In 2005, the Canadian Forces’ (CF) Chief of Defence Staff announced the commencement of the transformation of the CF. As with any complex organization, transformation of its structure and processes is not simple. However, the success of such a transition “depends upon leadership first identifying and understanding the thematic components of the past, and then, learning how to adapt and exploit ...

The Green Revolution in Haryana has achieved much progress in agricultural productivity but at the cost of land and water degradation. Intensive agriculture during the Green Revolution period has brought continuous environmental degradation, particularly of soil, vegetation and water resources due to the use of high doses of fertilisers and pesticides. The adaptation of various modern agricultu...

Exploiting the 2005 Mikrozensus, the first dataset to allow the full disaggregation of different immigrant origin groups in Germany, this paper examines the effect of context of reception, citizenship, and intermarriage on the labor force participation, employment, and occupational status of the children of immigrants in Germany. Most second generation men have much higher unemployment than nat...

This paper utilizes the German Mikrozensus to model competing secondary school outcomes among both foreign and naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find that second generation disadvantage in educational attainment is largely explained by parental background. However, my study also finds evidence of higher atta...

The 1970s spawned a 'first generation' of growth controls which featured explicit (or implicit) restrictions on residential housing construction. These restrictions were gpically implemented in small, affluent, and predominantly white suburban communities. Policy analysis responded by focusing almost singlemindedly on how such supply-side restrictions might increase housing prices and drive out...

Since its introduction in 1985, there has been a lot of activity in the eld of second generation still image coding. In the last years, the approach has been extended to video coding and has been the basis for European RACE research projects. The objective of this paper is to summarize the main concepts underlying second generation video coding and to present the approach taken in the RACE proj...