Research Resource Needs for the Future

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Leslie L. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

This overview of the past, present, and future of research and development related to severely visually impaired persons covers the following subjects: documentation, creation of an armamentarium of aids (including both ordinary and highly sophisticated devices), the financing of R&D, the problem of technology transfer, dealing with change, the need for better theoretical models, and new definitions of the reality in which severely visually impaired individuals and those who work with them and for their benefit find themselves.

Education and Rehabilitation of the Visually Impaired in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 203-205
Author(s):  
Susana E. Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Special Programs ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

The author discusses education and rehabilitation of the blind in Latin America today, with reference to how visually impaired persons were educated in the past, and what must be done to meet their needs in the future. She believes that the first objective is that of obtaining good statistics on the number of blind persons in a given area so that programs can be planned with an awareness of the needs of the visually impaired population. Other objectives include teacher training, providing schools with the necessary books and other equipment, and extending services for the blind to include special programs for the multiply handicapped.

Sustainable research and development of the small uninhabited islands: the case of Ionian Oinoisses

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Habitation ◽  
Wild Life

It is acceptable that the uninhabited islands of small size, due to their isolation from the mainland, offer remarkable habitats for the distribution and conservation of significant protected flora and fauna species. Many of these islands hosted in the past settlements, castles, etc., that now have been abandoned, though the charasteristics of the landscape and the types of economy have not been altered to present. Albeit they do not sustain human habitation, the deterioration of their enviroment is owing to human intervention. The Oinousses island complex (consisting of three major islands: Sapientza, Schiza and Agia Mariani) retain a well-preserved and undisturbed natural environment as well as a rich wild life biodiversity. The main aim of the current research is to provide an effective tool which will serve the sustainable counterbalance development in remote insular areas around Greece. This will be achieved by using an enviromental assessment methodology (Leopold Matrix) that will contribute to the evaluation of the emergent environmental impacts. The monitoring and management of these islands in the future will be based on the conservation of their insular features (as a basic principle of sustainability) and the soft actions that must be adopted with respect to their natural environment.

The Current Art of Underwater Imaging – With a Glimpse of the Past and Vision of the Future

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Kocak ◽  
Frank M. Caimi
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Underwater Imaging ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Imaging Methodology

This State of Technology Report on Underwater Imaging provides a historical synopsis of underwater imaging, discusses current state of the art, and suggests future possibilities for continued advancement of the field. The history presented herein provides information assembled in a manner not found in previous reviews. Present work is grouped according to imaging methodology wherein foremost research and technical innovations of the field are highlighted, with a focus on the past five years. Trends in research and development are also discussed as they relate to emerging underwater imaging techniques and technologies.

Placement and Employment of the Visually Impaired: State of the Art and Identification of Unmet Needs

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 320-324
Author(s):  
Harry J. Link
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Career Education ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Describes vocational rehabilitation and other federal legislation that has opened up jobs for the blind and specific employment areas that have attracted visually impaired persons over the past decade or so. Reports the results of two surveys conducted to determine unmet needs. Results include the importance of upgrading the placement aspects of rehabilitation; providing blind persons with real work skills; early career education programs.

scholarly journals Patrząc w przeszłość, patrząc w przyszłość – 10 lat audiodeskrypcji filmowej w Polsce

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (40) ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Anna Jankowska
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

Looking into the Past, Looking into the Future – 10 Years of Film Audio Description in Poland This article presents the history of the development of audio description (AD) in Poland and gives an overview of the state of the art ten years after the introduction of this new type of audiovisual translation aimed at visually impaired audiences. The following aspects of AD in Poland are discussed: AD accessibility, standards of its creation, availability of training and legal regulations.

The Vordingborg Model: Integration and Rehabilitation of Visually Impaired Persons in Denmark

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 257-259
Author(s):  
P. Lebech
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Model Integration ◽  
Special Equipment ◽  
Regional Authority ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Handicapped People ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Danish legislation aims to integrate handicapped people as much as possible. Every regional authority must offer rehabilitation; teaching; and support in the home, the school, and the workplace. The Syncentralen in Vordingborg, the Vordingborg model, offers aid to people of all ages. This center provides expert advice, it teaches low vision people, and it tests special equipment for such people. Decentralization makes recent developments in the field available to more people. Needs are registered more precisely so that research and development is focused.

The future of wood products: What is the prognosis?

2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 985-988
Author(s):  
Ian de la Roche ◽  
Christopher Gaston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Key Words ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Future

The Canadian wood products industry continues to have an overwhelming reliance on commodity sales to the United States housing market. The industry has extracted attractive profits from this approach in the past, first by taking advantage of abundant, inexpensive old-growth fibre and then by investing in cost-minimizing technologies. But like all investments on inputs for production, diminishing returns have been reached and new solutions must be sought to recapture competitiveness and profitability into the future. This paper addresses this challenge by focusing on the role of research and development and the transition into a sustainable, knowledge-based industry. Key words: Canadian forest industry at the crossroads, productivity, competitiveness, knowledge-based, role of research and development

Three major handbooks in three years: Stylistics as a mature discipline

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Sorlin
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Do So

This review article brings to the fore what the publication of three handbooks in major publishing houses in the past three years ( The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics, The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics) can reveal about the state of stylistics in 2016. After depicting the specific character of each volume, the article highlights the way old theoretical models in stylistics are re-exploited in innovative ways and gives prominence to new theories and perspectives that have developed rigorous methodologies and proper purposes. It also makes apparent how the volumes both explicitly and implicitly perceive the field of stylistics as regards its scope and frontiers, the extent of its corpora and its relation with other close disciplines. If it inherently welcomes interdisciplinary collaborations, it yet seems to do so without adulterating its primary concern for language. The three handbooks show that stylistics has entered its prime as a discipline. Yet although it has become a self-assured field, it remains uncompromisingly open to criticism and debate as reflected in some chapters. The last sub-section is devoted to the future prospects of stylistics in terms of the promising research paths the discipline is currently taking.

scholarly journals TEST OF EFFECT FROM FUTURE IN LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: A PROPOSAL

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (20n21) ◽  
pp. 3945-3968 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLGER B. NIELSEN ◽  
MASAO NINOMIYA
Keyword(s):  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Imaginary Part ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Past ◽  
Superconducting Super Collider ◽  
The Future

We have previously proposed the idea of performing a card-drawing experiment of which the outcome potentially decides whether the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) should be closed or not. The purpose is to test theoretical models such as our own model that have an action with an imaginary part that has a similar form to the real part. The imaginary part affects the initial conditions not only in the past but even from the future. It was speculated that all the accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles such as the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) would mean that the initial conditions must have been arranged so as not to allow these accelerators to work. If such effects existed, we could perhaps cause a very clear-cut "miracle" by having the effect of a drawn card to be the closure of the LHC. Here we shall, however, argue that the closure of an accelerator is hardly needed to demonstrate such an effect and seek to calculate how one could perform a verification experiment for the proposed type of effect from the future in the statistically least disturbing and least harmful way. We shall also discuss how to extract the maximum amount of information about such as effect or model in the unlikely case that a card preventing the running of the LHC or the Tevatron is drawn, by estimating the relative importance of high beam energy or high luminosity for the purpose of our effect.

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