scholarly journals Key Issues in Slow Fashion: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Róbert Štefko ◽  
Vladimira Steffek
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Slow Fashion ◽  
Individual Style

The study seeks to explore and synthesize current issues in Slow Fashion and discuss potential future directions of the industry. While there are multiple definitions of the term, Slow Fashion typically describes long-lasting, locally manufactured clothing, primarily made from sustainably sourced fair-trade fabrics. It affords latitude to individual style, fosters education about clothing and emphasizes durability. While several challenges regarding the implementation of Slow Fashion principles in current society remain, the study offers an overview of the current state, and presents a fashion matrix-based framework for outlining the position of the Slow Fashion movement within industry-specific fashion segments and uses the matrix to present current knowledge and review future challenges. The support of networks serves as an indispensable tool for Slow Fashion designers, keeping them abreast of the competition.

scholarly journals Key Issues in Slow Fashion: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Róbert Štefko ◽  
Vladimira Steffek
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Slow Fashion ◽  
Individual Style

The study seeks to explore and synthesize current issues in Slow Fashion and discuss potential future directions of the industry. While there are multiple definitions of the term, Slow Fashion typically describes long-lasting, locally manufactured clothing, primarily made from sustainably sourced fair-trade fabrics. It affords latitude to individual style, fosters education about clothing and emphasizes durability. While several challenges regarding the implementation of Slow Fashion principles in current society remain, the study offers an overview of the current state, and presents a fashion matrix-based framework for outlining the position of the Slow Fashion movement within industry-specific fashion segments and uses the matrix to present current knowledge and review future challenges. The support of networks serves as an indispensable tool for Slow Fashion designers, keeping them abreast of the competition.

scholarly journals Security challenges to smart agriculture: Current state, key issues, and future directions

Array ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 100048
Author(s):  
Angelita Rettore de Araujo Zanella ◽  
Eduardo da Silva ◽  
Luiz Carlos Pessoa Albini
Keyword(s):  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Smart Agriculture

scholarly journals Tele-Audiology: Current State and Future Directions

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen L. D'Onofrio ◽  
Fan-Gang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Service Delivery Model ◽  
Improve Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Remote Care ◽  
Improve Patient

The importance of tele-audiology has been heightened by the current COVID-19 pandemic. The present article reviews the current state of tele-audiology practice while presenting its limitations and opportunities. Specifically, this review addresses: (1) barriers to hearing healthcare, (2) tele-audiology services, and (3) tele-audiology key issues, challenges, and future directions. Accumulating evidence suggests that tele-audiology is a viable service delivery model, as remote hearing screening, diagnostic testing, intervention, and rehabilitation can each be completed reliably and effectively. The benefits of tele-audiology include improved access to care, increased follow-up rates, and reduced travel time and costs. Still, significant logistical and technical challenges remain from ensuring a secure and robust internet connection to controlling ambient noise and meeting all state and federal licensure and reimbursement regulations. Future research and development, especially advancements in artificial intelligence, will continue to increase tele-audiology acceptance, expand remote care, and ultimately improve patient satisfaction.

Stress and Mental Health: Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 724-730
Author(s):  
Elizabeth P. Hayden ◽  
Kate L. Harkness
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Current State ◽  
Key Issues

In this epilogue, the editors of this volume provide a synthesis of the preceding chapters. In addition to highlighting the current state of the scientific literature, future directions for the rapidly evolving field of stress and mental health are outlined, with an emphasis on key issues surrounding the development of new methods and levels of analysis, improvements in assessment approaches, and how training and collaboration can evolve toward the goal of facilitating new insights. Prominent conceptual issues requiring consideration and clarification are discussed, with a particular focus on the fundamental principles that underlie models of stress and mental health, as well as resilience.

