scholarly journals Adopting standard variable labels solves many of the problems with sharing and reusing data

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 205979912110266
Author(s):  
Brett Buttliere
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
Question Wording ◽  
Variable Label ◽  
The Future ◽  
Simple Step

Datasets and analysis scripts are becoming more available online, but most datasets are still unclear and difficult to use due to poor meta-data. Adopting standard variable label solves most of these problems and is easily implemented if we set the labels at the time of publication, that is, for authors to also establish standard variable labels when they establish for example, question wording. This simple step involves little effort but facilitates the sharing of datasets and analysis scripts enormously. Current initiatives to improve meta-data rely on users spending much time creating new meta-data for each variable, which is time consuming, unenjoyable, and hinders adoption. Some suggestions are made on how brief, unique, and clear variable labels can be developed, especially using the last two digits of the year the scale was published in. Standards for dataset and analysis script etiquette are the future, and the final section of the manuscript examines other easy places simple standards can save time and frustration for (re)users.

what is the future of TV antiquity?

TV antiquity ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 194-204
Author(s):  
Sylvie Magerstädt
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Aspects

To conclude the exploration of sixty years of TV antiquity, this final section draws out some of the key aspects that run through the shows discussed in the book, such as the importance of serialisation and later syndication and collaboration in the development of TV antiquity; the new heroic ideal developed in these shows, combining domesticity and politics; and the marginalisation of religious practice in many of the programmes discussed. In addition, the conclusion also briefly examines the most recent shows such as Olympus (2015), Britannia (2017) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) and suggests some of the possible directions for TV antiquity. Here, the most notable developments are a greater blend of history, myth and fantasy as well as the blurring of boundaries between documentary and fictional drama.

scholarly journals Domination, Authority, and the Forms of Chinese Power

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A Lake
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Other ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
The Future ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
International Power ◽  
China Today

Abstract The debate about China’s rise and future United States–China relations has focused on the purpose to which China’s growing international power will be put. This article focuses on the form of China’s power, distinguishing between domination and authority. Different great powers have, at different times, chosen one, the other, or more commonly differing mixes of the two forms. How China chooses now and in the future will have a significant effect on its relationships with other states, and through them on its relationship with the United States. The first section explores the differences between domination and authority as strategies for the exercise of international power. The second section summarizes a theory of authority with particular relevance to China today. Though necessarily speculative, this section identifies where China is most likely to choose one strategy over the other as its international influence expands. The final section examines the domestic impediments in China to the choice of authority. While both China and the United States might be better off in a world in which the former constructs an international hierarchy to parallel the latter’s, the conclusion draws a relatively pessimistic assessment of the prospects for cooperation between the two emerging superpowers.

Prolegomena to Any “Metaphysics of the Future”: A Critical Appraisal of John Haught's Evolutionary Theology

Horizons ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-295
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Hohman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Process Thought ◽  
The Future

This article examines John Haught's proposal for a “metaphysics of the future” within his program for an evolutionary theology. After offering an overview of Haught's metaphysics and its roots in process thought, it argues that Haught's account undermines his larger goal of dialogue between science and religion by making all knowledge of reality dependent on a prior and explicitly religious experience. This critique is brought into greater relief through a comparison with the thought of Bernard Lonergan, whose epistemology and metaphysics Haught has engaged numerous times throughout his career. The final section suggests one way of reframing Haught's project that avoids these serious issues without jettisoning his important core insights.

Limits to Welfare

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Jon Eivind Kolberg
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relative Decline ◽  
The Welfare State

Some questions are raised regarding the future of the welfare state. For example: How are fundamental socio-political constellations affected by the pronounced, relative decline of labour force participants and corresponding significant welfare expansion? Changes in the top echelons of social structure, as well as the ‘bottom’ end of it, are discussed. The existence of welfare backlash sentiments in a Scandinavian welfare state (Norway) is indicated. Various counter-strategies to save the welfare state are presented. The final section focuses on the stamina of political systems. The main elements of Wilensky's model, and some of his results, are presented and criticized.

