Creativity and Embodiment in Pre-modern Japan and Twenty-First Century (North) America

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Koji Matsunobu
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
Twenty First Century

Defining the Center—Finding the Boundaries: The Challenge of Re-Visioning the Church in North America for the Twenty-First Century

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-337
Author(s):  
Craig Van Gelder
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Mission Field ◽  
The Church

It is becoming increasingly clear that we are experiencing a shift in North American culture that requires the church to think of North America as mission field. The thesis of this article is that the church will need to develop a new paradigm of mission to accomplish this. This article identifies 18 issues which such a paradigm of mission will need to address. These issues are discussed in terms of three aspects: (1) the context in which we live, (2) the gospel we seek to proclaim, and (3) the church which seeks to proclaim this gospel.

Conflicts, battlefields, indigenous peoples and tourism: addressing dissonant heritage in warfare tourism in Australia and North America in the twenty‐first century

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raynald Harvey Lemelin ◽  
Kyle Powys Whyte ◽  
Kelsey Johansen ◽  
Freya Higgins Desbiolles ◽  
Christopher Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Reduced frequency and size of late-twenty-first-century snowstorms over North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 539-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walker S. Ashley ◽  
Alex M. Haberlie ◽  
Vittorio A. Gensini
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Reduced Frequency ◽  
Twenty First Century

Twenty-First-Century Workers’ Education in North America

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey Dolgon ◽  
Reuben Roth
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

A Manifesto of the Twenty-First-Century Academic Proletariat in North America

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Mann ◽  
Heidi Nelson Hochenedel
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
First Century ◽  
Professional Baseball ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Baseball has been Japan’s national pastime for over a century, and the Hanshin Tigers have long been the country’s second favorite professional team in its second-largest city. This ethnography, based on multiple years of fieldwork, analyzes Hanshin Tiger baseball as a complex sportsworld, the collective product and the converging actions of the players themselves, demanding coaches, layers of intrusive management, a large and prying media, and millions of passionate and organized fans across the Kansai region. It explains the team’s popularity through decades of futility in the late twentieth century and charts the recent changes that have transformed it into a regularly competitive team. Over these years, the Hanshin Tigers have been a long-running soap opera of workplace melodrama and second-city anxiety, and they illustrate the enduring features and new vulnerabilities of professional baseball in the twenty-first century. The book demonstrates the significance of baseball for modern Japan and the importance of ethnography in critical sport studies.

A Manifesto of the Twenty-First-Century Academic Proletariat in North America

2017 ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Douglas Mann ◽  
Heidi Nelson Hochenedel
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Decadal Prediction in the Pacific Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 2959-2973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald A. Meehl ◽  
Aixue Hu ◽  
Claudia Tebaldi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Decadal Prediction ◽  
Model Reference ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Perfect Model ◽  
Reference Simulation ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract A “perfect model” configuration with a global coupled climate model 30-member ensemble is used to address decadal prediction of Pacific SSTs. All model data are low-pass filtered to focus on the low-frequency decadal component. The first three EOFs in the twentieth-century simulation, representing nearly 80% of the total variance, are used as the basis for early twenty-first-century predictions. The first two EOFs represent the forced trend and the interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO), respectively, as noted in previous studies, and the third has elements of both trend and IPO patterns. The perfect model reference simulation, the target for the prediction, is taken as the experiment that ran continuously from the twentieth to twenty-first century using anthropogenic and natural forcings for the twentieth century and the A1B scenario for the twenty-first century. The other 29 members use a perturbation in the atmosphere at year 2000 and are run until 2061. Since the IPO has been recognized as a dominant contributor to decadal variability in the Pacific, information late in the twentieth century and early in the twenty-first century is used to select a subset of ensemble members that are more skillful in tracking the time evolution of the IPO (EOF2) in relation to a notional start date of 2010. Predictions for the 19-yr period centered on the year 2020 use that subset of ensemble members to construct Pacific SST patterns based on the predicted evolution of the first three EOFs. Compared to the perfect model reference simulation, the predictions show some skill for Pacific SST predictions with anomaly pattern correlations greater than +0.5. An application of the Pacific SST prediction is made to precipitation over North America and Australia. Even though there are additional far-field influences on Pacific SSTs and North American and Australian precipitation involving the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) in the Atlantic, and Indian Ocean and South Asian monsoon variability, there is qualitative skill for the pattern of predicted precipitation over North America and Australia using predicted Pacific SSTs. This exercise shows that, in the presence of a large forced trend like that in the large ensemble, much of Pacific region decadal predictability about 20 years into the future arises from increasing greenhouse gases.

scholarly journals Projected Future Changes in Vegetation in Western North America in the Twenty-First Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3671-3687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Jiang ◽  
Sara A. Rauscher ◽  
Todd D. Ringler ◽  
David M. Lawrence ◽  
A. Park Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
First Century ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Dynamic Global Vegetation Model ◽  
Future Warming ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Tree Coverage

Abstract Rapid and broad-scale forest mortality associated with recent droughts, rising temperature, and insect outbreaks has been observed over western North America (NA). Climate models project additional future warming and increasing drought and water stress for this region. To assess future potential changes in vegetation distributions in western NA, the Community Earth System Model (CESM) coupled with its Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) was used under the future A2 emissions scenario. To better span uncertainties in future climate, eight sea surface temperature (SST) projections provided by phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) were employed as boundary conditions. There is a broad consensus among the simulations, despite differences in the simulated climate trajectories across the ensemble, that about half of the needleleaf evergreen tree coverage (from 24% to 11%) will disappear, coincident with a 14% (from 11% to 25%) increase in shrubs and grasses by the end of the twenty-first century in western NA, with most of the change occurring over the latter half of the twenty-first century. The net impact is a ~6 GtC or about 50% decrease in projected ecosystem carbon storage in this region. The findings suggest a potential for a widespread shift from tree-dominated landscapes to shrub and grass-dominated landscapes in western NA because of future warming and consequent increases in water deficits. These results highlight the need for improved process-based understanding of vegetation dynamics, particularly including mortality and the subsequent incorporation of these mechanisms into earth system models to better quantify the vulnerability of western NA forests under climate change.

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