Prefrontal Regulation of Threat-Elicited Behaviors: A Pathway to Translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Causal Role ◽  
Current State ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Differential Involvement

Regions of the prefrontal and cingulate cortices play important roles in the regulation of behaviors elicited by threat. Dissecting out their differential involvement will greatly increase our understanding of the varied etiology of symptoms of anxiety. I review evidence for altered activity within the major divisions of the prefrontal cortex, including orbitofrontal, ventrolateral, dorsolateral, and ventromedial sectors, along with the anterior cingulate cortex in patients with clinical anxiety. This review is integrated with a discussion of current knowledge about the causal role of these different prefrontal and cingulate regions in threat-elicited behaviors from experimental studies in rodents and monkeys. I highlight commonalities and inconsistencies between species and discuss the current state of our translational success in relating findings across species. Finally, I identify key issues that, if addressed, may improve that success in the future.

Acute stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy

Heart ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana K Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Acute Setting ◽  
Current State

Acute stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy has a dramatic clinical presentation, mimicking an acute myocardial infarction and is triggered by intense emotional or physical stress. In this paper, we review the current state of knowledge of the mechanistic physiology underlying the left ventricular ballooning. The pathophysiology of the recovery from this acute heart failure syndrome is presented. The short-term and long-term outlook puts this new syndrome on a different perspective compared with recently held views. Current knowledge on susceptibility and predisposition already define distinctive characteristics of patients with takotsubo compared with myocardial infarction. Gaps in knowledge and future directions of research are identified in order to best direct efforts for identifying specific therapies for this condition, in the acute setting, to mitigate postacute symptoms or to prevent recurrences, none of which exist.

scholarly journals Current Trends and Future Challenges in Automated Manufacturability Analysis

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyandra K. Gupta ◽  
Diganta Das ◽  
William C. Regli ◽  
Dana S. Nau
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Current State ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
First Time ◽  
Manufacturing Problems

Abstract In the marketplace of the 21st century, there is no place for traditional over-the-wall communication between design and manufacturing. In order to “design it right the first time,” designers must ensure that their products are both functional and easy to manufacture. Software tools have had some successes in reducing the barriers between design and manufacturing. Manufacturability analysis systems are emerging as one such tool — enabling identification of potential manufacturing problems during the design phase and providing suggestions to designers on how to eliminate them. In this paper, we survey current state of the art in automated manufacturability analysis. We describe the existing approaches to automated manufacturability analysis and overview representative systems based on their application domain. Finally, we attempt to expose some of the existing research challenges and future directions.

Autonomous vehicles and freight traffic: towards better efficiency of road, rail or urban logistics?

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Bucsky
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Car Industry ◽  
Level Of Automation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Freight Traffic ◽  
Levels Of Automation ◽  
Private Car

Abstract The freight transport sector is a low profit and high competition business and therefore has less ability to invest in research and development in the field of autonomous vehicles (AV) than the private car industry. There are already different levels of automation technologies in the transport industry, but most of these are serving niche demands and answers have yet to be found about whether it would be worthwhile to industrialise these technologies. New innovations from different fields are constantly changing the freight traffic industry but these are less disruptive than on other markets. The aim of this article is to show the current state of development of freight traffic with regards to AVs and analyse which future directions of development might be viable. The level of automation is very different in the case of different transport modes and most probably the technology will favour road transport over other, less environmentally harmful traffic modes.

Free Fatty Acid Receptors as New Potential Targets in Colorectal Cancer

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 1397-1404
Author(s):  
Adrian Bartoszek ◽  
Jakub Fichna ◽  
Aleksandra Tarasiuk ◽  
Agata Binienda ◽  
Adam Fabisiak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Screening Programs ◽  
Pharmacological Targets ◽  
The Family ◽  
Free Fatty Acid Receptors

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. In developed countries, its mortality remains high, yet the prevalence has established owing to effective screening programs; however due to the westernization of lifestyle, the incidences in many other countries have increased. Although the treatment of CRC has improved in the last few years, the side effects of these approaches cannot be neglected. Recently, members of the family of free fatty acid receptors (FFARs) have become attractive pharmacological targets in many diseases, including asthma; studies also point to their role in carcinogenesis. Here, we discuss current knowledge and future directions in FFAR research related to CRC. Contradictory results of FFARs modulation may derive from the pleiotropic effects of FFAR ligands, receptor distribution and different signal transduction. Hence, we indicate directions of further studies to fully use the potential of FFARs in CRC.

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