McGill University

Performative Gratitude – A Barrier to Understanding the Needs of Older Migrants Experiencing Homelessness in Canada

BACKGROUND: Canada's aging population faces a growing homelessness crisis, affecting groups such as older migrants. Older migrants experiencing homelessness may encounter intersecting forms of housing precarity, exclusion, and marginalization that shape their relationships with t...

Trained Immunity in Childhood Vaccination

Conventionally, vaccine design has focused on identifying antigens that induce durable T and B cell memory and provide long term protection against subsequent encounters with the same pathogen. Unconventionally, a growing number of epidemiological, preclinical, and clinical studi...

Measurement invariance of the Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale for racism among a national sample of college students.

OBJECTIVE: = 20.57) who participated in the 2023-2024 Healthy Minds Study. METHOD: Confirmatory factor analysis and multigroup measurement invariance testing are used to evaluate the factor structure, measurement invariance, and latent mean differences of the TSDS across key demo...

Building a Stack for Systems Deployment

We are introducing few lines of methodology to start building Models & Systems for Deployment. We start first with Asana Platform and the Automated Fact-Checker [here]. More Collaboration Invitation will be sent to participate in the project.

Spleen-derived circulating intercellular adhesion molecule 2 promotes osteosclerosis in chronic myelofibrosis

Abstract Mutations in the gene coding G6b-B, Mpig6b in mice, and MPIG6B in humans lead to myelofibrosis, progressive splenomegaly and osteosclerosis. Aberrant megakaryocyte function in bone marrow and spleen may affect bone cells through cell-cell contact or soluble factors. We a...

Building a Stack for Systems Deployment

We are introducing few lines of methodology to start building Models & Systems for Deployment. We start first with Asana Platform and the Automated Fact-Checker [here]. More Collaboration Invitation will be sent to participate in the project.

Panicum virgatum L. salt tolerance improved by inoculation with multi-stress tolerant Bacillus

Soil salinity is a key limiting factor for agricultural production, even for moderately salt-tolerant crops such as switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum L.). We hypothesized that switchgrass resistance to salt stress will increase when seeds are inoculated with bacteria that support pl...

Lifetime exposure to atypical working hours among healthcare professionals compared with the workforce in other sectors: Nationwide cohort study

Background Despite well-documented health risks, cumulative exposure to atypical working hours (AWH) over a career remains poorly quantified, especially among healthcare workers. Objectives This study aimed to compare career-long AWH exposure among healthcare professionals and ot...

Letter to University of Montreal – Address to Our Supervisors Team

In this paper, We are addressing a note to University of Montreal, mainly our Supervisors : Professor [bilodeau@dms.umontreal.ca],Professor [duchesne@dms.umontreal.ca], and Professor [murua@dms.umontreal.ca], Professor Perron [perronf@dms.umontreal.ca],Professor David [dhaziza@uo...

Integrating HiTOP and clinical staging: A developmental framework for multidimensional psychiatric assessment

Abstract Precise assessment and classification of psychopathology are essential components of precision psychiatry. The transdiagnostic clinical staging model holds tremendous promise to advance classification of psychopathology across the lifespan, but it is currently limited in...

Back to economic fundamentals: a welfare-based accounting framework for societal value in health technology assessment

Practical adoption of “novel” value elements in value assessment remains uneven, in part because components are often defined inconsistently and may overlap. We develop a welfare-grounded accounting framework to organize societal value components and clarify when proposed element...

Letter to University of Montreal – Address to Our Supervisors Team

In this paper, We are addressing a note to University of Montreal, mainly our Supervisors : Professor [bilodeau@dms.umontreal.ca],Professor [duchesne@dms.umontreal.ca], and Professor [murua@dms.umontreal.ca], Professor Perron [perronf@dms.umontreal.ca],Professor David [dhaziza@uo...

Determinants of complementary feeding practices – a qualitative study exploring mothers and fathers’ experiences in Canada

The complementary feeding period, defined as the introduction of solid foods alongside continued breastmilk and/or infant formula, is increasingly recognized as a critical window of opportunity for the healthy development of children. However, parental adherence to complementary...

Ruppeiner thermodynamic geometry, microstructure, quasinormal modes and greybody factors of the Einstein–Skyrme black hole

Abstract We investigate the thermodynamic microstructure, quasinormal mode spectrum, and greybody factors of the exact, static, spherically symmetric black hole in Einstein–Skyrme theory, building on the recently established first law that promotes the Skyrme couplings K and $$\l...

Beyond Symmetric Motifs: Asymmetric Small-Molecule Recognition Directs a New Poly(adenine) Assembly

Abstract DNA/small-molecule hybrid materials provide a powerful route to reprogram nucleic acid structures without covalent modification. However, to date only two small molecules have been shown to direct such assemblies, both relying on symmetric hydrogen-bonding faces. Here, w...

Mental health benefits of social prescribing in the general population and among people with mental disorders: an umbrella review

Social prescribing (SP) aims to connect patients to non-medical community resources to address social determinants of health. Here, we aimed to review the evidence of SP’s effects for mental health in the general population and among patients with mental disorders. We conducted a...

How Academic Researchers Align Values and Methodology: A Qualitative Inquiry of Equity-Informed Micro-Practices

Background Academic researchers conducting participatory research often navigate complex institutional, administrative, and funding constraints that limit their ability to actualize commitments to equitable practice. In response, many researchers adopt informal ad hoc strategies...

Tell me what you read, and I will tell you what you remember: Evidence for personalized embeddings in memory modelling

Computational models of memory have achieved considerable success by formalizing how traces are encoded, cued, and retrieved. However, the role that individual linguistic experience plays in shaping representational structure has been relatively understudied. Where the issue has...

Developing a vision for public health surveillance in Canada: An engagement and expert consensus process

Abstract Objective Public health surveillance (PHS) supports the detection of health threats, monitoring of population health, and coordinated public health action. While its core functions remain unchanged, Canada’s last national vision for PHS was articulated in 2016, and the p...

Sleep quality is associated with gut microbiome signatures of hyperuricemia in Chinese elderly adults: a community-based case–control study

Hyperuricemia (HUA) has become a global health issue due to its rapidly increasing prevalence. Growing evidence from population and animal studies suggests that gut microbial dysbiosis and lifestyle changes are involved in serum uric acid metabolism. However, most existing studie...