The geographic concentration of disadvantage is a key mechanism of inequity. In the United States, the spatial patterning of disadvantage renders it more than the sum of its individual parts and disproportionately harms economically and racially marginalized Americans. This article focuses specifically on the political effects of Medicaid beneficiaries being concentrated in particular locales. ...

Local number portability (LNP) is a key factor in the promotion of local call competition in telecommunications. By allowing a consumer to retain their number when moving between local telephone providers, LNP reduces customers’ switching costs and makes it easier for new providers to compete for customers. But regulators face a number of important choices when implementing LNP – what technolog...

Locally adaptive regression kernels (LARK) can be used as effective descriptors of generic objects, and have been used in object detection algorithms that do not require prior training [1]. This paper demonstrates how these kernels can be applied to the problem of people detection, taking into account the fact that a person can appear in a wide variety of poses, and can come in different shapes...

The ability to detect people in domestic and unconstrained environments is crucial for every service robot. The knowledge where people are is required to perform several tasks such as navigation with dynamic obstacle avoidance and human-robot-interaction. In this paper we propose a people detection approach based on 3d data provided by a RGB-D camera. We introduce a novel 3d feature descriptor ...

Tropical biologists need help. Examples show that local people can be trained to be effective parataxonomists, greatly assisting efforts to document and assess tropical biodiversity. Local collaborations also offer promising ways with which to improve natural resource management and conservation. However, for several reasons, most biologists remain slow to approve and implement these approaches...

background: evaluating the effectiveness of reengineering moheb (interventions and sociopsychological supports in disasters) project helps the managers of the welfare organization have feedback on the status of community empowerment against disasters. in this regard, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of reengineering moheb project to improve the knowledge, attitude, and performanc...

Rural areas across Europe face a range of problems, including declining farm incomes, ageing populations, unstable housing markets, high levels of outward migration or long distance commuting, withdrawal of basic services and difficulties faced by those without access to a car or public transport routes. The policy response at EU and national levels has been to shift from "productivist" measure...

The debate concerning sustainability and growth in rural areas of the UK is attracting the attention of policymakers at both national and local levels. Little surprise, as the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) indicates that the net migration from urban to rural areas in England in 2009 was 92,000 people (CRC, 2010). This figure reveals a renewed interest shown by people to move to the cou...