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Shortening “arm’s length”: From the Canada Council to the SSHRC
Gregory Klages(Gregory Klages ) 한국캐나다학회 2011 Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS) Vol.17 No.2
The Canada Council was created in 1957, with an endowment of public funds, partial insulation from government interference in its decision-making, and a mandate to encourage the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Calls to sever responsibility for the humanities and social sciences from the Council’s responsibilities were made almost immediately. Representatives from these fields were displeased with the amount of money the Council granted to them relative to the support it provided the arts. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the government sought to enhance the political role played by culture within the nation-state, to develop a national science policy, as well as to rationalize its own spending. The Council came under increasing pressure to take government priorities into consideration. Its “arm’s length” status did not co-exist well with the gov-ernment’s policy program, eventually leading to the creation of a new federal agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The Effect of Earnings Announcement Timing on Liquidity
Gregory B Gaynor,Richard M Morton,Joel N Morse People&Global Business Association 2013 Global Business and Finance Review Vol.18 No.2
The proportion of after-market-close (AMC) earnings announcements has recently increased to more than 40% of the total number of earnings announcements (Berkman & Truong, 2009). Doyle and Magilke (2009) conclude that managers do not announce AMC to hide bad news; however, they do not directly address other explanations for the AMC announcement increase. Thus, the cause(s) remains an open question. Interestingly, the increase in AMC earnings announcements has coincided with the emergence of a 24/7 news environment and a marked increase in noise trading. We posit that managers are increasingly announcing earnings AMC instead of before-market-open (BMO) to take advantage of this increased noise trading-thereby increasing the liquidity of their stock. We show evidence, after controlling for other factors, that announcing AMC instead of BMO increases liquidity. In addition, the relationship between AMC and liquidity is increasing in analysts' coverage-consistent with the view that AMC announcements generate the largest increase in liquidity for those stocks with high investor interest.
Gregory Snyder,Madison R. Jones 한국언어재활사협회 2017 Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders Vol.2 No.1
Purpose: Persistent developmental stuttering is generally considered to be a speech disorder characterized by repetitions, prolongations and postural fixations that is relatively resistant to therapy. While mainstream stuttering therapy continues to rely on behavioral speech targets, research suggests that mirror neuron networks can be activated to temporarily induce natural sounding fluent speech via exposure to second speech signals. As a consequence, the mirror neuron system model of stuttering predicts that initiating gestural primes would be equally effective at enhancing fluency whether they are produced or perceived by the speaker. This study tests this notion by measuring the effects of producing and perceiving an initiating silent oral opening oral gesture on stuttering frequency. Methods: Eight participants of varied overt stuttering severity completed one control and four experimental speaking conditions. Participants read aloud 300-syllable passages for all speaking conditions; four experimental speaking conditions tested the effects of endogenously-produced and exogenously-perceived opening oral gestures. Results: Study data reveal that both the production and perception of initiatory gestural priming significantly enhance fluency. There were no significant differences between the perception and production of the initiating oral opening gestures. Conclusions: Coupled with existing research, these data suggest a primitive response of the action understanding achieved by mirror neuron networks, thereby enabling an individual who stutters to fluently initiate speech via a primitive lower order network, and bypassing the activation higher order linguistic networks where the neural circuitry associated with the etiology stuttering is speculated to occur.