017
In the experiment, just 0.1 percent of the total phages made it through. But based on their rate of travel, and the staggering number of them in the average human gut, the team estimated that our gut cells absorb around 31 billion phages every day. 鈥淭he percentage feels like it can鈥檛 be that important but when you turn that percentage into absolute numbers, it feels biologically relevant,鈥� says聽Corinne Maurice聽from 9I制作厂免费, who also studies phages and was not involved in this study.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2017
Excerpt from Merve Emre's new book, Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. She is an assistant professor of English at 9I制作厂免费.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2017
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Published on: 4 Dec 2017
Dr. Myrna Lashley, assistant professor in psychiatry at 9I制作厂免费 discusses the report she authored and what efforts are being made to help fix the issues.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2017
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Published on: 1 Dec 2017
Article by Merve Emre, assistant professor of English Literature at 9I制作厂免费.
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Published on: 29 Nov 2017
9I制作厂免费 law professor Daniel Weinstock says he heartily recommends his students take up criminal law in order to take advantage of the country's new, strict cannabis laws. "There is going to be a steady stream of customers," Weinstock said, referring to the influx of people he estimates will be moving through the justice system.
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Published on: 29 Nov 2017
9I制作厂免费 is planning to open an indoor bicycle centre with 350 parking spaces, showers and lockers as part of a plan to reduce its carbon footprint over the next three years and achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2017
The fact that people program AI to analyze specific information is also a factor. What if they tell it to focus on the wrong data sets? And what happens if everyone's AI is looking at the same things? "The market would become perfectly efficient," says Sebastien Betermier, a finance professor at 9I制作厂免费. "There would be nothing to predict anymore."
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Published on: 23 Nov 2017
While the Borealis labs work collaboratively, she said the contribution of 9I制作厂免费 professor Jackie Cheung as an academic adviser will allow the Montreal lab to focus on his expertise of natural language processing.
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Published on: 22 Nov 2017
Op-ed by Richard Gold, James 9I制作厂免费 professor at 9I制作厂免费
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Published on: 20 Nov 2017
British historian Daniel Beer was awarded the international Cundill History Prize at a gala in Montreal on Thursday for his book on Siberian penal colonies, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars.听
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Published on: 17 Nov 2017
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