Fatty liver is among the most frequent causes of liver disease in Canada and in Western countries and is one of the main indications for liver transplant. For some time, researchers have suspected that people living with HIV could be at higher risk of developing liver disease, which,听as a result of longer life expectancy thanks to antiretroviral therapy, has become the major cause of their mortality in North America.
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Published on: 30 Nov 2017
To celebrate听Montreal鈥檚 375th听anniversary, the听Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal听wanted to examine the mechanisms and processes that have made it possible, in the history of the city, to maintain a relative social peace. The CIRM is now proud to present its first publication (in French),听Vivre ensemble 脿 Montr茅al. 脡preuves et convivialit茅s.
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Published on: 30 Nov 2017
By Katherine Gombay
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Published on: 29 Nov 2017
9I制作厂免费 is committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, under its new Climate & Sustainability Action Plan (2017-2020), released today.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2017
By Amanda Testani
Professor Palmer is one of the few researchers to receive two CREATE training grants to date. From 2009-2015, Professor Palmer led an NSERC funded CREATE program in auditory cognitive neuroscience, training over 180 students and postdoctoral fellows. Her significant findings from that program informed her training program application in Complex Dynamics.听
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Published on: 27 Nov 2017
New research by 9I制作厂免费 biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years 鈥� providing a textbook example of the consequences of climate change for small mammals.
The findings also reveal a stark reversal in the proportions of the two mice populations present in the area, adding to evidence that warming temperatures are driving wildlife north. 听
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Published on: 27 Nov 2017
Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?听 9I制作厂免费 researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.
Kimberly Carri猫re, B盲rbel Kn盲uper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.
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Published on: 23 Nov 2017
Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?
Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals. Now, research by 9I制作厂免费 biologists provides new evidence to support this idea.
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Published on: 22 Nov 2017
BMO Financial Group and McConnell Foundation announce $3.25 million in new support for research centre that puts Montreal and its citizens front and centre.
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Published on: 20 Nov 2017
Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city鈥檚 four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city鈥檚 nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?
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Published on: 17 Nov 2017
The international Cundill History Prize today announced the British historian Daniel Beer as the 2017 winner of the US$75,000 prize 鈥� the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. The London-based historian was awarded for his ground-breaking study of Siberian penal colonies, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Allen Lane)
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Published on: 16 Nov 2017
Today, the听,听part of Johns Hopkins University, and GeoThink, a part of听9I制作厂免费, launched a new听听that will identify听standards for open data regularly shared by governments. The directory will ensure reliability and coordinated information for many city government data sets on services ranging from public safety, to building permits, to public transit, and budgets.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2017
Research has already shown that women who develop either diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease years later.听Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the 9I制作厂免费 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and 9I制作厂免费 shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had听both听diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy. The study, published today in the听American Journal of Epidemiology, doesn鈥檛 end with the mother鈥檚 risks.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2017
A new study, which is published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, and was led by researchers from King鈥檚 College London, Harvard University, University of Bristol and 9I制作厂免费,听examined more than 13,000 Belarussian teenagers enrolled in the PROmotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) and found a 54% reduction in cases of eczema amongst teenagers whose mothers had received support to breastfeed exclusively.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2017
In a world of political polarization, environmental threats, a changing labour market and growing gaps between rich and poor, there has never been a greater need to engage in a thoughtful examination of public policy and train a new generation of policy leaders.
Against this backdrop, 9I制作厂免费 is pleased to announce that it has received a $10-million donation from Max Bell Foundation to establish a new school of public policy at 9I制作厂免费. The School will reside in 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Faculty of Arts.
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Published on: 7 Nov 2017
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