Preoperative risk assessment and optimization integrating surgical and anesthetic principles and practices: a national survey for internists by Marc-Antoine Lepage, Annie Lecavalier, Gabriele Baldini, Ning-Zi Sun, Amal Bessissow

“…Results A total of 173 Canadian internists opened the survey link, and 121 completed it (completion rate 70%). …”
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Quantifying the Impact of Obesity Category on Major Chronic Diseases in Canada by Ying Jiang, Yue Chen, Douglas Manuel, Howard Morrison, Yang Mao, Obesity Working Group

“…Adverse health effects differ with various levels of obesity, but limited national data existed previously for the Canadian population. We examined the associations of sociodemographic and behavioral factors with obesity levels in Canada, and measured the impact of each level on major chronic diseases. …”
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A comparison of the effects of beaver ponds and forest harvest on stream methylmercury in boreal watersheds by W Y Lam, R W Mackereth, C M E Lajoie, K A Kidd, C P J Mitchell

“…Beaver ponds and forest harvest are common disturbances in the Canadian boreal forest that result in major changes to catchment hydrology and thus also influence the mobilization and methylation of mercury (Hg). …”
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Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model by Madeleine Fol, Bruno Tremblay, Stephanie Pfirman, Robert Newton, Stephen Howell, Jean-François Lemieux

“…Abstract The Last Ice Area—located to the north of Greenland and the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago—is expected to persist as the central Arctic Ocean becomes seasonally ice-free within a few decades. …”
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CANDU Safety R&D Status, Challenges, and Prospects in Canada by W. Shen, F. Doyle

“…This overview of the Canadian nuclear safety R&D programs includes those currently conducted by the COG (CANDU Owners Group), AECL (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited), Candu Energy Inc., and the CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission) and by universities via UNENE (University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering) sponsorship. …”
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Expediated modeling of burn events results (EMBER): A screening-level dataset of 2023 ozone fire impacts in the USzenodo by Heather Simon, James Beidler, Kirk R. Baker, Barron H. Henderson, Loren Fox, Chris Misenis, Patrick Campbell, Jeff Vukovich, Norm Possiel, Alison Eyth

“…Two zero-out model runs simulated ozone levels that would have occurred in the US (1) in the absence of fire emissions (“Zero Fires”) and (2) in the absence of only Canadian wildfire emissions (“Zero Canadian Fires”). …”
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Current End-of-Life Care Needs and Care Practices in Acute Care Hospitals by Amy J. Thurston, Donna M. Wilson, Jessica A. Hewitt

“…These figures indicate, when compared to those in a similar mid-1990s Canadian study, that impending death is more often openly recognized and addressed. …”
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Nieznane polonika kanadyjskie – William John Rose i jego archiwalna spuścizna by Tomasz Pudłocki

“…Ze względu na oddalenie Vancouver od Polski kolekcja zgromadzona w Archiwum Uniwersytetu Kolumbii Brytyjskiej nie była do tej pory przedmiotem zainteresowań polskich uczonych, warta jest jednak zauważenia ze względu na swoje bogactwo i różnorodność tematyczną. Unknown Canadian Polonica – William John Rose and his archival legacy Abstract The author discusses the archival legacy of William John Rose (1885–1968), a Canadian Slavist, historian and sociologist, showing its usefulness in researching the history of science and the relations between Polish scholars and scientists from Anglo-Saxon countries. …”
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Does Routine Pain Assessment Result in Better Care? by Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Ying C MacNab, Amanda Lints-Martindale, Ronald Martin, Heather Hadjistavropoulos

“…BACKGROUND: Although a variety of national organizations such as the Canadian Pain Society, the American Pain Society and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations have advanced the idea that pain should be assessed on a routine basis, there is little evidence that systematic pain assessment information is used routinely by clinicians even when it is readily available.…”
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Le Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada : une histoire du vivre ensemble by Véronique Stahn

“…Its creation is linked to canadian national identity in the era of the birth of nationalisms. …”
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Groundwater Storage Estimation in the Saskatchewan River Basin Using GRACE/GRACE-FO Gravimetric Data and Machine Learning by Mohamed Hamdi, Anas El Alem, Kalifa Goita

“…The approach was applied over the Canadian Prairies region. The study area was classified into three zones of different aquifer potentials (low, medium, and high) using a combination of remote sensing data and the Classification and Regression Trees (CART) approach. …”
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Asian Options Pricing and Parameter Estimation of Uncertain Mean-Reverting Currency Model With Exponential Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Exchange Rate by Lujun Zhou, Zhigang Fu

“…The parameters of the model are estimated using real financial data from Canada and the United States, including the Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average (CORRA), the American Federal Funds Effective Rate (AFFER), and the monthly average exchange rate of the US Dollar to the Canadian Dollar (USDCAD). …”
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Does medical school research productivity predict a resident’s research productivity during residency? by Scott Kohlert, Laura Zuccaro, Laurie McLean, Kristian Macdonald

“…Methods We obtained the names for all certified Canadian Otolaryngologists who graduated between 1998 and 2013 inclusive, and conducted a Medline search for all of their publications. …”
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Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation in Pregnancy on Preeclampsia: The Folic Acid Clinical Trial Study by Shi Wu Wen, Josee Champagne, Ruth Rennicks White, Doug Coyle, William Fraser, Graeme Smith, Dean Fergusson, Mark C. Walker

“…The FACT study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2009, and regulatory approval from Health Canada was obtained in 2010. …”
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Procedural Treatments for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review of Current Injectable Therapies by Lisa M. Billesberger, Kyle M. Fisher, Yawar J. Qadri, Richard L. Boortz-Marx

“…It is predicted to cost the Canadian healthcare system $7.6 billion dollars by 2031. …”
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Retrofitting of box section concrete beams to resist shear and torsion using Near-Surface-Mount (NSM) GFRP Stirrups by Moaz A. Nasser, Ahmed A. Mahmoud, Tarek S. Mustafa, Ahmed N. M. Khater

“…The shear capacity of all tested beams based on Egyptian code ECP 208�2019 is calculated and compared with that from American code ACI 440�2019 and Canadian code CSA-A23.3-04. The shear capacity from both Egyptian and American codes compared with experimental loads. …”
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Cumulative earnings of Black, Chinese, South Asian and White individuals born in Canada by Aneta Bonikowska, René Morissette, Grant Schellenberg

“…Previous studies of earnings differences across groups of Canadian-born individuals have used cross-sectional data, leaving unanswered the important question of what earnings differences amount to when measured over workers’ lifecycle. …”
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Teacher Education in Canada: Current State and Development Trends by N. V. Tikhonova

“…Based on a literature review, the results of comparative studies of Canadian researches as well as universities regulations and official websites information, we analyze the main trends in the teacher education in Canada.…”
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Differences in pain treatment between the healthcare systems in South Korea and Quebec and proposals for improvements by Min Cheol Chang, Mathieu Boudier-Revéret

“…After a year of exchange in Montreal, a South Korean academic physiatrist and his Canadian colleague have reflected on the strengths and weaknesses of their respective healthcare systems. …”
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Responses of spectral indices to heat and drought differ by tree size in Douglas-fir by Olivia J.M. Waite, Nicholas C. Coops, Samuel Grubinger, Miriam Isaac-Renton, Jonathan Degner, Jacob King, Alex Liu

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