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Laggards No More: The Changed Socioeconomic Status of Francophones in Quebec [PDF]

open access: yes
The economic returns to knowing French in the Quebec labour market have increased steadily since 1970, while the returns to knowing English have decreased.
Dominique Lemay   +2 more
core  

Side‐Chain Branching Dictates the σ–S Coupling in Conjugated Polymer Thermoelectrics

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
The correlation between conductivity and Seebeck coefficient has been extensively studied in numerous works. Nevertheless, its association with side chains has not been thoroughly explored. In this work, we found that the distance between the branching points of side chains and the molecular backbones has a significant effect on thermoelectric ...
Yingyao Zhang   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Results Addressing the KARMEN Timing Anomaly

open access: yes, 2000
Recent resuls from experiments at Fermilab and the Paul Scherrer Institute have constrained the parameter space available for a hypothetical particle $Q^0$ produced in the decay $\pi^+ \to \mu^+ Q^0$.
Zimmerman, E. D.
core   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Intergenerational Progress in Educational Attainment When Institutional Change Really Matters: A Case Study of Franco-Americans vs. French-Speaking Quebecers [PDF]

open access: yes
Using U.S. and Canadian census data I exploit the massive out migration of approximately 1 million French-Canadians who moved mainly to New England between 1865 and 1930 to look at how the educational attainment and enrollment patterns of their ...
Parent, Daniel
core  

Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Victims, burdens, and problems: A thematic analysis of Le Journal de Montréal news coverage of Roxham Road

open access: yesFacts & Frictions
Roxham Road, a rural road in Quebec, was a longtime hotspot for migrants and asylum seekers entering Canada from the United States that the province’s news media paid close attention to, until the entry point was closed in March 2023.
Clément Lechat
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Learning‐Enhanced Random Matrix Theory Design for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccine Development

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This study integrates random matrix theory (RMT) and principal component analysis (PCA) to improve the identification of correlated regions in HIV protein sequences for vaccine design. PCA validation enhances the reliability of RMT‐derived correlations, particularly in small‐sample, high‐dimensional datasets, enabling more accurate detection of ...
Mariyam Siddiqah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Trade Agreements: Comparison of Canada, US and WTO [PDF]

open access: yes
Paper presented at the CAES/NAREA meeting, Quebec City, June 29 - July 1, 2008.trade, free trade agreements, environment, World Trade Organization, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade,
Colyer, Dale
core   +1 more source

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