No ordinary commodity – but quite ordinary consumers

Alcohol: no ordinary commodity--a summary of the second edition.

This article summarizes the contents of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2nd edn). The first part of the book describes why alcohol is not an ordinary commodity, and reviews epidemiological data that establish alcohol as a major contributor to the global burden of disease, disability and death in high-, middle- and low-income countries. This section also documents how international beer and spir...

No ordinary time.

EDITORIAL What Price for an Extra-ordinary Commodity?

The Scottish Government can make laws independently of the London (Westminster) government, but taxation within the UK is not devolved. Thus, the Scottish Government, when proposing measures to reduce harm from alcohol, cannot raise alcohol-tax to increase the price of alcoholic beverages. Instead, especially to reduce the sale of very cheap alcoholic beverages such as industrial cider (Gill et...

Block Jacobi for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations: no ordinary Schwarz methods

For classical discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations, like conforming finite elements or finite differences, block Jacobi methods are equivalent to classical Schwarz methods with minimal overlap, see for example [4]. This is different when the linear system (1) is obtained using DG methods. Our paper is organized as follows: in section 2 we describe several DG methods for li...

Finding an Ordinary Conic and an Ordinary Hyperplane

Given a nite set of non-collinear points in the plane there exists a line that passes through exactly two points. Such a line is called an ordinary line. An e cient algorithm for computing such a line was proposed by Mukhopadhyay et al [MAH97]. In this note we extend this result in two directions. We rst show how to use this algorithm to compute an ordinary conic, that is, a conic passing throu...