This article shares key focus group findings from a national study focused on the housing needs of older (55+) lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Canadians. LGBT populations have continue to face systemic discrimination barriers appropriate across life course, yet little attention has been given solutions. Many adults live alone, poverty, limited familial supports which impact their...

We study Ruelle’s type zeta and L-functions for a torsion free abelian group Γ of rank ν ≥ 2 defined via an Euler product. It is shown that the imaginary axis is a natural boundary of this zeta function when ν = 2, 4 and 8, and in particular, such a zeta function has no determinant expression. Thus, conversely, expressions like Euler’s product for the determinant of the Laplacians of the torus ...

The many-body theory of degenerate systems is described in detail. More generally, this theory applies to systems with an initial state that cannot be described by a single Slater determinant. The double-source (or closed-time-path) formalism of nonequilibrium quantum field theory is used to derive an expression for the average value of a product of interacting fields when the initial state is ...

Describing the equation of a plane curve C as the determinant of a matrix of linear forms is a classical problem. A related issue is expressing C as the Pfaffian of a skewsymmetric matrix of forms. When the curve is defined by a harmonic homogeneous polynomial (a solution to Laplace’s equation), then the action of the Lie algebra of the orthogonal group SO(3,C) provides a natural such expressio...

The delay in skeletal muscle mitochondrial ATP production at the onset of exercise is thought to be a function of a limited oxygen supply. The delay, termed the oxygen deficit, can be quantified by assessing the above baseline oxygen consumption during the first few minutes of recovery from exercise. During submaximal exercise, the oxygen deficit is reflected by the extent of muscle phosphocrea...