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2nd international workshop on living with inconsistency (IWLWI01)

IWLWI-01 --- The Second International Workshop on Living with Inconsistency, took place in Toronto, Canada, on May 13, 2001 as part of ICSE-01. The following is a short overview of this workshop.

Editorial Comment

Editorial Comment

The New Ontario Judicial Alternative Dispute Resolution Model

The author introduces the new ADR Pilot Project currently being tried in the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division). Taking place in Toronto, the project is aimed at avoiding civil litigation. It involves ADR referral and management after filing of the Statement of Defence. First, the parties must meet. If the dispute remains unsettled, statements are submitted by the parties. The parties and counsel then attend an ADR session, which can be a mediation, mini-trial, or neutral evaluation. The advantages and disadvantages of the project are then detailed, for the parties, the public interest, and otherwise. The author notes that the pilot project stresses many of the same values that are dominant in provincial arbitration legislation. However, there are also significant differences between the schemes. In the end, the author is optimistic for the success of the project, but cautions that more time must pass before any meaningful assessments can be made.

A Conversation with David J. Finney

David John Finney was born in 1917 in Cheshire, England. He received his secondary schooling at the Lymm Grammar School and the Manchester Grammar School. At school he developed an interest in and showed an aptitude for mathematics. From 1934 to 1938, he pursued this interest by reading mathematics and statistics at Cambridge University. He then accepted a post-graduate scholarship to work with R. A. Fisher at the Galton Laboratory in the University of London. In 1939 he took a position as assistant to Dr. Frank Yates at Rothamsted Experimental Station, where he became involved in many problems concerning the design of field experiments and the interpretation of their results. In 1945, he began his university teaching career at Oxford University as first holder of the post of lecturer in the design and analysis of scientific experiments. In 1954, he left Oxford to establish a Department of Statistics in the University of Aberdeen and also to set up a unit of statistics funded by the British Agricultural Research Council that could provide a service for Scotland patterned along the lines of the Rothamsted statistics department's work in England. In 1966, David was invited to move this unit to Edinburgh, where he was to continue as its director and also to become the first Professor of Statistics in the University of Edinburgh, thereby inaugurating his third statistics department. He retired from his position at Edinburgh in 1984, but he has remained active, especially in the study of problems relating to the safety of drugs. David Finney is author or joint author of nine books, including those on probit analysis and on biological assay for which he is widely known among the international statistical community. He has over 250 other publications to his credit. In 1955 he was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1978 he was honoured by appointment as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Other honours include Oxford University's Weldon Memorial Prize and honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo, the National Faculty of Agriculture, Gembloux, Belgium, City University, London and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. The main strands running through his career are experimental design, bioassay and (later) radioimmunoassay and other biometric techniques, statistical computing and drug safety. Pursuit of these interests has led to extensive travel and to many interesting assignments. He has spent substantial periods in India, in the Philippines and in the USA. He has been Chairman of the British Computer Board for the Universities (1970-1974), President of the Biometric Society (1964) and President of the Royal Statistical Society (1973). During 1987-1988, he was Director of the research centre operated by the International Statistical Institute. Ian MacNeill is Professor, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Wes tern Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9. The following conversation took place in Toronto during the Statistical Society of Canada's 1991 meeting, which immediately followed the symposium held in Hamilton, Ontario, in honour of Charles Dunnett

Baraness, Marc and Larry Richards, eds. Toronto Places: a Context for Urban Design

Baraness, Marc and Larry Richards, eds. <i>Toronto Places: a Context for Urban Design</i>

Lung transplantation: recipient selection.

