Genotypic Investigation of Clostridium difficile in Prince Edward Island by H Martin, LP Abbott, DE Low, B Willey, M Mulvey, J Scott Weese

“…The objective of the present study was to characterize C difficile isolates obtained from people hospitalized with C difficile infection in Prince Edward Island. One hundred twenty-six C difficile ELISA toxin-positive stool samples were obtained and cultured using an enrichment protocol. …”
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Canada's First Universal Varicella Immunization Program: Lessons from Prince Edward Island by Lamont Sweet, Peggy Gallant, Marie Morris, Scott A Halperin

“…The first universal varicella immunization program in Canada was initiated in Prince Edward Island in 2000. Students in grades one to six without a history of varicella were offered the vaccine, administered by Public Health Nurses, in school clinics during February and March 2000. …”
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Letter To The Editor by Philip Champion

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A wicked problem: Systemic issues surrounding Canadian equestrian dressage and dressage horse welfare by Megan Ross, Kathryn Proudfoot, Katrina Merkies, Charlotte Lundgren, Caroline Ritter

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Canadian Hepatitis C Look-Back Investigation to Detect Transmission from an Infected General Surgeon by Meenakshi Dawar, Tammy L Stuart, Lamont E Sweet, Anne M Neatby, Lewis P Abbott, Anton P Andonov, Tom Wong, Robert Gervais, Rob Stirling

“…BACKGROUND: In February 2007, a general surgeon in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, tested positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV). …”
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Effects of Calliandra and Sesbania on Daily Milk Production in Dairy Cows on Commercial Smallholder Farms in Kenya by D. N. Makau, J. A. VanLeeuwen, G. K. Gitau, S. L. McKenna, C. Walton, J. Muraya, J. J. Wichtel

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Interactive effects of temperature, cadmium, and hypoxia on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver mitochondrial bioenergetics by John O. Onukwufor, Collins Kamunde

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Past, Present and Future of Respiratory Research: A Survey of Canadian Health Care Professionals by Mika Laura Nonoyama, Sunita Mathur, Rosemary Herbert, Heather Jenkins, Michelle Lobchuk, Michelle McEvoy

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Programmes to support transitions in community care for children with complex care needs: a scoping review by Shelley Doucet, Jennifer Splane, Patricia Charlton, Alison Luke, Janet A Curran, Christine Cassidy, Sydney Breneol, Shelley McKibbon, Holly McCulloch, Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Angela Riveroll

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Enhancing Pan evaporation predictions: Accuracy and uncertainty in hybrid machine learning models by Khabat Khosravi, Aitazaz A. Farooque, Amir Naghibi, Salim Heddam, Ahmad Sharafati, Javad Hatamiafkoueieh, Soroush Abolfathi

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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It also reviews qualitative material from Prince Edward Island, a small island province of Canada, which highlights why immigrants may privilege their mobility to ‘settling down’: some of the reasons given speak to the difficulty of ‘fitting into’ a tight, albeit friendly, island community. …”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It also reviews qualitative material from Prince Edward Island, a small island province of Canada, which highlights why immigrants may privilege their mobility to ‘settling down’: some of the reasons given speak to the difficulty of ‘fitting into’ a tight, albeit friendly, island community. …”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It also reviews qualitative material from Prince Edward Island, a small island province of Canada, which highlights why immigrants may privilege their mobility to ‘settling down’: some of the reasons given speak to the difficulty of ‘fitting into’ a tight, albeit friendly, island community. …”
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Everyday Magic or Winter Haunting? Kevin Sullivan’s Supernatural Re-Visioning of L. M. Montgomery’s Jane of Lantern Hill by Heidi Lawrence

“…Montgomery’s Jane of Lantern Hill employs the natural magic of “Jane Victoria” Stuart’s environment to convey psychological changes and healing for the main character in what appears to be an immersive fantasy comprised of a Prince Edward Island that provides a magical setting for Jane’s emotional and social development. …”
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Improving daily reference evapotranspiration forecasts: Designing AI-enabled recurrent neural networks based long short-term memory by Mumtaz Ali, Jesu Vedha Nayahi, Erfan Abdi, Mohammad Ali Ghorbani, Farzan Mohajeri, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Salman Alamery

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Analyzing water uptake of apple trees using isotopic techniques in the Shandong Peninsula, China by Tianze Pang, Ying Zhao, María Poca, Jianjun Wang, Hongchen Li, Jinzhao Liu

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Islandora and TEI: Current and Emerging Applications/Approaches by Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Donald Moses

“…Islandora is an open-source software framework developed since 2006 by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library. The Islandora framework is designed to ease the management of security and workflow for digital assets, and to help implementers create custom interfaces for display, search, and discovery. …”
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Putting the Evidence into Preceptor Preparation by Florence Myrick, Florence Luhanga, Diane Billay, Vicki Foley, Olive Yonge

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Profile of Serogroup Y Meningococcal Infections in Canada: Implications for Vaccine Selection by Nicole Le Saux, Julie A Bettinger, Susan Wootton, Scott A Halperin, Wendy Vaudry, David W Scheifele, Raymond Tsang

“…This vaccine was licensed in November 2006 but is not routinely used except in Nunavut, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. To allow a better understanding of the ‘value added’ by a serogroup Y-containing vaccine, it is necessary to have a contemporary profile of Y disease in Canada. …”
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Invited review: Improved control of Johne's disease in dairy cattle through advancements in diagnostics, testing, and management of young stock by Larissa Martins, Karin Orsel, Razieh Eshraghisamani, Jose Miguel Hernández-Agudelo, A. Caroline Pereira, Waseem Shaukat, Ad P. Koets, John P. Bannantine, Caroline Ritter, David F. Kelton, Richard J. Whittington, Maarten F. Weber, Antonio Facciuolo, Navneet K. Dhand, Karsten Donat, Susanne Eisenberg, Miguel A. Salgado, John P. Kastelic, Jeroen De Buck, Herman W. Barkema

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