scholarly journals Making sense of bridge monitoring: Vision for the future

2013 ◽  
pp. 811-812
Keyword(s):  
Bridge Monitoring ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Children being children: the value of an “importance filter”

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Jonathon Sargeant
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Internal Information ◽  
Processing Mechanism

The perspectives of young children are of considerable interest to the community yet remains largely misunderstood. This paper posits that children demonstrate an optimistic view of the world and the future that is also encased in a deeper understanding of key global, local, and social issues than previously thought. This study challenges the notion that children are either adversely affected by knowledge or ignorant of global issues outside their control. The effects of external media and the reputed social decay of society and the pessimistic worldview reportedly held by young children are questioned. In acknowledging the children’s understanding of key issues, this research identifies that children engage in an internal metacognitive processing of information that allows them to maintain their optimistic view of the world. This paper introduces the concept of an Importance Filter, an internal information processing mechanism that assists children in making sense of their world.

Making sense of the future

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-208
Author(s):  
Ian Seymour Yeoman
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future

Unsettled, Uncertain and Striving to Understand: Toward an Understanding of the Situation of Persons with Suspected Dementia

1998 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Robinson ◽  
Sirkka-Liisa Ekman ◽  
Lars-Olof Wahlund
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
The Future

The main purpose of this study was to understand the part played by clinical diagnosis in relation to persons with suspected dementia. Interviews were held with eight persons who had been evaluated clinically because of suspected dementia. A phenomenological-hermeneutic analysis inspired by Ricoeur's philosophy was performed. The findings revealed the overall meaning of “making sense” of early experiences of memory loss in terms of a clinical diagnosis by which participants are provided with a means of interpreting and ascribing some meanings to the changes in themselves. When a meaning cannot be established and the future is unknown, these experiences are found to pose an existential threat that projects into future existence. The study suggests that understanding how an informed diagnosis is comprehended by the client becomes essential when evaluating persons due to suspected dementia.

MAKING SENSE OF THE WAYS WE MAKE SENSE OF THE PAST: THE PERIODO PROJECT

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADAM RABINOWITZ ◽  
RYAN SHAW ◽  
SARAH BUCHANAN ◽  
PATRICK GOLDEN ◽  
ERIC KANSA
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Direction

Abstract The PeriodO project seeks to fill a gap in the landscape of digital antiquity through the creation of a Linked Data gazetteer of period definitions that transparently record the spatial and temporal boundaries assigned to a given period by an authoritative source. Our presentation of the PeriodO gazetteer is prefaced by a history of the role of periodization in the study of the past, and an analysis of the difficulties created by the use of periods for both digital data visualization and integration. This is followed by an overview of the PeriodO data model, a description of the platform's architecture, and a discussion of the future direction of the project.

Back to the Future? Making Sense of the 2004 Canadian Election outside Quebec

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gidengil ◽  
André Blais ◽  
Joanna Everitt ◽  
Patrick Fournier ◽  
Neil Nevitte
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
2004 Election ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. This paper uses data from the 2004 Canadian Election Study to analyze the factors that motivated a vote for each party and to identify the ones that mattered most to the outcome of the 2004 federal election outside Quebec. Particular attention is given to the impact of the sponsorship scandal, the sources of support for the new Conservative party and the factors that explain the NDP's improved performance. The findings are used to address some basic questions about the 2004 election and its larger implications.Résumé. L'article utilise les données de L'Étude électorale canadienne de 2004 pour identifier les principaux facteurs qui ont motivé l'appui aux différents partis et pour jauger leur impact sur le résultat de l'élection à l'extérieur du Québec. Les auteurs accordent une attention particulière aux effets du scandale des commandites, aux sources de l'appui au nouveau Parti conservateur et aux raisons sous-jacentes des gains du NPD. Les résultats permettent de répondre à un certain nombre de questions sur le sens et la portée de l'élection.

Making Sense of the Future

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Mark S. Gold ◽  
Robert L. Dupont
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future

Making sense of innovation: A future perfect approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Fuglsang ◽  
Jan Mattsson
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
The Past ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges

AbstractThe idea of this paper is to develop a sensemaking tool that can help managers to generate a more asserted approach to innovation. A tool can be defined as something which is needed to perform an action – like innovation. We see innovation as ‘an improvisational dynamics of “moving to” the future’ (Pye, 2005) and use the concept of future perfect thinking (Weick, 1979, 1995), which has been lately debated in studies of project management (Pitsis, Clegg, Marosszeky, & Rura-Polley, 2003; Winch & Kreiner, 2009), to develop a tool that can reduce the perceived uncertainty of innovation. The key in future perfect thinking is to treat the future as something that has already happened in the past and thereby reducing the perceived open-endedness of the future. We suggest, more particularly, that verbal reflections on future challenges by relevant employees can help state the future as something that has a deeper, more stable and more practical meaning. The sensemaking tool is illustrated in a recent case of software development.

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