scholarly journals FROM FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE LEGACY WE WANT

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Future ◽  
Professional Image ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reflexive Analysis ◽  
Current Reality ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACT Objective: to reflect on the future of the nursing profession based on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the goals of the Nursing Now campaign and the celebration of Florence Nightingale's bicentennial. Method: reflexive analysis presented in two central topics: the first deals with Florence Nightingale-precursor of entrepreneurship in nursing; the second deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequent turnaround of the Nursing Now campaign and the strengthening of nursing as a valuable profession. Results: in the first topic, we point out the fundamental aspects of the trajectory of Florence Nightingale as the creator of modern nursing worldwide through advances, innovations, scientificity and correlation of its principles with the current reality. In the second topic, we historically reflect on the activities of Nursing in the great wars and epidemics up to the present, correlating the practices and the way nursing is constituted as a profession. We point out the goals of the Nursing Now campaign and its significance post-pandemic, as well as the expansion of nursing visibility and the constitution of a new professional identity. Conclusion: finally, we reflect on the importance of nurses pursuing their efforts to grant visibility to their expertise in all fields of work and knowledge, strengthening the identity and the professional image we want to anchor in society and maintain for the future.

scholarly journals Genomic Biomarkers of Meningioma: A Focused Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (19) ◽  
pp. 10222
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Pawloski ◽  
Hassan A. Fadel ◽  
Yi-Wen Huang ◽  
Ian Y. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Targeted Therapies ◽  
Recurrence Risk ◽  
Tumor Location ◽  
Genetic Mutations ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
The Future ◽  
Genetic Landscape ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Meningiomas represent a phenotypically and genetically diverse group of tumors which often behave in ways that are not simply explained by their pathologic grade. The genetic landscape of meningiomas has become a target of investigation as tumor genomics have been found to impact tumor location, recurrence risk, and malignant potential. Additionally, targeted therapies are being developed that in the future may provide patients with personalized chemotherapy based on the genetic aberrations within their tumor. This review focuses on the most common genetic mutations found in meningiomas of all grades, with an emphasis on the impact on tumor location and clinically relevant tumor characteristics. NF-2 and the non-NF-2 family of genetic mutations are summarized in the context of low-grade and high-grade tumors, followed by a comprehensive discussion regarding the genetic and embryologic basis for meningioma location and phenotypic heterogeneity. Finally, targeted therapies based on tumor genomics currently in use and under investigation are reviewed and future avenues for research are suggested. The field of meningioma genomics has broad implications on the way meningiomas will be treated in the future, and is gradually shifting the way clinicians approach this diverse group of tumors.

scholarly journals Modelling ecological systems in a changing world

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (1586) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Modelling ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
Future State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. In such a situation, we need to understand the nature of the change and to make predictions about the way in which it might affect systems of interest; often we may also wish to understand what might be done to mitigate the predicted effects. In ecology, we usually make such predictions (or forecasts) by making use of mathematical models that describe the system and projecting them into the future, under changed conditions. Approaches emphasizing the desirability of simple models with analytical tractability and those that use assumed causal relationships derived statistically from data currently dominate ecological modelling. Although such models are excellent at describing the way in which a system has behaved, they are poor at predicting its future state, especially in novel conditions. In order to address questions about the impact of environmental change, and to understand what, if any, action might be taken to ameliorate it, ecologists need to develop the ability to project models into novel, future conditions. This will require the development of models based on understanding the processes that result in a system behaving the way it does, rather than relying on a description of the system, as a whole, remaining valid indefinitely.

The Potential for Immersive Technology combined with Online Dating

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
David Evans Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Online Dating ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Immersive Technology ◽  
Made In ◽  
Immersive Technologies ◽  
The Way

Whilst online dating has been around for several years; immersive technologies are relatively new to this type of interaction. The first forays into immersive VR online dating have only just being made in the past year. To what degree this type of technology will change the way that we date is potentially quite different from the current way that online dates are conducted. The way the technology works could make virtual dates seem as real as a physical date. Understanding how immersive technology functions gives some insights into the future of online dating and also the impact on the digital economy.

scholarly journals PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION OF ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS BY STUDENTS ACQUIRING ART EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
Bohdanova Yu. ◽  
◽  
Klymko Z. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
The Future ◽  
National University ◽  
Good Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Major Project ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the impact of a phenomenology of perception in the depiction of objects in Ivan Levynsky’s works during a graphic plein air for students of the Institute of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic National University, held in the summer of 2019. The main idea of ​​the event was to try to depict houses and their details not in a dry and academic manner, but emotionally, the way the author intuitively understands and feels an object. In the future such quick sensory-based tasks will be a good learning base for the first stage of a major project – it will be its rough sketch.

