scholarly journals Academic Commentary: 'Individual Giving and Philanthropy'

2015 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Beth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
Individual Giving

<em><em></em></em><p>"<em>We as human beings live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality</em>."</p><p>This quote connects the three papers discussed in this section, each of which highlights how what we think we know about philanthropy, and our commonplace perceptions of how charitable giving works, turns out to be not quite right. And yet those ‘perceptions of reality’ have a huge amount of influence on policy making as well as on our views of both donors and fundraisers.</p>

scholarly journals De-Centralized Hash URI Procedure for Making Digital Artifacts as Immutable, Reliable, Verifiable on Web

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 4518-4522
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Parallel Structure ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Web Data ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Structure Representation ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Digital Artifact

Main vision behind semantic web data maintenance is to make the text or content of web is interpretable, among different things, and sophisticated search procedures over huge amount linked web data. In this case different human beings perform fraudulent text which can be found on internet web. So that main research concentrated on automated approaches autonomously identified and analyzed content present in web. Making digital artifacts on web in terms of text, code and others verifiable and reliable, because of general nature of digital artifacts i.e immutability, it is a serious concept to produce reproduces the updated results of processes that display modified content in web resources. So that in this paper, we propose De-centralized Hash URI approach (DHURI) to solve the immutable concept of digital artifact generation in nano-publication with unique hash based cryptography value. In this approach, we provide Decentralized secure URI for identification of digital artifacts with parallel structure representation of data such as nano-publication. Basic concept of this approach is to handle digital artifact immutable concept with evaluation of existing approaches, and also describe the performance of proposed approach in de-centralized framework.

scholarly journals Media Imperialism: A Postmodern Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Huma Masood ◽  
Saira Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
Sense Of Reality ◽  
Media Imperialism ◽  
The Masses

This paper aims to build an understanding of postmodern phenomena, that what exactly it means and how it relates to media in general and media imperialism in particular. The claim of modernists that we, the masses are so immersed in the mediatized lifestyle that we have blurred the lines between reality and media is discussed thoroughly that how the distinction has almost disappeared. This study explores how human beings have lost the sense of reality and have started to believe that media reality is the actual reality. It is also worth explaining how it has historical roots, from modern to postmodern era, in which the idea of representation got remixed with intertextual references. This piece of writing also establishes the work of distinguished postmodernists like Lyotard, Derirda, Foucault, Barthes, Edward Said, Boyd Barret and Bandrillad. The article elucidates the vital role played by media to reshape our personal and social lives, and most importantly, our conceptions of reality. It investigates the question that is it really truth that our lives have been dominated and influenced by the consumption of images, where notions of objectivity and empiricism have been disappeared since long while forgetting the true essence of real world? And whether there exists a wish to return to reality or not?

scholarly journals Gene Signatures Research Involved in Cancer Using Machine Learning

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jose Liñares-Blanco ◽  
Carlos Fernandez-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Gene Signatures ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Genetic Signatures ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Omic Data

With the cheapening of mass sequencing techniques and the rise of computer technologies, capable of analyzing a huge amount of data, it is necessary nowadays that both branches mutually benefit. Transcriptomics, in this case, is a branch of biology focused on the study of mRNA molecules, among others. The quantification of these molecules gives us information about the expression that a gene is having at a given moment. Having information on the expression of the approximately 20,000 genes harbored by human beings is a really useful source of information for the study of certain conditions and/or pathologies. In this work, patient expression -omic data data have been used to offer a new analysis methodology through Machine Learning. The results of this methodology were compared with a conventional methodology to observe how they differed and how they resembled each other. These techniques, therefore, offer a new mechanism for the search of genetic signatures involved, in this case, with cancer.

