Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Debt. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

Methods in the study of marine mammal stress: Measuring binding affinity of corticosteroid binding globulin

Abstract: BRENDAN DELEHANTY, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A5, Canada; GREGORY D. BOSSART, Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia 30313, U.S.A.; CORY CHAMPAGNE, National Marine Mammal Foundation, 2240 Shelter Island Drive, Suite 200, San Diego, California 92106, U.S.A. and Old Dominion University, Department of Biological Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, U.S.A.; DANIEL E. CROCKER, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, California 94928, U.S.A.; PATRICIA A. FAIR, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, U.S.A.; MARTIN HAULENA, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, PO Box 3232, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3X8, Canada; DORIAN HOUSER, National Marine Mammal Foundation, 2240 Shelter Island

Common services in government

Abstract: . The provision of supporting services to a number of departments and agencies by one or more common service departments is the application in government administration of the economic principle of the specialization or division of labour. Common service agencies are used widely in the Government of Canada, in provincial and municipal governments, and indeed within most large organizations both in the public and private sectors of the economy. This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of common service agencies and considers some of the principles which can contribute to their success. The paper then focuses on four major issues which face both users and suppliers of common services. These are (a) whether the use of common services should be optional or mandatory; (b) whether or not the users of common services should pay for the services they receive; (c) under what circumstances common service agencies should buy their services from the private sector and under what circumstances they should staff to provide those services themselves; and (d) whether common service agency efficiency and effectiveness should be subordinated to other policy objectives. The paper concludes that the use of common services in government has produced many of the advantages inherent in the specialization or division of labour as well as some attendant disadvantages. Whether common services will succeed or fail depends in no small part on what might be called the level of civilization of the organization in which they operate. Sommaire. La prostration de services de soutien a plusieurs ministeres et organismes par un on certains ministeres designes est une illustration de l'application clans l'administration publique du principe economique de la specialisation ou de la division du travail. Les organismes de services communs sont tres repandus a tous les paliers de gouvernement et du reste, on les retrouve dans la plupart des grandes entreprises publiques et privees. L'auteur de l'article fait le bilan des avantages et des inconvenients des organismes de services comniuns et examine certains des principes qui pourraient contribuer a leur succes. Il s'attache ensuite a quatre questions importantes que se posent tant la clientele que les fournisseurs des services communs, a savoir: (a) si le recours aux services communs doit etre facultatif ou obligatoire; (b) si les utilisateurs des services communs doivent payer ou non les services; (c) quelles sont les circonstances qui peuvent amener les organismes de services communs a acheter leurs services du secteur prive et celles ou ils doivent s'attacher le personnel leur permettant de fournir eux-memes ces services; et (d) si le fonctionnement et l'efficacite. des organismes de services communs doivent etre subordonnes a d'autres objectifs prioritaires. L'auteur conclut que l'utilisation des services communs au sein du gouvernement comporte un grand nombre des avantages inherents a la specialisation ou a la division du travail en meme temps que certains inconvenients inevitables. Le succes ou l'echec des services communs tient en grande partie a ce que l'on pourrait appeler le niveau de civilisation de l'organisation qu'ils servent.

Receiving Antennas for the Navstar Global Positioning System

Abstract: Two new types of shaped beam antennas have been designed and developed for reception of signals from satellites operating in the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. The antennas are required, to provide a circularly polarized 2? steradian coverage. To achieve the required radiation pattern, arrays of scattering elements are used to shape the pattern of a cavity-backed planar spiral. This paper describes the antennas and their principles of operation, and presents their measured radiation patterns.

A Computer Software Price Index Using Scanner Data

Abstract: In the last 20 years, the expenditure share of prepackaged software in the national output has grown. The large number of characteristics in computer software make hedonic regression techniques impractical for purposes of controlling for quality changes. In this study, matched model price indices are constructed using monthly scanner data on prices and unit values for various prepackaged computer software titles and categories sold in Canada from January 1996 to June 2000. Quality differences are controlled for by applying the maximum overlap method. Results show that prices declined during the period studied at an average annual rate of 5.9%.