While health status is an important factor in whether a person is able to grow old in their home and community (age in place), researchers at McGill University have shed new light on the social factors that can also have an impact, both directly and through their impact on health over a lifetime. 

“The main takeaway from our research is that aging in place is not equally accessible to everyone,” said Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, the senior author on the paper and the Inaugural Chair and Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy and the Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities. 

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is crucial in the recommendation system field. Graph neural networks are used for POI recommendations, but data sparsity affects GNN training. Existing GNN-based methods have two flaws. Firstly, they have coarse granularity for modelling heterogeneity, overlooking complex relationships due to time and space factors. Although some work constructs complex graphs, it may reduce performance by introducing noise. Secondly, they insufficiently consider interaction sparsity issues, with little attention in POI recommendations. To solve these problems, a novel method HestGCL is proposed. It builds a heterogeneous spatio-temporal graph with three node types and three relations to model heterogeneity at a finer granularity. Inspired by self-supervised learning, it uses a cross-view contrastive learning technique, splitting the graph into spatial and temporal views, designing specific graph neural networks, and using node representations for contrastive learning. Experiments on three datasets show that HestGCL outperforms state-of-the-art methods, with relative improvements in Recall@50, and ablation studies prove its effectiveness and robustness.

Researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University introduce DFFPA—a novel method that enhances detection capabilities for new object classes with limited data. DFFPA leverages dual-domain feature fusion and patch-level attention to achieve superior performance. This breakthrough holds good potential for applications in autonomous driving and robotics.

In a recent study, Kim and co-author Woodam Chung, PhD, a forest engineer at Oregon State University, were the first to objectively measure biomechanical stress experienced by professional timber fellers during actual timber felling operations. They also evaluated forest workers’ perceptions of wearable exoskeletons—emerging technology already being used in other physically demanding industries such as shipbuilding and automotive and aerospace manufacturing.