scholarly journals On the Impact of Information Technologies on Society: an Historical Perspective through the Game of Chess

10.29007/gs6m ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Prost
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Chess Players ◽  
The Impact

The game of chess as always been viewed as an iconic representationof intellectual prowess. Since the very beginning of computerscience, the challenge of being able to program a computer capableof playing chess and beating humans has been alive and used both asa mark to measure hardware/software progresses and as an ongoingprogramming challenge leading to numerous discoveries. In the earlydays of computer science it was a topic for specialists. But ascomputers were democratized, and the strength of chess enginesbegan to increase, chess players started to appropriate tothemselves these new tools. We show how these interactions betweenthe world of chess and information technologies have been herald ofbroader social impacts of information technologies. The game ofchess, and more broadly the world of chess (chess players,literature, computer softwares and websites dedicated to chess,etc.), turns out to be a surprisingly and particularly sharpindicator of the changes induced in our everyday life by theinformation technologies. Moreover, in the same way that chess is amodelization of war that captures the raw features of strategicthinking, chess world can be seen as small society making the studyof the information technologies impact easier to analyze and tograsp.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Interethnic Harmony On The Stability Of Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Pulatov Abrorjon Masutovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts

The article examines modern socio-political relations, the rapid development of communication and information technologies, the expansion of ideological influence, impulses to improve methods and means of communication, as well as criminal threats to society. The study notes that the minds and hearts of people in different parts of the world turn into a training ground for testing various ideas, in other words, an ideological training ground for training. It is also clear that the activities of fanatical political Islamists and religious extremist movements that try to disguise religion and undermine religious values are one of the factors that threaten the spirituality of our children. Despite its growing role in the global geopolitical arena in Central Asia, it is important to protect our country, which is a key player in the region in terms of population and territory, from stereotypes of religious fanaticism, to create conditions for citizens so that they can practice their beliefs, tolerance and views on interethnic harmony, further strengthening the centuries-old traditions and customs of our people.

scholarly journals Analisis Dampak Sosial Akibat Pabrik Kertas Di Desa Parmaksian Tobasa Menggunakan Paradigma Ekofeminis

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Ayu Indira Hasugian
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Paper Mill ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

