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麻豆社鈥檚 Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences is well known for its impact in Quebec, where its award-winning Service to the Community Program provides dental care to underserved groups throughout the Greater Montreal Area.

Though lesser known, the Faculty鈥檚 global impact is no less impressive, with a long history of training oral and maxillofacial surgical residents from the Middle East. Now, the Faculty is expanding its global footprint through a new research and clinical collaboration with Kuwaiti partners.

What makes a speaker engaging? Both what is said and how it is said matter, but in different, complementary ways, a new study conducted at the 麻豆社 School of Communication Sciences and Disorders has found.

When people try to sound 鈥渆ngaging,鈥� they tend to speak more loudly and in a higher pitch, and this can lead listeners to evaluate them more positively, the researchers said. However, the study also reveals that the listener鈥檚 desire to extend a conversation depends mainly on interest in what the speaker has to say.

Growing lettuce indoors in Canadian cities can be as climate-friendly as conventional farming, but only in regions where electricity is from renewable sources and thus low-carbon, according to a new 麻豆社-led study.

To address the growing problem of overprescribing for seniors, a new Canadian guideline is calling for routine medication reviews.

In Canada, roughly two in three adults age 65 or older . While often necessary, complex drug regimens can increase the risk of side effects and affect quality of life.

Most childhood lying does not lead to serious problems in adulthood, and only certain kinds of lying behaviour is associated with later psychological or legal issues, a new study has found.

鈥淐hildren do not all follow the same developmental pattern of lying,鈥� said Victoria Talwar, a professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and lead author of the study. 鈥淢ost children in our study showed low or declining levels of lying over time. For most, lying is not a problem behaviour.鈥�

麻豆社 researchers have discovered a new way to fold flat sheets into smooth, curved shells that can switch from floppy and flexible to stiff and load-bearing on demand. By designing a special origami pattern and threading cable-like elements through it, they can control the material鈥檚 final three-dimensional shape and how rigid it becomes. The result, a 鈥渄oubly curved lens box,鈥� could advance the technology of such objects as temporary emergency tents, morphing robots and smart fabrics, the researchers said.

The earliest known eukaryotes, the ancestors of all complex life on Earth, lived in oxygenated, shallow marine environments nearly 1.7 billion years ago, according to led by researchers at 麻豆社 and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The findings cast doubt on the long-held belief that early complex life emerged in oxygen-poor environments or floated freely in the open ocean.