This paper examines the outcomes of a collaborative planning exercise in the mountain town destination of Canmore, Canada, and offers a unique view of the experiences and challenges facing community leaders, planners and residents in post-process strategy implementation and monitoring. Diverse resident and stakeholder interests came together in 1994 in a year-long collaboration to develop a Growth Management Strategy (GMS). While short-term process outcomes are reported elsewhere, this paper focuses primarily on the medium-to longer-term outcomes and the experiences of participants eight -nine years after the GMS process ended. Tangible and intangible, as well as direct and indirect outcomes were identified. The results show that some gains appear to have faded overtime, significant challenges were experienced in strategy implementation and monitoring, while growth continued to impact the social -cultural fabric of the community. However, a number of positive gains and efforts indicate that collaborative processes complemented by citizen-based strategic visioning and strategic planning can be valuable for direction setting, growth management and sustainable community development in destinations like Canmore. Implications for research and practice are discussed. The study also suggests the need for a new planning paradigm to manage such complex community domains.

Mercury probe (Hg-probe) Schottky capacitance-voltage (CV) is widely used for carrier density and resistivity profiling in silicon epitaxial layers. Preparation of the silicon surface is crucial for obtaining high-quality CV measurements. There are a variety of methods currently being used to treat bare silicon epitaxial and polished bulk surfaces in preparation for Hg-Schottky CV measurements. The treatments include wet chemical and dry treatments. Usually, the treatment can be the limiting factor for both the measurement time and quality. In this evaluation, a number of typical treatments are evaluated for P-Type Epitaxial silicon surfaces. A novel concept for treating surfaces has also been investigated, which involves placing a silicon wafer in a chamber where it is exposed to a thermal and optimized ambient. This pretreatment chamber is referred to as PTC. A physics-based assessment of the typical P-type silicon surface treatments is made and presented.

Hospital administrators are regularly faced with having to cut patient services. Such decisions are essentially questions of distributive justice, and administrators may welcome some guidance. We begin with a key idea from the most influential theory of justice of our times, that of John Rawls, and generate from it a series of test questions against which the ethical dimensions of allocation decisions can be judged.

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