Epilogue: A New Age: Breaks with the Past

2013 ◽  
pp. 162-174
Author(s):  
James B. Bell
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Terrorism before and after 9/11 – a more dangerous world?

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205316801773975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meagan Smith ◽  
Sean M. Zeigler
Keyword(s):  
Civil Conflict ◽  
New Age ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Opposite Trend ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Shed Light

Was 9/11 the opening salvo in a new age of terrorism? Some argue that this act ushered in a more chaotic world. Others contend an increased focus on terrorism in the past 15 years is the result of conflating terrorist activity with insurgency. We shed light on these claims by analyzing data on domestic and transnational terrorist incidence from 1989 to 2014. The evidence suggests that the years since 9/11 have been different from those preceding them. Once the prevalence of conflicts is accounted for, the post-9/11 era is a significantly less terror prone period than the years before it. A country not suffering civil conflict was upwards of 60 percent more likely to experience terrorism prior to or during the year 2001 than since. However, the opposite trend holds for those countries with a higher proportion of Muslims. Prior to 2001, countries with higher Muslim populations experienced less domestic terrorism. Since 9/11, these countries have experienced significantly more terrorism – both domestic and international – than they had previously.

Navigating Organisation in Times of VUCA: Implications for the HR and OD Profession

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Vasudevan Alasingachar
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Real Time ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Learning

This article addresses two vectors of VUCA interwoven in the narratives, a summary of personal theories about VUCA. Such theories are anchored and arise from experiential learning in my practice as HR/L&D and OD consultants over the past four decades. The implication for HR and OD profession is to consider their relevance when organisations navigate VUCA. Next is the culling out of the specific learning about HR and OD interphases that has worked in my experience, supported by examples and metaphors. The premise I put forward as conclusion are: In order to be at the centre stage of partnering with business, HR and OD have to complement and innovate new-age VUCA strategies. VUCA competencies with appropriate metrics are in the formative stage. The competencies are emerging from the real-time stories of consultants, companies and academia (TATA 26/11 and DuPont safety mandate). Only when HR and OD integrate and work together can the future of leadership or start-up entrepreneurs learn from their insights to ‘thrive in VUCA’.

Mobile Fractal Generation

2011 ◽  
pp. 399-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Doolan ◽  
Sabin Tabirca ◽  
Laurence T. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
New Age ◽  
Mandelbrot Set ◽  
Processing Task ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fractal Images ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

Ever since the discovery of the Mandelbrot set, the use of computers to visualise fractal images have been an essential component. We are looking at the dawn of a new age, the age of ubiquitous computing. With many countries having near 100% mobile phone usage, there is clearly a potentially huge computation resource becoming available. In the past years there have been a few applications developed to generate fractal images on mobile phones. This chapter discusses three possible methodologies whereby such images can be visualised on mobile devices. These methods include: the generation of an image on a phone, the use of a server to generate the image and finally the use of a network of phones to distribute the processing task.

JeungSanDo and the Great Opening of the Later Heaven: Millenarianism, Syncretism, and the Religion of Gang Il-sun

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pearson Flaherty
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
New Age ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Compensatory Response ◽  
The Past ◽  
Joseon Dynasty ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Central Belief

ABSTRACT: Korea's JeungSanDo is a syncretistic religion in which elements of religious Taoism, Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, Roman Catholicism, and Korean shamanism are combined with a unifying millenarian vision that was initially formulated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the late Joseon Dynasty. JeungSanDo is based on the teachings of Gang Il-sun (1871––1909), who was/is regarded by his followers as the incarnation of SangJe (Shangti), the Ruler of the Universe in religious Taoism, as well as Maitreya, the Future Buddha of Buddhist eschatology. The religion of Gang Il-sun arose as a compensatory response to the defeat of the Donghak Revolution in 1894. The central belief of JeungSanDo is Hu-Cheon GaeByeok, the Great Opening of the Later Heaven, the new age of JeungSan Gang Il-Sun's millenarian vision. A glossary of Korean and Chinese terms follows the endnotes. No religion is completely ““new,”” no religious message completely abolishes the past. Rather, there is a recasting, a renewal, a revalorization, an integration of the elements——the most essential elements——of an immemorial religious tradition. ——Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy1

scholarly journals Recombinant Human Butyrylcholinesterase As a New-Age Bioscavenger Drug: Development of the Expression System

