This commentary introduces critical public health ethics as an innovative lens for considering Canada's role in global health. Arising from the relatively young field of public health ethics, this analytic perspective sheds light on questions regarding public health policy, research and practice that often remain shaded from view because of traditional ways of thinking about public health. The ...

As a wealth of critical interest has begun to accumulate around it, J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings has been subjected to considerable ill-judged comment. Generally, friend and foe alike have praised and damned these books for relatively trivial reasons, and most of this misplaced comment seems to stem from a failure to appreciate the nature of the underlying schema which g...

There are many challenges to developing an evidence base for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative East-West Medicine. This article offers a review of these challenges alongside an introduction and review of several innovations in healthcare research that have successfully been applied to the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative Medicine. Such innovations include develop...

The TREC-8 ltering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user prooles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents. It consists of three major subtasks: adaptive ltering, batch ltering, and routing. In adaptive ltering, the system begins with only a topic statement and must learn a better proole from on-line feedback. Batch ltering and routing are more tra...

The TREC-8 ltering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user pro les which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents. It consists of three major subtasks: adaptive ltering, batch ltering, and routing. In adaptive ltering, the system begins with only a topic statement and must learn a better pro le from on-line feedback. Batch ltering and routing are more tra...

Camperio Ciani et al. argued that the Urak-Lawoi people of Ko Lipe island live in a "traditional," "subsistence primitive society" reminiscent of the "ancestral" human past and that their socio-cultural situation is "remarkably similar" to Samoa. On this basis, they asserted that the Ko Lipe Urak-Lawoi are an appropriate population for determining the role that kin selection played in the evolu...

The TREC–11 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents in an incoming stream. It consists of three major subtasks: adaptive filtering, batch filtering, and routing. In adaptive filtering, the system begins with only a topic statement and a small number of positive examples, and must learn a be...

Due to their complexity and wide-ranging utility, biomacromolecular research is an especially interdisciplinary branch of chemistry. It is my goal that the Biomacromolecules subject area of Chemistry Central Journal will parallel this richness and diversity. In this inaugural commentary, I attempt to set the stage for achieving this by highlighting several areas where biomacromolecular research...

Oxidative stress is a key contributor to the development of cardiovascular diseases. In this respect, phytochemicals, such as bioactive dietary elements and in particular carotenoids displayed an antioxidant effect with a substantial reduction in oxidative stress markers. Recent scientific evidence supported the beneficial role of carotenoids in preventing several chronic disorders, such as car...