Port of Call

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Robert Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Community ◽  
Made In China ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

The relationship between China and Los Angeles has been transformed over the past thirty years through the enormous expansion of global trade and imported products made in China. Products arrive in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and are then transported by truck and rail to huge warehouses to the east of Los Angeles, where they are reloaded for their final destinations across the country. But along every stop of that journey, there are communities and environments dealing with the consequences of trans-Pacific trade. This has resulted in new community-based movements, which have helped bring about major policy changes to address the impacts on environmental, health, labor, and community. Los Angeles, itself a city of immigrants, including from China, has been at the center of these changes, which are beginning to reach back to China too.

scholarly journals Is Issue Management evolving or progressing towards extinction: A status review

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Jaques
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Issue Management ◽  
Development Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Community Expectations ◽  
New Community ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

After almost 40 years of development, issue management has reached a point where it could either fade out of fashion or continue evolving into new forms. Reviewing both the past and possible future, four major trends are identified – migration of the discipline beyond the corporation to Government agencies and NGOs; the impact of social media and the rise of new community expectations; continuing developments in the relationship between issue management and crisis management; and the challenge of how issue management is positioned within organizations and among other management activities. Each of these trends is analysed to assess its impact on the future of issue management, and how the roles of corporate and non-corporate players will likely have significantly different influences on shaping its survival.

scholarly journals Insight and psychosis: the next 30 years

2019 ◽  
Vol 217 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony S. David
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Decision Making Capacity ◽  
Cognitive Neurosciences ◽  
Clinical Associations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Academic interest in the concept of insight in psychosis has increased markedly over the past 30 years, prompting this selective appraisal of the current state of the art. Considerable progress has been made in terms of measurement and confirming a number of clinical associations. More recently, the relationship between insight and involuntary treatment has been scrutinised more closely alongside the link between decision-making capacity and insight. Advances in the clinical and cognitive neurosciences have influenced conceptual development, particularly the field of ‘metacognition’. New therapies, including those that are psychologically and neurophysiologically based, are being tested as ways to enhance insight.

scholarly journals Finding a signal hidden among noise: how can predators overcome camouflage strategies?

2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1802) ◽  
pp. 20190478 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. M. Galloway ◽  
Samuel D. Green ◽  
Martin Stevens ◽  
Laura A. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Visual Processing ◽  
Signal Detection Theory ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
The Past ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Evolving Models ◽  
Made In ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Substantial progress has been made in the past 15 years regarding how prey use a variety of visual camouflage types to exploit both predator visual processing and cognition, including background matching, disruptive coloration, countershading and masquerade. By contrast, much less attention has been paid to how predators might overcome these defences. Such strategies include the evolution of more acute senses, the co-opting of other senses not targeted by camouflage, changes in cognition such as forming search images, and using behaviours that change the relationship between the cryptic individual and the environment or disturb prey and cause movement. Here, we evaluate the methods through which visual camouflage prevents detection and recognition, and discuss if and how predators might evolve, develop or learn counter-adaptations to overcome these. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Signal detection theory in recognition systems: from evolving models to experimental tests'.

Behavioural Psychotherapy and Schizophrenia: The Past, the Present, and the Future

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Tarrier
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Family Management ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Residual Symptoms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relapse Rates ◽  
Made In

Behavioural therapists have been involved with the management of schizophrenia since the emergence of the discipline in the 1950s. It has been stated recently that behaviour therapists have lost interest in serious mental illness. However, in the last few years great advances have been made in behavioural approaches to the management of schizophrenia. Controlled trials of family management methods have indicated that: relapse rates can be reduced, the patient's social functioning increased and family burden decreased. These approaches also have economic benefits over traditional services. Furthermore, other methods, such as early signs monitoring followed by early intervention and self-management of drug resistant residual symptoms, have also shown promise. The development of these innovative behavioural approaches is especially important in an era of community based mental health services.

scholarly journals Civility and diplomacy: Trust and dissimulation in transnational Afghan trading networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 175-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethical Virtue ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Trading Networks ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

