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Redistribution of Income: Policy Directions
Creators: name: Davies, James B.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Poverty and rising income inequality in Canada have brought demands for improved government action on redistribution. Unfortunately, such pleas risk being overshadowed by a looming fiscal crunch as the baby boomers retire. An expanding population of seniors will add at least one percent annually to both growing health and OAS/GIS costs so that, absent meaningful change, other spending will have to be slashed by an average of 20.2 percent by 2032 if total spending and revenues are not to rise relative to GDP. For Canada’s tax-transfer system to keep fulfilling its redistributive role, a fundamental rethink is required. With non-seniors spending being squeezed, some changes in tax mix, moderate revenue increases and refined targeting of transfers will be needed to protect the system’s progressive nature. Increasing personal income tax and reducing property tax by an offsetting amount would improve redistribution without raising taxes. More revenue could be obtained without severe distortions via a capital transfer tax, the elimination of boutique credits aimed at niche beneficiaries, or perhaps a dual income tax which exacts more from labor than capital income. Improvements to existing transfer programs are another way forward. The conversion of EI to a purely insurance basis, freeing up funds to support redistribution via refundable credits is a possibility. Another cost-saver involves removing the indexation of the OAS/GIS income threshold and allowing its real value to decline, making more recipients subject to clawbacks. Whichever course governments pursue, revamping Canada’s taxtransfer system will be a delicate and difficult task. This paper explores the policy choices available, and makes it clear that time is not on our side.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Income Inequality and Income Taxation in Canada: Trends in the Census 1980-2005
Creators: name: Milligan, Kevin
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Faced with rising fiscal pressures and discontent over income inequality, many countries, Canada among them, are searching for remedies. Income tax systems offer an effective way of changing economic destinies, so it’s only natural for governments to regard tax policy as a panacea. The first step to a solution is to understand how income tax influences existing inequality. This paper provides an overview of trends in pre- and post-tax income distribution in Canada from 1980-2005, by drawing on a more comprehensive data source than those found in many existing studies — Canadian census data. The results are in broad agreement: money has been steadily accumulating in the top half of the income distribution since 1980, with the trend quickening after 1995. This is just as true for family after-tax incomes as it is for individual market incomes even after the impact of the income tax system is taken into account. Over the 25-year period studied, the Gini coefficient rose from 0.352 to 0.404 for pre-tax income, and from 0.312 to 0.349 for after-tax income, while the proportion of the increase undone by taxation fell to a low of 2 per cent after 1995, as the Canadian tax system became less redistributive. However, some progressive aspects remain. Improvements to refundable tax credits in the late 1990s led to a 20 per cent decline in the number of families falling under the Low-Income Cut-Off. Canada’s income tax system hasn’t kept pace with climbing pre-tax inequality, but it continues to be a useful aftertax equalizer for low-income families.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Income Inequality, Redistribution and Economic Growth
Creators: name: Dahlby, Bev
name: Ferede, Ergete
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Inequality is on the rise in Canada and this state of affairs has provoked outrage and demands for redistribution at a time when governments at every level are searching for reliable long-term growth. This paper examines the links between income inequality and economic growth and whether there is a trade-off between redistributive policies, and economic growth, or whether income redistribution can enable faster growth. The authors survey the existing literature on the impact of inequality on economic growth, and then conduct an econometric analysis of the association between provincial economic growth in Canada and three different measures of income inequality, finding no statistically significant relationships. One measure of income redistribution, the difference between the market income Gini coefficient and the disposable (after-tax, after-transfer) income Gini is positively associated with provincial growth rates — but since the largest transfer programs in Canada are federal programs financed out of nation-wide taxes, it is unlikely that this association carries over to the national level. Much of the growth in income disparity has been driven by innovation that places a premium on highly trained workers. With that in mind, the Goldin-Katz model, used to explain the rising earnings differentials of highly skilled workers in the US, can be combined with the Aghion-Bolton model of capital market imperfections to develop a framework for examining the impact of education spending, and the taxes that finance it, on earnings inequality and economic growth. The authors then review evidence that raising marginal tax rates on high-income individuals would not raise additional tax revenues, but impose substantial costs on the economy, as would higher corporate income taxes. Punishing high earners is a self-defeating choice, although improvements to the social safety net would give more Canadians the chance to join their ranks.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Lasioglossum Curtis 1833
Creators: name: Murao, Ryuki
name: Lee, Heung-Sik
name: Tadauchi, Osamu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum

description: Subgenus Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833
Lasioglossum Curtis 1833: pl. 448. Type species: Lasioglossum tricingulum Curtis, 1833 = Melitta xanthopus Kirby, 1802, by original designation.
Halictus (Lucasius) Dours 1872: 350 [not Kinahan, 1859 (cited from Michener 2007)]. Type species: Halictus clavipes Dours, 1872, by original designation of Sandhouse 1943: 566.
Halictus (Lucasiellus) Cockerell 1905: 272, replacement for Lucasius Dours, 1872. Type species: Halictus clavipes Dours, 1872, autobasic.
Halictus (Lucasellus) Schulz 1911: 202, replacement for Lucasius Dours, 1872. Type species: Halictus clavipes Dours, 1872, autobasic.
Curtisapis Robertson 1918: 91. Type species: Halictus coriaceus Smith, 1853, by original designation.
Halictus (Pallhalictus) Warncke 1975: 92. Type species: Halictus pallens Brullé, 1832, by original designation.
Halictus (Fahrhalictus) Warncke 1975: 95. Type species: Halictus fahringeri Friese, 1921, by original designation.
Lasioglossum (Lophalictus) Pesenko 1986: 125. Type species: Lasioglossum acuticrista Pesenko, 1986, by original designation.
Lasioglossum (Ebmeria) Pesenko 1986: 136. Type species: Halictus costulatus Kriechbaumer, 1873, by original designation.
Diagnosis. In eastern Asia, this subgenus is separated from the other subgenera of Lasioglossum series occurring in eastern Asia (Ctenonomia Cameron, Homalictus Cockerell, Leuchalictus Warncke) by the combination of the following character states: 1) metasomal terga rounded from dorsal to ventrolateral parts; 2) inner hind tibial spur of female usually serrate; 3) male S6 without unique hair tuft; and 4) male genitalia with a ventral retrorse lobe.
description: Published as part of Murao, Ryuki, Lee, Heung-Sik & Tadauchi, Osamu, 2015, Bees of the Lasioglossum series (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in South Korea, with an illustrated keys to species, pp. 511-534 in Zootaxa 4044 (4) on page 513, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/238644
A spline function method for modelling and generating a nonhomogeneous poisson process
Creators: name: Morgan, Lucy E.
name: Nelson, Barry L.
name: Titman, Andrew C.
name: Worthington, David J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper presents a spline-based input modelling method for inferring the rate function of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) given arrival-time observations and a simple method for generating arrivals from the resulting rate function. Splines are a natural choice for modelling rate functions as they are smooth by construction, and highly flexible. Although flexibility is an advantage in terms of reducing the bias with respect to the true rate function, it can lead to overfitting. Our method is therefore based on maximising the penalised NHPP log-likelihood, where the penalty is a measure of rapid changes in the spline-based representation. A controlled empirical comparison of the spline-based method against two recently developed input modelling techniques is presented considering the recovery of the rate function, the propagation of input modelling error, and the performance of methods given data that are under or over-dispersed in comparison to a Poisson process.
GINEKOLOGIYADA FETALNIY MONITOR (XOMILA MONITORI) ISHLASH PRINSPINI TAXLIL QILISH
Creators: name: Botiraliyeva, Rejabxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Hozirgi kunda reproduktiv salomatlik va homiladorlik bu butun dunyo hamjamiyati oldida turgan dolzarb masalalardan biri hisoblanadi. Xomila monitori - homilador ayollarda kardiotokografiya (CTG) o'tkazish uchun qurilma. Uning yordami bilan shifokor homilaning yurak urishi va harakatlarini, shuningdek, bachadon mushaklarining qisqarishini baholaydi. Uy sharoitida kichik xomila dopplerlaridan foydalanish mumkin.
title: Zum Umgang von an Alkoholabhängigkeit erkrankten Personen mit belastenden Situationen im Alltagskontext
Creators: name: Auracher, Ulrike
Year: 2010