scholarly journals IMPROVISATION: Sygeplejersker på arbejde i Uganda

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Max Martin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Eastern Uganda

This article is about improvisation, which is a term that nurses in Uganda employ to describe how they overcome the practical difficulties of working in an institutional setting, which lacks the necessary equipment, drugs and staff. On the basis of data from Tororo Hospital in Eastern Uganda, the article explores the meanings of the term improvisation, how it relates to a general discourse about the nursing profession, and how the nurses handle and make sense of a complex and contradictory work situation. Improvisation is a term that both makes customary nursing practice legitimate and supports a professional identity under pressure. It also articulates a nostalgic longing for better times – located both in the past, the golden age of nursing, and in the future since the term improvisation constructs current practice as an interim phenomenon. Thus, “improvisation” offers a way for the nurses to domesticate the contradictory forces, which play a prominent part in nursing in Uganda today.  

Epilogue

Tap ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Mobile Advertising ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
The Way

This epilogue presents a few closing thoughts about the impact of mobile technology on society at large. It argues that the future of mobile advertising depends on a bargain that consumers and firms need to strike with each other. Both sides will have to make some investments and offer some trust for this give-and-take relationship to prosper. Consumers will need to find better ways to strike a personal balance between their lives and mobile technology. They will need to make the choice about how much they let technology intrude and inform their lives. They will hold the key to how open or private they want to be with their data. But this does not relieve businesses of their responsibilities. They need to pay attention and take their roles very seriously in this ecosystem. They should surprise and impress consumers while helping them with their needs the way a butler or a concierge would. More importantly, they need to take data security and privacy issues seriously.

scholarly journals Musically Creolizing Subjects: Re(envisioning) world music education

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Hess
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
World Music ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Shifts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This paper explores possibilities for constructing creole subjects through world music education. Creolization results from the “fusing and mixing of cultures forced to cohabit together to render something else possible” (Walcott, 2009, p. 170 citing Hall, 2003, p. 193). As cultures fuse musically, our identity shifts. We become creole subjects through the encounters we experience, particularly, Walcott (2009) posits, in highly diverse urban spaces. The mobile nature of cultures is intrinsic to world music. My participation in an Ewe ensemble in Toronto demonstrates that cultures travel musically. The question then becomes: when cultures travel, who or what is refigured or remade and what becomes possible after the encounter? I posit that these encounters affect all parties; people become creole subjects—subjects constantly affected by their continuously changing cultural environments. In this paper, I think about this idea from a utopian perspective. I find thinking in this manner particularly useful in thinking about the future. In many ways, I feel we are mired down in academia with discussions of race and the “crisis of raciology” (Gilroy, 2000, Chapter 1) and that it might be quite productive to think beyond. I begin by arguing that there is the potential for world music education to be a colonizing project. I look specifically to Said (1993) and Thobani (2007) to inform my thinking on this topic. From there, I explore what might happen when an encounter facilitated through world music education occurs and the impact that this encounter could have on the way we define the category of the human. Finally, I think about what might occur after this encounter and redefinition take place.

Quo Vadis Contract Management?

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-510
Author(s):  
Ralph Schuhmann
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Contract Management ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Content Representation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
Suitable Framework ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe progressive automation of management and production processes is increasingly affecting the way contracts are handled. Although for contract automation more concepts are currently being discussed than actually applied, the outlines of what will be possible in the future have become apparent. They raise the questions of what challenges contract handling will have to cope with in the future and whether the concept of contract lifecycle management (CLM) provides a suitable framework for this task. To give answers to these questions, the present article analyses the impact of the pull-effects of new forms of business and the push-effects of technology on the function, content, representation and usage of contracts. The results indicate that these developments entail major changes in the way contracts are handled and that the CLM concept will only be able to address them with considerable adjustments.

scholarly journals Meta-discourse as a Source for Exploring the Professional Image(s) of Conference Interpreters

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (42) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Ebru Diriker
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Professional Image ◽  
The Way

Simultaneous conference interpreters, like all other professionals, operate with a ’professional identity’ that shapes, and is shaped, by the way a variety of actors and institutions inside and outside the field of activity see and describe the profession(al). Departing from the assumption that the professional image of conference interpreters is largely (meta-)discursive in nature, this paper analyzes how various actors and institutions depict conference interpreting and interpreters in their discourses, whether the images propagated converge or diverge from each other, and what the divergences may imply for the profession and the professional.

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