cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ausländische Saisonarbeitskräfte
Creators: name: Pirker, Wolfgang
Year: 2010

description: In der Dissertation werden die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen und die Abläufe für eine Beschäftigung von ausländischen Saisonarbeitskräften in der österreichischen Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie im Sommer- und Wintertourismus näher dargelegt und erläutert. Unter ausländische Saisonarbeitskräfte sind all jene Ausländer gemeint, die nicht wie österreichische Staatsbürger zu behandeln sind und eine arbeitsrechtliche Bewilligung nach dem Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz benötigen.
Polistes (Gyrostoma) Kirby & Spense 1828
Creators: name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Polistes

description: Subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby & Spense, 1828
Gyrostoma Kirby & Spense 1828: 36, 631, replacement name for Cyclostoma Kirby & Spense, 1826, non Lamarck, 1799. Type species: Cyclostoma gigas Kirby & Spense, 1826, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2018, Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands, pp. 507-531 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on page 508, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2614887
The 2014 Global Tax Competitiveness Report: A Proposed Business Tax Reform Agenda
Creators: name: Chen, Duanjie
name: Mintz, Jack M.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Canada is losing its edge in the competition for global capital. After a decade of remarkable progress in reducing the tax burden on business investment — moving from one of the least tax-competitive jurisdictions among its industrialized peers in 2000, to ranking in the middle of the pack by 2011 — Canada has slipped by largely standing still. As other countries in our peer group have continued to reform their business-tax regimes, they have surpassed Canada, which has slid from having the 19th-highest tax burden on investments by medium-sized and large corporations in 2012, to the 14th-highest among 34 OECD countries in 2014. Even more worrying is that Canada’s political currents are running the wrong way, with a few provinces having increased taxes on capital in recent years and a number of politicians today floating the possibility of even higher business taxes to help address budgetary strains. But the right approach to raising tax revenue and improving the economy is quite the opposite: lowering rates and broadening the tax base by making Canadian jurisdictions even more attractive to corporate investment. An important step towards that would be for federal and provincial governments to reduce targeted tax assistance and to level the tax field for all industries and sizes of businesses, ending the preferential treatment of favoured industries and small enterprises. In addition, those provinces that have yet to harmonize their sales tax with the federal GST should do so, or at least consider adopting a quasi-refund system that would relieve the provincial sales tax on capital inputs. Alberta, with no sales tax, could become more competitive by adopting an HST and using the proceeds to reduce personal and corporate taxes. Finally, Canada would do much better to mandate a uniform corporate tax rate, with an 11 per cent federal rate and a nine per cent average provincial rate. This would encourage capital investment and attract corporate profits to Canada, without a significant revenue cost to either the federal or provincial governments.
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description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
The Distribution of Income and Taxes/Transfers In Canada: A Cohort Analysis
Creators: name: Crisan, Daria
name: McKenzie, Kenneth J.
name: Mintz, Jack M.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Who pays and how much? These are crucial questions for any tax system and, given the complexity of the economy, they are also among the most difficult to answer. This paper undertakes an analysis of the distribution of taxes and transfers in Canada using a static approach based on annual income combined with the novel approach of breaking down taxpayers by age cohort. The paper examines how tax rates net of transfers differ by age and income group, and how those rates change over taxpayers’ lifetimes. It clearly reveals the progressive nature of Canada’s tax system. In our base case scenario, when all age cohorts are considered together and transfers are treated as negative taxes, the first two quintiles of the income distribution are net recipients of government transfers with negative net tax rates equal to about -48 percent for the first quintile and -33 percent for the second quintile. For middle to high-income individuals net tax rates are positive and increase with income, from 10 percent for the median group, to 24 percent for the fourth quintile and 34 percent for the fifth quintile. Looking at net tax rates by age cohort, we find that overall the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution is a net recipient of fiscal transfers at all ages. However, on average for individuals 65 and over all but the top 20 percent of the income distribution are net recipients of fiscal transfers, with negative net tax rates. The age related redistributive nature of Canada’s tax system is further emphasized by an examination of the Gini coefficients for each age cohort, calculated here for the first time. Starting at age 30, before taxes and transfers income inequality is found to rise monotonically with age, leveling off at 65. Taxes and transfers reduce the degree of income inequality significantly for all ages, but substantially more so for the elderly due to age related features of the tax and transfer system. If redistribution can be thought of as a one of the fundamental features of the tax and transfer system in Canada, the extent to which it is targeted at the elderly is an important secondary feature.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Shelter from the Storm: Weather-Induced Patterns in the Use of Emergency Shelters
Creators: name: Jadidzadeh, Ali
