1 Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Montreal Geriatric’s Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3W 1W5 2Departement of Radiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1J4 3Laboratoire d’Imagerie Fonctionnelle (UMR S678), INSERM-UPMC, CHU-Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013 Paris, France 4Departement of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H2V 2S9 5Toronto West...

I once wrote that nursing at its best is eminently forgettable, because what we do is to make the intolerable tolerable, the unbearable bearable and (after Taylor 1994) the extraordinary ordinary (Chiarella 2002). Lest the ability of nurses to do this be forgotten again, please indulge me with a personal account of my experiences with a group of urology nurses following the Christchurch earthqu...

This paper reveals a new theoretical implication of the credit channel of monetary policy: the stock prices of financially more constrained firms are less responsive to monetary policy shocks. In order to study this implication, we use Enron scandal as an exogenous increase in the monitoring cost of the Arthur Andersen clients relative to other firms. We find that Arthur Andersen clients’stock ...

PURPOSE Suicide is a major health problem in Korea. Extensive media exposure of celebrity suicide may induce imitative suicide, a phenomenon called the Werther effect. We examined the increased suicide risk following the suicides of an entertainer and a politician, and identified the relative suicide risks. METHODS News articles about the celebrity suicides were obtained from three major news...

Cosmetics should not contain more than 5 ppm of nickel, chromium or cobalt and, in order to minimize the risk of sensitization in very sensitive subjects, the target amount should be as low as 1 ppm. However, there are no published reports on the presence of these metals in toy make-up. This study analysed 52 toy make-ups using atomic absorption spectroscopy. More than 5 ppm of nickel was prese...

Pure internal subtalar dislocation: about a case Mustafa Nkaoui, Moncef Boufettal, Youness Sasbou, Mohammed Kharmaz, Mohamed El Ouadaghiri, Moulay Omar Lamrani, Ahmed El Bardouni, Mustapha Mahfoud, Mohamed Saleh Berrada Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie, CHU Ibn Sina, Université Mohammad V Souissi Rabat, Maroc Corresponding author: Mustafa Nkaoui, Service de Chirurgie Orthop...

Many dermatologists have in the past studied the phenomenon of eczematous hypersensitivity of the human skin to lanolin (wool fat) (1—6). The reasons for this continuing interest are clear. Lanolin hypersensitivity is of practical im portance because of the very wide-spread modern use of this valuable substance in topical medicaments like ointments, pastes and emulsions, in cosmetics of many ki...

1 Centre de Référence des Maladies Héréditaires du Métabolisme, Hôpital d’Enfants, CHU Brabois, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France 2 UBC Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada 3 Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria, Catania, Italy 4 Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA 5 Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, UK 6 Children’...

We predicted the effects of sulfate (SO(4)) deposition on wilderness areas designated as Class I air quality areas in western North Carolina using a nutrient cycling model (NuCM). We used three S deposition simulations: current, 50% decrease, and 100% increase. We measured vegetation, forest floor, and root biomass and collected soil, soil solution, and stream water samples for chemical analyse...

OBJECTIVE Throughout the past several years, there have been a number of entertainment celebrity suicides in South Korea. The aim of this study was to investigate the clustering of suicides following celebrities' suicides in South Korea from 2005 to 2008, particularly according to certain characteristics. METHODS Seven celebrity suicides were examined and defined using the Korean Integrated N...