University Enrolment in Canada 1951-83 and Beyond

Military conscription and university enrolment : evidence from Italy

Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this paper we study the effect of the suppression of compulsory military service on university enrolment in Italy using double and tripl...

The Homewood influence in Canada and beyond.

If there is any one individual who stands out in the saga of the early growth and development of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, it must be Albert Earl Homewood (1916-1990). His contributions included steering the institution through the lean 1950s, coping with the metropolitan transit authorities' devastating incursion upon the first campus, and arranging the construction and finan...

University of Alberta Edmonton Canada

Multiscale Computation and Analysis for Schrödinger-Poisson System in Heterogeneous Materials Liqun Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences, China [email protected] In this talk, we discuss the multiscale computation for Schrödinger-Poisson system arising from the electronic properties of semiconductors such as quantum wells, wires and dots, and CMOS transistor. We first introduce the Schrödinger equat...

1951 Influenza Epidemic, England and Wales, Canada, and the United States

Influenza poses a continuing public health threat in epidemic and pandemic seasons. The 1951 influenza epidemic (A/H1N1) caused an unusually high death toll in England; in particular, weekly deaths in Liverpool even surpassed those of the 1918 pandemic. We further quantified the death rate of the 1951 epidemic in 3 countries. In England and Canada, we found that excess death rates from pneumoni...

Living to 100 and Beyond in Canada with Dignity