name: Kneebone, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: In Calgary, where winters are almost always long and temperatures can plummet below -30 C, it seems logical to assume that the highest rate of emergency-shelter use would occur on the coldest of days. On very cold days one might expect rough sleepers – those who for a variety of reasons sleep outdoors – to sleep in shelters. And yet, if social agencies were to operate on that assumption, and were to focus on significantly augmenting capacity on only bitterly cold days, the result could well be that not enough beds are made available when they are in fact needed. The number of people using emergency shelters follows a more or less regular pattern over the course of a week, a month and a year. Weekends, for example, find fewer people using emergency shelters. Seasonal influences are also important as are major holidays and the timing of income support cheques. An analysis of weather effects on emergency-shelter stays in the city of Calgary finds that the conditions that are most likely to move rough sleepers into shelter do not only occur during the depths of winter, but also during the so-called “shoulder seasons” of early spring and late fall. Weather related changes in the demand for shelter spaces is greatest when temperatures hover between 0 and -10 C, and when these temperatures are accompanied by wet snow or sleet. Those conditions can produce a temporary increase of 10 to 15 per cent over the average number of emergency-shelter users. The importance of realistically estimating shelter use should not be understated. Emergency shelters are so named for a reason: When an extraordinary number of homeless people face an urgent need for shelter, it is critical that shelter operators not find themselves caught unawares, and left either scrambling to secure additional capacity or, worse, forced to turn away those in need. Being adequately prepared for significant spikes in shelter usage requires an understanding of what causes shelter use to vary and this requires an appreciation of the role of weather conditions. Understanding that inclement weather in the spring and fall, when temperatures are only moderately below zero and wet snow or sleet is falling, drives large numbers of rough sleepers into shelters gives shelter operators the ability to better prepare for spikes in demand. Given the scarce resources available for shelter provisions, this improved preparation ensures enough beds are available at the times when they are most needed, and decreases the likelihood of potentially catastrophic outcomes.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
After America, Canada’s Moment?
Creators: name: Brodie, Ian
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: The last decade has seen serious setbacks to the global role of the United States. Iraq, Afghanistan and the 2008 economic crisis provoked deep partisan debates about American policy but little in the way of consensus on how to respond. Meanwhile, America’s rivals have gained strength and a new south-south economy of investment and trade has emerged. There is little disagreement that the U.S. has lost its relative power to influence developments around the world. Is this Canada’s moment to extend our global influence?
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
ESPlannerBASIC CANADA
Creators: name: Kotlikoff, Laurence
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Traditional financial planning is based on a fundamental rule of thumb: Aim to save enough for retirement to replace 80 per cent of your pre-retirement income with income from pensions and assets. Millions of Canadians follow this formula. Yet, there is no guarantee this approach is consistent with a savings plan that will allow them to experience their optimal standard of living — given their income — throughout their working lives. Consumption smoothing happens when a consumer projects her income and her non-discretionary expenses (such as mortgage payments) all the way up until the end of her life, and is able to determine her household discretionary spending power over time, to achieve the smoothest living standard path possible without going into debt. When consumption smoothing is calculated accurately, a person’s lifestyle should be roughly the same whether she is in her 30s with small children, in her 50s with kids in college, or in retirement, with adult children. Consumption smoothing allows that to happen. But while it is conceptually straightforward, consumption smoothing requires the use of advanced numerical techniques. Now, Canadian families have access to a powerful consumption-smoothing tool: ESPlannerBASIC Canada. This free, secure and confidential online tool will allow Canadian families to safely and securely enter their earnings and other financial resources and will calculate for them how much they can spend and how much they should save in order to maintain their lifestyle from now until they die, without going into debt. It will also calculate how much life insurance they should buy, to ensure that household living standards are not affected after a family member dies. Users can easily and instantly run “what-if” scenarios to see how retiring early (or later), changing jobs, adjusting retirement contributions, having children, moving homes, timing RRSP withdrawals, and other financial and lifestyle decisions would affect their sustainable living standards. ESPlannerBASIC Canada can also be used to understand how families should adjust their saving-and-spending behaviour when there are changes to tax rates and other fiscal policies. When used properly, ESPlannerBASIC Canada gives Canadian families the power to plan the lifestyle they want, based on what they can actually afford, without going into debt, or saving too little — or even too much — for retirement.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenebricosus Lepeletier 1836
Creators: name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Polistes
Polistes tenebricosus

description: Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenebricosus Lepeletier, 1836
(Figs. 7–11)
Polistes tenebricosa Lepeletier 1836: 529 —“Ile de Java, Asie méridionale” (type depository unknown [MRSN?]).
Diagnosis. Differentiated by combination of the following characters: clypeus depressed in the middle and apically pointed, gena much broader than eye in lateral view, apical flagellomere straight and tapering from base to apex, pronotal carina lamellate, posterior face of propodeum narrowly and deeply depressed, and wings fuscous.
Material examined. PHILIPPINES: NEGROS: Don Salvador Benedicto, VI.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Dumaguete, VI.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Mt. Canlaon, 900m, II.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI).
