Frailty — the physical limitations of seniors living in the community — needs to be assessed before it can be addressed with social and health support. Virtual assessments can speed up this process.
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A need for enhanced presidential power, inherited from the early days of post-Communist transition, ruined any chances of compromise between Ukraine and Russia years ago.
Fat people need to be empowered to critique the very groups so willing to instrumentalize their bodies for political gain.
As we ring in Lunar New Year, we need to celebrate Asian communities, their fierceness and courage; and demand bold changes for combatting anti-Asian racism and supporting well-being.
Algorithms have been shown to discriminate on the basis of race and gender. Studying age-related discrimination is essential to develop more equitable AI systems and technologies.
To prosper after the legacy of imperialism and colonization, Afghanistan needs partnerships and business investment, not bullets and bombs.
Organizations can reduce some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing customizable support measures can improve employees’ work commitment and well-being.
The continued reliance on outdated indicators of police performance reinforce conventional ideas of police sustainability rather than align with the concerns of “defund the police” advocates.
The goal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, or GFANZ, is to bring together the financial sector to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy. Here’s why it might actually work.
What’s happening in Belize is a work in progress. Its citizens pursue diverse self-determined actions along with repatriation as steps toward generational healing and redress.
Hearing technologies combined with artificial intelligence can be used to enrich the learning environment.
As we likely settle into a long-term relationship with COVID-19, this new relationship will not likely leave masks forgotten.
It has only been in the past century that weather prediction on Earth has advanced enough to work two weeks in advance. Predicting space weather, however, is only reliable an hour in advance.
As we celebrate Asian Heritage Month, the time is now to collectively centre dialogue against anti-Asian racism, with an optimistic view for a global reset.
We need to clarify the role of the police, to promote a more justice-oriented style of police leadership and to put in place long-term mechanisms of accountability to support and sustain change.
Not everyone needs to be on campus to learn. Governments, which subsidize higher education, need to change their funding models to support affordable remote learning.
Part of an Indigenous ancestral trail was cleared by a logging company last summer, despite it being a protected cultural site under Alberta law.
Student respondents to a survey discussed memories of historical trauma of infectious disease and displacement, financial hardship related to Alberta tuition hikes and mental health concerns.
A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may be intended to improve health, but for Indigenous consumers, such a tax would be unethical, contravene tax law and undermine Indigenous rights.
The execution of Lisa Montgomery in the U.S. earlier this year demonstrates how society misunderstands the effects of mental illness and trauma on criminal behaviour.
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Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Athabasca University
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Professor of Labour Relations, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor of Innovation Finance, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
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Master's Student, Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Human Geography, Athabasca University
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Associate professor, Anthropology, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor, Human Resources and Labour Relations, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Athabasca University
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Professor of Space Science and Physics, Athabasca University
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Professor of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Human Resources and Labour Relations, Athabasca University
