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TORONTO- Mercedes-Benz Canada is pleased to announce thatBrian D. Fulton will succeed Gareth T. Joyce as President andCEO of Mercedes-Benz Canada effective May 1, 2016. Fulton iscurrently Vice President, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services(MBFS) and member of the Daimler Financial Services (DFS)Americas region Operating Committee (OC). He will be repor t-ing to Dietmar Exler, President and CEO of MBUSA and NAFTARegional Head."We are excited to welcome Brian in this impor tant role. Hishard work and extensive experience in several markets aroundthe world, including Canada, will serve the Mercedes-BenzCanada organization, its dealers and its customers extremelywell. I take this oppor tunity to thank Gareth for a job well done.Despite his shor t sojourn at Mercedes-Benz Canada, he mostdefinitely earned a huge amount of respect from his dealers andemployees and managed to launch and implement impor tantprojects and programs. We all wish him well in his newendeavours," said Exler.Brian began his career in the automotive finance industry in1985, after earning his bachelor's degree from Saint Mary'sUniversity in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He worked at Ford MotorCredit and Toyota Motor Credit before joining Mercedes-BenzFinancial Services Canada in 1994 as an Assistant RegionalManager. Since then, he has held leadership positions inCanada, the United States and Asia.Prior to his current role, Fulton was President and CEO ofMercedes-Benz Auto Finance China where he was responsiblefor the overall financial services operations for China and HongKong. Fulton has also served as the President and CEO ofMercedes-Benz Financial Services Canada where he wasresponsible for the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services andDaimler Truck Financial por tfolio.

TORONTO - Toronto Real Estate Board President Mark McLean announcedrecord TREB MLS® home sales for the first quarter of 2016 following astrong result for March transactions. There were 10,326 sales in Marchand 22,575 sales in the first quarter. The year-over-year growth rate forsales was 15.8 per cent for Q1 2016 and 16.2 per cent for March 2016. Forthe TREB market area as a whole, double-digit year-over-year rates ofsales growth were experienced for all major home types during the firstquarter. The positive annual growth in sales was not mirrored on thelistings front. The number of new listings entered into TREB's MLS®System during March and the first quarter were down compared to thesame periods in 2015."At the beginning of 2016, TREB's outlook for the year pointed to a strongpossibility of a second consecutive record year for home sales. Thisoutlook was based, in part, on upbeat consumer survey results pointing to

robust home buying intentions. It is clear that these upbeat intentions havetranslated into record first quarter results," said Mr. McLean.The MLS® Home Price Index Composite Benchmark for March 2016 wasup by 11.6 per cent compared to March 2015. The average selling pricefor all home types combined was up 12.1 per cent year-over-year inMarch and 13.6 per cent in the first quarter."Demand was clearly not an issue in the first three months of 2016,regardless of the housing market segment being considered. The supplyof listings, however, continued to aggravate many would-be home buyers.We could have experienced even stronger sales growth were it not for theconstrained supply of listings, especially in the low-rise market segments.The resulting strong competition between buyers has underpinned thedouble-digit rates of price growth experienced so far this year," said JasonMercer, TREB's Director of Market Analysis.

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No! Youngsters are not leaving FacebookRaveena Tandon during a programme organised to celebrate Grehlakshmi magazine's 25 years of success in New Delhi (IANS).

NEW YORK, (IANS) Young people are still quite hooked to Facebook,the media repor ted, refuting the popular belief that youngsters areincreasingly abandoning the social media giant. While investors andthe media, in 2015, panicked that Facebook would experience a massexodus of young people, nearly every internet-wielding millennial --those born after 1980s and now in their 30s -- are still obsessivelyusing Facebook on a regular basis, the repor t said.Millennials spend more than 2.5 times as many minutes on Facebookas they do on its closest competitor Snapchat, Recode.net repor tedon Wednesday. Facebook still has young people, which explains itsmarket cap of nearly $340 billion, the repor t stated.The repor t is based on data from comScore -- an US-based Internetanalytics company, which showed the percentage of 18- to 34-year-old Internet users who frequent each major social network eachmonth. It also showed the time users spend with each service.Nearly 100 per cent of people aged 18 to 34 in US use the socialnetwork as of December 2015. The data also revealed that Facebookusers are on the site (or app), on an average for more than 1,000

minutes a month. Snapchat comes second with under 400 minutes.Moreover, the data showed that people older than 35 love Facebookalmost as much as young people do - and they don't care about anyother social networks.

