Managing hoarding and squalor

Living in squalor: neuropsychological function, emotional processing and squalor perception in patients found living in squalor.

BACKGROUND Patients living in squalor have a wide range of psychiatric diagnoses, but these may have a common neural basis involving frontal systems. This study investigated frontal executive function, theory of mind, emotional processing including disgust, and appreciation of squalor in elderly patients found living in squalor. METHODS Six patients referred to an old age psychiatry service u...

Task force seeks solutions for "senior squalor".

Labor Hoarding and Inventories

Labor hoarding is a widely believed empirical behavior of …rms and a prominent explanation for procyclical labor productivity. Conventional wisdom attributes labor hoarding to labor adjustment costs. This paper argues that the conventional wisdom is inadequate for understanding labor hoarding because it ignores the role of inventories. Since idle labor can be used to produce inventories, why do...

Hoarding bug

A bug that causes meningitis does not like to share. On page 627, Doulet et al. show that it hoards actin-binding proteins away from immune cells. The hoarding allows the bacterium to cross the blood–brain barrier and to prevent immune cells from responding. Many infl ammation-inducing leukocytes pass from the bloodstream to infected tissues through loosened endothelial cell–cell junctions. The...

Spatial Hoarding: A Hoarding Strategy for Location-Dependent Systems

In a context-aware environment, the system must be able to refresh the answers to all pending queries in reaction to perpetual changes in the user’s context. This added to the fact that mobile systems suffer from problems like scarce bandwidth, low quality communication and frequent disconnections, leads to high delays before giving up to date answers to the user. A solution to reduce latency i...