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Based on the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), labour market programmes and strategies have a significant impact on social assistance caseload. For instance, through their programmes they can reduce the number of people on benefits directly as they emphasis more on programme participations.

Also, because some benefit recipients prefer to leave unemployment instead of complying with programme requirements, they then embark on intensive employment services and training programmes that may have relatively favourable impacts on labour force participation and promote earnings progression.

I think, AI could advance medical science enormously. Deep Blue lost to Kasparov in the beginning. However, after being taught by chess grand masters it won.

AI of today should the same way be taught by "grand masters" of each and every scientific field and sub-field. It should be taught to write references. And it should be taught to ask questions (suggest research), and not only supply answers.

AI can read the entire literature of medicine. Human professors can hardly reach to read the new literature in his or hers specific sub-sub-field.

And human experts of different sub-sub-fields some times do not understand the expert-language used by the other expert.

Therefore the knowledge that can be obtained, by combining knowledge from different sub-fields is not produced.

Here and now, I do not think that AI can help us against the corona virus.

This might:

I do not think there is any reason to be afraid of AI. It is just a sophisticated search engine. It is humans, and how they use AI, we should be afraid of.

The essentials are:

-Congnitive Behavioral Treatment to combat altered / delirious perception of one's own body scheme and self-image

-Intervention "ad hoc", including with Systematic Desensitization and Reciprocal Inhibition for Dysmorphophobia.

-Implementation of Self-esteem and Self-concept.

-If necessary, a system -in an institutionalized intervention- of absolute elimination of positive reinforcements and of any "reward" or, even, attention to be achieved through programmed weight gain.

-Absolute prohibition of mirrors.

-Premack techniques to acquire desirable behaviors.

Training in Social Skills and Assertiveness.

-Individualized psychotherapy

-Control and advice from expert Nutritionists ... In any case, without any desire for prominence, you can see contributions in this regard here in "RG" of my Research Team and mine.

Comparing traditional and technological methods for studying English as a second language (ESL)

Abstract

While there are many options available for studying English as a second language (ESL), students and instructors may not be aware of which learning strategy would be most effective. To help them make informed choices about their education, this study compared traditional classroom methods with online technological methods for studying ESL at accredited universities in the United States, using a survey conducted with 332 international students. The quantitative data, collected through either a paper or online questionnaire, included demographic information, an exam of English language fluency, experience with the chosen ESL education method, comfort level with the English language, and motivation for studying ESL. The results of this study indicated that the most effective strategy for learning ESL was influenced by the individual participant’s number of languages spoken, age, gender, and highest level of education.

Not sure there is such title as P.Eng in Ontario but definitely a PE status is recommended regardless of your engineering discipline. Canada is highly regulated environment for engineering practise whether in a corporate employment or as an independent consultant. All provinces have their own licensing authorities with different requirements. Without a license, an engineer must work under the supervision of a PE who must certify or sign-off his work, reports or design. To be licensed, an engineer will have to go through series of engineering and professional certification exams (depending on level of experience some can be waived but not all) to be licensed to practise professionally in Ontario. Visit Professional Engineers Ontario (https://www.peo.on.ca/) for details.

Zouheir Maalej thank you for your answer. Ontario French teachers, from grade 1 to 12, are not resisting to implement the curriculum, but they haven't received training to teach global citizenship. Since teachers' identities influence their teaching approach and content selection, only if they already believe in global citizenship, they will be able to introduce it to the students, otherwise, how will they learn?

Hello sir,

let me know which kind of tools are you using for your development/Applications..

Thank you..

This is Ontario weblink:

F-5-1 Determination Of Treatment Requirements For Municipal And Private Sewage Treatment Works. Requirements for treatment of municipal and private sewage discharge in surface waters.

I think it increases your confidence in respecting yourself and respecting others

Better than the physical side

Dear Philip

I used a modified version of Amartya Sen's entitlement framework. Poverty is a failure of ownership entitlements, production possibilities, exchange entitlements and consumption entitlements.

Ownership entitlements include legal/customary rights to land, livestock, forests, common property resources, own labour (not being bonded), membership in family/community/state/global society

Production possibilities include access to productive skills, production possibilities, climate change adaptation knowledge etc

Exchange options include what ones membership in family, community, state entitles one to, wages and prices in labour and commodity markets, risk cover etc

Consumption options cover intra household distribution of food, clothing, rest heath care, education etc

There are gender, race, ability, religion etc specific aspects to each which one may like to look!

I am attaching one reading for your reference

Best

Ranjani

It would be great to hear about your success. Good luck.

