Regional Population and Employment Change in Australia 1991–2001: Inertia in the Face of Rapid Change?

GeoJournal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Baum ◽  
Kevin O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Employment Change ◽  
The Face ◽  
Regional Population

"Too Much Change in Too Little Time": Maintaining Professional Competence in a Public Library

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna C. Chan ◽  
Ethel W. Auster
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
The Face ◽  
Policies And Programs

This paper presents the findings of a pilot survey of professional development of reference librarians in a large urban public library. This pilot is part of a larger study of the processes and strategies used by reference librarians to maintain professional competence in the face of rapid change in the workplace. Fifteen librarians answered a questionnaire survey and participated in interviews and the organization's training policies and programs were examined.

scholarly journals Managing Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Agility and Collaboration Toward a Common Goal

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masumi Ueda ◽  
Renato Martins ◽  
Paul C. Hendrie ◽  
Terry McDonnell ◽  
Jennie R. Crews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Snohomish County

The first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was reported on January 20, 2020, in Snohomish County, Washington. At the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and University of Washington are at the forefront of delivering care to patients with cancer during this public health crisis. This Special Feature highlights the unique circumstances and challenges of cancer treatment amidst this global pandemic, and the importance of organizational structure, preparation, agility, and a shared vision for continuing to provide cancer treatment to patients in the face of uncertainty and rapid change.

scholarly journals Law School as Social Innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Lorne Sossin
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Face

Legal education is in the midst of a range of challenges and disruptions. This address outlines these dynamics, and explores the potential of social innovation as a model for law schools which both responds to current challenges and enhances resilience in the face of disruption. By reframing legal education as facing outward, and advancing its public interest mandate through partnerships, collaboration and academic initiatives designed to solve social problems, law schools can enhance the student learning experience, generate new forms of legal knowledge and thrive at a time of rapid change. Address delivered at the Australian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) 2016 Conference in Wellington on 8 July 2016.

Varieties of Capitalism in an Internationalized World

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 751-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thatcher
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Varieties Of Capitalism ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
European Regulation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Cross National

This article examines how internationalization affects domestic decisions about the reform of market institutions. A developing literature argues that nations maintain different “varieties of capitalism” in the face of economic globalization because of diverse domestic settings. However, in an internationalized world, powerful forces for change applying across border scan affect decision making within domestic arenas. The article therefore analyzes how three factors (transnational technological and economic developments, overseas reforms, and European regulation) affected institutional reform in a selected case study of telecommunications regulation in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy between the 1960s and 2002. The author argues that when different forms of internationalization are strong and combined, they can overwhelm institutional inertia and the effects of different national settings to result in rapid change and cross-national convergence in market institutions. Hence different varieties of capitalism may endure only when international pressures are low and/or for limited periods of time.

Architectural heritage: the paradox of its current state of risk

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Burnham
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Watch List

The treatment of movable and immovable heritage is markedly different. While movable objects are highly valued and carefully protected, their immovable equivalents are often under a serious cloud of threat. This peril is the result of global mismanagement, failure of governments to provide adequate funds for their maintenance, and lack of recognition by the public that these disappearing resources are assets of major value. Conservators of immovables face special ethical and practical concerns in their efforts to preserve cultural heritage within its context - depicted in this article as case histories from the World Monuments Watch list of endangered sites. The legal and procedural mechanisms that support this task are ineffectual in the face of rapid change. The field needs new methodologies that harness public appreciation of a site's 'sense of place' to guarantee its future.

scholarly journals The Role of Magnetometry in Managing Arctic Archaeological Sites in the Face of Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Hodgetts ◽  
Edward J. H. Eastaugh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Site Structure ◽  
The Face ◽  
Glacial Tills

ABSTRACTClimate change is impacting archaeological sites around the globe, and Arctic sites are among the most vulnerable because the region is experiencing particularly rapid change. In the face of this threat, archaeologists, heritage managers, and northern communities need to develop strategies for documenting and monitoring Arctic sites and prioritizing them for further investigation. Using three case studies from Banks Island in the western Canadian Arctic, we demonstrate how magnetometer survey could assist in this process, despite the region's poorly developed soils, widespread glacial tills, and periglacial geomorphology, which pose challenges for the technique. The case studies illustrate the utility of magnetometry in mapping both archaeological and permafrost features in the Arctic, allowing it to rapidly investigate site structure and assess the level of threat due to climate change.

False Specialization and the Purdah of Scholarship—A Review Article

1984 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Papanek
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Hindu Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Women Scholars ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Research

Within the last decade, many publications have appeared in South Asia (especially India) and North America on subjects relating to women. Scholars concerned with the study of South Asia have generally neglected these publications instead of integrating them into research and teaching on South Asia. This neglect results from a “false specialization” on both subject matter and scholars interested in research on women, which has led to a “purdah of scholarship” or segregation of the new scholarship on women. The reasons for this segregation include prejudice, the absence of an emphasis on family and kinship in current South Asia studies, neglect of research on Muslim populations, the complexities of gender in the Hindu tradition, and the nature of institutional support for research on women. Advocacy for women's equality is characteristic of the new research on women in South Asia, both by North American and South Asian writers. The core of the substantive argument presented in the article is as follows: Gender differences are among the fault lines along which the effects of major social, economic, political changes are distributed within populations. Gender relations are proving to be vulnerable in the face of rapid change. The increased consciousness of women's issues in South Asia is the result of accelerated changes within these societies which have affected gender differences and gender relations. Gender is increasingly understood to be a factor in accelerating class differentiation and in other processes of change.New contributions to the research literature on women and gender in South Asia are reviewed under three headings: (1) “complementary” studies that highlight forgotten sectors of the population; (2) stocktaking assessments that summarize data about women and government activities; (3) “integrative” studies that aim to develop social theory and methodology. The final section of the review suggests new lines for future scholarship, particularly with regard to control over female labor deployment.

Age Effects of Irrelevant Stimulus Changes on a Discrimination by Children

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelda Klapper Rosenberg ◽  
Herbert G. Birch
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Irrelevant Stimulus ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Size Discrimination ◽  
Continual Improvement ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Stability

The ability to maintain a learned size discrimination in the face of alterations in size-irrelevant stimulus attributes was studied in 128 white middle-class children of normal intelligence ranging in age from 2 to 7 yr. Increase in chronological age resulted in increased competence in retaining a learned size discrimination in the face of alterations in aspects other than size. Marked instability of response was found at the 2- and 3-yr.-old level. A rapid change in the stability of learning was exhibited after 4 yr. Thereafter the children in successive age groups showed a continual improvement in the ability to sustain the learned response.

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