Even eating pulses can helpyou shed a bit of weightTORONTO, (IANS) A source of protein for the poor and richalike, just one serving of pulses daily can also contribute tomodest weight loss, reveals a study. According to research-ers, consuming 3/4 cup (130 grams) a day of beans, peas,chickpeas or lentils led to a weight loss of 0.34 kgs or 340grams in over six weeks.Despite their known health benefits, not many people eat pulseson any given day and most do not eat the full serving. "So thereis room for most of us to incorporate dietary pulses in our dietand realize potential weight management benefits," said leadauthor Russell de Souza from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.Pulses have a low glycemic index -- meaning that they arefoods that break down slowly -- and can be used to reduce ordisplace animal protein as well as "bad" fats such as trans-fatin a dish or meal. The study analysed 940 participants who lostan average of 0.34 kg over six weeks with the addition of asingle serving of pulses to the diet -- and without making apar ticular effor t to reduce other foods.The new study fits well with previous work which found thatpulses increased the feeling of fullness by 31 percent whichmay indeed result in less food intake. "Though the weight losswas small, our findings suggest that simply including pulsesin your diet may help you lose weight and we think more im-por tantly, prevent you from gaining it back after you lose it," deSouza noted. Knowing which foods make people feel fullerlonger may help them lose weight and keep it off.

Seasonal influenza vaccinationcuts stillbirth risk by halfSYDNEY, (IANS) Women who receive seasonal influenza vac-cine during pregnancy may have over 50 percent reduced riskof experiencing a stillbir th than unvaccinated mothers, says astudy. The findings not only support the safety of influenza vac-cination during pregnancy, but also suggest that vaccinationprotects against stillbir th. Over 3 million stillbir ths occur world-wide each year, and in developed countries, stillbir ths accountfor 70 percent of infant deaths around the time of bir th, thestudy pointed out. The researchers believe that establishing aconnection between influenza season and stillbir th could haveglobal implications for infant mor tality. "I'm hoping results likethese can convince more pregnant women to get vaccinatedeach year," said study author Annette Regan from The Univer-sity of Western Australia.


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Want to stay strong even at old age?EXERCISE REGULARLY

MONICA DOGRA AND SHIBANI DANDEKAR WALK THE RAMP FOR DESIGNER PAYAL SINGHAL SHOW AT LAKME FASHION WEEKSUMMER RESORT 2016 IN MUMBAI (IANS).

TORONTO, (IANS) The "secret" to staying strong as we age is superb fitness thatcan be achieved by regular exercise, suggests new research. The study found thatpeople who were elite athletes in their youth or later in life have much healthiermuscles at the cellular level compared to those of non-athletes.The study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, compared world-classtrack and field athletes in their 80s with people of the same age who are livingindependently. "One of the most unique and novel aspects of this study is theexceptional par ticipants," said researcher Geoff Power, professor at University ofGuelph in Ontario, Canada."These are individuals in their 80s and 90s who actively compete in world masterstrack and field championships. We have seven world champions. These individualsare the creme de la creme of ageing," Power noted. The study found that athletes'legs were 25 percent stronger on average and had about 14 per cent more totalmuscle mass. In addition, the athletes had nearly one-third more motor units intheir leg muscles than non-athletes. More motor units, consisting of nerve andmuscle fibres, mean more muscle mass and subsequently greater strength.

BE A BIT UNPREDICTABLE ATTIMES TO BOOST MEMORYNEW YORK, (IANS) Training memory with random and unpre-dictable methods can be an effective way in enhancing epi-sodic memory and cut dementia risk, scientists, including anIndia-origin researcher, have found. Episodic memories arethose associated with autobiographical events such as a pastbir thday par ty or first trip to an amusement park. This type ofmemory is crucial to our ability to accurately retell stories.The researchers tested episodic memory in 46 adults betweenthe ages of 60 and 86 at three different stages: before memorytraining, immediately after training and one and a half monthsafter completing the training. Par ticipants were separated intotwo groups -- predictable training or unpredictable training.For both groups, sequences of digits in different colours werepresented. The participants were asked to indicate when thecolour of the current digit matched an earlier one of the samecolour."Completing the task when the colour changes occur unpre-dictably requires more cognitive resources, or control," saidChandramallika Basak from University of Texas at Dallas. Intraining that involved a predictable element, the changingcolours occurred in a fixed order, whereas the colour switch-ing was random in the training that involved unpredictability.