description: Ziel der gegenständlichen Arbeit ist es, relevante Aspekte zum Umgang von alkoholabhängigen Menschen mit Belastungen im Alltagskontext zu erfassen. Unter besonderer Bezugnahme auf aktuelle Gesundheitskonzepte wie etwa das Modell der Salutogenese (Antonovsky, 1987) oder der Positiven Psychologie (Seligman, 2002), deren Fokus auf Ressourcenorientierung und Empowerment gerichtet ist sowie aktuellen Konzepten zur Genese und Aufrechterhaltung von Alkoholabhängigkeit soll dieser Frage unter Anwendung qualitativer Forschungsmethoden nachgegangen werden. Hierfür wurden 6 Experteninterviews mit Mitarbeiter/innen des Anton Proksch Instituts und 9 Problemzentrierte Interviews mit Patienten/innen des Anton Proksch Instituts (Witzel, 2000) durchgeführt, welche mittels Kodierverfahren der Grounded Theory Methode (Glaser & Strauss, 1968) und Globalauswertung (Legewie, 1994) ausgewertet wurden. Den Ergebnissen ist zu entnehmen, dass Alkoholabhängigkeitserkrankungen oftmals zu einer Vielzahl an Belastungen führen, die sich sowohl im privaten als auch im beruflichen Kontext manifestieren und den betroffenen Personen die Rückkehr in das gesellschaftliche System erschweren. Aus diesem Grund ist es wichtig für die betroffenen Personen im therapeutischen Kontext Grundlagen für euthymes Erleben abseits von Alkohol zu erarbeiten, was letztlich zu Wohlbefinden führt und sich positiv auf das Selbstkonzept und darüber hinaus auf die Motivation im Veränderungsprozess auswirken kann.
description: The goal of the present thesis is to find out relevant aspects how alcohol dependent people handle with strain in the context of everyday life. With particular reference to current health concepts, as for example the Theoretical Models of Salutogenesis (Antonovsky, 1987) and Positive Psychology (Seligman, 2002), which direct their focus on resource orientation, empowerment and current concepts for origin and maintenance of alcohol dependency, this problem should be answered with methods of qualitative research. Therefore six expert-interviews with employees of the Anton Proksch Institut and nine problem-centred-interviews with patients of the Anton Proksch Instituts (Witzel, 2000) have been realized. Data were evaluated with coding methods of Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1968) and Global Evaluation (Legewie, 1994). The results show that diseases of alcohol dependency lead to a vast number of different kinds of strain which manifest themselves as well in private as in occupational environment and complicate the return into the social system. This is why it is important for the persons affected to undergo a therapeutical treatment to work out basics for euthymic experience apart of alcohol disuse to gain well-being, a poitive self-concept and further more to be motivated for the processes of change.
A simulation-based modelling approach for a production line with nested-loop work sequences
Creators: name: Tantanawat, Tanakorn
name: Hattha, Ekkachart
name: Meesublak, Koonlachat
name: Phakphonhamin, Vithinut
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Critical for current situation analysis in lean initiatives, establishing standardised work can be challenging due to the intricacies involved in documenting complex routine work, mainly characterised by nested-loop work sequences. This study aims to extend the existing methods of establishing standardised work and analysing a production line for complex routine work. Novel concepts and terminologies are introduced, combining the existing methods into a modelling approach capable of addressing all complex features simultaneously. A standardised work sequence diagram is defined as a fundamental representation, forming the basis for a new simulation-based modelling approach. Described, validated, and applied through an industrial case study, the proposed approach is confirmed effective, achieving an average relative combined cycle time of 0.99, compared to the expected value of 1. The resulting redesign of standardised work significantly improves line efficiency from 53% to 79%, with a manpower reduction from 8 to 4 workers.
Creating Digital Assets Which Can Be More Than Just Research Data - A 3D Showcase
Creators: name: Chiquet, Vera
name: Manz, Marian
name: Virtual Culture
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A 3D model showcase project by the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel (https://www.https://dhlab.philhist.unibas.ch), Virtual Culture (https://www.virtualculture.ch), and the Digital Museum of Learning (https://www.museumoflearning.org), an Initiative of the Jacobs Foundation.
An agent-based model of school tracking, accountability, and segregation
Creators: name: Pensiero, Nicola
name: Brede, Markus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Extant research on the effect of education system characteristics on school socio-economic segregation does not consider education as a complex system. This paper’s contribution lies in using agent-based modelling to simulate the effect of the interaction between families’ strategies for school selection and two education system characteristics: tracking – a system where students of different academic abilities are separated in different schools – and school accountability – the public availability of information on school quality. The model shows that school tracking and accountability tend to at the same time attenuate and increase school socio-economic segregation, but overall both policies tend to exacerbate segregation by eliciting competition for the best schools. The policy implications are: (i) tracking has a stronger exacerbating effect on segregation than accountability, (ii) the two polices interact to create compounding effects and (iii) by reducing residential segregation between families the segregating effect on schools of the two policies diminishes dramatically.
title: Hinter den Kulissen - vor dem Applaus
Creators: name: Weber, Sandra
Year: 2010

