Frank and colleagues for the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute are the highest-ranking winners of the 2009–2010 CIHR/CMAJ competition for the Top Achievements in Health Research. Dr. Devereaux and colleagues describe the POISE trial in the following essay. Dr. Hull’s essay, the essay by Dr. Frank and colleagues, and synopses of the other three winning achievements are available at www.cma...

The study sets out to examine the achievements Junior Secondary Schools students in essay writing in French using activity based and lecture methods. It adopts the quasi experimental research design. A French achieving test for junior secondary school III was used for data collection, it was analysed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance. It eventually comes out with the vie...

I declare that this essay is work done as part of the Part III Examination. I have read and understood the Statement on Plagiarism for Part III and Graduate Courses issued by the Faculty of Mathematics, and have abided by it. This essay is the result of my own work, and except where explicitly stated otherwise, only includes material undertaken since the publication of the list of essay titles,...

Grammatical error detection and automated essay scoring are two tasks in the area of automated assessment. Traditionally these tasks have been treated independently with different machine learning models and features used for each task. In this paper, we develop a multi-task neural network model that jointly optimises for both tasks, and in particular we show that neural automated essay scoring...

I declare that this essay is work done as part of the Part III Examination. I have read and understood the Statement of Plagiarism for Part III and Graduate Courses issued by the Faculty of Mathematics, and have abided by it. This essay is the result of my own work and, except where explicitly stated otherwise, only includes material undertaken since the publication of the list of essay titles,...

This essay is intended as a letter to both myself and others, to hold up in the sharpest possible terms an ideal of research I believe is worth working toward. I’ve deliberately limited the essay to ten pages, hoping that the resulting omissions are compensated by the forced brevity. This is a rather personal essay; it’s not the sort of thing I’d usually make publicly available. I’ve made the e...

Vernalization is the process by which prolonged exposure to cold temperatures promotes flowering. Over the past century, this process has been studied extensively at the physiological level. Recent studies have provided some insight into the molecular basis of vernalization. The rich history of vernalization research has been discussed in detail in many reviews (Chouard, 1960; Lang, 1965; Berni...

! Optical illusions are images that are visually perceived differently than how they actually appear in reality. These images can be very entertaining, but also very deceiving. Optical illusions are caused by either an error with oneʼs visual sense or an error of intellect. This " error of intellect " occurs when the visual senses correctly interprets an image, but the mindʼs imagination, false...

December 9, 2015 It is often assumed that people are moral absolutists. Although Paul Boghossian supports this claim by seemingly defeating every reasonable type of relativism, Sarkissian et al. provide reason to think that people are generally moral relativists. I will argue that people really do believe in moral relativism, but that we think that all humans should agree to one universal moral...