I/f.-COI,., I.M.S., Director of Public Health, United Provinces. On taking over the appointment of Director of Public Health, United Provinces, I was struck with the inadequacy of the provisions made for improving rural sanitation and for dealing with the various epidemics which annually visit these Provinces. After a careful enquiry into the matter, I came to the conclusion that the only epide...

The objective of this jurisdictional review is to provide summary information pertaining to the regulation of chiropractors in Canadian provinces and territories on the topic of informed consent. Our review shows that two provinces have legislated for all healthcare professions: Ontario and Prince Edward Island. Two chiropractic regulatory bodies (New Brunswick and, Newfoundland and Labrador) h...

In 1998, the Canadian government introduced a new child tax credit. The innovation in the program was its integrationwith social assistance (welfare). Some provinces agreed to subtract the new federally-paid benefits from provincially-paid social assistance, partially lowering the welfare wall. Other provinces did not integrate benefits, providing a quasi-experimental framework for estimation. ...

In our present study, GARCH family models are used for modeling and forecasting the rice yield of four provinces of Pakistan during the period of 1947-48 to 2008-09. Also Auto regressive, moving average and Autoregressive moving average models are described. Thus, the selected GARCH models for all provinces are also presented for forecasting purpose on the basis of two criteria AIC (Akaike info...