H care has long been a source of Canadian national pride, but decades of budget cuts and attempts at system reengineering have led to a perceived deterioration in access to care. Part of this perception centres around a “culture of waiting”: waiting to see one’s general practitioner, waiting to see a specialist, waiting for diagnostic tests and waiting for appropriate treatment. Of course, wait...

1 Escobar JI, Rubio-Stipec M, Canino G, Karno M. Somatic symptom index (SSI): a new and abridged somatization construct. Prevalence and epidemiological correlates in two large community samples. J Nerv Ment Dis 1989;177:140-6. 2 Portegijs PJM, van der Horst FG, Proot IM, Kraan HF, Gunther NC, Knottnerus JA. Somatization in frequent attenders of general practice. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemi...

Streptococcal Agglutination In I929 Cecil and his colleagues observed that the sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis had the property of agglutinating a specific strain of haemolytic streptococcus in high titre, and as this property was not present in the sera of control subjects, concluded that it was a specific manifestation of the disease (Cecil et al., 1929, I931). Later it was found t...

Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh has a typical diurnal pattern of salt gland activity, with high secretion rate during the day, a peak at noon, declining after sunset, and remaining low throughout the night. The main factor affecting the daily secretion rhythm was radiation, with a 2-hr time lag between the radiation level and the corresponding secretion. This lag might be a result of a salt acc...

Streptococcal Agglutination In I929 Cecil and his colleagues observed that the sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis had the property of agglutinating a specific strain of haemolytic streptococcus in high titre, and as this property was not present in the sera of control subjects, concluded that it was a specific manifestation of the disease (Cecil et al., 1929, I931). Later it was found t...

I November of 1812, at the hamlet of Gara, Sergeant François Bourgogne admitted, “I am sure that if I had not found any horseflesh myself, I would have turned cannibal.”1 Bourgogne, a once dignified and proud member of the Imperial Guard, was brought to this macabre conclusion by the unfortunate events perpetuating Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. Bourgogne saw unprecedented death and destruction...

Time-space lower bounds for undirected and directed st-connectivity on JAG models Je A. Edmonds Doctor of Philosophy 1993 Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Directed and undirected st-connectivity are important problems in computing. There are algorithms for the undirected case that use O (n) time and algorithms that use O (logn) space. The rst result of this thesis proves tha...

The nuclear pore complex (NPC), a gateway for nucleocytoplasmic trafficking, is composed of about 30 different proteins called nucleoporins. It remains unknown whether the NPCs within a species are homogeneous or vary depending on the cell type, or physiological condition. Here, we present evidence for compositionally distinct NPCs that form within a single cell in a binucleated ciliate. In Tet...

The ontogenic developmental stages of saffron somatic embryogenesis have been studied and characterized using light and electron microscopy. The embryogenic callus underwent internal segmented divisions with the formation of globular embryos that were attached to the callus surface by a broad multicelular structure. Further development of the embryoids was characterized by the emergence of a sh...

The conservation of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) has important ecological, economical, cultural and aesthetic values, at both local global levels (Pittiglio et al., 2014). Despite the role play as keystone species, their populations have been dwindling due to human activities (Sibanda 2016). most serious threats elephant's survival across its range include illegal wildlife trade which...