This article explores the relationship between civility and diplomacy in the transnational commercial activities of traders from Afghanistan. The commodity traders on which the article focuses – most of whom are involved in the export and wholesale of commodities made in China – form long-distance networks that criss-cross multiple parts of Asia and are rooted in multiple trading nodes across the region, including the Chinese commercial city of Yiwu, Moscow and Odessa. Much scholarship associates both diplomacy and civility with impression management and dissimulation and therefore identifies such modes of behaviour as being inimical to the fashioning of enduring ties of trust. However, analysis of ethnographic material concerning the traders’ understandings of being diplomatic, as well as the ways in which they seek to conform to contested local notions of civility, furnishes unique insights into the ways in which they build the social relationships and ties of trust on which their commercial activities depend. By exploring the interrelationship between civility and diplomacy, the article seeks to move anthropological debate beyond the question of whether civility is either a form of artifice premised on performance or a deeper ethical virtue in and of itself. It suggests, rather, ambiguity, ambivalence, contradiction and imperfection are inbuilt aspects of the ways in which respect is communicated and evaluated, and ties of trust fashioned and maintained.

scholarly journals Are Distances Barriers to Sustainability for Venture Capital Syndication?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4126
Author(s):  
Bing Liu ◽  
Hui Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Initial Public Offering ◽  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Public Offering ◽  
Made In China ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Made In

This study aimed to explore how both geographic and industry distances, as potential barriers, affect the sustainability for venture capital (VC) syndication. Specifically, we examined the influences of initial public offering (IPO) activity as a market environment factor and foreign VC as a firm character on VC syndication in the tourism and hospitality sectors, together with the consideration of moderating effects of geographic and industry distances. Using a purposefully developed dataset of VC deals made in China, involving 645 VC firms and 592 VC-backed venture companies from 1991 to 2017, the empirical analysis indicated that both IPO activity and foreign VC were positively related to VC syndication. Geographic distance was found to negatively moderate the relationship between IPO activity and VC syndication; on the contrary, industry distance was found to positively moderate the relationship between foreign VC and VC syndication. These findings revealed that distances are not necessarily barriers to sustainability for VC syndication. This study provided an integrated view on the factors and barriers influencing the sustainability of VC syndication in tourism and hospitality sectors. It advances the knowledge of VC syndication in tourism investment and sheds light on sustainable entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality.

scholarly journals Promoting Health Literacy Through Defining and Measuring Quality School Health Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 824-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Videto ◽  
Joseph A. Dake
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
School Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Health Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In ◽  
Quality School

Changes in national and state policies in the past two decades have had a negative impact on school health education. During this same time, significant gains have been made in our understanding of the relationship between health and academic outcomes. This article proposes three challenges that could help refocus our country’s efforts toward the positive impacts quality school health education can have on our population. Each of these challenges has corresponding recommendations to guide stakeholder efforts to help bring about these changes.

On Anticipatory Accounts

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Abigail Jane Mack
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mental Health Court ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Made In

Engaging an account of a judicial decision made in the Los Angeles Mental Health Court, this article interrogates the role of anticipation in the lived negotiation of moral, social and institutional orders. As Judge Samuel Benton recounts his attempt to let himself ‘emotionally off the hook’ in the wake of a patient’s suicide, anticipation emerges as: 1) an ordered, linear sequencing of events towards logical ends; 2) unsettled, temporally disjunctive engagements with the past in order to make sense of present experience and ambiguous futures; 3) existential negotiations of one’s potential morality and social belonging; and 4) distributed organization of information between people and across objects in order to elaborate present and future experience. These manifestations of anticipation reveal the social and temporal contingency and deep intersubjectivity of our negotiations with uncertainty in the unsettling process of becoming moral.

The Interaction of English Law with Customary Law in Western Nigeria: I

1960 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
F. A. Ajayi
Keyword(s):  
Customary Law ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

The choice of the subject of this paper has been made in order to provide, in line with the general theme of the Conference, an analysis and evaluation of the relationship between English law and customary law in the Western Region of Nigeria. An attempt will be made not only to give a general account of the past and the present position in this matter but also to indicate the directions in which, in various respects, developments appear likely to tend in the future.

scholarly journals Between truth and memory: images in Lithuanian historical documentaries in post-communist transformation period

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Rūta Šermukšnytė
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Images ◽  
Historical Films ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In ◽  
Transformation Period

The goal of this paper is to reveal how and why the circulation of the same historical images takes place; whose values and, simultaneously, memory are conveyed through these images; what is the relationship between the audiovisual representation of the past and collective memory? The article states that manifestations of the visual stereotypes of Lithuania history in post-communist transformation period (1988–2004) are mainly based on certain cinematic tendencies. Historical films that are considered to be an adaptation of the national narrative cinematography have been predominant since 1988. This kind of narration is characterized by validation of history as a national value, formation of national identity and its stabilization rather than diversification and correction of the collective memory or the development of critical thinking. The current documentary material that is based on the understanding of history as a myth of the nation’s history is not aimed at creating a new visual and verbal narration about the realities of the past, but rather at recognizing what has been said and made in the previous works.

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