cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Some Observations on the Concept and Measurement of Income Inequality
Creators: name: Richardson, Stephen R. Richardson R.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Income inequality and redistribution have become popular subjects in both public and policy circles in the wake of concerns over apparent concentration of wealth. However, a reasonable discussion of this subject is often hampered by a lack of a clear conceptual framework and relevant facts.! First, income inequality is a relative concept that can only be measured relatively by statistical tools like the Gini coefficient; used alone, these do not provide context for the results. Second, there is no single agreed-upon goal for income redistribution; different approaches invariably involve value judgments based on ethical or political theories that can differ widely on the crucial questions of why and how much redistribution should be sought. Third, the importance of this issue requires that measurements of the scale and absolute amount of existing income redistribution be utilized to inform the discussion. This communiqué takes a sober look at facts relating to income inequality and redistribution in Canada and applies methodology to reveal that, while the scale of income redistribution has declined since 1994, growth in real income since then has done much to compensate in maintaining! levels of absolute income redistribution that are high by historical standards.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Supply Management: Problems, Politics and Possibilities
Creators: name: Findlay, Martha Hall
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Despite a professed commitment to free trade, Canada has retained a staunchly protectionist supply management regime in several agricultural sectors, notably in the dairy industry. Canada’s dairy farms are governed by a system that prices milk based on intended usage, locks out most foreign products with exorbitantly high tariffs and even determines how much farmers can produce — in other words, a cartel. Everyone suffers. Canadians are forced to pay twice the amount for four litres of whole milk as Americans, while the farmers are barred from taking advantage of the opportunities and efficiencies a truly free market affords. At the same time, Canada’s insistence on protecting supply management makes it difficult for Canada to open up access to international markets. This means that all other Canadian enterprises that rely on trade (including the farmers in the non-supply-managed sectors who make up by far the majority of Canadian farmers) — all those who would benefit from Canadian participation in trade arrangements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are being denied lucrative access to some of the world’s largest and rapidly growing markets. The system needs to go. However, it is possible to dismantle it fairly. Australia managed it by offering dairy farmers transition payments over eight years, financed by a temporary retail levy on milk, which was still less than what consumers were paying under protection. Consumers now enjoy lower prices and Australia has one of the most dynamic and efficient dairy industries in the world. New Zealand did away with its own tariffs and subsidies even faster, and its dairy sector has become that country’s largest export earner. The potential gains for Canada are very real. At the same time, and, just as importantly, the threats to risk-averse politicians from the dairy lobby are, contrary to widely-held assumptions, negligible. Since 1971, the number of Canadian dairy farms has dropped by a staggering 91 percent. There are now few, if any, ridings where dairy votes could plausibly swing elections — particularly compared to the votes of all those in those same ridings who would benefit from dismantling supply management. This paper assesses Canada’s political, agricultural and economic landscape, highlights the problems with the present regime, challenges long-held political assumptions, and draws on lessons learned from the most successful reforms abroad to make the case for liberalizing the Canadian dairy industry. With lucrative free trade agreements being considered, and in particular the prospect of joining (or being refused access to) the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now is the time for the Harper government to reach out to the provinces and farmers, and move away from supply management for the good of all Canadians.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Additional file 1 of Proteomics approach to discovering non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers and understanding the pathogenesis of endometriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Azeze, Getnet Gedefaw
name: Wu, Ling
name: Alemu, Bekalu Kassie
name: Lee, Wing Fong
name: Fung, Linda Wen Ying
name: Cheung, Eva Chun Wai
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Wang, Chi Chiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1: Figure S1. QUADAS-2 tool: The distribution of risk-of-bias (A) and applicability (B) judgments within each bias domain. Figure S2. Network of enriched GO terms in peripheral blood (plasma): (a) biological process, (b) cellular component and (c) molecular function. Figure S3. Network of enriched GO terms in peripheral blood (serum): (a) biological process, (b) cellular component and (c) molecular function. Figure S4. Network of enriched GO terms in menstrual blood. (a) biological process (b) cellular component and (c) molecular function. Figure S5. Network of enriched GO terms in urine: (a) biological process, (b) cellular component and (c) molecular function. Figure S6. GO term analysis of DEPs in plasma, serum, menstrual blood, and urine from patients with endometriosis