Distribution. India; Nepal; China; Taiwan; Vietnam; Myanmar; Indonesia; Philippine Islands: Negros, Sibuyan (Bequaert 1940; Carpenter 1996b; Nugroho et al. 2013).
Remarks. Three subspecies were recorded from the Philippine Islands: P. t. leopoldi Bequaert, 1934 (Fig. 7) from Negros, P. t. nigrosericans Bequaert, 1940 from Luzon, and P. t. sibuyanensis Bequaert, 1940 from Sibuyan. The subspecies P. t. nigrosericans is elevated to species rank above, while the taxonomic status of the other subspecies remains unclear due to the absence of male specimens to be examined. Three females of subspecies P. t. leopoldi were examined and they show characters similar to P. (G.) nigrosericans, but without examining males, the status of this subspecies cannot be clarified. Specimens of subspecies P. t. sibuyanensis were not available.
description: Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2018, Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands, pp. 507-531 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on pages 510-512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2614887
Mining Taxation in Colombia
Creators: name: Chen, Duanjie
name: Perry, Guillermo
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: This paper first assesses the current Colombian mining tax-and-royalty regime in comparison with other countries from the points of view of efficiency, competitiveness and revenue performance. It then discusses the theoretical convenience of introducing alternative designs for a resource rent tax (RRT) to be applied to new mining projects, together with a reduced common royalty rate for all minerals, and simulates their potential efficiency, competitiveness and revenue-performance effects. In particular, it examines alternative interactions between the RRT, the royalty regime and the corporate income tax (royalties creditable against the RRT or deductible from its tax base; accepting or not corporate income tax deductibility from the RRT tax base), under alternative RRT tax rates. It also discusses alternative capital return allowances and the pros and cons of project-by-project versus sectorial ring fencing, and sharing RRT revenues between the national and sub-national governments. It concludes with a detailed blueprint for reform based on these discussions, assessments and simulations, as well as political economy and administrative considerations for the specific case of Colombia.

Este trabajo evalúa la eficiencia, competitividad y capacidad de recaudo del régimen tributario y de regalías colombiano en comparación con el de otros países mineros relevantes. Posteriormente, propone la implementación de un “Resource Rent Tax” (RRT) para proyectos mineros futuros (junto con una reducción y unificación de la tasa de regalías entre minerales) y modela el impacto que tendría éste sobre la eficiencia y el recaudo. Se examinan la interacción entre el RRT, las regalías y el impuesto de renta bajo distintos diseños y tasas de RRT y costo de oportunidad del capital. También se analiza si es preferible tener “ringfencing” a nivel de proyecto o a nivel sectorial. El trabajo concluye con una propuesta de reforma junto con consideraciones administrativas y políticas para una exitosa implementación.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Polistes (Polistella) Ashmead 1904
Creators: name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Polistes

description: Subgenus Polistella Ashmead, 1904
Polistella Ashmead 1904a: 133. Type species: Polistes manillensis de Saussure, 1854, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2018, Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands, pp. 507-531 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2614887
Better off Dead: “Value Added” in Economic Policy Debates
Creators: name: Tombe, Trevor
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Politicians across Canada have come to understand that our economy improves when we develop so-called “value added” industries and jobs. They suppose that turning raw materials into finished goods creates more value added than simply extracting and exporting raw materials directly. That understanding is entirely and often dangerously wrong. Indeed, the meaning of the phrase “value added” has been so widely misunderstood and distorted that we would all be better off if it were struck from the political rhetoric and public debate entirely. The reality is that almost everything Canadians are being told about which activities add value, and which ones do not, is utterly backwards. Manufacturing has come to be seen as the ultimate source of value added, as though the physical manipulation of matter was somehow responsible. For example, the leader of the federal Opposition, the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair, has insisted that “exporting unrefined heavy oil creates no valueadded jobs” and likens exporting raw logs to “a practice typical of undeveloped nations.” It is not just the NDP, similar statements are made across the political spectrum. Fortunately for us, such views can be put to the test. We will see that they are not just inaccurate, they are the very opposite of the reality: Canada’s raw resource extraction industries actually provide the highest valueadded, often by a significant margin. Oil and gas extraction, for example, creates $1.36 million in value per job per year, 15 times higher than the national average for all sectors and more than triple the value added per job per year in the petroleum products refining sector.  Absent such data, is there a better way to think about value added that would provide a clear and intuitive defense to misleading statements? Thankfully, there is: industries that generate the most income are industries with high value added. To say a sector like oil and gas extraction creates no value-added jobs is to say it creates no income, which is plainly false. If replacing “income” for “value added” leads a claim to not make sense, then it is likely false and the politician or commentator should be dismissed. Disturbingly, this mixed-up thinking matters a lot for the health of Canada’s economy. Public policy often favours supposedly high value-added industries at the expense of others through subsidies or other supports. Instead of creating value, when governments favour one sector over another they invariably hurt the economy by distorting the allocation of labour and capital, which lowers Canada’s overall GDP. This is true for any subsidy made on the basis of “value added” – subsidizing resource extraction would also be economically damaging. There may be other reasons to provide industry supports – but value added is never one of them. Canada’s economy, and everyone in it, would be better off if politicians and public commentators put the phrase “value added” to rest.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
title: KlimaWandelBar Ausgabe 1 2024
Creators: name: Aeschbach, Vanessa
name: Hörsch, Christian
name: Stemmann, Jennifer
Publisher: name: ReCCE - Research Center for Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development
Year: 2024

description: KlimaWandelBar ist eine Zeitschrift, die sich an Lehrkräfte und andere Bildungsakteure richtet. Ziele von KlimaWandelBar sind die Kommunikation von Erkenntnissen aus der empirischen Bildungsforschung im Bereich der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) und Klimabildung sowie die Inspiration der Schulpraxis. Herausgegeben wird die Zeitschrift von Vanessa Aeschbach, Christian Hörsch und Jennifer Stemmann im Auftrag des Forschungszentrums ReCCE, einer zentralen wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg mit einem Fokus auf BNE und Klimabildung.

