scholarly journals Using cognitive maps to study issues concerning the improvement of the quality of life of population in the frame of interregional disparities

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Vitaly Tyushnyakov ◽  
Yulia Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Political System ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Cognitive Modelling ◽  
Informational Technology ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Interregional Disparities

This paper studies issues of the rise in the standards of living and improvement of the quality of life of the population in the frame of intermunicipal disparities. Simulation and modelling are examined in relation to research of standards of living and quality of life. Tools of cognitive modelling and simulation are used to acquire new knowledge on the regional social and economic, ecological, and political system which determines the standards of living and quality of life. A cognitive model studying the quality of life was designed and its structural properties were analyzed. Scenarios were created to model possible developments of the situation under the influence of various factors. The novelty of the work is in applying a new informational technology of cognitive modelling to studying the improvement of the quality of life in the frame of intermunicipal disparities.

The ESRC Growing Older research programme, 1999–2004

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 657-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Full Capacity ◽  
The Uk

This article introduces the seven specially commissioned papers in this special issue of Ageing & Society from the projects funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Growing Older Programme. The ESRC Programme has been the largest single investment in social sciences research on ageing in the United Kingdom. It comprised 24 projects and, when operating at full capacity, 96 researchers. The article details the background to the Programme, its commissioning process, its eventual structure and how it operated. Then a selection is made of some of the ways in which the Programme has contributed new knowledge to social gerontology. No attempt is made to achieve comprehensive coverage of the Programme's topics but rather a selection is presented of the new insights generated under its six themes: defining and measuring quality of life, inequalities in quality of life, technology and the built environment, healthy and active ageing, family and support networks, and participation and activities in later life. The projects were spread unevenly across these themes but important new knowledge has been produced under each theme. The conclusion emphasises the scientific contribution of the Programme and especially the extent to which older people's own attitudes, aspirations and preferences have been at the forefront, but it questions whether or not policy makers and practitioners will use this major evidence base.

scholarly journals Universal Basic Income: Reflections on the Possible Impac on Improving the Living Standards and Quality of Life and the Sustainability of Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-24
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Bobkov ◽  
Nikolay Dolgushkin ◽  
Yelena Odintsova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Transitional Forms

The article is devoted to the study of the possible impact of the introduction of universal basic income on improving the standards of living and quality of life and sustainability of societies. The theoretical part of the article reveals the problems that require further study of the category of " universal basic income" (UBI), such as its relationship with the transformation of the state and society, labour and employment, the standards of living and quality of life; the reasons for the introduction and tasks that are solved with the use of UBI, contradictions and limitations of this tool of political, economic and social reforms. In the practical part of the article on the basis of systematization of the most important experiments on the introduction of UBI the conclusion of the transitional forms of its experimental implementation is made: the conditionality (for the target categories of citizens), not the unconditionality of payments, limited period of payment, small size, commensurate with the national subsistence minimum. All this does not allow us to consider this payment as a basic one with all its local impact on the transformation of social systems in the countries concerned. The conclusion is made about the embryonic practical application of UBI elements in Rossiya. A number of recommendations for additions to the testing elements of the universal basic income in our country have been elaborated: to increase per capita income after the provision of targeted social support to low-income sections of the population; to select the trajectories of employment for registered unemployed persons; to reduce the time transitions of graduates from educational institutions to stable or satisfactory employment; and to increase the level of security for the employed with a wide range of characteristics of precarity of employment. The Object of the Study is country societies and their separate regional and social groups.The Subject of the Study is the transformation of employment, social protection and sustainability of societies in connection with the introduction of elements of universal basic income.The Purpose of the Study is identifying hypothetical possibilities of influence on the improvement of the standards of living and quality of life and sustainability of societies by the introduction of universal basic income and analysing the results of testing its transitional forms.

scholarly journals O capital incorporador de valores e os novos condomínios horizontais populares fechados

GeoTextos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Fernanda de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Significant Interest

Atualmente a produção de condomínios horizontais populares fechados em cidades do interior de São Paulo vem apresentando significativo crescimento. O papel do capital incorporador, ao selecionar estrategicamente aspectos subjetivos que remetem a padrões de vida associados ao da elite, aliado à facilidade nos financiamentos, exerce significativo interesse a quem está à procura de uma casa própria. Porém, o tamanho pequeno das residências, a distância em que estão inseridos, além das regras e dos conflitos que permeiam o cotidiano nesses espaços, desmentem as promessas de uma melhor “qualidade de vida” a partir da aquisição de uma residência em um condomínio. Neste artigo, apresentamos parte da análise da pesquisa realizada a partir de entrevistas com moradores e futuros moradores de condomínios horizontais populares fechados em duas cidades paulistas: Presidente Prudente e São Carlos. Abstract THE BUILD-IN VALUE CAPITAL AND NEW POPULAR PRIVATE CONDOMINIUMS Currently, the production of horizontal condominiums popular in the cities of São Paulo, has shown significant growth. The role of the developer capital, selecting strategically subjective aspects that refer to standards of living associated with the elite, combined with the ease in financing, exercises significant interest to anyone who is looking to own a home. However, the small size of the homes, the distance at which they are inserted, in addition to the rules and conflicts that pervade everyday life in these spaces, belies the promises of a better ‘quality of life’ from the acquisition of a residence in a condominium. This article presents part of the analysis of research conducted through interviews with residents and future residents of popular condominiums closed in two Paulistas cities: Presidente Prudente and São Carlos.

