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Who Enters and Exits the Saudi Labour Market? A Look into Saudi Arabia’s Constructions Sector: Data Driven Computational Models for Prediction and Simulation of Path Dependencies in Complex Dynamic Labour Market Systems
Get PDF• Researchers are developing a model to understand the demographic profile of workers entering and exiting the labor market in Saudi Arabia.
• Younger Saudis are more likely to move into and out of the construction sector, so policymakers could optimize labor market policies by targeting Saudis early on in their career, when they undertake more employment decisions
On the possibility of an Eley–Rideal mechanism for ammonia synthesis on Mn6N5\mathplusx (x = 1)-(111) surfaces
Get PDFMaking decisions about saving energy in Compressed Air Systems using Ambient Intelligence and AI
No full textCompressed air systems are often the most expensive and inefficient industrial systems. For every 10 units of energy, less than 1 unit turns into useful compressed air. Air compressors tend to be kept fully on even if they are not (all) needed. The research proposed in this short paper will combine real time ambient sensing with Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management to automatically improve efficiency in energy intensive manufacturing. The research will minimise energy use for air compressors based on real-time manufacturing conditions (and anticipated future requirements). Ambient data will provide detailed information on performance. Artificial Intelligence will make sense of that data and automatically act. Knowledge Management will facilitate the processing of information to advise human operators on actions to reduce energy use and maintain productivity. The aim is to create new intelligent techniques to save energy in compressed air systems
Review of Walter Map and the Matter of Britain, by Joshua Byron Smith (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
No full textInvestigating Shame: A comparison between the Freudian psychoanalysis and cognitive approach in psychology and a theological-moral view about shame
No full text'Marks on the Wall: Art, Feminism and Virginia Woolf'
Get PDFA review article on 'Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings'. Tate St Ives; and the book *Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings* edited by Laura Smith and Enrico Tassi with Eloise Bennett. Tate Publishing, 2018
Age, menopausal status and the bladder microbiome
Get PDFObjectives: The bladder is not sterile but contains a healthy community of microbes termed the microbiome. Alterations in the bladder microbiome have been demonstrated in disease states such as the overactive bladder. The microbiome in other anatomical niches is known to alter with age eg the vagina. The objective of this study was to identify if the bladder microbiome in healthy women varies with age and menopausal status.
Study design: Urine from 79 healthy women attending secondary care gynaecological clinics with no urinary symptoms provided clean catch mid-stream urine specimens. Urine was centrifuged and the resultant pellet was re-suspended and inoculated onto chocolate agar plates and cultured under either aerobic or anaerobic conditions. Morphologically different colonies were purity plated and 16 s rRNA gene sequencing was performed. A microbe genomic basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) was used to identify the genus of the bacteria.
Results: There was no significant correlation between the age of a woman and the number of different genera identified (r=-0.034, p = 0.79). There were few significant differences in the frequency with which the majority of organisms were found in pre and post-menopausal women. The exceptions however were lactobacillus, which was more common in pre-menopausal women (31 vs 3 p = 0.002) and Mobiluncus, which was more common in post-menopausal women (0 vs 3 p = 0.02).
Conclusions: There was no significant correlation between patient age and diversity of the bladder microbiome but large numbers of different organisms were identified. Significant differences were however observed for Lactobacillus which is more common in pre-menopausal women and Mobiluncus which is more common in post-menopausal women.
Keywords: Lactobacillus; Microbiome; Overactive bladder; Women
Epidemics of liquidity shortages in interbank markets
Get PDFFinancial contagion from liquidity shocks has being recently ascribed as a prominent driver of systemic risk in interbank lending markets. Building on standard compartment models used in epidemics, in this work we develop an EDB (Exposed–Distressed–Bankrupted) model for the dynamics of liquidity shocks reverberation between banks, and validate it on electronic market for interbank deposits data. We show that the interbank network was highly susceptible to liquidity contagion at the beginning of the 2007/2008 global financial crisis, and that the subsequent micro-prudential and liquidity hoarding policies adopted by banks increased the network resilience to systemic risk—yet with the undesired side effect of drying out liquidity from the market. We finally show that the individual riskiness of a bank is better captured by its network centrality than by its participation to the market, along with the currently debated concept of “too interconnected to fail
Valdemar 2. Sejr, Matthew Paris og den engelske invasionsfrygt, 1240-41
No full textValdemar II, Matthew Paris and the rumours of a Danish invasion, 1240–41
In 1240, the English chronicler Matthew Paris recorded rumours in England that suggested the Danes were preparing to invade the kingdom. In fact, the suspected invasion travelled eastward. Matthew Paris was not, however, put at ease. In 1241 he recorded the death of Valdemar II, whom he alleged had been boasting of his right to the English throne and his plans to conquer England. This article investigates Matthew Paris’ story, and his knowledge of medieval Denmark and attitudes towards England in medieval Denmark. Matthew had not himself been to Denmark, but had access to informants with personal experience of the Danish royal court: three English clerks and artisans who had served under Valdemar II before returning to England c. 1237 and, in the case of the clerk Nicholas of St Albans, finding service in the English royal court. Matthew Paris seems not to have been alone in his anxieties about the intentions of Valdemar II. In 1240, King Henry III of England sent two separate missions to acquire more intelligence about the situation in Denmark. They must have brought back reassuring news, for English sources give no indication of preparations against invasion in the following years.
Both English and Danish sources indicate that it is unlikely that an actual invasion force had been made ready in 1240. Danish sources do, however, show that Matthew’s information about the Danish boasts about their rights to the English crown are likely to have had a factual basis. In the Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus makes much of the Danish kings’ rights to the English crown. These claims were also incorporated into the hagiographical literature and liturgy for St. Knud IV. Knýtlinga saga, whose author had been part of Valdemar II’s court, also made much of them. The lost overlordship of England continued to play a role in the historical imagination of the Danish elite long into the thirteenth century