Energy and Environmental Policy Trends: Carbon Rebates Unlikely to Undermine Incentives
Creators: name: Fellows, G. Kent
name: Tombe, Trevor
name: Boyd, Brendan
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2018

description: Effective April 1, 2019 the Government of Canada will tax carbon emissions in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Ninety per cent of the revenue will be rebated directly to households. By 2022, the rebate to Saskatchewan households will average $1,400 annually.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 11 (2018)
Additional file 2 of Proteomics approach to discovering non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers and understanding the pathogenesis of endometriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Azeze, Getnet Gedefaw
name: Wu, Ling
name: Alemu, Bekalu Kassie
name: Lee, Wing Fong
name: Fung, Linda Wen Ying
name: Cheung, Eva Chun Wai
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Wang, Chi Chiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2: Table S1. List of differentially expressed proteins
Additional file 1 of Non-intubated tracheal resection and reconstruction for a tracheal tumor in an 8-year-old child
Creators: name: Zhang, Yaoliang
name: Mo, Zhongqiao
name: Yang, Chao
name: He, Jianxing
name: Li, Shuben
name: Lan, Lan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Improving Generalization for Multimodal Fake News Detection
Creators: name: Tahmasebi, Sahar
name: Hakimov, Sherzod
name: Ewerth, Ralph
name: Müller-Budack, Eric
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multimodal fake news detection
subject: news analytics
subject: social media
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller size or with a limited set of specific topics. As a consequence, these models lack generalization capabilities and are not applicable to real-world data. In this paper, we propose three models that adopt and fine-tune state-of-the-art multimodal transformers for multimodal fake news detection. We conduct an in-depth analysis by manipulating the input data aimed to explore models performance in realistic use cases on social media. Our study across multiple models demonstrates that these systems suffer significant performance drops against manipulated data. To reduce the bias and improve model generalization, we suggest training data augmentation to conduct more meaningful experiments for fake news detection on social media. The proposed data augmentation techniques enable models to generalize better and yield improved state-of-the-art results.
Additional file 1 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 1. List of Resources released online.
Burnsiellus
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Burnsiellus

description: Key to the species of Burnsiellus
1 Metacoxal plate strongly widening to the femoral insertion, about twice as wide at the medial edge as at the lateral edge (Fig. 31).................................................................................................. 3
- Metacoxal plate less strongly widening to the femoral insertion, about one and a half times as wide at the medial edge as at the lateral edge (Fig. 30)................................................................................... 2
2 Elytra purple-brown with black costae and small pulverulent white spots (Fig. 9); underside entirely 'metallic' reddish purple and blue-green; Queensland........................................................... B. albosparsa (Carter)
- Elytra straw coloured with brown patches and black costae (Fig. 7); underside largely 'metallic' purple-brown but anterior margin and lateral margin of prosternum yellow; W. Australia, S. Australia, Victoria.............. B. marmorata (Blackburn)
3 Elytral apices subtruncate, without well defined teeth (Fig. 28); elytra very densely almost contiguously punctured between the costae; pronotum strongly narrowing to the anterior and posterior angles (Figs. 10, 26); fronto-clypeus strongly depressed between the antennal insertions; mid tibia much broader than hind tibia, strongly swollen in male, with long tibial spurs which curve at the apex; posterior margin of 2nd visible ventrite simple (Fig. 12); apex of last visible ventrite truncate, without lateral teeth (Fig. 12), W. Australia, S. Australia, New South Wales ................................ B. trisulcata (Carter)
- Elytral apices obliquely truncate, with well defined teeth (Figs. 8, 29); elytra less densely punctured between costae; pronotum almost parallel sided (Fig. 8); fronto-clypeus only slightly depressed between the antennal insertions; mid tibia about as broad as hind tibia, not swollen in male, with shorter, straight tibial spurs; posterior margin of 2nd visible ventrite with a large semitransparent lobe at the middle, covering part of the 3rd ventrite (Fig. 11); apex of last visible ventrite slightly concave, with lateral teeth (Fig. 11); Victoria.............................................................. B. lobatum sp. n.
description: Published as part of Levey, B. & Bellamy, C. L., 2013, A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species, pp. 225-240 in Zootaxa 3681 (3) on page 237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
Additional file 2 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 2. Heat map of potential interview participants.
Additional file 3 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 3. Representation of intended downloads, actual downloads and interview participant selection of resources for discussion.
