To fully exploit the parallelism of the Flagship Machine it is desirable to be able to experiment with a variety of evaluation strategies. The ability to control the behaviour of individual functions via annotations is of enormous help in understanding the behaviour of a parallel system and permits the comparison of \lazy" and \eager" versions of languages as well as providing the oportunity to...

It is well known that Canadians participate in the medical tourism industry as patients, investors, and business people, but there is very little research examining the magnitude of the issue.1 In a previous issue of Canadian Family Physician (CFP), Crooks and Snyder provided a practical overview of the pitfalls of medical tourism for Canadian family physicians and their patients.2 It has been ...

The mental health and well being of the Australian population remains an ongoing, unresolved issue. A 2007 survey of Australians aged 16–85 years estimated that almost half (45%, or 7.3million people) had experienced mental ill health at some time in their lives and that approximately 20% of the population had experienced mental disorders in the 12 months before the survey. In addition, data fr...

A young patient's account of her preoperative and postoperative experiences is recalled.

RoySorensen introduced the concept of an epistemic blindspot in the 1980s. A proposition is an epistemic blindspot for some individual at some time if and only if that proposition is consistent but unknowable by that individual at that time. In the first half of this paper, I extend Sorensen work on blindspots by arguing that there exist blindspots that essentially involve hopes. In the second ...

Recent work suggesting that fisheries depletions have turned the corner is misplaced because analysis was based largely on fisheries from better-managed developed-world fisheries. Some indicators of status show improvements in the minority of fisheries subjected to formal assessment. Other indicators, such as trophic level and catch time series, have been controversial. Nevertheless, several de...