Lessons from Project Synergy: A Guide to E-Mental Health in Canada

E-mental health, which is an emerging field that utilizes technology to improve access to care, has shown strong potentials to address the overwhelming demand for mental health services. Australia is currently undertaking an unified effort between clinicians, researchers, private sector, the government, and the users to provide a rigorously evaluated digital platform through Project Synergy. […]

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Visual memory and the pedometer in navigating desert ants.

Desert ants rely on multiple systems in order to successfully navigate, including memorizing snapshots of their visual surroundings and path integration. During path integration, foragers record both their heading direction, through a sky compass, and the distance from the nest through a step-counter giving the forager an estimate of the nest’s location while they forage. […]

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Examining microclimatic effects on vertebrate interactions with foundational plant species.

Desertification and arid region expansion are critical global change issues. Temperature, variability in precipitation, extended drought periods, and radiation are probable factors affecting the function of foundations shrubs. The changes in the above weather parameters are primarily due to anthropogenic climate change that significantly modifies physical and biological systems in all continents. Micro-climatic-driven behavioural plasticity […]

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From Cuba with Love: Domesticity as Transnational Media and Networking Strategy .

The project explores the role of domesticity in general as a symbolic and material realm fostering transnational networking and communication tactics involving Cuba and the North American peoples. This research looks at homemaking in Cuba as an activity at the center of large communication initiatives revolving around material exchanges, human international travels and domestic media […]

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