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Diversity and conservation status of lichens and allied fungi in the Greater Toronto Area: results from four years of the Ontario BioBlitz
... Greater Toronto Area ...urban area and it demonstrates that rapid bioblitz surveys are proficient in capturing lichen diversity despite their inconspicuous nature and the advanced microscopy and ...
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Characterization of Invasive Group B Streptococcus Strains from the Greater Toronto Area, Canada
... We determined the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) type of 600 group B Streptococcus (GBS) (also known as Streptococcus agalac- tiae) strains recovered from patients with invasive infections in the greater Toronto ...
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Vitamin D status of older adults of diverse ancestry living in the greater Toronto area
... Here, we report the vitamin D status in a sample of community dwelling, active older adults (age > 60 years) of diverse ancestry living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The mean 25(OH)D concentration ...
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A pilot study examining Toronto-area family physician perspectives on thyroid neoplasm evaluation
... The study design was a cross-sectional mail-out, written survey of a sample of FPs in Markham and Brampton, which are municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area. The incidence of TC is relatively higher in ...
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The case of Iranian immigrants in the greater Toronto area: a qualitative study
... Three major themes emerged from the study: language barrier and the lack of knowledge of Canadian health care services/systems; lack of trust in Canadian health care services due to fina[r] ...
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Temporal changes in respiratory adenovirus serotypes circulating in the greater Toronto area, Ontario, during December 2008 to April 2010
... PHOL performs a large proportion of primary respira- tory viral testing for the province of Ontario from a var- iety of clinical settings including ambulatory, hospital and outbreaks. Following the testing procedure for ...
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Seismic Microzonation of Great Toronto Area and Influence of Building Resonances on Measured Soil Responses
... The map of the fundamental soil resonant frequencies over the study area (Figure 6.2) shows, in general, a correlation with the drift thickness (as it is known to the moment) (Figure 6.3). The HVSR maxima at the ...
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Multilocus Sequence Typing of Mycobacterium xenopi
... MLST analysis demonstrates that M. xenopi isolates are geno- typically heterogeneous. Nine of the MLST-6-defined STs, and 12 of the MLST-7-defined STs, were observed only once (Table 2 and Fig. 1). Because M. xenopi is ...
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... In Ontario, there is little regulation on who can claim to provide health services in French. My proj- ect focused on providing health promotion and outreach to the Greater Toronto Area’s significant ...
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Acculturation and Consumption: Examining the Consumption Behavior of People of Afro-Caribbean Descent in Canada
... behavior of a particular ethnic group is required (Herche & Balasubramaian, 1994; Jamal & Chap- man, 2000). Acculturation levels also influence the expenditure on and consumption of different commodities (Herche ...
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... DC: I started medical school at the University of Toronto in 1994. Back then, it was a much more didactic cur- riculum than Foundations, but problem-based learn- ing was introduced a year or two before, and we ...
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... NL: I grew up in a small town in Northern Ontario (Elliot Lake). Most people have heard of it because the roof of the mall collapsed several years back. It’s a small mining town. It used to be a uranium-mining town and ...
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Mycoplasma genitalium in Toronto, Ont
... Dr Gesink is Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto in Ontario. Ms Racey is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Dalla Lana School of Public ...
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Identification of Campylobacter Heat Stable and Heat Labile Antigens by Combining the Penner and Lior Serotyping Schemes
... of Toronto, To- ronto, Ontario, Canada, was based on a passive hemagglutina- tion technique using soluble antigen extracts of isolates and specific antisera raised to the antigens of ...
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... this area it seemed to me that there wasn’t a strong appetite in Canada for using evidence in policy making about health ...this area began in other ...
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Modeling the Feasibility and Benefits of Adopting CNG Technology in Trucks: An Application to the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
... The MOVES source or vehicle types that were used in the analysis are: Transit Buses and Combination Short-Haul Trucks. Vehicle count and age distribution of heavy-duty trucks was obtained from the 2012 GTHA Polk Data ...
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Unwrapping the Toronto Christmas Market: An Examination of Tradition and Nostalgia in a Socially Constructed Space
... of Toronto, it is important to note that Cityscape Holdings is the same company that purchased and revitalized the Distillery District in 2001 (ICSC ...of Toronto (Toronto Christmas Market ...of ...
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Validation of the Toronto hepatocellular carcinoma risk index for patients with cirrhosis in China: a retrospective cohort study
... characteristic (ROC) curve was drafted to identify the value of the THRI in predicting HCC. Logistic regression was utilized to assess the relationship between the development of HCC and THRI values. The incidence of HCC ...
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Area level global and local clustering of human Salmonella Enteritidis infection rates in the city of Toronto, Canada, 2007–2009
... For the local cluster analyses, we used the distance band identified at the global clustering step that showed maximum spatial clustering of FSAs with high nonsmoothed SIRs see Global cl[r] ...
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Body mass index and breast cancer survival: a Mendelian randomization analysis
... Hospital, Toronto, Canada, 9 Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 10 Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, ...
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