Engineering Orders: Their Use in Forecasting

1962 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
E. A. Shirley
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Home Deliveries ◽  
Machinery Export

For the past four years estimates of home and foreign orders have been published which, by and large, cover the capital goods sector of the engineering industry. (This is the sector which produces to order.) Home deliveries from this sector make up a large part of industry's investment in plant and machinery; export deliveries have usually been more buoyant than total exports. If these orders figures could be used to predict turning-points in home and export deliveries of engineering products, this would be a helpful additional forecasting tool.

The Competitiveness of Capital-Goods Industries in Developing Countries

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-239
Author(s):  
Barend A. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Relevance

In the past two decades developing countries have invested an increasing proportion of their resources in new industries and the infrastructure needed to support them. Many of the new industries have been light, simple and con¬sumer-oriented. But a significant number of LDC's, mostly the larger or richer ones, have established heavy, more complex capital-goods industries. Both sectors of industry have been largely domestic-oriented, although there are some LDC's which have succeeded in sharply increasing their industrial exports, mostly of light and simple products. The absence of export success may, in itself, cast a doubt on the effici¬ency and competitiveness of the new industries. The question has been raised in several quarters whether, in fact, the resources spent on industrialization have been well spent or whether the LDC's could have achieved more growth—in domestic product or export earnings—by a different design of industrialization or by more emphasis on other sectors. These questions are of special relevance for the newly-established capital-goods industries, because:

scholarly journals Mediator as a Story Recipient in Narrative Mediation: What Types of Questions Should I Ask?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Chen Ying ◽  
Tan Chee Lay
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Good Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conflict Talk

<p><em>This study adopted the theoretical framework of narrative mediation to investigate a storied conflict talk between a landlord and her tenant in which the mediator played the role of a story recipient in the co-construction of stories with disputants. The focus of this research is on the function of questions posed by the mediator in the production of turning points which are favourable to the evolution of “better-formed” stories. The results of this study indicate that there are at least two types of questions mediators ask: 1) the questions that can help disputants reflect on their imperfectness; 2) the questions that awaken disputants’ memories of their good stories from the past. It is shown that the de-legitimacy for Self laid a foundation for the production of a good story towards a meaningful outcome for the mediation. The inadequacy of the context formed by first having legitimacy for Other followed by the de-legitimacy for Self led to the failure of destabilizing the problematic story in the mediation. The lack of the dominant party’s legitimacy for Other resulted in the absence of legitimacy from the marginalized side and would likely cause unfavourable consequences to the mediation in the long term.</em></p>

History Repeating Itself. The function of turning points and continuity in three historical narratives on operetta

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Mikael Strömberg
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The article’s primary aim is to discuss the function of turning points and continuity within historiography. That a historical narrative, produced at a certain time and place, influence the way the historian shapes and develops the argument is problematized by an emphasis on the complex relationship between turning points and continuity as colligatory concepts within an argumentative framework. Aided by a number of examples from three historical narratives on operetta, the article stresses the importance of creating new narratives about the past. Two specific examples from the history of operetta, the birth of the genre and the role of music, are used to illustrate the need to revise not only the use of source material and the narrative strategy used, but also how the argument proposed by the historian gathers strength. The interpretation of turning points and continuity as colligatory concepts illustrate the need to revise earlier historical narratives when trying to counteract the repetitiveness of history.

Research and Development in Electronic Capital Goods

1965 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 40-91 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Skilled Manpower ◽  
The World ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Constant Prices

The world electronics industry has been one of the fastest growing in the past half century, with a compound rate of growth of over 10 per cent per annum at constant prices since 1935.[1] Within the total, the output of ‘electronic consumer goods’ is no longer rising particularly fast in most advanced countries ; but the output of ‘electronic capital goods’ has been increasing at over 15 per cent a year (in current prices) over the past six yeats, and will probably continue to rise rapidly according to most forward estimates.121 This article is mainly concerned with capital goods ; but for some purposes it is necessary to consider the industry as a whole. Many firms produce both consumer and capital goods, because they use similar components and techniques and draw on a common fund of skilled manpower and research knowledge.

scholarly journals Arc-Induced Long Period Fiber Gratings

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaspar Rego
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Electric Arc ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Extreme Temperatures ◽  
Fiber Gratings ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Period Fiber Gratings

Long period fiber gratings produced by the electric arc technique have found an increasing interest by the scientific community due to their ease to fabricate, virtually enabling the inscription in any kind of fiber, low cost, and flexibility. In 2005 we have presented the first review on this subject. Since then, important achievements have been reached such as the identification of the mechanisms responsible for gratings formation, the type of symmetry, the conditions to increase fabrication reproducibility, and their inscription in the turning points with grating periods below 200 μm. Several interesting applications in the sensing area, including those sensors working in reflection, have been demonstrated and others are expected, namely, related to the monitoring of extreme temperatures, cryogenic and high temperatures, and high sensitivity refractometric sensors resulting from combining arc-induced gratings in the turning points and the deposition of thin films in the transition region. Therefore, due to its pertinence, in this paper we review the main achievements obtained concerning arc-induced long period fiber gratings, with special focus on the past ten years.