How You Pay Determines What You Get: Alternative Financing Options as a Determinant of Publicly Funded Health Care in Canada
Creators: name: Kneebone, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: A Canadian returning home from a visit to a physician has no idea of the cost of providing the service just received. This is true for two reasons. One is because he or she does not receive a bill to pay. The other reason has to do the myriad of ways provincial governments fund the provision of health care. Health care is financed by a wide variety of types of taxation, by intergovernmental transfers determined by opaque and changing rules, by borrowing against future taxes and by drawing down savings. Confusion over how health care is funded creates a fiscal illusion that it is cheaper than it really is; a fiscal illusion that grows larger the less provincial governments rely on taxing individuals. In this paper it is shown that when provincial health spending is financed in ways other than taxation, it grows two to three times more quickly than it would have otherwise. From 2001-2008 alone, these distortions amounted to $6.75 billion at the national level, draining funds from other government services many of which have been shown to keep Canadians healthier and so reduce their demand for health care. Simply put, when Canadians are clear about the true cost of health care they more effectively play the traditional role of consumers by guarding against waste and inefficiency and so contribute to a more efficient and effective publicly-funded health care system.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
ent-Clavilactone J and Its Quinone Derivative, Meroterpenoids from the Fungus Resupinatus sp.
Creators: name: Harms, Karen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Poster presentation by Karen Harms, Pathompong Paomephan, Thitiya Boonpratuang, Rattaket Choeyklin, Chuenchit Boonchird and Frank Surup to be presented at IMC!2
The Big and the Small of Tax Support for R&D in Canada
Creators: name: McKenzie, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Innovation is critical in the knowledge-based economy. It is generally accepted that governments have an important role to play in promoting innovative activity and R&D. Both the federal and provincial governments in Canada provide tax subsidies, and other forms of support, for R&D. Changes to various programs offered by the federal government were introduced in Budget 2012, most particularly related to the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit program. This paper analyzes the state of tax subsidies for R&D both pre- and post-budget, and at both the federal and provincial level. It is shown that there is a patchwork of effective tax subsidy rates in Canada, which vary both between and within provinces, between small versus large firms, and across sectors and types of R&D activity. The result is a misallocation of R&D resources and a system of government support that is less effective than it could be. On some dimensions Budget 2012 was a move in the right direction, but on other dimensions matters were made worse, resulting in a reconfiguration of tax support across R&D activities that is more distortionary and less efficient. Most particularly, the post-budget tax system heavily favours small firms over large firms, and labour intensive R&D over capital intensive R&D. This paper offers a lucid examination of R&D tax support pre- and post-budget, and argues persuasively that Canadian governments should adopt a more uniform, less distortionary approach to tax subsidies for R&D if they are truly interested in setting innovation free.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Additional file 4 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 4. Semi-structured interview template.
Burnsiellus albosparsa Carter
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Burnsiellus
Burnsiellus albosparsa

description: Burnsiellus albosparsa (Carter)
(Figs.9, 13)
Neobuprestis albosparsa Carter 1924: 523; 1929: 281; Obenberger 1930: 362; Bellamy 2002: 84; 2008: 1021.
Material examined: Holotype 3 (not dissected) (SAMA) Cairns, Allen// TYPE H.J.C. Neobuprestis albosparsa Carter.
description: Published as part of Levey, B. & Bellamy, C. L., 2013, A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species, pp. 225-240 in Zootaxa 3681 (3) on page 237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
title: Mathematica Auxiliat!
Creators: name: Fröwis, Andrea
Year: 2010

description: Das Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, zu zeigen, wie Planspiele im Mathematikunterricht sinnvoll eingesetzt werden können. Dazu gliedert sich die Arbeit in einen theoretischen und einen praktischen Teil. Der erste Teil beschäftigt sich allgemein mit der Bedeutung von Spielen im Unterricht. Alle Überlegungen sind dabei auf die Prinzipien der SchülerInnen- und Handlungsorientierung gestützt. Die Formen didaktischer Spiele und ihre Einsatzmöglichkeiten sind vielfältig, doch werden sie im Mathematikunterricht üblicherweise nur zum Üben verwendet. Anders als reine Übungsspiele, basieren „ernste Spiele“ auf einem realen Konflikt, die Teilnehmenden übernehmen Rollen, die realen Strukturen nachempfunden sind. Durch Diskussion, die Entwicklung von Strategien und die Notwendigkeit, eigene Entscheidungen zu treffen, soll ein besseres Verständnis für die Prozesse, die den Konflikt bestimmen, entwickelt werden. Der zweite Teil dieser Diplomarbeit präsentiert ein selbstentwickeltes Planspiel für die 7. Klasse AHS. In „Mathematica Auxiliat!“ müssen die teilnehmenden Gruppen eine Spendenorganisation gründen und ein Hilfsprojekt mit 100.000 € unterstützen. Um die Spenden zu generieren, müssen verschiedene Aktionen gesetzt werden, deren Ausführung mathematische Fähigkeiten aus unterschiedlichen Teilbereichen des Fachs benötigt. Diese werden auf Inhalte des Fachs Geographie und Wirtschaftskunde angewendet. Neben dem Spendenvolumen zählt für einen positiven Spielverlauf auch die Höhe der Image- und Schadenspunkte, die die Folgen einer Handlung beurteilen sollen. Das Besondere an diesem Planspiel ist die Notwendigkeit, die Methoden aus der Mathematik auf Fragestellungen der Geographie und Wirtschaftskunde anzuwenden und dabei jede Entscheidung auf ihre moralische Vertretbarkeit zu prüfen. Die Mathematik soll dadurch nicht mehr als lebensfremd, sondern als nützlich und praxisnah empfunden werden.