AbstrakDesa Siruar Parmaksian Tobasa di salah satu desa yang berada di daerah Toba mengalami perubahan sosial akibat dampak negatif berdirinya PT TPL. Dampak yang diberikan mengarah kepada kaum perempuan/ibu sehingga mengakibatkan aktivitas sehari-hari perempuan/ibu menjadi terkendala. Dampak ini terjadi di setiap harinya, sehingga akan sangat berdampak buruk bagi hubungan antara perempuan dan alam. Melihat kasus tersebut peneliti ingin melakukan penelitian terhadap kondisi  yang dialami kaum perempuan/ibu tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisa dampak sosial akibat pabrik kertas di Desa Siruar Parmaksian Tobasa kepada para perempuan dengan menggunakan paradigma Ekofeminis yang di tawarkan oleh McFague dan Warren, dan dikaji dalam bentuk studi kasus. Metode penelitian yang peneliti pakai adalah Metode Studi Kasus dari Teori E.P Gintings. Ada beberapa isu yang muncul dari kasus atau masalah ini, diantaranya : dampak sosial, dampak kerusakan alam terhadap kehidupan para perempuan, dan paradigma baru relasi perempuan dan alam atau rekonstruksi paradigma. Hal ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui Bagaimana dampak sosial akibat pabrik kertas terhadap masyarakat yang berada di lingkungan  Industri Kertas di Desa Siruar Parmaksian Tobasa yang mengarah kepada perempuan yang terdampak dan Bagaimana upaya-upaya yang dilakukan kaum perempuan/ibu di desa siruar untuk mempertahankan tanah/wilayahnya yang telah di rusak oleh perusahaan tersebut?. Hasil Analisis menunjukkan bahwa  paradigma Ekofeminis sudah menerapkan paradigma dengan istilah “Konstruksionisme”, yang disebut dengan istilah metafora dunia sebagai tubuh Allah, artinya dunia harus dipahami sebagai satu kesatuan organik, tubuh Tuhan dan bisa menanamkan sikap yang menghargai dunia.Kata Kunci: dampak sosial, paradigma ekofeminis AbstractThe village of Siruar Parm testimony Tobasa in a village in the Toba area experienced social changes due to the negative impact of the establishment of PT TPL. The impact that is given is directed at women / mothers so that it causes the daily activities of women / mothers to be constrained. This impact occurs every day, so it will have a very bad impact on the relationship between women and nature. Seeing this case, the researchers wanted to conduct research on the conditions experienced by these women / mothers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the social impacts of the paper mill in Siruar Parm testimony Tobasa on women using the Ecofemist paradigm offered by McFague and Warren, and study it in the form of a case study. The research method that researchers use is the Case Study Method of E.P Gintings Theory. There are several issues that arise from this case or problem, including: social impacts, the impact of natural destruction on women's lives, and a new paradigm of relations between women and nature or paradigm reconstruction. This is done to find out how the social impact of the paper mill on the community living in the Paper Industry in Siruar Parm testimony Tobasa Village which leads to affected women and how the efforts made by women / mothers in Siruar Village to defend their has been damaged by the company ?. The results of the analysis show that the Ecofemist paradigm has applied a paradigm with the term "Constructionism", which is called the metaphor of the world as the body of God, meaning that the world must be understood as an organic unit, the body of God and can instill an attitude of respect for the world. Keywords: social impact, eco-feminist paradigm

scholarly journals Digital Anti-Corruption Tools and Their Implementation in Various Legal Systems Around the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Andrii Halai ◽  
Viktoriia Halai ◽  
Roksolana Hrechaniuk ◽  
Kateryna Datsko
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
International Donor ◽  
Virtual And Augmented Reality ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Just as there is no ideal society, there is no society without corruption. Fighting corruption is one way to achieve the UN-approved goals of sustainable development. The article summarizes the process of formation and implementation of international anti-corruption standards and their features in different national legal systems. It is determined that the adoption and recognition of standards does not in itself solve the problem, which is why the world is constantly looking for ways to combat corruption, testing new tools and mechanisms to influence corruption risks. This is confirmed by numerous projects funded by international donor organizations. Information technologies create endless opportunities not only for economics development (robotics, blockchain technology, neural networks, artificial intelligence, quantum virtual and augmented reality), but also for the fight against corruption: from e-government and courts, digital public services and tools that report about the facts of corruption, to the means of influencing society through social networks. The article analyzes scientific and professional research in the field of digitalization of anti-corruption activities and substantiates the relationship of these concepts from the standpoint of the impact of IT technologies on combating and preventing corruption. The article summarizes modern technological advances and their implementation in various national legal systems, defines the role of information technology in the fight against corruption and forms an understanding of information technology as a tool to control and combat corruption.

