This article explores commercial, academic, and national initiatives aimed at usingsequencing technologies to generate “actionable” genomic results that can beapplied to the clinical management of oncology patients. We argue that the term“actionable” is not merely a buzzword, but signals the…

Researchers and clinicians in the field of oncology have now entered the second decadeof targeted therapy, widely held to be a revolutionary new form of cancer therapyresearch. The present era is regarded as the end of brute empiricism: as laboratoryresearchers…

This article traces the history of research on resistance to drug therapy in oncology using scientometric techniques and qualitative analysis. Using co-citation analysis, we generate maps to visualize subdomains in resistance research in two time periods, 1975–1990 and 1995–2010. These…

This thesis examines the transmission of intergenerational cultural knowledge on eastern James Bay Cree lands. Geospatial technologies and the representation of Cree knowledge are explored, with emphasis on the geoweb. A geoweb with two parts, old and new, is theorized…

A significant gap exists between evidence-based practice (EBP) and actual occupational therapy (OT) practice in the management of a disabling post-stroke impairment - unilateral spatial neglect (USN). With improved patient outcomes linked to the use of best practices, it is…

The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), a necessary cause of cervical cancer has been found to be high in Inuit populations. This study examined 1) the level of knowledge about HPV infection and its relation to cervical cancer and 2)…

Authentication protocols aim to prevent agent impersonation: A is authenticated to B if B knows who A is. Many formal approaches have been used to verify authentication in distributed systems; however, although authentication is directly related to agent knowledge, it…

Knowledge management (KM) offers a variety of tools to share and preserve knowledge. In particular, communities of practice (CoPs) have emerged as a KM approach that allows people from different disciplines to better share what they know and to build…

For individuals with disabilities the transition from school to adopting adult roles within the community often presents numerous challenges. In a sample of pre-service education teachers, perceptions of school to community transitions of students with disabilities were investigated. Pre-service education…

This study examined two different strategies of learning with diagrams: drawing diagrams while learning or learning from pre-constructed diagrams. One hundred ninety six junior high school students were randomly placed in a condition either to draw while learning about how…