Having Your Day in Court

Your business in court--2005.

Physicians, it's in your court now.

The Supreme Court decision of June 9, 2005 clarifies the political choice facing organized medicine in Canada. 1 Many of Canada's doctors are strong and eloquent supporters of single-tier health care. Many are not, and never have been. A mere decade ago, at the CMA's annual General Council meeting , a motion declaring that citizens " must have the right to choose regulated private insurance for...

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How Was Your Day?

We describe a ‘How was your day?’ (HWYD) Companion whose purpose is to establish a comforting and supportive relationship with a user via a conversation on a variety of work-related topics. The system has several fairly novel features aimed at increasing the naturalness of the interaction: a rapid ‘short loop’ response primed by the results of acoustic emotion analysis, and an ‘interruption man...

Having your voxels and timing them too ?

The two major noninvasive functional human brain imaging modalities developed during the last part of the twentieth century, high-density scalp EEG (electroencephalogram) and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), appear from a logical viewpoint to be largely complementary. BOLD (blood oxygen level difference) signals can have a spatial resolution of less than 1 cm, meaning time series o...