Canada's health care system has undergone major changes since 1990. In Saskatchewan, 52 small rural hospitals funded for less than eight beds stopped receiving funding for acute care services in 1993. Most were subsequently converted to primary health care centers. Since then, concerns have been...

We investigate the general property of the energy fluctuation in the canonical ensemble and the ensemble equivalence in Tsallis statistics. By taking the generalized ideal gas and the generalized harmonic oscillators as examples, we show that, when the particle number N is large enough, the...

We investigate the dispersion relation and Landau damping of ion acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free plasma when the plasma is described by the nonextensive q-distributions of Tsallis statistics. We show that the increased numbers of superthermal particles and low velocity...