Inhalte von Ausgabe Nr. 1, 2024:
(1) Machen die Einstellungen der Lehrkräfte den Unterschied? 
(2) Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Schule: mit Kopf und Hand, aber ohne Herz?
(3) Aus dem Leben einer Wissenschaftlerin
(4) Let’s play Free Rivers 
(5) Lehrkräfte vernetzen sich
(6) Klimawandel-Experimente für die MINT-Fächer
(7) Wind- und Sonnenenergie in Deutschland
Graffiti a Gravina. Il Castello Svevo rivela i suoi segreti. Esperti da tutto il mondo hanno trovato incisioni contenenti immagini e lettere
Creators: name: La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Article in the newspaper "La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", describing survey and documentation activities of graffiti carried out by members of the Graff-IT team in collaboration with researchers from the universities of Basilicata, Berlin, Innsbruck, and Munich.
title: EU-Regionalförderpolitik für Niederösterreich - Entwicklungen, Strukturen und Ergebnisse
Creators: name: Srnec, Karl
Year: 2010

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, einen Überblick über das EU-Mehrebenensystem im Bereich EU-Regionalförderpolitik für Niederösterreich zu geben. Dabei wird auf den Regionenbegriff, die EU als Mehrebenensystem, die EU-Struktur- und Regionalpolitik, den österreichischen Bundesstaat als regionalpolitischer Referenzrahmen sowie Niederösterreich im Kontext der EU-Regionalförderpolitik eingegangen. Governance, Regionalmanagement sowie Netzwerkanalyse bilden den theoretischen Ansatz dieser Arbeit. Die Forschungsfragen lauten: Wie lauteten die Förderprinzipien der EU-Regionalförderpolitik für die Zeiträume 1995 – 1999, 2000 – 2006 sowie 2007 – 2013? Welche Förderprogramme wurden jeweils angewandt? Wie lauten die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen? Was sind die Ergebnisse der EU-Regionalförderpolitik für NÖ?
Graffiti a Gravina. Il Castello Svevo rivela i suoi segreti. Esperti da tutto il mondo hanno trovato incisioni contenenti immagini e lettere
Creators: name: Dimattia, Marina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Article in the newspaper "La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", describing survey and documentation activities of graffiti carried out by members of the Graff-IT team in collaboration with researchers from the universities of Basilicata, Berlin, Innsbruck, and Munich.
