Hearts and Minds

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-143
Author(s):  
Steven McKevitt
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Emotional Model ◽  
Corporate Entity ◽  
The Times ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
New Strategies

As persuasion became more pervasive, it also changed in nature. A new emotional model of brand communication emerged, which provided brands with the means to develop deeper, wider-reaching relationships with their consumers. A narrative, storytelling approach to persuasion also proved to be effective. These new strategies were to prove hugely successful. They were ultimately responsible for creating a new kind of corporate entity, one that was built from the inside out rather than from the top down, and global rather than national in both aspect and ambition: the modern corporate brand. The growth of the persuasion industries was also reliant on external factors. The economic and political climate of the times enshrined the same values, aims, and objectives as the persuasion industries themselves—namely, globalization, aspiration, commerce, private wealth creation, property ownership, economic growth, and, not least, the rapid expansion of media channels.

Malaysia: Adapting to the dynamic changes of terrorist threats

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-127
Author(s):  
Kamarulnizam Abdullah ◽  
Ridzuan Abdul Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Adaptive Capability ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Reasonable Evidence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Heart And Mind ◽  
Trial Failure ◽  
New Strategies

Threats posed by the current religiously inspired terrorist groups leave Malaysia with no choice but to adapt to new strategies and approaches. Not only the threats have become more global in terms of networking and influences, but also the use of Islam to justify their attacks produces great challenges to the country and its security enforcement apparatus. At the macro level, Malaysia’s promotion on moderation and wasatiyah, as part of its counterterrorism campaign has been widely accepted by the international community. At home, the campaign of winning heart and mind continues to become an essential strategy of the government. Malaysia’s success in countering major terror threats since independence has also been credited to the role played by the police’s Special Branch (SB) Unit and the existence of preventive laws. Yet when those preventive laws were repealed, amid changing political climate and democracy in the country, the enforcement authorities particularly the police’s Special Branch are forced to re-strategize their intelligence gatherings and to learn vigorously the legal process. They are forced to be equipped with higher legal knowledge since the new laws required reasonable evidence to be presented during the trial, failure which could have be resulted in a dismissal of the charges. At the same time, the force is also upgrading its tactical skills and surveillance technology given the current terrorists’ adaptive capability with a loosely connected decentralized network.

The official reappraisal of May Fourth intellectuals: Hu Shi in the Sinicization of Marxism

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-273
Author(s):  
Selena Orly
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Hu Shi ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
May Fourth ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Moment

In the two decades after 1995, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) executed a significant philosophical shift in its relentless struggle for legitimacy and relevance through the Sinicization of Marxism (马克思主义中国化). Following the pattern of many other political reorientations, the party undertook a reassessment of a prominent historical figure to conduct ideological work – in this case, a leading May Fourth intellectual, Hu Shi. For decades the orthodox CCP view of Hu had been uniformly negative, but from 1995 onwards the People’s Republic of China’s establishment intellectuals presented a more positive appraisal of his impact on Chinese history. Previous scholarship on the rehabilitation of Hu argues that the shift reflected the more liberal academic and political climate of the times. This article argues however that the reappraisal of Hu enabled the CCP to manage a key problem in its political identity – the disjuncture between revolutionary Maoism and reform-era policies captured by the slogan ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’. By analysing the discussion on a key 1919 debate – known as the ‘problems and isms’ debate – I show that the CCP used Hu’s philosophical ruminations to trace the Sinicization of Marxism from the moment Marxism entered China to reform-era socialism with Chinese characteristics, and in the process it diminished the role of revolutionary Maoism. In so doing, the CCP consolidated legitimacy through showing its leading role in the historic Sinicization of Marxism without Maoism.

Some Relationships Between the Psychiatry of Children and of Adults

1960 ◽  
Vol 106 (444) ◽  
pp. 815-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Times ◽  
Child Psychiatrists

For the Chairman's Address to the Child Psychiatry Section in 1955, Cameron (5) decided to survey the scene of Child Psychiatry. His survey was historical and he described the various influences that have in turn borne on and helped to shape the practice of Child Psychiatry as it is today. Kanner (9), in the Maudsley Lecture of 1958, took the same theme and elaborated on it further. It is significant that they both felt that the time had come to do this for a young speciality and, indeed, their lectures were of considerable interest and use to those of us who have not lived through—in Child Psychiatry—the times described. However, Child Psychiatry has not become static; the scene will continue to change and to enlarge as more new influences come to bear. It seems that we who are engaged in its active practice now, and in the future, have need to watch where we are going; especially, as comparative success has brought some rewards and we foresee the likelihood of further rapid expansion in the speciality, with the need, to recruit more child psychiatrists. Again, the joint or liaison committees that have sprung up with other medical professional bodies are in a sense a recognition of our significance; they are also a responsi bility and may be a test of our loyalty to psychiatry as a whole.

