Information privacy has gained increased attention in recent years. This paper focuses on a particular aspect of privacy, i.e., personal information privacy. In this paper a conceptual framework is developed based Westin’s theory of Personal Information Privacy (PIP). Concourse theory and Q-methodology was used alongside the literature and the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 to develop a Q-sort qu...

BACKGROUND In phase II trials of cytotoxic agents, a multinomial phase II design incorporating early progression and response end points was shown to perform more efficiently than designs based only on response. We undertook a study to evaluate the performance of these designs in trials of targeted agents using the actual phase II data. PATIENTS AND METHODS Using best response data from seque...

Clustering in data mining is a discovery process that groups a set of data so as to maximize the intra-cluster similarity and to minimize the intercluster similarity. Clustering becomes more challenging when data are categorical and the amount of available memory is less than the size of the data set. In this paper, we introduce CBC (Clustering Based on Compressed Data), an extension of the Bir...

For a strongly connected Extended-Free-Choice Net (EFC-net) N the algorithm given in this paper either nds a cover of S-components or recognizes that N is not well-formed. Well-formedness denotes the existence of a live and bounded marking for N. The algorithm is also adaptable to compute a cover of T-components. The time complexity is O(jPjjTj). According to the Rank Theorem, nding a cover of ...

1Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4V6 (e-mail: [email protected]); 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Range Research Unit, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2B 8A9; 3Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1; 4Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada V0H 1Z0; 5Agricul...

Vidhi Thakkar and Terrence Sullivan have done a careful and thought-provoking job in trying to establish comparable estimates of public spending on health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their main recommendation is a call for an international collaboration to develop common terms and categories of HSPR. This paper raises two additional q...

Division of Urology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (WK, SLT, AGA) Division of Urology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (GSK, AZ) Division of Urology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (RHB) Division of Urology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (AF) Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (AS, PB) Division of Urology, Western Univ...

Department of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering, 57 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A9, Canada; Centre for Hydrology, 117 Science Place, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C8, Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, 5403 1 Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 4B1, Canada; and Agriculture...

Biology, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada; Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Hematology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Oncology, London Health Sciences Centre...

1 Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada 2 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 3 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 4 Science and Technology Branch, National Agroclimate Information Service, Agriculture and...