astronomy

Mary De Vera

Mary De Vera is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mary De Vera rather than just read about it. In short: Mary De Vera is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist, health services researcher, and academic. De Vera is an assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is the Canada Research Chair in medication adherence, utilization, and outcomes.

Key takeaways

Mary De Vera belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Mary De Vera to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Mary De Vera from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Mary De Vera is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist, health services researcher, and academic. De Vera is an assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is the Canada Research Chair in medication adherence, utilization, and outcomes.

Education De Vera earned a BSc degree in biochemistry at UBC and a MSc and PhD degrees in Health Care and Epidemiology from the UBC School of Population and Public Health. De Vera completed a post-doctoral fellowship in perinatal pharmacoepidemiology at the University of Montreal's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and pharmaceutical outcomes research at UBC's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Cancer diagnosis and effects on her research On March 29, 2016, De Vera was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer. According to researchers, it is an unusual diagnosis for women and for people her age (she was 36 when diagnosed and most people at diagnosis are in their 50s). The Canadian Institutes of Health Research awarded De Vera a $458,000 grant to “(assess) statistics and other “big data” information to see when colorectal cancer patients are diagnosed, gender distribution, types of treatment and outcomes and costs to the health-care system, as well as follow-up encounters with the health-care system.” The study was expected to last four years. De Vera's second research project is an international online survey funded by the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control “to better understand the information needs of patients and survivors of colorectal cancer.”

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mary De Vera

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mary De Vera claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mary De Vera before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mary De Vera ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mary De Vera

In research: Mary De Vera appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mary De Vera in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mary De Vera is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century Canadian scientists, 21st-century Canadian women scientists, Academic staff of the University of British Columbia, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mary De Vera outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Mary De Vera in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Mary De Vera means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Mary De Vera matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Mary De Vera?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Mary De Vera.