Ovarian Cancer Canada

The present dissertation is an exploratory study of structural deficiency in schizophrenia, in which the usage of subject pronouns and type of sentence in narratives produced by native speakers of Colloquial Brazilian Portuguese diagnosed with schizophrenia is investigated. Couched within Generative Grammar Theory, in which human grammar is defined as a computational cognitive device, we explored the hypothesis that schizophrenia leads to structural impoverishment at the syntactic level. Two corpora of narratives of dream and waking reports were examined considering subject pronouns and type of sentences. Overall, our results showed significant higher proportion of matrix sentences and null pronouns, particularly of 3Person referential null pronouns in the schizophrenia group as compared to the control group. These findings are in line with the hypothesis of structural impoverishment in schizophrenia, especially if null pronouns are taken to be elements with reduced structure in comparison to full pronouns. Also, our results corroborate with the hypothesis that grammar in the face of schizophrenia might present a deficit in terms of functional categories, which leads to structural impoverishment and to anomalies in the referential use of pronouns Our findings are thus extra evidence that structural deficiency is a universal feature of schizophrenia, while suggesting manifestations of this deficiency is language dependent, being, thus, subject to parametric variation.

I just learned that my ovarian cancer is back and that I need to start chemotherapy [...]

New evidence has emerged concerning the persistent presence of a combination of symptoms that can be indicative of ovarian cancer. Professionals need to be aware of this evidence and incorporate it into their practice. Ovarian Cancer Canada (OCC) has implemented an innovative program in selected Canadian universities, as a method to educate undergraduate medical and nursing students about ovarian cancer. Survivors Teaching Students has been offered to 3,620 undergraduate students. This article presents the evaluation of the program using pre and post session surveys. Overall, students reported a change in knowledge related to the progression of ovarian cancer, symptoms of ovarian cancer, risk factors for the disease, and perspectives about what a woman with ovarian cancer might feel on being diagnosed. Having survivors provide the classroom session brought "a face and a voice" to the issue of ovarian cancer for the students.

Abstract An understanding of the limiting stress level for crack initiation and propagation in a fuel cladding material is a fundamental requirement for the development of water reactor clad materials. Conventional tests, in use to evaluate fracture properties, are of limited help, because they are adapted from ASTM standards designed for thick materials, which differ significantly from fuel cladding geometry (small diameter thin-walled tubing). The Internal Conical Mandrel (1CM) test described here is designed to simulate the effect of fuel pellet diametrical increase on a cladding with an existing axial throughwall crack. It consists in forcing a cone, having a tapered increase in diameter, inside the Zircaloy cladding with an initial axial crack. The aim of this work is to quantify the crack initiation and propagation criteria for fuel cladding material. The crack propagation is monitored by a video system for obtaining crack extension δa. A finite-element (FE) simulation of the ICM test is performed in order to derive J integrals. A node release technique is applied during the FE simulation for crack propagation and the J-resistance curves (J-δa) are generated. This paper presents the test methodology, the J computation validation, and results for cold-worked stress relieved Zircaloy-4 cladding at 20° and 300°C and also for Al 7050-T7651 aluminum alloy tubing at 20°C.