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Fences, Boats and Teas: Engendering Patient Lives at Peel Island Lazaret
Within institutions, a separate social world comes into existence. Gender is a crucial shaper of relations in this new world, defining status, relationships to others and personal identity. Understanding the gendered conditions of, and responses to, institutional care is an important social contr...


Pilot of peer assessment within experiential teaching and learning
The objectives of this study were as follows: (1) to pilot test an instrument for peer assessment of experiential teaching, to compare peer evaluations from faculty with student evaluations of their preceptor (faculty), and to determine the impact of qualitative, formative peer assessment on facu...
Locating optimal timetables and vehicle schedules in a transit line
This paper deals with the Transit Network Timetabling and Scheduling (TNTSP) in a public transit line. The TNTSP aims at determining optimal timetables for each line in a transit network by establishing departure and arrival times of each vehicle at each station. We assume that customers know dep...
Help With "Strings Attached": Offspring Perceptions That Middle-Aged Parents Offer Conflicted Support
Middle-aged adults often provide beneficial support to grown children. Yet, in some relationships, grown children may feel beholden or intruded upon when they receive parental help. The purpose of this study was to examine such conflicted support in relationships between middle-aged parents and y...
Strengthening the palm oil biomass Renewable Energy industry in Malaysia
The palm oil industry contributes 85.5% of the total biomass production in Malaysia, hence offering great potential for large-scale power generation. Despite being a tool that was designed to steer renewable energy development, the Small Renewable Energy Power (SREP) scheme has failed to stimulat...


Pre-retirement age migration to remote rural areas
Recent literature suggests that the increasingly blurred relationship between paid employment and retirement facilitates a retirement transition period, a life course stage, which may involve a change of residence. The role of such pre-retirement age mobility in the repopulation of rural areas ha...
Food safety at the small scale: The case of meat inspection regulations in British Columbia's rural and remote communities
Food safety standards have become a contested policy and discursive terrain, often pitting regulations developed for an international, industrial food system against the practices of small-scale farmers. In the wake of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis and other food scares, the p...
The role of metacognitive beliefs in the proneness to hallucinations and delusions: An analysis across clinical and non-clinical populations
This study explored specific and differential effects of metacognitive beliefs on proneness to both hallucinations and delusions in a general population sample, including a control for the alternate symptom. The study then examined whether similar findings were reproduced in a sample of people wi...
Neonatal herpes simplex 2 infection presenting with supraglottitis
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a double stranded DNA virus capable of causing primary and recurrent infection. We describe an unusual case of neonatal HSV-2 infection presenting with supraglottitis. Despite a 2 month course of intravenous aciclovir followed by 2 months of oral valaciclovir, the in...


Randomised controlled trial of therapeutic assessment versus usual assessment in adolescents with self-harm: 2-year follow-up
An earlier randomised controlled trial demonstrated improved treatment engagement in adolescents who received Therapeutic Assessment (TA) versus Assessment As Usual (AAU), following an emergency presentation with self-harm.To determine 2-year outcomes for the same adolescents focusing on frequenc...
Towards a lifelong learning target for 2015
This paper begins by reviewing the progress which has been made over the past decade in the aim to reach targets such as Education for All and other Millennium Development Goals, especially as far as adult education and gender equality are concerned. While there have been achievements in some cou...
On the need to strengthen political-critical thinking in history education
The past twenty years have seen a dramatic change in the research of history education and its meaning in the Western academic world. Basically, there are three productive research directions: (1) a growing interest in cultural studies; an exploration of various educational paths towards shaping ...
Evaluation of HIV and Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on the Natural History of Human Papillomavirus Infection and Cervical Cytopathologic Findings in HIV-Positive and High-Risk HIV-Negative Women
The Canadian Women's HIV Study (CWHS) enrolled human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–positive and high-risk HIV-negative women in a longitudinal cohort. This analysis considered the effects of HIV and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on HPV persistence and cervical squamous intraep...
Acetate Reduces PGE2 Release and Modulates Phospholipase and Cyclooxygenase Levels in Neuroglia Stimulated with Lipopolysaccharide
Acetate supplementation attenuates neuroglial activation, increases histone and non-histone protein acetylation, reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine expression, and increases IL-4 transcription in rat models of neuroinflammation and Lyme’s neuroborreliosis. Because eicosanoid signaling is involve...
Gender matters: estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) and histone deacetylase (HDAC) 1 and 2 control the gender-specific transcriptional regulation of human uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferases genes (UGT1A)
Gender influences incidence, progression and therapy of hepatogastrointestinal diseases. The aim of this study was to elucidate the molecular mechanism of gender-specific UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGT1A) regulation, representing important hepatogastrointestinal detoxification enzymes for xeno...