Hoppe, C. C., Moritz, K. M., Fitzgerald, S. M., Bertram, J. F., Evans, R. G.
The novel environment of a metabolic cage can be stressful for rodents, but few studies have attempted to quantify this stress response. Therefore, we determined the effects on mean arterial pressure...
Haemodynamic characteristics of hypertension induced by prenatal cortisol exposure in sheep (2009)
Moritz, K. M., Dodic, M., Jefferies, A. J., Wintour, E. M., DeMatteo, R., Singh, R. R., ...
P>1. Administration of glucocorticoids to ewes early in pregnancy results in offspring with hypertension in adulthood. The hypertension in female offspring exposed to dexamethasone is associated with...
There is a long history of the study of light filaments trapped or self-focussed by the non-linear refractive index of the medium in which the light is propagating. Non-linearity typically arises...
Laboratory soft x-ray emission due to the Hawking-Unruh effect? (2007)
Brodin, G., Marklund, M., Bingham, R., Collier, J., Evans, R. G.
The structure of spacetime, quantum field theory, and thermodynamics are all connected through the concepts of the Hawking and Unruh temperatures. The possible detection of the related radiation...
Dodic, M., McAlinden, A. T., Jefferies, A. J., Wintour, E. M., Cock, M. L., May, C. N., ...
Prenatal exposure to elevated maternal glucocorticoids (dexamethasone (DEX) or cortisol (CORT)) for 2 days early in pregnancy can 'programme' alterations in adult offspring of sheep, including...
Dodic, M., McAlinden, A. T., Jefferies, A. J., Wintour, E. M., Cock, M. L., May, C. N., ...
Prenatal exposure to elevated maternal glucocorticoids (dexamethasone (DEX) or cortisol (CORT)) for 2 days early in pregnancy can 'programme' alterations in adult offspring of sheep, including...
High-intensity-laser-driven Z pinches (2004)
Beg, F.N., Clark, E.L., Wei, M.S., Dangor, A.E., Evans, R.G., Gopal, A., ...
Experiments were performed in which ultrahigh intensity laser pulses (I>5×1019 W cm–2) were used to irradiate thin wire targets. It was observed that such interactions generate a large number of...
High-intensity-laser-driven Z pinches (2004)
Beg, F.N., Clark, E.L., Wei, M.S., Dangor, A.E., Evans, R.G., Gopal, A., ...
Experiments were performed in which ultrahigh intensity laser pulses (I>5×1019 W cm-2) were used to irradiate thin wire targets. It was observed that such interactions generate a large number of...
High-intensity-laser-driven Z pinches (2004)
Beg, F.N., Clark, E.L., Wei, M.S., Dangor, A.E., Evans, R.G., Gopal, A., ...
Experiments were performed in which ultrahigh intensity laser pulses (I>5×1019 W cm-2) were used to irradiate thin wire targets. It was observed that such interactions generate a large number of...
Beg, F. N., Wei, M. S., Dangor, A. E., Gopal, A., Tatarakis, M., Krushelnick, K., ...
This version is available at the following Publisher URL: http://apl.aip.org
Return current and proton emission from short pulse laser interactions with wire targets (2004)
Beg, F. N., Wei, M. S., Clark, E. L., Dangor, A. E., Evans, R. G., Gibbon, P., ...
This version is available at the following Publisher URL: http://pop.aip.org
Tree code simulations of proton acceleration from laser-irradiated wire targets (2004)
Gibbon, P., Beg, F. N., Wei, M. S., Clark, E. L., Evans, R. G., Zepf, M.
This version is available at the following Publisher URL: http://pop.aip.org
Propagation instabilities of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams (2003)
Tatarakis, M., Beg, F.N., Clark, E.L., Dangor, A.E., Edwards, R.D., Evans, R.G., ...
Measurements of energetic electron beams generated from ultrahigh intensity laser interactions (I>1019 W/cm2) with dense plasmas are discussed. These interactions have been shown to produce very...
Propagation instabilities of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams (2003)
Tatarakis, M., Beg, F.N., Clark, E.L., Dangor, A.E., Edwards, R.D., Evans, R.G., ...
Measurements of energetic electron beams generated from ultrahigh intensity laser interactions (I>1019 W/cm2) with dense plasmas are discussed. These interactions have been shown to produce very...
