According to the neoliberal mantra, anyone who is willing work hard can get ahead in our society. In an era when belief myth of meritocracy has become widespread, greater social mobility would represent promise escape from rising inequality. This paper challenges this and offers insight into fallacy individualized explanations role merit ascension. Drawing on 103 interviews with first-in-family...

This paper presents the A ected Set Priority Ceiling Protocols (ASPCP) for concurrency control in real-time object-oriented systems. These protocols are based on a combination of semantic locking and priority ceiling techniques. This paper shows that the ASPCP protocols provide higher potential concurrency for object-oriented systems than existing Priority Ceiling protocols, while still boundin...

from Effectiveness of installing overhead ceiling lifts. Reducing musculoskeletal injuries in an extended care hospital unit: American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal; 2002 Mar; 50(3):120-7.

This paper presents a localization module for mobile robot that travels around indoor environments. Our module uses the only one sensor, a single camera that looks at the front of a robot or looks up the ceiling. There is no efficient enough SLAM algorithm working on embedded system. The initial difficulty of vision based SLAM is computational complexity to acquire reliable feature on their alg...

Purpose Physicians’ spiritual and religious identities, beliefs, and practices are beginning to be explored. The objective of this study was to gather descriptive information about personal religion and spirituality from a random sample of academic American pediatricians and to compare this information with similar data from the public. Method In 2005, a Web-based survey of a random sample of 2...

The floor and ceiling functions map a real number to the largest previous or the smallest following integer, respectively. More precisely, the floor function ⌊x⌋ is the largest integer not greater than x and the ceiling function ⌈x⌉ is the smallest integer not less than x. Iverson [7, p. 127] introduced this notation and the terms floor and ceiling in the early 1960’s and now this notation is s...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to review the literature on the use of ceiling lifts to perform patient transfers in healthcare settings. BACKGROUND Manual patient transfers present a high risk of injury. Ceiling lifts are increasingly used in healthcare facilities. Despite this, little is known about the effects of this new technology. METHODS Research and review articles were searched on five...

OBJECTIVES We compare expert opinion with perceptual judgment regarding the influence of color on the perceived height and width of interior rooms. BACKGROUND We hypothesize that contrary to popular belief, ceiling and wall lightness have additive effects on perceived height, whereas the lightness contrast between these surfaces is less important. We assessed the intuitions of architectural e...

Multiple Glass Ceilings Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage gap grows across job levels (glass ceiling at the vertical margin) and across the deciles of the intra-job-level wage distribution (glass ceiling at the horizontal margin). ...