description: „Hinter den Kulissen - vor dem Applaus, „Die Duftsammlerin“- ein Erzähltheater-Solo“, ist der Titel dieser Arbeit. Es handelt sich um eine Theaterproduktion für Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene. In einzelnen Arbeitsschritten wird untersucht wie lange es braucht, ein Theaterstück von der Idee, über die Planung bis hin zur Umsetzung realisieren zu können. Ein Überblick über die einzelnen Produktionsschritte, -entwicklungen und –abläufe wird gegeben. Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen gemacht, welcher Aufwand und intensive Arbeit in und hinter einer Theaterproduktion stecken. Des Weiteren befasst sich die Arbeit mit der Analyse, dem Inhalt und der Umsetzung des Stücks sowie deren Genre, dem Erzähltheater. Nach eingehender Auseinandersetzung wird ein Exkurs in die theaterpädagogische Arbeit im Schulunterricht gemacht. Abschließend befasst sich die Arbeit mit der Rezeptionsforschung und dem Rezeptionsverhalten und des Publikums.
title: „Optimierung der Methodik zur Erstellung von Hochwassergefahrenkarten durch verbesserte Nutzung hochaufgelöster digitaler Geländemodelle“
Creators: name: Braun, Katinka
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten

description: In Baden-Württemberg werden derzeit für ca. 12.500 km Gewässer Hochwassergefahrenkarten erstellt. Hierfür sind umfangreiche hydraulische Berechnungen erforderlich, die es zu optimieren gilt. Bei der Wasserspiegellagenermittlung kommen zumeist eindimensionale Berechnungsverfahren zum Einsatz bei denen die Topografie der Gewässer und Vorländer über Querprofile erfasst werden. Im Rahmen der Hochwassergefahrenkartenerstellung werden diese Querprofile zum einen im Bereich des Gewässers über kostenintensive, terrestrische Vermessung und zum anderen im Bereich der Vorländer über ein digitales Geländemodell (DGM) bestimmt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe die Querprofilerstellung und damit insgesamt die Methodik zur Erstellung der Hochwassergefahrenkarten verbessert werden kann.Das Verfahren ermöglicht es, unter optimaler Ausnutzung sowohl der vorhandenen terrestrischen Vermessungsdaten, als auch des hochaufgelösten digitalen Geländemodells zusätzlich zur vorhandenen Vermessung an beliebigen Stellen Ergänzungsquerprofile zu generieren. Des Weiteren wurde mittels Sensitivitätsanalyse untersucht, welche Auswirkungen eine Verringerung der Anzahl von vermessenen Querprofilen auf die Wasserstände haben.
Lasioglossum (Leuchalictus) circularum Fan & Ebmer 1992
Creators: name: Murao, Ryuki
name: Lee, Heung-Sik
name: Tadauchi, Osamu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum circularum

description: Lasioglossum (Leuchalictus) circularum Fan & Ebmer, 1992
Fig. 7A
Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) circularum Fan & Ebmer 1992: 346, 349 [Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, ♀, type locality = Gulin (Jiangsu Prov.), China]; Ebmer 2002: 838 –839, 903 [♀, photograph]. Lasioglossum (Leuchalictus) circularum: Pesenko 2006: 140 [in key], 141 [♂, illustration], 143 [♂, illustration], 145 [in key], 151–152 [♂].
Diagnosis. This species is similar to L. formosae (Strand) and L. occidens (Smith) from eastern Asia. It is separated from both species by the integument of the female mesoscutum with distinct tessellation, the lateral and posterior surfaces of female propodeum with dense tomentose hairs, and the tuft of hairs on the male S6 longitudinally narrow apically (Fig. 7A).
In contrast, in L. formosae and L. occides, the integument of the female mesoscutum nearly smooth, the lateral and posterior surface of female propodeum with sparse tomentose hairs, and the tuft of hairs on male S6 thick apically (Figs. 7C, 8B).
Specimens examined. (n = 3) [South Korea] GW: 2♀, Gamjong-ri, Dong-myon, Chunchon-gun, 23. vii. 1992 (K. Morimoto & K. Kanmiya, ELKU); 1♂, Hongcheon, 5–6. ix. 1984 (K. Morimoto ELKU).
Distribution. South Korea (new record), China.
Flight period in South Korea. Female: July. Male: September. In China, female is collected from July to August (Fan & Ebmer 1992) and male from September to October (Pesenko 2006).
description: Published as part of Murao, Ryuki, Lee, Heung-Sik & Tadauchi, Osamu, 2015, Bees of the Lasioglossum series (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in South Korea, with an illustrated keys to species, pp. 511-534 in Zootaxa 4044 (4) on pages 520-521, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/238644
[Zürcher Wappen mit zwei Löwen]
Creators: name: Meyer, Johannes
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1630
Subjects: Wappen

description: Zwei Wappen Zürichs, flankiert von zwei Löwen
description: Joh. Meyer
description: Angaben zum Künstler gemäss handschriftlicher Notiz auf dem Unterlagenblatt. Um welchen Johannes Meyer es sich handelt ist unklar
Scheyenfluh : gez. von Gruben ob Partnun See
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

