Track Two Diplomacy: The Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Peter Jones
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
More Care ◽  
The Way

Abstract The articles in this issue present a wide range of findings. First, the field continues to grapple with definitional issues: different types of projects aimed at different outcomes and audiences. More care needs to be given by each dialogue to define rigorously what it is trying to do and why. Second, fundamental lessons have emerged over the past six decades, which must be learned and observed by those active in this field, even as they seek to push the boundaries of theory and practice. Third, while it is generally agreed that the field must become more inclusive, both in terms of people and interests, and also in terms of encouraging local ownership and more transformative projects, a one-size-fits-all approach will not work; each dialogue should be viewed as unique. Finally, the field is a dynamic and evolving one. What seems to be best practice today may not be so tomorrow.

Different Types of Auricular Keloids and Treatment by Intralesional Cryosurgery: Best Practice for Obtaining Long-Lasting Clinical Results

Dermatology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yaron Har-Shai ◽  
Lior Har-Shai ◽  
Viktor A. Zouboulis ◽  
Christos C. Zouboulis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Recurrence Rate ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Clinical Results ◽  
Psychosocial Impact ◽  
Aesthetic Outcome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Auricular keloids belong to the most perplexing medical conditions, which have significant psychosocial impact on the patient’s body image and quality of life. <b><i>Summary:</i></b> The article is purposed to provide dermatologists and plastic surgeons with the best proven practice using intralesional cryosurgery for the treatment of the different auricular keloid types in order to obtain superior clinical results by minimizing the probability of recurrence. In the past 20 years, the authors have developed novel procedures in order to increase the effectiveness of intralesional cryosurgery on auricular keloids, including hydrodissection, warm gauze technique, and excision of dangling skin. Long-lasting clinical results with a low recurrence rate and a satisfactory aesthetic outcome are achieved with no deformation of the ear framework.

scholarly journals On Time and Planning: Opening Futures by Cultivating a “Sense of Now”

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Laurian ◽  
Andy Inch
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Improve Planning

Planning seeks to shape sociospatial outcomes but is also, by nature, future oriented. Yet, planning theory and practice have paid relatively little attention to ongoing debates about changing social relations to time. Building on a wide range of disciplines, we review the multiple temporalities through which lives are lived, the modern imposition of clock time, postmodern acceleration phenomena in the Anthropocene, and their implications for planning’s relationship to the past, present, and future and for planning theory. We discuss how thinking more and differently about time might challenge and improve planning by helping theory do better justice to the complexity of practice. We conclude by outlining eight propositions for rethinking planning’s relationship to time.

scholarly journals Unraveling the mysteries of centriolar satellites: time to rewrite the textbooks about the centrosome/cilium complex

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 866-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezgi Odabasi ◽  
Umut Batman ◽  
Elif Nur Firat-Karalar
Keyword(s):  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Compositional Diversity ◽  
The Way

Centriolar satellites are membraneless granules that localize and move around centrosomes and cilia. Once referred to as structures with no obvious function, research in the past decade has identified satellites as key regulators of a wide range of cellular and organismal processes. Importantly, these studies have revealed a substantial overlap between functions, proteomes, and disease links of satellites with centrosomes and cilia. Therefore, satellites are now accepted as the “third component” of the vertebrate centrosome/cilium complex, which profoundly changes the way we think about the assembly, maintenance, and remodeling of the complex at the cellular and organismal levels. In this perspective, we first provide an overview of the cellular and structural complexities of centriolar satellites. We then describe the progress in the identification of the satellite interactome, which have paved the way to a molecular understanding of their mechanism of action and assembly mechanisms. After exploring current insights into their functions as recently described by loss-of-function studies and comparative evolutionary approaches, we discuss major unanswered questions regarding their functional and compositional diversity and their functions outside centrosomes and cilia.

Wearable devices to support rehabilitation and social care

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Doughty ◽  
Alistair Appleby
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Battery Power ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the use of wearable technologies that focuses on applications that tackle sensory and communication deficits, physical disabilities and alarm and activity monitoring. It is intended to promote the introduction of more wearable approaches to providing assistive technologies because of their benefits in utilisation and aesthetic appeal. Design/methodology/approach – The approach involves a comparison of different types of portable device in order to identify different groups that may be beneficial to different application areas. Recent advances are then considered for each area. Findings – The work demonstrates that the use of wearable AT device is increasing due to improvements in materials, battery power and connected intelligence such as smartphones. They will allow new devices to be introduced that are smaller, lighter and more usable. Practical implications – Utilisation of assistive technologies is likely to improve as wearable devices become the norm across a wide range of applications Social implications – Approaches to improving the Quality of Life of people with disabilities through an extended use of assistive technologies will be enhanced by the increased range of devices available and by their performance. Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first review of wearable devices that has focused on the needs of people who have rehabilitation and/or social care needs. Its value lies in encouraging manufacturers and designers to use wearable approaches to solving some of the problems facing vulnerable people.

scholarly journals View from the Past – the Way to the Future

Upravlenie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Мельник ◽  
M. Melnik
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This article describes the main developments and results of the emergence, formation and development of the scientific school of management theory. The article estimated place, role, contribution of the scientific school of State University of Management to the improvement and development of the theory and practice of management of the national economy of Russia.