This is a toolset developed under contract to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It is publicly available.

Jacob, thanks for the additional papers! Happy to go through some material from a little closer to home - I've still got a lot to learn to get up to speed with this side of the sediment story, but I'm looking forward to diving in to things once I can get a few other jobs off my plate and I'll be thankful for any help I can get along the way!

Crop Heat Units (CHU) provides an indexing system to assist farmers to select the most suitable hybrids and varieties for their area. This indexing system was originally developed for field corn and has been discovered in Ontario and is useful in many other countries for more than 30 years. The crop heat unit ratings are based on the total accumulated crop heat units (CHU) for the frost-free growing season in each area of the province. It describes how much CHU are available in different regions and how hybrids and varieties of some warm-season crops are rated.

The rate of development of crops from planting to maturity is dependent mainly upon temperature. Cool temperatures slow down the progress to maturity and warm temperatures hasten maturity. Other environmental factors – such as photoperiod (daily period from sunrise to sunset), soil fertility and available water in the soil – can also influence the rate of crop development.Air temperatures are usually expressed in terms of the daily minimum (min) and maximum (max).

Daily crop heat units are calculated from these min and max temperatures. There are separate calculations for day and night. The daytime relationship uses 10 °C as the base temperature and 30 °C as the optimum because warm-season crops do not develop when daytime temperatures fall below 10 °C and they develop fastest at about 30 °C. The nighttime relationship uses 4.4 °C as the base temperature and does not specify an optimum temperature because nighttime minimum temperatures very seldom exceed 25 °C.

he most common calculation for accumulated heat for corn in Canada is the ‘Ontario Crop Heat Unit’ (CHU). This calculation is based on the maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) daily temperature in degrees Celsius. This index reflects that growth rate of corn:

1. increases proportionately to minimum daily temperature (usually night-time temperature), at all temperatures above 4.4°C (40°F)

2. increases at increasing rates with maximum daily temperature (usually daytime temperature) from 10 to 30°C (50 to 86°F), then at decreasing rates to 50°C (122°F).

Agricultural Meteorology

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Research paperHeat units in relation to corn maturity in the Atlantic region of Canada,https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-1571(82)90031-0Get rights and content

Abstract: Field trials were conducted at five locations in the Atlantic region of Canada over seven years to determine relationships between climate and corn (Zea mays L.) maturity. Ear moisture at harvest was correlated with Corn Heat Units (CHU), growing degree-days above 10°C and soil temperature (r2 = 0.32 to 0.49, P ⪯ 0.01). Day/night temperature range and a latitude factor were also significant in regressions, although not likely due to ‘cause and effect’ relationships. Locally recommended hybrids required 2300–2500 CHU's to reach 30 to 35% whole plant dry matter, and 2500–2700 CHU's to achieve 35% kernel moisture. Corn grown at one location required an additional 150 CHU's to achieve maturity in comparison with the other test sites possibly due to coastal influences on climate.

Long-term weather records were used to calculate available CHU's and to construct a CHU zonation map for the region. Average CHU's available for silage corn production ranged from over 2500 in large inland valleys in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, to less than 1900 in northern New Brunswick, the south shore of Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton Island. Production of silage is presently limited to regions with 2100 CHU's or more before frost, and grain corn to regions with 2400 CHU's or more before frost Coastal regions require an additional 150 CHU's for both silage and grain corn production.

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Thank you very much for the information. I will definitely explore these options.

If you want something interesting to look into you can look at the push to legalize cannabis and how that is affecting First Nation people and their land. There is both a push for, and push away from, allowing potential cannabis corporations to produce on aboriginal land. Due to the history of corporations aggressive use of their land in the past, many leaders are reluctant to share a portion of the land for the proceeds of producing cannabis. However, there are some tribes that are eager to join because for the first time they are being compensated in a reciprocated manner. It would be interesting to look at their clauses, limitations and exactly how it will affect the aboriginal people from both an environmental and economic standpoint. I believe they also have their own judicial process to a certain degree which would also make for an excellent, stand out paper for your course.

If you want to have a brief read about it I remember first reading an article on it in the Toronto Star. Give it a read and then decide if there is enough for you to examine critically.

Good luck!

I would suggest that you reach out to Kim Burgo at Catholic Charities, USA who is expert in this area. She leads their disaster case management and disaster response program. She should be able to be contacted through their headquarters office.  My second recommendation is to reach out the National Organizations Active in Disaster. It is the professional group to which most NGOs and faith-based organizations coordinate.