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1992

O'Byrne , Shannon

In this article, the author challenges the tendency in common law Canada to conflate the distinction between State and society. Following the analysis of Kenneth Dyson, the author contends that the State occupies a distinct sphere produced by or contained in the interconstitutive relationship of...

2018-01-01

Jiwa, Nawazali A.

Research in the field of Ismāʿīlī Studies has increased exponentially during the last decades. However, all of the existing bibliographies in the field are print-based, which lack the efficient and effective searchability offered by online bibliographic databases. This paper explores some ideas...

2023

Sun, W., Kalmady, S.V., Sepehrvand, N., Salimi, A., Nademi, Y., Bainey, K., Ezekowitz, J.A., Greiner, R., Hindle, Abram, McAlister, F.A., Sandhu, R.K., Kaul, P.

The feasibility and value of linking electrocardiogram (ECG) data to longitudinal population-level administrative health data to facilitate the development of a learning healthcare system has not been fully explored. We developed ECG-based machine learning models to predict risk of mortality...

2019-08-22

Young, T. Kue, Bjerregaard, Peter

"Despite the importance of indigenous people in the Arctic, there is no accurate estimate of their size and distribution. We defined indigenous people as those groups represented by the 'permanent participants' of the Arctic Council. The census in Canada, Russia and the United States records...

1989

McInnes, Mitchell

Introduction: At its simplest, the \"mistake of law doctrine\" holds that money paid under a mistake of law (as opposed to one of fact) is irrevocable. As any restitution lawyer can tell you, however, the doctrine is actually anything but simple. The amount of confusion which it has generated...

2018-01-01

Lingbo Cheng, Mojtaba Sharifi, and Mahdi Tavakoli

Background: Beating-heart intracardiac surgery promises significant benefits for patients compared to cardiopulmonary bypass based procedures. However, the fast motions of the heart introduce serious challenges for surgeons. Methods: In this paper, a new impedance-controlled master-slave...

2017-01-01

Chiu, Christine C., Bohlmann, Jeorg, Keeling, Christopher I.

The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae; MPB) is an eruptive bark beetle species afecting pine forests of western North America. MPB are exposed to volatile monoterpenes, which are important host defense chemicals. We assessed the toxicity of the ten most abundant monoterpenes of...

2015

Kinniburgh, David, Bello, Aminu K., Walsh, Michael, Wiebe, Natasha, Manns, Braden J., Field, Catherine J., Thompson, Stephanie, Faruque, Labib, Hemmalgarn, Brenda R., Klarenbach, Scott W., Tonelli, Marcello

Background People with kidney failure are often deficient in zinc and selenium, but little is known about the optimal way to correct such deficiency. Methods We did a double-blind randomized trial evaluating the effects of zinc (Zn), selenium (Se) and vitamin E added to the standard oral renal...

2009

Wiebe, Natasha, Thadhani, Ravi, Hemmelgarn, Brenda, Manns, Braden, Field, Catherine J., Klarenbach, Scott, Gill, John S., Tonelli, Marcello

Background Hemodialysis patients are at risk for deficiency of essential trace elements and excess of toxic trace elements, both of which can affect health. We conducted a systematic review to summarize existing literature on trace element status in hemodialysis patients. Methods All studies...

2008

Sperling, F. A. H., Simonsen, T. J., Brown, R. L.

Abstract: The adventive cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), a widely used biological control agent for Opuntia Mill. cacti, was detected in Florida in 1989. Since then, it has spread along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of southeastern United States, threatening...