OpenStack Extension for Fog-Powered Personal Services Deployment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Bruschi ◽  
Giacomo Genovese ◽  
Antonio Iera ◽  
Paolo Lago ◽  
Guerino Lamanna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Services

The Service Sector in the United States, 1839 to 1899

1967 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Weiss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Personal Services ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Quantitative Development

The dissertation is a study of the service industries in the United States during the period 1839 through 1899. The primary purpose of the study is to provide three series relating to the quantitative development of the sector. These series—value-added, gainful workers, and capital stock—provide benchmark estimates at decade intervals centered on census years. Series are presented for the aggregate sector; the major components, final and intermediate services; and eight industries. These eight industries, defined as the service sector, are trade, transportation and public utilities, finance and insurance, professional services, personal services, government, education, and the independent hand trades.

Women's Work and Informal Activities in Southern Europe

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1221-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Stratigaki ◽  
D Vaiou
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Personal Services ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
Statistical Surveys ◽  
Southern European Countries

In Southern European countries, much of women's work lies out of the realm of ‘wage labour’ in forms of work which include agricultural labour in family farms, homeworking, unpaid domestic and caring labour, family helpers, and/or informal work in tourism, industry, or personal services. The importance of these forms of work is very likely to increase and several regions in Southern Europe present ‘ideal conditions’ for their proliferation. The bulk of women's work cannot be adequately grasped by looking exclusively at employment categories of economic and statistical surveys. These relegate to ‘nonwork’ many forms of women's labour in society. The authors discuss these ‘other’ forms of labour, focusing mainly on three issues: (a) the meaning and content of work for women in Southern Europe; (b) the connotations associated with terms such as ‘atypical’, ‘irregular’, ‘informal’, and so on, usually used to describe such activities and forms of work; (c) the effects of women's overrepresentation in such forms of work on gender divisions and on their own work prospects.

scholarly journals Personal services or dangerous liaisons: should we help patients hire prostitutes?

BMJ ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 329 (7472) ◽  
pp. 985.1 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Personal Services

scholarly journals The costs of keeping schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Haw ◽  
Giovanni Forchini ◽  
Paula Christen ◽  
Sumali Bajaj ◽  
Alexandra Hogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Economic Gain ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Hospital Capacity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Personal Services

Abstract There is a trade-off between restrictions on the education sector and other economic sectors in the control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Here we integrate a dynamic model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission with a 63-sector economic model reflecting sectoral heterogeneity in transmission and economic interdependence between sectors. We identify control strategies which optimize economic production while keeping schools and universities operational, and constraining infections such that emergency hospital capacity is not exceeded. We estimate an economic gain of between £163bn (24%) and £205bn (31%) for the United Kingdom compared to a blanket lockdown of non-essential activities over six months, depending on hospital capacity. Sectors identified as priorities for closures are contact-intensive, produce few crucial inputs for other sectors and/or are less economically productive. Partial closures over some months are required for retail trade, hospitality, accommodation, creative activities, arts, entertainment, and personal services including hairdressing and beauty treatments under most scenarios.

21. Specific enforcement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Macdonald ◽  
Ruth Atkins ◽  
Jens Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Personal Services ◽  
Specific Performance

This chapter looks at specific performance and injunctions. Specific enforcement is only available in limited circumstances. The adequacy of damages as a remedy must be addressed. Its availability is limited by issues of supervision and its general undesirability in relation to contracts for personal services. Its nature as an equitable remedy means that the courts have discretion and consideration is given to such matters as hardship, behaviour of the claimant, adequacy of consideration and mutuality.

scholarly journals Personal Guides: Heterogeneous Robots Sharing Personal Tours in Multi-Floor Environments

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 2480
Author(s):  
Igor Rodriguez ◽  
Unai Zabala ◽  
Pedro Marín-Reyes ◽  
Ekaitz Jauregi ◽  
Javier Lorenzo-Navarro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Distance ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Personal Services ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Heterogeneous Robots ◽  
Robot Communication

GidaBot is an application designed to setup and run a heterogeneous team of robots to act as tour guides in multi-floor buildings. Although the tours can go through several floors, the robots can only service a single floor, and thus, a guiding task may require collaboration among several robots. The designed system makes use of a robust inter-robot communication strategy to share goals and paths during the guiding tasks. Such tours work as personal services carried out by one or more robots. In this paper, a face re-identification/verification module based on state-of-the-art techniques is developed, evaluated offline, and integrated into GidaBot’s real daily activities, to avoid new visitors interfering with those attended. It is a complex problem because, as users are casual visitors, no long-term information is stored, and consequently, faces are unknown in the training step. Initially, re-identification and verification are evaluated offline considering different face detectors and computing distances in a face embedding representation. To fulfil the goal online, several face detectors are fused in parallel to avoid face alignment bias produced by face detectors under certain circumstances, and the decision is made based on a minimum distance criterion. This fused approach outperforms any individual method and highly improves the real system’s reliability, as the tests carried out using real robots at the Faculty of Informatics in San Sebastian show.

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