scholarly journals Future challenges for grassland farming

2001 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
W. Parker
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Trade Reform ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Land Inventory ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Grassland Research

New Zealand's grassland industries are entering a new phase of rapid technological and structural change. A complex mix of factors fuels this including institutional reform, Government science policy, growth in telecommunications, trade reform, and changes in consumer expectations and society's values towards the environment and new technology. Developing a common inspirational purpose, picking and investing in a 'best bet' future scenario, managing constraints to productivity gains, and increasing technology transfer and farmer learning are some of the challenges that those in the grassland sector must met. Keywords: future scenarios, grassland research, land inventory, production, productivity

Born Global in Singapore

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-222
Author(s):  
Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Malay Population ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Productivity Gains

Singapore’s developmental model had to be based within its multiethnic Chinese, Indian, and Malay population and from its very inception was global in outlook. Its meritocratic Economic Development Board (EDB) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) tied inward FDI to domestic human-capital development and redistribution of internationally derived wealth to its domestic population. Its “guppies to whales” human-capital development programs contributed to productivity gains through attracting the region’s best and brightest STEM youth and offering them citizenship. While the Singaporean city-state’s small population has proven an impediment to establishing a critical mass of new technology entrepreneurs, open immigration policies have the potential to fast-track future developments. However, indigenous Singaporeans have been displaced in this process.

Shepherding in Colonial Australia

Rural History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN PICKARD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Good Productivity ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
Wool Industry

AbstractShepherds were a critical component of the early wool industry in colonial Australia and persisted even after fencing was adopted and rapidly spread in the later nineteenth century. Initially shepherds were convicts, but after transportation ceased in the late 1840s, emancipists and free men were employed. Their duty was the same as in England: look after the flock during the day, and pen them nightly in folds made of hurdles. Analysis of wages and flock sizes indicates that pastoralists achieved good productivity gains with larger flocks but inflation of wages reduced the gains to modest levels. The gold rushes and labour shortages of the 1850s played a minor role in increasing both wages and flock sizes. Living conditions in huts were primitive, and the diet monotonous. Shepherds were exposed to a range of diseases, especially in Queensland. Flock-masters employed non-whites, usually at lower wages, and women and children. Fences only replaced shepherds when pastoralists realised that the new technology of fences, combined with other changes, would give them higher profits. The sheep were left to fend for themselves in the open paddocks, a system used to this day.

scholarly journals Transitional justice in light of the change in the Arab region

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
أ.م.د.دبنا هاتف مكي
Keyword(s):  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
New Phase

Many changes took place in a number of Arab countries, most of which ended with the change of the ruling leadership and a new coming. The same change brought about the hopes of the people to turn the page of the past into a democracy through which to overcome the grievances of previous years and achieve justice in all its aspects. The same new grievances have been added to that precedent and justice has not yet been achieved. Here we try to address the justice that is applied in the stages of change or transitional stages, which have been called, ie transitional justice, which has mechanisms and conditions of different application between countries, each of which the conditions applied in them and through a review of these mechanisms between the courts and commissions truth Compensation, reparation, cleansing and institutional reform, all in order to achieve reconciliation in which the previous stage is exceeded and the new phase begi

scholarly journals Strategy Pemanfaatan Instagram Sebagai Media Komunikasi Dan Penjualan Fashion Muslim Online (Studi Deskriptif Kualitatif Akun Instagram @zilohijab)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
Gan Gan Giantika
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Communications ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Visual Power

 The digital age makes communication enter a new phase. The widespread use of gadgets nowadays, making activities through gadgets more often done. New technology is increasingly advanced, the internet is increasingly easy to access, more applications and social media to communicateare also increasingly diverse. One service product that was born thanks to internet acces is social network, namely Instagram. Instagram is a social media that has visual power. With this power, many individuals and companies use it to attract the attention of the public, one of them is the @zilohijab Instagram account. This study wants to reveal the use of Instagram as a means of communication an sales of Muslim fashion on the Instagram account @zilohijab. The method used by researchers in this study is a descriptive qualitative research method. In the discussion of this study resulted in several strategies used by @zilohijab in planning the content of messages on his Instagram account including Instagram @zilohijab with the concept of Trusted Muslim Fashions used as a teaser, approaching through community building, working with influencers to produce content and product curation, as well as designing story to strengthen visual content with an emotionless strategy. The conclusion in this study is that the strategy designed by @zilohijab has been carried out to the maximum because the strategy is based on the concept and character. Keywords : Strategy, Instagram, Media Communications, Sales 

Continuous and high-frequency measurements in limnology: history, applications, and future challenges

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pille Meinson ◽  
Agron Idrizaj ◽  
Peeter Nõges ◽  
Tiina Nõges ◽  
Alo Laas
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Lake Metabolism ◽  
Physical Limnology ◽  
Frequency Measurements ◽  
Lake Ecology ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Regular Sampling ◽  
Using Data