USING OF HO CHI MINH’S IDEOLOGY ABOUT GREAT UNITY IN BUILDING THE NATIONAL GREAT SOLIDARITY TODAY

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Thanh Minh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Renewal Process ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
Socio Economic Development

Solidarity is an important issue that President Ho Chi Minh paid special attention during his revolutionary life. He refers to this issue right from the first revolutionary propaganda articles and until he prepared to go far, in the “Testament”, Ho Chi Minh still emphasizes solidarity and great solidarity. Immersing Ho Chi Minh’s ideology on the great solidarity, considering it a red thread, through to gather forces fighting for national independence and building the country. For the past 88 years, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always applied flexibly his ideology of solidarity. The great turning points of the nation’s history since the Party established up to now, especially the achievements of the renewal process of country, especially the achievements in socio-economic development, deep, remote, difficult areas which proved the great vitality, the great power and theoretical and practical value of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology on the national great solidarity.

Political Memoirs and Collective Memory in South Korea- Turning Points in the Autobiographical Writings of Kim Taejung and No Muhyŏn

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Natalia Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Korean History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Wide Range

Emerging as an independent nation in 1948, South Korea went through a difficult phase of political development shifting from a martial and authoritarian regime toward a liberal–democratic one. The April Revolution in 1960, the May 16 coup in 1961, the October Yusin in 1972, the Kwangju Uprising in 1980, and the June Democratic Uprising are the turning points of South Korean history which changed the political landscape of the state and extensively influenced its future. The successful democratic transition has provided substantial grounds for various interpretations of the critical moments in the contemporary history of Korea. Although the official historical discourse has become more democratic and critical in recent times, it still leans towards conservatism. The collective memory of important historical events has been continuously constructed by a wide range of educational tools, cultural products, and governmental programs in South Korea. The collective memory comprises individual memories of the past, but these individual memories are subordinate to the collective memory because they are subject to generalization and objectification, which result in the adoption of commonly shared views of the past. There are different sources through which the interdependence of collective memory and individual memories can be studied. One of them is an autobiography.

scholarly journals The Levels of Neonatal Care Practices at Health Facilities and Home Deliveries in Rural Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 215013271881218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Haji ◽  
Milion Teshome ◽  
Akalewold Alemayehu ◽  
Mekdes Mekonnen ◽  
Fistum W/Gebrieal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Newborn Care ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Home Births ◽  
Neonatal Deaths ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Immediate Newborn Care ◽  
Home Deliveries ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
At Home

Background: Globally, there has been progress in reducing maternal and under-5 child deaths in the past 2 decades; however, the progress in reducing newborn mortality has been slower with estimated 3 million neonatal deaths per year. In Ethiopia, unhealthy newborn care is common at home deliveries compared with institutional births that might be associated with neonatal deaths. The purpose of the current study was to assess the practices of immediate newborn care at home and institutional deliveries in rural Sidama Zone, 2017. Methods: A population-based cross-sectional survey was used. The study was conducted in 5 districts of Sidama Zone, from January 21 to February 4, 2017. A total of 2300 mothers who gave live births in the past 6 months were selected using a 2-stage cluster sampling methods. Data were entered, cleaned, and recoded using Epi Data and SPSS for analysis. Accordingly, descriptive and bivariate analyses were done, and the results are presented using P values. Results: The response rate was 99% (2279/2300). About one-third of the mothers are in the age group of 20 to 24 years, and 94.6% of them had at least 1 antenatal care follow-up. Most (72%) mothers delivered at health facilities. The practices of skin to skin care of the babies was 52% (61% at health facilities, 28% at home; P < .002). Baby bathing delay for at least 24 hours was 78% and clean cord care was 73% overall (home 21% vs health institution 93.6%). The cord was not tied in 11.6% of cases all of whom were home births ( P < .001). As to immediate breastfeeding of the child, most (78%) of the babies were put to the breast within an hour of birth with no significant difference between the 2 places of births ( P = .75). Conclusion: In this study, giving birth at health facilities did not make immediate newborn care practices universal, but unhealthy practices were more common among home births. Therefore, more efforts to promote community-based immediate newborn care are needed with great emphasis to proper thermal care.

Watersheds and Turning Points: Conjectures on the Long-Term Impact of Civil War Financing

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey G. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Price Change ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Relative Price ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
Saving Rates ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Investment Goods

What accounts for the “epochal” changes in capital formation shares and capital goods' prices during the 1860's? The pages following document an epochal rise in American gross saving rates centered on the Civil War decade. They also establish a symmetrical episodic shift in the relative price of manufactured durable investment goods. Not only did the American investment share in GNP rise dramatically (and permanently) between the 1850's and 1870's, but the relative price of capital goods declined sharply over the same period. This relative price change was pronounced and it was never again repeated in a subsequent century of development.

A Historical View of Empirical Poetics: Trends and Possibilities

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Steen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical View ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

A historical view of the empirical study of literature provides a platform for reflection on the past, present, and future of the enterprise. The development of the field is sketched with reference to a number of turning points in the eight conferences of the scholarly association for empirical poetics, IGEL. A shift is observed from a theory-driven to a research-driven image. On the basis of this shift, problematic aspects of doing empirical research and formulating empirical theories are singled out for special attention. In particular, a plea is made for viewing research as puzzle solving in the sense of Kuhn, instead of the more ambitious view of Popper (1979) who sees research as testing theories. Moreover, an argument is presented for respecting but also relating the results from different theoretical paradigms. Finally, theoretical consequences of this standpoint include the adoption of pluralism while remaining alert with respect to maintaining the consistency of the overall definition of literature as a domain of discourse.

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