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(New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, 2024-04) McDonald, Ted; Charters, Jennifer; Somayaji, Chandy; Thomson, Emily E.
The province of New Brunswick (NB) has been experiencing a rate of population growth not seen in more than 40 years. Though some of this is attributable to positive inter-provincial migration, the main driver of this increase is immigration from outside Canada.
While immigrants overall tend to be healthier upon their arrival in Canada as compared to the non-immigrant population, studies show an overall decline in immigrant health status over time, often dropping to levels below that of the general population. This trend may be due in part to lower utilization of health care services by immigrant populations because of numerous barriers to access that they may experience. This pattern is of concern for both individual patient health and the potential cost to the health care system in the long term.
This study aims to understand the utilization patterns of health services among newcomers to New Brunswick – that is, recent immigrants who have been resident in NB for less than 5 years.
We compare newcomers’ health service use to that of long-term immigrants (who have been resident in NB for more than 5 years) as well as non-immigrants (individuals originally from NB as well as migrants from other provinces/territories within Canada). We identify trends, between and within various groups, in health service use over time. Specifically, we consider:
- Hospitalizations (2017-2020)
- Visits to walk-in clinics (2017-2021)
- Emergency room visits (2017-2021)
- Visits to general practitioners (2017-2021)
This information is useful for policymakers in assessing whether specific interventions might be needed to address newcomers’ health needs and mitigate the risk of deteriorating health over time.
Health services use of newcomers to New Brunswick
(New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, 2024-04) McDonald, Ted; Somayaji, Chandy; Charters, Jennifer; Thomson, Emily E.
The province of New Brunswick (NB) has been experiencing a rate of population growth not seen in more than 40 years. Though some of this is attributable to positive inter-provincial migration, the main driver of this increase is immigration from outside Canada.
While immigrants overall tend to be healthier upon their arrival in Canada as compared to the non-immigrant population, studies show an overall decline in immigrant health status over time, often dropping to levels below that of the general population [1]. This trend may be due in part to lower utilization of health care services by immigrant populations because of numerous barriers to access that they may experience. This pattern is of concern for both individual patient health and the potential cost to the health care system in the long term.
This study aims to understand the utilization patterns of health services among newcomers to New Brunswick – that is, recent immigrants who have been resident in NB for less than 5 years.
We compare newcomers’ health service use to that of long-term immigrants (who have been resident in NB for more than 5 years) as well as non-immigrants (individuals originally from NB as well as migrants from other provinces/territories within Canada). We identify trends, between and within various groups, in health service use over time. Specifically, we consider:
- Hospitalizations (2017-2020)
- Visits to walk-in clinics (2017-2021)
- Emergency room visits (2017-2021)
- Visits to general practitioners (2017-2021)
This information is useful for policymakers in assessing whether specific interventions might be needed to address newcomers’ health needs and mitigate the risk of deteriorating health over time.
“’Principles of Loyalty and Attachment to the Parent State’: The Madras School System in New Brunswick from 1818 to 1828”
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-04) O’Donnell, Holden James; Tozer, Angela
This thesis examines Madras Schools in New Brunswick between 1818 and their rapid decline after 1828. The Madras method was an educational philosophy popular in the British Empire in the early nineteenth century in which academically advanced pupils were tasked with instructing other children in the classroom. By analyzing the records of the New Brunswick Madras School Board, we can understand the motivations that drove the expansion of this system in New Brunswick between 1818 and 1828. The Madras School system in New Brunswick was designed to fit into the model of a class stratified education system envisioned by the Loyalist elite. The preference given to the Madras system in early nineteenth-century New Brunswick shows how colonial policy makers in the province believed that the system would both buttress the hierarchical society favoured by the Loyalist elite and encourage settlers to remain loyal to the British Empire.
An electrochemical aptasensor for monitoring HER2-positive breast cancer biomarker
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-04) Mendonce, Aloyna Chris; Ignaszak, Anna
The proposed research showcases a bioelectrode design for an aptasensor with an optimised protocol for a highly favourable binding environment. It utilises a 76-nucleotide long ssDNA aptamer as a recognition element to detect HER2+ breast cancer biomarker with high specificity and sensitivity. Screen Printed Gold Electrodes are used to build the sensor. Electroanalytical techniques namely Cyclic Voltammetry is utilised to clean the SPEs and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to study the aptamer-HER2 binding on the electrode surface.
HDT (1,6-Hexanedithiol) is employed as a blocking agent to prevent the non-specific adsorption. Due to the ineffectiveness of Co-immobilisation, a Layer-by-layer incubation is adopted . Furthermore, maintaining the 3-D structure of the aptamer and performing experiments below room temperatures were found to be critical for HER2 stability and effective binding.
The outcome is an electrochemical aptasensor for real-time HER2 detection, which can aid clinicians in monitoring treatment efficacy ultimately leading to improved patient outcomes.
Investigations in noncommutative differential and Riemannian geometry
(University of New Brunswick, 2025-04) Timmavajjula, Venkata Karthik; Ćaćić, Branimir
This dissertation consists of several related investigations in noncommutative differential and Riemannian geometry. The motivation is the study of Maxwell’s equations on noncommutative spaces.
First, we study noncommutative U(1)-gauge theory on commutative base spaces by characterizing relative gauge potentials and gauge transformations in terms of group cohomology on Z. Next, we compute noncommutative analogs of diffeomorphism groups for irrational noncommutative 2-tori and the standard Podle´s sphere. Finally, we study an inner differential calculus on the symmetric group S3 and show that the space of Hodge star operators associated with its noncommutative Riemannian geometry is characterized by two independent parameters. Using this result, we make progress towards investigating the existence and uniqueness of the Levi–Civita connection.