Over the past 15 years, an increasing number of studies in limnology have been using data from high-frequency measurements (HFM). This new technology offers scientists a chance to investigate lakes at time scales that were not possible earlier and in places where regular sampling would be complicated or even dangerous. This has allowed capturing the effects of episodic or extreme events, such as typhoons on lakes. In the present paper we review the various fields of limnology, such as monitoring, studying highly dynamic processes, lake metabolism studies, and budget calculations, where HFM has been applied, and which have benefitted most from the application. Our meta-analysis showed that more than half of the high-frequency studies from lakes were made in North America and Europe. The main field of application has been lake ecology (monitoring, lake metabolism) followed by physical limnology. Water temperature and dissolved oxygen have been the most universal and commonly measured parameters and we review the various study purposes for which these measurements have been used. Although a considerable challenge for the future, our review highlights that broadening the spatial scale of HFM would substantially broaden the applicability of these data across a spectrum of different fields.

scholarly journals The Potential of Mobile Phones to Transform Teacher Professional Development to Build Sustainable Educational Futures in Bangladesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Christopher S Walsh ◽  
Clare Woodward ◽  
Mike Solly ◽  
Prithvi Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Teacher Professional Development ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
English Language ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Teacher Professional

Futures thinking is used by governments to consider long-term strategic approaches and develop policies and practices that are potentially resilient to future uncertainty. English in Action (EIA), arguably the world's largest English language teacher professional development (TPD) project, used futures thinking to author possible, probable and preferable future scenarios to solve the project's greatest technological challenge: how to deliver audio-visual TPD materials and hundreds of classroom audio resources to 75,000 teachers by 2017. Authoring future scenarios and engaging in possibility thinking (PT) provided us with a taxonomy of question-posing and question-responding that assisted the project team in being creative. This process informed the successful pilot testing of a mobile-phone-based technology kit to deliver TPD resources within an open distance learning (ODL) platform. Taking the risk and having the foresight to trial mobile phones in remote rural areas with teachers and students led to unforeseen innovation. As a result, EIA is currently using a mobile-phone-based technology kit with 12,500 teachers to improve the English language proficiency of 700,000 students. As the project scales up in its third and final phase, we are using the new technology kit — known as the 'trainer in your pocket' — to foster a 'quiet revolution' in the provision of professional development for teachers at scale to an additional 67,500 teachers and nearly 10 million students.

Hatchcoverless container ships: Productivity gains from a new technology

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen B. Bendall ◽  
Alan F. Stent
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Productivity Gains

scholarly journals Will climate change impact polar NOx produced by energetic particle precipitation?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ville Maliniemi ◽  
Daniel R. Marsh ◽  
Hilde Nesse Tyssøy ◽  
Christine Smith-Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Radiative Forcing ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Energetic Electron ◽  
Atmospheric Effects ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mean Meridional Circulation ◽  
Change Impact

<p>Energetic electron precipitation (EEP) is an important source of polar nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the upper atmosphere. During winter, mesospheric NOx has a long chemical lifetime and is transported to the stratosphere by the mean meridional circulation. Climate change is expected to accelerate this circulation and therefore increase polar mesospheric descent rates. We investigate the southern hemispheric polar NOx distribution during the 21<sup>st</sup> century under a variety of future scenarios using simulations of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). Each future scenario has the same moderate variable solar activity scenario, where EEP activity is lower than during the 20<sup>th</sup> century. We simulate stronger polar mesospheric descent in all future scenarios that increase the atmospheric radiative forcing. By the end of 21<sup>st</sup> century polar NOx in the upper stratosphere is significantly enhanced in two future scenarios with the largest increase in radiative forcing. This indicates that the ozone depleting NOx cycle will become more important in the future, especially if stratospheric chlorine species decline. Thus, EEP-related atmospheric effects may become more prominent in the future.</p>

scholarly journals Institutional vulnerabilities, COVID-19, resilience mechanisms and societal relationships in developing countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-307
Author(s):  
Mary Assumpta Nalwoga Kiwanuka
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Resilience Mechanisms

In this article the author submits that COVID-19 pandemic challenges could be utilised as an opportunity to reform government institutions to develop resilience measures that would potentially meet contemporary and future challenges. It will highlight that the current approach of institutions has failed to meet societal need. It focuses on developing countries, particularly the continent of Africa, drawing on results from a qualitative study of a justice institution of Uganda as a case study that explored how institutions coped to maintain societal relationship during the pandemic. Results suggested that, despite the pandemic challenges, institutions suffer epistemic issues that require critical examination for states to develop policies that would facilitate institutional reform to gain resilience mechanisms needed to meet contemporary and future societal challenges. A vulnerability theoretical framework is introduced and suggested as the remedy.

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