State workers in China have been suffering multiple negative shocks due to state sector reforms and massive lay-offs since the 1990s. One of their responses has been to engage in conventional forms of rightful resistance to assert their rights and benefits. The recent development of such labour resistance, however, has been less studied. This paper examines the recent collective rights action a...

Public transport systems have been targets in several terrorist attacks, notably in recent years, resulting in tight security measures worldwide. However, individuals’ privacy and liberty often conflict with efforts towards safety and security, making it difficult to assess the benefits of security measures balanced against the costs (e.g. citizens may be stopped, searched and asked to provide ...

Researchers are currently investigating applying benefit, or utility functions for allocating resources in limited, soft real time systems [1,2,3]. While the future of real -time computing research and practice will likely explo it the utility of benefit based models, this will not occur until a suitable system level benefit framework has been defined. This paper provides an overview of ongoing...