Executive Summary.................................................................................................................................................2 I. Key Issues for Energy Policy.............................................................................................................................3 II. Pricing a Kilowatt Hour...................................................

While empirical evidence continues to show that low socio-economic position is associated with less likely chances of being in good health, our understanding of why this is so remains less than clear. In this paper we examine the theoretical foundations for a structure-agency approach to the reduction of social inequalities in health. We use Max Weber's work on lifestyles to provide the explana...

A decentralized failure detection and isolation (FDI) methodology, which is robust with respect to model uncertainties and noise, is presented. Redundancy metrics are developed, and optimization problems are posed for the choices of robust parity relations. Closed-form solutions for some special failure cases are given. Connections are drawn with other disciplines, and the use of the metrics to...

Este artigo é um relato meio anedótico de uma jornada interpretativa que começou casualmente e foi se aprofundando adensando à medida traduções do conto original Machado Assis intitulado “O Relógio Ouro” foram sendo conhecidas comparadas. Dois termos em particular, “nhonhô” “Iaiá”, têm diferentes soluções tradutórias acabam influindo no texto tal modo a mudar o desfecho sua interpretação como t...

In this article we explore the experience of suffering from a surgical site infection, a common complication of surgery affecting around 5 per cent of surgical patients, via an interview study of 17 patients in the Midlands in the UK. Despite their prevalence, the experience of surgical site infections has received little attention so far. In spite of the impairment resulting from these iatroge...

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A. Topics and Tools ............................................................................. 1 B. The Microeconomics of Innovation and Human Capital Investment ........... 3 Returns to research and development .............................................................................. 4 Human capital vs. knowledge capital ....................................................................

This article explores and extends the field of historical rural sociology using the idea of respectability via a biographical study of 20 older adults from North Wales (UK) for whom the performance of respectability represented a form of social, symbolic or cultural capital. It entailed the active negotiation and management of barriers between differing constituencies of opinion, generations an...