cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Public Sector Wage Growth in Alberta
Creators: name: Boessenkool, Ken
name: Eisen, Ben
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2017

description: In recent years, Alberta’s fiscal stance has shifted from large surpluses to deficits, and a large part of the blame appears to be due to rising public sector salaries. Since 2000, the province’s public sector wage bill has shot up by 119 percent — almost double the rate of growth in the rest of Canada. Wages, previously roughly at par with the rest of the country, are now higher (in many cases very substantially) across all public sector categories, including health care, social services, education and government, consuming 95 percent of the increase in provincial revenues over the past decade. At the same time, the number of public sector employees has grown faster than the overall population; it is difficult to attribute this sharp uptick to a rise in productivity, or the need to compete with private industry for skilled workers. This paper breaks down the increases in every category, arguing that if the provincial government is looking to trim expenditures, public sector salaries are a good place to start. The authors make their case using detailed Statistics Canada data, throwing down the gauntlet to defenders of the status quo and challenging them to justify these disparate increases.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Housing Subsidies and Homelessness: A Simple Idea
Creators: name: O’Flaherty, Brendan
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Reducing homelessness is an indisputable social good, and housing subsidies offer one way to do so. However, subsidies come in many different varieties and are intricately bound up with economic and social policies. This paper, written by one of North America’s leading urban economists, cuts through the tangle and argues that the simplest approach is the best. The ideal way to deter people from harmful acts is to reward them for abstaining. Thus, to combat homelessness, governments should offer housing allowances to people for every night they are not homeless. This optimal homelessness-reducing home allowance (OHRHA) is open to adjustment to suit individual circumstances and the effects of homelessness on different demographics. It is meant to reduce homelessness by aligning individual and societal incentives, forcing people to bear the consequences or realize the benefits that their actions impose on others. The author explores methods for financing OHRHA, examines means for tailoring it to meet the diverse needs of the homeless and discusses the policy’s effect on urban housing markets, all while comparing and contrasting the proposal to existing homelessness-reduction measures in Alberta, Canada and the US.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
A Review and Assessment of Privatization in Canada
Creators: name: Boardman, Anthony E.
name: Vinning, Aidan R.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Most privatizations in Canada occurred in the 10-year period from the mid-1980s to the mid1990s, and while many of the remaining candidates are both politically and economically problematic, the Harper government has signalled its renewed interest in more privatizations. This paper, written by two of Canada’s leading experts on the subject, comprehensively assesses hard data from the earlier privatizations in Canada, including sectors such as energy, transport and telecommunications. They find that the overall impacts have been largely positive, in many cases impressively so. Key economic indicators such as capital expenditures, dividends, tax revenues and sales per employee tended to increase, while others such as employment initially fell, only to rise again over the long term. Ultimately, most of the privatized firms continue to operate efficiently, making them positive contributors to Canadians’ social welfare through the provision of increased economic opportunities, higher profits and taxes. Drawing on lessons learned, the authors propose a common-sense framework to guide future privatizations and ensure all Canadians derive the maximum possible benefits from them. No Canadian government has ever formulated such a plan for a privatization regime, making this paper a must-read for anyone with a stake in the future of Canadian business.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Departures From Neutrality in Canada’s Goods and Services Tax
Creators: name: Smart, Michael
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: With recent accessions to the federal-provincial Harmonized Sales Tax, provinces with valueadded taxes (VATs)  now comprise over two-thirds of the national economy. While Canadian VATs are economically superior to the taxes they replaced, they are not as well designed as in other countries.  An efficient VAT is a uniform tax on all consumer (but not business) purchases.  Although the OECD has reported that Canada’s VAT is one of the most efficient in the world, that assessment was based on data shown here to be misleading. In reality, Canada’s VATs have large exemptions, rebates and rate preferences that reduce revenues and hamper productivity. If all these tax preferences were eliminated, government VAT revenues would increase by as much as $39 billion, or more than 50 percent.  Moreover, taxing consumer commodities at a single rate reduces opportunities for tax evasion, simplifies tax compliance, and in most cases increases economic productivity. Given the fiscal and productivity challenges currently facing Canadian governments, a new look at VAT design is clearly warranted.  This paper offers a detailed assessment of the effects of the tax on the economy, and it proposes a number of specific, feasible reforms to the GST-HST system.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Additional file 1 of Acceptability and feasibility of using a blended quality improvement strategy among health workers to monitor women engagement in Option B+ program in Lilongwe Malawi
Creators: name: Kumwenda, Wiza
name: Bengtson, Angela M.
name: Wallie, Shaphil
name: Chikaonda, Tarsizious
name: Matoga, Mitch
name: Bula, Agatha K.
name: Villiera, Jimmy Ba
name: Kamanga, Edith
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Mwapasa, Victor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1: Table 2 Distribution of PROMAQI acceptability and feasibility.
