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 & Productivity. 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.

The Duration of Unemployment: A User Guide

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to introduce a new measure of the average duration of unemployment spells using Canadian data. The paper summarizes the work of Corak (1993) and Corak and Heisz (1994) on the average complete duration of unemployment in a non-technical way by focusing on the distinction between it and the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is regularly released by Statistics Canada. It is pointed out that the latter is a lagging cyclical indicator. The average complete duration of unemployment is a more accurate indicator of prevailing labor market conditions, but some assumptions required in its derivation also imply that it lags actual developments.

The need for a meta-tag standard for audio and visual materials

Abstract: In Canada, as elsewhere around the world, government is trying to move into the Internet Age, to communicate more and more interactively with an everincreasing portion of the electorate and to increase the interoperability of digitized media. The Canadian Government Online Initiative, of which we are a part, is an example of this trend. To facilitate access to our materials, we need metatags, metatags that, by and large were originally set up to deal with print media. Thus, we have been struggling in recent years to apply metadata to a test database of Canadian cultural audio and visual clips that we call "Heritage Line". We have followed many avenues for making our data searchable and accessible. We have used the Dublin Core schema, both with the qualified set of elements as well as the unqualified set. Our problems arose specifically with respect to the elements 'type' and 'format'. Mpeg-7 currently appears to offer a solution to our problem.

Needle-Free Delivery of Veterinary DNA Vaccines

Abstract: Currently, there are a number of obstacles barring effective immunization of large animal species with DNA-based vaccines. Generally, large concentrations of DNA and multiple doses are required before an effective immune response is detected. To overcome these impediments we have developed approaches to deliver the plasmids via needle-free methods, which have been shown to be more effective than traditional needle and syringe methods. Furthermore, we will describe the delivery of vaccines to mucosal surfaces. The procedures described will use sheep and cattle as model veterinary species.