scholarly journals A qualitative study of old patients’ experiences of the quality of the health services in hospital and 30 days after hospitalization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Lilleheie ◽  
Jonas Debesay ◽  
Asta Bye ◽  
Astrid Bergland
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Old Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: The number of people aged 80 years and above is projected to triple over the next 30 years. People in this age group normally have at least two chronic conditions. The impact of multimorbidity is often significantly greater than expected from the sum of the effects of each condition. The World Health Organization has indicated that healthcare systems must prepare for a change in the focus of clinical care for older people. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines healthcare quality as care that is effective, efficient, integrated, patient centered, equitable and safe. The degree to which healthcare quality can be defined as acceptable is determined by services’ ability to meet the needs of users and adapt to patients’ expectations and perceptions.Method: We took a phenomenological perspective to explore older patients’ subjective experiences and conducted semistructured individual interviews. Eighteen patients (aged from 82 to 100 years) were interviewed twice after discharge from hospital. The interview transcriptions were analyzed thematically.Results: The patients found their meetings with the health service to be complex and demanding. They reported attempting to restore a sense of security and meaning in everyday life, balancing their own needs against external requirements. Five overarching themes emerged from the interviews: hospital stay and the person behind the diagnosis, poor communication and coordination, life after discharge, relationship with their next of kin, and organizational and systemic determinants.Conclusion: According to the WHO, to deliver quality healthcare, services must include all six of the dimensions listed above. Our findings show that they do not. Healthcare focused on measurable values and biomedical inquiries. Few opportunities for participation, scant information and suboptimal care coordination left the patients with a feeling of being in limbo, where they struggled to find balance in their everyday life. Further work must be done to ensure that integrated services are provided without a financial burden, centered on the needs and rights of older people.

scholarly journals The Violence Against Women During the COVID-19 Pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-291
Author(s):  
Diana Stoica
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Area Of Study

One of the biggest crises of the modern world – the COVID-19 pandemic – brought with itself new measures to be implemented all around the world. The lockdowns imposed to prevent the spread of the virus affected terribly numerous aspects of everyday life but mainly created a hidden pandemic indoors. The purpose of this paper is to underline the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in what concerns the violence against women (VAW). Although it might seem early for estimating the damages produced in this area of study, there can be envisaged many statistics, a lot of system weaknesses, and possible solutions to help the victims. This article aims to resume the whole chaos installed on the Globe behind the closed doors, in the family - the most intimate place, where the joy and the love should dominate.

The Linking of the UTCV and the MSMEs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact for the improvement of their processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Paula Rosalinda Antonio-Vidaña ◽  
Luz Del Carmen Muñoz-Palacios ◽  
Alejandro De Jesús Hernández-Peralta ◽  
Daniel Martínez-Navarrete
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this article is an analysis of the speeches given in the face of the difficult link between MSMEs and HEIs, the UTCV case for the development of scientific projects and the completion of theses related to MSMEs, and thereby contribute to the strengthening the business organization in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that occurred throughout the world and is present in different spaces, business, educational, among others, however, the study is limited in describing the problems given in technological higher education and their interaction with micro-entrepreneurs in the development of academic projects, the measures adopted for the fulfillment of academic and bonding activities, from a perspective on the insertion of information technologies, tools and means of organization as adjustments to educational models and processes. The methodology used is mixed with a correlational descriptive approach, through the use of bibliographic information sources for the realization of theoretical support, likewise the focus group tool was used, considering the teachers who stayed in May-August 2020. The results showed the perception of businessmen and teachers of stays linked to MSMEs, their impact and development in the face of the pandemic. The contribution is achieved once the literature and results obtained from the focus group have been reviewed, which allows establishing the degree of flexibility for the implementation of new processes to MSMEs, which allows an area of opportunity to generate interaction of scientific projects with MSMEs, as well as the forms of interaction given to COVID-19.

scholarly journals When all doors close: Implications of COVID-19 for cosmopolitan entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 711-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niina Nummela ◽  
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki ◽  
Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen ◽  
Johanna Raitis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Core Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic is an external shock that has disrupted the foundations of everyday life. For cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, the impact is even more decisive as it confronts their core values and jeopardises their identities, ways of working and the lifestyles they cherish. Cosmopolitans are individuals who identify themselves as citizens of the world and voluntarily move from country to country in pursuit of self-fulfilment in both life and work. Cosmopolitan entrepreneurs are future-oriented and open to the world and the opportunities it may provide. Beyond securing, maintaining and improving their professional and/or economic positions, their mobility is an elementary part of the cosmopolitan life itself, something they find attractive, interesting and stimulating. Thus, a cosmopolitan entrepreneur’s business is often non-location-bound to enable continued mobility. With our interview-based research, we shed light on how COVID-19 has changed the lives of Finnish-born cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, discussing what they feel about the changes and how they see their future.

