scholarly journals Critical Future Studies and Age: attending to future imaginings of age and ageing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Raisborough ◽  
Watkins Susan
Keyword(s):  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Undesirable State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Older Populations ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
And Control

This paper draws on cultural gerontology and literary scholarship to call for greater academic consideration of age and ageing in our imaginations of the future.  Our work adds to the development of Critical Future Studies (CFS) previously published in this journal, by arguing that prevailing ageism is fuelled by specific constructions of older populations as a future demographic threat and of ageing as a future undesirable state requiring management and control.  This paper has two parts: the first considers the importance of the future to contemporary ageist stereotypes. The second seeks potential counter representations in speculative fiction.  We argue that an age-aware CFS can allow us not only to imagine newfutures but also to reflect critically on the shape and consequences of contemporary modes of relations of power.

Measurement and Control—Our Future Role

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 211-214 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Future Role ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Control ◽  
Measurement And Control

The role of Members of the Institute and the Institute's place in the future environment that will emerge in the next few years is discussed, with particular emphasis upon the contribution that the Institute and its Members can make to the strength of this emerging future through our particular activities and capabilities.

scholarly journals Views of the Future of Partners of People with Multiple Sclerosis Who Attended a Lifestyle Modification Workshop: A Qualitative Analysis of Perspectives and Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Sandra L. Neate ◽  
Keryn L. Taylor ◽  
Nupur Nag ◽  
George A. Jelinek ◽  
Steve Simpson-Yap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Lifestyle Modification ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interpretive Phenomenology ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
The Future ◽  
Partner Perceptions ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) often experience uncertainty and fear about their futures. Partners of PwMS may share their concerns and experience fears about their own futures, limitations on their lives, ability to work, and becoming a carer. For PwMS, modification of lifestyle-related risk factors has been associated with improved health outcomes. For PwMS who attended residential lifestyle modification workshops (RLMW), sustained improved health outcomes have been demonstrated. Whether improved outcomes for PwMS who engage with lifestyle modification translate to improved partner perceptions of the future, is yet to be explored. We explored the perspectives of partners of PwMS who had attended a RLMW and the impact that the person with MS’s illness and their engagement with lifestyle modification had on their partners’ views of the future. Analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews used a methodology informed by Heidegger’s Interpretive Phenomenology. Three themes emerged: ‘uncertainty’, ‘planning for the future’ and ‘control, empowerment and confidence’. Subthemes included MS and lifestyle modification being a catalyst for positive change; developing a sense of control and empowerment; and hope, optimism and positivity. Lifestyle modification may provide benefits, not only to PwMS, but also to their partners, and should be considered part of mainstream management of MS.

scholarly journals Futures of sustainability: Perspectives on social imaginaries and social transformation. A comment on Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel’s research program

2021 ◽  
pp. 053901842199956
Author(s):  
Gerard Delanty
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Control

This essay is a comment on the research program launched by Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel. My comment is specifically focused on their research agenda as outlined in their trend-setting article, ‘Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: A conceptual framework’. The comment is also addressed more generally to the research program of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Futures of Sustainability’. I raise three issues: the first relates to the very idea of the future; the second concerns the notion of social imaginaries and the third question is focused on the idea of social transformation.

scholarly journals Energetic flexibility on wastewater treatment plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 1225-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schäfer ◽  
I. Hobus ◽  
T. G. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Effluent Quality ◽  
The Future ◽  
Energy Consuming ◽  
Characteristic Values ◽  
And Control

In the future, an additional potential of control reserve as well as storage capacities will be required to compensate fluctuating renewable energy availability. The operation of energy systems will change and flexibility in energy generation and consumption will rise to a valuable asset. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are capable of providing the flexibility needed, not only with their energy generators but also in terms of their energy consuming aggregates on the plant. To meet challenges of the future in regard to energy purchase and to participate in and contribute to such a volatile energy market, WWTPs have to reveal their energetic potential as a flexible service provider. Based on the evaluated literature and a detailed analysis of aggregates on a pilot WWTP an aggregate management has been developed to shift loads and provide a procedure to identify usable aggregates, characteristic values and control parameters to ensure effluent quality. The results show that WWTPs have a significant potential to provide energetic flexibility. Even for vulnerable components such as aeration systems, load-shifting is possible with appropriate control parameters and reasonable time slots without endangering system functionality.

