2010

The development and use of non-invasive techniques would reduce risks of surgery sequels on the same animal and use of the donor could be optimized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography performed prior to…

2009

This doctoral dissertation is a microhistory of a textbook controversy in 1920 New Brunswick, Canada. During a time of post war sensitivity to nationalism and patriotism, public feeling was aroused as the result of a complaint about Myers' General History,…

The Accurate Mass and Time (AMT) tag approach to high-throughput proteomics uses reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) coupled to high accuracy mass spectrometry to measure both the masses and chromatographic retention-times of tryptic peptides in complex mixtures. These measurements are matched…

This study explored the information needs of rehabilitation therapists (occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech-language pathologists) working with patients with stroke, to characterize their clinical questions, that is, their formalized information needs. This study also investigated how rehabilitation therapists decide whether…

Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…

This dissertation explores the socio-cultural implications of content and context in Vygotsky's theory of the private speech of young children (Vygotsky, 1986). While private speech has long been thought to hold a snapshot of the child in cognitive transition, the…

Invasive research procedures, such as biopsy for pharmacodynamic study, often have no value for patient-volunteers in terms of diagnosis or clinical management. Accordingly, their burdens are generally justifiable only by appeal to knowledge value (that is, the benefit to future…

Preserving the privacy of individuals when data are shared for clustering is a complex problem. The challenge is how to protect the underlying data values subjected to clustering without jeopardizing the similarity between objects under analysis. In this short paper,…