scholarly journals Transformation of Swedish CSOs Using the Strengths of Purpose and Empathy

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p264
Author(s):  
Johanna Hallin ◽  
Nathalie Ahlstedt Mantel
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Strategies

Civil society organizations in Sweden are facing new challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing context. Demographical changes, a new political climate and a broad professionalization of the sector demand a transformational shift in business. In the project Tailwind, four leading CSOs in Sweden develop new strategies and policies to navigate the new landscape. The project explores the question of how these organizations will have to transform to be able to thrive in the future. Using positive psychology and appreciative inquiry as a method for this piece of research, key insights found include: the CSOs need to draw on the strengths of the organization when strategically developing the operations, to build their operations on empathic meetings with the target group, and to step up to claim an expert position in the public eye, sharing knowledge and insight with decision-makers about the needs of the target group.

scholarly journals A spectroscopic, photometric, polarimetric, and radio study of the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis: the first simultaneous SALT and MeerKAT observations

2020 ◽  
Vol 492 (3) ◽  
pp. 4298-4312
Author(s):  
Z N Khangale ◽  
S B Potter ◽  
P A Woudt ◽  
D A H Buckley ◽  
A N Semena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emission Lines ◽  
Harmonic Numbers ◽  
Doppler Tomography ◽  
Secondary Star ◽  
Broad Emission ◽  
Magnetically Confined ◽  
Peak Flux ◽  
Cyclotron Emission ◽  
The Times ◽  
Inside Out

ABSTRACT We present phase-resolved spectroscopy, photometry, and circular spectropolarimetry of the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis. Doppler tomography of the strongest emission lines using the inside-out projection revealed the presence of three emission regions: from the irradiated face of the secondary star, the ballistic stream and the threading region, and the magnetically confined accretion stream. The total intensity spectrum shows broad emission features and a continuum that rises in the blue. The circularly polarized spectrum shows the presence of three cyclotron emission harmonics at ∼4500, 6000, and 7700 Å, corresponding to harmonic numbers 4, 3, and 2, respectively. These features are dominant before the eclipse and disappear after the eclipse. The harmonics are consistent with a magnetic field strength of ∼57 MG. We also present phase-resolved circular and linear photopolarimetry to complement the spectropolarimetry around the times of eclipse. MeerKAT radio observations show a faint source that has a peak flux density of 30.7 ± 5.4 $\mu$Jy beam−1 at 1.28 GHz at the position of UZ For.

Ḥizb al-Nahḍah: from revolution to government and to a second referendum

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-407
Author(s):  
Mohammad Dawood Sofi
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Political Milieu ◽  
New Strategies

The year 2011 witnessed watershed events in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), resulting in long-awaited political and social transformation, with Tunisia acting as catalyst and modus operandi for the other countries of the region. Although the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ now seems to be gripped in a stalemate in Egypt, where vagueness still prevails, and in Syria and Libya, where the security situation continues to be extremely precarious and unstable, there seems to be a wind of change in the political context in Tunisia, where on 26 October 2014 the population witnessed the second post-revolution elections. The political party Ḥizb al-Nahḍah (Renaissance Party), officially founded in 1981, has been having a considerable impact on the political milieu of the region since its political career has experienced a renewed boost. Furthermore, Salafism has emerged as a legitimate force in the country demanding al-Nahḍah to redefine its role and strategy. While in power al-Nahḍah faced multifarious political, social and economic challenges that compelled it to devise new strategies and policies to suit the changing socio-political climate. In addition to exploring post-revolution transitions and transformations in Tunisia, this paper focuses on Ḥizb al-Nahḍah, the issues and challenges it encountered while in power, and those that lie ahead.

scholarly journals Osterc's letters to Milojevic

Muzikologija ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 107-146
Author(s):  
Melita Milin
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Musical Institutions ◽  
The Times ◽  
Insight Into