Propagation instabilities of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams (2003)
Tatarakis, M., Beg, F.N., Clark, E.L., Dangor, A.E., Edwards, R.D., Evans, R.G., ...
Measurements of energetic electron beams generated from ultrahigh intensity laser interactions (I>1019 W/cm2) with dense plasmas are discussed. These interactions have been shown to produce very...
Collisionless shock and supernova remnant simulations on VULCAN (2001)
Woolsey, NC, Ali, YA, Evans, R G, Grundy, RAD, Pestehe, SJ, Carolan, PG, ...
Collisionless shock and supernova remnant simulations on VULCAN (2001)
Woolsey, N. C., Ali, Y. A., Evans, R. G., Grundy, R. A. D., Pestehe, S. J., Carolan, P. G., ...
The VULCAN [C. N. Danson , Opt. Commun. 103, 392 (1993)] laser at the UK Central Laser Facility is being used for laboratory-based simulations of collisionless shocks. By ensuring that key...
Collisionless shock and supernova remnant simulations on VULCAN (2001)
Woolsey, N.C., Abou Ali, Y., Evans, R.G., Grundy, R.A.D., Pestehe, S.J., Carolan, P.G., ...
The VULCAN [C. N. Danson et al., Opt. Commun. 103, 392 (1993)] laser at the UK Central Laser Facility is being used for laboratory-based simulations of collisionless shocks. By ensuring that key...
Smith, A. I., Lew, R. A., Shrimpton, C. N., Evans, R. G., Abbenante, G.
We have developed a novel inhibitor of the metalloendopeptidases EC 3.4.24.15 (EP24.15) and EC 3.4.24.16 (EP24.16), N-[1-(R, S)-carboxy-3-phenylpropyl]-Ala-Aib-Tyr-p-aminobenzoate (JA2), in which...
Smith, A. I., Lew, R. A., Shrimpton, C. N., Evans, R. G., Abbenante, G.
We have developed a novel inhibitor of the metalloendopeptidases EC 3.4.24.15 (EP24.15) and EC 3.4.24.16 (EP24.16), N-[1-(R, S)-carboxy-3-phenylpropyl]-Ala-Aib-Tyr-p-aminobenzoate (JA2), in which...
This paper describes two groups of experiments carried out with a Neural State Machine (NSM) [1], built using Weightless Artificial Neurons called General Neural Units (GNUs) [2], and simulated in...
MAGNUS: A review of current work in learning cognitive skills (1995)
I. Aleksander, C. Browne, R.G. Evans, N. J. Sales
this paper. The general structure of the machine is shown below: GRAM Neurons
Die verkoop van grond in ongeproklameerde dorpsgebiede / (1985)
Summary in English.
Gibson, AF, Evans, R G, Nicholas, DJ, Rumsby, PT, Raven, A, Ross, I N, ...
Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome: survival after prolonged oliguria.
Sharpstone, P., Evans, R. G., O'Shea, M., Alexander, L., Lee, H. A.
Surge irrigation with residues to reduce soil erosion
Evans, R. G., Girgin, B. N., Chenoweth, J. F., Kroeger, M. W.
Water use of Vitis vinifera grapes in Washington
Evans, R. G., Spayd, S. E., Wample, R. L., Kroeger, M. W., Mahan, M. O.
APOCALYPSE NO: Population Aging and the Future of Health Care Systems
R.G. Evans, K.M. McGrail, S.G. Morgan, M.L. Barer, C. Hertzman
Illness increases with age. All else equal, an older population has greater needs for health care. This logic has led to dire predictions of skyrocketing costs-- "apocalyptic demography". Yet...
Fee Controls as Cost Control: Tales from the Frozen North.
Barer, M.L., Evans, R.G., Labelle, R.J.
While concerns over escalation in health care costs are virtually universal in the industrialized world, the forms of policy response, and their relative success, have been quite variable.
Tension, Compression, and Shear: Direction, Stresses, and Outcomes of Health Care Cost Control.
Control of health care costs is often portrayed as a struggle between external, "natural" forces pushing costs up and individuals, groups, and societies trying to resists the inevitable.
Reconciling Fee-for-Service with Global Expenditure Control.
This exposes issues about canada's public health insurance programs.