description: Ansicht des Gipfels des Wiss Platte; der Berg wird von Müller-Wegmann auf den Zeichnungen aus den 1881er Jahren in der Regel als Scheyenfluh bezeichnet
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
The Canadian Manufacturing Sector, 2002-2008: Why Is It Called Dutch Disease?
Creators: name: Gordon, Stephen
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: High-profile complaints about so-called Dutch disease have led many to question if industry in some parts of the country is suffering due to the success of the natural resources sector in others. This paper considers changes in manufacturing employment from 2002- 2008, a time of increased commodity prices. At first glance, the figures appear alarming — Canada shed 328,000 manufacturing jobs during that period — but the decline wasn’t entirely commodity-driven. Canada is the sole G-7 country in which manufacturing is on par with what it was 40 years ago; manufacturing employment rose in the decade prior to the decline thanks to government austerity, which spurred monetary easing, making industry more export-competitive. Much of the contraction from 2002-2008 was a natural reaction to this unsustainable situation. Higher commodity prices in the same period actually had a benign — if not positive — effect on Canada’s manufacturing industry, notwithstanding the fall in employment. The manufacturing jobs that were lost were typically low paying, and were offset by the creation of betterpaying employment in other sectors. The available data on gross employment flows suggest that the disruptions associated with the shift of employment out of manufacturing were surprisingly small. The reduction in employment was largely achieved through attrition; layoff rates held steady while hiring rates fell. Moreover, the data are not consistent with fears that the manufacturing sector was hollowed out. Research and development activities held steady and investment in new technology continued to grow, leaving the manufacturing sector healthier in 2008 than it was in 2002.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Accountability by Design: Moving Primary Care Reform Ahead in Alberta
Creators: name: Spenceley, Shannon M.
name: Andres, Cheryl
name: Lapins, Janet
name: Wedel, Robert
name: Gelber, Tobias
name: Halma, Lisa
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Health-care reform is perennially popular in Alberta, but reality doesn’t match the rhetoric. Government has invested more than $700 million in Primary Care Networks — with little beyond anecdotal evidence of the value achieved with this investment. As the province redirects primary care to Family Care Clinics, the authors assert that simply tinkering with one part of the system is not the answer: health care must change on a system-wide basis. Drawing on the experiences of frontline staff and a rich body of literature, the authors present their vision for integrated team-based primary care, designed to be accountable to meet the needs of populations. This will require governance that makes primary care the hub of the system, and brings together government and health-services leadership to support the integration of primary and specialty care. There are shared accountabilities for achieving primary care that exhibits the attributes of high performing primary care systems, and these exist at multiple levels, from individuals seeking primary care, up to and including government. The authors make these accountabilities explicit, and outline strategies to secure their achievement that include system redesign, service delivery redesign and payment reform. All of this demands whole-system reform focused on primary care, and it won’t be easy. There are plenty of vested interests at stake, and a truly transformative vision requires buy-in at every level. However, Alberta’s rapidly growing and aging population makes it more urgent than ever to realize such a vision. This paper offers guidelines to spark the fresh thinking required.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Enhancing the Alberta Tax Advantage with a Harmonized Sales Tax
Creators: name: Bazel, Philip
name: Mintz, Jack M.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Alberta enjoys a reputation as a fiercely competitive jurisdiction when it comes to tax rates. But the reality is that the province can do better with a tax mix that has greater emphasis on consumption, rather than income tax levies. While Alberta has a personal tax advantage compared to other Canadian jurisdictions — but not the United States — it relies most heavily on income taxes and non-resource revenues that impinges on investment and saving. Taxes on new investment in Alberta’s non-resource sectors are no better than average, compared to other countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, so it is not exceptionally attractive to many different kinds of investors. And Alberta’s corporate income tax rate is not much more competitive than the world average for manufacturing and service companies. By introducing the Harmonized Sales Tax with a provincial rate of 8 per cent (in addition to the federal 5 per cent rate), Alberta has the ability to make its tax system more competitive. An HST would even allow the province to entirely eliminate income tax for the majority of families. And because the HST would be easily administered using the same collection mechanisms that already exist for the GST, implementing a new Alberta HST could be done relatively smoothly and with minimal additional administration costs. Adopting an Alberta HST is the simplest, most efficient and fairest way to reform the provincial tax system, and will deliver noticeable benefits to Albertans, most visibly in the form of significant income tax relief. It would enable the province to raise the income-tax exemption from $17,593 to $57,250, making it possible for couples to earn up to $114,500 free of any provincial income taxes. In addition, the province could lower income tax rates for income over that amount from 10 to nine per cent. And with the revenue from the HST, Alberta would have the capacity to lower its general corporate income tax from 10 to 8.43 per cent, reducing taxes on investment. An HST could also bring in an estimated $800 million in additional annual revenue from tourists and visitors, and would likely entitle the province to a $1.3 billion HST transition payment from the federal government. If the government can convince Albertans that the sales tax would be revenue neutral, and can promise simultaneous significant tax cuts to personal incomes, as well as corporate tax reductions that will enhance Alberta’s competitiveness, then winning public support is possible. The task of persuading the public must fall to bold politicians. But if provincial legislators truly value tax fairness, competitiveness, and the future fiscal stability of the province, they have a duty to convince voters that an HST is the right choice for Alberta.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Grasping at Straws: Comments on the Alberta Pipeline Safety Review
Creators: name: Winter, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: The release last month of the Alberta Pipeline Safety Review was meant to be a symbol of the province’s renewed commitment to environmental responsibility as it aims for new export markets. The report’s authors, Group 10 Engineering, submitted 17 recommendations covering public safety and pipeline incidents, pipeline integrity management and pipeline safety near bodies of water — and many of them run the gamut from the obvious to the unhelpful to the contradictory. That the energy regulator ought to be staffed to do its job should go without saying; in fact, staffing levels were never identified as an issue. The recommendation that record retention and transfer requirements be defined for mergers and acquisitions, sales and takeovers is moot. There is no reason a purchasing party would not want all relevant documents, and no real way to enforce transparency if the seller opts to withhold information. Harmonizing regulations between provinces could reduce companies’ cost of doing business, but could also prove challenging if different jurisdictions use performance-based regulations — which is what the Review recommended Alberta consider. This very brief paper pries apart the Review’s flaws and recommends that the province go back to the drawing board. Safety is a serious issue; a genuine statistical review linking pipeline characteristics to failures and risk-mitigation activities would be a better alternative by far.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
title: Eine Analyse der verschiedenen Charaktere in ausgewählten Romanen von Nagib Machfus
Creators: name: Kramer-Kornberger, Amira Kerstin
Year: 2011

