Speed Intraproc has developed and is marketing a self-service terminal for capturing biometric data for the German Identity Card and the Electronic Passport. The Speed Capture Station is based on a solution being used in Sweden since 2005 to capture photo, fingerprints and signature for the national passport. In Sweden, the terminal is completely operated by an official, whereas the solution fo...

Case 1 Signalment 12 year-old, castrated male mixed breed dog History Polyuria/polydipsia past few weeks; having accidents in the house. Lives in Alabama. Mainly indoors. Up-to-date on vaccines and heartworm preventive. No travel history Physical examination Obese Laboratory data Complete CBC, profile, urinalysis done. Abnormalities were: Calcium (mEq/L) 11.8 (9.0-11.2); urine specific gravity ...

The Expansionary Fiscal Contraction (EFC) hypothesis predicts that a major fiscal consolidation leads to an economic expansion under certain circumstances. We test this hypothesis, and the implied non–linear responses of the economy to large and small changes in fiscal policy, using data from the 1983 Danish fiscal reform. We use a structural VAR/event study methodology following Blanchard and ...

The knowledge e n g i n e e r p r a c t i c e s t h e a r t o f b r i n g i n g the p r i n c i p l e s and t o o l s o f A I r e s e a r c h t o bear o n d i f f i c u l t a p p l i c a t i o n s p rob lems r e q u i r i n g e x p e r t s ' knowledge f o r t h e i r s o l u t i o n . The t e c h n i c a l i s s u e s o f a c q u i r i n g t h i s k n o w l e d g e , r e p r e s e n t i n g i t...

1 Rehabilitation Neuroscience Laboratory, University Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2 Human Discovery Science, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3 Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, 4 Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 5 School of Exercise Science, Physical, and Health Education, U...

a Centre d'Applications et de Recherches en Télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada b Centre d'Études Nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Canada c Landscape Science & Technology, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada d Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada e Department of Physical and Environmental Sc...

R.J. Sobie Institute for Particle Physics of Canada and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada A. Agarwal, J. Allan, M. Benning, R.V. Kowalewski, G. Smecher, D. Vanderster, I. Zwiers Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada G. J. Hicks Common IT Services, Solutions BC, Victoria, Briti...

R. Chopra, M. Bronskill, M. Haider, and L. Klotz Imaging Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada National Institute for N...

Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Evaluative Clinical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Center for Leading Injury Prevention Practice Education & Rese...