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This Diary summarises the legislative and administrative changes made in the social policy field during 1983 by the Commonwealth government and by some of the State governments. It provides a ready reference for research workers, and can also be used as a succinct and factual account of policy during the year. In addition to Commonwealth legislation and events, this Diary attempts to cover the main policy changes at State level in the fields of social security and welfare however it has not been possible to obtain complete coverage for all fields and all States.

Recently, autonomous robot teams have been implemented broadly in many social and military applications such as firefighting, agriculture, search and rescue, mapping, target tracking, and docking. A mix of different types of ground robots and aerial vehicles can be employed in a robot team to accomplish tasks efficiently and robustly. Such heterogeneous systems show unparalleled benefits in complex tasks compared to teams composed of identical robot types. In a heterogeneous robot team, precise relative localization, i.e., estimating a robot's position with respect to its neighbor robots, plays a key role. We develop a relative localization system for air-ground robot teams where an aerial vehicle and multiple ground robots work in coordination to perform a reliable relative position estimation. The aerial vehicle is employed to detect special patterns on the ground robots by an onboard monocular camera, while the ground robots perform relative position estimation based on inter-robot distances acquired by ultrawideband sensors and the bearing and heading angles received from the aerial vehicle by communication. Thus, the aerial vehicle serves as an absolute frame provider for the entire team. Notably, each robot in the team uses onboard communication and computation capabilities solely without any need for an external localization infrastructure, making the team realizable in all conditions including GNSS-denied environments. We propose a multi-rate extended Kalman filter algorithm to handle different data rates of the sensor measurements. We carried out an extensive simulation study with a drone and five ground robots in a leader-first follower formation. Simulation results showed a successful estimation performance with an error rate of up to five centimeters in the relative position estimations in both axes. ; Son yıllarda, otonom robotlar yangın söndürme, tarım, arama kurtarma, haritalandırma, hedef takibi ve yönelme gibi bir çok sosyal ve askeri uygulamalarda yaygınca kullanılmıştır. Görevleri verimli ve ...

This article reviews the burgeoning literature on work–life balance and family-friendly policies in European countries, noting the new interdisciplinary dialogue between traditional 'work' and 'family' disciplines. It examines the findings from interviews with economic actors, suggesting that, while work–life balance and family-friendly policies are an issue everywhere, progress is very uneven. Overall, strong traditional family policies have not contributed to work–life balance, since they are predicated on a traditional male breadwinner model. A combination of strong demand for female labour in the service sector and equal opportunities policies is, however, causing employers and government to address the issue.

The Alberta Gaming Research Institute commissioned this literature review of the economics of gambling and government and industry gambling policy and practice. The review is designed to accomplish the following objectives: 1. To identify scholarly articles in academic journals, texts, and conference proceedings pertaining to (a) the economics of gambling, and (b) public and private sector gambling policy and practice. 2. To compile an electronic database to store the citations and, where available, the annotations of the identified references. 3. To provide a summary report that discusses the identified literature and highlights the contributions of Albertans to this field of endeavor. 4. To begin the process of generating interest and building capacity to conduct gambling-related research within the Alberta Gaming Research Institute. To complement this review of the scholarly literature, Dr. Peter Bowal and his University of Calgary colleague's conducted a separate review and analysis of legal and government documents in the gambling policy domain. The results of the Bowal review are contained in a separate report. ; Alberta Gaming Research Institute

Key Features:Focuses exclusively on regional trade agreements (RTAs)Takes a novel approach by combining theory and implementation, supported by empirical evidenceProvides an exhaustive account of major RTAs and serves as a valuable and credible information source on international trade agreements.

The aim of this paper is to give an idea of some quantified effects on the Kenyan economy which arise from changes on the world coffee market