Size, Role and Performance in the Oil and Gas Sector
Creators: name: Mansell, Robert L.
name: Winter, Jennifer
name: Krzepkowski, Matt
name: Moore, Michal C. Moore C.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: The oil and gas sector is a key driver of the Canadian and Albertan economies. Directly and indirectly it typically accounts for roughly half of Alberta’s GDP, as well as one-third of the country’s business investment and a quarter of business profits — and rising global demand will only add to these figures. However, that energy sector is also a changeable place populated by companies of all shapes and sizes, from small Emerging Juniors to wellestablished Majors whose daily production capacities are hundreds or thousands of times greater. The sector’s assorted firms have different structures and ambitions, respond in distinct ways to market forces and have unique impacts on the economy. These differences in size, role and performance must be reflected in energy and related economic policies if they are to be effective in achieving policy goals. For example, they must recognize that the smallest firms are not always the fastest growers or the most innovative; that Intermediates are the most highly leveraged, with the highest debt-to-equity ratios; and that while Majors tend to have the lowest average cost per well drilled, they also (along with Emerging Juniors) have the highest operating costs. Despite the industry’s critical importance, relatively little hard data has been made available concerning companies’ structure, behaviour and performance, based on size. This paper goes a considerable way toward filling that gap, bringing together comprehensive datasets on 340 public oil and gas firms to chart essential patterns and trends, so policymakers and industry watchers can better understand the complexity and functioning of this important sector.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Large-Scale Radio Morphology And Nuclear Accretion In Frii-Low-Excitation Radio Galaxies
Creators: name: Macconi, Duccio
name: Vignali, C.
name: Grandi, P.
name: Boccardi, G.
name: Torresi, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei
AGN
X rays
FRII-LERG

description: Radio galaxies (RGs) are among the most energetic manifestation of the AGN phenomenon and, as such, are extraordinarily relevant to address important unknowns relating accretion and ejection, and to investigate the role of the surrounding environment in shaping the radio morphology.

The best candidates for this pioneering study are the RGs classified as FRII-LERGs, since they show both a radio morphology typical of powerful RGs (expected to have a standard accretion disc) and have an inefficient engine, as suggested by their optical spectra.

In this work we study the X-ray properties of all the FRII-LERGs of the 3CR sample at z<0.3 testing three possible scenarios: (i) FRII-LERGs are recently switched-off high-excitation RGs (HERGs) with efficient accretion disc; (ii) FRII-LERGs are strongly absorbed HERGs; (iii) FRII-LERGs are inefficient accretors and their large-scale radio emission is mainly determined by the environment. These results will be further supplemented by multi-wavelength observations, with particular attention to the radio band.
Support for Business R&D in Budget 2012: Two Steps Forward and One Back
Creators: name: Lester, John
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: The federal budget contains some sensible changes to the SR&ED investment tax credit, but the decision to reduce support for large firms to provide additional support for small firms is a step in the wrong direction. The Jenkins Panel* expressed concern about excessive subsidization of small and medium-sized firms and recommended cutting back on the enhanced SR&ED credit in order to finance more targeted support for these firms. Following that advice would have improved the social return on support for R&D; in contrast, the budget measures marginally reduce the benefits to society from subsidizing R&D.
