Blog Posts
Find blog posts shared by the Owlstown community.
Perspectives on the P-Value
Today, I am going to be talking about the all powerful p-value. But before I continue, let me preface this by saying I am a graduate student, not a statistician and I am still in the process of learning!
Like most graduate students, I worshiped ...
Post · December 14, 2021
Towards Greater Acceptance of Wind Energy: A Review of Community Benefit Models
Summary
Wind energy has emerged as one of the most viable and cost-effective means of addressing the intersecting problems of air pollution, energy security and climate change. Especially in Ontario, Canada however, the development of wind energy ...
Post · December 08, 2021
Toolkit for Turbines: Wind Energy Development in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada
This toolkit is meant as a relatively high-level lay summary of some of the key findings from Chad Walker’s (Western University) PhD research which looked specifically at the social responses to facility siting processes for wind energy developmen...
Post · December 08, 2021
Holiday Gift Ideas for the STEM People in Your Life!
Hi All,
So sorry I’ve been absent recently. Exam season has been a whirlwind! I will be doing a debrief of the semester and updating you on all the things my first semester as a PhD student has taught me, but until then, I wanted to give you all ...
Post · December 08, 2021
The Suitability of Clark & Wells Cognitive Model of Social Anxiety as a Basis for Treatment Among Adolescents
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is characterised by an intense and disproportionate fear of social situations, where the individual fears negative evaluation such that the situations are either avoided or endured with much distress (American Psychia...
Post · December 08, 2021
Presentation by Falko Schmidt on "Active matter in a critical state" at ETH Zurich
Falko Schmidt is talking about his research on Active matter in a critical state: How micro- and nanoparticles can self-assemble and be actively driven using optofluidics, optical trapping and pN forces at ETH Zurich at 16.00 on 02.12.2021.
Post · December 02, 2021