Tracking subway wear. Montreal climate change. Insomnia therapy. Sexual desire. Southway Inn lost story. Breaking the nicotine habit. Unwanted thoughts.

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• The Montreal Gazette (reprised by Mogaznews) writes about a study by Thikra Dawood, a PhD candidate in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering in which she describes an automated method of measuring concrete degradation in subway systems. The research was published in Automation in Construction.
• Québec Science and The Suburban join coverage of a climate change study from Concordia, published in Sustainable Cities and Society, co-authored by Ali Nazemi, assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and master's student Pablo Jaramillo. The study warns of a growing variability of weather patterns and increasingly isolated weather occurrences in Montreal and looks at the infrastructure cost of climate change.
• Sleep Journal posts a research article on insomnia, co-written by Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health in the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Jean-Philippe Gouin, associate professor of psychology in the same faculty, and several students and researchers at Concordia's PERFORM Centre. The study bears on patients' response to cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia. 
• Best Health Magazine references the study by Jim Pfaus, psychology professor and Concordia University Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Science, of chemical compounds that may spur sexual desire in women by acting on the zones of the brain linked with arousal.
• Nunatsiaq Online reports on the unveiling of public art for the Southway Inn Lost Stories Art Project in Ottawa, part of the Lost Stories Project based at Concordia and led by history professor Ronald Rudin, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The Southway Inn piece is a sculpture representing a 'qamutik' — a sled used by the Inuit.
• Healthcare News (in Dutch) writes about a 2014 study led by then-postdoctoral researcher in Grégory Moullec, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Exercise Science according to which exercise may help depressed smokers break their nicotine addiction.
• In another article, Healthcare News references a 2014 study by Adam Radomsky, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, that found that 94 per cent of people experience unwanted, intrusive thoughts.

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