scholarly journals GRAVITY GEOGRAPHY OF RESERVOIRS IN THE SVERDLOVSK REGION

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Litovskiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Water System ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Isostatic Equilibrium ◽  
The Status ◽  
Economic Use ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
The Ideal

The article presents the results of research into gravitational geography of reservoirs in the Sverdlovsk region used to clarify the rationality of the economic use of the regional natural capital and the environmental aspects of the spatial placement of productive forces. There was conducted a comprehensive study of the region's water system taking into account the status of its dams and reservoirs within one or several river basins. It has been established that of 7 key reservoirs, most do not satisfy the condition of compensatory pumping of the day surface aimed at improving the isostatic equilibrium of the surface. In practice, overloads are created even where the necessary conditions exist, which causes geoecological problems. It is shown that the reservoir at Reft complies the most with the condition of ideal compensation with the weight of water to establish the ideal isostatic equilibrium, but only in the zone of medium depths. For dam sites in all the reservoirs studied, this condition is not met, and the oretically the permissible load is exceeded multiple times.

Conclusion: Rethinking Punishment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Fassin
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ideal Language ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Ideal

If punishment is not what we say it is, if it is not justified by the reasons we invoke, if it facilitates repeat offenses instead of preventing them, if it punishes in excess of the seriousness of the act, if it sanctions according to the status of the offender rather than to the gravity of the offense, if it targets social groups defined beforehand as punishable, and if it contributes to producing and reproducing disparities, then does it not itself precisely undermine the social order? And must we not start to rethink punishment, not only in the ideal language of philosophy and law but also in the uncomfortable reality of social inequality and political violence?

Hagiography

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Master Teacher ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Ideal Person ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter deals with sacred biographies, hagiographies, and their function in the formation of religious leaders and ritually venerated persons. It is argued that the status of any Master, Teacher, Prophet, guru, Seer and Channel is partly based on sacred biographies, and that the narrative construction of religious authority is crucial to our understanding of leadership in new religions, sects etc. Distinctions are made between doctrinal and popular hagiographies; doctrinal narratives promote the exalted leader according to theologically well-defined standards, while popular narratives cover a wider span, as they seek to draw a picture of the perfected human in many different ways. Counter-hagiographies, finally, serve to deconstruct the ideal person and are typically employed by ex-devotees or members of counter-groups. Hagiographies are seen as very ancient social strategies (there are references to old new religions including early Christianity and the cult of Christ), but also a very lively and important mechanisms in the current make of religious leaders. Examples are derived from Catholic cults of saints, the Mormon Church, Scientology, TM and several other groups.

scholarly journals Thiruvalluvar’s Concept of Cultural Ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-210
Author(s):  
Rajeswari G
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Thirukkural, global literature does not only talk about human behaviours which are to be glorified. It also proposes bright cut ideas about the relationship between humans and nature. The attention of the modern world is on environmental issues. The fast developments due to science and technology resulted in destroying nature. Due to industrial-based products and for the sake of the sophisticated life of the modern man, we left the nature for destruction. And now humanity faces the consequences. It is a general truth that the literature reflects the social issues of that time of its outcome. One can notice that the recent creative literature of Tamil talks about environmental aspects of the globe and the local areas. Thirukkural also deals with the issues of nature and it proposes the ideal relationship between man and nature, which is the concern of this paper. Thiruvalluvar says that the whole world depends on water. All the activities in the world cannot be possible if the rain fails. All the activities of living creatures, including humans, depend on water. Start with food production and leading to every activity are depends on rain. So Tiruvalluvar concludes that the relationship between humans and nature depends on water i.e. is rain. The paper concludes that the concept of Thiukkural towards nature is the dependency of humanity.

scholarly journals A Conceptual AI-System Model for Home Automation and Smart Monitoring Based On Vision

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 3099-3102
Keyword(s):  
Associate Degree ◽  
Serial Communication ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
System Model ◽  
Home Automation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Human Motion Recognition ◽  
Acquisition Device ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Ideal