Implications of the Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Federal Support to Research and Development
Creators: name: Manning, Preston
name: Mintz, Jack M.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Canada lags behind many of its First World counterparts when it comes to business innovation, and urgently needs to improve its performance if it is to remain competitive and attractive to investment. The Expert Panel Report on Federal Support to Research and Development has recommended several policy initiatives that governments need to enact to close the gap. This paper reviews all six major recommendations made by the Expert Panel and provides thorough assessments of each, with ample consideration given to their implications for the private sector. The two most promising are: (1) the consolidation of research and development spending programs at the federal level and (2) the adoption of smart procurement as a means of spurring innovation in the non-government sector. While some of the other recommendations need refinement and raise concerns about their impact on the economy, the message for government and business is clear: the former can and should facilitate Canadian business innovation by removing tax and regulatory burdens and facilitating better public-private cooperation, while the latter must make innovation a major part of corporate culture. This paper explains the consequences of the Panel’s recommendations for both sectors, identifies the deficiencies, and offers clear-eyed guidance for ameliorating them.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Additional file 2 of Acceptability and feasibility of using a blended quality improvement strategy among health workers to monitor women engagement in Option B+ program in Lilongwe Malawi
Creators: name: Kumwenda, Wiza
name: Bengtson, Angela M.
name: Wallie, Shaphil
name: Chikaonda, Tarsizious
name: Matoga, Mitch
name: Bula, Agatha K.
name: Villiera, Jimmy Ba
name: Kamanga, Edith
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Mwapasa, Victor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2: Table 3 Distribution of PROMAQI perceived ease of use.
The Role of Crown Corporations in the Canadian Economy: An Analytical Framework
Creators: name: Iacobucci, Edward M.
name: Trebilcock, Michael J.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Government interference in markets arouses heated emotions on both sides of the political spectrum. But the fact remains that governments of all stripes routinely play a direct role in the economy. Motivations run the gamut from the economic (correcting perceived market failures) to the ethical (addressing social injustice) to the nakedly political (ideology or the status quo demands it). This paper offers a highly readable theoretical and practical framework for understanding federal and provincial governments’ market interventions in sectors including power generation, alcohol and mail delivery. Public ownership can advance a range of normative objectives, so the choices, reasons and outcomes for the government, the Canadian economy, Crown corporation employees and the general public can vary as widely as the enterprises involved. But in asking why and how and assessing ways and means, the authors bring together a substantial body of knowledge and expertise, providing an essential guide to a phenomenon that, like it or not, will remain a major part of Canada’s economic landscape for a long time to come.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Prende il via il progetto Graff-IT. In queste ore a Matera sono in corso studi di ricerca multidisciplinare
Creators: name: International Web Post
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Article in the online newspaper "International Web Post" describing activities of survey and documentation of graffiti carried out in Matera by the members of the ERC-2020-AdG Graff-IT. Writing on the Margins: Graffiti in Italy (7th-16th centuries), grant no. 101020613.
A Proposal to Create a Pan-Canadian Energy Information Organization (CEIO)
Creators: name: Moore, Michael
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Canada is a safe and stable resource-rich nation in an increasingly energy-hungry world. While this state of affairs imbues our riches with strategic importance, it also creates an acute need for accurate data collection guided by nationally accepted methods, tools and approaches, to cut through the tangle of overlapping jurisdictions that confuse present attempts to understand the Canadian energy sector as a whole. Prepared at the request of the Alberta Department of Energy, this paper proposes the creation of the Canadian Energy Information Organization (CEIO), an independent, objective energy information agency similar, but not identical, to the Energy Information Administration in the United States and the International Energy Agency serving OECD member countries. Funded through modest provincial contributions and working with Statistics Canada, the CEIO would support federal and provincial energy regulatory mechanisms; offer timely energy forecasts, analysis and statistical interpretations; lower research costs for the provinces; promote clear and uniform reporting standards; and aggregate facts and figures in an easily accessible database functioning as an official information portal, educating the public and ensuring that Canada makes the most of its energy bounty. A nationally recognized authority on the Canadian energy sector is long overdue, and in sketching one (right down to the level of corporate governance, budgeting and staffing), this paper fills in a major gap in Canada’s energy landscape.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Additional file 3 of Acceptability and feasibility of using a blended quality improvement strategy among health workers to monitor women engagement in Option B+ program in Lilongwe Malawi
Creators: name: Kumwenda, Wiza
name: Bengtson, Angela M.
name: Wallie, Shaphil
name: Chikaonda, Tarsizious
name: Matoga, Mitch
name: Bula, Agatha K.
name: Villiera, Jimmy Ba
name: Kamanga, Edith
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Mwapasa, Victor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Taxing Consumption or Income: Du Pareil Au Même?
