Scholars studying stigmatized, or “dirty work,” occupations have tended to characterize people outside of the occupation as stigmatizers and those within social supports who buffer each other from stigma. We argue that this characterization discounts unique ways stigmatization can take place heterogeneous challenges it raises for finding support occupational members. Based on a six-year qualita...

This paper introduces a method for extracting fine-grained class labels (“countries with double taxation agreements with india”) from Web search queries. The class labels are more numerous and more diverse than those produced by current extraction methods. Also extracted are representative sets of instances (singapore, united kingdom) for the class labels.

Land degradation is a major danger which restricting different areas of Iran. Systematic description of the environmentfor detection of environmental changes and the human-related causes and responses is essential in land cover changestudy. Use of land cover data allow detection of where certain changes occur, what type of change, as well as how theland is changing. Existing systems for classif...

We identify a sufficient class of coalitional form games with transferable utility for which prenucleolus coincides with the Shapley value. We then apply our result to simple games and to generalized queueing games. Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Department of Economics, University of ...

Histoplasmosis is a common endemic mycosis in the Americas, often causing severe disease in patients with AIDS. Antigen detection has become an important method for rapid diagnosis of histoplasmosis in the United States but not in Central or South America. Isolates from patients in the United States are predominantly found to be class 2 isolates when typed using the nuclear gene YPS3, while iso...