New research on violence associated with teenage dating has produced some surprising results. Today in The Conversation Canada, Catherine Shaffer of Simon Fraser University and Elizabeth Saewyc of the University of British Columbia tell us that boys - not girls - are more often to be purposefully hit, slapped or physically hurt by someone they're dating.
Many police departments in Canada make regular use of Twitter to communicate with the public. Patrick Parnaby and Daniel Kudla of the University of Guelph have analyzed the tweets of Toronto’s police force and found the Twitter feed to be a one-way conversation. Twitter users who raise politically or socially sensitive issues are generally ignored.
And finally…if you’ve ever broken an arm, you know how atrophied your limb becomes while wearing a cast. New research by Jonathan Farthing and Justin Andrushko of the University of Saskatchewan shows that building up the strength of your non-broken arm can preserve the muscles in your broken arm.
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Physical violence in dating relationships has decreased over the past decade among youth, but boys are still reporting higher rates of dating violence, according to a recent study.
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Catherine Shaffer, Simon Fraser University; Elizabeth Saewyc, University of British Columbia
Surprisingly, a study of more than 35,000 Canadian adolescents shows that boys report higher rates of dating victimization than girls.
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Research into how the Toronto police force uses Twitter shows that they use the social media platform mostly to talk among themselves, not engage with the community.
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Patrick Parnaby, University of Guelph; Daniel Kudla, University of Guelph
Police forces say they use Twitter to engage with the community. But new research suggests they're usually tweeting to one another.
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In a research study, students with an immobilized left arm who trained their opposite wrist completely preserved both the strength and muscle volume in the left arm.
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Jonathan Farthing, University of Saskatchewan; Justin Andrushko, University of Saskatchewan
A research study shows that training the other limb can actually help preserve muscle in a broken and immobilized one.
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Health + Medicine
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Nick Tiller, Sheffield Hallam University
An ultra-marathon runner and exercise physiologist describes what it's like to take part in an ultra-endurance event, and the consequences it had on his body.
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Arts
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Rebecca Giblin, Monash University
Individual creators get too small a share of copyright's rewards. What Bryan Adams is proposing in Canada could also work in Australia to help authors get paid and keep works available to the public.
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Science + Technology
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Mitchell Cunningham, University of Sydney; Michael Regan, UNSW
Humans are poor at remaining vigilant over time. That's bad news for the safety of partially automated cars, which sometimes need the person behind the wheel to quickly take over control.
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