Creators: name: Cnossen, Sijbren
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: L’impôt sur le revenu et les taxes à la consommation constituent les deux principales assiettes fiscales dans la plupart des pays, si bien que de nombreux gouvernements sont confrontés en permanence au dilemme de déterminer sur laquelle de ces deux solutions concentrer leurs politiques fiscales. Toutefois, au Canada, la situation est beaucoup moins floue; le régime fiscal canadien favorise de façon disproportionnée l’impôt direct sur le revenu et tire de cette source plus des deux tiers de ses recettes fiscales (cela comprend les impôts fonciers). On soutient ici que le Canada fonde une trop grande part de ces recettes sur l’impôt direct et prive ainsi le pays des effets stabilisateurs sur le revenu que pourraient avoir des politiques davantage axées sur les taxes à la consommation. En faisant pencher la balance du côté des taxes indirectes à la consommation, par exemple la TPS, on produirait un effet bénéfique sur les recettes publiques parce que : i) la demande fluctue moins que le revenu; ii) la consommation est locale dans une large mesure et permet de réduire l’évitement fiscal; iii) la TPS est moins susceptible d’être instrumentalisée à des fins politiques, ce qui fausse le marché. Étant donné que l’impôt sur le revenu et les taxes à la consommation ont des effets largement similaires, le choix de cette deuxième option aurait peu de conséquences sur l’emploi, l’investissement et l’épargne au Canada. L’auteur propose une synthèse des deux structures d’imposition dans plusieurs pays occidentaux qui privilégient les taxes à la consommation, et soutient qu’il est temps pour les gouvernements canadiens d’opter pour une réforme fiscale substantielle.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
GIPOTIROIDIZM VA YURAK ETISHMOVCHILIGI
Creators: name: Qayimov, Mirzohid
name: Ganjiyeva, Munisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Yurak etishmovchiligini rag'batlantirishda past tiroid gormoni funktsiyasining roli va qalqonsimon gormonlarni almashtirishning mumkin bo'lgan foydalari keng ko'lamda ko'rib chiqilgan.  Shu nuqtai nazardan, yurak etishmovchiligi yurakdagi qalqonsimon gormonlar tizimining pastga regulyatsiyasiga olib kelishi mumkin. Ishlamay qolgan yurakda yadroviy tiroid retseptori darajasining pasayishi kuzatiladi. Bundan tashqari, qalqonsimon bo'lmagan kasallik sindromida yurak etishmovchiligi bilan T4 va T3 zardobidagi darajalari kamayadi. Hayvon modellarida bosimning haddan tashqari balandligidan kelib chiqqan yurak gipertrofiyasida tiroid retseptori darajasining pasayishi sodir bo'lishini ko'rsatish mumkin. Yurak yetishmovchiligi qarigan aholimiz orasida tobora ortib borayotgan tibbiy muammodir.
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country
Creators: name: Bird, Richard M.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Canada is not a country with a reputation for bold experimentation. However, decades of federal-provincial compromises have successfully disproved the belief that an invoice-credit, destination-based value-added tax (VAT) is unworkable at the subnational level. Canada’s experiences with the GST, as well as with subordinate VATs like the HST and independent vats like the QST, have three important and interlinked consequences for future tax reform in Canada. First, the exact shape of provincial-level taxes is largely irrelevant to the smooth functioning of a federal VAT — although lack of provincial-federal coordination inevitably raises administrative costs. Second, the nature of a subordinate sales tax is extremely important at the provincial level. As the furor over British Columbia’s HST demonstrates, governments can’t ignore voters’ views and must retain the freedom to tailor provincial-level taxes to meet them, even when public opinion leads to suboptimal outcomes. And third, the best way Ottawa can avoid such outcomes is to provide the provinces with critical support and encouragement in the form of administrative and economic assistance. Since the federal government controls Canada’s borders, over which imports and exports flow, and administers its own sales tax, there is plenty of scope for cooperation. This paper traces the history of federal sales taxation, from the first turnover tax in 1920 right up the present-day GST, along with comprehensive examinations of regional sales tax issues in every corner of Canada, making it one of the best available summary treatments of the GST.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
title: Experten der "wissenschaftlich-technischen Zusammenarbeit" der DDr in Afrika
Creators: name: Obernhummer, Iris Christina
Year: 2010

description: Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit Expertenentsendungen im Zuge der „wissenschaftlich-technischen” Zusammenarbeit der DDR nach Afrika in den 70er und 80er Jahren auseinander. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei einerseits auf die Bedingungen der Entsendungen gelegt, andererseits den Alltag und die Lebensweisen. Die Auswahl der sogenannten Auslandskader – wer aus der DDR ausreisen durfte – geschah einerseits durch Auswahl der zuständigen Betriebe, andererseits durch Überprüfung von Seiten des MfS. Die Aktenrecherchen zeigten, dass dabei vor allem die politische Zuverlässigkeit, die DDR-Treue sowie sonstige Unbescholtenheit überprüft wurden. Verwandte (vor allem die nähere Familie) sowie Bekannte des potentiellen Kaders wurden ebenso einem Prüfverfahren unterzogen. Das Kapitel über den Alltag und die Lebensweisen zeigt, dass die Überwachung durch das MfS auch im Ausland fortgesetzt wurde, hierbei stand vor allem das Kontaktverbot mit Einheimischen oder Personen aus dem nichtsozialistischen Ausland im Vordergrund. Weiters zeigte sich, dass das gesamte Alltagsleben DDR-dominiert war. Die Entsandten verbrachten ihre Zeit größtenteils mit anderen DDR-Bürgern, die Güter des täglichen Bedarfs stammten ebenfalls aus der DDR. Für die Freizeit gab es kollektive Angebote. Ein wesentlicher Faktor, der das Alltagsleben einschränkte war Mitte der 80er Jahre der aufkommende Bürgerkrieg in Mosambik, der wesentlichen Einfluss auf das Alltagsleben in Hinsicht auf Bewegungseinschränkungen u.ä. hatte.
