445 research outputs found
The Vegetarian Magazine November 1903
Periodical discussing the vegetarian lifestyle. Does not include recipes for vegetarian dishes, but the articles endorse a vegetarian lifestyle supported by personal experience, medical studies, and Biblical suggestions. Also includes a small catalog of specialty vegetarian ingredients such as ko-nut, diamond butter oil, and Wesson oil.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/foodiesguide-1890/1104/thumbnail.jp
Vector Bin Packing with Multiple-Choice
We consider a variant of bin packing called multiple-choice vector bin
packing. In this problem we are given a set of items, where each item can be
selected in one of several -dimensional incarnations. We are also given
bin types, each with its own cost and -dimensional size. Our goal is to pack
the items in a set of bins of minimum overall cost. The problem is motivated by
scheduling in networks with guaranteed quality of service (QoS), but due to its
general formulation it has many other applications as well. We present an
approximation algorithm that is guaranteed to produce a solution whose cost is
about times the optimum. For the running time to be polynomial we
require and . This extends previous results for vector
bin packing, in which each item has a single incarnation and there is only one
bin type. To obtain our result we also present a PTAS for the multiple-choice
version of multidimensional knapsack, where we are given only one bin and the
goal is to pack a maximum weight set of (incarnations of) items in that bin
Health and lifestyle of Nepalese migrants in the UK
Background: The health status and lifestyle of migrants is often poorer than that of the general
population of their host countries. The Nepalese represent a relatively small, but growing,
immigrant community in the UK, about whom very little is known in term of public health.
Therefore, our study examined the health and lifestyle of Nepalese migrants in the UK.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of Nepalese migrants in UK was conducted in early 2007 using
a postal, self-administered questionnaire in England and Scotland (n = 312), and telephone
interviews in Wales (n = 15). The total response rate was 68% (327 out of 480). Data were analyzed
to establish whether there are associations between socio-economic and lifestyle factors. A
multivariate binary logistic regression was applied to find out independent effect of personal factors
on health status.
Results: The majority of respondents was male (75%), aged between 30 and 45 (66%), married or
had a civil partner (83%), had university education (47%) and an annual family income (69%) ranging
from £5,035 to £33,300. More than one third (39%) of the respondents have lived in the UK for 1
to 5 years and approximately half (46%) were longer-term residents. Most (95%) were registered
with a family doctor, but only 38% with a dentist. A low proportion (14%) of respondents smoked
but more than half (61%) consumed alcohol. More than half (57%) did not do regular exercises and
nearly one fourth (23%) of respondents rated their health as poor. Self reported 'good' health
status of the respondents was independently associated with immigration status and doing regular exercise
Conclusion: The self reported health status and lifestyle, health seeking behaviour of Nepalese
people who are residing in UK appears to be good. However, the overall regular exercise and dentist registration was rather poor. Health promotion, especially aimed at Nepalese migrants could help encourage them to exercise regularly and assist them to register with a dentist
Retail innovation and shopping practices: consumers' reaction to self-service retailing
Authors' draft also available on Surrey eprints repository at http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk. Final version available online at http://www.envplan.com/In this paper we address the related issues of retail innovation, changing shopping practices, and shopping geographies. We do so in relation to the spread of self-service grocery stores, and particularly the supermarket, in the postwar retail environment of Britain (1950 – 70), arguing that this juncture provides a propitious opportunity to study the relationship between changing practices of retailing and consumption. We highlight shoppers’ selective adoption of new self-service formats in relation to certain product categories and argue that this can be explained in part by reference to the socially embedded nature of women food shoppers’ behaviours and in particular the influence of contemporary notions of the ‘good housewife’. We support our argument by reference to a wide range of contemporary documentary material relating to postwar shopping including market research reports, the publications of local consumer groups, and selected retailer and government archive sources
Enacting the Soft Automaton: Empirical Ontologies of Two Soft Robots from Technical Research and Media Art
Back to the Future: Lessons from Knowledge Engineering Methodologies for Chatbot Design and Development
The impact of privatisation on union membership and density: A Western Australian case study
Falling membership numbers and declining union density are issues of concern for many Australian unions. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that between 2005 and 2008, trade union membership declined from 22.4% to 18.9% of the workforce. Studies and statistics consistently show that union membership and density are lowest in Western Australia, despite trend reversals elsewhere. Using the Western Australian branches of two 'blue-collar' unions - the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union, Western Australian Branch and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, covering a range of transport, metal working, printing and manufacturing trades - as examples, this article examines whether privatisation has contributed significantly to falling trade union density and membership in this state. These unions represented large public sector workforces. In order to test the hypothesis that privatisation has adversely affected union membership and density, the article examines three areas: changing policies in the Australian Labor Party, the breaking down of union culture and changes in trade training, and concludes that privatisation is a significant factor in the recent decline of these two unions
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