scholarly journals Contemporary architecture and scientific development

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Gabriela Celani ◽  
Leandro Medrano
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Architectural Treatises ◽  
Effective Contribution

In the last fifteen hundred years there has been a paradigmatic shift, science has replaced architectural treatises, and scientific methods are used to justify technical and even aesthetical decisions. The present issue of PARC – Research in Architecture and Construction – presents ten examples of the use of such methods for the production of buildings and the analysis of space. They range from the use of cognitive psychology for the conceptual phases of design and the simulation of human behavior by computer agents to the application of syntactic methods for the analysis of space. With this issue, we expect to contribute to the discussion about the effective contribution of science to the quality of the built space.

Strategic threats to energy security as risks of quality of people's life

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-744
Author(s):  
V.I. Loktionov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Economic Well Being ◽  
The Way

Subject. The article reviews the way strategic threats to energy security influence the quality of people's life. Objectives. The study unfolds the theory of analyzing strategic threats to energy security by covering the matter of quality of people's life. Methods. To analyze the way strategic threats to energy security spread across cross-sectoral commodity and production chains and influences quality of people's living, I applied the factor analysis and general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. Results. I suggest interpreting strategic threats to energy security as risks of people's quality of life due to a reduction in the volume of energy supply. I identified mechanisms reflecting how the fuel and energy complex and its development influence the quality of people's life. The article sets out the method to assess such quality-of-life risks arising from strategic threats to energy security. Conclusions and Relevance. In the current geopolitical situation, strategic threats to energy security cause long-standing adverse consequences for the quality of people's life. If strategic threats to energy security are further construed as risk of quality of people's life, this will facilitate the preparation and performance of a more effective governmental policy on energy, which will subsequently raise the economic well-being of people.

scholarly journals Stationary Traffic as a Factor of Tourist Destination Quality and Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3965
Author(s):  
Robert Maršanic ◽  
Edna Mrnjavac ◽  
Drago Pupavac ◽  
Ljudevit Krpan
Keyword(s):  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Method Analysis

Since the Republic of Croatia is one of the most popular European and world tourist destinations, the aim of this paper is, from the user’s (n = 596) point of view, to research the importance of stationary traffic in tourist destinations. The purpose of this paper is to point out the possibilities of improving the tourist destination quality and sustainability through an adequate parking service. In order to corroborate constructed scientific hypotheses, a larger number of scientific methods were used from which a polling method, analysis and synthesis method, descriptive statistics method, t-test, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) should be singled out. The major finding of this paper indicates a relatively big importance of stationary traffic (M = 6.51; SD = 2.21) as an element of tourist destination quality. Moreover, regarding the quality of tourist destination, the results of this paper suggest that the parking space availability is more important than the way parking or parking payment are organized. Between the experienced parking problem in a tourist destination and age on one side and evaluation of the importance of stationary traffic as an element of tourist destination quality on the other side, a statistically important connection was established. Gained knowledge can be particularly helpful to hotel industry managers but also to traffic managers whose duty is to provide an adequate number of parking spaces in tourist destinations.

The Interweaving of Foreign and Domestic Policy‐Making

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraint Parry
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Domestic Level

These Words Spoken By President Clinton At His Inauguration on 20 January 1993 can usefully serve as a leitmotif for the present issue of the journal Government and Opposition. The issue is itself the outcome of a conference organized by the journal and the Department of Government of the University of Manchester. The theme was the ‘Influences of Domestic and International Factors on Processes of Policy-Making’. However, this title does not quite catch the interactive quality of the phenomenon which the group was seeking to examine. Increasingly, it has been contended, policies at the domestic level whether in what we once called the first, second or third worlds are being profoundly influenced by international or ‘global’ considerations. But it is also the case that international agreements are being accommodated to the sensitivities of the domestic politics of the partners.