description: This diploma thesis deals with dispatching of experts from the GDR within the „scientific-technical cooperation” to Africa during the 70ies and 80ies. Special focus is given on the one side on the conditions of the dispatching process on the other side on the topic of everyday life and way of living. The candidates for being sent abroad were first chosen by the factory or the institute and then checked by the MfS. The analyzing of the files from the archives showed that the main points for the screening process were the candidate’s political attitude, the loyalty to the GDR and chastity. The chapter about everyday life and way of living showed that the monitoring of the MfS also happened abroad. The main checked point was the so called “contact prohibition” which said that GDR-citizens were not allowed to have any contact with locals or persons from the “non-socialistic-world”. The dispatched passed their everyday life mainly with other GDR-dispatched and got their needs for everyday life from the GDR. For leisure time collective activities were offered. In the mid of the 80ies the upcoming riots in Mocambique had severe effects on everyday life especially in regard to moving restrictions.
Additional file 3 of Association between the use of statins and in-hospital mortality risk in patients with sepsis-induced coagulopathy during ICU stays: a study based on medical information mart for intensive care database
Creators: name: Yao, Yan
name: Zhao, Xi
name: Wang, Mengjue
name: Zhou, Fanfan
name: Li, Chengfeng
name: Le, Xudong
name: Zhang, Siquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3
Additional file 1 of Rehabilitation for spinal muscular atrophy patients in China: a national cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Wang, Duan
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Li, Yi
name: Liu, Jiayu
name: Jia, Yongzhu
name: Xiao, Nong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1: Questionnaire
48 Briefe, 4 Beilagen an J[ohann] J[akob] Scheuchzer
Creators: name: Cappeller, Moritz Anton
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1715

description: von M[oritz] A[nton] Cappeler
description: Beilagen: Catalogo Scriptorum Lucernensium (S. 5-10); Druck: Adumbratio crystallographiae historicae, physicae, medicae [...], von Mauritius Antonius Cappeler, Lucernae 1719 (S. 53-56); Ex Bibliothecae Scriptorum Soc. Ges. Auth. Nathaniel Lotwelo (?) [...] Romae 1676 - Über Luzerner Autoren (S. 81-86); Druck: Caroli Nicolai Langii ... Methodus nova & facilis testacea marina ... Lucernae 1721 (S. 120)
Neobuprestis
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Neobuprestis

description: Differences between Neobuprestis and Burnsiellus
The table below lists the main differences between these two genera.
Neobuprestis Burnsiellus
Antennal cavities forward facing; fully visible when viewed Antennal cavities downward facing; not fully visible when directly from the front (Figs. 15, 16) viewed directly from the front (fig. 17) Clypeal margin straight or very shallowly excised at centre; Clypeal margin moderately deeply excised at centre; obtusely not angulate (Figs. 15, 16) angulate on either side of the excision (Figs. 17) Distal part of labium pale, less highly chitinised than basal Whole of labium highly chitinised part
Mandible not strongly angled at base Mandible strongly angled at base Pronotum without large depressions Pronotum with large depressions Adhesive pads on tarsal segments 1 and 2 more than half the Adhesive pads on tarsal segment 1 and 2 reduced in size, length of the segment much less than half the length of the segment (Fig. 20)
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 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
Brief an Caspar Bauhin
Creators: name: Hoenonius, Philippus Henricus
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1616

description: von Philippus Henricus Hoenonius
description: Abschrift: UB Basel Handschriften G II 42:fol.76
description: Lateinisch
description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation TIFF
title: Forschendes Lernen
Creators: name: Villotti, Carmen
Year: 2010