description: Die Arbeit befasst sich mit Charakteranalysen aus drei verschiedenen Romanen. Des Weiteren beinhaltet sie einen Charaktervergleich und die Veränderungen, die die Charaktere im Laufe ihres Lebens durchlaufen. Auch kommt es zu Interpretationen bezüglich der fiktiven Romanfiguren und mit dem Lebenslauf des Autors, sowie der politischen Situation und dem gesellschaftlichen Leben zur Zeit, in der die Romane "spielen" und der tatsächlichen Situation in Ägypten.
12 Briefe, 1 Beilage an Joh[anni] Jacobo Scheuchzero
Creators: name: Stehelinus, Benedictus
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1723

description: von Benedictus Stehelinus
description: Stähelin, Benedikt: 1695-1750, Arzt, Prof. der Physik
description: Beilage: Catalogus Dissertatt: de Structura & Morbis Oculorum Basil: habitorum (S. 195-196)
REGISTONDAGI ULUG`BEK MADRASASIDA FAOLIYAT OLIB BORGAN MUTAFAKKIRLAR FAOLIYATIGA NAZAR
Creators: name: Sharipova, Nargiza
name: Sirojeva, Gulshoda
name: Djabbarova, Farangiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Buyuk olim va hukmdor Mirzo Ulug‘bek (1394 – 1449) o‘zini ilmga bag‘ishlab, Samarqandda madrasa qurdirdi, bu madrasa Ulug‘bekning katta harakati tufayli o‘z davrining ilg‘or oliy o‘quv yurti sifatidagina emas, balki ilmiy muassasa sifatida ham shonu shuhrat qozongan. Ulug‘bekning atrofiga ilm va fan ahli, adabiyot va san’at namoyandalari to‘plangan. Ularning orasida aniq fan olimlari, astronomlar yetakchi o‘rinni egallar edi. Ushbu maqolada mazkur madrasada faoliyat olib borgan ayrim mutafakkirlarimizning hayot va ilm yo`li yoritiladi.
Scheyen und Mittelfluh : gez. von Reuthe im St. Antonierthal
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

description: Ansicht des Wiss Platte und des Schijenflue; der Wiss Platte wird von Müller-Wegmann auf den Zeichnungen aus den 1881er Jahren in der Regel als Scheyenfluh bezeichnet und die heutige Schijenflue entsprechend der Dufourkarte als Mittelfluh
description: IM
description: Unterhalb des Titels in Feder: "NB in Alp Partnaun sind die Tannen besonders auf der Nordseite hoch aber mager wenig beastet, die Äste hängen herab und die Tanne ist einer dünnen Pyramide gleich, das kommt vom rauhen Clima & harten Winter"
description: Gehört zu den Ansichten und Panoramen der ab 1881 entstandenen 2. Sammlung von Johann Müller-Wegmann
description: Vgl. "Scheyen und Mittelfluh", Signatur: [Müller-Wegmann] P 319
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
14 Briefe, 1 Beilage an [Johann Jakob Scheuchzer]
Creators: name: Zwinger, Theodor
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1722