Mental health care in Italy: Basaglia’s ashes in the wind of the crisis of the last decade

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro G Carta ◽  
Matthias C Angermeyer ◽  
Anita Holzinger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Italian Experience ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Care Culture ◽  
Health Care Culture

Background and Aims: The purpose is to highlight the legal and ethical principles that inspired the reform of mental health care in Italy, the only country to have closed its psychiatric hospitals. The article will also try to verify some macro-indicators of the quality of care and discuss the crisis that the mental health care system in Italy is experiencing. Methods: Narrative review. Results: The principal changes in the legislation on mental health care in Italy assumed an important role in the evolution of morals and common sense of the civil society of that country. We describe three critical points: first, the differences in implementation in the different Italian regions; second, the progressive lack of resources that cannot be totally attributed to the economic crisis and which has compromised application of the law; and finally, the scarce attention given to measurement of change with scientific methods. Conclusion: Italy created a revolutionary approach to mental health care in a historical framework in which it produced impressive cultural expressions in many fields. At that time, people were accustomed to ‘believing and doing’ rather than questioning results and producing research, and this led to underestimating the importance of a scientific approach. With its economic and cultural crisis, Italy has lost creativity as well as interest in mental health, which has been guiltily neglected. Any future humanitarian approach to mental health must take the Italian experience into account, but must not forget that verification is the basis for any transformation in health care culture.

Technical Control of Sewage Sludge Disposal to Sea

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
A G Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Sludge Disposal ◽  
Technical Control ◽  
Treatment Equipment ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Required Quality ◽  
Practicable Method

Technical control of sewage sludge disposal to sea is carried out primarily to maintain the quality of the receiving environment and this paper discusses the control in the context of England and Wales. Control is exercised in several ways and by several bodies. There are international conventions and national legislation governing sludge dumping, the national legislation is enforced by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, who stipulate the required quality and quantity of sludge. The sludge is produced and disposed of by regional water authorities who must control the quality of their sludge and use trade effluent legislation to control effluent from industry. In turn industrialists must control their effluents to meet water authority standards and this usually requires the installation of water treatment equipment or even change of process. At all stages scientific methods are used to check the effect of the legislative control. It is important that the technical controls used to protect the environment are not over-stringent so that an economic and practicable method of sludge control is not wasted.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Formation of Basic Competences in the Process of Professional Training of Future Translators

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Dоmina ◽  
◽  
Victoria Denisyuk ◽  
Ksenia Sedova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Basic Competencies ◽  
Functional Components

The proposed article is devoted to the problem of formation of basic competencies, which are a complex integrative formation of the personality of the future translator. To fully characterize them, the authors identified all the components. It is determined which specific manifestations constitute their subject essence. The relationships between the components are established and considered in the context of existence, functioning and development to identify factors in the development of multilingual personality culture. In the course of scientific research, the acquisition of professional and linguistic and cultural knowledge from translators was determined. The educational process of modern pedagogical institutions of higher education and the formation of not only professional culture but also the general culture of the translator as a "systemic integrative quality of personality, including interdependent and interdependent aspects, represented by significant and functional components, competent foreign language. Also in the course of scientific development of meaningful dominants the characteristics of such categories as multilingual, multilingual and multicultural language personality, which are transmitted by many language systems, were laid down. The proposed study substantiates the process of forming a multilingual culture of personality, determines that knowledge of one's culture is one of the main conditions for successful translators activity, because it is impossible to instill love or at least understand and accept another culture without a high national culture.

scholarly journals Review on Standardization of Ayurvedic Medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 194-199
Author(s):  
Janmejay Pant ◽  
. Ripudhaman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Dosage Forms ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Ayurvedic Drugs ◽  
Drug Manufacturing ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Current Guidelines

