Oversight of IRC activities, 2021

Bank of Canada Oversight Activities

Civilian Oversight of Policing

Development and oversight of ethical health promotion quality assurance and evaluation activities involving human participants.

ISSUE ADDRESSED This paper considers the role of ethics and ethics review processes in the development of health promotion quality assurance and evaluation activities involving human participants. CONTENT The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and associated documents provide the framework for the ethical con...

Bank of Canada Oversight Activities during 2007 under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act

The Bank of Canada has had formal responsibility for the oversight of clearing and settlement systems in Canada since 1996.2 The PCSA gives the Bank of Canada this responsibility for the purpose of controlling systemic risk. In this context, systemic risk is defined as the risk that the default of one participant in a clearing and settlement system could lead, through the activities of the syst...

Dust emission from IRC + 10216

Infrared emission from the dust shell around IRC+10216 is analysed in detail, employing a self-consistent model for radiatively driven winds around late-type stars that couples the equations of motion and radiative transfer in the dust. The resulting model provides agreement with the wealth of available data, including the spectral energy distribution in the range 0.5–1000 μm, and visibility an...