Empty Dwellings: The Use of Rating Records in Identifying and Monitoring Vacant Private Housing in Britain

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 783-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Smith ◽  
S Merrett
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Adequate Data

In recent years there has been growing political concern with questions of effective stock utilization and the issue of empty housing. However, our knowledge of the scale and nature of the problem remains limited, particularly as regards the private sector. There is a dearth of reliable information on privately owned vacant property, which undermines local policy responses. One source of information which is available to local authorities are local rating records, which are often used as the basis for calculating a void rate. However, in this paper it is shown, by reference to recent work in one inner London borough, that such records are likely to provide a serious underestimate of the problem. In their present form, rating records, though potentially valuable, are a far from adequate data source for identifying and monitoring vacant private-sector dwellings.

scholarly journals P89 Patient reported comorbidity is not a reliable data source: a systematic review of the literature

BJS Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung Mun Alice Lin ◽  
Alexander Orman ◽  
Nicholas D Clement ◽  
David J Deehan ◽  
Chung M A Lin
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
Operative Assessment ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract Introduction There is currently an increased demand for elective orthopaedic surgery. However, due to the ever-growing financial, time and resource limitations, there is a pressing need to identify those who would benefit most from surgery but with the lowest risk of complications. Comorbidities are a fundamental factor in this decision and the traditional way to ascertain this is through medical record data abstraction during pre-operative assessment. However, this can be time consuming and expensive. We therefore set out to establish whether patient reported comorbidities are reliable as a principal source of information. Method Searches were performed on PubMed and Medline, and citations independently screened. Included studies were published between 2010 to 2020 assessing the reliability of at least one patient reported comorbidity against their medical record or clinical assessment as gold standard. Cohen’s kappa coefficient values were grouped into systems and a meta-analysis performed comparing the reliability between studies. Results Meta-analysis data showed poor-to-moderate reliability for diseases in cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neurological and respiratory systems as well as for malignancy and depression. Endocrine diseases showed good-to-excellent reliability. Factors found to affect the concordance included sex, age, ethnicity, education, living alone, marital status, number or severity of comorbidities, mental health and disability. Conclusion Our study showed poor-to-moderate reliability for all systems except endocrine, consisting of thyroid disease and diabetes mellitus, which demonstrated good-to-excellent reliability. Although patient reported data is useful and can facilitate a complete pre-operative overview of the patient, it is not reliable enough to be used as a standalone measure.

Tanzania in the 1980s

Give and Take ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 83-107
Author(s):  
Nitsan Chorev
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Pharmaceutical Sector ◽  
Limited Growth ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Local Component ◽  
Pharmaceutical Production ◽  
Privately Owned

This chapter examines the limited growth of the local pharmaceutical sector in Tanzania, compared to Kenya. Tanzania, too, relied on a ration kits program funded by donors, but development agencies rejected suggestions for a local component for ration kits, and donors offered only limited support—in the form of raw materials—to state-owned pharmaceutical enterprises. Without a domestic component, the ration kits turned from a potential facilitator of local pharmaceutical production, as was the case in Kenya, into a factor undermining it. Limiting domestic opportunities in the context of a socialist economy further inhibited the emergence of privately owned pharmaceutical factories. Nevertheless, a number of private companies did open, and their trajectories again illustrate the role education and ties abroad could play in the creation of a private sector in a context in which technical skills were not available locally.

Evaluation of the Vulcanization Characteristics of Crude Rubber

1952 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Thirion
Keyword(s):  
Time Constant ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Maximum Modulus ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Exponential Functions ◽  
Rubber Mixture ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Experimental Values ◽  
General Specification ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract Any vulcanization test of crude rubber which is based on a measurement of the strain modulus for only one time of vulcanization is insufficient as a source of information to the investigator of the rate of vulcanization and at the same time of the order of magnitude of the maximum modulus. It is proposed to complete this test by a second vulcanization for a different length of time and to correlate the complete vulcanization curves with the exponential functions of time. In this way it seems possible to derive two experimental values of the modulus: (1) A limiting modulus which characterizes the ultimate stiffness of the vulcanizate. (2) A vulcanization time constant which serves as an index of the rate of vulcanization of a rubber mixture. The more rapid the rate of vulcanization, the smaller is this constant. Application of this method to nine different lots of crude rubber proved that by this means it is possible to show well defined differences between various individual lots of crude rubber. Much more extensive studies will be necessary before it is known whether the method is applicable to the great majority of crude rubbers and whether it is adaptable in its present form to the formulation of a general specification for testing crude rubber. There is reason to believe that the use of the modulus value at 100 per cent elongation, already proposed by Gee, and his coworkers instead of 600 per cent elongation, would from this viewpoint offer numerous advantages.