Perinatal outcome and referral age

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-160
Author(s):  
George Cassady
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Blood Sugar ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Perinatal Outcome ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Control Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Knowledge

During the past decade, prompt application of new knowledge of perinatal pathophysiology has dramatically improved the quality of life for surviving tiny premature infants. The results of prompt correction and, when possible, prevention of such potent interrelated insults as hypoglycemia, asphyxia, hyperoxia, jaundice, shock, thirsting, and starvation have led the more optimistic of us to expect the virtual disappearance of neurologic residua, previously considered the unavoidable legacy of surviving premature infants. In contrast, the data reported by Fitzhardinge in this issue1 serve as an important warning that all may not be well with these babies. Certain flaws in this report—the 16% attrition rate (no follow-up), the inadequate description of the control group (no control DQ's), and the failure to objectively document such measureable influences on outcome as serum unconjugated bilirubin, serum osmolality, blood sugar, and Po2 and Pco2—should caution the reader to accept these findings only with liberal "grains of salt."

Indian Economy after Independence

2020 ◽  
pp. 317-342
Author(s):  
Tirthankar Roy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
The Political ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
And Shifts

Chapter 13 surveys economic change and shifts in the political context of economic change in the Indian Union, 1950–2010. Based on the survey, the chapter answers three larger questions. First, why was economic growth relatively low in the first 35 years after the end of colonialism, and why was there a turnaround in the pace of economic change in the 1980s? Second, why did human development lag achievements in income growth after the turnaround? If the quality of life failed to improve enough, then a third question follows, why did the democratic political system survive at all if it did not fairly distribute the benefits from growth?

The Evolution of a Movement

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Social Indicators Movement ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

The Social Indicators Movement which emerged in the late 1960s was motivated by a broad and appealing idea. It is important to monitor changes over time in a wide range of quality of life, both for a population as a whole and for its significant subgroups, because such information, when combined with other data, can generate new knowledge about how to increase quality of life through more effective social policies.

The Dynamics of Popular Reactions to Democratization in Korea

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doh Chull Shin ◽  
Peter McDonough
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Political System ◽  
Relative Impact ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Events ◽  
System Suitability ◽  
Support For Democracy ◽  
Central Argument

The central argument of this paper is that, rather than simply absorbing democratic values diffusely, Koreans have acquired their support for democratization incrementally through experience with the consequences of regime change. In order to account for this pattern, we develop an empirical model that distinguishes between democracy as an ideal (desirability) and democracy understood as a viable political system (suitability). We draw on a survey of the Korean public to demonstrate that changes in these dimensions follow distinct trajectories, according to the recollections of our respondents, during the course of democratization. While beliefs about democracy-in-principle appear to be fairly impervious to political events and socioeconomic conditions, attitudes toward democracy-in-practice reflect a learning curve as the transition unfolds. We estimate the relative impact of evaluations of the economy, of the quality of life, and of governmental performance and political experience on support for democracy in practice. On the whole, democratic commitment is ‘earned’ through increasingly favorable perceptions of improvements in the quality of life, in economic growth, and especially in the performance of successive democratic governments, as contrasted with the workings of the previous authoritarian regime.

scholarly journals موجودہ جمہوری سیاسی اضطرابی صورتحال کا جائزہ اور اس کا حل، سیرۃ طیبہﷺ کی روشنی میں

rahatulquloob ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 94-109
Author(s):  
Mufti Syed Muhammad Rafiq.
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Political System ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Force ◽  
Primary Problem ◽  
State Form

The set of formal legal institutions that collectively constitute a “government”or a “state” form the basis of what we call “Political System”. Democracy, one of the institutions withiun the present day political scenario, is a system of processing conflicts in which the outcomes depend on what the opinion of majority of the participants is. In such a process, no single force or group can control what occurs unless they can prove their majority. The primary problem with the world politics in today’s world is not much different to what it has been over the centuries - it is controlled by people who are generally incapable of envisioning a system of just government that could address the broader problems faced by humanity and that which could think beyond the immediate scene. Nothing about our world will change until we acknowledge this reality and that the quality of life depends on more than a mere establishment of rules by which to live and carry out commerce. It requires an understanding of the universal issues that are not yet considered as a part of the better human condition by most governments of our time. Politicians always have, focussed on the tangible issues of the physical social structure while being oblivious to the fact that such a framework can be no more useful in improving the human condition than is the altruistic value of the foundation on which it is built. In this paper, the existing democratic political system has been thoroughly analyzed in accordance with the seerah of our beloved messengerﷺ.

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