local perforator flaps have evolved over the time to provide complete and stable coverage of soft tissue defects. technical advances and experience with the perforator flaps have allowed the harvest of local perforator flaps in a free style manner by offering greater freedom in flap selection. we have proposed a technical modification in the harvest of a perforator flap by relo-cating the perfo...

Despite improved education and newer therapies, hypertension remains highly prevalent, affecting nearly 25% of the Canadian population. It predisposes patients to cardiac, cerebral, and peripheral vascular disease, remains a leading cause of renal dysfunction, and contributes to an exacerbation of declining cognitive function in the elderly. The 2004 Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHE...

The AN comparative grammarian is favored by the large number of surviving daughter languages offering comparative testimony but handicapped by the apparently great diversity of case-marking systems among these languages, by problems in characterizing the structure of their case-marking systems, by igThe excellent work of Dahl (1973, Ch. 22) and Wolff (1973) deals with some of the same problems ...

We introduce uncertainty about farmer characteristics into the moral hazard problem facing a regulator offering agri-environmental contracts. Our model allows for a continuum of farmer compliance costs. For reasonable parameter values the model predicts high levels of cheating and intensive monitoring, contrary to the evidence. We therefore add variation in farmers’ propensity to cheat, the reg...

China and India are touted as new entrepreneurship powerhouses. The two countries’ different institutional history and characteristics have led to differences in environments related to entrepreneurship. There are some well-founded rationales as well as a number of misinformed and ill-guided viewpoints about the friendliness of the environment to support entrepreneurship in each country as well...

Democratic transitions of Southern Europe in the 1970s have been revisited by social sciences with some regularity, especially national studies and more rarely from a comparative perspective. Ceci etant dit, as region or unity analysis has survived very well recent years is nowadays consolidated field sciences. In certain areas research there were changes disciplines involved, history breaking ...