T he first worldwide activities in human lung transplantation in the 1960s and 1970s involved a small number of patients in a large number of centers, with a very poor survival rate. In fact, there were no survivors from this initial experience save one exceptional case where the patient lived for 10 months following transplantation.‘,’ The reasons for the poor results were multifactorial, relating to unsophisticated patient selection, poor immunosuppression, and deficiencies in surgical technique. In general, the patients in whom lung transplantation was performed were desperately ill, infected, ventilatordependent, and suffering from multi-organ failure. The immunosuppressive regimens that were available at the time were based on high-dose corticosteroid therapy and were frequently complicated by overwhelming superinfection. Bronchial healing under these circumstances proved to be a major hurdle for lung transplantation. Many candidates survived the initial procedure only to develop failure of the bronchial anastomosis, mediastinal sepsis, and multi-organ failure. In the early 1980s the first series of successful human lung transplants took place in Toronto.’ The exciting results in this first group of surviving recipients were achieved in large part by application of stringent selection criteria. Patients were required to be in extremely good condition apart from their lung disease, ambulatory, relatively young, noninfected, and not dependent on corticosteroids. There was evidence that steroid administration in the early posttransplant period had adetrimental effect on bronchial healing.’ Patients were not offered transplantation if they were ventilator-dependent. Chronic infection ruled the patient out as a candidate for single lung transplantation. Within these criteria, the feasibility of lung transplantation became apparent-it could be done. Now, almost 10 years later the experience in lung transplantation has widened considerably, as have the indications and selection criteria. The following information refers to the most widely accepted application of lung transplantation. The indications are summarizrd in Table 1.

NSAID-Induced Gastric Ulcers: Exploring the Silent Dilemma

T his specia l issue ofTheCanadian}ournalofGastroenrerology is devoted to the proceedings of a sate llite symposium he ld at the t ime of the Fourth International Course in Therapeut ic Endoscopy which took place in Toronto in October 1989. The symposium , spon~ored hy Searle Canada, took advantage of the large gathering of Canadian and overseas gast roemerologists to d iscuss some of the current controversies surrounding NSAIDs and gastroduodenal damage. T he presen tat ions, given by an in ternational panel of experts, focused on the fo llowing issues: the risk of developing gastric and duodenal les ions and the extent of th is risk with regard ro complicatio ns of bleeding and perfora t ion ; how symptoms should be managed and ulcers Lreated depending upon the ir locat ion ; and prophylaxis, particularly regard ing the problems related tO iden tify ing who should receive prophylactic trc;icment and with what medication . Studies reporting symptoms in patients taking NSA IDs show a considerable range from l O to 60% with a mean of about one-third of patien ts experienc ing problems at t hree mon ths. But do all symptomat ic patients require investigation and trcatmem ? In many cases severi ty will decline over the first few weeks as 1o lerance develops, and loss of symptoms may coincide wi th a change in the cho ice of NSAID which is often c redited with the improvement. Other a lternatives inc lude red uc ing the dose or giving the

Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S

IT is with deep regret that we record the death of Sir Bertram Windle, professor of anthropology in St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, which took place in Toronto on Feb. 14. Bertram Coghill Alan Windle was born on May 8, 1858, the son of the Rev. S. A. Windle, vicar of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. He was educated at- Kingstown and Repton schools, and had a distinguished career at the University of Dublin, where he graduated M.D. and D.Sc. He was for a time Dean of the Medical Faculty and professor of anatomy and anthropology at the University of Birmingham. He afterwards became professor of archaeology in University College, Cork, of which he was appointed president in 1904, holding this office from 1904 until 1919, when he went to Toronto. During his residence in Ireland he was extremely active in educational and other affairs, with results that were not always conducive to his tranquillity of mind.

British Association Meeting in Toronto

I.—LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS. THE various special Local Committees, organised to make preparations for the British Association meeting, to take place in Toronto this year, have now, after a year's work, to report very satisfactory progress in the arrangements for the occasion. In the case of some of the Committees, their work may be considered as finished. The special Committee on Finance, for instance, has secured promises of financial aid to the extent of 5700l. from the Governments of the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario, and from the Toronto City Council. This sum will, it is believed, be fully sufficient for all the expenses of the meeting, which, owing to the special circumstances of the occasion, must be larger than those of any meeting in Great Britain.