The Paradox of the Female Slave Body in the Islamic Legal System: The Cases of Morocco and Sudan

Hawwa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
Ahmad A. Sikainga
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
The American South ◽  
Female Slave ◽  
Female Slaves ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
And Control

AbstractThis chapter is concerned with the way in which Muslim jurisprudence dealt with the body of female slaves in two Muslim societies: Morocco and the Sudan. While the depiction and the representation of the slave body have generated a great deal of debate among scholars working on slavery in the New World, this subject has received little attention amongst both Islamicists and Africanists. The literature on slavery in the American South and in the Caribbean has shown that the depiction of the slave body reveals a great deal about the reality of slavery, the relations of power and control, and the cultural codes that existed within the slave societies. The slave physical appearance and gestures were used to distinguish between the slaves and free and to justify slavery. Throughout the Americas slaves were routinely branded as a form of identification right up to the eighteenth century. Although the body of the slaves from both sexes was subjected to the same depiction, the treatment of female slaves deserves further exploration. As many scholars have argued, slave women suffer the double jeopardy of being both a slave and a woman. Moreover, the body of the female slave in Muslim societies is of particular significance as many of them were used for sexual purposes, as mistresses and concubines. The chapter shows that the reproductive role of female slaves became a major justice issue, particularly in their struggle for freedom.

Suggestions of China Participating in Global Recyclable Resources Circulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 996-999
Author(s):  
Mo Zhang ◽  
Jing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
Recyclable Resources ◽  
And Control ◽  
Positive Effect

Development of recyclable resources industry makes a positive effect to alleviate the shortage of resources and control environmental pollution. At present, China's recyclable resources industry still has some problems. The Government should vigorously develop recyclable resources industry and participate in global recyclable resources circulation in the future.

Investigation of Ventilation Monitoring and Controlling System for Supercavitation Experiment in the Water-Tunnel Based on Configuration Software

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 3219-3222
Author(s):  
Shan Shan Li ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Xu Han ◽  
Jin Feng Liu ◽  
Xiao Gang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Configuration Software ◽  
Water Tunnel ◽  
Controlling System ◽  
Ventilation Monitoring ◽  
The Future ◽  
Numerous Data ◽  
And Control ◽  
Monitor And Control

The supercavitation weapon is a new concept weapon moving at a high speed underwater, which is devised applying the characteristic of supercavitation reducing the resistance of water, and it may be widely used in the future. The present ventilating system has many shortcomings, such as less automation and numerous data cannot be measured and recorded timely. In this paper, the automatic monitor and control ventilating system of supercavitation water-tunnel was developed using configuration software and PLC. All parameters can be measured, recorded and displayed automatically via using of the system. It has many advantages such as higher automation, convenience, and easy maintenance.

Integrated Theoretical Model of Smoking-Consumer Emotions and Research Outlook

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Jiayi Du ◽  
Xinkang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Moderating Variables ◽  
Consumer Emotions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Consumer Emotion ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: Research on smoking-consumer emotions attracts increasing attention. Based on the literature review and analysis, this paper recognizes different definitions, categorizations, measurements of consumer emotions. Then the paper identifies the antecedent variables, moderating variables and outcome variables of consumer emotion and relevant emotion theories to explain the relationship and proposes an integrated theoretical model of consumer emotions. Finally, this paper talks about the future studies of consumer emotions on four aspects. This paper offers insights on the research of smoking-consumer emotions, theoretically and practically.

Research on Urban Public Security Risk Management under the Background of Tobacco Control

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 911-920
Author(s):  
Suqin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
The Future ◽  
Security Risk Management ◽  
And Control

Objectives: Through the reflection on the city’s response to the crisis in the process of tobacco control, a comprehensive and systematic public safety prevention and control system will be built to help cities cope with future risks and challenges. Methods: By using the methodological principle of the unity of subject and object and systematic research, this paper analyzes the problems from the three aspects of subject, object and means, and puts forward three important links of prevention, response and guarantee to construct a large urban public security system, and these three links support each other form a closed loop of risk prevention and control urban public security. Results: Under the background of tobacco control, it is feasible to a reliable whole-cycle management system for urban emergency response and accident rescue, a sound basic public safety guarantee system and a whole-society participation system. Conclusions: Due to the change of global climate conditions and the increase of flow people in the social environment, human beings will face a more complex living environment in the future and may encounter more extreme problems. It can be said that at present and even in the future, global urban public security risk management work is facing a grim situation. WHO research shows that smoking will increase the risk of new crown virus infection among smokers and their surrounding population.China is a big smoking country and in the stage of rapid urbanization. Many citiesare densely populated. Once there is an epidemic infection, the cities will face a severe public security situation. Smoking will not only have an adverse impact on personal health, but also the fires in factories, homes and forests caused by smoking.Since the Chinese government’s tobacco control in 2014, various accidents caused by smoking have caused great adverse effects.Smoking in public places has great hidden dangers of public safety, which leads us to think about the risk management of urban public safety.In the context of tobacco control, we should use scientific thinking and methods to construct a new pattern of urban public security risk management. Another important concept is to implement the risk management concept and the value of prevention first in the management of public affairs, so as to create a situation of risk sharing and coordinated response of the whole society.

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