scholarly journals The Impact of Electronic Taxation on Tax Auditing: The Case of Turkey

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuğçe Uzun Kocamış ◽  
H. Muhammet Kekeç
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Tax Audit ◽  
The Impact

The advances in information and information technology provide companies with both speed and optimal benefit by using the internet intensively for every stage of their commercial activities and for all kinds of transactions. In order to reduce tax losses, it is necessary to utilize information technologies to develop new audit methods and techniques and to follow new practices in the world. It has become compulsory for public institutions to keep pace with the evolving information technology and to form the necessary information infrastructure. E-applications prevent tax evasion and ensure tax incomes of countries not only to increase the quality of public service but also increase the taxpayer's transaction speed. With the transfer of taxpayers to electronic book and electronic document in order to conduct an effective tax audit and to obtain tax revenue studies on the establishment of a structure that is effective, fast working and using computer technologies well in the struggle with the informal economy are carried out by the tax administration. In our work, electronic tax applications and tax audit in Turkey are explained under general headings and the process of transition to electronic tax audit is taken as basis on the basis of applications in the world. As a result, the contribution of computer and internet technology to the effectiveness of tax audit is an unquestionable reality.

scholarly journals The influence of fraction size on the chemical composition of winter wheat flour

2010 ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Tarján ◽  
Ágnes P. Barancsi ◽  
Zoltán Mezei
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Wheat Flour ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Fraction Size ◽  
Pattern Production ◽  
The Impact

Wheat is one of the most important cereals in the world and the bread made of its flour belongs to the everyday life of human  mankind.The Hungarian standard relating to the laboratory production of wheat flour (MSZ 6367/9-1989) does not mention the type of laboratory mill used for milling, and it only builds up some general criteria, such as: the laboratory mill should be provided  with four differently nicked barrels, a sieve with appropriate hole sizes, and also with the separated collections of the pilot flour and the bran. Our study was started at this point and the answers for the following questions were aimed to be found: do the flour patterns studied and produced with different sieving techniques, widely used in laboratory mills of the same wheat pattern show any alterations after the impact of the formula production as regards chemical constitutions. Various flours of the wheat pattern sieved with different particle sizes were studied in this experiment. In producing this pattern we used FQC109 type of mill. There were 5 different corn sizes of 250-200; 200-160; 160-125; 125-100; <100 μms used in the partition of the fractions. The results this research confirm that the quality of wheat flour can be modified by different methods of pattern production.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC QUERIES ON THE STRUCTURE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.V REPRINTSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Education System ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
The Impact

The imbalance between the labor market and the higher education system in the Russian Federation is highly relevant for discussion in the pedagogical environment. Overcoming structural problems is a difficult task, especially in the context of an economic crisis. The transition of Russian higher education to the Bologna model was complicated by many factors. An additional task at this point was the need to reform the structure of the output of specialists, since for some of them there was a large oversupply in the labor market, and for others there was a lack. In addition, the growing process of digitalization has made it necessary to train a sufficient number of specialists in the areas that ensure the spread of information technologies. State policy in the field of higher education has changed the number of students enrolled in the most popular bachelor's degree programs and has affected their structure depending on the form of tuition fees. The study found that the total number of students in the most popular areas of training-economics, management and law-has decreased, but they have retained their leadership, and the structure of students in these specialties is dominated by those who study on a contractual basis. At the same time, the demands of the economy caused a fairly rapid reaction of the higher education system and led to an increase in the number of students in the areas of linguistics, information systems and technologies, and defectological education. As a result of state support, despite the reduction in the total number of students, the share of budget and target students in those professions that are now most in demand in the economy has increased: construction, electric power and electrical engineering, agricultural engineering, computer science and computer engineering, applied computer science.

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