Cancer Care Ontario has made significant strides in the improvement of access to high-quality cancer care by putting in place the basic elements of transformation: a clear plan, reporting against this plan and clinician engagement. However, as our health system changes so must improvement efforts. Greater focus on equity and population health will require a better understanding of the people se...

the literature on the life and works of Wagner is already extensive and we are told that he ranks third in bibliographical status to Jesus and Napoleon. But much of this is rather diffuse and turgid so that it is a great pleasure to find that Bryan Magee has now produced a Wagnerian analysis refreshing in its clarity, directness and brevity. This little monograph consists of five essays dealing...

CCD cameras coupled optically to gated image intensifiers have been used for fast time-resolved measurements for some years. Image intensifiers have disadvantages, however, and for some applications it would be better if the image sensor could be gated directly at high speed. Control of the 'charge drain' function on an interline-transfer CCD allows the sensor to be switched rapidly from an ins...

A case of central core disease in one of identical twins is presented. The light and electron microscopic pathology is reviewed. We believe that these entities are not genetic in this sibship and may be an example of isolated maturational arrest of non-specific aetiology.

We report on holographic recording of nanosecond events on a conventional CCD camera. Three frames of an air-discharge event, with resolution of 5.9 ns and frame interval of 12 ns, are recorded in a single CCD frame. Each individual frame is reconstructed by digital filtering of the CCD frame, since successively recorded holograms are centered at different carrier frequencies in the spatial fre...

The core mantle boundary (CMB) separates Earth's liquid iron outer core from the solid but slowly convecting mantle. The detailed structure and dynamics of the mantle within ~300 km of this interface remain enigmatic: it is a complex region, which exhibits thermal, compositional and phase-related heterogeneity, isolated pockets of partial melt and strong variations in seismic velocity and aniso...

The goal of this review of the research literature is to discuss approaches to the early detection of autism in infancy. Early detection would enable diagnoses to be made before 18 months of age rather than at 24-30 months, the age where diagnoses start to be made now. After summarizing the criteria for a deficit to be considered "core" to the disorder, the literature on research strategies use...

sandwich panel with central core honeycomb aluminum as one of the main shielding structures because of their high strength-to-weight ratio and improved energy absorption capacity, has been attracted the attention of many researchers and practitioners in recent years. this paper initiates and presents a new type of central core honeycomb formed by hydroforming process. the study is augmented by ...