Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Interior Health Authority, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KMH HealthCare Centre...

D M Skowronski ([email protected])1,2, C Chambers1, S Sabaiduc1, G De Serres3,4,5, J A Dickinson6, A L Winter7, S J Drews8,9, K Fonseca6,10, H Charest3, J B Gubbay7,11, M Petric2, M Krajden1,2, T L Kwindt1,2, C Martineau3, A Eshaghi7, N Bastien12, Y Li12,13 1. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3. Institut...

Theodore Konya, Juliet Ewaze, Bruce Urch, Huan Shu, Jason Curran, Mary Speck, Ryan Allen, Jeff Brook, Miriam Diamond, Greg Evans, Tim Takaro, Amanda Wheeler, James Scott Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; Air Quality Research, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada; Departme...

Suppose that two files are available with some overlapping variables (U) and other variables unique to each of the two files (S and T ). Each of the variables (S, T, U) can be multivariate. Occasionally, we can match the same individuals (firms, establishments, or households) from the two files to create a larger file which contains fuller information. This procedure is called the exact matchin...

Cronkhite-Canada syndrome is one of the rare causes of multiple polyposis, characterised by generalised gastrointestinal polyposis, cutaneous hyperpigmentation, alopecia, and nail dystrophy.' Although Cronkhite and Canada described it for the first time in 1955, little is known about its aetiology and the prognosis remains poor. We describe a case of CronkhiteCanada syndrome in a 79-year-old Ja...

W develop and test an incentive-compatible Conjoint Poker (CP) game. The preference data collected in the context of this game are comparable to incentive-compatible choice-based conjoint (CBC) analysis data. We develop a statistical efficiency measure and an algorithm to construct efficient CP designs. We compare incentive-compatible CP to incentive-compatible CBC in a series of three experime...

In this paper, we present the recent developments on the design and implementation of the data-parallel programming language CGiS. CGiS is devised to facilitate use of the data-parallel resources of current graphics processing units (GPUs) for scientific programming.

This paper proposes an adaptation of the RINS MIP heuristic which explicitly explores pre-processing techniques. The method systematically searches for the ideal number of fixations to produce subproblems of controlled size. These problems are explored in a Variable Neighborhood Descent fashion until a stopping criterion is met. Preliminary experiments implemented upon the open source MIP solve...

This cross-cultural study explored along with various personality factors the relationship between laughter and disease prevalence. Previous studies have only determined the effect of laughter on various health dimensions, whereas, this study quantified the level of laughter that was beneficial or detrimental to health. There were a total of 730 participants between the ages of eighteen and thi...

This article addresses the U.S. Supreme Court's central purpose formulation in Reporters Committee v. Department of Justice under the federal Freedom of Information Act. By examining all lower federal court opinions interpreting Reporters Committee and by analyzing the effects of the Court's opinion on the implementation of the FOIA, the paper finds that the Court's opinion has greatly narrowed...