Universities across Canada and the world have been working to rapidly move their face-to-face classes to remote delivery.
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2020
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Some researchers have argued for years that high rates of ethnic diversity in a community can eat away at social capital, the interconnectedness among neighbors that helps give rise to a functioning society. A new study led ...
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2019
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If you were to die tomorrow, what would happen to your Facebook page?
Internet
May 6, 2019
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New research led by Lijun Song, associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, and graduate student Phillip Pettis suggests that knowing people in high and diverse positions may be good or bad for your health. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2018
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Many of us spend hours every day tethered to our devices, pawing at the screen to see if it will deliver a few more likes or emails, monitoring the world and honing our online presence. Social networking platforms such as ...
Other
Sep 19, 2018
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Due to a stabile social hierarchy, guinea pigs rely on their intuition to decide whether to compete or to escape. So far, there has been limited research on how the sexual cycle may shape female social behaviour in animals. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2018
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2
Throughout history, scholars and researchers have tried to identify the one key reason that people are attracted to religion.
Social Sciences
Oct 5, 2015
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Links between human health and pet ownership are of widespread community interest but there's little clarity about the issue in scientific circles.
Plants & Animals
Dec 31, 2013
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University of Rochester researcher M. Ehsan Hoque has won a best paper award at the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2013) for a computer system designed to help people ...
Software
Sep 11, 2013
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Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals.
Mathematics
Apr 2, 2012
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