scholarly journals Anytime? Anywhere?: Reframing Debates Around Community and Municipal Wireless Networking

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Forlano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wireless Networks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wireless Networking ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
The Way

Over the past three years, cities across the United States have announced ambitious plans to build community and municipal wireless networks.  The phrase ‘anytime, anywhere’ has had a powerful impact in shaping the way in which debates about these networks have been framed.  However, ‘anytime, anywhere’, which alludes to convenience, freedom and ubiquity, is of little use in describing the realities of municipal wireless networks, and, more importantly, it ignores the particular local characteristics of communities and the specific practices of users.  This paper examines the media representations and technological affordances of wireless networks as well as incorporating the practices of those that build and use them in an attempt to reframe these debates.

The Revolution Under Raúl

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Anna Clayfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Importance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter investigates the on-going legacy of the guerrilla struggle between 2006 and 2018, the period of Raúl Castro’s tenure as Cuban President. It argues that, while many foreign commentators viewed the political, social, and economic change of these years as evidence that the Revolution and its socialist model were on the way out, the discursive phenomenon of guerrillerismo still very much anchored it in the past. Such an anchor remained of high importance to the leadership at a time of not only domestic upheaval but also shifting relations with its long-standing enemy to the north: the United States.

UNCERTAINTY IN SLOVENIA AND THE UNITED STATES BEFORE AND DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Romih
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Situation ◽  
The Way

Over the past year and a half, as long as the Covid-19 pandemic has lasted, uncertainty has become the new normal. In just a few months, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, work, travel and socialise. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a lot of interest among policymakers and researchers in studying uncertainty and its impact on the economy. In this paper, I study the uncertainty in Slovenia and the United States before and during the Covid-19 crisis, which hit both countries hard. I find that uncertainty in Slovenia and the United States peaked in early 2020, when SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, began to spread outside of China. During this time, companies and households had to adapt to the new situation.

Shouldn't Dead Be Dead?: The Search for a Uniform Definition of Death

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Lewis ◽  
Katherine Cahn-Fuller ◽  
Arthur Caplan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Uniform Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Death By Neurologic Criteria ◽  
The Way

In 1968, the definition of death in the United States was expanded to include not just death by cardiopulmonary criteria, but also death by neurologic criteria. We explore the way the definition has been modified by the medical and legal communities over the past 50 years and address the medical, legal and ethical controversies associated with the definition at present, with a particular highlight on the Supreme Court of Nevada Case of Aden Hailu.

The De-Baathification of post-2003 Iraq: Purging the Past for Political Power

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Isakhan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coalition Provisional Authority ◽  
The Way

Following the toppling of the Baathist regime in May 2003, the United States established the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which was to serve as the occupational authority and interim government of Iraq. This chapter examines the ongoing legacy of the CPA's plan to de-Baathify Iraq. It outlines the efforts by Iraqi lawmakers to codify de-Baathification in Iraq's new constitution of 2005 as well as in subsequent pieces of more detailed legislation. It studies the actual implementation of these laws in relation to the Iraqi parliamentary elections of 2010 and 2014, as well as the local elections of 2013. Throughout the chapter, special emphasis is given to the considerable discrepancies between the principles enshrined in the formal de-Baathification legislation and the way those principles are applied in practice. It concludes by suggesting that Iraq needs to openly and honestly deal with its Baathist past if it is ever to move beyond patterns of political sectarianism, violence, and autocracy.

China—lessons for the United States

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-456
Author(s):  
Jay Arena
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Way

Even a short sojourn in China shows conclusively that China is changing. Yet, in a larger sense, China is also changeless, being too immense, too diverse, too complex, too civilized, too world-weary for any regime to tear up the past by the roots and start all over again. In China, if the peaks of privilege have been laid low, so also the valleys of poverty and disease have been filled. Very few Chinese regard themselves as poor, although they have little in the way of material goods. The Chinese have a rich cultural life; they are articulate; they use their leisure time profitably; they have a clear understanding of where they want to go—and how they are going to get there.

Google Trends as a Predictor of Presidential Elections: The United States Versus Canada

2020 ◽  
pp. 000276422097506
Author(s):  
Camilo Prado-Román ◽  
Raúl Gómez-Martínez ◽  
Carmen Orden-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
The United States ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media

The media and election campaign managers conduct several polls in the days leading up to the presidential elections. These preelection polls have a different predictive capacity, despite the fact that under a Big Data approach, sources that indicate voting intention can be found. In this article, we propose a free method to anticipate the winner of the presidential election based on this approach. To demonstrate the predictive capacity of this method, we conducted the study for two countries: the United States of America and Canada. To this end, we analysed which candidate had the most Google searches in the months leading up to the polling day. In this article, we have taken into account the past four elections in the United States and the past five in Canada, since Google first published its search statistics in 2004. The results show that this method has predicted the real winner in all the elections held since 2004 and highlights that it is necessary to monitor the next elections for the presidency of the United States in November 2020 and to have more accurate information on the future results.

scholarly journals Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States: Current state, regulations, challenges, and the way forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Louis Lei Jin ◽  
Jin Zheng ◽  
Niyaz M. Honarvar ◽  
Xiqun Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Way

In the United States, there has been a steady presence and growth of Traditional Medicine (interchangeable in this paper with Complementary or Alternative Medicine) over the past few decades. The costs for such practices are relatively low along with minimal-to-no obvious side effects. Amongst a variety of traditional medical systems, Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the most popular alternatives to help manage chronic health conditions or to improve the overall quality of life. While not exhaustive, this paper provides a snapshot of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States with insights into its current state, regulations, challenges, and the way forward.

Newspaper Portrayals of Sport Psychology in the United States, 1985-1993

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britton W. Brewer ◽  
Judy L. Van Raalte ◽  
Albert J. Petitpas ◽  
Alan D. Bachman ◽  
Robert A. Weinhold
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Way

To assess the way in which sport psychology is portrayed in the media, the content and tone of all articles (N = 574) from three national newspapers in the United States that mentioned sport psychology from 1985-1993 were examined. Although few articles were focused primarily on sport psychology, a wide variety of sports and professionals were identified in association with sport psychology. Interventions noted explicitly were predominantly cognitive-behavioral procedures. Performance enhancement was the primary purpose of sport psychology consultation described in the articles. The vast majority of articles were neutral in tone toward sport psychology, portraying the field in objective terms. The findings suggest that the mass media can be used to promote accurate perceptions of sport psychology to the public.

Fighting for “Respectability”

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Working Class ◽  
White Male ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Media

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the White male boxer has long held a special appeal among the public and media. Boxing “heroes” are constructed not only on the basis of Whiteness but also on the basis of their perceived “working-class” nature, at a time when “working-class” or “blue-collar” identities in both the United Kingdom and the United States are subjected to forms of negative stigmatization. However, central to the appeal of the White, “working-class” boxing hero is their asserted “respectability,” which is used to establish distance from less “respectable” forms of raced, classed, and gendered identities. The media representations that surround boxing champions Ricky Hatton and Kelly Pavlik illustrate the way in which their “respectability” is asserted, explored, and related to broader conversations about a perceived growing “White underclass.”

Forum on teacher preparation: The launching of a forum

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
Francis J. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mathematical Preparation ◽  
The Way

Life was indeed simpler a decade or so ago. For many of us then concerned with the mathematical preparation of elementary teachers, “the way to progress” seemed so clearly defined. A separatism of the past that held arithmetic to be distinct from mathematics had largely dissolved. In the United States at least, arithmetic had come to be accepted as the vital opening chapter to the potentially endless story of mathematics.

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