Prostitution: would legalisation help?

Pedestrian Detection in Poor Visibility Conditions: Would SWIR Help?

The 2WIDE SENSE (WIDE spectral band & WIDE dynamics multifunctional imaging SENSor Enabling safer car transportation) EU funded project is aimed at the development of a low-cost camera sensor for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications able to acquire the full visible to Short Wave InfraRed (SWIR) spectrum from 400 to 1700 nm. This paper presents the first results obtained by inv...

Matching and price competition: would personalized prices help?

We analyze the generalized deferred-acceptance algorithm when preferences are known with an error. This algorithm incorporates personalized salaries and is considered as a replacement for the current algorithm for National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Maintaining Bulow and Levin’s (2006) assumption on preferences, we show that an error in preferences of a worker propagates through the algo...

Would employment-based health savings accounts help Medicare?

This paper was stimulated by the Editorial of Dr Vince FitzGerald in the last issue of AHR on health aspects of a comprehensive retirement policy (FitzGerald 2000). His main arguments were that increased retirement savings are desirable, that there should be savings specifically for health care, and that the health savings should be a mix of pooled and individual savings. He justified savings m...

Prostitution in Sweden 2007

Prostitution in Sheffield.

Prostitution in Sheffield, a city with over half a million population, has been reviewed in its legal, social work, and medical aspects. The years studied were 1960-73. The medical studies were confined to the years 1968-72. Prosecutions for soliciting increased steadily during the study period. The trend was more marked locally than nationally and was associated both with increased police acti...