description: Mit dieser Diplomarbeit wurde eine erste theoretische und praxisorientierte Grundlage des forschenden Lernens im Mathematikunterricht gelegt. Bereits im Diskurs über die unterschiedlichen Auffassungen von „Forschung“ wurde ersichtlich, dass es eine Fülle an Interpretationsmöglichkeiten gibt. Die anschließende Begriffsklärung forschenden Lernens erwies sich zwar als schwierige Aufgabe, es war dennoch möglich, in dieser Diplomarbeit fünf Besonderheiten dieses Lehr- bzw. Lernkonzeptes zu erarbeiten. Eine umfangreiche Recherche, welche mehr als 200 Ausgaben von relevanten Fachzeitschriften der Mathematikdidaktik umfasst, konnte die anfangs gestellte Vermutung, dass das Angebot an Literatur zum Thema forschendes Lernen in Bezug auf den Mathematikunterricht sehr begrenzt ist, bestätigen. Auf der Grundlage dieses Fundamentes war es folglich möglich, einzelne Auffassungen von forschendem Lernen, Aufgabenformate und Umsetzungsvorschläge kritisch zu betrachten und zu analysieren. Dabei konnten Mathematikbeispiele ausfindig gemacht werden, die sich von konventionellen Aufgaben zwar nicht unterscheiden, dessen ungeachtet jedoch als Musterbeispiele für das forschende Lernen publiziert wurden. Die dargestellte Aufgabensammlung umfasst nur wenige positive Beispiele, weshalb die Aufgabe „Glatteis in Dornbirn“ entwickelt wurde. Zudem gelang es im Zuge dieser Diplomarbeit, sowohl die Überschneidungsflächen als auch die Abgrenzungsmöglichkeiten zum entdeckenden und problemorientierten Lernen im Mathematikunterricht aufzuzeigen. Ein forschendes Lernen, bei dem der gesamte Zyklus mit einbezogen wird, findet im Mathematikunterricht kaum statt. Auf Grund dessen wurden die unterschiedlichen Arbeitsphasen im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit ausführlich behandelt. Dabei konnten sowohl theoretische Überlegungen als auch praktische Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten der Phasen forschenden Lernens aufgezeigt werden. Zudem konnte deutlich gemacht werden, dass eine isolierte Betrachtung einzelner Arbeitsschritte kaum möglich bzw. sinnvoll ist, da es ständig zu Überlappungen, Verschmelzungen und gegenseitiger Beeinflussung der Phasen forschenden Lernens kommt. Weiters wurde im Zuge dieser Diplomarbeit die Möglichkeit einer Umsetzung forschenden Lernens mittels Portfolios bzw. Lerntagebüchern als möglicher Ausweg aus den einengenden schulischen Rahmendbedingungen angeführt. Mit dieser Diplomarbeit wurde eine erste Grundlage geschaffen, die sich kritisch mit der Thematik auseinandersetzt und als weiterführender Impuls für das forschende Lernen im Mathematikunterricht angesehen werden kann.
Assisted Reproduction Policy in Federal States: What Canada Should Learn From Australia
Creators: name: Snow, Dave
name: Knopff, Rainer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Rapid advances in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) confront policymakers worldwide with dilemmas that touch on the fundamentals of human existence — life, death, and sexuality. Canada, following the lead of non-federal Britain, spent 15 years developing the comprehensive, national Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2004), only to have the Supreme Court strike much of it down in 2010 for invading provincial jurisdiction. As Canadians return to square one on many ART issues, they should seek inspiration from Australia, where the lead role of the states in this policy area has not prevented significant coordination on matters of broad consensus. Like their federal cousins down under, Canadians who wish to harmonize ART policy in a constitutionally acceptable manner must now rely more heavily on legislative modeling among provinces, intergovernmental agreements, and non-statutory (even nongovernmental) guidelines.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Reforming the Tax Mix in Canada
Creators: name: Dahlby, Bev
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Periodically, tax systems need major reforms to remove the “barnacles” that accumulate under the short-term pressures of political expediency and to adapt to the long-term forces of technological and economic change.  The current fiscal and economic problems that confront the provinces require an assessment of much-needed reforms. Raising tax revenue imposes large costs on our society, not only because of the administration and compliance costs of collecting taxes, but because taxes distort economic decisions in the private sector. This is especially true of provincial corporate income taxes. Taxing highly mobile corporate capital and corporate profits encourages firms to shift their investments and profits across provincial and international boundaries. The provinces would enjoy significant boosts to economic growth and efficiency gains by enacting a revenue-neutral switch from corporate to sales or personal income taxes. For Alberta, such a shift would yield up to $40 per dollar of tax revenue shifted from corporate to personal income taxes; for fiscal year 2011-12, this would amount to a percapita welfare gain of roughly $19,000. Other options for tax reform are also discussed in this paper, including the adoption of a penny tax to the GST to fund infrastructure spending by municipalities. However, we think this would saddle the private sector with significant compliance costs and create major economic distortions between neighbouring municipalities by creating an incentive to shop where the penny tax proposal was not adopted. In surveying the most pressing tax reform issues facing Canada, we offer policymakers a firm basis for coming to grips with them, so they can treat tax dollars with the care and foresight Canadians expect.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 5 (2012)