title: STIFTERS ROSENHAUS
Creators: name: Bresan, Uwe
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 720 Architektur

description: Es mag verwegen klingen, den Ursprung der modernen Architektur ausgerechnet in der österreichischen Provinz verankern zu wollen. Doch tatsächlich finden wir hier – mit Adalbert Stifters "Nachsommer" von 1857 – die wohl früheste Formulierung einer Urhütte der Moderne. Stifter (1805-1867), der Nationalheilige der österreichischen Literatur, beschreibt in seiner Erzählung auf das ausführlichste und umfänglichste das sogenannte Rosenhaus. Vor allem die Architekten der traditionellen Richtung waren immer wieder fasziniert von diesen Beschreibungen und ließen sich von Stifter auf die vielfältigsten Weisen anregen. Die Ausführungen des Hausherren des Rosenhofes über die Produkte seiner Werkstätten und die Schilderungen des einfachen Lebens in den Räumen des Rosenhauses fanden einen immensen Widerhall bei den Baumeistern der frühen Werkbundbewegung, ebenso wie bei den Architekten aus dem Umfeld der Stuttgarter Schule. So lassen sich nachsommerliche Impulse in Leben, Werk und Lehre der traditionellen Architekten Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Theodor Fischer und Paul Schmitthenner entdecken, aber auch bei Vertretern einer dezidierten Moderne wie Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut oder Walter Gropius. So kann gezeigt werden, dass Schultze-Naumburgs privates Anwesen im sachsen-anhaltinischen Saaleck eine vollständige Realisierung des Rosenhauses und der damit verbundenen Lehrwerkstättenidee darstellt. Und am Beispiel von Paul Schmitthenner und Theodor Fischer kann auf eindrucksvolle Weise nachvollzogen werden, wie Stifters "Gesetzbuch des schönen Lebens" Werk, Lehre und Alltag eines Architekten bestimmen konnte. Für Friedrich Nietzsche, der den "Nachsommer" unter die wenigen Werke deutscher Literatur nach Goethe einordnete, die es verdienten, "wieder und wieder gelesen zu werden", stellte der "Roman der heilen Welt" die Vorwegnahme seines Diktums dar, dass das Dasein nur als ein Ästhetisches zu rechtfertigen sei. Das Rosenhaus, und dessen ethisches sowie ästhetisches Ideal, bildete die dazu entsprechende räumliche Form. Der "Nachsommer" ist, mit Roland Barthes gesprochen, eine Utopie – genauer: eine häusliche Utopie – "die gestaltende Suche nach dem höchsten Gut, was das Wohnen angeht." Dabei sind die selbstgewählten, ästhetischen Verhaltensweisen, die Stifter damals – am Beginn der Moderne – begründete, bis heute Merkmal der Formen des Bürgerlichen und sein Rosenhaus das Modell einer modernen, bürgerlich-traditionellen Architektur. Für beides, für die Ästhetik des Lebens wie auch für die entsprechende Architektur, diente Goethe oder besser die Beschreibung Goethes durch seinen Sekretär Eckermann als Vorbild.
Additional file 1 of Impact of COVID-19 on the neglected tropical diseases: a scoping review
Creators: name: Butala, Caitlin Brigid
name: Cave, Roo Nicola Rose
name: Fyfe, Jenna
name: Coleman, Paul Gerard
name: Yang, Guo-Jing
name: Welburn, Susan Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 2 of Impact of COVID-19 on the neglected tropical diseases: a scoping review
Creators: name: Butala, Caitlin Brigid
name: Cave, Roo Nicola Rose
name: Fyfe, Jenna
name: Coleman, Paul Gerard
name: Yang, Guo-Jing
name: Welburn, Susan Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Who Are the Homeless? Numbers, Trends and Characteristics of Those Without Homes in Calgary
Creators: name: Kneebone, Ronald D.
name: Bell, Meaghan
name: Jackson, Nicole
name: Jadidzadeh, Ali
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: In 2008, Calgary was the first city in Canada to institute a 10-year plan to end homelessness. The plan was introduced in part due to the steady and rapid growth in homelessness in the city since 1992. Since 2008 growth in the number of homeless people has stopped despite a rapidly growing city. The number of people enumerated as homeless by point-in-time counts has fallen from 304 persons per 100,000 population to 256 persons per 100,000 population in 2014, a drop of more than 15 per cent. Looking beyond simple counts of the number of homeless people, we examine how people who are homeless use emergency shelters. Tracking shelter use over a five year period by nearly 33,000 individuals, we find that, contrary to what might be thought to be true, the great majority (86%) of people who use emergency shelters in Calgary do so very infrequently and for only short periods of time. Visiting shelters less than twice (on average), these “transitional” users stayed in shelters for an average of only 15 days spread during the five years of our study. Another 12% of people used emergency shelters more frequently; an average of 8 times spread over five years. These “episodic” users stayed for a total of 113 days on average. Only a tiny minority, just 1.6% of all shelter users, stayed in shelters for very long periods. These “chronic” users visited shelters an average of three and a half times and stayed a total of 928 days over the five years of our study. Because they stay in shelters for long periods, chronic shelter users occupy one-third of shelter beds. The implication of this is that finding stable, supportive housing for just 1.6% of those experiencing homeless – a total of about 900 individuals in Calgary -- would free-up one-third of beds in emergency shelters. Providing supportive housing for episodic users as well would free-up another one-third of beds and so enable shelter providers to focus on their main function as providers of emergency housing. Moving people from emergency shelters into supportive housing delivers savings in the form of reduced interactions for these people with the criminal justice and healthcare systems; savings that have been shown in other studies to significantly off-set the cost of supportive housing. Planning to end homelessness has always been an ambitious goal. While the homeless serving community has made significant gains in understanding how best to solve the problem, greater effort may be required of local, provincial and federal policy makers to find ways of resolving the issue that is at the heart of Calgary’s homelessness problem; namely, the lack of affordable rental accommodations.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Additional file 1 of Pyogenic liver abscess in pediatric populations in Beijing (2008–2023)
Creators: name: Xie, Yue
name: Guo, Ling-yun
name: Liu, Bing
name: Hu, Hui-li
name: Hu, Bing
name: Chen, Tian-ming
name: Qian, Su-yun
name: Hei, Ming-yan
name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Polistes (Polistella) sagittarius de Saussure 1854
Creators: name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Polistes
Polistes sagittarius

description: Polistes (Polistella) sagittarius de Saussure, 1854
(Figs. 41–42)
Polistes sagittarius de Saussure 1854: 56, ♀ —“Les Indes-Orientales, la Chine ” (syntypes MHN and BMNH).
