Transformation as a type: seeking a flexible housing type for the 21st century

10.32920/ryerson.14663016 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aamna Zaheer

Keyword(s):

Technological Change ◽

21St Century ◽

Social Order ◽

Information Society ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Housing Type ◽

Current Information ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Housing Typology ◽

Over Time

Rapid social and technological change have largely influenced the way in which individuals and families inhabit their dwellings, leading to new functional and formal lifestyle demands within the domestic realm. “The current information society is more closely linked to time than space. Its networks produce systems that are discontinuous in space but continuous in time…the most consistent systems are those capable of distributing their activities homogeneously in time, thus avoiding the generation of another parallel space…specifically for one concrete use.” (Guallart, 2004, p.25) In a time where change and transformation are omnipresent and highly influential, how can we design habitats that respond directly to the changing social order, by transforming into the appropriate space which supports the changing occupants, activities, and functions of a home? This thesis proposes a flexible housing typology, which has the ability to transform and adapt to socio-cultural and technological changes over time.

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I, Librarian

Information Technology and Libraries ◽

10.6017/ital.v24i3.3373 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 123 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hilda Kruger

Keyword(s):

Technological Change ◽

Information Society ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Font Size ◽

The Future ◽

Future Society ◽

Information Professionals ◽

To Come ◽

The Way

<span>The fast and continuous technological change that is characteristic of the information society we find ourselves in has demonstrable impact on the way librarians go about their business. This paper offers a scenario of technological changes already in the pipeline and yet to come, and how those changes will impact the role of librarians in the future. One of the main concerns of this paper is the continued relevance of information professionals as infomediaries in our future society.</span><div><span style="color: #303030; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div>

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From catching up to industrial leadership: towards an integrated market-technology perspective. An application of semantic patent-to-patent similarity in the wind and EV sector

Industrial and Corporate Change ◽

10.1093/icc/dtaa021 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel S Hain ◽

Roman Jurowetzki ◽

Primoz Konda ◽

Lars Oehler

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Electric Vehicles ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Catching Up ◽

Industrial Leadership ◽

Catch Up ◽

Processing Techniques ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Empirical Case Studies ◽

Over Time

Abstract Studies on catching up and industrial leadership have often used market-related variables to evaluate the catch-up trajectories of latecomer countries and firms. In this study, we aim to enhance our understanding of these concepts by presenting an integrated market-technology framework. Using natural language processing techniques allows us to go beyond patent numbers and analyze patent novelty and impact as well as technological changes over time. In empirical case studies on wind energy and electric vehicles in China, Japan, and South Korea, we compare and identify country and sector-specific catch-up trajectories and potential catch-up traps.

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PROCESSES OF LOCALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF LOCAL MANAGERS IN ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS IN DANISH OWNED SUBSIDIARIES IN ESTONIA, LATVIA AND LITHUANIA AROUND THE 21ST CENTURY

Journal of Business Economics and Management ◽

10.3846/1611-1699.2008.9.279-287 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 279-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jeanette Thomsen

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Transition Economies ◽

21St Century ◽

Informal Institutions ◽

Primary Data ◽

Institutional Changes ◽

Specific Context ◽

Formal And Informal Institutions ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

This study identifies interplay between the localization processes and formal as well as informal institutions in a specific context. Particularly the changes over time in institutions and localization processes are in focus. A longitudinal study of institutional changes in local management has been conducted from 1997 to 2002 among local CEOs, chief accountants and production managers in a Danish SME, using mainly qualitative methods. Data have been compared to primary data from similar companies in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The study has resulted in establishing a model for comparing interplay between localization processes in SMEs and the formal and informal institutions in different transition and post‐transition economies.

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A Comparison of XBRL Filings to Corporate 10-Ks—Evidence from the Voluntary Filing Program

Accounting Horizons ◽

10.2308/acch-10028 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 227-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Jon Bartley ◽

Al Y. S Chen ◽

Eileen Z Taylor

Keyword(s):

Technological Change ◽

Financial Reporting ◽

Large Scale ◽

Accounting Standards ◽

Reporting Standards ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Financial Reports ◽

Business Reporting ◽

Financial Reporting Standards ◽

Over Time

SYNOPSIS eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) has the potential to improve the transparency of financial reports; however, its complexity creates the risk of introducing errors that are a threat to its usefulness. XBRL is a complex technological change in financial reporting of nearly unprecedented scope. Prior to June 2009, the date of the first mandated XBRL filings, the SEC made available a Voluntary Filing Program (VFP) to assist in addressing the difficulties of creating XBRL documents. This study examines errors in the VFP filings, and investigates whether stakeholders used their experience to improve the XBRL technology and processes. Findings indicate a reduction in errors over time, suggesting that the VFP for XBRL was successful. These results support the use of a VFP to identify and solve unanticipated issues and evaluate the feasibility of implementing large-scale technological changes in financial reporting and perhaps comprehensive changes in accounting standards such as the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards.

