Role model: Ian Morrison

IAN EQUAL EXCESS MODEL OF CdALITION FORMATION

Current theories of coalition formation in decision processes of systems at the level of the group lack generality in that some theories do not predict which coalitions are likely to form while others make predictions in only a narrow range of conditions. A model of coalition formation is proposed which predicts coalition formation in a variety of situations. Comparisons between predicted and o...

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A need for better vitamin nutrition appears at three levels: vitamin insufficiency, deficiency, and dependence. A vitamin insufficiency requires the body to make some degree of metabolic adjustment because the amount of the coenzyme (vitamin) is limited. Myofascial pain syndromes are aggravated by insufficient levels of at least four Bcomplex vitamins as listed above. Vitamin deficiency, on the...

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Ian Donald (1910?1987)

Ian Donald [3] was an obstetrician who developed ultrasound [4] diagnostics during the twentieth century in Europe. Ultrasound is a medical diagnostic technique that uses sound waves to produce images of the inside of the body. During the early 1900s, physicians had no way to see inside a woman?s uterus [5] during pregnancy [6]. Donald developed the first method of scanning human internal anato...

Conversation with Ian McWhinney.

In an important and provocative editorial, Dr Roger Ladouceur, my colleague at Canadian Family Physician, lamented the decline of generalism among family physicians, including many recent graduates.1 In response to this editorial, Thomas Freeman and Stephen Wetmore challenged our discipline and our national College2 to confront this emerging identity crisis in family medicine.3 In the great tra...