Introverted Locals or World Citizens?

Health world views of post-Soviet citizens.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has had an adverse impact on the lives of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. This paper reports on qualitative case studies including interviews, focus groups and children's essays from Russia and Ukraine, on the topics of everyday understanding of health and the factors influencing it. The majority report poor health and difficult material circumstances. Their ...

First - class Citizens in a Computational World

state machine (ASM) Gurevich, Börger, et al (14). Reaction-diffusion machine (RDM) Adamatzky et al. (3; 5; 1) 2004/2005. Related : Turing’s 1952 paper (43) and the chemical abstract machine (6) (1992). Blob Hartmann, Jones, Simonsen (22; 23) 2010. Yet another model, described next. Article submitted to Royal Society 6 Neil D. Jones and Jakob Grue Simonsen 3. A biologically motivated model of co...

Wage differentials between foreigners and locals - discrimination or unobserved skills ?

This paper analyzes a regulated trans-border labor market segmented by skills in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland). Swiss regulation distinguishes two types of foreign labor force, i.e. trans-border commuters with de facto free access and immigrant workers regulated by quota. While wages are generally observed to be lower for trans-border commuters than for locals, immigrant workers accomplish...

Programs=data=first-class citizens in a computational world.

From a programming perspective, Alan Turing's epochal 1936 paper on computable functions introduced several new concepts, including what is today known as self-interpreters and programs as data, and invented a great many now-common programming techniques. We begin by reviewing Turing's contribution from a programming perspective; and then systematize and mention some of the many ways that later...

Embedded Brokerage : Hubs versus Locals