Search results

This article is a summary of the session topic “Art and rapid prototyping” that was part of this online conference called The Future of Rapid Prototyping. The author discusses general topics covered in the conference and elaborates on the potential for collaboration between science and art, especially as it relates to rapid prototyping. There were no formal studies conducted – only observations on the speculative nature of rapid prototyping in art.

In interviews, Jamie Lee Curtis positions Halloween (2018) as a #MeToo film. As merely self-serving publicity, this reading is far too simplistic. In Halloween (1978) Laurie Strode is victimised; she then assumes the role of quintessential Final Girl as described by Carol J. Clover, providing the template for the entire sub-genre of horror slasher films birthed in its wake. However, in the similarly titled 2018 film, Laurie is no longer a victim. Instead of following the role of the stereotypical Final Girl of slasher films, she falls more in line with one of Yvonne Tasker's Warrior Women.

This chapter investigates Laurie Strode's transformation throughout the Halloween franchise. Once passive and victimised, Laurie has evolved: No longer the Final Girl – or victim – her position and behaviour in this film is much more in line with the neoliberal Warrior Woman of action films. Thus, the film assigns her the role of action heroine as a vehicle for responding to the concerns of the #MeToo era – and in this era, women are no longer victims. Women can and will fight back.

This paper discusses key issues for RP laboratory safety. It considers health and safety awareness, a health and safety plan of action and a health and safety follow‐up. A conference discussion summary is featured at the end of the article.

The purpose of this paper is to calculate the subjective equivalence scale and poverty rates for Poland and compare them to equivalence scales in Eastern and Western Europe.

The analysis is based on European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data for 2005-2012. In particular, the authors capture the minimum needs income question and, knowing the minimum needs income of each individual’s observation, apply OLS regression controlling for income and household structure to estimate the poverty threshold, equivalence scales and poverty.

The subjective equivalence scales for the Euro Zone are constant for the period 2004-2012 and less stable for the CEE countries. The child cost in relation to the cost brought by an additional adult is higher in the CEE countries than in the Euro Zone countries. The subjective poverty rates are lower than the OECD rates. The only exceptions are Latvia, Estonia and Bulgaria.

The authors extend the analysis made by Bishop et al. (2014) by adding data for the years after 2007 and countries outside the Euro Zone.

This paper is a conclusion to one of the forum topics: “RP for Art and Conceptual Design” in the 2001 “Future of RP” Web conference. Art and conceptual design are often regarded as good places to apply concept‐modelling technologies. However, the response from the forum and the author’s observation reveal that the use of RP in art is limited to be used as “print‐out”. The use of RP in conceptual design is even more limited. A comparison between RP and conventional modelling techniques is made. The paper goes on to postulate that, the obstacle to adopting RP to art and conceptual design is rooted in common characters of commercial RP systems that are incompatible with the creative process.

The domination of people's working lives by machines, the deterioration of the environment, the inhumanity of conveyor‐belt production — all are factors which threaten the quality of life. Must retailing, with its tendency towards large‐scale operations, massive merchandising, and a diminishing reliance on personal service, slavishly follow the same pattern? Jan de Somogyi's contention is that this need not happen; his theme sets out how to combine the benefits of economies of scale with good personal communications and the policies in which each individual is important. It is an attempt to discuss one of the most crucial issues of our complex technological society through the eye of a retailer. This is a slightly abridged version of a paper originally read to the Manchester Statistical Society, which we are publishing (with their kind permission) in two parts. The second part to be published will discuss the question of social dimensions.

There was an air of artificial heresy about the paper published by Green and Nordstrom in 1974. They hailed the merits of being a “disloyal buyer” at a time when the world reality was one of oil and other raw material shortages, when the scales of market power were tipping inevitably towards the seller rather than the buyer. They argued that too often the loyal buyer is taken for granted by the supplier who is always more eager, led by his greed, to pursue the potential market at the expense of “good old Sam” whose longstanding custom is deliberately expoited. Green and Nordstrom therefore believe that greater opportunism will pay higher dividends to the buyer.

The purpose of this paper is to present information on how to organize and carry out a weeding project in an academic library.

Describes how the weeding project was organized and its various phases.

Argues that weeding is appropriate in small, academic non‐research libraries and discusses a methodology for approaching it.

Provides the academic librarian with a road map as to how to handle a weeding project.

The UK Government-funded National Health Service (NHS) is experiencing significant pressures because of the complexity of challenges to, and demands of, health-care provision. This situation has driven government policy level support for transformational change initiatives, such as value-based health care (VBHC), through closer alignment and collaboration across the health-care system-life science sector nexus. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the necessary antecedents to collaboration in VBHC through a critical exploration of the existing literature, with a view to establishing the foundations for further development of policy, practice and theory in this field.

A literature review was conducted via searches on Scopus and Google Scholar between 2009 and 2019 for peer-reviewed articles containing keywords and phrases “Value-based healthcare industry” and “healthcare industry collaboration”. Refinement of the results led to the identification of “guiding conditions” (GCs) for collaboration in VBHC.

Five literature-derived GCs were identified as necessary for the successful implementation of initiatives such as VBHC through system-sector collaboration. These are: a multi-disciplinarity; use of appropriate technological infrastructure; capturing meaningful metrics; understanding the total cycle-of-care; and financial flexibility. This paper outlines research opportunities to empirically test the relevance of the five GCs with regard to improving system-sector collaboration on VBHC.

This paper has developed a practical and constructive framework that has the potential to inform both policy and further theoretical development on collaboration in VBHC.