GET YOUR BOARDING PASSVIA FACEBOOK MESSENGERLONDON, (IANS) Facebook Messenger has announced a tieup with the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines where the air travellerswill receive each and every information related to their travelon Messen-ger - includ-ing boardingpass. Onceyou bookticket onlineand chooseto receiveinfo via Mes-senger onthe KLMwebsite, theair l ine wi l lsend you itinerary, boarding pass, check-in confirmation andflight status through the app, The Verge repor ted.With digital boarding pass, passengers will be able to getthrough security and onto their flight. Passengers will also beable to chat with KLM suppor t staff right inside the Messenger."This is one that I've been personally eager to solve for a while- removing stress and complication from air travel," DavidMarcus, who leads the Messenger team, was quoted as say-ing. KLM is Facebook's "first airline par tner," and Facebookmay go for more such par tners, he added.



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Forget glass, now transparentwood to brighten homes!

LONDON, (IANS) You may soon have a stronger material than glass for natural light to pass through thewalls of your homes as scientists have developed transparent wood that could be used in buildingmaterials and could help home and building owners save money on their ar tificial lighting costs.The researchers believe that the material, described in the journal Biomacromolecules, also could find

application in solar cell windows. "Optically transparent wood (TW) with trans-mittance as high as 85 percent and haze of 71 percent was obtained using a

delignified nanoporous wood template," the study said.Homeowners of ten search for ways to brighten up their living

space. They opt for light-coloured paints,mirrors and lots of lamps and ceilinglights. But if the walls themselves weretransparent, this would reduce the needfor ar tificial lighting -- and the associatedenergy costs.Recent work on making transparent paperfrom wood has led to the potential for mak-ing similar but stronger materials. LarsBerglund and colleagues from KTH RoyalInstitute of Technology in Stockholm, Swe-

den, wanted to pursue this possibility. The researchers first removed lignin from samples of commercialbalsa wood. Lignin is a structural polymer in plants that blocks 80 to 95 per cent of light from passingthrough. But the resulting material was still not transparent due to light scattering within it. To allow lightto pass through the wood more directly, the researchers incorporated acrylic, often known as Plexiglass.The researchers could see through the resulting material, which was twice as strong as Plexiglass.

ADITI RAO HYDARI TO BE THE NEW FACE OF AVONNEW DELHI, (IANS) Bollywood actress Aditi Rao Hydari has been roped in to be the new face ofbeauty direct selling company Avon Color in India. "We are thrilled to appoint Aditi as the new face ofAvon Color in India. She embodies everything that the brand stands for -- beauty and empowerment.Aditi is a strong, passionate woman and is the perfect ambassador as she now plays a role modelfor Avon representatives across India," Swati Pal, marketing director, Avon India, said in a statement. The "Wazir"actress is proud to be associated with the brand to "inspire" women. "I'm happy to be representing a range that Iabsolutely love! Avon is always known as the company that empowers women. I am proud to be associated with Avon,to inspire women to be independent and explore oppor tunities to earn for themselves," Aditi said.

Common migraine medication during pregnancy can affect babyNEW YORK, (IANS) Cer tain medications and treatments long considered safe to treat pregnantwomen with migraines may have adverse effects on the babies, suggests new research. The re-searchers pointed out that acetaminophen, used by over 65 percent of pregnant women in the US,has been linked to pediatric development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."We hope this review of medical treatments will serve as a guide for doctors and patients on how tointerpret new findings, especially regarding four treatment options that doctors have commonly usedfor their pregnant patients with migraines," said lead study author Rebecca Erwin Wells, assistantprofessor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, Nor th Carolina, US."Patients and doctors need to be aware that concerns exist and they should carefully weigh the risksand benefits of these treatments," Wells noted. The review was published in the journal CurrentNeurology and Neuroscience Repor ts. The study also revealed that magnesium, previously consid-ered one of the safest supplements that could be used during pregnancy, is now rated at level D bythe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), meaning that it may not be safe.


