scholarly journals What’s to Come of All This Tracking “Who We Are”? The Intelligence Example

2021 ◽  
pp. 096372142110538
Author(s):  
Wendy Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
New World ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
To Come

Increasingly, we are required, encouraged, and/or motivated to track our behavior, presumably to improve our life “quality.” But health and life-satisfaction trends are not cooperating: Empirical evidence for success is sorely lacking. Intelligence has been tracked for more than 100 years; perhaps this example offers some hints about tracking’s overall social impact. I suggest that Huxley’s Brave New World offers a relevant long-term extrapolation and that popular recent tracking activities will accelerate “progress” in that dystopian direction.

scholarly journals Sleeping in a Brave New World: Opportunities for Improving Learning and Clinical Outcomes Through Targeted Memory Reactivation

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 532-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken A. Paller
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
New World ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Memory Processing ◽  
Memory Reactivation ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Neurophysiological Basis

Neuroscientific insights into learning and memory have mostly concerned input and output, but intervening processing during the time between acquisition and retrieval is also critical. Indeed, intervening memory reactivation may regulate memory longevity, and a growing body of evidence implicates sleep in changing memory storage. For example, subtle auditory stimulation can be used experimentally to selectively encourage memory reactivation during sleep, which thereby improves learning. Much remains to be elucidated about how learning depends on sleep. Nevertheless, this methodology for modifying memory storage during sleep offers new opportunities for reinforcing learning to enhance clinical outcomes in conjunction with therapies engaged during waking. A variety of such possibilities must now be carefully investigated. Likewise, brain rhythms can be entrained to enhance sleep functions, facilitating further progress in understanding the neurophysiological basis of memory processing during sleep. Ultimately, empirical evidence may reveal the extent to which the way we behave when awake is a function of what our brains do when we are asleep. Through such research efforts, an advanced understanding of memory and sleep may allow us to both make better use of our time asleep and take steps toward better health.

Out of touch and out of time: lawyers, their leaders and collective mobility within the legal profession

Legal Studies ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M Francis
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Professional Control ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Legal Professional ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
Traditional Roles

The legal profession has experienced enormous upheaval over the last 30 years and this paper suggests that legal professional associations have failed to come to grips with this ‘brave new world’. This paper argues that the Law Society's current difficulties in performing its traditional roles are not simply examples of passing contemporary problems. Rather they represent the declining ability of the Law Society to serve as the fulcrum of the profession's collective advancement. Professional control may exist but on an individual and contingent basis alongside a reduced role for the Law Society.

The GeoCarb Mission

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Crowell ◽  
Berrien Moore
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Gas Sensors ◽  
New World ◽  
Geostationary Orbit ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Cross Calibration

<p>The community has been measuring greenhouse gases from space for two decades, starting with SCIAMACHY and proceeding through GOSAT, OCO-2, TROPOMI, GOSAT-2, OCO-3, with many more to come in the future. The GeoCarb mission was selected in 2016 under the Earth Venture Mission program by NASA.  GeoCarb will measure CO2, CH4, and CO from geostationary orbit aboard a commercial communications satellite as a hosted payload starting in 2023.  In this presentation, we will discuss mission technical progress and program updates, including the recent passage into Phase C on Jan 1, 2020 and plans moving forward with integration and test and eventual launch.    Additionally, we will discuss plans for how best to proceed in this brave new world of a true constellation of greenhouse gas sensors, including cross-calibration and use of the data for flux determination.</p>

Conclusion Human rights in a brave new world: the shape of things to come?

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-274
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New World ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
The Future ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

This chapter explores the political context of human rights and how it is shaping the future. It argues that human rights constitute the very substance of democracy by conferring a universal set of rights on the citizen, arguing that Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase ‘the right to have rights’ defines the complex relationship between democracy, human rights and civil society. It discusses how human rights embracing both individual liberty and social justice have been historically contested and critically assesses the state of human rights in today’s world along with the potential threats and opportunities for human rights development into the future. The chapter concludes by arguing that the restoration of a universal welfare state, as the embodiment of human rights in a globalised world, arguably should be the priority for the future of democracy in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Missionary Credibility: Characteristics of the Messenger that Make the Message More Persuasive

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robert Dunaetz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Frequent Contact ◽  
The People ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
To Come

Missionaries seek to be credible to the people whom they try to influence with the message of the gospel. Although Christ first and foremost calls missionaries to be humble servants who love him, empirical evidence from the behavioral sciences indicates that missionaries who are perceived as experts, who attract people to themselves, and, most importantly, who are trustworthy are most likely to be deemed credible. To be perceived as experts, missionaries need to demonstrate their knowledge of a topic and to speak with confidence. To be attractive to others, missionaries may benefit from frequent contact with others, mutual appreciation, and physical attractiveness. To come across as trustworthy, missionaries need to demonstrate long-term integrity, trustworthiness, open communication, and concern for others.

scholarly journals Missionary Credibility: Characteristics of the Messenger that Make the Message More Persuasive

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robert Dunaetz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Frequent Contact ◽  
The People ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
To Come

Missionaries seek to be credible to the people whom they try to influence with the message of the gospel. Although Christ first and foremost calls missionaries to be humble servants who love him, empirical evidence from the behavioral sciences indicates that missionaries who are perceived as experts, who attract people to themselves, and, most importantly, who are trustworthy are most likely to be deemed credible. To be perceived as experts, missionaries need to demonstrate their knowledge of a topic and to speak with confidence. To be attractive to others, missionaries may benefit from frequent contact with others, mutual appreciation, and physical attractiveness. To come across as trustworthy, missionaries need to demonstrate long-term integrity, trustworthiness, open communication, and concern for others.

Modern Central Banking

2019 ◽  
pp. 573-601
Author(s):  
Frederic S. Mishkin
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
New World ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Almost All

This chapter examines how central banking has evolved in recent decades by looking at two main areas of central bank activities: monetary policy and financial stability policy. It starts by describing a set of nine basic scientific principles derived from theory and empirical evidence that now guide thinking at almost all central banks, which is referred to as the science of central banking. Then the essay discusses how the science of monetary policy provides a framework for understanding central bank governance and how modern central banks conduct monetary and financial stability policies. Central banking has entered a brave new world in which challenges have become greater and the conduct of policy has become more complex.

A Brave New World for Dementia Diagnosis

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Richard Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Dementia Diagnosis ◽  
Brave New World
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