A recent Canadian Institute for Health Information report on all-cause readmission identified
that cancer patients had higher-than-average readmission rates. This study provides further …

Background: Identifying potentially avoidable admissions to Canadian hospitals is an important
health system goal. With general internal medicine (GIM) accounting for 40% of hospital …

Methods Data mining demonstrated that during the five year period between 1997 and 2001
there was a noticeable increase in the number of comorbid conditions coded in Canadian …

The findings of synchrotron based spectromicroscopic investigations of Cu and xanthate
adsorption onto pyrite surfaces are reported. Synchrotron based photoemission electron …

The effect of impurities in the zinc sulfide mineral sphalerite on surface wettability has been
investigated theoretically to shed light on previously reported conflicting results on sphalerite …

It has been suggested that the kinetic regime by which a metal oxide dissolves is dependent
on the nature of the bonding present within the oxide [1]. Ionic oxides such as MgO and …

Despite the structural similarity, MgO is fast dissolving in low pH solution, whereas NiO is
slow dissolving under the same conditions. In addition, the planar MgO (100) surface …

A quantum chemical, atomic level simulation of the first mechanistic steps leading to
dissolution at low pH of the MgO(100) surface was performed using the semi-empirical SCFMO …

We report the in-flight CVD coating with smooth 1–2 nm thick SiO2 of pure and doped rutile
particles via the oxidation of SiCl4 vapour introduced in the high temperature zone of a …

The dissociation of water adsorbed on the surface of NiO was investigated by using the semi-empirical
SCF MO method MSINDO. Simulations were based on embedded cluster models …