Diagnosis. Recognized by the weak striation of pronotum and the absence of a distinct angle between dorsal and lateral pronotal faces (Fig. 42).
Material examined. No available specimens from Philippine Islands in this study.
Distribution. India; Nepal; China; Hong Kong; Myanmar; Thailand; Malaysia; Singapore; Indonesia; Vietnam; Philippine Islands: Palawan (Bequaert 1940; Carpenter 1996b).
description: Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2018, Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands, pp. 507-531 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on page 519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2614887
Do Treg Speed Up with CARs? Chimeric Antigen Receptor Treg Engineered to Induce Transplant Tolerance
Creators: name: Kaljanac, Marcell
name: Abken, Hinrich
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Adoptive transfer of regulatory T cells (Treg) can induce transplant tolerance in preclinical models by suppressing alloantigen-directed inflammatory responses; clinical translation was so far hampered by the low abundance of Treg with allo-specificity in the peripheral blood. In this situation, ex vivo engineering of Treg with a T-cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) provides a cell population with predefined specificity that can be amplified and administered to the patient. In contrast to TCR-engineered Treg, CAR Treg can be redirected toward a broad panel of targets in an HLA-unrestricted fashion‚ making these cells attractive to provide antigen-specific tolerance toward the transplanted organ. In preclinical models, CAR Treg accumulate and amplify at the targeted transplant, maintain their differentiated phenotype, and execute immune repression more vigorously than polyclonal Treg. With that, CAR Treg are providing hope in establishing allospecific, localized immune tolerance in the long term‚ and the first clinical trials administering CAR Treg for the treatment of transplant rejection are initiated. Here, we review the current platforms for developing and manufacturing alloantigen-specific CAR Treg and discuss the therapeutic potential and current hurdles in translating CAR Treg into clinical exploration.
Polistes (Polistella) Ashmead 1904
Creators: name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Polistes

description: Polistes (Polistella) stigma (Fabricius, 1793)
(Figs. 43–46)
Vespa stigma Fabricius 1793: 275 —“ India orientali” (type depository unknown).
Polistes stigma alagari Petersen 1987: 246, ♀ —“ Philippines, TAWI TAWI: … Tarawakan” (holotype ZMUC). Syn. nov. Polistes dubius de Saussure 1867: 20, fig. 15—“Manile” (lectotype NMW). Syn. nov.
Polistes manillensis de Saussure 1854: 70, ♂ —“Les Philippines ” (holotype BMNH). Syn. nov.
Diagnosis. This species can be differentiated by its small size and the dark spot on the marginal cell of the fore wing (Fig. 46).
Material examined. PHILIPPINES: GREAT SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: 27. VI.1974, 1 ♀ (MSVI); LUZON: Zambales, Subic, I.2015, 4 ♀ (MSVI); MINDANAO: Cabanglasan, V.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI); MINDORO: San Jose, 23. VI.1974, 1 ♂ (MSVI); Baco, III.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Baco, V.2015, 1 ♂ 2♀ (MSVI); NEGROS: Don Salvador, Benedicto, II.2016, 3 ♂, leg. Ismael Lumawig (LDMLC); Don Salvador, Benedicto, III.2016, 2 ♂ (MSVI); Dumaguete, IX.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI); PANAY: Antique, Libertad, VIII.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI).
Distribution. Thailand; Malaysia; Singapore; India; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Indonesia; Vietnam; Admiralty Islands; Bismarck Islands; Solomon Islands; Duke of York; New Ireland; New Guinea; Australia; Society Islands; Hermit Islands; Philippine Islands: Calicoan, Great Santa Cruz Island*, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao*, Mindoro*, Negros*, Palawan, Panay*, Tawitawi (Carpenter 1996b; Petersen 1987).
Remarks. Polistes (Polistella) stigma is a widespread species with almost 20 subspecies recognized, which had been revised by Petersen (1987). As stated by Carpenter (1996b), the subspecies category has no place in a phylogenetic system and taxa currently recognized as subspecies should be revised and recognized as synonyms or distinct species. The three subspecies described from the Philippine Islands, P. s. alagari Petersen, 1987 (Fig. 43), P. s. dubius de Saussure, 1867 (Fig. 44) and P. s. manillensis de Saussure, 1854 (Fig. 45), are, according to Petersen (1987), differentiated by color characters only. Examining specimens from various localities in the Archipelago, I found specimens that show intermediate forms between the three subspecies. Comparing them with the typical subspecies from continental Asia, no morphological characters were found to differentiate the Philippine forms, which are therefore synonymized.