The budget also announced $400 million in additional funding for risk capital. Returns in the venture capital industry are very low and the additional funding is unlikely to be successfully deployed until returns improve. There is abundant evidence that the tax credit for investment in Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations is crowding out private investment and contributing to low rates of return; eliminating the credit is therefore an essential first step in restoring the financial health of the venture capital industry.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Dancing with the Dragon: Canadian Investment in China and Chinese Investment in Canada
Creators: name: Smart, Josephine
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: While Canadian trade and investment with China is today relatively modest, with China well on track to displace the United States as the world’s largest economy, Canada must make it a priority to prepare for a future characterized by dramatically increased trade and investment between our two countries. This paper sheds light on some the issues and measures Canadian governments will have to consider as they look to establish safe and prosperous relationships with China. To begin with, Canadians choosing to invest in China must be prepared for the risk inherent in that country’s peculiar “capitalism with socialist characteristics.” The Chinese state continues to play an interventionist role in many significant sectors in the economy, and the strategy behind China’s overseas investment in countries such as Canada is specifically aimed at furthering China’s own national security goals and geopolitical influence. Canadians wishing to do business in China will also require great cultural competency. The cultural institution known as guanxi — in which gifts to sway influence are considered an acceptable, even desirable practice — persists in China, with even native Chinese unclear on where to draw the line between “good” guanxi and “bad” corruption. At home, Canadians may soon be forced to confront questions about how much of our own land security and natural resource security we are willing to compromise by permitting Chinese investment to gather up our farmland and key industries. Canadians should decide sooner, not later, how well our own strategic interests are served by permitting unrestricted Chinese investment in our economy. In anticipation of these issues, Canada’s federal and provincial governments should provide increased support for a more comprehensive training and research infrastructure that better prepares Canadians for the growing bilateral trade between our countries. They should also reinvest in the monitoring and regulatory enforcement for food and product safety to ensure that Canadians remain protected from unsafe Chinese imports.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
2012 Annual Global Tax Competitiveness Ranking – A Canadian Good News Story
Creators: name: Chen, Duanjie
name: Mintz, Jack M.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Since 2000, Canada has been remarkably successful in building a more competitive corporate tax system, principally by lowering tax rates and broadening the tax base. Canada’s marginal effective tax rate (METR) is now the lowest, and hence the most tax-competitive among the G-7, the 20th most tax-competitive in the 34-member OECD, and 57th among the 90 countries surveyed in this paper. The result has been greater investment and improved economic growth despite recessionary pressures. In particular, provincial sales tax harmonization with the GST has heightened Ontario’s competitiveness and promises to do the same for PEI, the latest convert to the cause. However, progress has not been uniform. Some provincial governments have lost focus by raising rates or introducing tax preferences that narrow the base, inevitably harming business efficiency. British Columbia’s decision to replace the new Harmonized Sales Tax with the old retail sales tax will cost it dearly, especially when it comes to public spending. On the other hand, corporate tax rate reductions of more than 30 percent (since 2000) have, contrary to the critics’ cries, failed to make an appreciable dent in tax revenues thanks to multinationals’ habit of shifting profits to Canada to take advantage of lower rates. This paper, in providing a candid snapshot of Canadian taxation measured against 89 other nations, serves as an invaluable foundation for understanding how far this country has come, and what its next steps should be.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Additional file 5 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 5. Pictorial representation of coding categories and themes within each.
Burnsiellus marmorata Blackburn
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Burnsiellus
Burnsiellus marmorata

description: Burnsiellus marmorata (Blackburn)
(Figs. 7, 30)
Strigoptera marmorata Blackburn 1892, p. 501.
Neobuprestis marmorata (Blackburn), Kerremans 1903:137; Carter 1924: 524; 1929: 282; Obenberger 1930: 362; Bellamy 2002: 84; 2008: 1021.
Material examined: Holotype (BMNH) Type // 84// Type // Strigoptera marmorata Blackb. Blackburn Coll. 1910 -236// HOLOTYPE strigoptera marmorata Blackb.B. Levey det. 1991. [The type locality was given as S. Australia by Blackburn].
Other material: S. Australia: 4Ƥ (SAMA) Murray River. Victoria: 1 not sexed (NMVA) Glenelg River, near Nelson, 1.34; 1 not sexed (NMVA) Queenscliffe, H.W. Davey; 1 not sexed (NMVA) Victoria. W. Australia: 7 not sexed (TMSHC) Lake Hurlestone, 6 March 2000, H. DeMarz, dead in strandline; 2 not sexed (WAMA) found dead, edge of Lake Hurlestone, 31 October 2000 – April 2001; 1 not sexed (WAMA) Hopetoun Caravan Park, 19 February 2008, dead under Melaleuca.
