3,444 research outputs found
Meeting basic needs? Forced migrants and welfare
As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration
and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments
have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on two
sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews, with migrants and key respondents providing
welfare services, this paper considers the adequacy of welfare provisions in relation to the
financial and housing needs of four different groups of forced migrants i.e. refugees, asylum
seekers, those with humanitarian protection status and failed asylum seekers/‘overstayers’.
There is strong evidence to suggest that statutory provisions are failing to meet the basic
financial and housing needs of many forced migrants
Normalizers of tori
We determine the groups which can appear as the normalizer of a maximal torus
in a connected 2-compact group. The technique depends on using ideas of Tits to
give a novel description of the normalizer of the torus in a connected compact
Lie group, and then showing that this description can be extended to the
2-compact case.Comment: Published by Geometry and Topology at
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol9/paper31.abs.htm
Automorphisms of p-compact groups and their root data
We construct a model for the space of automorphisms of a connected p-compact
group in terms of the space of automorphisms of its maximal torus normalizer
and its root datum. As a consequence we show that any homomorphism to the outer
automorphism group of a p-compact group can be lifted to a group action,
analogous to a classical theorem of de Siebenthal for compact Lie groups. The
model of this paper is used in a crucial way in our paper ``The classification
of 2-compact groups'', where we prove the conjectured classification of
2-compact groups and determine their automorphism spaces.Comment: 24 pages. Introduction restructured and title changed (from
"Automorphisms of root data, maximal torus normalizers, and p-compact
groups"). Various other adjustments mad
Higher Descent Data as a Homotopy Limit
We define the 2-groupoid of descent data assigned to a cosimplicial
2-groupoid and present it as the homotopy limit of the cosimplicial space
gotten after applying the 2-nerve in each cosimplicial degree. This can be
applied also to the case of -groupoids thus providing an analogous
presentation of "descent data" in higher dimensions.Comment: Appeared in JHR
The limits of inclusion? Exploring the views of Roma and non Roma in six European union member states
This final research report for the Roma SOURCE project presents an analysis of new qualitative data generated in 24 focus groups with members of both Roma and non Roma populations resident in the six Member States in which the Roma SOURCE partners are situated (i.e. Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). It builds on the literature and policy review previously presented in an
earlier interim report which combined contextual discussions on the general situation of Roma in Europe with more specific information (drawn from the ‘country reports’ compiled by Roma SOURCE project partners), about the particular circumstances of Roma populations in those six Member States (rf. Brown, Dwyer and Scullion, 2012). A key aim of the fieldwork which underpins this final report was to access, and make sense of, a range of views and opinions about the extent to which Roma and non Roma people believed they routinely led segregated or integrated lives
The limits of inclusion? Exploring the views of Roma and non Roma in six European union member states : Executive summary
This research forms part of the Roma SOURCE (Sharing of Understanding Rights and Citizenship in Europe) project. Roma SOURCE involved eight organisations from six European Union Member States (i.e. Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). The research aimed to consider the extent to which Roma and majority communities in the six identified Member States lead integrated lives by
conducting empirical research with Roma and non Roma populations. This summary is based on analysis of data generated in 24 focus groups with members of Roma and non Roma communities in the six EU Member States listed above. The focus groups were convened in 2012. A total of 180 respondents (92 men, 88 women), took part in the focus groups, with representatives from 14 nationalities
The Limits of Inclusion? : Exploring the views of Roma and non Roma in six European Union Member States
The Cost of Jointness and How to Manage It
Although joint programs are typically formed to reduce costs, recent studies have suggested that joint programs experience larger cost growth than non-joint programs. To explain this phenomenon, we present a model that attributes joint program cost growth to agencies’ actions to maintain or regain their autonomy. We use this model to motivate principles for architecting joint programs and outline a process that can be used to identify opportunities for reforming current joint programs or for establishing new ones. Finally, we apply our approach to analyze joint program options for NOAA’s low-earth orbiting weather satellite program and in doing so, identify several risks facing NOAA’s current program and strategies for mitigating them.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sandia Corporation Excellence in Engineering Graduate Fellowship)Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technolog
Metabolic Power Method: Underestimation of Energy Expenditure in Field-Sport Movements Using a Global Positioning System Tracking System
The purpose of this study was to assess the validity of a global positioning system (GPS) tracking system to estimate energy expenditure (EE) during exercise and field-sport locomotor movements. Twenty-seven participants each completed a 90-min exercise session on an outdoor synthetic futsal pitch. During the exercise session, they wore a 5-Hz GPS unit interpolated to 15 Hz and a portable gas analyzer that acted as the criterion measure of EE. The exercise session was composed of alternating 5-minute exercise bouts of randomized walking, jogging, running, or a field-sport circuit (×3) followed by 10 min of recovery. One-way analysis of variance showed significant (P < .01) and very large underestimations between GPS metabolic power– derived EE and oxygen-consumption (VO2) -derived EE for all field-sport circuits (% difference ≈ –44%). No differences in EE were observed for the jog (7.8%) and run (4.8%), whereas very large overestimations were found for the walk (43.0%). The GPS metabolic power EE over the entire 90-min session was significantly lower (P < .01) than the VO2 EE, resulting in a moderate underestimation overall (–19%). The results of this study suggest that a GPS tracking system using the metabolic power model of EE does not accurately estimate EE in field-sport movements or over an exercise session consisting of mixed locomotor activities interspersed with recovery periods; however, is it able to provide a reasonably accurate estimation of EE during continuous jogging and running.</jats:p
Rights, responsibilities and redress? Research on policy and practice for Roma inclusion in ten Member States
Roma MATRIX (Mutual Action Targeting Racism,
Intolerance and Xenophobia) was a two year
project (2013-2015) co-funded by the European
Union’s Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
Programme. The project involved ten European
Member States (Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Spain, and United Kingdom - hereafter
referred to as the partner states). A total of 20
organisations were partners on the project
representing a diverse range of agencies including
non-government organisations (NGOs), Roma-led
organisations, local government, universities and
two private sector companies. A diverse programme of activities was undertaken which included network development, mentoring of people from Roma communities, conferences and workshops, capturing positive images and developing a public media campaign, etc. This work focused on four core areas which underpinned the Roma MATRIX project: Reporting and redress mechanisms for tackling anti-Gypsyism; Roma children in the care system; Employment; Cross-community relations and mediation. This summary report outlines the key research findings
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