Take a look around at your fellow Canadians, because they are slowly disappearing. All of the scenarios projected by Statistics Canada about population growth in Canada over the next 50 years show a “negative increase” (you’ve got to love bureaucratic language) in the number of births minus deaths.1 In the low-growth scenario for the Canadian population, the first year in which there will be mo...

Background: Drug-metabolizing enzymes play a role in chemical carcinogenesis through enzymatic activation of procarcinogens to biologically reactive metabolites. The role of gene polymorphisms of several cytochrome P450 enzymes in digestive cancer risk has been extensively investigated. However, the drug-metabolizing enzymes with the broader substrate specificity, CYP3A4 and CYP3A5, have not be...

this paper presents some analyses about the robust practical stability of a class of nonlinear affine systems in the presence of non-vanishing perturbations based on the passivity concept. the given analyses confirm the robust passivity property of the perturbed nonlinear systems in a certain region. moreover, robust control laws are designed to guarantee the practical stability of the perturbe...

et  be a commutative Noetherian ring,  and  two ideals of  and  a finite -module. In this paper, we have studied the vanishing and relative Cohen-Macaulyness of the functor for relative Cohen-Macauly filtered modules with respect to the ideal  (RCMF). We have shown that the for relative Cohen-Macaulay modules holds for any relative Cohen-Macauly module with respect to  with ........