Other material not examined [images seen]: W. Australia: 33, 2Ƥ (PMHC) Hopetoun West.Aust. 22.Feb.2006 P.Hutchinson / Neobuprestis marmorata under Melaleuca; 13, 1Ƥ (PMHC) Hopetoun Caravan park West.Aust. 19.Feb.2008 P.Hutchinson / Neobuprestis marmorat a dead under Melaleuca; 1Ƥ (PMHC) Lort River 40km W. of Salmon Gums Dead 3.Feb.2004 P.Hutchinson / Neobuprestis marmorata edge saltlake; 1Ƥ (PMHC) Lake King West.Aust. dead 24.Oct.2004 P Hutchinson / Neobuprestis marmorata Edge Saltlake; 1Ƥ (PMHC) L.Seabrook West.Aust. Dead 29.Jan.2004 P. Hutchinson / Neobuprestis marmorata Edge Saltlake; 1Ƥ (PMHC) L.Hurlestone 6.3.0 0 Dead // L.Hurlestone N. of L.King West. Aust. 6.Mar.2000 H.DeMarz / Neobuprestis marmorata Dead on Saltlake.
description: Published as part of Levey, B. & Bellamy, C. L., 2013, A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species, pp. 225-240 in Zootaxa 3681 (3) on page 237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
Additional file 6 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 6. Codes by Career Pathway Tier.
The GST and Financial Services: Pausing for Perspective
Creators: name: Firth, Michael
name: McKenzie, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: The treatment of financial services has long been viewed as one of the more technical, and difficult, areas in value added taxation. Financial intermediaries add value by reducing transaction costs for clients. While in principle this value added should be taxed under a comprehensive VAT, this has proven to be difficult to do in practice because of measurement issues.  The predominant approach adopted in most countries — albeit with several variations on the theme — has thus been to exempt most financial services from VAT. This was the approach adopted in Canada at the initiation of the GST just over twenty years ago. While this approach is far from perfect, and introduces several distortions into the economy, it has by and large been concluded that it is the most practical approach to dealing with financial services under a VAT. Two decades of legal wrangling and Ottawa’s habit of retroactively legislating changes to the GST as it relates to financial services have served to muddy the waters in Canada.  Recent changes have significantly altered the scope for exemption and resulted in an uneven playing field across financial services. This paper argues that the best solution for Canada is to stick with the exemption approach, but to go back to basics with an eye for reducing existing distortions and restoring a semblance of neutrality. Specifically, the paper calls for a reset of the “arranging for” exemption for financial services; the creation of a new GST-recovery system for financial services; a new structure for taxing imported supplies; and a limit to retroactive legislative amendments and minimum requirements for future amendments. The authors also argue that consideration should be given to zero-rating “business to business” financial transactions so as to remove the GST embedded in transactions between financial institutions and businesses.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Burnsiellus trisulcata Carter
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Burnsiellus
Burnsiellus trisulcata

description: Burnsiellus trisulcata (Carter)
(Figs. 10, 12, 26, 28)
Neobuprestis trisulcata Carter 1932: 102, Fig. 1; Bellamy 2002: 85; 2008: 1022.
Material examined: Holotype Ƥ (AMSA): Bogan R.[River] N. S. Wales, J. Armstrong// Holotype // K67306 // Neobuprestis trisulcata Cart. Id. by H. J. Carter. HOLOTYPE. Other material: N. S. Wales: 1 not sexed (NMVA) Bogan R., J. Armstrong, ex. F. E. Wilson Collection. S. Australia: 1Ƥ (SAMA) Iron Knob, at light, 1959, P. Aitken W. Australia: 1Ƥ (TMSHC) Paynes Find Rd., Nynghan turnoff, 6.1.1997, in red bucket trap, H. DeMarz.
