Cross-border participants

The first postulate states that all the microscopic states are equally probable. In other words, all of the degrees of freedom participate in the energy distribution with the same probability. The second postulate states that the system can be described by movements on a multidimensional surface, and that a border surface exists that separates the reactants from the products. This surface can only be crossed in one direction any reactant that crosses the transition state is irreversibly transformed into products. 

A second year passed and in March 2006 a larger conference took place in Burlington, Vermont. For the first time Quebec health officials participated, allowing for more cohesive collaboration all along the border. The conference featured discussions about disease surveillance procedures and alerts and included a table-top exercise about a foodborne bacterial outbreak that criss-crossed state and Canadian borders. The exercise allowed health officials to hear how their counterparts in other states and provinces would handle the information they had. Who would they tell When And how ... 

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