Study Tour to Denmark, 1983

Sweden Study Tour

May 2010, 19 senior leaders participated in the 2010 Canadian College of Health Service Executives (College) Sweden study tour. The majority of participants were senior leaders from public and private healthcare organizations across Canada. One participant was from the United States of America and another from the United Kingdom. The 19 participant was the recipient of the 2010 ARAMARK-College ...

Antimicrobials Study Tour: Holland

Northern Ireland twin study 1983

Two hundred and fifty-three twin deliveries in Northern Ireland during 1983 were studied. A high perinatal mortality rate of 57 per 1000 births was found, over four times greater than the overall perinatal mortality rate for Northern Ireland in that year. The main cause of these losses remains premature delivery which is frequently complicated by fetal growth retardation. Serial ultrasound scan...

Study Tour in the USSR

From August 23 to September 13 a study tour was held in the USSR on the subject of Radiation Dosimetry in Medicine and Biology, at the invitation of the State Committee on the Utilization of Atomic Energy of the Soviet Union. Twenty-eight scientists from 28 developing countries — medical doctors, physicists and biologists — participated in the tour. The group visited 12 institutes in 5 towns, n...

TOR tour to auxin.

Auxin is a principal growth hormone in plants. A study by Schepetilnikov et al (2013) now reports that TOR is activated by auxin and regulates expression of auxinresponsive genes by facilitating translation reinitiation of mRNAs with uORFs at their 50 UTRs. In this way, TOR acts at the crossroad of the plasma membrane and nuclear auxin signalling pathways to link auxin with general nutrient sig...