January, 1861. " If this city, or the suburbs of the same, do afford any young gentle" man, of the first, second, or third head, more or less, whose friends are "but lately deceased, and whose lands are but now come into his hands, " that (to be as exactly qualified as the best of our ordinary gallants " are) is affected to entertain the most gentleman-like use of tobacco; " as first, to give i...

Crimes of the worst dye lie in profusion before us. A father inflicting murderous blows on his only son! Two gentlemen shooting, hacking, and smashing one another to death in a back drawing-room in a bye street in the Strand ! A surgeon charged with a professional murder upon an unhappy patient! Several husbands murdering their wives ! A lady attacking her aged mother with a bludgeon! A boy sta...

This study uses citation analysis to assess the quality of MIS Quarterly and compares this assessment to journals of other disciplines. The study also investigates the knowledge contributions of MIS Quarterly to the publications in both information systems and other disciplines. Some 3497 citations were made to 251 articles published in MIS Quarterly during 1989-1998. The study results show tha...

Holthausen, Richard S.; Raphael, Martin G.; McKelvey, Kevin S.; Forsman, Eric D.; Starkey, Edward E.; Seaman, D. Erran. 1995. The contribution of Federal and non-Federal habitat to persistence of the northern spotted owl on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington: report of the Reanalysis Team. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-352. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest , Service, Pacific Northw...

Research question: Can evidence of trickle-down-effects be observed among youth living in the hometowns Canadian athletes that competed and/or won medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games? Research methods: Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) rates male and female were extracted from Community Health Survey (n > 1,000,000) for 110 health regions during pre-Olympic (2009/2010), Olympic...

In this article, the authors review research to identify bullying as a critical public health issue for Canada. Drawing from recent World Health Organization surveys, they examine the prevalence of Canadian children and youth involved in bullying others or being victimized. There is a strong association between involvement in bullying and health problems for children who bully, those who are vi...

January, 1862. " A sad tale's best for winter," says Mamillius in the " Winter's Tale." The Quarter's Retrospect will, in some sense, prove a gloss upon this line of the poet, for it will consist of a bare record of murder and suicide; and if the sad recitals we are about to note, should induce greater attention on the part of our readers in the winter time, than at any other period of the year...