scholarly journals The Hopeless and the Ict Transformation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 4482-4498
Author(s):  
Cevito Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
External World ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Proper Management ◽  
Better Than

Nothing is better than attempting to transform people by boosting their knowledge and improve their living conditions. In Africa and especially in Togo, Elderly people, Artist Painters and Fishermen even though they would like to contribute to their country’s development by their everyday hard-work, are not emerging. Government is not helping and their activities lack efficiency, proper management and appropriate internal communication and with the external world. This is the reason why the ICT in particular People.net, the knowledge charity infrastructure’s potential are proposed as a solution. Communities and various economic sectors could then reinforce their capacity by acquiring the proper knowledge they lack. However, a systemic approach should be considered by the introduction of an efficient and all stakeholders or users accepted ergonomic approach in order to boost the usability of the proposed People.net platform.

scholarly journals Violence against Elderly Migrants and Its Consequences on Their Health: Experience from Monterrey, Mexico

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Elderly Migrants ◽  
The City

AbstractIn this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse how the violence and abuse against elderly migrants in Monterrey, Mexico affects their health. For this research, 257 elderly Mexican migrants were surveyed in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey during 2012 through 2013. The study found that the majority of elderly people migrate to urban areas in search of a better economic opportunity. Once in the city, they are absorbed into the informal economic sectors. Results indicate that most of these elderly people suffer physical, sexual and psychological violence, as well as neglect and financial abuse from their employer, relatives, clients and pedestrians, which has an adverse effect on their health. Elderly migrants reported numerous health problems, where many of them were suffering from different types of injuries, stress and depression, among others. This paper concluded that violence suffered by elderly migrants has a significant impact on their health.

Caste Illa

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Patrick Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Hard Work ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Better Than

For Dalits, or former Untouchables, living at the back of Challaghatta, a village bordering the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA), the club presents an opportunity to earn money and respect apart from their caste identities. The stark contrast between the club and village leaves many caddies from Challaghatta with the sense that merit, discipline, and hard work are really all that matter in improving their position within the club and beyond it. Yet these ideas are also tested when it comes to finding their children better-than-average schools or when they think about moving out of Challaghatta. Caste, in the end, combined with limited material resources, proves a stable and oppressive force in their lives.

scholarly journals Indications for fusion following decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. E4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Fox ◽  
Burton M. Onofrio
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Spinal Stenosis ◽  
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis ◽  
Decompressive Surgery ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Decompressive Laminectomy ◽  
Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis ◽  
Lumbar Spinal ◽  
Better Than

Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is a common condition affecting middle-aged and elderly people. Significant controversy exists concerning the appropriate indications for fusion following decompressive surgery. The purpose of this report is to compare the clinical outcomes of patients who were and were not treated with fusion following decompressive laminectomy for spinal stenosis and to identify whether fusion was beneficial. The authors conclude that patients in whom concomitant fusion procedures were performed fared better than patients who were treated by means of decompression alone when evidence of radiological instability existed preoperatively.

scholarly journals Innovation, Information, and Financial Architecture

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 753-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Tadesse
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Large Cross Section ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Financial Architecture ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Better Than

AbstractDoes a financial system architecture anchored on banks perform better than one centered on markets in fostering technological innovations as engines of growth? In a panel of industrial sectors across a large cross section of countries, I find that while market-based systems have a general positive effect on innovations in all economic sectors, bank-based systems foster more rapid technological progress in more information-intensive industrial sectors, suggesting a heterogeneous impact of financial architecture. Thus, the relative performance of bank-based systems vis-à-vis market-based systems depends on the industrial structure of the economy.

scholarly journals Critical evaluation of the factorial and heart-rate recording methods for the determination of energy expenditure of free-living elderly people

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 709-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Morio ◽  
Patrick Ritz ◽  
Elisabeth Verdier ◽  
Christophe Montaurier ◽  
Bernard Beaufrere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Energy Expenditure ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Factorial Method ◽  
Recording Method ◽  
Mean Differences ◽  
Free Living Conditions