Acta Naturae ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Ilyushin ◽  
O. M. Haertley ◽  
T. V. Bobik ◽  
O. G. Shamborant ◽  
E. A. Surina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organophosphorus Compounds ◽  
Expression System ◽  
New Age ◽  
Expression Systems ◽  
Serine Hydrolase ◽  
Animal Tissues ◽  
Transgenic Expression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Butyrylcholinesterase

Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is a serine hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.8) which can be found in most animal tissues. This enzyme has a broad spectrum of efficacy against organophosphorus compounds, which makes it a prime candidate for the role of stoichiometric bioscavenger. Development of a new-age DNA-encoded bioscavenger is a vival task. Several transgenic expression systems of human BChE were developed over the past 20 years; however, none of them has been shown to make economic sense or has been approved for administration to humans. In this study, a CHO-based expression system was redesigned, resulting in a significant increase in the production level of functional recombinant human butyrylcholinesterase as compared to the hitherto existing systems. The recombinant enzyme was characterized with Elman and ELISA methods.

Digital Marketing in a New Age Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 339-358
Author(s):  
Indira Ananth ◽  
Madhava Priya Dananjayan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Age ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Annual Rate ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Marketing Firms ◽  
High Phase

Digital marketing has developed enormously over the past few years. India saw a 100% rise in social media users last year according to IAMAI. India's e-commerce market went up to USD 38 billion in 2016. India's e-commerce revenue is expected to jump from $30 billion in 2016 to $120 billion in 2020, growing at an annual rate of 51%, the highest in the world. The chapter seeks to understand how firms working in the digital marketing space are using the various tools to help build businesses in a competitive business environment. The chapter looks at the B2B space, focusing on digital marketing firms started between 2007 and 2009 in India. The data has been collated from internet sources, namely https://www.topseos.com/ and company websites. Results showed that, especially after 2016, all these digital companies are growing in a high phase with acquisition of more clients. They are able to retain them by providing good services at affordable costs which can be seen in the expanding client base. This shows that digitalization can help companies grow.

Consciousness Raising

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cotter
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Atheism, as a subject in its own right, has received comparatively little scholarly attention in the past. This study begins by unpacking the term ‘atheism’, specifying an appropriate timescale and limiting the scope of the investigation to the work of four key authors. Their critiques of religion are considered and common themes under the appellation ‘dangerous religion’ are discerned. The author then pursues a closer reading of the texts, discerning what agenda is promoted in opposition to the heavily criticised ‘religion’, and discussing contemporary atheism in relation to Enlightenment values. Finally, the author examines why contemporary atheism fails to state its agenda more explicitly. The main players are shown to be individuals, with different foci that cannot be encapsulated by labels such as ‘Enlightenment’. Indications emerge of a ‘consciousness raising’ agenda, resulting from various factors that make contemporary unbelief a particularly organisationally ‘precarious’ phenomenon – a precariousness enhanced by an implicit ambivalent attitude to certain aspects of Christianity, and a correlation with Enlightenment, Romantic and New Age concerns.

Viewpoint: design well and the users will come

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Latimer
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
Library Buildings

As the 21st century dawned, bringing with it an unprecedented explosion in networked electronic information, the doomsayers were predicting the end of libraries as we know them and a declining need for new library buildings. Certainly there has been a shift in focus from the collection-based libraries of the past to a more user-centred approach where access to information takes precedence over its storage, but the libraries in cyberspace have not had it all their own way. Peter Davey, writing in the Architectural review in September 2001 on the role of cultural and art institutions in the new age of the Internet, pointed out that despite the power of digitisation and the availability of a wealth of information in electronic versions, ‘we need physical libraries and the books they contain because culture is far more complex than acquisition and assembly of facts. It is about thought and sensation’. He went on to say, in the context of Snøhetta’s design for the Biblotheca Alexandrina, that ‘it must provide a place in which scholarship is fostered, not just functionally, but socially as well’.

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