Written with Care

Nanolithography: Written with light.

Should primary care guidelines be written by family physicians? YES.

YES Family doctors make up approximately half of the physicians in Canada and represent 68% of the health care contacts in the country.1 The standards by which family doctors provide most of Canada’s care are, at least in part, derived from guidelines. So, how many family doctors are involved in creating those guidelines? Overall, family doctors account for 17% of the contributors to primary ca...

Estimating the Care with which Notes are Written from Online Handwritten Character Data

In our previous work, we developed AirTransNote, a student notesharing system that facilitates collaborative and interactive learning during regular lectures in conventional classrooms. Because taking notes on paper is a regular activity, our system does not impose an extra burden on students who share notes. However, in order to improve the effectiveness of sharing notes on peer learning, stud...

Empowering patients with a written agenda.

Options Written on Stocks with Known Dividends

There are two common methods for pricing European call options on a stock with known dividends. The market practice is to use the Black-Scholes formula with the stock price reduced by the present value of the dividends. An alternative approach is to increase the strike price with the dividends compounded to expiry at the risk-free rate. These methods correspond to different stock price models a...