Featured Presentations
2014
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Working in partnership with end-users is the key to developing successful interventions for any population. With an ageing population it is particularly important to understand how people make decisions...
2013
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As the complexity in the needs of older adults continues to increase, so do the requirements from the technologies that we are designing. No longer can we take a unidimensional approach in the design...
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The United States National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative (PSCIC) program is intended to create a new type of organization – a cyberinfrastructure collaborative...
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Nearly 80% of the world's 15.5 million HIV-infected women live in sub-Saharan Africa, where heterosexual intercourse is the primary mode of HIV transmission. Although a plethora of evidence demonstrates...
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Functional brain imaging enables non-invasive windows into how, when, and where the brain is actively processing information. This technology advances not only create the ability to improve diagnosis and...
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HIV/AIDS continues to be a global health crisis. Over 34 million people worldwide (including approximately 75,000 Canadians) are currently living with HIV and over 2 million people become newly infected...
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The iconic double-helix lies at the heart of not only the current revolutions in molecular biology and personalized medicine, but in many other, often unsuspected, areas of research and application....
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Large and diverse data result in challenging data management problems that researchers and facilities are often ill-equipped to handle. I propose a new approach to these problems based on the outsourcing...
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If machines are to learn how to translate from one language to another (say, Chinese to English) we first need to devise a measure that can score the output of a machine translation system against a...