scholarly journals The Future of Nicotine Regulation: Key Questions and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitch Zeller
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Nicotine Regulation ◽  
Key Questions

Fictions of Migration and Refuge from the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
pp. 175-217
Author(s):  
John Patrick Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Shared Humanity ◽  
Scientific Debates ◽  
Key Questions

The chapter treats a set of writers, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Gary Victor, and Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey, whose fictions imagine experiences of migration and refuge in the wake of political and natural disaster. Their texts are meditations on the stakes of social and political institutions that support life in common in an age of ecological reckoning. The first part of the chapter returns to key questions of the Anthropocene, raised in the introduction, in order to demonstrate the ways that Caribbean thinkers have long anticipated scientific debates about the links between political violence and the future of the planet. Literary eco-archives contribute to these debates with stories about social worlds migrating and colliding. The chapter argues that Dalembert’s Ballade d’un amour inachevé, Victor’s Maudite éducation and its sequel L’Escalier de mes désillusions, and Pierre-Dahomey’s Rapatriés cast doubt on the future of a shared humanity with portraits of Haitian lives that foreground an ethics of vulnerability amidst widespread inequality. Through poetic representations of time and space, each writer ponders the ephemeral beauty of the present, always in flux between past and present, and each imagines the frailty of human lives in increasingly inhospitable climes.

Key questions about the future of laboratory medicine in the next decade of the 21st century: A report from the IFCC-Emerging Technologies Division

2019 ◽  
Vol 495 ◽  
pp. 570-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronda F. Greaves ◽  
Sergio Bernardini ◽  
Maurizio Ferrari ◽  
Paolo Fortina ◽  
Bernard Gouget ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Questions

Summary of Final Report: Space life sciences planning workshop (SLSPW) June 5-7, 2000 Mont Tremblant, Québec

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (9) ◽  
pp. 741-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R Ledsome
Keyword(s):  
Bone Loss ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Muscle Loss ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Questions

A Space Life Sciences Planning Workshop was sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency to identify key questions in the major research areas supported by the Life Sciences Program, to identify Canadian strengths and capabilities as they relate to these research areas, and to make recommendations for the future directions of the Life Sciences Program. The conclusions reached by the workshop participants have been presented to the Canadian Space Agency. This report is a summary of those conclusions.Key words: microgravity, Canadian Space Agency, bone loss, muscle loss, cardiovascular, radiation, neuroscience.

Risk and International Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónika Ambrus ◽  
Rosemary Rayfuse ◽  
Wouter Werner
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Questions

There is a dialectical relation between law and uncertainty, the forms of which vary from one legal field to another. This chapter identifies the three key questions which frame the examination of this dialectic in the following chapters in the book: how is the future imagined in a particular legal field; how are these imaginings translated into rights, duties and competences operating in the present; and how does the distribution of rights, duties and comeptencies affect the distribution of risks, costs and benefits?The chapter explores the involvement of international law in debates about future imaginings, the reconfiguration of risk and the impacts of those future imaginings, be they utopian or dystopian, on present and future subjects of international law.

scholarly journals Value of Interventional Radiology: Past, Present, and Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (01) ◽  
pp. 026-028
Author(s):  
Michael Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Interventional Radiology ◽  
Length Of Stay ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Imaging Study ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractInterventional radiology (IR) has had immense growth in importance and value over the last several decades from its founding in the mid-20th century. IR procedures have been widely adopted and an era of IR clinical expertise is upon us. Despite this, there is a perception that IR is simply an imaging study to be ordered and that IR physicians are expendable. This article attempts to explore that. Questionnaires were sent to other specialties and administrators asking key questions regarding the value of IR as a specialty, both for procedural and consultative expertise as well as their thoughts on the future of IR. Answers varied, but consistent opinions were observed that IR is extremely valuable, both procedurally and consultatively, and that expansion of IR services is likely. IR is extremely valuable given its impact on healthcare (lessening morbidity, decreasing length of stay, improving cost) and although there is some misperception of this value, other specialties and administrators understand it well. Newer generations of IR physicians are poised to become even more impactful if they continue to expand their clinical presence.

Session 1.2: National Health Perspectives of the Tsunami Crisis

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 382-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poonam Khetrapal Singh ◽  
Roderico Ofrin ◽  
P. Ravindran ◽  
Idrus Paturussi ◽  
Ibrahim Yasir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
National Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThis is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Session 1.2 of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related national health perspectives as pertaining to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) key questions; (2) discussion; (3) what was done well?; (4) what could have been done better?; and (5) what can be done to prepare for the future?.

Factors Affecting Future Scenarios for Alternative Vehicles Market

2012 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 1607-1612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo E. Ciarapica ◽  
Dominik T. Matt ◽  
Martin Luccarelli ◽  
Matteo Rossini ◽  
Pasquale Russo Spena
Keyword(s):  
Short Review ◽  
Hybrid Vehicles ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Future ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Future Demand

In the literature, many foresight methods have been used to cope with uncertainty concerning the future demand for electric, hydrogen, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. As a result, different scenarios and roadmap have been provided, often with contrasting outcomes. This paper is a short review of the existing literature aiming to summarize the main results obtained so far, describing the diverse ranges of possible development of these alternative vehicles over the next 40 years. This paper then addresses some key questions through the answers provided by the literature: what are the drivers of an alternative vehicles economy? What are the principal barriers and the strategic goals? When will an economy of alternative vehicles emerge? What does an alternative vehicle economy attain?

scholarly journals THE VIRTUAL CENSUS 2.0: A CONTINUED INVESTIGATION ON THE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND AGE IN VIDEOGAMES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Harrisson ◽  
Shawn Jones ◽  
Jessie Marchessault ◽  
Sâmia Pedraça ◽  
Mia Consalvo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Questions

While many studies suggest media representations of marginalized social groups play a vital role in shaping one’s worldview (Gerbner et al. 1994) or normalizing power imbalances (Harwood and Anderson 2002), videogames continue to privilege characters that are White, adult and male. This paper revisits key questions addressed in Williams, et al.’s “The Virtual Census: Representation of Gender, Race and Age in Videogames” (2009) to examine how representations of gender, race, and age in videogames have changed over the last ten years. The present study analyses the United Kingdom’s top 100 best-selling games of 2017 and looks for changing and continuing trends in the representation of videogame characters compared to the original study. While our sample still shows a preference for White, adult, and male characters, a small but significant increase in the representation of female characters and people of colour offers hope for the future of gaming. By revisiting the 2009 census, we aim to provide empirical evidence that may contribute to further discussions of how gender, race and age are portrayed in videogames, both within academic and industry circles.

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