Can young professionals afford to buy a home in New England?

This policy brief explores whether young professional households can afford to own a home in New England. These are defined as households headed by a 25-39 year old with at least a BA and not currently enrolled in school. The analysis relies on two measures: (1) housing burden, defined as the percentage of household income spent on housing costs, and (2) income adequacy, defined as the ratio of household income to the income needed to purchase a home.Home ownership - New England

Is New England experiencing a "brain drain"?: facts about demographic change and young professionals

Recent news articles and studies have generated concern among New England policy makers and others that the region’s supply of young, highly educated professionals is disappearing. The fear is that comparatively high housing and other costs may be driving away many within this highly mobile group. This paper explores trends in the stocks and flows of young professionals, defined as people 25 to 39 with at least a bachelor’s degree. The goal is to help policy makers better understand this important demographic story, giving them the facts about how various factors, including migration, are affecting the region’s supply of young, educated labor.Labor supply - New England ; Labor mobility - New England ; Professional employees - New England ; New England - Population

Team knowledge management within an outsourced business systems software maintenance environment: a case study using grounded theory methods

The effective management of knowledge is increasingly seen as an essential contributor to the success of a knowledge-based organisation. There is a wealth of methodologies and approaches providing guidelines or frameworks for managing knowledge in a wide range of domains such as software development, IS service delivery and project management but few are dedicated to software maintenance. This paper presents the case study research of an outsourced software maintenance operation in the e-commerce business unit of a large UK retailer, using grounded theory to investigate a framework for assessing and improving the knowledge management capability of the software maintenance teams. The framework assesses the operation in five areas: leadership, communication, tools, processes and cultures. The results offer an insight into the strengths and areas for improvement in the knowledge management arrangements

An overview of New England's economic performance in 2009

Like most of the nation, New England continued to suffer economically in 2009. Job losses, rising unemployment, declining personal income, and slumping real estate markets all contributed to one of the worst years for both the national and regional economies. However, while economic conditions were among the worst New England has seen, the region's overall economic performance was better than that of the nation as a whole.Economic conditions - New England

Irus and his jovial crew : representations of beggars in Vincent Bourne and other eighteenth-century writers of Latin verse

Alastair Fowler has written, with reference to the time of Milton, of ‘Latin's special role in a bilingual culture’, and this was still true in the early eighteenth century. The education of the elite placed great emphasis on the art of writing Latin verse and modern, as well as ancient, writers of Latin continued to be widely read. Collections of Latin verse, by individual writers such as Vincent Bourne (c. 1694–1747) or by groups such as Westminster schoolboys or bachelors of Christ Church, Oxford, could run into multiple editions, and included poems on a wide range of contemporary topics, as well as reworkings of classical themes. This paper examines a number of eighteenth-century Latin poems dealing with beggars, several of which are here translated for the first time. Particular attention is paid to the way in which the Latin poems recycled well-worn tropes about beggary which were often at variance with the experience of real-life beggars, and to how the specificities of Latin verse might heighten negative representations of beggars in a genre which, as a manifestation of elite culture, appealed to the very class which was politically and legally responsible for controlling them

El valor de las humanidades. Proyecto HUMAN

Innovación, cultura y transferencia del  conocimiento. Una característica importante, y una responsabilidad social, de las universidades es su capacidad para transferir conocimiento a sectores empresariales y ayudar así a generar innovación. En cierta medida la capacidad de innovar da una medida cultural de un país o de una región porque está reflejando una mentalidad para afrontar los retos de la realidad. Palabras clave: innovacion, desarrollo, proyectos, comunicacion, transferencia conocimiento. The value of the humanities. HUMAN Project Abstract: Innovation, culture and knowledge transfer. An important characteristic, and a social responsibility, of universities is their ability to transfer knowledge to business sectors and thus help generate innovation. To a certain extent, the ability to innovate gives a cultural measure of a country or a region because it is reflecting a mentality to face the challenges of reality. Keywords: innovation, development, projects, communication, knowledge transfer. Artículo recibido: 27/07/2006. Aceptado: 13/09/200

Magnetically Stabilized Luminescent Excitations in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Magnetically stabilized luminescence is observed in hexagonal boron nitride. The luminescence is induced by absorption of cold neutrons and is in the visible region. In the absence of a magnetic field, the photon emission level is observed to decay over several hundred seconds. A fraction of this luminescence can be suppressed if the temperature is T <~ 0.6 K and the magnetic field is B >~ 1.0 T. Subsequent to irradiation and suppression, luminescence can be induced by an increase in T or lowering of B. Possible explanations include stabilization of triplet states or the localization and stabilization of excitons.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Journal of Luminescenc

Identifying Elderly Patients at Risk of Falling using Time-Domain and Cyclostationarity Related Features

Falls are a prevalent and severe health problem in the elderly community, leading to unfortunate and devastating consequences. Some falls can be prevented through interventions, proper management, and extra care. Therefore, studying and identifying elderly people with risk of falls is essential to minimize the falling risk and to minimize the severity of injuries that can occur from these falls. Besides, identifying at-risk patients can profoundly affect public health in a positive way. In this paper, we use classification techniques to identify at-risk patients using pressure signals of the innersoles of 520 elderly people. These people reported whether they had experienced previous falls or not. Two different types of feature sets were used as inputs to the classification models and were compared: The first feature set includes time-domain, physiological, and cyclostationary features, whereas the second includes a subset of those features chosen by Relief-F as the most important features. Our study showed that the use of features from different walking conditions and using Relief-F as a feature selection method significantly improved the model prediction accuracy, i.e. by 5.24% from the best previously existing model. The results also point out that the mean and standard deviation of the stride time, gender, the degree of cyclostationarity were the most important features to include in classification models for the identification of elderly people at risk of falling

Rayleigh Scattering in Rare Gas Liquids

The Rayleigh scattering length has been calculated for rare-gas liquids in the ultraviolet for the frequencies at which they luminesce. The calculations are based on the measured dielectric constants in the gas phase, except in the case of xenon for which measurements are available in the liquid. The scattering length mayplace constraints on the design of some large-scale detectors, using uv luminescence, being proposed to observe solar neutrinos and dark matter. Rayleigh scattering in mixtures of rare-gas mixtures is also discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 4 tables; This version corrects erratum in table and has expanded discussion in Section II. Accepred for publication in NIM