The News Media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.W. Anderson ◽  
Leonard Downie ◽  
Michael Schudson
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Advocacy Journalism ◽  
The Way

The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plummeting readership and revenue, and municipal and regional papers shuttering or being absorbed into corporate behemoths. Now billionaires, most with no journalism experience but lots of power and strong views, are stepping in to purchase newspapers, both large and small. This addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series looks at the past, present and future of journalism, considering how the development of the industry has shaped the present and how we can expect the future to roll out. It addresses a wide range of questions, from whether objectivity was only a conceit of late twentieth century reporting, largely behind us now; how digital technology has disrupted journalism; whether newspapers are already dead to the role of non-profit journalism; the meaning of “transparency” in reporting; the way that private interests and governments have created their own advocacy journalism; whether social media is changing journalism; the new social rules of old media outlets; how franchised media is addressing the problem of disappearing local papers; and the rise of citizen journalism and hacker journalism. It will even look at the ways in which new technologies potentially threaten to replace journalists.

Noise, narration and nose-pegs: Adapting Shakespeare for radio

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Andrea Smith
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Director General ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Way

The BBC’s first director general, John Reith, believed the plays of Shakespeare were perfect for radio, with ‘little in the way of setting and scenery’ and relying chiefly on plot and acting. However, a closer look at the texts reveals that many require a good deal of adaptation to work in sound only. That has not stopped BBC radio producers creating hundreds of productions over the past century. Instead, it has spurred many of them on to greater creativity. Initially reliant on narration, producers began to devise a wide range of techniques to make Shakespeare comprehensible without visuals. These include specially devised sound effects, soundscapes and music, as well as distorting the actors’ voices in various ways, including using nose-pegs and the assistance of the Radiophonic Workshop. This article uses audio and written evidence to uncover those techniques and examines how successful they have been deemed to be.

Archive Everything

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Giannachi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This book traces the evolution of the archive across the centuries by looking at primitive, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian and contemporary archives. Crucially, the book evidences the fluidity and potential inter-changeability between libraries, archives and museums. A number of case studies offer an insight into the operation of a variety of different types of archives, including cabinets of curiosity, archival artforms, architectures, performances, road-shows, time capsules, social media documentation practices, databases, and a variety of museological web-based heritage platforms. The archive is shown to play a crucial role in how individuals and social groups administer themselves through and within a burgeoning social memory apparatus. This is why at the heart of every industrial revolution thus far, the archive continues to contribute to the way we store, preserve and generate knowledge through an accumulation of documents, artifacts, objects, as well as ephemera and even debris. The archive has always been strategic for different types of economies, including the digital economy and the internet of things. Shown here to increasingly affect to the way we map, produce, and share knowledge, the apparatus of the archive, which allows us to continuously renew who we are in relation to the past, so that new futures may become possible, now effectively pervades almost every aspect of our lives.

scholarly journals From theory to practice of ecotourism: major obstacles that stand in the way and best practices that lead to success

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina K. Dimitriou
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Continuous Use ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

AbstractEcotourism has been described as the ideal kind of tourism, as it aims to conserve the natural, cultural and other tourist resources for continuous use for future generations whilst still bringing benefits to the present societies. Theoretically, it sounds so promising and attractive, but when it comes to its actual implementation, significant constraints bar the way to success. Various countries that attempted to foster sustainable development in their communities, either partially achieved their goals or their implementation totally lapsed. These fruitless efforts clearly reflect the huge gap that still exists between the theory and practice of ecotourism. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap that seems to have been growing in recent years by explaining what has been done wrong and what specific policies and procedures could help bring a positive change. This paper aims to move from theory to practice and concentrate on how the implementation of ecotourism can be achieved properly and lead to success. The key factors responsible for failure are addressed, so they can be avoided and mistakes of the past will not be repeated. It also serves as a guide to more effective strategies of promoting ecotourism successfully around the world.

The Fifth Scenario: Identity Expansion in Organizational Psychology

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-285
Author(s):  
David P. Costanza ◽  
Jaclyn M. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Potential Outcomes ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Ryan and Ford (2010) have argued that organizational psychology is at a tipping point in terms of its distinctiveness from other fields. Although the four scenarios they propose for organizational psychology's future cover a wide range of potential outcomes, we propose that there is another, more expansive, more optimistic scenario for our field: our identity needs to continue to evolve, expand, and extend itself to accommodate the evolving and expanding nature of the modern organizations we study. We suggest that the way forward for organizational psychology is to continue what we have done in the past: integrate theories from multiple disciplines, adopt multiple perspectives to the questions we face, and embrace the ambiguity inherent in the organizations we study. This additional scenario, which we term identity expansion, follows both from the history of the field and from research on professional identity. Below, we argue that both historically and theoretically such a future for our professional identity makes the most sense. Furthermore, we believe that organizational psychologists are in an excellent position to both shape and benefit from this expansion in identity.

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