Moving magic as hospitals merge in Montréal

Moving magic as hospitals merge in Montreal.

When Hospitals Merge: Turning Challenges into Opportunities for It Excellence

Source: Succeeding in Hospital & Health Systems M&A: Why So Many Deals Have Failed, and How to Succeed in the Future, Booz & Company, March 20, 2013 Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among hospitals and healthcare organizations have been on the rise for several years now. Deals between hospitals, physician medical groups, long-term care facilities, and home health providers abound, with activity l...

PARP Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy: Magic Bullets but Moving Targets

The pharmacological inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP1) have reached the first milestone toward their inclusion in the arsenal of anti-cancer drugs by showing consistent benefits in clinical trials against BRCA-mutant cancers that are deficient in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) of DNA double strand breaks (DSB) (1, 2). PARP inhibitors (PARPi) also potentiate therapeut...

Université de Montréal

Sampling is a process that is omnipresent in computer graphics. Specifically, it plays an important role in the estimation of integrals used in digital image synthesis. It is also used in digital halftoning, image processing, as well as geometric modelling. There is no definitive sampling strategy that can ensure the best results in all cases ; regular sampling proves to be inefficient and ofte...

Verb second as a function of Merge

I hypothesize that Merge as defined in (1) automatically creates a dependency relation S (for sisterhood) where x is invariably the antecedent (or nondependent) and y the dependent. I suggest furthermore that S can be (and perhaps universally is) marked on y, and spelled out on one of the terms of y. The proposal of this paper is that this dependency marking may be realized in two ways: by infl...