162 Forensic patients are generally unwilling participants in their own rehabilitation. Worse still, their treating clinicians, in addition to managing their disorders and preparing for their reintegration into the community, are also beholden to the courts (and therefore the community at large) to ensure that the risk they pose to others is eliminated. Discharge, by a judge-in-chambers, will o...

(2013) Just how difficult can it be counting up R&D funding for emerging technologies (and is tech mining with proxy measures going to be any better?). This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL a...

(2014) A prospective study of the parent-baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth. This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyrigh...

The arguments that raged through the years of hearings dealt mainly with funding issues. The federal and provincial governments, who cover approximately 73% of all health-related costs, were in dire financial straits. They were all running huge deficits and federal transfers to the provinces for health and post-secondary education had been cut drastically. With the focus on finances, the countr...

VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness, has become the fulcrum of all programs for control of blindness worldwide. Just like the five blind men who perceived an elephant differently, policy makers, program planners, eye care professionals and the general population (the main stake holder) have different interpretations for what VISION 2...

An advanced intercrossed line (AIL) is an experimental population that can provide more accurate estimates of quantitative trait loci (QTL) map location than conventional mapping populations. An AIL is produced by randomly and sequentially intercrossing a population that initially originated from a cross between two inbred lines or some variant thereof. This provides increasing probability of r...

When his parents took three-year-old John Despota to his primary care physician in Chicago in 1964, orange-tinted fat-laden bumps lined the skin on the back of his lower legs. Eruptions caused by excess cholesterol, the bumps spread across Despota’s body, mirroring a total blood cholesterol level that hovered above six-times the normal range. By age 12, Despota experienced shortness of breath u...

The two cubic forms of the three-dimensional cellular automato n popularly called Life are denoted "Life 4555" and "Life 5766," where th e first two numb ers give th e acceptable number of live neighbor cells required to sustain a (cur rently) live cell for th e next generation , and the second pai r of numb ers specifies the number oflive neighbor cells required to give birth to a current ly n...

September is newborn screening awareness month. Since 1963, state public health programs have screened newborns for a number of life-altering health conditions. Many of these disorders are rare and genetic, and if caught in the first weeks of life they can be treated or managed to prevent death or a lifetime of disability. Early detection can also help families avoid the lengthy and stressful ‘...

A connection is often made between postmodernism and nihilism, but the full meaning of such a connection is rarely explored. The contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo is one of the few philosophers to have devoted much work to explaining this connection. Vattimo extrapolates the relevance of Nietzsche’s theory of nihilism for the postmodern condition, arguing that the concept of the p...