The truth about fingers. Wireless interference. Opiates recipe.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 18, 2015
Researchers in the news
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- Several media reprise an earlier article that lists Concordia among the universities where researchers participated in a study of how the length of a man's fingers can be used as a marker of how good a romantic date he might be. The Concordia researcher involved is Gad Saad, professor in the Department of Marketing:The Free Press Journal, e-paper, Afternoon Despatch and Courier, The Siasat Daily and DNA India.
- Nursing Times reprises a Concordia study of whether wireless transmitters represent a danger to patients by causing electromagnetic interference with sensitive hospital equipment. The study, led by recent electrical engineering doctoral graduate Mehdi Ardavan and co-authored by Christopher Trueman, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, finds that the risk of such interference is very small when hospital staff and visitors keep their wireless devices further than arm’s length from medical equipment.
- Science News writes about what it calls the hype in the groundswell of media reports about the social and legal implications of a Concordia/Berkeley study co-authored by Vincent Martin, professor in the Department of Biology, on the creation of genetically modified yeast that can be used to make opiate drugs. The article's author maintains that home-brewed heroin is still years away.