Egocentric Performance Capture: A Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Shivam Grover ◽  
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Kshitij Sidana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Wearable Cameras ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Performance Capture ◽  
Traditional Performance

Performance capture of human beings have been used to animate 3D characters for movies and games for several decades now. Traditional performance capture methods require a dedicated costly setup which usually consists of more than one sensor placed at a distance from the subject, hence requiring a large amount of budget and space to accomodate. This lowers its feasibility and portability by a huge amount. Egocentric (first-person/wearable) cameras, however, are attached to the body and hence are mobile. With a rise of acceptance of wearable technology by the general public, wearable cameras have gotten cheaper too. We can make use of their excessive portability in the performance capture domain. However working with egocentric images is a mammoth task as the views are severely distorted due to the first-person perspective and the body parts farther from the camera are highly prone to being occluded. In this paper, we review the existing state-of-the-art methods about performance capture using egocentric based views.

Strategies on Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Mitigation in Rural

2011 ◽  
Vol 105-107 ◽  
pp. 1105-1109
Author(s):  
Yang Hang Shi ◽  
Li Dan Yang ◽  
Chong Wu ◽  
De Hai Yu ◽  
Jing Yu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Masonry Structure ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Seismic Safety ◽  
Health Diagnosis

Throughout history till today, earthquake prevention and disaster mitigation has been the eternal subject in engineering field. Security is the very premise for the subsistence and development of human beings. Entrusted with government correlation department, the examination of seismic safety and structural health diagnosis will be done in relation to the type, characteristic feature and damage, etc. of current masonry structure in Minnan District, which is in the spirit of “Emphasis on hedge against disaster relief”. According to current criteria as well as considering the actual situation of construction, various constructions will be evaluated scientifically by the on-the-spot survey, investigation, evaluation and analysis, from which get the various morbid state and principle of constructions in concordance with the differences of severity. On the other hand, in line with “rescuing” principle in order of importance and urgency, corresponding classification of disaster prevention and certain applicable and practical disposal ideas will be put forward in order to provide references for engineering practice and application as well as management and policy making for relevant department.

scholarly journals Role of Modern Technologies and Internet of things in the field of Solid Waste Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.Godwin Barnabas ◽  
K.Arun vasantha Geethan ◽  
S.Valai Ganesh ◽  
S. Rajakarunakaran ◽  
P.Sabarish Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Solid Wastes ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
The Government ◽  
Modern Technologies

The process of handling solid waste becomes complex and tedious due to the urbanization and industrialization of the most developing and developed countries. These solid waste issues if it is not addressed properly it affects ecosystem and environment. There is a possibility of many health-oriented issues especially during the pandemic period covid-19. Most of the human beings are struggling with respiratory pulmonary diseases, asthma caused by these solid wastes. Most of the governments are also spending huge amount of money for labors, devices and some technologies to tackle these solid waste issues. There is also an opportunity for the government to generate revenue from these solid wastes by properly sorting these waste into recyclable, nonrecyclable and bio-degradable wastes. But when humans are involved in sorting these waste it will cause some diseases and hygienic problems. So,in order to address the above said issues in this work the role of modern technologies, algorithms and some Internet of things (IoT) methods are discussed. Implementing these technologies in the future will save huge amount of money spent by the government for the solid waste management activities.

Economics and ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hausman ◽  
Michael S. McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Rational Agents ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Special Relevance

