Sixth Street Residence

Occupy Wall Street, Bay Street and the street nearest you.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study in early January highlighting the growing income disparities between the richest and poorest Canadians. Income tax files from 2007 show that the average income of the top 1% of income earners was over $400,000 compared to about $44,000 for the average Canadian, almost a tenfold difference. Those who laboured at the minimum wage earned...

Street Crime and Street Culture

A model of social interactions shows why and when reputation concerns may support an ‘underclass’ culture of street crime where the incentives for such behavior are otherwise weak. Those who do not gain from street crime directly nevertheless find it optimal to invest in violence and thereby build a reputation that will earn them deference from the rest of the community. Even when the fraction ...

Sixth Biennial Report

ion refinement, 134, 140, 146Albrecht, I., 261Albrecht, M., 205ALCOM-FT, see project, ALCOM-FTalgorithm engineering, 97Althaus, E., 58, 61, 75Animation Quality Metric, 310Annen, K., 312Antelao, 320ARMC, 139, 146arrangements of curves, 76arrangements of surfaces, 76assembly, 82authenticity, 346automata theory, 132 Backes, Werner, 134, 146<l...

The Sixth Framework Programme

1. Project summary In this project we aim to invent and develop new techniques for the retrieval of figurative images (such as clip art, logos, signs) from large databases. Our techniques will be based on the extraction and matching of perceptually relevant shape features, thereby overcoming many of the limitations of existing methods. This project will develop and evaluate new algorithms for: ...

Photosynthesis Sixth edition