In the 19th century it was difficult for the growing number of medical practitioners in North America to access current medical literature. Various ways were suggested to solve this problem; one of them was the creation of physician-run medical library…

This thesis critically reviews medical journal literature on the physician-patient interview. The review focuses on literature which is written by and for physicians, in Canadian and American, English language medical journals. Articles, essays and letters to the editor are examined…

The work of Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), the poet, while extremely diverse, presents nonetheless a coherence and a unity of tone which transmit his artistic vision and at the same time reveal his creative process., Three works in particular, Opium--Journal d'une…

In this thesis, I describe how interactive journal writing was used to improve the understanding of mathematics, and to foster communication with two groups of remedial grade ten students. Mathematics is a gatekeeper course in high school, and students who…

This thesis is a step forward in evaluating insulin therapy and defining its role in cardiac surgery first described as Glucose-Insulin-Potassium (GIK) solution 40 years ago., Chapter (I) includes a review of the literature on insulin therapy in cardiac surgery…

In Theory of the Novel, Georg Lukács suggests that one of the defining traits of characters in novels is that they are always on a quest. We generally study the "novelistic quest" from that point of view, referring to a…

This study, undertaken in the classrooms of minority-language students in French-language schools in Montreal, aims to test Stern's (1990, 1992) proposal for integrating analytic and experiential teaching strategies in second language pedagogy. A related objective seeks to establish the pedagogical…

On Thursday, July 2 1926, Al-Shaykh 'Abd al-Hamid Ibn Badis published a newspaper "al-Muntaqid", in which he proclaimed the major line of reformist action in Algeria. That was the beginning of the Badisian odyssey which remained vital till the death…

The problem of generating long cylindrical electron beams of almost constant diameter has received much attention in recent years. Space charge spreading due to the repulsion of the like charges in the beam must be eliminated by an external focusing…

Reprint: Canadian Journal of Physics, 37, 1036 (1959), Rotational States of Even-Even Nuclei, Reprint: Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Volume 9, No.2 (1960), Methods of Evaluating Delayed Coincidence Experiments, A new method of analysis of delayed coincidence experiments, the third moment…