Major disruption of email, websites reported from around the world

2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (5) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Madsen
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Major Disruption

scholarly journals Laboratory accidents and breaches in biosafety – they do occur!

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Della-Porta
Keyword(s):  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Sars Coronavirus ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The World ◽  
Major Disruption

In 2003 and 2004 the world became aware of three high profile microbiological incidents in Asia associated with infections with the SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV). Early in 2004 SARS was causing major disruption to many Asian countries, costing a considerable amount in lost trade and in handling the medical emergency. However, through strict quarantine measures, the disease was controlled and eradicated the virus as a cause of disease in humans (although it continues to exits in wildlife).

Introduction: in defense of some optimism

1981 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. Quester
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
International System ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
The World ◽  
National Power ◽  
Major Disruption

The spread of nuclear weapons would make the world a much less stable place, and such a spread may be difficult to stop. Yet proliferation is not as yet inevitable.Several viewpoints are implicitly rejected in this collection. One is that nuclear proliferation would actually be desirable for the world. Another is that such weapons spread is inevitable. Other rejected viewpoints are that such spread can be halted only by a crash program, by a brutal exercise of American national power, or by a substantial surrender of such power.The international system may indeed hamper a nonproliferation effort in various ways—for example, in a drastic worsening of Soviet-American relations or a major disruption of world oil production.Yet the most important counter to pessimism about containing proliferation comes from the world's awareness of how bad actual proliferation would be. States which pretend to be indifferent or resigned to such nuclear weapons spread will quietly be making contributions to halting it.

scholarly journals Humanitarian Medical Trips after COVID-19: Perspectives from Volunteers

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 2473011420S0023
Author(s):  
Eric C. Gokcen ◽  
J. Turner Vosseller
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Major Disruption ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
American Orthopaedic ◽  
Question Survey

Category: Other Introduction/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption in all areas of life around the world. Volunteers that are involved in providing international humanitarian medical trips may have reservations about resuming these trips. The purpose of this study was to determine the perspectives of previous international humanitarian medical trip applicants regarding resuming these trips. Methods: A ten-question survey was given to 27 physicians that had previously applied to go on a humanitarian trip to Vietnam in 2020 with the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society. Recipients were given 3 weeks to complete the survey, with three reminders sent. 19 completed the survey for a 79% response rate. Results: 47% of the respondents were ages 36-49, with 47% from the USA. 47% had been on 1-5 previous medical trips. All of the respondents are still considering going on a future trip. The majority (79%) anticipate being able to resume travel by June 2021. 74% will determine when to go based upon government clearance for travel and 79% will take into consideration the COVID-19 status at the host site. Only 2 respondents (11%) would wait for their practice to stabilize economically. Conclusion: Although the COVID-19 pandemic has severely limited the ability to travel for international humanitarian medical trips, previous volunteers and applicants are still anticipating resuming these trips within a year. Most are monitoring government restrictions and the COVID-19 status at the host site as the main determinants for going. Once these factors are favorable, humanitarian medical trips will be able to resume. Those that are planning these trips should continue their preparations.

scholarly journals Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Can it Replace Notes and Coins in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1-Feb) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
J Meena Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Central Banks ◽  
Present System ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Digital Currency ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Relationship ◽  
Major Disruption ◽  
The Subject

In golden old days when notes and coins were still to become medium of exchange, barter system was prevalent. With the growth of economies and trade relationship amongst countries, notes and coins emerged as means of exchange with global acceptability of currency unit of some countries like USD in foreign trade. Major disruption in the present system of use of currencies in settlement of goods and services is glaring in the form of digital currencies, popularly known as Crypto CurrencieslikeBitcoin. In this paper, effort has been made to understand need of Digital Currency from Central Banks (CBDC). The paper is an attempt to explain possibility of CBDC as replacement of actual currency and its advantages and disadvantages for India.In India, cryptocurrency was illegal either as means of exchange or as commodity for storage. After Hon’ble Supreme Court’s judgement on the issue, RBI has to explore possibility of usage of cryptocurrencies. A Bill is proposed on the subject in this session of Parliament. Challenges in introduction of CBDC in India, risk associated with CBDC and likely architecture of CBDC has been discussed in the paper. The paper provides idea aboutefforts in introduction of cryptocurrencies around the world so far.Further,the paper explores possibility of Financial Inclusion through CBDC and likely challenges for Central Banks on Monetary Policy front. The paper also explores possibility to make CBDC unique instrument for peer to peer offline transactions without mobile or internet connectivity.

scholarly journals Resilience engineering in practice: Reflecting on a pediatric hospital’s preparation for unknown coronavirus outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Shanqing Yin ◽  
Chia Yin Chong ◽  
Kee Chong Ng ◽  
Khai Pin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Resilience Engineering ◽  
Paediatric Hospital ◽  
The World ◽  
Major Disruption ◽  
Resilient Behavior

At the start of 2020, hospitals around the world were trying to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the resilience engineering perspective, this outbreak would be a significant test as healthcare institutions try to tolerate and manage this major disruption. This paper shares insights on what a stand-alone paediatric hospital in Singapore had done to stay ahead since the beginning of the outbreak. Observations were conducted from 25-Jan-20 to 25-Mar-20 to capture evidence of resilient behavior, notably in the form of improvisations. Findings revealed adaptations made across various organization levels: at the macrosystem to create capacity to isolate safely, at the mesosystem to facilitate teamwork, and at the microsystem to manage compromises at the frontlines. Juxtaposing this episode with other examples of organizational resilience, this paper maps out common resilience engineering themes in the hospital’s response to COVID-19, but also questions what defines an organization’s success in being resilient.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

Where in the world is the hip hop nation?

Popular Music ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Inez H. Templeton
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
The World
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