718 research outputs found
Degree of irrationality of a very general Abelian variety
No full textConsider a very general abelian variety of dimension at least and an integer . We show that if the map has a -dimensional fiber then . This extends results of the second-named author which covered the cases . As a geometric application, we prove that any dominant rational map from a very general abelian -fold to has degree at least for , thus improving results of Alzati and the last-named author in the case of a very general abelian variety
Exploring small area demand for grocery retailers in tourist areas
No full textNewing, A., Clarke, G.P. and Clarke, M. 2014. Exploring small area demand for grocery retailers in tourist areas. Tourism Economics, 20(2), pp.407-427This paper uses data from a major loyalty card scheme to draw insights about the characteristics of grocery expenditure by tourists. The authors explore the volume, value and composition of store based visitor expenditure using consumer data from the loyalty card scheme. They focus on grocery spending at selected stores in Cornwall, a popular tourist destination in South West England. Theloyalty card data provide a valuable source rarely available for academic investigations. The authors are able to analyse visitor spend by socio-economic and geodemographic characteristics, drawing a range of comparisons with residential demand from within the store catchment areas. They demonstrate that visitor grocery expenditure is complex and varies by store, destination and type of customer. The paper presents evidence to suggest that the current approaches used to estimate sales uplift and local-level economic impact from visitor demand are unable to account for the complexities of this form of expenditure. Based on these insights, the authors recommend that sophisticated modelling is employed to estimate the impact of visitor expenditure
Places like home? Physical, social and psychological aspects in the making of home and other environments in the healthcare of older people
No full textWorkshop 3. Session 3.2: Caring and playing Abstract: In this paper I consider the ways in which the home and other residential environments are constructed and experienced in the delivery of novel forms of healthcare and rehabilitation for older people in the UK which take place largely outside the walls of the hospital. Drawing on notions such as the \u91therapeutic landscape\u92 which have been developed in the medical geography literature, I consider critically the discourses of home and homeliness put forward in the academic and policy literature, using testimony about the experiences of those cared for in different settings (including their own homes, residential and nursing homes, sheltered housing and the hospital) given by health professionals to reflect on the various ways in which such places are imagined, constructed and lived. I give particular consideration to (i) psychological and discursive notions of home, (ii) the ways in which social relationships between actors in care provision affect the experience of place, and (iii) the role of health policy in determining the function of place in the provision of care, and the ways in which all these aspects interact to structure the experience of home and other places. The actions and interactions of those involved in the care process \u91make place\u92 as they take place in the homes of older people and other settings, with power crucial in determining whose social and symbolic constructions of place are dominant. Finally, I consider the ways in which a focus on the microgeography of the home environment itself, alongside that of other contested settings for the healthcare and rehabilitation of older people, can illuminate the role of the physical environment, social relationships, public policy and psychological and symbolic notions in wider questions of neighbourhood, community and identity
L’assistance d’État gérée par l’assurance maladie (CMU/AME)
No full textRT6 Working Paper 2021Implementation of Universal Health Coverage (CMU) / State Medical Aid (AME) in 2000 is part of a historic tension between assistance and insurance. Far from finalizing the process of universalizing social protection, the CMU / AME constitutes a state assistance mechanism. The increase in the cost of the latter, observed and studied in a primary health insurance fund from 2004 to 2008, is embedded in a new managerial organization of physical reception which governs the classification and downgrading of users and agents. This State assistance system, linked to the reconfiguration of reception, generates, among reception agents, uses of discretionary power - ranging from benevolence to punishment - in their interrelations at the counter with the most frequent users precarious. The exercise of discretionary power originates in the new governance of health insurance which calls for the managerial rationalization of physical reception, the "control of expenditure" and the "fight against fraud". In a configuration where health insurance has been invested with a state function, the "assisted" depends strongly on the moral judgment of the agent, who by the exercise of pastoral power (Foucault, 2004) makes the