Decoding middle-class protest against low-cost nocturnal tourism in Madrid

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
Begoña Aramayona ◽  
Rubén García-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Cost

Decoding middle-class protest against low-cost nocturnal tourism in Madrid

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Begoña Aramayona ◽  
Rubén García-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Cost

To Do Nothing

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-160
Author(s):  
Victoria Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
South India ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Environmental Toxins ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Medical Discourses ◽  
Aging And Health ◽  
Lifestyle Diseases

Abstract In Kerala, South India, individual pursuits of nature cure (prakr̥ti cikitsa) invoke ethical narratives about an idealized purer past, contrasting a dangerous present saturated with social and environmental toxins. While first popularized in India by M. K. Gandhi, nature cure has gained contemporary fame as a low-cost intervention for Kerala’s purported health crisis: chronic lifestyle diseases. Nonprofessionalized natural healers identify as public health activists, teaching predominantly urban, middle-class patients how to revive local lifeways of self-doctorhood. This article narrates how two aging patients internalize their naturopathic doctors’ advice to detoxify and “do nothing” rather than strive for biomedical cure. By naturally revitalizing their bodies, they cultivate feelings of intense independence and ecological attachment that reconfigure experiences of migrated-kin isolation. In counterpoint to literature that frames biopolitical and medical discourses as causally producing moral subjectivities, this article demonstrates how persons agentively craft counternormative, vitalistic models of aging and health, contributing to broader localist imaginaries of reviving pre-toxic lifeways.

scholarly journals ‘Delivering for the Fancy as Well as the Shabby’ Amsterdam’s Post-war Utopia of Urban Diversity

2016 ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Tim Verlaan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Global Middle Class ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Post War ◽  
International Visitors

Over the last few years, Amsterdam’s inner city has seen a rapiddecrease in quality of life. Long-time residents and established retailers are increasingly giving way to the needs and demands of mass tourism.The advent of low-cost airliners, the rise of a global middle class and the uncontrollable spread of apartment sharing have put the affordability of central districts at risk, threatening the future of a socially and functionally mixed inner city. Most local residents respond with feelings of resignation, some of them even catering to the wishes of international visitors by renting out their flats using platforms such as Airbnb. Looking at these developments of gentrification and displacement, it seems as if Amsterdam has forgotten how its beloved inner city was once saved from similar threats.

scholarly journals Engine Mount Design Strategies to Mitigate Linear Vibrations in a Tata Nano

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vrushank S. Phadnis ◽  
Jimmie Harris ◽  
Shile Ding ◽  
Chen Arambula ◽  
Ben Collins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Negative Perception ◽  
Engine Mounts ◽  
Indian Consumers ◽  
Linear Vibrations ◽  
Engine Mount ◽  
Noise Vibration ◽  
Wheeled Vehicles

In 2009, Tata Motors launched the Tata Nano as a low-cost alternative to two and three-wheeled vehicles for India’s growing middle class. However, the Nano failed to meet these expectations as it developed a negative perception amongst Indian consumers partly due to its poor Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) characteristics. In this paper, we examine strategies to reduce the transmission of linear vibrations from the engine felt inside the cabin. Specifically, it includes analysis of the hardness of damping rubber in the engine mounts as well as geometry of the engine mounts. The results of this analysis suggest that Tata Motors can reduce the vibrations transmitted from the engine by decreasing the hardness of the damping rubber. Additionally, Tata Motors can further reduce the transmitted vibrations by decreasing mount angle. It was found that a reduction in mount angle from 45° to 30° reduced the amplitude of the transmitted vibrations by 23%.

scholarly journals Innovation in the Local Context: A Case Study of BYD in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Iris Quan ◽  
Mark Loon ◽  
Jihong Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Production Method ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Automobile Manufacturing ◽  
Integration Strategy

In this paper, we have used the case of build your dream (BYD) to examine firm innovation in the context of China. From a historical perspective, with its strategic diversification from battery to mobile phone manufacturing to automobile manufacturing, we find that BYD has been innovative in its production method, vertical integration strategy, and design of product for local customers. The effective understanding and leveraging of local contextual factors including supply of labor (especially low cost-highly skilled labor), growing middle class, and local industry environments have played important roles in BYD's innovation in China.

scholarly journals Cost Analysis of Haemodialysis Patients in Government Tertiary Care Centre – A Pharmacoeconomic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Manjula MJ ◽  
Deepak P ◽  
Suresh R M ◽  
Raghu N
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Medical Cost ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Pharmacoeconomic Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Dialysis Unit

The progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) to End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in India is rapidly increasing. Over 25 million of people suffering from ESRD, especially in rural areas. Many of these patients are not undergoing dialysis due to the factors such as lack of awareness, fewer treatment options, unaffordability prices due to low income, and minor reimbursement for chronic illness. The cost of hemodialysis in private hospitals is around 12.000 INR (Indian Rupee) per person monthly and 140.000 INR per year, which seem too expensive for middle and lower-middle-class of patients. Hence our study was aimed to analyze the healthcare cost of hemodialysis in government tertiary health care centers by analyzing the direct and indirect cost from the patient perspective. Sixty patients who underwent dialysis in Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital were included in this study. The demographic details, past and present medical history, cost per session of dialysis, laboratory examination, money spent on travel, and the working days lost were calculated. Out of 60 patient (male: 47; female: 17), 53 patients aged 18-65 years old. They belonged to lower-middle (38.33%), middle (23.33%), lower (21.66%), and upper-middle-class (8%). The average direct medical cost of each patient in one session of dialysis was 481.5 INR and indirect medical costs were 557.33 INR. Based on our observation, we conclude that the patients are having satisfactory outcomes, comparatively at low cost in our government dialysis unit. Government should encourage and also cover the mobile dialysis centers under government health schemes, by which the indirect medical cost can be reduced. 

Decomposition of the metastable beta titanium alloy Ti-15-3

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 264-265
Author(s):  
Y. L. Chen ◽  
S. Fujlshiro
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Alpha Phase ◽  
Thick Sheet ◽  
Omega Phase ◽  
Beta Titanium Alloy ◽  
Beta Titanium ◽  
Beta Matrix ◽  
Metastable Beta ◽  
Very High

Metastable beta titanium alloys have been known to have numerous advantages such as cold formability, high strength, good fracture resistance, deep hardenability, and cost effectiveness. Very high strength is obtainable by precipitation of the hexagonal alpha phase in a bcc beta matrix in these alloys. Precipitation hardening in the metastable beta alloys may also result from the formation of transition phases such as omega phase. Ti-15-3 (Ti-15V- 3Cr-3Al-3Sn) has been developed recently by TIMET and USAF for low cost sheet metal applications. The purpose of the present study was to examine the aging characteristics in this alloy.The composition of the as-received material is: 14.7 V, 3.14 Cr, 3.05 Al, 2.26 Sn, and 0.145 Fe. The beta transus temperature as determined by optical metallographic method was about 770°C. Specimen coupons were prepared from a mill-annealed 1.2 mm thick sheet, and solution treated at 827°C for 2 hr in argon, then water quenched. Aging was also done in argon at temperatures ranging from 316 to 616°C for various times.

Chromic Acid Etching of Polyethylene

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
J. D. Muzzy ◽  
R. D. Hester ◽  
J. L. Hubbard
Keyword(s):  
Chromic Acid ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Acid Etching ◽  
Crystalline Morphology ◽  
Bulk Specimen ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Perfect Form ◽  
Molecular Length ◽  
Lamellar Texture ◽  
Cost Studies

Polyethylene is one of the most important plastics produced today because of its good physical properties, ease of fabrication and low cost. Studies to improve the properties of polyethylene are leading to an understanding of its crystalline morphology. Polyethylene crystallized by evaporation from dilute solutions consists of thin crystals called lamellae. The polyethylene molecules are parallel to the thickness of the lamellae and are folded since the thickness of the lamellae is much less than the molecular length. This lamellar texture persists in less perfect form in polyethylene crystallized from the melt.Morphological studies of melt crystallized polyethylene have been limited due to the difficulty of isolating the microstructure from the bulk specimen without destroying or deforming it.

Glass Knife Geometry as Seen by the SEM

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
J. Temple Black
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Amorphous Material ◽  
Stress Concentrations ◽  
Basic Tool ◽  
Tool Materials ◽  
Optical Inspection ◽  
Surface Flaws ◽  
Slip Planes ◽  
Glass Knife ◽  
Diamond Knife

In ultramicrotomy, the two basic tool materials are glass and diamond. Glass because of its low cost and ease of manufacture of the knife itself is still widely used despite the superiority of diamond knives in many applications. Both kinds of knives produce plastic deformation in the microtomed section due to the nature of the cutting process and microscopic chips in the edge of the knife. Because glass has no well defined slip planes in its structure (it's an amorphous material), it is very strong and essentially never fails in compression. However, surface flaws produce stress concentrations which reduce the strength of glass to 10,000 to 20,000 psi from its theoretical or flaw free values of 1 to 2 million psi. While the microchips in the edge of the glass or diamond knife are generally too small to be observed in the SEM, the second common type of defect can be identified. This is the striations (also termed the check marks or feathers) which are always present over the entire edge of a glass knife regardless of whether or not they are visable under optical inspection. These steps in the cutting edge can be observed in the SEM by proper preparation of carefully broken knives and orientation of the knife, with respect to the scanning beam.

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