OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of patients with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) prescribed opioids by community physicians and referred to a tertiary pain clinic. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING A tertiary care, hospital-based pain clinic in Toronto, Ont. PARTICIPANTS A total of 455 consecutive patients newly referred to the pain clinic by community physicians....

This paper describes a tableau-based higher-order theorem prover Hot and an application to natural language semantics. In this application, Hot is used to prove equivalences using world knowledge during higher-order unii-cation (HOU). This extended form of HOU is used to compute the licensing conditions for corrections.

Elena Colicino ([email protected]) Melinda C Power ([email protected]) David G Cox ([email protected]) Marc G Weisskopf ([email protected]) Lifang Hou ([email protected]) Stacy E Alexeeff ([email protected]) Marco Sanchez-Guerra ([email protected]) Pantel Vokonas ([email protected]) Avron Spiro III ([email protected]) Joel Schwartz ([email protected]...

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures cultural practices.

Culturable bacteria in Himalayan ice in response to atmospheric circulation S. Zhang, S. Hou, X. Ma, D. Qin, and T. Chen Laboratory of Cryosphere and Environment, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China Received: 7 March 2006 – Accepted: 1 April 20...