Unlike many other sciences, economics is linked both to ethics and to the theory of rationality. Although many economists regard economics as a ‘positive’ science of one sort of social phenomena, economics is built around a normative theory of rationality, and has a special relevance to policy making and the criticism of social institutions. Economics complements and intersects with moral philosophy in both the concepts it has constructed and in its treatment of normative problems. Fundamental to modern economics is its conception of human beings as rational agents, whose choices are determined by complete and transitive preferences. Although economists stress the usefulness of this notion of rationality in explaining human behaviour, rationality is clearly also a normative notion. The mathematical tools economists have developed to represent and study the implications of rational action in collective and interactive contexts are thus of immediate relevance to moral philosophers. Also of interest to moral philosophy is the problematic attempt in welfare economics to fashion a normative theory of economic institutions and policies around the goal of helping people satisfy their subjective preferences. This project relies, controversially, on equating people’s wellbeing with the degree of satisfaction of their subjective preferences; an individual’s ‘utility’ on this view is no more than an index of how well their subjective preferences are satisfied. Furthermore, since most welfare economists assume that there is no meaningful way to compare degrees of preference satisfaction across people, the project also requires a scheme for weighing the effectiveness of alternative economic arrangements in satisfying preferences without weighing the comparative satisfaction levels of different individuals. Central to the project is Pareto optimality – the notion of an ‘efficient’ arrangement as one in which no individual can achieve higher preference satisfaction without someone else undergoing a reduction in their satisfaction level. Economic policies and institutions can be appraised in terms of a variety of values other than efficiency. Notable both in historical and contemporary discussions are the values of liberty, justice and equality. Since a large part of economics is carried out with a view to its possible application to policy, ethics has a significant part to play in economics. By the same token, economics may be of great importance to ethics, both through its exploration of consequences and through the development of mathematical and conceptual tools.

scholarly journals Impact of Culture on the Pursuit of Beauty: Evidence from Five Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilpa Madan ◽  
Shankha Basu ◽  
Sharon Ng ◽  
Elison Ai Ching Lim
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Self Discrepancy ◽  
The Impact

Human beings have always coveted beautiful objects, but the desire to look good is reaching new heights worldwide. Although the pursuit of beauty appears universal, industry evidence suggests that it is particularly strong in Asia. This research examines the effect of culture on the pursuit of beauty. Three studies provide converging evidence that interdependent self-construal increases the likelihood of using appearance-enhancing products. Study 1 operationalizes culture through nationality and self-construal and shows that Easterners (more interdependent) are more likely to use appearance-enhancing products than Westerners (less interdependent). This use is driven by interdependents’ tendency to conform to societal norms, which in turn leads to heightened self-discrepancy (Study 2). The use of appearance-enhancing tools helps minimize this discrepancy. Study 3 shows that strength of norms moderates the impact of interdependence on the use of appearance-enhancing tools. When norms are loosely defined and adherence is not strictly enforced, interdependents’ appearance enhancement tendency is reduced. This research offers actionable insights into the pursuit of beauty, marketing of beauty brands, policy making, and consumer well-being.

scholarly journals Outputs Reviewed: Individual Giving and Philanthropy

2015 ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
North East Third Sector Research Group
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Big Society ◽  
Private Giving ◽  
Individual Giving

<p>Wiepking, P., &amp; Breeze, B. (2012). Feeling poor, acting stingy: The effect of money perceptions on charitable giving. <em>International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing</em>, 17(1), 13-24.</p><p>Pharoah, C. (2011). Private giving and philanthropy–their place in the Big Society. <em>People, Place &amp; Policy Online</em>, 5(2), 65-75.</p><p>Andreoni, J., Rao, J. M., &amp; Trachtman, H. (2011). Avoiding the ask: a field experiment on altruism, empathy, and charitable giving (No. w17648). National Bureau of Economic Research.</p>

Sensitive economic personae and functional human beings

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 831-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Dewandre* ◽  
Orsolya Gulyás
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Better Than

AbstractThis study is aimed at unveiling the implicit assumptions underlying the language of EU policy-making, drawing on Hannah Arendt’s critique of modernity. It conducts a critical metaphor analysis of strategic EU policy documents from 1985 to 2014 to reveal the extent to which EU policy-making, by relentlessly focusing on the ‘competitiveness, growth, and jobs’ narrative, relies on modern conceptual frameworks. These are characterized by the prominence of rationality and causality, at the expense of sense of purpose, reality and meaning, which is revealed through the validation of four metaphorical keys. These are (i)sensitive inversion, i.e.economic agents are sensitiveandhumans are functional; (ii)size matters, i.e.big is better than smallandone is better than many; (iii)deficit framing, i.e.potential is lockedandpresent is broken/future is bright; and (iv)speed is of the essence, i.e.the world moves fastandwe must hurry up.

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