Other material not examined [images seen]: W. Australia: 13 (MPC) 32 km N of Gascoyne Junction, W.A., 2 Nov 1999; 13 (MPC) 44km E of Perenjori, 2 January 2000, dead on the strandline of salt lake; 33(PMHC) L.Mongers causeway West.Aust. 2.Dec.2002 - 2.Feb.2003 P.Hutchinson / Neobuprestis trisulcata on Acacia aneura; 1Ƥ (PMHC)1.5km E of L.Monger C/way West.Aust. 8.Jan.2002 (Dead) P.Hutchinson / Neobuprestis trisulcata; 13 (PMHC) L.Monger causeway West.Aust. 1.Dec.2003 - 26.Jan.2004 P.Hutchinson / Neobuprestis trisulcata sticky trap Acacia aneura;
description: Published as part of Levey, B. & Bellamy, C. L., 2013, A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species, pp. 225-240 in Zootaxa 3681 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
Capturing Economic Rents From Resources Through Royalties and Taxes
Creators: name: Mintz, Jack M.
name: Chen, Duanjie
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Oil price fluctuations, concerns over the division of resource revenues, and unconventional oil and gas developments are forcing governments to confront the same issue: how to design optimal royalty and corporate tax systems that bring in a publicly acceptable share of revenues without discouraging private investment. This paper surveys tax and royalty systems across six countries, as well as four US states and five Canadian provinces, offering concise analyses of their strengths and shortcomings to describe the best and simplest approaches to both. As in a public-private partnership, government owns the resources and allows private agents to maximize the rents resources generate. An optimal royalty system will thus be rent-based, ensuring that both owner and agent obtain maximally competitive returns so that each has incentives to continue the partnership. Such a system will also be simple, making compliance easy, manipulation difficult, and risks affordable. And it will be stable, instilling in the private sector the confidence needed to invest for the long term. As for corporate income taxes, they should be neutral across business activities, and applied at equal effective rates on economic income, to avoid distorting market forces through subsidies or needless complexity. A clean rent-based tax that allows all costs incurred by producers to be expensed or carried over, along with a corporate income tax system shorn of many of the preferences that negatively affect business activity, should be the way forward for any government looking to update their fiscal regimes for the 21st century.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Can We Avoid a Sick Fiscal Future? The Non-Sustainability of Health-Care Spending with an Aging Population
Creators: name: Emery, J.C. Herbert
name: Still, David
name: Cottrell, Tom
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Funding for Canadian public health care has long relied on a “pay-as-you-go” funding model: for the most part, government pays for health costs each year from taxes collected in that fiscal year with effectively nothing put aside for projected rising health-care costs in the future. But the future of Canadian public health care is going to get more expensive as the relatively large cohort of baby boomers reaches retirement age. As they exit the work force, and enter the ages at which Canadians use the health-care system more, a smaller population of younger workers is going to be left paying the growing health-care costs of older Canadians. If Canadians intend to preserve a publicly funded medicare system that offers a similar level of service in the future as it does today, under the pay-as-you-go model, eventually peak taxes for Canadians born after 1988 will end up twice as high as the peak taxes that the oldest baby boomers paid. The “payas-you-go” model has become like a Ponzi scheme, where those who got in early enough make out nicely, while those who arrive late stand to suffer a serious financial blow. This should concern both Canadians who value a comprehensive public health system as well as Canadians who value competitive tax rates: There is no reason to be certain that future taxpayers will blithely accept having their taxes substantially increased to finance health care for another, older generation that did not pay for a significant portion of its own health care. If the burden proves too high for the taxpaying public to accept, that could well jeopardize Canada’s health-care system as we know it. If Canadians intend to preserve their iconic public health system, and are unprepared to unjustly overburden future generations with the tax bill left by their parents and grandparents, provincial governments must make strong and rapid efforts to reform the health system. They must find more cost-efficient ways of managing medicine, including new approaches to eldercare, chronic disease prevention and better health promotion. If policymakers respond in time with a workable strategy and adequate effort, the substantial financial health-care liability currently faced by future generations may not be eliminated entirely, but it can still be reduced dramatically.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Extended Research Study Report_Case of Albania
Creators: name: Dhrami, Kejt
name: Toska, Merita
name: Muka, Rea
name: Ndreka, Elvis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The document presents the extended research work on the case study of Bosnia and Hercegovina in the frame of GreenFORCE Project WP 4 deliverables. The research Case is titled: Net-Zero transition for Post-Communist Urban Neighbourhoods in Tirana

This research addresses the urgent need to examine the socio-economic and environmental implications of transitioning towards net-zero-emission buildings (NZEB) in post-communist urban neighbourhoods, with a focus on large panel apartment blocks constructed during the 1960s to 1980s.  The main objective of the research is to identify and assess the expected benefits and costs of transitioning towards NZEB in post-communist urban neighborhoods in Tirana, Albania.
