The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) led by Professor Geoffrey T. Fong from the University of Waterloo, presented their findings in Maastricht at the European meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
He will discuss similarities between the two seemingly dissimilar endeavours, including the roles perseverance and serendipity play in both.
Stonebraker is a pioneer of data base research and technology, a professor at MIT, and the 2014 winner of the A.C.M. Turing Award, considered the highest honour in computer science.
He will discuss similarities between the two seemingly dissimilar endeavours, including the roles perseverance and serendipity play in both.
Stonebraker is a pioneer of data base research and technology, a professor at MIT, and the 2014 winner of the A.C.M. Turing Award, considered the highest honour in computer science.
This year's scholars have averages ranging from 94 to 99 per cent, and extracurricular activities that include founding a humanitarian group and participating in international robotics competitions and competitive sports. All of the scholars were drawn to the University of Waterloo for its reputation for innovation, high standards and entrepreneurial spirit.
Published today in the journal Science, the Reproducibility Project: Psychology found that only 35 of 100 attempted replications produced the same findings as the original study. The project, launched nearly four years ago, asked 270 researchers around the world to replicate studies published in Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. All of them are prominent psychology journals.
Collisions with wind turbines kill about 100 golden eagles a year in some locations, but a new study that maps both potential wind-power sites and nesting patterns of the birds reveals sweet spots, where potential for wind power is greatest with a lower threat to nesting eagles.
Professor Ian Milligan at the University of Waterloo is charting the content of millions of archived political web pages spanning the last decade, allowing the public to compare what Canadian political leaders and pundits said in the past compared to now.
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Very sick children in need of mental health treatment are ending up in adult psychiatric units because there’s nowhere for them to go when they are in crisis, says a Waterloo researcher.
The University of Waterloo and Pervasive Dynamics will develop and test wearable health technologies that can improve stroke rehabilitation as part of a new partnership aimed at transforming the health of older adults.
The joint research initiative, the first partnership between Waterloo and the Canadian developer of medical devices, will be part of the new Advanced Aging ResearCH Centre (ARCH) at Waterloo.