Self-sacrifice in Train to Busan (2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will McKeown
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
The Future

In order to recognize and calibrate the two parts to its structure, self-sacrifice in zombie cinema will be examined in terms of survival-based and emotion-based motivational frameworks. The interaction of these frameworks will be unpacked and their properties, differences and similarities will be appraised and questioned. Examinations of this kind require three different analytical methods that therefore determine the structure of this article. The first section will outline how the survival and emotional-based motivational frameworks exist within the same sequence in Train to Busan (2016). The implications of this will be addressed in relation to the organization of modern neo-liberalism and what Paul Verhaeghe coins the neoliberal meritocracy. The second section examines the temporal projections of the characters in the sequence (specifically how the sequence depicts a character’s understanding of the future and how their present situation fits into that). These projections are cross-referenced with the specific example of the neo-liberal South Korean economic climate to add credence to the proposition that the need (or fetishization) of survival is a neo-liberal symptom and a hangover from the pressures that are ceaselessly exerted to keep its hierarchies in place. The final section of this article examines abjection and identity in relation to the chosen sequence in Train to Busan. It explores the generation of identity in relation to self-sacrifice and concludes that self-sacrifice is a necessary enforcer of a specifically neo-liberal competition.

The Past of the Future of Computation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Cognitive Tool ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Simple Step ◽  
A Current

Hand axes, language, and computers are tools that increase our ability to deal with the world. Computing is a cognitive tool and comes in several kinds: digital, analog, and brain-like. An analog telephone connects two telephones with a wire. Talking causes a current to flow on the wire. In a digital telephone the voltage is converted into groups of ones or zeros and sent at high speed from one telephone to the other. An analog telephone requires one simple step. A digital telephone requires several million discrete steps per second. Digital telephones work because the hardware has gotten much faster. Yet brains constructed of slow devices and using a few watts of power are competitive for many cognitive tasks. The important question is not why machines are becoming so smart but why humans are still so good. Artificial intelligence is missing something important probably based on hardware differences.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Buga
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Level

This chapter introduces the discussion of the key role of subsequent practice in the process of treaty adaptation and the formation of international law more generally. The chapter explains the need to explore the treaty modifying potential of subsequent practice—a topic that has, in recent years, generated an increasing amount of attention—and its potentially far-reaching effects for States and dispute settlement bodies alike. The chapter also defines treaty ‘modification’ in this context. The final section sets out the book's systematic approach to exploring the relevance and dynamism of the process of treaty modification by subsequent practice and showing—on a theoretical and practical level—how it can be identified and dealt with more consistently in the future.

New Media and the Quality of Life

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Philip Brey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Contemporary Media

In this paper I evaluate the implications of contemporary information and communication media for the quality of life, including both the new media from the digital revolution and the older media that remain in use. My evaluation of contemporary media proceeds in three parts. First I discuss the benefits of contemporary media, with special emphasis given to their immediate functional benefits. I then discuss four potential threats posed by contemporary media. In a final section I examine the future of digital media and the possibilities available to us in shaping that future.

Sustainable Human Resources as the Future of HRM Systems in Family Firms

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-165
Author(s):  
Aneta Kuźniarska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
The Subject

Issues associated with the fair distribution of resources for both current and future generations are gaining on more importance as a result of broad discussion worldwide relating to the ecological problems. One of the significant elements of these activities is embodied by family firms; hence, the aim of this chapter is an attempt to indicate what an important role in terms of building the future of family firms is played by the adoption of the principles of sustainable management with the participation of the employees and the owners on the basis of the appropriately designed functions of HRM. The chapter includes introductory elements to the significance and foundations of the concept of sustainable development in order for the subsequent sections to contain information on the subject of utilizing the concept of sustainable management in organizations and the departments of HR. The final section of the chapter constitutes indications referring to the creation of sustainable personnel in family firms as a challenge that is facing the departments of HR.

Evolution and Biogeography

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successful Establishment ◽  
Patterns And Processes

This volume examines Evolution and Biogeography of Crustacea, one of the dominant groups of animals, especially in aquatic environments. The first part of this volume is dedicated to the explanation of the origins and successful establishment of the Crustacea in the oceans. In the second part the biogeography of the Crustacea is explored in order to infer how they conquered different biomes globally, while adapting to a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial conditions. A final section examines more general patterns and processes, and looks to the future. Collectively, these eighteen chapters provide a thorough exposition of present knowledge across the major themes in evolution and biogeography of crustaceans. They do this by summarizing what is known and providing novel analyses of patterns.

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