Controlling Health Expenditures- The Canadian Reality.
Evans, R.G., Lomas, J., Barer, M.A., Labelle, R.J., Fooks, C., Stoddart, G.L., ...
The Major difference between the United States and Canada with respect to health expenditures lies in the degree of centralization of the cost control process.
Life and Death, Money and Power: The Politics of Health Care Finance.
The politics of health care finance has been presented as a tale of contunuing conflict, particularly between providers and the rest of society.
Producing Health, Consuming Health Care.
In this paper we propose a conplexe framework to present a wide range of relationships among the determinants of health.
Reflections on the Financing of Hospital Capital : A Canadian Perspective.
What is capital? capital is commitment. It can take many forms, including bricks and mortar (physical), trained health care personnel (human), and reseach and development activities (intangible)....
Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Hertzman, C.
Since the late 1960s, concerns over the escalating costs of health care have been expressed with increasing vigor on both sides of the Canada-United States border. This is in sharp contrast with the...
The Meeting of the Twain: Managing Health Care Capital, Capacity, and Costs in Canada.
The Canadian and American health care systems differ in three fundamental structure respects: entitlement, management, and environment. Fundamental philosophical differences in the two societies have...
What Seems to be the problem? The International Movement to Restructure Health Care Systems.
Where are peace and tranquility be founded? Public expressions of dissatisfaction with health care systems are growing throught the developed world: everywhere there is unhappiness.
Why Not Uder Charges? The Real Issues.
Barer, M.L., Bhatia, V., Stoddart, G.L., Evans, R.G.
In this paper we examine some of the most frequently heard arguments for user charges and look at what evidence there is for claims and counter-claims that are often made.
The Canadian Health-Care Finaning and Delivery System: Its Experience and Lessons for Other Nations.
Canada's system of universal public insurance for health care is by considerable margin the nation's most successful and popular public program.
User Charges, Snares and Delusions: Another Look at the Literature.
Barer, M.L., Bhatia, V., Stoddart, G.L., Evans, R.G.
In this paper we review and extend an earlier, in-depth analysis of the effects of users ccharges. The present paper assesses whether experience and published literature in the years since 1979 alter...
Barer, M.L., Bhatia, V., Stoddart, G.L., Evans, R.G.
In this paper we document the history of the user charges in the Canadian health care system.
It's Not the Money, It's the Principle: Why User Charges for Some Services and Not Others?
Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Stoddart, G.L., Bhatia, V.
In this paper we examine why user charges exist for some health care services and not for others.
Charging Peter tp Pay Paul: Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges.
Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Stoddart, G.L.
In this paper we outline a formal and comprehensive analytic framework in which income transfers - the principal effects of user charges - can be traced between groups in the population, between...
User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What's Health Got to Do With It?)
Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Stoddart, G.L.
Call for user fees in Canadian health care go back as far as the debate leading up to the establishment of Canada's national hospital insurance program in the late 1950s. Although the rationales have...
Less is More"Contrasting Styles in Health Care.
Our system of Universal public insurance for health care is by a considerable magin Canada's most successful and popular puiblic program. Our system works, and compared to most other systems works...
Health Care as a Threat to Health: Defence, Opulence, and the Social Environment.
The most sophesticated and effective health care in the world cannot produce results as good as simply remaining health in the first place.
Marking the Market, Regulating Regulators: Who Gains? Who Loses? What Hopes? What Scope?
In general, one may infer with some confidence that any cost containment policy conmdemned as ineffective by those whose incomes it is intended to contain, but described as effective by those who are...
The Effects of British Columbia's Physician Payment Initiatives: Making Sence of the Dollars.
Evans, R.G., Pascali, M.V., Barer, M.L.
The year 1981 appears, in retrospect, to have been something of a turning point in the evolution of the Canadian health care system. It was not obvious at the time -- the year did not, 1961 or 1971,...
Mark Pauly on Welfare Economics: Normative Rabbits from Positive Hats.
Mark Pauly's (Pauly, 1994a) editorial comment on Labelle et al. (1994a) sows seeds whose harvest is a dangerous confusion of intellectual categories. Out of that confusion, he dismisses as irrelevant...
User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What's Health Got to Do with It?)
Calls for user fees in Canadian health care go back as far as the debate leading up to the establishment of Canada's national hospital insurance program in the late 1950s. Although the rationales...
