Publications by authors named "B R Steele"

Objectives: Staff at violence against women (VAW) organizations provide essential services for survivors of violence. The increase in VAW during the COVID-19 pandemic placed additional pressures on VAW staff. We investigated the impacts of the pandemic on the mental health of VAW staff in the Greater Toronto Area to inform recommendations for policy and practice.

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Importance: Procedural proficiency is a core competency for graduate medical education; however, procedural reporting often relies on manual workflows that are duplicative and generate data whose validity and accuracy are difficult to assess. Failure to accurately gather these data can impede learner progression, delay procedures, and negatively impact patient safety.

Objective: To examine accuracy and procedure logging completeness of a system that extracts procedural data from an electronic health record system and uploads these data securely to an application used by many residency programs for accreditation.

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Objective: Performance indicators are used to evaluate the quality of healthcare services. The majority of these, however, are derived solely from administrative data and rarely incorporate feedback from patients who receive services. Recently, our research team developed person-centred quality indicators (PC-QIs), which were co-created with patients.

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Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is performed for the energetic materials (EMs) LLM-105 and α-RDX, as well as the α and β conformational polymorphs of 1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetraazacyclooctane (HMX), using the genetic algorithm (GA) code, GAtor, and its associated random structure generator, Genarris. Genarris and GAtor successfully generate the experimental structures of all targets. GAtor's symmetric crossover scheme, where the space group symmetries of parent structures are treated as genes inherited by offspring, is found to be particularly effective.

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Article Synopsis
  • Understanding the thermal decomposition of TATB is crucial for ensuring safety in energetic materials research, as it involves understanding how it breaks down under heat.
  • Previous models suggested that the reaction primarily produces hydroxyl (HO), but recent mass spectrometry data showed the simultaneous release of carbon monoxide (CO) during the decomposition process.
  • The latest findings indicate that the CO results from the breakdown of the TATB ring structure rather than from impurities, which impacts current models of energy release and deflagration-to-detonation transitions in the study of decomposition.
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