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Now workout wherever, whenever using a fitness pass

NEW DELHI, ( IANS) Fi tnessfreaks now can get a monthlymembership of gyms in the formof a pass which enables them toworkout when they want, wherethey want and how they want.Fitpass -- an online por tal -- of-fers access to over 1000 gymsand fitness studios in the capital

and 100,000-plus daily workoutoptions to choose from.Priced at Rs.999 per month, it of-fers users a variety of workoutstyles like yoga, zumba, pilates,aerobics, MMA, cross fit, circuittraining, kickboxing, spinning,bootcamp and more. "India wantsto get fit but there is a lot of fric-

tion that prevents us from it --price, convenience, fixed sched-ules, long term contracts and lackof standardisation of services,"Akshay Verma, co-founder ofFitpass, said in a statement."Fitpass is using technology toremove the prevailing market in-efficiencies and make fitness su-

per accessible to the Indian con-sumer. Most impor tantly, we arehelping gyms and fitness studiosto i nc rease the i r u t i l i sa t i onrates," Verma said. "There areseveral technology- led inter-vent ions that we have in thepipeline to enhance customer

experience and to enhance profitmargins for service providers,"he added.F i t pass has s i x p rop r i e t a ryproducts named after f i tnessgoals like 'six pack abs', 'sexycalves', 'dolay sholay', '36-24-36', 'pecs of steel' and 'bikini bod'.

With each of these products, cus-tomers also get a curated diet planand workout guide to help themachieve their fitness goals faster.Fitpass also plans to expand itspresence in cities like Bangalore,Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad andChandigarh.


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HOW HUMAN BODY AGES?TOKYO, (IANS) Japanese re-searchers have discovered me-tabol i tes that are specif ical lyrelated to aging and shed light onhow the human body ages. Me-tabolites, substances that are cre-

ated during metabolism, can pro-vide a wealth of information aboutan individual's health, disease,diet, and life-style. The results ofthe study identified some me-tabolites in the blood that in-

creased or decreased in the olderadults. The researchers found 14age-related metabolites. Half ofthese decreased in elderly peopleand the other half increased. An-tioxidants and metabolites related

to muscle strength decreased inthe elderly, whereas metabolitesrelated to declining kidney andliver function increased."Of the 14 compounds, half of thethem had decreased in elderlypeople. The decrease was foundin antioxidants and in compoundsrelated to muscle strength. There-fore, elderly people had less an-t iox idants and less musclestrength," said lead researcherYanagida, professor at OkinawaInstitute of Science and Technol-ogy Graduate University (OIST) inJapan. In addition, some of theage-related metabolites found onthe same metabolic pathwayshave connected changes, whichsuggests that age affects them si-multaneously. "Functionally re-lated compounds show the sametendencies to increase or de-crease with age, or in otherwords, they show similar corre-lations," Yanagida noted, in thestudy published in the journalPNAS.

Kids with Cushing syndromeface higher suicide riskNEW YORK, (IANS) Children with Cushing syndrome -- a meta-bolic disorder caused by high levels of the stress hormone,hormone cortisol -- may be at higher risk for suicide as wellas for depression, anxiety and other mental health conditionslong after their disease has been successfully treated, says astudy. Cushing's syndrome may be caused by tumours of theadrenal glands or other par ts of the body that produce excesscor tisol. It also may be caused by a pituitary tumour thatstimulates the adrenal glands to produce high cor tisol levels.Treatment usually involves stopping excess cor tisol produc-tion by removing the tumour. Long-term complications of thesyndrome include obesity, diabetes, bone fractures, high bloodpressure, kidney stones and serious infections."Our results indicate that physicians who care for young peoplewith Cushing syndrome should screen their patients for de-pression-related mental illness after the underlying diseasehas been successfully treated," said the study's senior authorConstantine Stratakis NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver NationalInstitute of Child Health and Human Development, US Na-tional Institutes of Health (NIH)."Patients may not tell their doctors that they're feeling de-pressed, so it's a good idea for physicians to screen theirpatients proactively for depression and related conditions,"Stratakis said. Cushing syndrome may affect both adultsand children.

WHY SOME PEOPLE FEELMORE HELPLESS DURINGSTRESSFUL SITUATIONS?NEW YORK, (IANS) Ever wondered why some remain resil-ient to the daily stress while others succumb to despair? Sci-entists have found that the reason behind this difference is inour brain patterns. The researchers also identified a list ofbrain areas that might play a critical role in stress-induceddepression.The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Cir-cuits, revealed that mice showing helpless behaviour hadvastly different brain activity from those displaying resilientbehaviour. Mapping the brain activity in mice when placedunder stress, the research showed that locus coeruleus --par t of the brain involved with physiological responses tostress and panic -- lit up more in helpless mice suggestingthat it has a significant role to play in stress-induced depres-sion. "In addition, the helpless mice showed a strong trend ofhaving higher similarity in whole-brain activity profile amongindividuals, suggesting that helplessness is represented by amore stereotypic brain-wide activation pattern," explained theauthors from the Pennsylvania State University in US.Moreover, those mice that showed helpless behaviour hadsignificantly lower levels of overall brain activity, especiallyareas vital for processing emotion and motivation.


