This study assesses whether characteristics relating to ethnic identity and social inclusion influence the earnings of recent immigrants in Canada. Past research has revealed that relevant predictors of immigrant earnings include structural and demographic characteristics, educational credentials and employment-related characteristics. However, due to the unavailability of situational and agenc...

Purpose-To determine whether the organisations more strategically committed to its stakeholders present better social and financial performance and, based on this relationship, know the state of the art of the Spanish sectors' approach to the sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach-This paper analyses the sustainability approach of a sample of 52 Spanish listed firms. This process ...

We present a new approach to retrieve Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over the turbid coastal water. This approach supplements the operational Dark Target (DT) aerosol retrieval algorithm that currently does not conduct AOD retrieval in shallow waters that have visible sediments or sea-floor (i.e., Class 2 waters). Over the global coas...

ABSTRACT One of the major problems of academic research is the unavailability of appropriate tools where researchers can develop and evaluate their ideas. Research groups tend to spend a significant amount of time in developing tools which results in an abundance of incomplete tools which do not provide sufficient features for other groups to use. Often these tools are never made public which m...

Power system component failures can generally be classified into two categories: repairable random failures and aging failures. An essential step in power system reliability evaluation is the calculation of component unavailability. The paper presents a new model for calculating the unavailability due to aging failures using the normal distribution. It is based on the strictly mathematical deri...

LH*g is a high-availability extension of the LH* Scalable Distributed Data Structure. An LH*g file scales up with constant key search and insert performance, while surviving any single-site unavailability (failure). Highavailability is achieved through new principle of record grouping. A group is a logical structure of up to k records, where k is a file parameter. Every group contains a parity ...

This paper concerns a dynamic multi-commodity capacitated facility location problem in supply chain, where different products flow throughout different layers of supply chain over a time horizon to meet customers’ demand. The capacity and the location of facilities need to be changed for supply chain to operate efficiently and respond quickly to demand changes. Relocating facilities or changing...

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the psychological refractory period (PRP), the delay in the response to the second of two tasks occurring in immediate succession. Our results were consistent with prior work on the PRP in that when two visual-manual tasks were presented within 100 ms of each other, the second response was delayed on the order of 500 ms, compar...