Smarter city, less just destination? Mobilities and social gaps in Barcelona

City Talk: Urban Identities, Mobilities and Textualities

Your Mobile Virtual Assistant Just Got Smarter!

A Mobile Virtual Assistant (MVA) is a communication agent that recognizes and understands free speech, and performs actions such as retrieving information and completing transactions. One essential characteristic of MVAs is their ability to learn and adapt without supervision. This paper describes our ongoing research in developing more intelligent MVAs that recognize and understand very large ...

Cervical cancer screening: Less testing, smarter testing.

In its 2009 recommendations for cervical cancer screening, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) calls for less-frequent but smarter screening that integrates testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection with the Papanicolaou (Pap) test. We review the recommendations from this and other organizations and how and why they are evolving.

Are smarter people really less risk averse ?

Using hypothetical lottery choices to measure risk preferences, Frederick (2005) finds that higher cognitive ability is associated with less risk aversion. This paper documents, however, that when using an incentive compatible measure of risk preference, attitudes towards risk are not associated to cognitive ability as measured by Frederick’s (2005) three-item cognitive reflection test. This is...

Widening social inequalities in mortality: the case of Barcelona, a southern European city.

OBJECTIVE To analyse trends in mortality inequalities in Barcelona between 1983 and 1994 by comparing rates in those electoral wards with a low socioeconomic level and rates in the remaining wards. DESIGN Mortality trends study. SETTING The city of Barcelona (Spain). SUBJECTS The study included all deaths among residents of the two groups of city wards. Details were obtained from death ce...