19,375 research outputs found
Anthropocene Feminism by Richard Grusin
Review of Richard Grusin\u27s Anthropocene Feminism
The complexities of technology-based care : telecare as perceived by care practitioners
Telecare, which offers ‘care at a distance’ (Pols, 2012) through a variety of remote monitoring technologies, has developed rapidly across health and social care policy in many developed countries. Nonetheless, approaches to this development differ; the focus of this paper is the United Kingdom, where implementation has been particularly rapid and ambitious in scope. The paper argues that, while there are clear and tangible benefits from the use of some telecare technologies, there is insufficient research about the complexities of implementation with end users. These complexities include ethical questions raised by the use of monitoring and surveillance equipment, the ability to fine tune technologies to the needs of individuals, and the way in which care relationships may be altered by remote care mediated through technologies. This paper addresses these issues through a particularly under researched area; that is, the perceptions of care practitioners who assess for, and interact with, these technologies. The research was conducted with practitioners using qualitative research methodology. The paper concludes that Telecare practice is uneven in the way it addresses complexities and that more needs to be done to understand the way in which technologies are discussed and utilised by those charged with their implementation
The size of maximal systems of brick islands
For integers and a cuboid , a brick of is a closed cuboid whose vertices
have integer coordinates. A set of bricks in is a system of brick
islands if for each pair of bricks in one contains the other or they are
disjoint. Such a system is maximal if it cannot be extended to a larger system
of brick islands. Extending the work of Lengv\'{a}rszky, we show that the
minimum size of a maximal system of brick islands in is . Also, in a cube we define the corresponding notion of a
system of cubic islands, and prove bounds on the sizes of maximal systems of
cubic islands.Comment: 12 page
Bordism Groups of Immersions and Classes Represented by Self-Intersections
We prove a geometrical version of Herbert's theorem by considering the
self-intersection immersions of a self-transverse immersion up to bordism. This
generalises Herbert's theorem to additional cohomology theories and gives a
commutative diagram in the homotopy of Thom complexes. The proof uses Koschorke
and Sanderson's operations and the fact that bordism of immersions gives a
functor on the category of smooth manifolds and immersions.Comment: 16 page
Thermodynamic Alerter for Microbursts (TAMP)
The following subject areas are covered: microburst detection, location and measurement; thermal alerter for microbursts prototypes (TAMP); sensor-transmitters (Senstrans) design; TAMP installation; and DAPAD software
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