Dr. Neilson (Ph.D. Queen’s University, Marketing and MIS) is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business. She taught Information Systems courses in her previous appointment at the University of Guelph, and currently teaches in the Marketing area at the Sprott School. Her research focuses on social and cultural influences on consumption, consumer culture theory, morality in marketpla...

This year Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (MGGM) turns 5 years old. For the editors of this journal it is time for some reflection, “looking back and looking forward”. The first issue appeared in May of 2013, 60 years after the publication by Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and 10 years after the completion of the Human Genome Project. The work for this...

Multi–grid back–projection (MGBP) is a fully–convolutional network architecture that can learn to restore images and videos with upscaling artifacts. Using the same strategy of multi–grid partial differential equation (PDE) solvers this multiscale scales computational complexity efficiently increasing output resolutions. The basic processing block inspired in iterative (IBP) algorithm constitut...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the College and the 20th anniversary of the Research and Education Foundation (REF). To commemorate this anniversary, the College has undertaken several initiatives to inform members about its history (eg, a history book and a family medicine heritage website are in development). In recent months Canadian Family Physician has also shared stories about th...

Consider the world of the 1950s. Ten percent of American households had a television, which displayed only in black and white. Telephones had rotary dials and party lines, and they were used only for conversation. The average life expectancy at birth was 69 years (1). Massive randomized clinical trials were in progress to test a new vaccine for polio (2) and streptomycin and isoniazid treatment...