description: von Theodorus Zuingerus
description: Beilage: Abschriften v. Urkunden, 14./15. Jh. (S. 258-264)
description: Dabei 1 Brief v. Zwinger, Johann Rudolf an Johann Bernoulli
The Challenge of Defining Medicare Coverage in Canada
Creators: name: Emery, J.C. Herbert
name: Kneebone, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: There is a widespread impression among Canadians that their health-care system is universal, comprehensive and equitable. Given this impression, Canadians may be surprised to discover that, for instance, while annual physicals and receiving advice on dealing with cold symptoms are covered by the public plan, the costs of rehabilitation from a brain injury or stroke are not fully covered. While universal, the public plan is not comprehensive nor, arguably, is it equitable.
The Canada Health Act (CHA) uses the term “medically necessary” to define medical procedures and treatments to be paid for by the publicly-funded medicare system. In Canada’s health-care system, the term has come to refer almost exclusively to those services provided by a physician, or provided within a hospital setting, by a physician or other staff. Services that a reasonable person might consider “necessary,” but are provided outside those settings, are typically not covered.
In many ways the federally-legislated Canada Health Act has been culturally enshrined as a consecrated icon of national identity. But the legislation fails to clearly identify the line between necessary and unnecessary medical services. This has put provincial governments — who are responsible for medical-funding decisions — in the difficult position of having to make this decision, and they have resorted to drawing that line in sometimes surprising places. The line drawn between “necessary” and “unnecessary” medical treatments has been determined by the financial self-interest of medical stakeholders, by hospitals rationing global budgets, and by financially-constrained provincial governments. The result is a relatively narrow definition of medical necessity that undermines the equality goals the CHA is often claimed to uphold.
Health care is arguably the most important public-expenditure program in Canada. It is important for Canadians to understand clearly what services and levels of care this program provides so that they can prepare for, and possibly insure against, outcomes that are not covered. We do not argue it is easy to make this demarcation between what is and what is not covered by medicare. We do argue, however, that it is necessary to establish this line and to draw attention to its position.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Der  grosse freistehend. Felszahn genannt Scheienzahn am Fuss der Scheyenfluh : gez vom ob dem Partnun See auf dem sog mittleren Tritt des Grubenpass
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

description: Ansicht des Schijenzan am Fuss der Schijenflue gelegen
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
81 Briefe, 3 Beilagen an Jean J[acques] Scheuchzer
Creators: name: Bernoulli, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1722

description: von J[ean] Bernoulli
description: Beilagen: Prix Proposés par l'Academie Royale des Sciences Pour l'Année 1727. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1725 (S. 135-136); An J. Bernoulli in Basel adressierter Lieferschein f. eine Kiste, v. Kornmann, d.d. Strassburg, 30.11.1728 (S. 171-174); Recapitulation: Anklage gegen Diakon Wetstein zu Basel wegen Irrlehren (S. 201-202)
description: Dabei 5 Briefe v. Johann Bernoulli an Johannes Scheuchzer, 2 Briefe v. Georg Bernhard Bülfinger an Johann Bernoulli, 1 Brief v. Christian Wolf an Johann Bernoulli
Der  Schollberg : gez. vom Gruben Partnunpass
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

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
The Prudential Regulation of Financial Institutions: Why Regulatory Responses to the Crisis Might Not Prove Sufficient
Creators: name: White, William R.
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: It is now six years since a devastating financial and economic crisis rocked the global economy. Supported strongly by the G20 process, international regulators led by the Financial Stability Board have been working hard ever since to develop new regulatory standards designed to prevent a recurrence of these events. These international standards are intended to provide guidance for the drawing up of national legislation and regulation, and have already had a pervasive influence around the world.  This paper surveys recent international developments concerning the prudential regulation of financial institutions: banks, the shadow banking system and insurance companies. It concludes that, while substantial progress has been made, the global economy nevertheless remains vulnerable to possible future financial instability. This possibility reflects three sets of concerns. First, measures taken to manage the crisis to date have actually made the prevention of future crises more difficult. Second, the continuing active debate over virtually every aspect of the new regulatory guidelines indicates that the analytical foundations of what is being proposed remain highly contestable. Third, implementation of the new proposals could suffer from different practices across regions.  Looking forward, the financial sector will undoubtedly continue to innovate in response to competitive pressures and in an attempt to circumvent whatever regulations do come into effect. If we view the financial sector as a complex adaptive system, continuous innovation would only be expected. This perspective also provides a number of insights as to how regulators should respond in turn. Not least, it suggests that attempts to reduce complexity would not be misguided and that complex behaviour need not necessarily be accompanied by still more complex regulation. Removing impediments to more effective self discipline and market discipline in the financial sector would also seem recommended.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 2037.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.02.1896, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1896

