Stress and success. Power grid protection. The niqab in Quebec. A woman's pleasure. Fatigue remedies.

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• Several media join continuing coverage of a study led by Erin Barker, assistant professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science and member of the Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH). Barker, working with Department of Psychology colleague, professor Carsten Wrosch, determined that occasional negative moods can impact positively on a person's performance at school or at work: CBC.ca, Canada Standard, Sify News, Web India 123, India TV, BCIndian.com, OHIndian.com, News 18.
• Electric Energy Online picks up news of last week's announcement of a five-year, $2.1-million grant to a group of Concordia researchers to support their work to buttress Hydro Quebec's smart power grid against cyber attacks. The team is led by Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), who has been named principal chairholder of the Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security, Detection, Prevention, Mitigation and Recovery from Cyber-Physical Attacks.
• Quebec Online News picks up the text version of a Radio-Canada story quoting Lynda Clarke, interim chair of and associate professor in the Department of Religion of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The story refers to a 2013 study conducted by Clarke on behalf of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
• Samen (South Africa) references a recent research review led by Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who pondered the female orgasm. Pfaus, working with graduate students Gonzalo Quintana Zunino and Conall Mac Cionnaith, concluded that women derive intense sexual pleasure from multiple sources of stimulation.
• Bel Âge, writing about different remedies for fatigue, references the work of Concordia sleep specialistThanh Dang Vu, professor in the Department of Exercise Science. Dang Vu is quoted.

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