Shrinking cities in Australia, Japan, Europe and the USA: From a global process to local policy responses

2016 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Martinez-Fernandez ◽  
Tamara Weyman ◽  
Sylvie Fol ◽  
Ivonne Audirac ◽  
Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shrinking Cities ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals The Usage of New Multispectral Satellites in Agro-Environmental Protection

2005 ◽  
pp. 282-289
Author(s):  
Péter Takács ◽  
János Tamás
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Excellent Source ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Meteorological Satellite

GIS, and especially remote sensing, offers great help in performing agro-environmental protection tasks. It can process a large amount of data to an arranged set of databases, and is also an excellent source of information. Moreover its keeps the geographical coordinates of all data during processing. The usage of remotely-sensed data is one of the most up-to-date and effective ways to observe, analyze and understand the complex phenomena taking place in all the spheres of agricultural production (soil, water, air), and also to track and monitor the changes of different environmental parameters, as they constantly change in time and space. Several indices will be described, which can be derived from remote sensed data. Next, a relatively new hyperspectral satellite sensor (MODIS) will be introduced, as it can be a input data source in research performed in agri-environmental protection. Last, a new meteorological satellite (MSG-1) will be introduced, as its data are available for public usage, and it could be an important data source.

FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS: JOHN SADLER OF THE SADLER PARTBOOKS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Range ◽  
Julia Craig-McFeely
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract The identification of the Tudor partbooks Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mss. Mus. e. 1–5 and Ms. Tenbury 1486, and the privately owned Willmott partbook with John Sadler, a priest and schoolmaster active in rural Northamptonshire between 1548 and the early 1590s, has sat uneasily. This is because the John Sadler associated with these books is actually someone quite different: in the first set he entered in the books what has previously been described as a simple monogram of his name, but which is in fact a ‘merchant mark’ identifying him unambiguously as a Norwich merchant. The article discusses the evidence for his identification and the new context for the books. Their relocation invites a new reading and interpretation of their contents, such as their significance as a source of information about the Norwich composer Thomas Morley. The link with the Elizabethan merchant world brings into focus the rather neglected topic of early modern merchants and their involvement with music.

Recasting Strategic Opportunities and Challenges for Development in Saudi Arabia

2016 ◽  
pp. 406-417
Author(s):  
Hun Joo Park
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Development Model ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Economic Development Model

Thanks in part to the current world economy's high demand for oil, Saudi Arabia's economy is cruising along at the present time; however, to make such a growth or development sustainable in the long term requires a transformation of the economy from a heavily oil-dependent one to a more diversified, self-sustaining and private sector-driven economy. Thus, this article focuses on the underlying structural, social and institutional problems or reform challenges of the economy. In so doing, the present article critically examines Saudi Arabia's economic development model, while crisply reassessing the government's recent major policy responses to its development opportunities and challenges. And it offers some tentative suggestions for freshly rethinking about Saudi Arabia's national long-term development strategy and its implementation.

Business Intelligence through Opinion Mining

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-161
Author(s):  
T. K. Das
Keyword(s):  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Product Reviews ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Computational Intelligence Technique ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Base Data ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Central Data

Business organizations have been adopting different strategies to impress upon their customers and attract them towards their products and services. On the other hand, the opinions of the customers gathered through customer feedbacks have been a great source of information for companies to evolve business intelligence to rightly place their products and services to meet the ever-changing customer requirements. In this work, we present a new approach to integrate customers' opinions into the traditional data warehouse model. We have taken Twitter as the data source for this experiment. First, we have built a system which can be used for opinion analysis on a product or a service. The second process is to model the opinion table so obtained as a dimensional table and to integrate it with a central data warehouse schema so that reports can be generated on demand. Furthermore, we have shown how business intelligence can be elicited from online product reviews by using computational intelligence technique like rough set base data analysis.

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