description: Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2018, Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands, pp. 507-531 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2614887
Additional file 1 of Pyogenic liver abscess in pediatric populations in beijing (2008–2023)
Creators: name: Xie, Yue
name: Guo, Ling-yun
name: Liu, Bing
name: Hu, Hui-li
name: Hu, Bing
name: Chen, Tian-ming
name: Qian, Su-yun
name: Hei, Ming-yan
name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
A Primer on Recent Canadian Defence Budgeting Trends and Implications
Creators: name: Perry, David
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Faced with a dangerous world, the federal government has made recapitalizing and updating Canada’s armed forces a priority. Unfortunately, fiscal pressures obliged the government to deviate from its Canada First Defence Strategy, cutting staff and delaying military hardware acquisitions. However, the introduction this year of the Defence Procurement Strategy should allow Ottawa to use improved approaches to buy equipment that would otherwise have been purchased already under the DND’s opaque capital expenditure system. At present, DND capital funds are mostly subject to accrual accounting. Capital costs are charged against the defence budget as annual amortization expenses over equipment lifecycles. While this enables multiple capital projects to go ahead simultaneously, not all of the money covering capital costs is treated this way. Traditional A-Base Vote 5 expenses are still charged to the budget the year the expenditure is made — and the DND consistently underspends the Vote 5 funds available by as much as 28 percent. Since 2007/8, an estimated $6.42 billion wasn’t used as intended. While some of this can be carried forward, there are limits. Leftover funds exceeding them are returned to the Treasury and are thereby lost. It’s up to the DND to make up losses out of future funding. Just as bad, the accrual method doesn’t fully account for inflation, so when schedules slip, project purchasing power diminishes by hundreds of millions of dollars. Ambitious initiatives like the Joint Support Ship and (likely) the Canadian Surface Combatant end up taking hits to reflect harsh budgetary realities; the capabilities of Canada’s soldiers suffer. This policy brief draws on research and confidential interviews to highlight the pressing need for reform in Canadian defence procurement.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Polistes (Polistella) strigosus subsp. mimus Bequaert 1940
Creators: name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Polistes
Polistes strigosus
Polistes (polistella) strigosus mimus bequaert, 1940

description: Polistes (Polistella) strigosus mimus Bequaert, 1940
(Figs. 47–53)
Polistes strigosus var. (or subsp.) mimus Bequaert 1940: 272, ♀, ♂ —“Sibuyan Island, Philippines ” (holotype MCZ).
Diagnosis. This species can be easily differentiated by the strong striation and the angled margin between the dorsal and lateral face of the pronotum (Fig. 51).
Material examined. PHILIPPINES: LUZON: Camarines, Tigaon, V.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Ifugao, VII.2013, 1 ♂ (MSVI); Ifugao, Pola, VIII.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Isabela, Dindin, VIII.2014, 1 ♂ (MSVI); Madela, Disimongal, III.2016, 1 ♂ (MSVI); Madela, Disimongal, IV.2016, 1 ♂ (MSVI); MINDANAO: Agusan, Esperanza, IV.2016, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Compostela, Masara, IV.2014, 1 ♂ (MSVI); Compostela, Masara, V.2014, 1 ♂ (UDRI); Kabanglasan, IX.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Mt. Apo, XI.2013, 1 ♂ (MSVI); Sarrangani, Malungon, XI.2014, 1 ♀ (MSVI); MINDORO: Baco, I.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Baco, III.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Baco, IV.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Baco, VII.2017, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Baco, VIII.2017, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Baco, XI.2 0 17, 1♀ (MSVI); NEGROS: XI.2012, 1 ♀ (MSVI); Dumaguete, IX.2014, leg. Ismael Lumawig, 1♀ (LDMLC); Mt. Kanlaon, XI.2014, 1 ♂ (MSVI); SAMAR: Hinabangan, I.2015, 1 ♀ (MSVI).
Distribution. Nepal; Malaysia; Philippine Islands: Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro*, Negros, Samar *, Sibuyan (Bequaert 1940; Selis 2015).
Remarks. Polistes (Polistella) strigosus actually includes three subspecies, P. s. strigosus Bequaert, 1940 from China, Laos and Taiwan, P. s. atratus Das & Gupta, 1989 from India, and P. s. mimus Bequaert, 1940 from Nepal, Malaysia and the Philippine Islands. It was recorded from Vietnam with a color form that does not match these three subspecies (Carpenter 1996b; Gusenleitner 2011; Nguyen & Kojima 2014). As stated for P. (P.) stigma, the subspecies category should be revised, but due to the lack of material of the other subspecies a revision cannot be done here; therefore, the subspecies P. s. mimus is maintained in the present paper.