Neobuprestis
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Neobuprestis

description: Key to the species of Neobuprestis
1 Lateral carina of pronotum confined to basal half; punctation between elytral costae not arranged in longitudinal series; scutellum1.5–2.0 times as wide as long; sexually dimorphic: male with expanded segments of antenna relatively larger, expanded segments almost completely covered with basiconic sensillae, lacking obvious sensory foveae (Fig. 18); elytra yellow, sometimes with a slight purple tinge towards the lateral margin (Fig. 1); last ventrite with apex broadly and deeply excised, with a slightly developed flange and well developed lateral spines (Fig. 21); female with serrate segments of antennae relatively smaller, with fields of B4c sensillae confined to the inner margin, with apical sensory foveae; elytra usually purple but sometimes yellow-brown with only a slight purple tinge (Fig. 2); last ventrite with apex truncate sometimes with a small shallow excision at middle; N.W. Victoria, South Australia & W. Australia .............. N. (s. str.) peroni (Gory & Laporte)
- Lateral carina of pronotum almost extending to the notosternal suture (Figs. 5, 6); punctation between elytral costae partly arranged in longitudinal series next to the costae; scutellum about as wide as long; male and female not sexually dimorphic (no male of N. frenchi has been seen); mountains of S.E. Victoria & New South Wales N. (Balthasarella) spp................ 2
2 Hind coxal plate abruptly narrowing about one-third the distance from the inner margin (as in Fig. 31); lateral carina of pronotum slightly curved downwards distally when viewed from the side (Fig. 6)...................... N. (B.) williamsi sp. n.
- Hind coxal plate gradually narrowing from the coxal insertion (as in Fig. 30); lateral carina of pronotum straight or slightly curved upwards distally when viewed from the side (Fig. 5)............................... N. (B.) frenchi (Blackburn)
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 228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
Hütte ob dem Partnun see 1874 mt. vom Pass und Gruben herkommend : Abends bey Dämmerung
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881
Subjects: Hütte

description: IM.
description: Gehört zu den Ansichten und Panoramen der ab 1881 entstandenen 2. Sammlung von Johann Müller-Wegmann
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
Neobuprestis
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Neobuprestis

description: Neobuprestis (s. str.) peroni (Gory & Laporte)
(Figs. 1, 2, 16, 18, 21, 25)
Stigmodera (Curis) peroni Gory & Laporte 1838: 48; Pl. 11, fig. 57
Curis peroni (Gory & Laporte); Lacordaire 1857: 52; Gemminger & Harold 1869: 1392; Saunders 1871: 57. Neobuprestis peroni (Gory & Laporte) Fairmaire 1877: 327; Gestro 1877: 430; Masters 1886:78; Kerremans 1892: 132; 1903: 181; Waterhouse 1913: 183; Carter 1928: 277; Obenberger 1930: 363; Kurosawa 1988: 264; Hołyński 1993: 28; Bellamy 2002: 84; 2008: 1021.
Strigoptera australis Blackburn 1892: 501.
Neobuprestis australis (Blackburn) Kerremans 1903: 137; Carter 1924, p. 524; 1929: 281; Waterhouse 1913: 184; Obenberger 1930:363; Kurosawa 1988: 264; figs. 17 & 18; Bellamy 2002: 85; 2003: 127; fig. 260.
Material examined: Lectotype Ƥ (BMNH) Strigoptera australis Blackburn here designated. Type (round red label)// Type // 2528// Strigoptera australis, Blackb. //Blackburn Coll. 1910-236//. LECTOTYPE Strigoptera australis Blackb. B. Levey det. 1991. Paralectotype Ƥ (SAMA) 2528// Australia Blackb's Coll.// Strigoptera australis, Blackb. Co-type//.
In the original description the type locality was given as Yorke's Peninsula, S. Australia.
Other material: S. Australia: 3Ƥ Kangaroo Island, (BMNH, SAMA); 13, 2Ƥ (SAMA) Mindarie; 2Ƥ (SAMA, NMVA) Murray River. Victoria: 23, 10Ƥ (NMVA, SAMA, NMWC) Birchip; 43, 6Ƥ (SAMA, NMVA, NMWC) Mallee district; 13, 1Ƥ (NMVA) Sea Lake; 1Ƥ (IRSNB) 466 ex coll.A.F. Hoschek; 1Ƥ (IRSNB) 467 ex coll.A.F. Hoschek. 1Ƥ (IRSNB) ex coll.Dr. Lotte. W. Australia: 1 not sexed (TMSHC) Holt Rock; 1 not sexed (TMSHC) Lake Hurlestone, 6.3.2000, dead; 13 (SAMA) Jung. Australia: 1 3, 1Ƥ (BMNH) no other data, 13, 1Ƥ (IRSNB) no other data.