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Diabetes drug increases risk of bladder cancerLONDON, (IANS) A drug used in the treatment of diabetes can in-crease the risk of bladder cancer, warns a new study adding that therisk increases with the rising duration of use and the dose. Pioglitazonebelongs to a class of drugs called thiazolidinediones and helps tocontrol blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.However, the findings of the study revealed that taking the drug in-creases risk of bladder cancer by 63 per cent. The researchers wantedto assess the drug after a number of bladder cancer cases wereidentified among people taking the drug in a trial in 2005. Since thendifferent studies have repor ted contradictory findings on the subject.Canadian-based researchers examined the use of pioglitazone with

other anti-diabetic drugs and found an increased association of riskof bladder cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes.The team analysed data for 145,806 patients from Britain's ClinicalPractice Research Database (CPRD), who were newly treated withdiabetes drugs between 2000 and 2013. Potential influential factorssuch as age, sex, duration of diabetes, smoking status and alcohol-related disorders, were also taken into account. In contrast, the use ofrosiglitazone was not associated with an increased risk of bladdercancer in any analysis, suggesting the risk is drug-specific and not aclass effect, the researchers maintained in the study published in thejournal The BMJ.

SMARTPHONES TO DIAGNOSEEAR INFECTIONLONDON, (IANS) Swedish researchers have developed a newmethod to diagnose ear infections using smar tphones and thecloud. "Because of lack of health personnel in many develop-ing countries, ear infections are often misdiagnosed or not di-agnosed at all. This may lead to hearing impairments, andeven to life-threatening complications," said one of the research-ers, Claude Laurent from the Umea University in Sweden.The researchers focused on diagnosis of otitis media, inflammationof the ear -- especially in the middle ear -- that annually affects half abillion children worldwide. Not treating the ear infection can be dan-gerous, potentially leading to hearing impairments, and in certainextreme cases, can even have life-threatening complication, the re-searchers said. To enable rapid and reliable diagnoses of the earinfection, the experts developed an image-processing technique toclassify otitis media. The software-based system consists of a cloud-based analysis of images of the eardrum taken using an otoscope --an instrument used in the medical examination of ears. The image isthen uploaded to the cloud via a smartphone, where it's automaticallyanalysed and compared with high-resolution archive imagery. Thesoftware looks for predefined visual features, and places the newimage in one of five diagnostic groups. The findings, published in thejournal EbioMedicine, showed that the automatically generated di-agnoses based on images taken with a commercial video-otoscope had an accuracy of 80.6 per cent.

MIMICRY CAN HELP PATIENTSWITH ALZHEIMER'SLONDON, (IANS) Imitating movements can help Alzheimer'spatients regain some of their lost abilities due to the memory-impairing brain disorder, reveals an interesting study. Copying whatsomeone else is doing is a basic social building block that helps people tolearn and it can also help Alzheimer's patients, for whom there is neitherany cure and nor anyway to slow or prevent the illness. "Our resultssuggest that imitation could be used during rehabilitation of Alzheimer'spatients," said Ambra Bisio, postdoctoral researcher at the University ofGenoa in Italy. "Alzheimer's patients are still able to voluntarily imitate themovement of an object, as well as that of a human being" Bisio said.



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Around the world with a Mercedes-Benz G-Class,a sailboat, human power and determination

CALGARY - Extreme athlete and adventurer, Mike Horn is aiming totravel around the world via the Nor th and South Poles on a uniquevoyage of discovery. Following his successful K2 expedition in Paki-stan last year, the Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador will be relyingonce again on the legendary G-Wagon. Mike Horn has been closelyconnected with Mercedes-Benz since the PANGAEA expedition tookplace between 2008 and 2012. The objective of his expeditions is toexplore culture and nature in remote regions and to share his experi-ences and learnings with people around the world."When you fly over a country, it remains unknown to you. When youcross it by car and on foot you can see new things, discover thebeauty of nature and understand the life and the needs of the peoplewho live there. The Mercedes-Benz G-Class enables me to do this -even in the most remote areas of the world. It provided impressiveproof of this last year on my 'Driven to Explore' K2 expedition", saysMike Horn."Pole2Pole" - discovering spectacular nature with the G-ClassMike Horn is globally acknowledged as the world's greatest modernday explorer. He was the first person to navigate the entire length ofthe Amazon River solo and unsuppor ted, to walk to the North Poleduring the dark season and to circumnavigate the globe at the equatorwithout motorized transpor t. With the new "Pole2Pole" expedition,