Home automation is a rapidly increasing developmental area in the terribly present days attributable to the higher rate of affordability and ease. It provides the potential of controlling our homes and having the sides retort to events that are managed mechanically, it has become an extremely popular attribute due to its safety functions and reasons of value. We projected a model to introduce the whole automation of our house with a security system for our household. The ideal concept of this project is to ascertain an answer that can be achieved within a minimal budget. We got so used off shelf elements aspect that the amount reduced drastically. This study conjointly discusses the chosen literature, fashionable datasets, and concludes with the challenges within the domain at the side of a future direction. The main conceptual focus of this paper is to pose a system based design that demonstrates the interfacing between MATLAB with camera and Arduino board for observation and management of household instruments. In the projected system, Arduino board is interfaced with MATLAB victimization serial communication to regulate home appliances. Image acquisition device is interfaced to MATLAB which will ceaselessly show the status of the different type of household equipment on the Graphical computer program [GUI] designed in MATLAB. When the correct commands are dispatched from the MATLAB user interface, the corresponding household equipment is turned ON/OFF which are interfaced to Arduino through relay board. The system conjointly sends alert messages or signals if any abnormality is detected in the associate degree. The human motion recognition domain has been active for quite 20 years and has provided an oversized quantity of literature.

scholarly journals Pay Transparency and Labor Market Justice

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Daniel Halliday
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Equilibrium Price ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Ideal

I argue that a general initial case for pay transparency can be made given the role played by transparency of information about prices in bringing markets closer to the ideal of competition or equilibrium price. This initial case might then be limited or enhanced depending on more specific considerations about the status of information about pay in particular. Privacy considerations seem to count against pay transparency, but I argue here that the context of pay information lacks some features present in other contexts in which appeals to privacy have force. Building on work by Estlund, Moriarty, Caulfield, and others, I argue that pay transparency may be favoured by considerations relating to personal autonomy in labour markets. Finally, I argue that pay transparency may contribute towards the realization of conditions of publicity, particularly relating to the value of citizens’ assurance about each other’s tax compliance.

Sustainability in Asian Countries: Perspectives from Economics

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Youngho Chang ◽  
Jiesheng Tan ◽  
Letian Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Weak Sustainability ◽  
Hartwick Rule ◽  
The Status ◽  
Environmental Sustainability Index ◽  
Selection Of

Studies on sustainable development rely on diverse and seemingly conflicting concepts that yield contrasting results. The root of these conflicting concepts is the lack of agreement on the path toward achieving sustainable development (SD), namely, weak (or economic) versus strong (or ecological) sustainability. This article revisits the Solow-Hartwick model (Solow 1974, 1986; Hartwick 1977, 1978a, 1978b), which suggests that an economy can achieve intergenerational equity by mandating the Hartwick rule of investing the amount of rents from natural capital into renewable capital. It constructs a modified Solow-Hartwick model in which the assumptions of constant population and no technological progress are relaxed and from which it derives a more general form of the Hartwick rule. The modified Solow-Hartwick investment rule presents how weak sustainability can be attained and explains how the residual Hotelling rents (or proceeds from natural resources) could be utilized in order to achieve strong sustainability. In this article, we apply the modified Solow-Hartwick investment rule to a selection of developing and developed Asian economies to assess their sustainability. We then compare our results with two existing measures of sustainability, the genuine savings (GS) model and the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), both of which frequently present contradicting evaluations on the status of sustainability.

Baseflow recession characterization and groundwater storage trends in northern Taiwan

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1745-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun-Ta Lin ◽  
Hsin-Fu Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Water System ◽  
Water Source ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Groundwater Storage ◽  
Drainage Time ◽  
Terrestrial Water ◽  
Channel Slope ◽  
Northern Taiwan

Abstract Groundwater is a critical component of the terrestrial water budget and acts as a relatively stable water source in Taiwan. In the present study, river basins' characterization and groundwater storage trends in northern Taiwan are analyzed using the Brutsaert method. As groundwater storage sustains baseflows in a water system during dry periods, it can be assessed directly from the streamflow record. The characteristic drainage time scale value, K, varied between 34 and 84 days, with a mean value of 54 days and a standard deviation of 16 days. From correlation analysis, K is strongly correlated with the main channel slope. Based on annual values of groundwater storage over the period of record, five subbasins showed downward trends, ranging from −0.053 to −0.950 mm/year, and three subbasins exhibited upward trends, ranging from 0.111 to 0.141 mm/year. During the period of 2000–2014, the groundwater storage trends in northern Taiwan had an obvious spatial distribution. River basins with significant negative trends (mean value of −2.729 mm/year) are located in the northeast part of the study area. In contrast, the subbasins in the northwest part all showed positive trends (mean value of 0.944 mm/year) in groundwater storage.

