UNCERTAINTY IN SLOVENIA AND THE UNITED STATES BEFORE AND DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Romih
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Situation ◽  
The Way

Over the past year and a half, as long as the Covid-19 pandemic has lasted, uncertainty has become the new normal. In just a few months, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, work, travel and socialise. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a lot of interest among policymakers and researchers in studying uncertainty and its impact on the economy. In this paper, I study the uncertainty in Slovenia and the United States before and during the Covid-19 crisis, which hit both countries hard. I find that uncertainty in Slovenia and the United States peaked in early 2020, when SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, began to spread outside of China. During this time, companies and households had to adapt to the new situation.

scholarly journals Anytime? Anywhere?: Reframing Debates Around Community and Municipal Wireless Networking

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Forlano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wireless Networks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wireless Networking ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
The Way

Over the past three years, cities across the United States have announced ambitious plans to build community and municipal wireless networks.  The phrase ‘anytime, anywhere’ has had a powerful impact in shaping the way in which debates about these networks have been framed.  However, ‘anytime, anywhere’, which alludes to convenience, freedom and ubiquity, is of little use in describing the realities of municipal wireless networks, and, more importantly, it ignores the particular local characteristics of communities and the specific practices of users.  This paper examines the media representations and technological affordances of wireless networks as well as incorporating the practices of those that build and use them in an attempt to reframe these debates.

The Revolution Under Raúl

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Anna Clayfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Importance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter investigates the on-going legacy of the guerrilla struggle between 2006 and 2018, the period of Raúl Castro’s tenure as Cuban President. It argues that, while many foreign commentators viewed the political, social, and economic change of these years as evidence that the Revolution and its socialist model were on the way out, the discursive phenomenon of guerrillerismo still very much anchored it in the past. Such an anchor remained of high importance to the leadership at a time of not only domestic upheaval but also shifting relations with its long-standing enemy to the north: the United States.

Shouldn't Dead Be Dead?: The Search for a Uniform Definition of Death

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Lewis ◽  
Katherine Cahn-Fuller ◽  
Arthur Caplan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Uniform Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Death By Neurologic Criteria ◽  
The Way

In 1968, the definition of death in the United States was expanded to include not just death by cardiopulmonary criteria, but also death by neurologic criteria. We explore the way the definition has been modified by the medical and legal communities over the past 50 years and address the medical, legal and ethical controversies associated with the definition at present, with a particular highlight on the Supreme Court of Nevada Case of Aden Hailu.

The De-Baathification of post-2003 Iraq: Purging the Past for Political Power

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Isakhan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coalition Provisional Authority ◽  
The Way

Following the toppling of the Baathist regime in May 2003, the United States established the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which was to serve as the occupational authority and interim government of Iraq. This chapter examines the ongoing legacy of the CPA's plan to de-Baathify Iraq. It outlines the efforts by Iraqi lawmakers to codify de-Baathification in Iraq's new constitution of 2005 as well as in subsequent pieces of more detailed legislation. It studies the actual implementation of these laws in relation to the Iraqi parliamentary elections of 2010 and 2014, as well as the local elections of 2013. Throughout the chapter, special emphasis is given to the considerable discrepancies between the principles enshrined in the formal de-Baathification legislation and the way those principles are applied in practice. It concludes by suggesting that Iraq needs to openly and honestly deal with its Baathist past if it is ever to move beyond patterns of political sectarianism, violence, and autocracy.

China—lessons for the United States

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-456
Author(s):  
Jay Arena
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Way

Even a short sojourn in China shows conclusively that China is changing. Yet, in a larger sense, China is also changeless, being too immense, too diverse, too complex, too civilized, too world-weary for any regime to tear up the past by the roots and start all over again. In China, if the peaks of privilege have been laid low, so also the valleys of poverty and disease have been filled. Very few Chinese regard themselves as poor, although they have little in the way of material goods. The Chinese have a rich cultural life; they are articulate; they use their leisure time profitably; they have a clear understanding of where they want to go—and how they are going to get there.

scholarly journals Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States: Current state, regulations, challenges, and the way forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Louis Lei Jin ◽  
Jin Zheng ◽  
Niyaz M. Honarvar ◽  
Xiqun Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Way

In the United States, there has been a steady presence and growth of Traditional Medicine (interchangeable in this paper with Complementary or Alternative Medicine) over the past few decades. The costs for such practices are relatively low along with minimal-to-no obvious side effects. Amongst a variety of traditional medical systems, Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the most popular alternatives to help manage chronic health conditions or to improve the overall quality of life. While not exhaustive, this paper provides a snapshot of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States with insights into its current state, regulations, challenges, and the way forward.

Forum on teacher preparation: The launching of a forum

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
Francis J. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mathematical Preparation ◽  
The Way

Life was indeed simpler a decade or so ago. For many of us then concerned with the mathematical preparation of elementary teachers, “the way to progress” seemed so clearly defined. A separatism of the past that held arithmetic to be distinct from mathematics had largely dissolved. In the United States at least, arithmetic had come to be accepted as the vital opening chapter to the potentially endless story of mathematics.

American Weimar

Worldview ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Robert Alan Cook
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Way

We may very well stand at one of those decisive turning points of history which separate whole eras from each other. For contemporaries entangled, as we are, in the inexorable demands of daily life, the dividing lines between eras may be hardly visible when they are crossed; only after people have stumbled over them do the lines grow into walls which irretrievably shut up the past.Hannah Arendt (1975)In 1972 a conclave of distinguished American historians debated whether the United States was going the way of Germany's ill-fated Weimar Republic. (The colloquium proceedings were published in Social Re search, Summer, 1972.) They concluded that it was not, that the differences outweighed the similarities. But a few participants, such as Geoffrey Barraclough, were already worried, and today reappraisal seems overdue.

Informality: a Window on Contemporary Emotions History

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Peter N. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heavy Dose ◽  
The Way

Abstract An intriguing and pervasive development in the history of the past century – in the United States and at least some other societies – has been the rise of greater informality in interpersonal relations. Almost everyone knows this has been happening – a class of college students can offer a number of valid illustrations (with a heavy dose of habits on social media), and some have lived through even more extensive changes in, for example, the way people dress. But the phenomenon is dramatically understudied, taken for granted rather than assessed or analysed. There is a serious historical topic here that should be addressed by a wider audience, with several dimensions for further evaluation.

scholarly journals Understanding How Social Media Is Influencing the Way People Communicate: Verbally and Written

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Noelle Defede ◽  
Nina Marie Magdaraog ◽  
Sakshi Chiragbhai Thakkar ◽  
Gulhan Bizel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Way

The way in which people communicate has changed significantly in the past decade. For instance, instead of reading newspapers to find out the latest news many flock to Twitter™ to see what is trending for the day. Communication online via social media has changed the way people view many things. Therefore, with this understanding, it is notable to understand how social media is influencing the way people communicate: verbally and written. This paper dives more into finding more descriptive explanations of how it does so, such as whether they have changed the way they speak in person and online or the way they type their emails and texts. Using methods that involve secondary sources such as research journals and articles as well as conducting a survey questionnaire composed of participants from the United States and India is reflected in this paper. The research findings indicate that social media does influence the way people communicate because of how it allows people to gain more knowledge and information, it has become more accessible for others and it fuels conversion in terms of using emoticons. This research paper reflects the change that social media has brought forth to interpersonal communication.

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