Standardization in Ayurvedic formulations ensures the establishment of standards for the quality and purity of raw materials, quality control during the drug manufacturing process, production of a good quality finished product, storage and distribution to maintain the quality of the final product. It is an essential tool for establishing quality control methods for Ayurvedic drugs. In Ayurveda, standardization has been well defined and documented in the classical and contemporary texts. Still, these have been written with an individualistic intent and not for industrial or commercial purposes.  Careful contemplation of the classical literature of Ayurveda was done, the current guidelines of WHO on standardization of herbal drugs, latest researches on the same via the internet were explored and examined in the purview of the newest standardization procedures.  In this article, an attempt has been made to bring to light the classical references related to standardization, the milestones in this on-going pursuit have been exhibited, with the use of the latest scientific methods being incorporated for a standardized Ayurvedic drug. It can be concluded from the review that standardization in Ayurveda is an on-going process where one needs to be strictly vigilant about the new scientific methods to study the fine chemical procedures and the intermediate compounds formed, but at the same time be aware of the classical. Ayurvedic methods concepts of the procedure. Asava-arista's medicinal characteristics of Ayurvedic classical dosage forms, liquid dosage forms based on self-generated alcohol with faster absorption, long shelf life, and increased market conformity have led to a continuous rise in demand. New fermentation methods and packaging innovations tend to have been embraced by many Ayurvedic processing units. The importance of standardization of such goods is underlined by these advances in manufacturing, distribution and storage. Therefore, it is of concern to examine the latest manufacturing situation and the standardization of the dosage type regarding the procedure and the consistency and effectiveness of the finished product. In addition to the effort to include criteria of consistency and standardization, the study consists of an overview and deliberates on the importance of improvements made to the conventional preparation processes, ingredients and material used in the process and the potential impact on its efficacy.

scholarly journals Strategi Evaluasi Program Praktikum Fisika Dasar

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Erwin Erwin ◽  
I Permana ◽  
Muhammad Syaipul Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Input Process ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

Lab work is one of the ways taken not only to clarify the subject that have been taught but also to coached students to apply scientific methods in solving problems. In order to ensure the quality of practical implementation requires accurate data-based information support, a gradual evaluation system is needed to help make the right decisions in every action throughout the program. The evaluation approach used is the CIPP (context, input, process, and product). Data collection is through interviews, questionnaires and direct observation, The data collected at each stage of the evaluation were analyzed qualitatively with the descriptions

The Relationship of Indonesian Languange Learning with the Environment. Andriyani Muliana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andriyani Muliana
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Common Environment ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The environment is closely related to nature and its creation. Problems faced by humans related to environmental conditions are things that have a big impact. The influence of the environment is very large on human life which makes the benchmark for good or bad human behavior. Because human life depends on the circumstances around him. Problems are often new things, but the things we often encounter in the environment are a variety of problems, such as the most common environment. According to Tung and Wihardjo (in Ramadhan et al, 2019), problems that occur in the environment caused by careless and intensive human activities in the area where he lives, this is done to improve the quality of life of each. Humans are more selfish without the environment when doing things that damage the environment. Whereas the consequences of their own actions will cause various impacts that are detrimental to themselves and others, such as floods that occur due to waste.

Territorial Entities’ Investment Policy in Implementation of Long-Term Development Projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Sokolov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Investment Policy ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Regional Authorities

The relevance of this topic is due to the creative nature of investment attraction activities in order to ensure the development of the country and regions. The importance of the problem is in the presence of obstacles in the way of building an attractive economic system in terms of investment inflows, creating conditions that encourage investors to invest in Russia. The purpose of research based on the generalization of theoretical material of various sources and analysis of Rosstat database, to characterize the development of investment processes in Russia, to determine the patterns of changes in the dynamics of investment indicators and the factors causing the activity of participants in investment activities in Russian regions. The research was conducted using scientific methods: abstraction, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction. The result showed that the activity of the Russian regions in the investment area is characterized by dependence on the level of overall economic development, although this relationship is a two-way. In conclusion, it was concluded that the creation of favorable conditions for the development of investment activities and its active support by the federal and regional authorities is necessary. It is advisable to offer to continuously improve legislation in the field of investment activity, to pursue a more flexible policy of financing investment and innovative projects, especially at the early stages of their development. This is the key to successful planning and implementation of projects aimed at strengthening the sovereignty of the state and improving the quality of life of citizens in new Russia.

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