Using residual serum samples from Nova Scotia, Canada, we found that 87.8% of tested deer and an estimated 20.6% of the human population were infected with Jamestown Canyon virus. Human seropositivity reached 48.2% in 1 region. This virus may be an underrecognized cause of disease in Nova Scotia.

Gabriela Aguileta *, Joseph P. Bielawski 3,4 and Ziheng Yang 1 1 Department of Biology, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England 2 Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Uppsala, BMC, Box 598, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden 3 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J1, Canada 4 Department of Mathematics & Statistics, D...

Since the 1990s, reports of Q fever in Nova Scotia, Canada, have declined. Passive surveillance for Q fever in Nova Scotia and its neighboring provinces in eastern Canada indicates that the clinical manifestation of Q fever in the Maritime provinces is pneumonia and that incidence of the disease may fluctuate.

Systemic evaluation of various haemostatic agents following local application prior to direct pulp capping Franklin Garcia-Godoy1 Peter E. Murray2 1DDS, MS, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Nova Southeastern University, College of Dental Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2PhD, Assistant Professor, Director of Oral Biology, Nova Southeastern University, College of Dental Medicine, Fo...

The nucleosynthesis and other observable consequences of a nova outburst depend sensitively on the details of the thermonuclear runaway which initiates the outburst. One important source of uncertainty in our current models is the nuclear reaction data used as input for the evolutionary calculations. We present preliminary results of the first analyses of the impact on nova nucleosynthesis of a...

E356 CMAJ, April 19, 2011, 183(7) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Fifty years ago a team of doctors and nurses from the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Dalhousie University conducted what became known as the Wedgeport Polio Trial in which the oral trivalent Sabin vaccine was administered to an entire community in Southwest Nova Scotia. The results of the trial were pub...

The dramatic brightenings of classical novae have yielded rich data sets of detailed light curves. Modelling these light curves is a challenge for any theory of classical novae. We have used our extended grid of nova outburst calculations to predict the luminosities of erupting novae expected in three electromagnetic bands – the visual, the near UV and the X-ray. Our models predict and explain ...

The accretion of hydrogen-rich matter onto C/O and O/Ne white dwarfs in binary systems leads to unstable thermonuclear ignition of the accreted envelope, triggering a convective thermonuclear runaway and a subsequent classical, recurrent, or symbiotic nova. Prompted by uncertainties in the composition at the base of the accreted envelope at the onset of convection, as well as the range of abund...

We investigate the effects of discontinuous mass loss in recurrent outburst events on the long–term evolution of cataclysmic variables (CVs). Similarly we consider the effects of frictional angular momentum loss (FAML), i.e. interaction of the expanding nova envelope with the secondary. The Bondi–Hoyle accretion model is used to parameterize FAML in terms of the expansion velocity vexp of the n...