Celebrating 50 Years and Counting

Celebrating 50 years

5 0 years ago, what would soon evolve to become the profession of respiratory therapy emerged as the Canadian Society of Inhalation Therapy Technicians. One year following the inception of the Society, Canadian Inhalation Therapy published its first issue. From the outset of the profession, research, evaluation and knowledge translation have been fundamental to advancing our understanding of re...

Celebrating 50 years of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Celebrating 50 Years of Occupational Therapy in Iran

Celebrating milestones is important. It provides a means of reflection and opportunity to give thanks to those that have come before us and as such fifty years of occupational therapy in Iran is a very worthy milestone to acknowledge. As we pause to celebrate this achievement, we take a moment to reflect on the journey to date, recognizing the accomplishments of many.  

Enzymatic photoreactivation: 50 years and counting.

The discovery of enzymatic photoreactivation and of photolyase produced a paradigm shift in the way investigators thought about the cellular consequences of DNA damage and about how these consequences could be avoided. The in vitro photoreactivation system, which utilized crude extracts from Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the source of photolyase, not only provided information about the mechanism ...

Celebrating 50 Years of the Applied Probability Trust

We establish a connection between epidemic models on random networks with general infection times considered in Barbour and Reinert (2013) and first passage percolation. Using techniques developed inBhamidi, van derHofstad andHooghiemstra (2012), when each vertex has infinite contagious periods, we extend results on the epidemic curve in Barbour and Reinert (2013) from bounded degree graphs to ...