Winning Ways or Winning Weighs: Obtaining a SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship

Linguistic Construction of a Winning Apology

The study analyzes the apology delivered by the then-democratic Presidential contender in 2007, Senator Barack H. Obama, to the Indian-American community. This apology succeeded in convincing American citizens of Obama’s goodwill and clean political standards, which eventually led him to surpass his chief opponent, Senator Hillary R. Clinton and become the President of the United States. The st...

A Winning Partnership

Bacterial persistence: a winning strategy?

It has long been known that antibiotic treatment will not completely kill off a bacteria population. For many species a small fraction of bacteria is not sensitive to antibiotics. These bacteria are said to persist. Recently it has been shown that persistence is not a permanent state and that in fact a bacterium can switch back and forth between persistent and non persistent states. We introduc...

A Winning Tool for CPG

Complex networks: A winning strategy

Cooperation and competition drive and shape the dynamical evolution of systems spanning ecology, business, human and animal societies, and genetic selection. The interplay between these mechanisms can give rise to conflict1, discontinuous percolation transitions2 and even enable new technologies for wireless communications3. Problems devised in game theory, such as the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’, pro...