OBJECTIVES Canada's progress in establishing a national immunization registry and coordinated immunization schedule across provinces has been slow. The absence of a centralized registry means there are only limited data available on childhood immunization coverage in Canada. The aim of this study was to estimate the completeness and timeliness of immunization for two year-old children in Nova S...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have suggested that the incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Nova Scotia is relatively high and increasing over time. This study was performed to determine the current incidence of ALS in Nova Scotia and to compare this to data collected in 1984 and 1995. METHODS All physiatrists and neurologists were surveyed on a monthly basis over one year to recor...

Smoking during pregnancy is a serious public health problem, with adverse effects for both mother and baby. It is estimated that 25%–40% of women smokers try to stop smoking on their own upon learning that they are pregnant, yet little information is available at a population level on smoking patterns during pregnancy. In this report we describe the prevalence of smoking among pregnant women in...

The dogwhelk is a rocky intertidal gastropod of the North Nucella lapillus Atlantic coast. Individual shell color varies. Common colors range between white and brown, with darker dogwhelks being more affected by heat stress than lighter-colored conspecifics. Other reported shell colors are purple, black, mauve, pink, yellow, and orange from UK coasts, red and gray from the Bay of Fundy coast of...

OBJECTIVE Poor diet quality has been observed in Nova Scotia children and youth, characterized by low intake from the traditional four food groups and a high intake from the Other Foods category. In this study, we addressed how household income and adherence to Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating influenced weight status category in Nova Scotia children and youth. METHODS During the 2005-06...

A new generation of concrete highway bridges has recently been built in Canada using new design concepts and advanced materials for reinforcing and prestressing concrete . This paper describes briefly the design and construction of three bridges. The first smart concrete highway bridge (Centre Street, Beddington Bridge, Calgary, Alberta) is prestressed by carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) ...

Stability Conditions of the MMAP[K]/G[K]/1/LCFS Preemptive Repeat Queue Qi-Ming HE, Department of Industrial Engineering, DalTech, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2X4, [email protected] Hui Li, Department of Mathematics, Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6, Email: [email protected]

Song Ping Zhou , Institute of Mathematics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Xiasha Economic Development Area, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018 China, and Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada B2G 2W5 [email protected] Ping Zhou, Dan Sheng Yu 3 Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier Univer...

PETER D. WENTZELL, DARREN T. ANDREWS, DAVID C. HAMILTON, KLAAS FABER AND BRUCE R. KOWALSKI 1 Trace Analysis Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J3, Canada 2 Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada 3 Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, University of Washingto...

BACKGROUND Currently, there is a dearth of baseline data on the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Historically, LGBTQ health research has tended to focus on individual-level health risks associated with poor health outcomes among these populations, which has served to obscure the ways in which they maintain their...