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Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers, Second Edition
Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers, Second Edition: Demographic Characteristics and Economic Footprint contains the most credible information to date on immigration in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers: Demographic Characteristics and Economic Footprint
Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers: Demographic Characteristics and Economic Footprint is the first ILC-commissioned study that looks across the contributions that immigrants make in all their roles as members of the Massachusetts community. It is a groundbreaking study that provides basic and new data about Massachusetts immigrants including pioneering compilations of data about immigrants as tax payers and consumers. This one report provides a comprehensive picture of immigrants' characteristics and their contributions as well as challenges to their effective integration into the economic and social life of the state. The ILC hopes that this study will reinforce its continuing mission to raise the visibility of immigrants as assets to America
Linking design and manufacturing domains via web-based and enterprise integration technologies
The manufacturing industry faces many challenges such as reducing time-to-market and cutting costs. In order to meet these increasing demands, effective methods are need to support the early product development stages by bridging the gap of communicating early design ideas and the evaluation of manufacturing performance. This paper introduces methods of linking design and manufacturing domains using disparate technologies. The combined technologies include knowledge management supporting for product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, aggregate process planning systems, workflow management and data exchange formats. A case study has been used to demonstrate the use of these technologies, illustrated by adding manufacturing knowledge to generate alternative early process plan which are in turn used by an ERP system to obtain and optimise a rough-cut capacity plan
Incentives and Superstars on the LPGA Tour
Following Ehrenberg and Bognanno (1990a, b), this paper explores the role of incentives on the 2000 LPGA Tour. Overall, it finds them to have limited effectiveness. Several possible explanations are considered, including unmeasured differences in both abilities and courses and variations in the distribution of prizes across tournaments. The existence of a “superstar effect” is also considered.
Lensless Imaging by Compressive Sensing
In this paper, we propose a lensless compressive imaging architecture. The
architecture consists of two components, an aperture assembly and a sensor. No
lens is used. The aperture assembly consists of a two dimensional array of
aperture elements. The transmittance of each aperture element is independently
controllable. The sensor is a single detection element. A compressive sensing
matrix is implemented by adjusting the transmittance of the individual aperture
elements according to the values of the sensing matrix. The proposed
architecture is simple and reliable because no lens is used. The architecture
can be used for capturing images of visible and other spectra such as infrared,
or millimeter waves, in surveillance applications for detecting anomalies or
extracting features such as speed of moving objects. Multiple sensors may be
used with a single aperture assembly to capture multi-view images
simultaneously. A prototype was built by using a LCD panel and a photoelectric
sensor for capturing images of visible spectrum.Comment: Accepted ICIP 2013. 5 Pages, 7 Figures. arXiv admin note: substantial
text overlap with arXiv:1302.178
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