Toward Improving Canada's Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach

Economic Growth and innovation, Canada, immigration, skilled immigration, point system

Analysis of horsepower and consumption in a diesel engine using different blends of ethanol, diesel, and biodiesel [abstract]

Abstract only availableThe purpose of this research project was to determine the effects on horsepower and consumption of a diesel engine using different fuel blends. Specifically using ethanol and biodiesel blended at different percentages with petroleum based diesel. There were a total of seven different blends used in this experiment with the control fuel being 100% petroleum diesel. As an example, one of the blends used was a 2.5% biodiesel and 2.5% ethanol blended with 95% diesel. After all blends were formulated, the testing of horsepower and consumption began by using a 4320 John Deere Tractor. The fuel blends were set up through a manifold system that could be changed very easily between concentrations without contaminating one another. To measure horsepower we hooked the tractor to a dynamometer and recorded the differences between each fuel blend. To measure the fuel consumption of the tractor over a given time the jugs of fuel were weighed at the beginning of the experiment and at the end. The differences showed amount used over that time period which could then be used to calculate liters per hour.William Boatright Endowmen

Walt Whitman, Literary Culture, and the Discourse of Distinction

Explores the various and often contradictory views Whitman expressed over time about literary culture, heritage, genres, and canonicity; following Pierre Bourdieu, describes the "discourse of distinction" by which Whitman negotiates the "double logic" of desiring "distinction from the culturally distinguished literary mode

Improving Canada's Immigration Policy

As labour markets change, the question arises whether Canada’s immigration policy – and our “point system” in particular – is doing a good job of identifying potential immigrants who will fare well on arrival in Canada.economic growth and innovation, immigration point system, Canadian immigration policy

How to Find and Use Maine\u27s Published Law Court Opinions

This research note is designed to assist researchers and teachers using Maine Reports as a rich source on a wide variety of historical topics. It also includes a List of Maine Law Digests and an example of How to Read a Maine Judicial Opinion

Impacts of the Point System and Immigration Policy Levers on Skill Characteristics of Canadian Immigrants

This paper examines how changes in immigration policy levers actually affect the skill characteristics of immigrant arrivals using a unique Canadian immigrant landings database. We first review the Canadian experience with a point system as part of its immigrant policy. Section III of the paper describes some overall patterns of immigrant arrivals since 1980. Section IV identifies some relevant hypotheses on the possible effects on immigrant skill characteristics of the total immigration rate, the point system weights and immigrant class weights. The "skill" admissions examined are level of education, age, and fluency in either English or French. Regressions are then used to test the hypotheses from Canadian landings data. It is found that (i) the larger the inflow rate of immigrants the lower the average skill level of the arrivals; (ii) increasing the proportion of skill-evaluated immigrants raises average skill levels; (iii) increasing point system weights on a specific skill dimension indeed has the intended effect of raising average skill levels in this dimension among arriving principal applicants; and (iv) increasing the proportion of skill-evaluated immigrants appears to have the strongest effects among the immigration policy levers.immigration policy, points system, Canadian immigration

Conservation and Legal Politics: The Struggle for Public Water Power in Maine 1900-1923

The idea of public ownership and development of water resources gained considerable momentum in early twentieth-century Maine, first under Progressive Republican Governor Bert M. Fernald, and then again under Percival P. Baxter. In this article Christopher S. Beach explores critical turning points in Maine’s conservation history and suggests reasons why state leaders failed to grasp the opportunity to develop Maine’s water powers publicly. While popular pressures may have influenced resource policies, they could not alter a deeper commitment to decentralized government and private power in the state. Baxter, having generated impressive popular support, was frustrated by powerful constitutional constraints and by the process of legal politics