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Seewis
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

description: cop nach Heidegger ; [Johann Müller-Wegmann]
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
Zur Sulzfluh : vom Grubenpass / Partnun
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

description: IM
description: Gehört zu den Ansichten und Panoramen der ab 1881 entstandenen 2. Sammlung von Johann Müller-Wegmann
description: Vgl. "Sulzfluh", Signatur: [Müller-Wegmann] P 321
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
The Timing and Direction of Statutory Tax Rate Changes by the Canadian Provinces
Creators: name: Ferede, Ergete
name: Dahlby, Bev
name: Adjeic, Ebenezer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Tax rate changes are some of the most significant and far-reaching decisions a government can take. A good understanding of the odds of any such changes is essential for any business debating the timing and location of investments. This paper investigates the factors that affect the timing of statutory tax rate changes by Canadian provincial governments. The authors develop a simple theoretical model to explain the “stickiness” of tax rates — the factors that lead a province to decide against tinkering with the tax system — based on the presence of fixed costs of adjusting tax rates. The results indicate that if the current rate falls within a range of tax rates bracketing the optimal rate, then the government will not adjust its tax rate because the cost of the reform outweighs the potential benefits. To build up a body of evidence, this paper employs a multinomial logit model to examine the likelihood of changes to personal income tax (PIT), corporate income tax (CIT), and provincial sales tax (PST) rates by provincial governments over the period 1973-2010. Regression results indicate that provincial governments that start with higher tax rates are more likely to cut, and less likely to raise, their tax rates. A higher provincial budget deficit reduces the probability of a CIT rate cut and raises the probability of a PST rate increase. Party ideology seems to matter. Provinces with leftleaning governments are less likely to cut PIT and PST rates, and more likely to raise PIT rates compared to non-left-leaning governments. The authors also find that a federal PIT rate cut raises the probability of a provincial PIT rate increase, whereas a federal CIT rate cut raises the probability of a provincial CIT rate reduction.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Provincial Tax Rate Adjustments in Canada
Creators: name: Ferede, Ergete
name: Dahlby, Bev
name: Adjeic, Ebenezer
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: Changes to tax rates are important fiscal events in Canada. They affect the amount of taxes that Canadian households and businesses pay to governments, and the level of economic activity by affecting incentives to work, save, and invest. Thus it is important to understand what factors cause governments to increase or reduce their tax rates.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)
Flüchtige Skizze der Clubhütte ob dem Lisunasee Tilisuna / neu Top: E Carte : vom Partnunpass kommend
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881

description: Blick zur Tilisunahütte des Österreichischen Alpenvereins mit dem Verspala im Hintergrund
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
Additional file 15 of The impact of sex on gene expression in the brain of schizophrenic patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of transcriptomic studies
Creators: name: Carceller, Hector
name: Hidalgo, Marta R.
name: Escartí, María José
name: Nacher, Juan
name: de la Iglesia-Vayá, Maria
name: García-García, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 15
Canadian Defence Commitments: Overview and Status of Selected Acquisitions and Initiatives
Creators: name: Sloan, Elinor
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2013

description: For years, successive Canadian governments have been overpromising and under-delivering on defence procurement. Timetables have slipped even as repair and maintenance costs for aging equipment have soared, while elaborate rules have obscured the acquisition process in a bureaucratic fog. This paper assembles information from a wide range of official sources and cuts through the confusion. It surveys 15 Canadian defence acquisitions and initiatives, each anticipated to cost more than $100 million, to account for the delays. Final replacements for the ancient Sea King helicopters are no closer to arriving — after almost 30 years — because the DND failed to recognize that it asked for technology that is still in development. The Joint Support Ship project is years behind schedule because, as originally conceived, it sought to integrate so many capabilities that it was unbuildable. The Integrated Soldier System Project is almost as far behind because Ottawa’s procurement rules are so complex and niggling that no bidder could fulfill every single one. Canada faces evolving threats, but efforts to equip the Canadian Forces to meet them have been marked by a long litany of failures — failures of communication, of organization and of vision. This paper sets out the military procurement process, and concisely explains the most egregious flaws, making it essential reading for anyone interested in the future of Canada’s military.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 6 (2013)