The British working class on holiday: a critical reading of ITV's Benidorm

Informed by the thesis that media representations are influential channels for the birth and reinforcement of discursive constructions, this article will focus on representation in ITV's successful sitcom Benidorm (2007–). The corpus analysed includes the show's first four seasons and 2009 special, which are all the Benidorm materials available on DVD at the time of writing. Given this TV production's subject matter, insights will be provided into Spain's sand-and-sun tourism industry, with particular reference to the resort of Benidorm. Benidorm will be placed within the wider British sitcom tradition and humour will be treated as intersecting with power and social structures and so inseparable from social and national discourses. The interface will be explored between televised humour and the discourses of tourism, with particular reference to current British identity issues such as how British classed identities perceive Other imagined communities, in particular, Spain and the Spanish; and how such identities are performed spatially whilst on holiday.     

A sociopsychological approach to vacation and mobility in touristic sites

Several aspects of socio-psychological research are presented dealing with relationships between transport, leisure, and tourism in France. The socio-psychological approach to long distance travel for leisure and vacation purposes is illustrated by recent studies of family mobility: for instance, family decision-making, sociability and travel, territorial behavior and the “territorialisation” process, and change processes related to the family life-cycle. Traffic problems in touristic sites are also considered. An attempt at an action-research approach shows how traffic management in urban areas could benefit from the use of socio-psychological survey data. The diagnosis, forecasts and evaluation of travel behavior could be made more effective through more active cooperation between traffic policymakers, traffic engineers and social scientists.     

The UK Food Standards Agency: putting the consumer first

The Food Standards Agency was set up in April 2000 to protect the health of the public and the interests of consumers in relation to food. Its principal purpose is to put the consumer first. But what does this mean in practice? The Agency is finding ways to help consumer organizations and consumer representatives contribute more effectively to its work. However, consumer organizations cannot hope to represent the full range of consumer perspectives, and so the Agency is keen to reach out to individual consumers using a variety of innovative mechanisms. This article will describe why the Agency was established and how it achieves its main objective of putting the consumer first. It will discuss how the Agency is developing and testing new ways of working to ensure that the consumer perspective is fully accounted for when developing and evaluating policies, including setting up an influential new Consumer Committee. It will go on to highlight a number of recent innovative consumer consultations and structures that have been established to involve consumers in Agency policy making. It will discuss these processes and how the lessons that have been learnt are informing future Agency strategies. The article will then describe how the Agency protects consumers through effective risk communication strategies and how its Annual Consumer Attitudes Survey will help it measure success so that it can continue to set new stand‐ards in putting consumers first in relation to food.     

A Martingale Representation Result and an Application to Incomplete Financial Markets

We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for an H¹-martingale to be representable with respect to a collection, of local martingales. M H¹( P ) is representable if and only if M is a local martingale under all p.m.'s Q which are "uniformly equivalent" to P and which make all the elements of local martingales (Theorem 1.1). We then give necessary and sufficient conditions which are easier to verify, and only involve expectations (Theorem 1.2). We go on to apply these results to the problem of pricing claims in an incomplete financial market-establishing two conjectures of Harrison and Pliska(1981).     

The Effects of Union and Nonunion Forms of Employee Representation on High‐Performance Work Systems: New Evidence from French Microdata

This article investigates the effects of union and nonunion employee representation (ER) on the use of high‐performance work systems (HPWSs) in the French context. We use microdata from a nationally representative survey (REPONSE 2010–11) and estimate models dealing with the potential endogeneity of ER. After controlling for endogeneity and for a range of workplace characteristics, regression analyses suggest that neither union nor nonunion representatives are inherently against the use of HPWSs. Moreover, these forms of ER cannot be regarded as substitutes for one another. Results vary, depending on what type of bundle of practices is considered. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

“营境”与“再现”——西方语境中的 中国风景园林实践与中西设计范式比较

基于葡萄牙历史环境修复更新项目实践经历，记录 了中国团队在作为海上丝绸之路端点之一的里斯本市使用中国 传统设计手法解决西方语境下的设计问题的探索过程。通过中 葡双方设计思路和手法的交流与比较，探讨了中国风景园林设 计范式与手法应用于西方场景中的适应性。中方设计团队在建 筑方面以气韵相合为法则，营造了顺应场地气息的整体环境； 园林方面以传移模写为法则，构建了“可游可居”的空间结 构，营造了基于园居生活的适地情境。实践说明了中国园林在 伴随祖国“一带一路”的发展过程中，作为中国文化的精髓代 表，可以极强的适应性和先进性为世界人居环境建设作出更大 的贡献。     

产品质量竞争力及其构成要素研究

在综合分析企业竞争力的基础上，给出了企业质量竞争力的定义，界定了质量．竞争力的基本特征，并就产品质量竞争力构成要素的内涵及相互关系进行了论述。     

A method for generating uniformly scattered points on the <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>-norm unit sphere and its applications

Tashiro (Ann Inst Stat Math 29:295–300, 1977) studied methods for generating unform points on the surface of the regular unit sphere. The L _p -norm unit sphere is a generalization of the regular unit sphere. In this paper we propose a method associated with an algorithm for generating uniformly scattered points on the L _p -norm unit sphere and discuss its applications in statistical simulation, representative points of a wide class of multivariate probability distributions and optimization problems. Some examples are illustrated for these applications. This research was supported by The University of Hong Kong Research Grant and a University of New Haven 2005 and 2006 Summer Faculty Fellowships.     

基于字典对齐的迁移稀疏编码图像分类

基于稀疏编码的图像分类算法，当源域和目标域间样本服从不同分布时，从源域样本中学习到的字典无法有效对目标域样本进行编码，进而严重影响算法的分类性能。为了解决此问题，提出一种基于字典对齐的迁移稀疏编码(TSC-DA)算法。一方面，通过将字典对齐机制引入稀疏编码模型训练过程中，以减少源域和目标域间样本分布差异；另一方面，采用L2正则化项代替字典约束项，将其转化为无约束优化问题，从而回避了拉格朗日对偶法复杂的求解方式。实验结果表明，TSC-DA能够有效提高目标域的图像分类精度。     

On Two Existing Approaches to Statistical Analysis of Social Media Data

Using social media data for statistical analysis of general population faces commonly two basic obstacles: firstly, social media data are collected for different objects than the population units of interest; secondly, the relevant measures are typically not available directly but need to be extracted by algorithms or machine learning techniques. In this paper, we examine and summarise two existing approaches to statistical analysis based on social media data, which can be discerned in the literature. In the first approach, analysis is applied to the social media data that are organised around the objects directly observed in the data; in the second one, a different analysis is applied to a constructed pseudo survey dataset, aimed to transform the observed social media data to a set of units from the target population. We elaborate systematically the relevant data quality frameworks, exemplify their applications and highlight some typical challenges associated with social media data.