Tuning Performance Of Pt/C Catalysts Toward Orr By Ionic Liquid Modifications
Creators: name: Zhang, Gui-Rong
name: Wolker, Thomas
name: Sandbeck, Daniel
name: Munoz, Macarena
name: Mayrhofer, Karl
name: Etzold, Bastian JM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Oral presentation given at the 69th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
Additional file 7 of The evaluation of health, disability and aged care-sector engagement with resources designed to support optimisation of the allied health assistant workforce: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Whelan, Lucy
name: McLean, Sharon
name: Edwards, Alexandra
name: Huglin, Jessica
name: Farlie, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Resource intention to download between March and June as per geographical location.
title: Der Einfluss von Internet-Foren auf schwangere Frauen in Italien und deren Verhältnis zu Partner und Arzt in besonderem Bezug zu Fragen der Pränataldiagnostik
Creators: name: Rösch, Christine Anna
Year: 2011

description: Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss von Internetforen auf schwangere Frauen in Italien, wobei ein besonderer Augenmerk auf Fragen der Pränataldiagnostik gelegt wurde. Mittels Hintergrundgesprächen und zwölf Online-Interviews konnte empirisch gezeigt werden, welche Wirkung die Internetnutzung auf Schwangere in Italien entfalten kann. Implikationen der Pränataldiagnostik aus feministischer und heilpädagogischer Perspektive wurden betrachtet und Schwangerschaft in den Zusammenhang der individualisierten Gesundheitspolitik gestellt. Das Verhältnis zwischen Arzt/Ärztin und Schwangerer wurde beleuchtet; die Internetnutzung zu Gesundheitsthemen wurde umfassend dargelegt. Die Ergebnisse der Interviews zeigen, dass Internet- und Forennutzung zu einer möglichen Stärkung von Schwangeren führen können und das Verhältnis zu Arzt/Ärztin verändern.
Nealecypridini Savatenalinton & Martens 2009
Creators: name: Nagler, Christina
name: Geist, Juergen
name: Matzke-Karasz, Renate
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae

description: Tribe Nealecypridini Savatenalinton & Martens, 2009
The Tribe Nealecypridini includes the genera Astenocypris G. W. Müller, 1912, Diaphanocypris Würdig & Pinto, 1990, Nealecypris Savatenalinton & Martens, 2009 and Tanycypris Triebel, 1959. These species differ from other Cypricercinae-tribes by a narrow carapace in dorsal view, a Triebel loop either without vb or with a short vb, located in the middle of the distal CR attachment (Savatenalinton & Martens 2009a).
The four species of the tribe Nealecypridini can be differentiated using characters of T1, T2, CR attachment and LV (Tab.2)
description: Published as part of Nagler, Christina, Geist, Juergen & Matzke-Karasz, Renate, 2014, Revision of the genus Tanycypris (Ostracoda, Cypricercinae) with the description of Tanycypris alfonsi n. sp., and an identification key to the genus, pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 3821 (4) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4920148
How does a city get to be 'smart'? This is how Tel Aviv did it
Creators: name: Steinmetz, CA
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 2018

description: Digital Cities, Virtual Cities, Connected Cities cities are smart (thoughtful, people-centric), digital (driven by data acquisition, measured/analysed and sometimes exchanged), and virtual (experiential), and, as a result, connected (creating more potential interactions between people and their place). This article is about how Tel Aviv, a city just over 100 years old, managed to win the best smart city award for their use of technology and citizen engagement.
description: The Conversation
Tanycypris Triebel 1959
Creators: name: Nagler, Christina
name: Geist, Juergen
name: Matzke-Karasz, Renate
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae
Tanycypris

description: Genus Tanycypris Triebel, 1959
Type species T. madagascarensis (Müller, 1898)
Diagnosis. Carapace elongated. Height less than half the length. Carapace in dorsal view narrow. Width smaller than height. LV overlaps RV. Anterior margin more broadened than posterior margin. Dorsal and ventral margin almost straight. Anterior part of the inner lamella with a groove, but without an inner list. T1 with two a-setae, one b-seta and one d-seta. T2 with d1 longer than d2. CR symmetric, long (two-third of the length of the valves), claws strongly serrated. CR-attachment with Triebel loop at the middle, vb short, stout or pointed, db well developed (Müller 1898, Triebel 1959, Victor & Fernando 1981, Savatenalinton & Martens 2009a).
description: Published as part of Nagler, Christina, Geist, Juergen & Matzke-Karasz, Renate, 2014, Revision of the genus Tanycypris (Ostracoda, Cypricercinae) with the description of Tanycypris alfonsi n. sp., and an identification key to the genus, pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 3821 (4) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4920148