Sharing The Burden: Containing the Cost: Fundamental Conflicts in Health Care Finance.
In all developed societies, the financing of health care is a collective process. Pools of funds, described bu White (1995) as "Shared saving", are assembled through more or less compulsory levies on...
Going for the Gold: Redistributive Agenda Behind Market-Based Health Care Reform.
Political conflict over the perspective roles of the state and the market in health care has a long history. Current interest in market approaches represents the resurgence of ideas and arguments...
Health Reform: What "Business" Is It of Business.
Canadians are justifiably proud of Medicare. All (but one) of the major industrialized countries have established universal public payment systems for health care, and most are similarly proud, or at...
Health for all of Wealth for Some? Conflicting Goals in Health Reform.
All proponents of health reform seek to improve the health of the population served. Or so they say. Yet the policies and strategies offered are extraordinarily diverse, and to a considerable degree...
Hospital Downsizing and Trends in Health Care Use Among Elderly People in British Columbia.
Sheps, S.B., Reid, R.J., Barer, M.L., Krueger, H., McGrail, K.M., Green, B., ...
Overall changes in health care use were small, which suggests that the repercussions of the decline in acute care services for elderly people have been minimal. The higher age-adjusted death rates in...
McGrail, K., Green, B., Barer, M.L., Evans, R.G., Hertzman, C.
Age is less important than proximity to death as a predictor of costs. However, the pattern of social and nursing care costs is different from that for acute medical care. In planning services it is...
Two Systems in Restaint: Contraccting Experiences with Cost Control in the 1990s.
Our system of universal public insurance for health care is by a considerable margin Canada's must successful and popular public program. We think of it, not just as an administrative mechanism for...
The Canadian health care system took its modern form between 1968 and 1971, and its fundamental principles and basic structure features of organization and finance have remained the same since then.
Health Economists Meet the Fourth Tempter: Drog Dependency and Scientific Discourse.
Evans, R.G., Barer, M., Morgan, S.
Over the past decade, the 'pharmacoeconomics' phenomenon has incited a stream of commentaries about the economic evaluation of drugs, conflicts of interest and ways of retaining respectability for...
Financing Health Care: Taxation and the Alternatives.
This paper has attempted to identify characteristic patterns of performance in tax-financed (TF) systems, contrasting them with systems relying more heavily on other revenue sources.
Revitalizing Medicare: Shared Problems, Public Solutions.
Rachlis, M., Evans, R.G., Lewis, P., Barer, M.L.
Medicare still enjoys broad support, but Canadians have become increasingly concerned that care will not be available for them when they need it. A substantial in Public opinion is a potent catalyst...
Buying Science, Selling Drugs.
Evans, R.G., Morgan, S.G., Barer, M.L.
The authors explain how drug companies systematically manipulates scientific research in pursuit of profit.
Apocalypse No: Population Aging and the Future of Health Care Systems.
Evans, R.G., McGrail, K.M., Morgan, S.G., Barer, M.L., Hertzman, C.
Illness increases with age. All else being equal, an older population has greater needs for health care. This logic has led to dire protections of skyrocketing costs - apocalyptic demography. Yet...
Financing and Delivering Health Care in Canada: Lots of Sound and Fury, but Little "Reform".
A description of recent "Reform" in the Canadian health care system could be made very short. There has not been meet any reform. The authors presents a document presenting the Canadian Health care...
Private Highway, One-Way Street: the Deklein and Fall of Canadian Medicare.
Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Lewis, S., Rachlis, M., Stoddart, G.L.
"Medicare" has two meanings for Canadians: the entire range of health care services, or only those (mainly physicians and hospitals) mandated and governed by the Canada Health Act (CHA). This paper...
Prostate cancer: results of external irradiation.
Reddy, E. K., Krishnan, L., Giri, S., Evans, R. G., Mebust, W. K., Weigel, J. W.
From 1975 to 1982, 205 patients with local prostate cancer were treated at the radiation oncology department, the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. Patients' median age was 73...
Jackson, G. H., Lennard, A. L., Taylor, P. R., Carey, P., Angus, B., Lucraft, H., ...
We report the safety and efficacy of autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) in 30 patients with high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in first complete remission (CR1) following remission...