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A study of the Hong Kong home ownership scheme.
No full textby Cheung Hoi Tat, So Chee Wing.Bibliography: leaves [151-153]Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 198
Reviewing the impacts of eco-labelling of forest products on different dimensions of sustainability in Europe
No full textincreasing costs continue to be a huge setback for producers. The ecological dimension demonstrated restored landscapes as a result of disturbance reductions. Nonetheless, the insufficient preservation of trees and areas with high conservation values during felling have undermined forest integrity and biodiversity protection. More rigorous marketing strategies and campaigns might be needed to address the profitability issue. Also, quantitative measures for on-the-ground performance should be enacted to leverage the unique strengths of forest eco-labelling in institutionalising cross-sector cooperation and normalising environmental discourses in forestry
Social Robots and Wearable Sensors for Mitigating Meltdowns in Autism - A Pilot Test
No full textYoung individuals with ASD may exhibit challenging behaviors. Among these, self-injurious behavior (SIB) is the most devastating for a person’s physical health and inclusion within the community. SIB refers to a class of behaviors that an individual inflicts upon himself or herself, which may potentially result in physical injury (e.g. hitting one’s own head with the hand or the wrist, banging one’s head on the wall, biting oneself and pulling out one’s own hair). We evaluate the feasibility of a wrist-wearable sensor in detecting challenging behaviors in a child with autism prior to any visible signs through the monitoring of the child’s heart rate, electrodermal activity, and movements. Furthermore, we evaluate the feasibility of such sensor to be used on an ankle instead of the wrist to reduce harm due to hitting oneself by hands and to improve wearable tolerance. Thus, we conducted two pilot tests. The first test involved a wearable sensor on the wrist of a child with autism. In a second test, we investigated wearable sensors on the wrist and on the ankle of a neurotypical child. Both pilot test results showed that the readings from the wearable sensors correlated with the children’s behaviors that were obtained from the videos taken during the tests. Wearable sensors could provide additional information that can be passed to social robots or to the caregivers for mitigating SIBs
INTRODUZIONE-WE ARE WINNING WING
No full textWe are winning wing, ovvero “Noi siamo l’ala vincente”, è il testo poetico sine nomine che il soggetto collettivo “Noi Rebeldìa 2010” (“Noi Ribellione 2010”) ha usato come incipit per dare un input alla composizione di un’opera a più mani. Il testo poetico, attraverso ben sei diverse redazioni, si è andato trasformando sotto le mani degli autori (l’autore dell’incipit più altri ventisette poeti), costituendo una scrittura poetica pluri-focalizzata, in cui si passa dall’Io al Noi.
“Noi Rebeldìa 2010”, soggetto collettivo proponente, si è rivolto per quest’opera a due gruppi di autori: il primo è stato interpellato per chiamata diretta, il secondo, invece, ha agito spontaneamente, prelevando il testo dell’incipit pubblicato online e scegliendo un frammento cui agganciarsi: è da notare, quindi, l’uso ‘intelligente’ che viene fatto delle risorse che la multimedialità ingenera. Questo collettivo è riuscito a trovare un modo nuovo, ingegnoso e brillante, per sfruttare gli strumenti di cui il mondo contemporaneo dispone, come internet e la multimedialità, trasformandoli da semplici mezzi a strategie di composizione. In tal modo si è aperta una nuova opportunità, che permette l’apertura di una nuova via per la sopravvivenza della letteratura contemporanea; inoltre, questa modalità di composizione ha permesso di aprire un canale verso l’esterno e ha condotto alla valorizzazione delle differenze nel rapporto dialogico con l’altro da sé, che porta nella scrittura collettiva a logiche di neocreolizzazione
Asymmetric Stereo with Catadioptric Lens: High Quality Image Generation for Intelligent Robot
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
No full textThe Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this paper: 1. The Washington Consensus was based on a wrong reading of the East Asian growth experience. This explains why some observers have called the trade regimes of Korea and Taiwan in the 1965- 1980 period “free trade regimes” even though they featured extensive import tariffs and export subsidies. 2. There have been two phases to the Washington Consensus doctrine. The mantra of the first phase (Washington Consensus Mark 1) is “get your prices right”, and the falsification of this first mantra led to the emergence of the second phase of the Washington Consensus doctrine. The new mantra from the Washington Consensus Mark 2 is “get the institutions right.” The danger is that an elastic definition of the term “institutions” will render the current mantra intellectually vacuous. 3. While central planning went overboard in suppressing the private market economy, the Washington Consensus runs the danger of denying the state its rightful role in providing an important range of public goods. The Washington Consensus also runs the danger of denying the limitations of self-help in the case of sub-Saharan Africa by overlooking the possibility of poverty traps. 4. The Washington Consensus does not understand that the ultimate engine of growth in a predominantly private market economy is technological innovations, and that the state can play a role in facilitating technological innovations. The Washington Consensus is too hooked upon trade-led growth to acknowledge that science-led growth is becoming even more important. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth potential of a country. For example, the trade-led growth strategy of East Asia cannot work with the same efficiency for a landlocked country. Foreign direct investment is also less likely to go to places that are malaria- infested.Washington Consensus, poverty trap, institutions, geography, ecology
Extreme Right and Populism: A Frame Analysis of Extreme Right Wing Discourses in Italy and Germany. IHS Political Science Series No. 121, July 2010
No full textThis paper addresses the interactions between the extreme right and populism, looking at right wing discourses in Italy and Germany, focusing on different types of extreme right organizations (political parties, violent subcultural/young right wing groups, and political movements), and adopting a social movement perspective. Through a frame analysis conducted on several types of organizational documents (newspapers, websites, online guest books and forums, and other forms of publications), covering a period from 2000-2006, for a total of 4000 frames, it explores empirically the aspect of the conceptualization of the populism by the extreme right, showing the bridging of the appeal to the people with some traditional frames of the extreme right, such as nativism and authoritarianism, and stressing how the central populist frames (the people versus the elite) are linked to the extreme right definition of the 'us' and the 'them', when developing diagnoses, prognoses and motivations to action. A political opportunity and discursive approach will be useful in explaining the different configurations of populist frames depending on country and organizational type
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