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Structural Change and New Zealand's Productivity Performance

open access: yes, 2014
Shift-share analysis decomposes aggregate labour productivity growth into a contribution from withinindustry productivity growth and a contribution from employment movements across industries with differing labour productivity levels.
Meehan, Lisa
core  

On‐Chip Photonic Neural Network Architectures

open access: yesAdvanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
This review presents a comprehensive overview of on‐chip photonic neural network architectures, covering key photonic building blocks, representative network types, and emerging applications. Recent advances, implementation challenges, and future directions are examined, highlighting the potential of integrated photonics to enable ultrafast, energy ...
Seokjin Hong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workplace Relations Framework draft recommendations

open access: yes, 2015
Australian Productivity Commission Chairman Peter Harris presents a talk about the draft recommendations from the Workplace Relations Framework public ...
Productivity Commission
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Digital disruption: what do governments need to do? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The disruptive potential of digital technologies has become a hot topic in recent years. There are calls for governments to add or remove regulations, invest in digital start ups, and protect the jobs of workers threatened by new ways of doing business ...
Productivity Commission
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Developing a Probabilistic Two-Stage Model for Hierarchical Healthcare Facility Location by Considering the Service Rate (A Case Study of Tehran Heart Center)

open access: yesبیمارستان, 2017
Background: medical centers location is one of the most important problems, which should be considered in different dimensions to improve the services. In this paper, we consider the hierarchical maximum covering problem for bi-level healthcare systems ...
Zohreh Kaheh, Ali Husseinzadeh kashan
doaj  

Designing sustainable agricultural production model: Balancing food, economy, and environmental outcomes in humid subtropics

open access: yesCleaner Engineering and Technology
Negative environmental outcomes and poor economic returns often questioned the sustainability of conventional agricultural production systems. Hence, a field experiment was conducted by involving two land configurations: flat-bed (FB) and raised bed and ...
Aastika Pandey   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
wiley   +1 more source

Regulation of Australian agriculture

open access: yes, 2015
The Australian Government has asked the Productivity Commission (the Commission) to undertake an inquiry into the regulatory burden on farm businesses, with a focus on regulations that have a material impact on the competitiveness and productivity of ...
Productivity Commission
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Universal Gripper for Industrial Manipulation With Enhanced Rigid Mechanics and Self‐Adaptable Fingers

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
An enhanced universal gripper combining rigid mechanics with self‐adaptable fingers is presented for industrial automation. The novel six‐bar linkage with integrated compliant pad eliminates mechanical interference while enabling passive shape adaptation.
Muhammad Usman Khalid   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous disadvantage: are we making progress?

open access: yes, 2005
Gary Banks, chair of the Productivity Commission, spoke on this topic at a CEDA gathering in Adelaide and at a HEROC workshop in Sydney.
Productivity Commission
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