Efficient, Compact Mid-Infrared Sources: A Systematic Study of Intracavity Difference-Frequency Generation by Saeed Salimian Rizi, Liam G. K. Flannigan, Alex Chiasson, Tyler Kashak, Daniel Poitras, Chang-Qing Xu

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Building a Genomics-Informed Nursing Workforce: Recommendations for Oncology Nursing Practice and Beyond by Jacqueline Limoges, Rebecca Puddester, Andrea Gretchev, Patrick Chiu, Kathy Calzone, Kathleen Leslie, April Pike, Nicole Letourneau

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Percutaneous vacuum-assisted tumor thrombectomy using angiovac and penumbra lightning 12 aspiration systems by Murtaza Jafri, BSc, Brittany Stojak, MD, Owen Mooney, MD, Andrew Macdiarmid, MD, Ian W. Gibson, MD, Surinder Dhaliwal, MD

“…The patient's disease was not amenable to surgical resection and thrombolytic therapy was contraindicated due to associated intratumor hemorrhage, thus prompting consideration of thrombectomy under emergency approval from Health Canada. The patient underwent an overall successful total aspiration thrombectomy of the intracardiac tumor thrombus with subsequent resolution of her right heart strain, using the extracorporeal AngioVac aspiration system and partial aspiration of the extensive pulmonary emboli using the Penumbra Indigo Lightning 12 system. …”
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Risk of TB disease in individuals with cancer by T. Diefenbach-Elstob, S. Tabrizi, P. Rivest, A. Benedetti, L. Azoulay, K. Schwartzman, C. Greenaway

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Development and validation of a social vulnerabilities survey for medical inpatients by Maria-Jose Santana, William A Ghali, Tolulope Sajobi, Karen L Tang, Oluwaseyi Lawal, Leonie Tesorero

“…Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine structural validity of the survey as a whole.Setting Patients admitted to the inpatient internal medicine service at a tertiary care hospital in Calgary, Canada.Participants A total of 406 patients were included in the study.Results The mean age of respondents was 55.5 (SD 18.6) years, with the majority being men (55.4%). …”
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Systematic Review of Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Treatment Facilities by Samantha R. Fashler, Lynn K. Cooper, Eric D. Oosenbrug, Lindsay C. Burns, Shima Razavi, Lauren Goldberg, Joel Katz

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Unmasking health determinants and health outcomes for urban First Nations using respondent-driven sampling by J Smylie, M Firestone, S Maracle, M Spiller, P O'Campo

“…Objective Population-based health information on urban Aboriginal populations in Canada is limited due to challenges with the identification of Aboriginal persons in existing health data sets. …”
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Experimental Study on Calcium Hydroxide-Assisted Delignification of Hydrothermally Treated Sweet Sorghum Bagasse by Jiby Kudakasseril Kurian, Yvan Gariepy, Mark Lefsrud, Valerie Orsat, Philippe Seguin, Varoujan Yaylayan, G. S. Vijaya Raghavan

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The Economic Impact of Weight Regain by Caroline E. Sheppard, Erica L. W. Lester, Anderson W. Chuck, Daniel W. Birch, Shahzeer Karmali, Christopher J. de Gara

“…The quoted cost of obesity in Canada was $2.0 billion–$6.7 billion in 2013 CAD. …”
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Addition of anal encirclement to perineal proctosigmoidectomy: a retrospective review by Aiya Amery, Kayla Marritt, Zarrukh Baig, Haven Roy, Dilip Gill, Nathan Ginther

“…There is currently a lack of data addressing a combination surgery, wherein both a perineal proctosigmoidectomy and anal encirclement are performed simultaneously.AimsTo evaluate the efficacy of combining perineal proctosigmoidectomy with anal encirclement using Nylon sutures compared to perineal proctosigmoidectomy alone.MethodsThis was a single institution, non-randomized, retrospective study conducted at the Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (July 2017 to October 2022). Patients over the age of 18 with full-thickness rectal prolapse who underwent either perineal proctosigmoidectomy alone or perineal proctosigmoidectomy with anal encirclement were included. …”
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Interactions among Ecological Factors That Explain the Psychosocial Quality of Life of Children with Complex Needs by Sandy Thurston, Louise Paul, Chenglin Ye, Patricia Loney, Gina Browne, Lehana Thabane, Peter Rosenbaum

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The Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions for the Management of Frailty: A Systematic Review by Olga Theou, Liza Stathokostas, Kaitlyn P. Roland, Jennifer M. Jakobi, Christopher Patterson, Anthony A. Vandervoort, Gareth R. Jones

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A Step toward Tuberculosis Elimination in a Low-Incidence Country: Successful Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Refugee Clinic by Elissa Rennert-May, Elisabeth Hansen, Toktam Zadeh, Valerie Krinke, Stan Houston, Ryan Cooper

“…Approximately 65 percent of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Canada each year occur from reactivation in foreign-born individuals. …”
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Space use of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Davis Strait in relation to sea ice and harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) by Larissa Thelin, Evan Richardson, Garry Stenson, Erik Hedlin, Andrew E. Derocher

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Expanding the miRNA Transcriptome of Human Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma by Adam P. Sage, Brenda C. Minatel, Erin A. Marshall, Victor D. Martinez, Greg L. Stewart, Katey S. S. Enfield, Wan L. Lam

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Multifocal Gastric Neoplasia after Recurrent Laser Therapy for the Watermelon Stomach by Charles N Bernstein, Norman Pettigrew, Kenneth K Wang, Howard Greenberg, Jeremy Lipschitz

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In Vitro Assay to Examine Osteoclast Resorptive Activity Under Estrogen Withdrawal by Cara Fiorino, Safia Omer, Nisha Gandhi, Rene Harrison

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Primary Hyperparathyroidism: An Overview by Jessica MacKenzie-Feder, Sandra Sirrs, Donald Anderson, Jibran Sharif, Aneal Khan

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Summary of Canadian Guidelines for the Initial Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Evidence-Based Update by the Canadian Infectious Disease Society and the Canadian Thor... by Lionel A Mandell, Thomas J Marrie, Ronald F Grossman, Anthony W Chow, Robert H Hyland, Canadian CAP Working Group

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Familial Recurrence of Cerebral Palsy with Multiple Risk Factors by Lawrence P. Richer, Nancy A. Dower, Norma Leonard, Alicia K. J. Chan, Charlene M. T. Robertson

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