The correspondence between two of the most important composers in Yugoslavia during the period between the two world wars: Miloje Milojevic (1884-1946), a Serb living in Belgrade, and Slavko Osterc (1895-1946), Slovene living in Ljubljana, gives us valuable insight into their musical aspirations ambitions, relations to other colleagues, the functioning of musical institutions and the cultural and even political climate of the times. The stylistic features of their works are basically different, Milojevic being a modernist with late romantic roots, while Osterc was inclined to objectivity of the neoclassical and "constructive expressionist type. The main topics of their correspondence include: the activities of the Yugoslav section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, in which they were very much involved, and the efforts they made to have their works performed both in the country and abroad. Milojevic and Osterc maintained very good relations throughout the period covered by this exchange of letters, that is from 1933-1941 (Osterc's last letter was sent three months before his death in May 1941) and their correspondence provides evidence of several instances of the mutual generosity, as they helped each other in their careers. The portion of this correspondence that is kept in Ljubljana - Milojevic's letters to Osterc - has already been published and analyzed by Dragotin Cvetko. As such, the edition of the remaining correspondence, Osterc's letters to Milojevic, that is kept in the private archive of Milojevic's grandson Vlastimir Trajkovic in Belgrade, completes the picture. The language Osterc used was his mother tongue, Slovenian, with "borrowings" from the Serbian, the result being an often amusing mixture of the two.

scholarly journals In the background of the Mobile Internet ,Innovation of audit mode in retail enterprises——with Luckin Coffee as an example

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Hui
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Financial Fraud ◽  
Audit Process ◽  
The Times

In the mobile Internet era, the business model of new retail enterprises has changed greatly, so the audit mode needs to be innovated to adapt to the development of the times and improve the audit quality. Luckin Coffee has achieved rapid expansion relying on Internet technology, but the unsustainability of its business model leads to financial fraud by its management.In the mobile Internet era, the new retail enterprises ,such as Luckin Coffee ,are more suitable to adopt the data-based audit mode. In the audit process, the business model, original sales data, information system and transaction cycle are the key audit contents, and the key audit technologies such as field investigation, information technology and data analysis are adopted to realize the verification of financial information of new retail enterprises.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practices related to COVID-19 among medical students in Pakistan: A web-based survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Hashim ◽  
Ishba Manal ◽  
Nihal Afzal ◽  
Dattatreya Mukherjee ◽  
Hamza Rafique Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Times ◽  
Media Channels

In the times of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary for the medical students to have knowledge about the features of thedisease, how the disease is transmitted, and protective measures to contain the COVID-19. This study was conducted to evaluateknowledge, attitude, and practices related to COVID-19 in Pakistani medical students. We conducted a web-based survey fromMarch 29 to May 10, 2020, utilizing an online platform. Medical students from 1st to 5th professional years in medical collegesacross the country were requested to participate. The questionnaire consisting of 31 items were circulated online using differentsocial media channels to collect the required information. Proportions for categorical variables were tested using the Chi-squaretest or Fisher’s exact tests. A total of 344 medical students responded, and their overall knowledge about COVID-19 was 88.86%. Nearly 31.0% of participants were involved in awareness projects regarding COVID-19 in the community and 84.6% ofparticipants were willing to volunteer in healthcare crises. The percentage of the medical students who opted lockdown/curfew tobe a better solution for curbing disease transmission was 94.2% while 95.9% of them believed social distancing can prevent thetransmission. The average rate of practicing correct preventive measures among the respondents was 93.25%. The study showedsufficient knowledge, the crucial practice of preventive measures regarding COVID-19, and unveiled a profoundly assertiveattitude of the medical students of Pakistan toward the current health crises. More regular awareness and educational programsfor medical students related to the COVID-19 can boost and update their current knowledge.

scholarly journals Resilience in the Times of COVID-19: Rethinking the Neoliberal Paradigm and Creating New Strategies for Battling the Global Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3(16)) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Olivera Pavičević ◽  
Ivana Stepanović ◽  
Ljeposava Ilijić
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Ethical Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
The Times ◽  
New Strategies

The paper is an attempt to redefine the concept of resilience in the context of changes taking place globally. One of the key changes was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has shown the inadequacy of the neoliberal discourse of resilience that shifts responsibility to individuals who must be prepared to overcome the circumstances of crisis or shock. However, resilience can be seen in terms of solidarity, dignity and responsibility towards others. Resilience also implies strategies that involve large investments in public health, ecology and self-sustainable solutions to battle climate change that is causing infectious diseases. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of the need to start creating a set of public policies that would imply an ethical evaluation related to the success or failure of treating others responsibly.

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