doubly dependent user.La mise en oeuvre de la Couverture maladie universelle (CMU)/ Aide médicale État (AME) en 2000 s'inscrit dans une tension historique entre assistance et assurance. Loin de finaliser le processus d'universalisation de la protection sociale, la CMU/AME constitue un dispositif d'assistance d'État. La montée en charge de ce dernier, observé et étudié dans une Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie de 2004 à 2008, s'encastre dans une nouvelle organisation managériale de l'accueil physique qui préside au classement-déclassement des usagers et des agents. Ce dispositif d'assistance d'État, articulé à la reconfiguration de l'accueil engendre, chez les agents d'accueil, des usages du pouvoir discrétionnaire-allant de la bienveillance à la punition-dans leurs interrelations au guichet avec les usagers les plus précaires. L'exercice du pouvoir discrétionnaire s'origine dans la nouvelle gouvernance de l'assurance maladie qui convoque la rationalisation managériale de l'accueil physique, la « maitrise des dépenses » et la « lutte contre les fraudes ». Dans une configuration où l'assurance maladie a été investie d'une fonction d'État, l'« assisté » dépend fortement du jugement moral de l'agent, qui par l'exercice du pouvoir pastoral (Foucault, 2004) rend l'usager doublement tributaire
L’assistance d’État gérée par l’assurance maladie (CMU/AME)
No full textRT6 Working Paper 2021Implementation of Universal Health Coverage (CMU) / State Medical Aid (AME) in 2000 is part of a historic tension between assistance and insurance. Far from finalizing the process of universalizing social protection, the CMU / AME constitutes a state assistance mechanism. The increase in the cost of the latter, observed and studied in a primary health insurance fund from 2004 to 2008, is embedded in a new managerial organization of physical reception which governs the classification and downgrading of users and agents. This State assistance system, linked to the reconfiguration of reception, generates, among reception agents, uses of discretionary power - ranging from benevolence to punishment - in their interrelations at the counter with the most frequent users precarious. The exercise of discretionary power originates in the new governance of health insurance which calls for the managerial rationalization of physical reception, the "control of expenditure" and the "fight against fraud". In a configuration where health insurance has been invested with a state function, the "assisted" depends strongly on the moral judgment of the agent, who by the exercise of pastoral power (Foucault, 2004) makes the doubly dependent user.La mise en oeuvre de la Couverture maladie universelle (CMU)/ Aide médicale État (AME) en 2000 s'inscrit dans une tension historique entre assistance et assurance. Loin de finaliser le processus d'universalisation de la protection sociale, la CMU/AME constitue un dispositif d'assistance d'État. La montée en charge de ce dernier, observé et étudié dans une Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie de 2004 à 2008, s'encastre dans une nouvelle organisation managériale de l'accueil physique qui préside au classement-déclassement des usagers et des agents. Ce dispositif d'assistance d'État, articulé à la reconfiguration de l'accueil engendre, chez les agents d'accueil, des usages du pouvoir discrétionnaire-allant de la bienveillance à la punition-dans leurs interrelations au guichet avec les usagers les plus précaires. L'exercice du pouvoir discrétionnaire s'origine dans la nouvelle gouvernance de l'assurance maladie qui convoque la rationalisation managériale de l'accueil physique, la « maitrise des dépenses » et la « lutte contre les fraudes ». Dans une configuration où l'assurance maladie a été investie d'une fonction d'État, l'« assisté » dépend fortement du jugement moral de l'agent, qui par l'exercice du pouvoir pastoral (Foucault, 2004) rend l'usager doublement tributaire
Geographic profiling in Nazi Berlin: fact and fiction
No full textGeographic profiling uses the locations of connected crime sites to make inferences about the probable location of the offender’s ‘anchor point’ (usually a home, but sometimes a workplace). We show how the basic ideas of the method were used in a Gestapo investigation that formed the basis of a classic German novel about domestic resistance to the Nazis during the Second World War. We use modern techniques to re-analyse this case, and show that these successfully locate the Berlin home address of Otto and Elise Hampel, who had distributed hundreds of anti-Nazi postcards, after analysing just 34 of the 214 incidents that took place before their arrest. Our study provides the first empirical evidence to support the suggestion that analysis of minor terrorism-related acts such as graffiti and theft could be used to help locate terrorist bases before more serious incidents occur
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
No full textThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
Guest Editorial: What Can We Learn from Accessibility Modelling?
No full textInfrastructures, Systems and ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen
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