Leadership—a driving force or empty talk?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Managerial Leadership ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
Tax Payers ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Low Motivation

However, if, as we have seen, more education, training, and professionalization is not always the ideal way to improve society and its institutions, maybe leadership can do the trick and achieve fine results? And maybe this is the answer to the frustrations experienced by many groups and individuals? Perhaps good leadership can lead to a better working life and results that will satisfy shareholders and tax payers? This is what is claimed, on a broad front today—perhaps somewhat too widely. Leadership can be seen as a way of boosting the status and position of managers. Going from mere managers to becoming leaders parallels the efforts many occupations undergo to become more professional. ‘Leadershipization’ and professionalization can therefore be seen as parallel phenomena, triggering and reinforcing each other. The status boosting of groups of employees makes managers extra eager to add a new impressive quality to what they do. Recent decades have witnessed an enormous expansion of interest in ‘leadership’. Contemporary discussion and books about managerial leadership certainly cover a broad terrain, and there are no limits to what leadership is supposed to accomplish in terms of improving the feelings, thinking, values, ethics, change-mindedness, and the satisfaction and performance of followers (subordinates). The leader has become one of the dominant heroes of our time—even a mythical figure. When faced with major crises or even mediocre performances, cries for superior leadership are heard. All kinds of institutions, from firms to schools and universities to churches, are supposed to benefit greatly from more and better leadership. Whatever the problem, leadership has become the solution, and it is a standard recipe for success. Much of this interest in leadership revolves around change and development, and the ability of leaders to get people involved in and committed to opportunities beyond their everyday realities. Employees may be bored, tired, or alienated at work, but effective leadership is expected to address such problems. Followers are thought to be inspired and influenced by leaders, thus overcoming uncertainty, narrow mindedness, and low motivation.

scholarly journals A coupled modeling framework for sustainable watershed management in transboundary river basins

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 6275-6288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassaan Furqan Khan ◽  
Y. C. Ethan Yang ◽  
Hua Xie ◽  
Claudia Ringler
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Water System ◽  
River Basins ◽  
System Model ◽  
Transboundary River ◽  
Transboundary River Basins ◽  
Water Uses

Abstract. There is a growing recognition among water resource managers that sustainable watershed management needs to not only account for the diverse ways humans benefit from the environment, but also incorporate the impact of human actions on the natural system. Coupled natural–human system modeling through explicit modeling of both natural and human behavior can help reveal the reciprocal interactions and co-evolution of the natural and human systems. This study develops a spatially scalable, generalized agent-based modeling (ABM) framework consisting of a process-based semi-distributed hydrologic model (SWAT) and a decentralized water system model to simulate the impacts of water resource management decisions that affect the food–water–energy–environment (FWEE) nexus at a watershed scale. Agents within a river basin are geographically delineated based on both political and watershed boundaries and represent key stakeholders of ecosystem services. Agents decide about the priority across three primary water uses: food production, hydropower generation and ecosystem health within their geographical domains. Agents interact with the environment (streamflow) through the SWAT model and interact with other agents through a parameter representing willingness to cooperate. The innovative two-way coupling between the water system model and SWAT enables this framework to fully explore the feedback of human decisions on the environmental dynamics and vice versa. To support non-technical stakeholder interactions, a web-based user interface has been developed that allows for role-play and participatory modeling. The generalized ABM framework is also tested in two key transboundary river basins, the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia and the Niger River basin in West Africa, where water uses for ecosystem health compete with growing human demands on food and energy resources. We present modeling results for crop production, energy generation and violation of eco-hydrological indicators at both the agent and basin-wide levels to shed light on holistic FWEE management policies in these two basins.

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