BACKGROUND Although specialist physicians comprise nearly half of the physician workforce in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), relatively little is known about their retention patterns. We compared 2 cohorts of physicians who were initially licensed to practise in NL between 1993 and 1997 and between 2000 and 2004, to examine whether retention had changed over time. Additionally, we examined the ...

When the Carnegie Foundation was established in 1905, universities Canada and Newfoundland were eligible for grants, on strict conditions that seen by some as “colonial,” “continentalist,” or “imperial” intrusions autonomy; example, a plan to create federation of Maritime universities. This is study how Canadian found ways comply with requirement, compromises they had make, chose not governance...

Sham Tlili, Cyprien Gay, François Graner, Philippe Marcq, François Molino, and Pierre Saramito (1). Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Denis Diderot Paris 7, CNRS UMR 7057, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France (2). Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Université Marie et Pierre Curie Paris 6, CNRS UMR 168, 26 rue d’Ulm, F-75248 Pari...

BACKGROUND Since its inception 50 years ago, the Canadian Journal of Surgery has published articles under the banner "History of Canadian Surgery." Because no comprehensive history of surgery in this country has yet been written, these articles may provide its basis. METHOD The Canadian Journal of Surgery was searched from October 1957 to August 2007 for articles on the practice of surgery in...

This paper presents a bibliometric assessment of Canadian institutions in the discipline of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from 1996 to 2006. The paper is a first step in identifying the top institutions over a 10-year period in Canada. The rankings are calculated using three metrics: (1) simple count of papers, (2) journal impact factors, and (3) journal impact factor of each instit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pain in Child Health (PICH) is a transdisciplinary, international research training consortium. PICH has been funded since 2002 as a Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, with contributions from other funding partners and the founding participation of five Canadian universities. The goal of PICH has been to crea...

This paper considers the impact of ambiguity in strategic situations. It extends the existing literature on games with ambiguity-averse players by allowing for optimistic responses to ambiguity. We use the CEU model of ambiguity with a class of capacities introduced by Jaffray and Philippe (1997), which allows us to distinguish ambiguity from ambiguity-attitude, and propose a new solution conce...