Introducing Futures Concepts to Experts in Public Services in Developing Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-246
Author(s):  
Ryota Ono
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
The Future

This article describes my teaching of futures to experts in public services such as water supply, power supply, and waste treatment in developing countries. These experts come to Japan to participate in the training course of their field of service, which is offered by a state-run organization in Japan. At the end of the course, they prepare an action plan, which is to be implemented after they return to their countries. In the course, I give them three lectures on futures to help them make their action plans more future-oriented. Experts are quite different from university students in that they carry the burden and responsibility to make services better and more effective in the future. Most of them assume, in their planning, that data and information in the past and present form the foundation on which they project the future of their services. As a result, their plans are always based on a probable future and not on possible futures. I teach them futures to point out the risks of such planning approach, and to open their eyes to an alternative one, which I call “Futures planning.” By following the three lectures in chronological order, this article clarifies characteristics of my futures teaching and its impact on the experts from developing countries.

A New Approach to Arabic Tense Form-Content Mismatch in Four Translations of the Qurʾan

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-82
Author(s):  
Amr M. El-Zawawy
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Arabic And English

Abstract The tense systems in English and Arabic are markedly similar, but one striking feature makes the two-part ways: Arabic boasts the capacity of expressing the past and the future in forms that are not tallied with what English does. Arabic and English can express the future and the past in the present form. Yet Arabic, especially Qurʾanic Arabic, has the singular capacity for expressing the future in past form and the past in present form. The mismatch in the Arabic tense system in the English translation of the Qurʾan is given due attention in the present paper, and a new approach is presented to address this significant problem. The four translations selected are Arberry’s, Yusuf Ali’s, Pickthall’s and Asad’s. A model is proposed to analyze significant selections of such mismatches, based on graphical representations of TOC, TOE and linking form. The study concludes that the most inconsistent translation is Pickthall’s, while Arberry’s is the most consistent of all. It also reveals that although Asad is not fully proficient in English like Arberry, he succeeds in clearing the hurdle of translating tense form-content mismatch most of the time.

Managing Operations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Radnor ◽  
Nicola Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Service Operations ◽  
Service Operations Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

This chapter aims to reflect on the past and present move of OM from manufacturing to service through analysis of key OM journals and recognition of practice before considering in more depth the future of OM in terms of the ‘fit’ for public services. It offers an analysis of ‘lean’ in public services. A philosophy and methodology much hailed as way to manage operations effectively. The review will present the prespective that uncritically applying manufacturing ideas to public service is flawed. It argues that adapting OM to the public service environment whilst, learning from existing thinking, should also recognise themselves as services, with the distinctive service operations management logic and managerial challenges that this implies. In conclusion, the chapter will state that managing operations across all sectors in the future should draw on a range of disciplines, theory and concepts.

scholarly journals Ultrasound training in Developing Countries, Needs, What is Done? What We Have to Do? The Past, the Present, the Future

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. S84
Author(s):  
Wiem Douira Khomsi ◽  
Giovanna Ferraioli ◽  
Franca Melloni ◽  
Azza Hammou ◽  
Ibtissem Bellagha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Nigeria Electricity Power Supply System: The Past, Present and the Future

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oladimeji Joseph Ayamolowo ◽  
Elutunji Buraimoh ◽  
Ayodeji Olalekan Salau ◽  
Joseph O. Dada
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Power Supply System ◽  
Supply System ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Electricity Power

scholarly journals PEMBELAJARAN IPS SEJARAH DAN SIKAP NASIONALISME DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laode Monto Bauto
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Way

The incidence of individualist attitudes and reduced social kepedlian and others. It all becomes an indicator of the lunturnya attitude of nationalism, especially among the younger generation successor to relay the struggle of a nation. Through teaching history students capable of developing competence to think in chronological order and having knowledge about the past that can be used to understand and explain the developmental process and change people and diversity socio-culture in order find and cultivate identity nation in the society the world. Teaching history asked students realizes the diversity life experiences in each society and the way different viewpoint against its past to understand the present and build knowledge and understanding to face the future. Thus probate Soekarno “ jas red”  must remain we amalkan. As is expression philosopher mulan kundera stating that if will destroy a nation, then destory first its history should let us think about.Keywords :Pembelajaran, sikap, nasionalisme, globalisasi

scholarly journals Paradigmaváltás a fogmegtartó kezelésben: az amalgámkorszak vége

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 (42) ◽  
pp. 1700-1709
Author(s):  
Krisztina Mikulás ◽  
Mercedes Linninger ◽  
Emőke Takács ◽  
Barbara Kispélyi ◽  
Katalin Nagy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Dental Amalgam ◽  
Mercury Content ◽  
Material Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pubmed Database

Abstract: Dental amalgam has been used for more than 150 years due to its beneficial mechanical properties and durability in dentistry. In the past and to date, many questions about amalgam restorations have arisen, especially regarding the mercury content, which has been the subject of global disputes. By presenting the past and present of the ‘amalgam issue’, the aim of our paper is to display the current position of international literature. This summary is based on the publications in the PubMed database, the guidelines of the Council of European Dentists. Although the use of dental amalgam is widespread, concerns have been raised about the adverse effect on human health and the environment, focusing on its heavy metal pollution during waste treatment. In 2017, the European Union (EU) adopted the so-called Mercury Regulation, based on the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury, the recommendations of which are presented in the present review. This Regulation includes the requirement for EU Member States to develop a national action plan for the phase-down of amalgam. The feasibility plan for complete phase-out may be guaranteed by 2030. The authors discuss the advantages and disadvantages of possible amalgam alternatives by presenting glass-ionomers and resin-based composites. In the future, more material research programmes and long-term follow-up studies are necessary. In addition to several global health organizations, the Council of European Dentists also draws attention to prevent dental caries, expecting to reduce the number of restorations. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(42): 1700–1709.

scholarly journals Roman Aqueducts in Crete, Greece: Learning From the Past

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1069
Author(s):  
Andreas N. Angelakis ◽  
Yannis Christodoulakos ◽  
Vasileios A. Tzanakakis
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sustainable Water Supply ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

The Romans were well aware of the strategic importance of Crete and tried, by any means possible, its final conquest. The island was under Roman rule over four centuries (ca 67 BC–330 AD). Under Roman rule, Crete witnessed a growth of its population and prosperity and an increase in its connectivity with other parts of the Empire. In addition, Gortys, Chersonisos, Elyros, Lyttos, Kissamos and other cities flourished under their rule. At that prosperous time, several luxurious infrastructures, such as hydraulic works, were developed. In this paper, we wish to examine the principles and the technical characteristics of major aqueducts built at that time. They constructed impressive hydro-works, such as aqueducts, by using the knowledge gained from earlier Greek civilizations in Minoan and Classical and Hellenistic times. However, they mainly increased the scale of applied technologies to support the increased population water demand. Water is a common need of humankind and several ancient civilizations developed simple but practical techniques, such as the aqueduct, especially during Roman times. We can gain from their experience and knowledge to develop a sustainable water supply, presently and in the future, both in developed and developing countries.

scholarly journals Frier, David. The Novels of José Saramago: Echoes from the Past, Pathways into the Future. U of Wales P, 2007.

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Thematic Unity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Jose Saramago

Frier felicitously opted for a thematically organized discussion of Saramago’s novels that loosely follows the chronological order of their publication, a structure that enables him to foreground the thematic unity of the author’s corpus while underlining major stylistic shifts in his work.

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