This paper examines differences in educational attainment between natives and children of immigrants to Canada. We introduce two definitions of secondgeneration immigrants: The first considers all children with at least one immigrant parent to be second-generation immigrants, while the second definition requires that both parents were foreign-born. In the data, regardless of which definition we...

This presentation summarizes recent work of different groups on the analysis of slepton parameters at a TeV linear collider. In particular, measurements of the masses, mixings and Yukawa couplings for the neutral and charged sleptons of the first/second generation and for the charged slepton sector of the third generation are reviewed. For all relevant processes, threshold corrections and highe...

Dechlorane Plus (DP) has been determined in surface sediments from three Chinese coastal bays, e.g. Jiaozhou, Sishili and Taozi Bay in North China. DP concentrations ranged from <1.2 to 187 pg g(-1) dry weight (dw) (mean: 24.7 pg g(-1)dw) in Jiaozhou Bay, <1.2 to 135 pg g(-1)dw (mean 69.9 pg g(-1)dw) in Sishili Bay and <1.2 to 66.7 pg g(-1)dw (mean: 40.4 pg g(-1)dw) in Taozi Bay, respectively. ...

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Since we first devised and defined password-capabilities as a new technique for building capability-based operating systems, a number of research systems around the world have used them as the bases for a variety of operating systems. Our original Password-Capability System was implemented on custom built hardware with a novel address translation and protection scheme specifically designed to s...

Phosphorylation of end-binding protein 1 (EB1), a key member of microtubule plus end-tracking proteins (+TIPs), by apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) has been demonstrated to promote the stability of astral microtubules during mitosis by stimulating the binding of EB1 to microtubule plus ends. However, the roles of other members of the +TIPs family in ASK1/EB1-mediated regulation of as...

Recent climatic patterns indicate that extreme weather events will increase in frequency and magnitude. Remote sensing offers unique advantages for large-scale monitoring. In this research, Landsat 5 remotely sensed imagery was used to assess flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in the US over the past decades. The objective of our work is to assess whether d...