Over the last two decades, the zebrafish has joined the ranks of premier model organisms for biomedical research, with a full suite of tools and genomic resources. Yet we still know comparatively little about its natural history. Here I review what is known about the natural history of the zebrafish, where significant gaps in our knowledge remain, and how a fuller appreciation of this organism'...

Rule-based information extraction from text is increasingly being used to populate databases and to support structured queries on unstructured text. Specification of suitable information extraction rules requires considerable skill and standard practice is to refine rules iteratively, with substantial effort. In this paper, we show that techniques developed in the context of data provenance, to...

Data and sample donation from diverse populations is critical for research findings to have a broad impact. The goal of this study is to better understand study participant attitudes and preferences for updates on biobank-related research activities. We also hope to understand if there are differences in these topics between demographic groups. In this analysis of 51 survey respondents, we foun...

Today, the Diversity Committee assists and informs department leadership in the recruitment and retention of students and faculty from underrepresented populations to better serve our diverse patient populations, with a member of the diversity committee serving on each search committee. The committee also sponsors and selects the recipient of the annual Dr. Evelyn Lee Visiting Scholar Lecture i...

HEALTHCARE. Canada has a series of disconnected parts, a hodge-podge patchwork, healthcare industry comprising hospitals, doctors’ offices, group practices, community agencies, private sector organizations, public health departments and so on. Each Canadian province is experimenting with different types of organizational structures and processes with the intent of improving the coordination of ...

Research and development (R&D) is a key determinant of long run productivity and welfare. A central issue is whether a decentralized economy undertakes too little or too much R&D. We develop an endogenous growth model that incorporates parametrically four important distortions to R&D: the surplus appropriability problem, knowledge spillovers, creative destruction, and congestion externalities. ...

BACKGROUND Railway suicide has significant adverse impacts for the victims, their family and friends, witnesses to the incident, general public and train network. There is no previous review on the socio-environmental factors and railway suicide. The research question asked in this review was: 'What socio-environmental risk and protective predictors are significantly associated with railway sui...

Epidemiology is the basic science underpinning public health and clinical medicine. It describes the occurrence of health-related states or events (incidence, prevalence), quantifies the risk of disease (relative risk) and its outcome (prognosis, survival, mortality), and postulates causal mechanisms for disease in populations (aetiology, prevention). The main function of epidemiology is to pro...

Alexia Prskawetz a,∗∗, Alessandra Gragnani b and Gustav Feichtinger c a Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Doberanerstr. 114, 18057 Rostock, Germany E-mail: [email protected] b Department of Electronics and Computing, Politecnico of Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy c Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems Theory, Vienna University of Technolog...

Many countries across Europe and elsewhere have been experimenting with various structured approaches to manage patients with chronic illness as a way to improve quality of care, reduce costs and lead to better population health outcomes in the long run. Despite a body of studies of disease management interventions, uncertainty about the effects of these remains not least because current guidan...