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Get PDFMorality or Enjoyment? On Althusser’s Ideological Supplement of the Law
Get PDFhttp://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/Morality_or_EnjoymentPostprintPreprin
Quality of Life
Get PDFThe At Home/Chez Soi Fact Sheets comprises a series of brief reports highlighting key features and themes of the At Home/Chez Soi Housing First demonstration project in Winnipeg. As a collection, the fact sheets provide a broad overview of the project’s structure, scope, methods, and outcomes to inform public understanding of the project
From.wav to.txt: why we still need transcripts in the digital age
Get PDFOral historians have debated whether and how to transcribe their interviews since the 1960s. New digital tools for indexing audio and video files appear to provide a powerful and exciting alternative to transcription. Despite such challenges, however, transcription continues to serve impor tant purposes of long-term preservation, analysis and dissemination. After surveying the transcription controversy over the past half-century, I outline five arguments in favour of transcription. I argue that archiving transcripts is a political act that places our oral histories on equal footing with government generated documents in state-run archives.https://www.jstor.org/stable/2638254
Effect of the tether length upon Truce‐Smiles rearrangement reactions
Get PDFpost-printThis report examines the effect of substrate design upon the Truce‐Smiles rearrangement, an intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction. The length of the molecular spacer that tethers the carbanion nucleophile to the substituted benzene ring was found to have a strong influence on the ability of the substrate to undergo the reaction successfully. Our experimental results show highest yield of desired aryl migration product for substrates designed with a 3‐atom tether, which proceed through a 5‐membered spirocyclic intermediate. The results are interpreted in comparison with a survey of Truce‐Smiles rearrangements described in the literature and found to be consistent. Computational studies support the observed reactivity trend and suggest an explanation of a favorable combination of ring strain and electrostatic repulsion leading to optimal reactivity of the substrate designed with a 3‐atom tether. Comparison of our results with trends for related ring‐closing reactions illustrate the unique electrostatic features of the system studied herein."Financial support for this work was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada (402608‐2011‐RGPIN, 435374‐2013‐RGPIN), the University of Winnipeg, and the Government of Manitoba Career Focus Program. We thank Westgrid and Compute Canada for supercomputing resources."https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poc.374
The Impact of Imports and Exports on the Size and Composition of Government Expenditures
Get PDFThis paper examines the casual relationship between greater exposure to international trade and the size and composition of government expenditures, productive versus unproductive. To capture differential impacts on how government responds to greater international exposure three measures are used: the ratio of exports plus imports to GDP (openness), the ratio of exports to GDP, and the ratio imports to GDP. For all countries in aggregate, we find no causal relationship between openness and total government expenditures or productive and unproductive expenditures. For low-income countries however, there is a positive causal relationship between openness and productive government expenditures. Further, there is a positive causal relationship between the import ratio and productive expenditures for all countries as well as for low- and high-income countries separately. Exports, conversely, have no causal relationship with any measure of government expenditures. Our findings suggest that governments in economies with greater imports as a share of GDP increase productive expenditure to counteract the negative consequences from more exposure to foreign competition.http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijef/article/view/6631
History and Mystery: Students Investigate History of a German Settlement in Manitoba
Get PDFhttps://uwgcs.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/history-and-mystery-students-investigate-history-of-a-german-settlement-in-manitoba
A matrix variation on Ramus's identity for lacunary sums of binomial coefficients
Get PDFWe study the well-known lacunary sums of binomial coefficients considered, most notably, by Christian Ramus, and their connection to a special kind of harmonic number associated with the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem. For one case of Ramus's famous identity we obtain a variation in which some of the parameters are replaced by square matrices of arbitrary dimension.http://ijmcs.future-in-tech.net/12.1/R-Dobson.pd
Combat Motivation and Cohesion in the Age of Justinian
Get PDFThis is a preprint of a book chapter to be published as “Combat Motivation at the End of Antiquity,” in G. Greatrex and S. Janniard, The World of Procopius (De Boccard), 185-203
Prior Host-Country Work Experience and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Canada
Get PDFRecent changes to immigration selection policies favor skilled workers with prior work experience in the immigrant host country. Using unique administrative tax data for Canada, we estimate earnings equations to quantify the difference in earnings of immigrants with prior Canadian experience (prefilers) and those without prior experience (non-prefilers). We find that, relative to non-prefilers, entry earnings are higher for prefilers and, for male immigrants, this earnings advantage persists for at least 20 years after arrival. We show that the primary source of the higher entry earnings of prefilers is a higher return to foreign experience. In addition, the prefiler earnings advantage is largest for university graduates and the return to foreign experience is higher for prefilers from Western countries than those from the rest of the world. Our findings suggest that a move towards an immigrant selection system which uses previous host-country work experience as a criterion will improve the labor market performance of immigrants."We are grateful for the funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and technical support from Statistics Canada."https://izajodm.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40176-016-0075-