Information
Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it is that which answers the question of "What an entity is" and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts. Thus the concept becomes related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, education, knowledge, meaning, understanding, mental stimuli, pattern, perception, representation, and entropy. Information is associated with data. The difference is that information resolves uncertainty. Data can represent redundant symbols, but approaches information through optimal data compression. Information can be transmitted in time, via data …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English
The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …
state began collecting welfare expenditure information in unplanned and superficial ways in the 1750s … groups.23 The supplementary and overlapping information-gathering required by the Liberal welfare reforms … reforms marked a step-change in both information flows and central controls, themes which have continued … Yet, we should also understand that complex information garnered by the general public through multiple … contradictory channels usually becomes distant information, creating a significant gap between what “the …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 November 2024 English
This study aims to highlight the key supply chain barriers in localizing electric vehicle (EV) battery cell manufacturing in India. It summarizes consultations with 12 companies working on battery cell …
scheme for auto components manufacturing (Press Information Bureau [PIB], 2022a). The PLI-ACC scheme prioritizes … “digital twin of the physical battery that conveys information about all applicable sustainability and lifecycleIISD …
Fraser Institute · 13 November 2024 English
Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …
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Fraser Institute · 13 November 2024 English
Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …
10 We can assume that the exactitude of the information gives credit to its reliability. We thus can … Demonstration des Daseins Gottes, gives us more information about the 34 paolo livieriobject that metaphysics …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …
book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits … Richard Lafferty. “He’s able to disseminate information in a very calming and clear fashion. There’s … propagate cuttings. He was fascinated by this new information and skill. Together they covered the rows of … in forms for “absolutely free muscle building information on how to build a handsome body.” That sounded … up by the Indian Affairs Branch to exchange information between Ottawa and the Dene. At this meeting …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …
author would be grateful to receive further information so that any omissions may be corrected in future … by the movement and flow of people, objects, information, and ideas. The key components of the mobilities … trends. The voluminous quantity of available information on the development of individual railway lines … groups, using the technology of Geographic Information Systems (gis). The use of gis by historians … the 1921 Census (the first census to cap- ture information on commuting activity) indicated only a limited …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …
Action titled “Missing Children and Burial Information.” We remain unclear about the number of children … Oblates of Mary Immaculate will not release this information to the Secwépemc Nation. The first half of our … representation of “Missing Children and Burial Information.” There are 22 titled sections in the Calls …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …
the government’s control mechanisms 77 3 Information Gathering: Testing, Contact Tracing, and … Market Failure Hypothesis: Market Performance, Information Costs, and Opt-Out Costs 219 10 Opinion-Responsive … retail, and food companies, 2020 224 9.2 Information and opt-out costs 227 9.3 Workplace injury claims … Transfer cihi Canadian Institute for Health Information cmo chief medical officer cPha Canadian Public … long-standing issues with health surveillance information had gone unresolved, and past recommendations …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.
to include any perception which changes the information that a person has.3 This definition clearly … dynamic process, as we saw earlier, in which information moves back and forth between different nodes … mid-1970s as well as the key role that accurate information played in the campaign for prisoners’ rights …