Promoting Equity for Women in Medicine — Seizing a Disruptive Opportunity

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Promoting gender equity in family medicine.

With their endorsement of the Hamilton Equity Recommendations1 (the HER Statement), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Ontario College of Family Physicians have joined with their international colleagues in making a commitment to gender* equity. The HER Statement, which was developed at a unique meeting of the Wonca Working Party on Women and Family Medicine (WWPWFM) atte...

Seizing an opportunity for the endocannabinoid system.

Exogenous cannabinoids can limit seizures and neurodegeneration, and their actions are largely mimicked by endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids). Endocannabinoids are mobilized by epileptiform activity and in turn influence this activity by inhibiting synaptic transmission; both excitatory and some inhibitory synapses can be suppressed, leading to potentially complex outcomes. Moreover, th...

Seizing the Opportunity: Exploiting Web Aggregation

This paper examines the development of web aggregators, entities that collect information from a wide range of sources, with or without prior arrangements, and add value through post-aggregation services. New Web-page extraction tools, context sensitive mediators, and agent technologies have greatly reduced the barriers to constructing aggregators. We predict that aggregators will soon emerge i...

Seizing the opportunity: towards a historiography of information systems

Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers although increasing remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and ...