This species in the Philippine Islands is present with four color forms, differentiated by presence and extension of yellow and red markings on meso- and metasoma.
description: Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2018, Revision of the genus Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Philippine Islands, pp. 507-531 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on pages 522-525, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2614887
Improving the Acquisition Process in Canada
Creators: name: Stone, J. Craig
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Flaws in Canada’s military procurement processes are a perennial burden on both government and industry. The release of the Defence Procurement Strategy this year signified Ottawa’s inclination toward change.  Among other things, the DPS promises to consult industry and outside experts earlier, create a specialist acquisition branch within Public Works & Government Services Canada and use military equipment projects to generate domestic jobs and growth. The DPS is a good start, but more focused solutions are required. The defence market has too few buyers and sellers to be truly competitive — especially in Canada. Government must share information with industry at every step, clearly and comprehensively, if Canadian firms are to win contracts fairly, keeping the economic benefits at home.  A sweeping, end-to-end review of procurement is also required to identify current practices that work and others in need of improvement. Preliminary cost estimates can’t be too firm because prices shift as projects develop, and all too often, capabilities are downgraded in response. Government has to be transparent about how far into the future lifecycle costs run, or stop trying to establish them altogether, so as to avoid the consequences of embarrassingly unrealistic assessments. A separate procurement organization should also be established outside of the DND and PWGSC to make better use of the people with the skills to run complex military procurement projects. Canada’s military procurement system is not as broken as its most strident critics allege, but it is coming under increasing fiscal and policy pressures. This brief fleshes out the issues that would-be reformers should take into account and surveys procedures among allied nations to offer a roadmap for change.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Why Delay the Inevitable: Why the AIIB Matters to Canada’s Future
Creators: name: Beaulieu, Eugene
name: Dobson, Wendy
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Yesterday was the deadline to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member. Once again Canada is on the sidelines as Asia and most of the rest of the world moves forward while Canada watches. When Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans for the AIIB at the APEC summit in Indonesia in 2013 and launched the initiative in Beijing at the China-hosted APEC summit a year later, who would have predicted that such an idea would cause an international furor. The new Bank has garnered significant headlines for two reasons. One is American opposition to the China-led Bank; and two is that some see it as a rival to the World Bank and other multilateral banks. The official U.S. position is that the AIIB is a rival to these institutions and that the funds would be better channeled through the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank. We argue that the AIIB is a welcome Chinese initiative, in line with American calls for China to become a ‘responsible stakeholder’ in the international system. The AIIB will become a multilateral development bank that finances programs addressing huge infrastructure deficits in the Asian region. Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, the smaller and newer members of the ten-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), for example, are emerging from years of economic and political isolation to join the region’s economy. Connecting them to each other and their larger neighbours, including China and India, requires major investments to create modern transportation corridors and other infrastructure, including electronic connectivity. Infrastructure development is also integral to a shared vision of integration of the region’s economies to be an engine of global growth. We also argue that The AIIB reflects a world where the majority of global GDP will soon be produced in Asia, and where the infrastructure needs in the region are enormous. Canada has much to offer in terms of skills and expertise in building infrastructure. For Canada it is important to look west, as well as south and east in this century. Failure to join the AIIB would be another failure to make inroads in Asia.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)
Additional file 1 of Acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of the culturally adapted version of Unplugged (“Yo Se Lo Que Quiero”), a substance use preventive program among adolescents in Chile: a pilot randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Salgado, Gabriel
name: Gaete, Jorge
name: Gana, Sofía
name: Valenzuela, Daniela
name: Araya, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
What Canada could learn from U.S. defence procurement: Issues, best practices and recommendations
Creators: name: Kimball, Anessa L.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2015

description: Despite differences in scale, Canada and the U.S. face common challenges in military procurement and there is much Canada can learn as both countries pursue reforms. The U.S. employs a system of systems approach, based on requirements, resource allocation and acquisition. The process begins with the Joint Capabilities and Development System, focused on identifying and prioritizing needs and assessing alternatives. This is followed by the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System, which leads to the creation of a budget and provides guidance for the project’s execution. The third and final step is the Defense Acquisition System, which oversees the development and purchase of the new equipment. While deceptively simple in summary, U.S. defence procurement is dogged by problems — particularly cost overruns, a surfeit of key players and delayed schedules which degrade troops’ performance in the field. Additionally, the defence products market is restricted, inevitably limiting competition, encouraging misbehaviour on the part of business and driving up prices. The DoD is in the midst of consultations with contractors and Congress is undertaking an effort to rewrite acquisition laws. But the most pressing questions remain: Does a best procurement practice exist? If so, what criteria define it? In light of Canada’s new Defence Procurement Strategy (DPS), some lessons are clear. Further analysis is needed to figure out whether reforms can succeed in so narrow a marketplace. More attention must be paid to shaping contracts and clarifying expectations about sticking to schedules. And Ottawa must think carefully about the military’s needs, as it pushes ahead with the DPS. In surveying change at the DoD, this brief draws pointed conclusions to which Canada’s defence planners must pay heed, if they’re to leave the military stronger than they found it.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 8 (2015)