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Talk labour and doing ‘being neoliberal mother’

Gender and Language ◽

10.1558/genl.20315 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Elinor Ochs ◽

Tamar Kremer-Sadlik

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Knowledge Economy ◽

Family Life ◽

Social Order ◽

Parenting Practices ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Social Transformations ◽

Harvey Sacks ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

This essay considers the gendered work of childrearing through Harvey Sacks’ (1992) concept of doing ‘being ordinary’. While doing ‘being ordinary’ under-girds social order, what constitutes ‘ordinary’ changes over time. Neoliberalism ushered in middle-class childrearing ideologies that encourage parents to share ever more intensive responsibilities; yet, mothers ordinarily continue to assume the lion’s portion. Central to the intensive parenting practices primarily carried out by mothers is what we call ‘talk labour’, wherein dialoguing with children as conversational partners, beginning in infancy, is constant. The ubiquity of talk makes ordinary for young children a communicative style of heightened reflexivity about their own and others’ actions, ideas and sentiments – skills conducive to becoming a successful actor in the knowledge economy. This essay ties intensification of child-directed talk, critical to ‘doing being neoliberal mother’, to social transformations in family life rooted in modernity and the Industrial Revolution.

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Social Work Practice: History and Evolution

Encyclopedia of Social Work ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.620 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John G. McNutt

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Order ◽

Work Practice ◽

Social Work Practice ◽

Practice Change ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Primary Means ◽

History Of ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Social work is a profession that began its life as a call to help the poor, the destitute and the disenfranchised of a rapidly changing social order. It continues today still pursuing that quest, perhaps with some occasional deviations of direction from the original spirit. Social work practice is the primary means of achieving the profession's ends. It is impossible to overstate the centrality or the importance of social work practice to the profession of social work. Much of what is important about the history of the profession is the history of social work practice. We must consider both social work practice per se (the knowledge base, practice theories and techniques) and the context for social work practice. The context of practice includes the agency setting, the policy framework and the large social system in which practice takes place. Social work practice is created within a political, social, cultural and economic matrix that shapes the assumptions of practice, the problems that practice must deal with and the preferred outcomes of practice. Over time, the base forces that create practice and create the context for practice, change. Midgley (1981) correctly notes that practice created in one social order is often inappropriate for work in another social order. Since the social order changes over time, practice created at one point in time may no longer be appropriate in the future.

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Comparison of two devices for measuring exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressures in patients with claudication

VASA ◽

10.1024/0301-1526/a000454 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 355-362 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marie Urban ◽

Alban Fouasson-Chailloux ◽

Isabelle Signolet ◽

Christophe Colas Ribas ◽

Mathieu Feuilloy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Oxygen Pressure ◽

Optical Sensors ◽

Chemical Sensors ◽

Transcutaneous Oxygen ◽

Starting Values ◽

Two Systems ◽

Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure ◽

New Sensors ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Abstract. Summary: Background: We aimed at estimating the agreement between the Medicap® (photo-optical) and Radiometer® (electro-chemical) sensors during exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressure (tcpO2) tests. Our hypothesis was that although absolute starting values (tcpO2rest: mean over 2 minutes) might be different, tcpO2-changes over time and the minimal value of the decrease from rest of oxygen pressure (DROPmin) results at exercise shall be concordant between the two systems. Patients and methods: Forty seven patients with arterial claudication (65 + / - 7 years) performed a treadmill test with 5 probes each of the electro-chemical and photo-optical devices simultaneously, one of each system on the chest, on each buttock and on each calf. Results: Seventeen Medicap® probes disconnected during the tests. tcpO2rest and DROPmin values were higher with Medicap® than with Radiometer®, by 13.7 + / - 17.1 mm Hg and 3.4 + / - 11.7 mm Hg, respectively. Despite the differences in absolute starting values, changes over time were similar between the two systems. The concordance between the two systems was approximately 70 % for classification of test results from DROPmin. Conclusions: Photo-optical sensors are promising alternatives to electro-chemical sensors for exercise oximetry, provided that miniaturisation and weight reduction of the new sensors are possible.

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