Issues confronting doctor-parents include the impact of parenting on career choice, special challenges faced by women doctor-parents, leave entitlements, and the unique strengths and challenges of two-doctor families. Experience from one Canadian doctors' health program suggests that unique themes include communication within doctor-families, insight into doctor-parent dynamics, the relationshi...

Motivational crowding-out theory establishes that the effectiveness of financial incentive schemes, like pay-for-performance, crucially depends on the underlying social preferences of health workers. In this paper we study the extent to which heterogeneity in the strength and structure of social preferences is related to career choices by testing whether preferences vary systematically between ...

This paper examines ways by which a reflective mode of thinking may improve eXtreme Programming (XP) practices. It describes the reflective practitioner perspective and suggests specific ways in which such an approach may be interwoven into XP practices. Specifically, the focus is placed on the construction of ladders of reflection. These ladders illustrate how one may increase the level of abs...

We study the entanglement spectrum of Heisenberg spin ladders of arbitrary spin length S in the perturbative regime of strong rung coupling. For isotropic spin coupling the the entanglement spectrum is, within first order perturbation theory, always proportional to the energy spectrum of the single chain with a proportionality factor being also independent of S. A more complicated situation ari...

Low temperature properties of antiferromagnetic two-leg spin-1/2 ladders with bond randomness and site dilution ~or doping with nonmagnetic impurities! are studied using the real-space renormalization-group technique. We find that for nonzero dopant concentrations the systems are driven into a phase dominated by large effective spins, i.e., the large spin phase. The susceptibility follows a uni...

We describe a method for direct cycle sequencing of PCR fragments amplified from genomic DNA or cDNA. DNA sequencing template is amplified using PCR and oligonucleotide primers flanking the region of interest. The amplified fragment is directly cycle sequenced using fluorescent sequencing primers, Sanger dideoxy sequencing chemistry and an enzyme mixture of a mutant Taq DNA polymerase and therm...