Young Researcher Meeting, Trieste 2013

Young Researcher Track Proceedings

This paper focuses on argumentative diagrams for computer-supported collaborative argumentation-based learning. Thirty pairs of students discussed two cases on the topic of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) via the computer. They communicated via chat. Pairs of students were either asked to collaboratively construct a diagram using argumentative labels to describe the boxes in the diagram, ...

Young Researcher Award

This paper presents the development of a novel framework that optimizes the evacuation of large cities using multiple modes including vehicular traffic, rapid transit, and mass transit shuttle buses. A large-scale evacuation model is developed for the evacuation of the City of Toronto in cases of emergency. A demand estimation model is first designed to accurately quantify the evacuation demand...

EACR Young Cancer Researcher Award

Many anti-cancer drugs are chemically reactive and cause DNA modifcations, which result in toxic lesions when the cell attempts to replicate the damaged DNA. There are also many anti-cancer drugs that directly target DNA replication, such as anti-metabolites or inhibitors of enzymes that participate in the replication machinery. Thus, targeting DNA replication is a highly successful current str...

APS March Meeting 2013

APS March Meeting 2013