Horn will complete a unique circumnavigation of the globe via the twopoles.Extensive testing of the two G-Class SUVs Mike Horn will be usingduring the expedition took place in April in Alber ta, Canada. Hornchose to travel from Calgary to Jasper and back to encounter similarclimatic and topographical conditions he will encounter around theworld.Mike Horn will begin the "Pole2Pole" expedition in Monaco on May 6,2016 then sail his expedition boat, the PANGAEA, south to Namibia.The expedition will continue in the G-Class through the Namib, theworld's oldest deser t on the Namibian coast. The route will then takehim through Botswana's Okavango delta, the world's largest inlanddelta, prior to reaching Cape Town in South Africa. From there,PANGAEA will take him to the Antarctic which he will cross on skis byway of the South Pole. Mike will then sail the Pacific through Oceaniawhere he will also explore par ts of New Zealand and Australia. InPapua New Guinea, the G-Class will await for an expedition throughunspoiled equatorial forests. Once in Asia, a fur ther overland expedi-tion with the G-Wagon will lead him through the tundra in Kamchatka,before he makes his way to the Nor th Pole. From there, he will travelby ski and kayak to Greenland where he will return to his boat andfinally complete the full loop of his trip by sailing back to Europe.

On his websi te www.mikehorn.com and under the hashtag#Pole2Pole, Mike Horn will continuously report the progress of hisadventure, his experiences in the different countries and regions ofthe world and how the G-Class keeps managing the impossible. Withthe help of an interactive map, Mike Horn's fans will see where theadventurer is located and what he is experiencing.The third joint expedition for Mercedes-Benz and Mike HornMercedes-Benz and Mike Horn have been par tners for many years.With his upcoming 'Pole2Pole' expedition, Mike Horn is reaching outto young people worldwide, to raise awareness and establish a betterunderstanding of foreign cultures and their living environment.Last year, Mercedes-Benz suppor ted the expedition "Driven to Ex-plore", during which both par tners drew attention to environmentalchange in even the most remote regions of the world. Mike Horndrove 10,640 kilometres in the G-Wagon from Switzerland through tencountries in Central and Eastern Europe to K2 in Pakistan.Mercedes-Benz sponsored the PANGAEA expedition between 2008and 2012. Mike Horn sailed around the world with the 35-metre longexpedition sailing vessel. With the guiding theme "Explore. Learn.Act.", he initiated ecological and social projects with young people indifferent locations around the globe. More than 100 follow-up projectshave since ensued.

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - IT MAY TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT MEMORYOTTAWA - Follow your hear t because a new study from Western University shows that your memories already do. Investigators at Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute have discovered that signalsfrom inside your body can affect memories. The findings were recently published online by Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.Chris Fiacconi, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Brain and Mind Institute, explains, "When describing their emotions, people often make reference to feelings in their body. They say,'my hear t was pounding' or 'my stomach was in knots.' Our work suggests that these bodily sensations may also accompany the activation of memories in experiences that we traditionally describe asfeelings." Historically speaking, more than 100 years ago, scientists noted that when people are confronted with a familiar face or a familiar situation, they describe feeling infused with a 'warm glow.' Untilnow, these feelings have been difficult to investigate with empirical research.Collaborating with Brain and Mind principal investigator Stefan Köhler, Fiacconi focused on one of the most striking visceral signals in the human body, namely hear tbeats.To determine whether these signals influence feelings of familiarity, the researchers showed volunteers brief images (or snapshots) of different faces in such a way that they coincided with either thesystolic ('on') or the diastolic phase ('off') of the hear tbeat, as measured with an electrocardiogram.Study par ticipants were asked to judge whether these faces seemed familiar or unfamiliar. Remarkably, the researchers found that previously unknown faces were more likely judged as familiar when theywere presented at the time when feedback about the contraction of the hear t is known to reach the brain, than when they were presented in the 'off' phase of the cardiac cycle."These new findings suggest that signals from the body not only shape our emotional feelings, but also affect more broadly our memory experience, such as feelings of familiarity, and perhaps other aspectsof memory that are linked to intuition," says Köhler, a psychology professor at Western's Faculty of Social Science.This study raises impor tant questions about how the human brain integrates visceral signals with other information that guides our memory judgments and could provide new insights into how deficits inthis integration could contribute to memory disorders in neurological disease.


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