Other material not examined: W. Australia: 1Ƥ (PMHC)[image seen] Lort River 40km W of Salmon Gums Dead 2.Feb.2004 P.Hutchinson / Edge 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 pages 228-229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
Negotiated Settlements: Long-term Profits and Costs
Creators: name: Fellows, G. Kent
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Over the last 20 years, utility regulators have relaxed their oversight of cost-ofservice regulation and this holds true for Alberta, where such regulation determines the fees associated with oil and gas pipeline usage. The traditional method has been for regulators to issue binding decisions on a firm’s cost of service after taking evidence at a formal hearing. Many regulators now prefer to encourage parties to settle a cost-of-service agreement through a negotiated settlement, which the regulator then approves. This process not only saves the cost of a hearing, it also permits firms and consumers to trade costs and benefits, settling on a final price more favourable to both. The author details how this arrangement can negatively impact future consumers by allowing the firm to defer the true burden of its depreciation expenses in return for inflated capital costs. Such a settlement lowers prices for the present but saddles future consumers with higher prices.
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Timon: The Proceedings of the Philippine Maritime Heritage Forum Volume IV
Creators: name: Chua, Michael Charleston
name: Martin Guasch, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430108
subject: Maritime archaeology
classificationCode: 350904
subject: Maritime transportation and freight services
classificationCode: 430301
subject: Asian history
classificationCode: 439999
subject: Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified

description: The Asian Institute of Maritime Studies (AIMS) Museo Maritimo annually organizes the Philippine Maritime Heritage Forum in accordance with its objective to become the “Home of Maritime, Engineering, and Heritage Knowledge Exchange” in the country. Since 2015 the forum gathered respectable historians and academicians, industry leaders, and maritime professionals to share their knowledge regarding the maritime heritage and industry of the Philippines. In celebration of this achievement, AIMS Museo Maritimo established Timon: The Proceedings of the Philippine Maritime Heritage Forum which is published annually. A proceedings that summarize the content of the forums into research material is necessary to facilitate further research relating to maritime heritage and industry. This endeavor supports research for academic and policy-making purposes.This proceedings serve as a way to build up the overall knowledge and facilitate continuous dialogue on Philippine maritime history. Most importantly, it continues to add layers of insights and knowledge on maritime history and heritage. A reflection of our commitment to building literatures and reference materials that can be used for maritime history and heritage.
Additional file 4 of Chlamydia suis undergoes interclade recombination promoting Tet-island exchange
Creators: name: Seth-Smith, Helena
name: Bommana, Sankhya
name: Dean, Deborah
name: Read, Timothy D.
name: Marti, Hanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 4
A White Paper on Reforming Canada’s Transportation Policies for the 21st Century
Creators: name: Flemming, Brian
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: While much of the developed world struggles with debt and chronically low growth, Canada, one of the best-performing members of the G-7, remains on firmer footing. However, this country still has to cope with slower growth, cutbacks and aging infrastructure. As this paper argues, reconciling these facts will take creative, non-partisan problem solving, and it is time governments got to work. Particularly brave politicians might consider charging the public the full costs of infrastructure use in the form of a tax. For the less daring, advances in robotics and data management offer substantial efficiency gains. Whichever path Canadian governments choose, they will not travel it alone. The burgeoning power of social media will amplify citizens’ voices and involvement. However, private sector expertise and capital could be just what is needed to ease Canada’s looming infrastructure woes, notably in the form of infrastructure banks (iBanks); cost-effective, streamlined replacements for the tangled mass of programs and departments that currently build, manage and maintain public infrastructure. Such an institution could allow private investment vehicles like bonds, preference shares and mortgage-backed securities to be issued to create capital and to pay back investors as the objects of its investments repaid the capital borrowed. iBanks could raise tricky problems about overlapping jurisdictions and would, in some parts of the country, be a tough sell, but Canada has been lagging badly in transportation innovation and must consider unorthodox solutions.
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Preventing Domestic Violence in Alberta: A Cost Savings Perspective
Creators: name: Wells, Lana
name: Boodt, Casey
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Recent studies show that Alberta has the fifth highest rate of police reported intimate partner violence and the second highest rate of self reported spousal violence in Canada, and despite a 2.3 percent decline over the last decade, the province’s rate of self-reported domestic violence has stubbornly remained among the highest in Canada; rates of violence against women alone are 2.3 percentage points higher than the national average. In fact, every hour of every day, a woman in Alberta will undergo some form of interpersonal violence from an ex-partner or ex-spouse. Besides the devastating toll that domestic violence has on victims and their families, the ongoing cost to Albertans is significant. In the past five years alone it is estimated that over $600 million will have been spent on the provision of a few basic health and non health supports and that the majority of this cost ($521 million) is coming out of the pockets of Albertans in the form of tax dollars directed at the provision of services. Fortunately, investment in quality prevention and intervention initiatives can be very cost effective, returning as much as $20 for every dollar invested. Recent research on preventative programming in the context of domestic violence shows promising results in reducing incidents of self-reported domestic violence. The economic analysis of this preventative programming suggests that the benefits of providing the various types of programming outweighed the costs by as much as 6:1. The potential cost savings for the Alberta context are significant; the implementation of these preventative programs has been estimated to be approximately $9.6 million while generating net cost-benefits of over $54 million. Domestic violence is a persistent blight, and continues to have a significant impact on individuals and families in Alberta, but potent tools exist to fight it. This brief paper offers a cogent summary of its costs, and the benefits that could be reaped by investing in quality prevention and intervention programs, making it essential reading for policymakers and anyone else prepared to use them.
