Canadian science policy has increasingly linked the value of academic knowledge to its contribution to economic competitiveness. A market vision of scientific quality is embedded in new funding criteria which encourage academic scientists to collaborate with industry, generate intellectual...

Using data from the Current Population Survey, we examine recent trends in the relative economic status of black men. Our findings point to gains in the relative wages of black men (compared to whites) during the 1990s, especially among younger workers. In 1989, the average black male worker...

This paper describes methods by which manufacturing task description and control may be modelled by a formal string grammar with varying degrees of non-determinism. We first describe the sorts of formal grammars which are useful for these purposes, and provide an introduction to the terminology...

This paper explores some of the critical issues in the development of factory automation systems. Amongst the most significant of these can be considered the role of people, the generation of controls software, the reconfiguration of the manufacturing hardware and software to allow an increased...