The aim of the present study was to validate against the doubly-labelled water (DLW) technique the factorial method and the heart rate (HR) recording method for determining daily energy expenditure (DEE) of elderly people in free-living conditions. The two methods were first calibrated and validated in twelve healthy subjects (six males and six females; 70·1 (sd 2·7) years) from opencircuit whole-body indirect calorimetry measurements during three consecutive days and during 1 d respectively. Mean energy costs of the various usual activities were determined for each subject using the factorial method, and individual relationships were set up between HR and energy expenditure for the HR recording method. In free-living conditions, DEE was determined over the same period of time by the DLW, the factorial and the HR recording methods during 17, 14 and 4 d respectively. Mean free-living DEE values for men estimated using the DLW, the factorial and the HR recording methods were 12·8 (sd 3·1), 12·7 (sd 2·2) and 13·5 (sd 2·7) MJ/d respectively. Mean free-living DEE values for women were 9·6 (sd 0·8), 8·8 (sd 1·2) and 10·2 (sd 1·5) MJ/d respectively. No significant differences were found between the three methods for either sex, using the Bland & Altman (1986) test. Mean differences in DEE of men were -0·9 (sd 11·8) % between the factorial and DLW methods, and +4·7 (sd 16·1) % between the HR recording and DLW methods. Similarly, in women, mean differences were -7·7 (sd 12·7) % between the factorial and DLW methods, and +5·9 (sd 8·8) % between the HR recording and DLW methods. It was concluded that the factorial and the HR recording methods are satisfactory alternatives to the DLW method when considering the mean DEE of a group of subjects. Furthermore, mean energy costs of activities calculated in the present study using the factorial method were shown to be suitable for determining free-living DEE of elderly people when the reference value (i.e. sleeping metabolic rate) is accurately measured.

A Critical Vision of Disruptive Nanotechnologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 614-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Foladori ◽  
Noela Invernizzi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
New Form ◽  
Harmful Effects

AbstractNanotechnologies constitute one of the most innovative processes of production, and their products already reach all economic sectors. In view of their potential to boost economic development and competitiveness, governments have declared them areas of priority or strategic interest.In the framework of studies that deal with the evaluation of benefits, impacts, and harmful effects of new technologies, this article analyses the potential barriers to an inclusive development of nanotechnologies to improve the living conditions of broad sectors of the population. It is concluded that the discussion on disruptive technologies leaves aside the socio-economic and political context in which nanotechnologies are developed. It is in this context that the barriers to a more inclusive development aimed at improving the living conditions of the population must be sought. But, even if this target is not met, new technologies can result in market and competitive advantages, although deepening the gap in social inequality.The text is divided into two sections. In the first, the peculiarities of nanotechnologies are explained, allowing their identification as a new form of disruptive production. In the second, an analysis of the context in which nanotechnologies develop as well as their potential social implications is provided.

The Development of the Hungarian Military Frontier until the Middle of the Eighteenth Century

1973 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 55-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Wessely
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Military Conscription ◽  
Organizational Features ◽  
Better Than

After a long period of neglect, the Austrian Military Frontiers have once again aroused the interest of historians. This article is based on the assumption that, because of the new interest, the reader will be familiar with the frontiers' basic organizational features. Presumably it is well known that the inhabitants of the border area between the Austrian and Turkish empires were subject to military conscription and that because of their unique role their living conditions were better than those of the Hungarian serfs.

The Slum Question: The London County Council and Decent Dwellings for the Working Classes, 1880–1914

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-325
Author(s):  
R. Vladimir Steffel
Keyword(s):  
County Council ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Proper Management ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Settlement Movement ◽  
East End ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
Rural England

The middle classes, seduced by the gospels of growth and of laissezfaire, abandoned the older areas of London to the artisans and laborers, to the thousands of migrants from rural England, Scotland, and Ireland, and to Jewish immigrants from Russia. By 1880 the middle classes in the suburbs were isolated from the working classes and ignorant of their poverty. Then “The Bitter Cry of Outcast London” by Andrew Mearns, the Pall Mall Gazette edited by W. T. Stead, and the writings of others exposing the squalor of the laboring classes led to a rediscovery of poverty. Many observers thought that charity would solve the problem, ome went slumming or joined the settlement movement begun at Toynbee Hall. Others, like Octavia Hill, were determined to improve the lives of the poor through the proper management and gradual upgrading of their living quarters. The philanthropic and semi-philanthropic dwellings companies such as the Peabody Trust, Guinness Trust, Improved Industrial Dwellings. East End Dwellings, and Four Percent Industrial Dwellings constructed new housing suitable for the working classes. All these efforts were limited because of the attitudes of the affluent classes toward the poor. Many believed that improvidence, intemperance, and licentiousness caused poverty and failed to realize that crowded living conditions and underemployment encouraged these vices. Beatrice Webb, who recognized this problem, wrote in her diary: “The Drink demon…undermines the constitution of a family.…There are times when one loses all faith in laisser faire [and] would suppress this poison at all hazards, before it eats the life of the nation.”

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