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Policy Options for Reducing Dietary Sodium Intake
Creators: name: McLaren, Lindsay
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: Faced with soaring health-care costs, Canadian governments should consider creative ways to enable the population to stay healthy — and making it possible for Canadians to reduce their sodium intake is an extremely cost-effective way to do so. Excess sodium consumption is a risk factor for high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. On average, Canadians consume 3,400 mg of sodium a day (1,100 mg over recommended levels), at least three-quarters of which comes from processed foods. Any attempt at sodium reduction must therefore involve the food industry. This paper surveys sodium reduction efforts in jurisdictions around the globe, as well as past Canadian attempts, to provide provincial and federal policymakers with a comprehensive suite of lessons learned and a host of far-sighted policy recommendations ranging from food procurement to legislation and private sector engagement. Provincial governments, individually or together, must launch multi-pronged efforts involving food service companies, manufacturers, post-secondary institutes and the media to ensure that low-sodium alternatives are readily available, and that consumers are aware of them. They must also support federal action on changing dietary guidelines and introducing restrictions on food advertising to children. The benefits to be had are very real. In light of evidence showing that population-level intervention is superior to clinical intervention in terms of cost-effectiveness, returning up to $11.10 for every dollar spent and generating tens of billions in direct health-care savings, there is a very strong case for investing in population-level sodium reduction interventions that will work. The time for governments to act is now.
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Neobuprestis (Balthasarella) frenchi Blackburn
Creators: name: Levey, B.
name: Bellamy, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Neobuprestis
Neobuprestis frenchi

description: Neobuprestis (Balthasarella) frenchi (Blackburn)
(Figs. 3, 5)
Strigoptera frenchi Blackburn 1892: 500
Neobuprestis frenchi (Blackburn); Kerremans 1903: 137; Carter 1924: 524; 1929: 282; Obenberger 1930: 362; Bellamy 2002: 84; 2008: 1021.
Balthasarella melandryoides Obenberger 1958 (syn. n.): 487; Cobos 1974: 104; Bellamy 1985: 419; 1986: 595; 1994: 300; 2002: 82; 2003: 52, fig. 259; 2008: 1022.
Material examined: Holotype Ƥ (NMVA) Strigoptera frenchi Blackburn. Fernshaw / Type // Type [red label]// Strigoptera Frenchi // C. French's Coll 5.11.08 // Syntype T-10700 Strigoptera frenchi [red label]. The specimen agrees with the original description in which the locality is given as Gippsland.
Other material: Victoria: 2Ƥ no further data; 1Ƥ Poley Ra[nge], 26.21.46; 1Ƥ Lake Mtn. Feb. 1942, R.T. Pescott; 1Ƥ Ben Cairn, Jan 1924, T. Tragellas [name partly illegible], F.E.Wilson coll.; 1Ƥ no data; all in NMVA; 1Ƥ S. Gippsland in NMWC. New South Wales: 1 unsexed (TMSHC) Sawpit Creek, Kosciusko N.P., 21 Jan. 1998, T.M.S. Hanlon.
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 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219605
The International Experience with Privatization: Its Rapid Rise, Partial Fall and Uncertain Future
Creators: name: Nellis, John
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2012

description: From a triumphant high in the late 20th century, esteem for privatization has significantly declined, post-2000. Politicians and businesspeople alike now take a more balanced view of its effectiveness, recognizing that privatization must happen in a supportive institutional and policy framework if it is to live up to its potential. They have also come to share a better understanding of the sociopolitical consequences – especially with regard to public opinion – that privatization inevitably brings with it. This paper provides a comprehensive examination of this 21st century global shift in perception, with an emphasis on developing and emerging markets. Through a rich trove of case studies, it accounts for why privatization has slowed, analyzing current and past trends from a variety of sectors worldwide. It also offers a thorough analysis of privatization’s effects on economies, societies and the political process, while giving ample space to critics’ views. Although powerbrokers now tend to view privatization warily, there is good reason to believe that, due to the impact of the ongoing global economic crisis on government budgets, its day will come again. This paper, with its impressively detailed and wide-ranging grasp of the phenomenon, is essential reading for academics, policymakers and economists –the individuals who must grapple with privatization’s implications when that day arrives.
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