Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...

We examined the time course of threshold reduction in the Gabor lateral masking paradigm (Polat and Sagi 1993). Contrast detection thresholds were measured (2AFC) for a brieey presented (36 msec) foveal Gabor signal (GS), preceded by a presentation (90 msec) of two high-contrast GS anked masks, with Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA) varying from 0 to 16,290 msec. Using target-to-mask separations ...

Long-range interactions exhibit surprising features which have been less explored so far. Here, studying a one-dimensional fermionic chain with long-range hopping and pairing, we discuss some general associated to the presence of entanglement. In particular, after determining algebraic decays correlation functions, prove that quantum mutual information exists if exponent decay is not larger tha...

Inspired by general relativity, we suggest an approach for long-range potential scattering. In scattering theory, there is a theory short-range scattering, but no This because the boundary conditions all potentials are same, different different. this paper, introducing tortoise coordinates, convert to allows us deal with as An explicit expression of wave function presented, in which represented...