scholarly journals Pandemic Thoughts on the Future of Cities

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
Gergana Stefanova
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

Will the COVID-19 pandemic change the future of the cities in any way? This paper tries to answer some of the questions related to the overcrowding of the cities, the relationship between living conditions, air pollution, risks of future pandemics, etc., and the role of architects and urban planners. “And today is only yesterday’s tomorrow…”, sing Uriah Heep, so it’s up to us what kind of World we will leave to our children and grandchildren…

scholarly journals Development? Thinking the future through a urban-natural perspective

Nova Economia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (spe) ◽  
pp. 1157-1186
Author(s):  
Harley Silva ◽  
Jakob O. W. Sparn ◽  
Renata Guimarães Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Alternative Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Urban Utopia ◽  
Traditional Communities

Abstract: This article offers a theoretical discussion on urbanization, nature and development and some of the links and interdependencies that connect these concepts. The focus is on some of the underlying dynamics and issues of our current development project defined as capitalist industrialization. The article illustrates the role of cities for human development and then argues that the relationship between society and nature could be - and indeed already has been - thought from a different perspective. Finally, the article discusses the transition from “campesinato” (peasantry) to traditional communities as product of extensive urbanization, as form of resistance and as potential blueprint for an alternative development and, potentially, for the Lefebvrian urban-utopia.

scholarly journals The Role of Urbanization Rate in the Relationship between Air Pollution and Health Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Fattahi
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Health Expenditures ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urbanization Rate ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

One of the available challenges in areas of health economics is identification of the effective factors on health expenditures. Air pollution plays important role in the public and private health expenditure but most studies have ignored the role of this category in explanation of health expenditures. On the other hand, the impact of air pollution on health expenditures is influenced by several factors. This study intends to investigate the effect of air pollution on public and private health expenditures and to identify the urbanization rate factor affecting the relationship between air pollution and public and private health expenditures. Scope of the present study is developing countries over period of 1995-2011. We used a dynamic panel and Generalized Method of Moments method. The empirical results indicate that air pollution has positive and significant effect on public and private health expenditures. Also, the results imply that urbanization rate affecting the relationship between air pollution and health expenditures that urbanization rate plays a reinforcing role.

Virtual Reality from the Standpoint of Complexity Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-260
Author(s):  
Helena Knyazeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extended Approach ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Latent Potential ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

An extended approach to the comprehension of virtual reality is developed in the article. Virtual reality is understood not only as a logically possible or cybernetically constructed reality but also as continuous turbulence of potencies of the complex natural and social world we live in, the wandering of complex systems and organizations over a field of possibilities, such a realization of forms and structures in which many formations remain in latent, potential forms, and are in the permanent process of making and multiplying a spectrum of possibilities, lead to the growth of the evolutionary tree of paths of development. It is shown that such an understanding of virtual reality corresponds to concepts and notions developed in the modern science of complexity. The most significant concepts are considered, such as the nonlinearity of time, the relationship of space and time, the uncertainty of the past and the openness of the future, the choice and construction of the future at the moments of passing the bifurcation points. Some cultural and historical prototypes of these modern ideas of virtual reality are given. It is substantiated that the vision of virtual reality being developed today can play the role of a heuristic tool for understanding the functioning and stimulation of human creativity.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-168
Author(s):  
Joel Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Divine Agency ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

The conclusion considers what the limits to transformative dialogue set by different theological and anthropological understandings of human and divine agency suggest for the future of the relationship between the two disciplines. Examining recent anthropological and wider discussions of the secular with an eye to this issue, and considering current anthropological attempts to rethink the role of divine agency in its theoretical agenda and ethnographic practice, the chapter explores some fundamental differences that remain between anthropology and theology in order to specify the ways in which dialogue between them may be fruitful even if, or perhaps precisely because, it cannot take as its goal a move toward disciplinary identity in relation to this key issue.

scholarly journals Relationships between Interpersonal Trust and Knowledge Sharing in Workplace: The Mediational Role of Prosocial Motives

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weixu Ding ◽  
Eugene Choi ◽  
Atsushi Aoyama
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Prosocial Motives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
The Relationship

This study is different from the usual cases that testing the intuitive factor as rewarding that affects the employees’ knowledge sharing. In this study, the focus shifts to concentrating on the emotional factors such as interpersonal trust and the prosocial motives. Empirical methods are used to test the hypotheses, and the results show that interpersonal trust affects employees’ knowledge sharing significantly. Moreover, the prosocial motives have been evidenced that it moderately mediates the relationship between interpersonal trust and knowledge sharing. This study has well evidenced all the hypotheses and gives suggestions for the future research at the end.

Back to the future? New genetics and disabled people

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (44-45) ◽  
pp. 22-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Shakespeare
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This article attempts to put developments in molecular biology into the broader context of disability rights and the relationship between disabled people and medical science. It includes a critique of biologi cal reduclionism and of the role of the media in inflating 'back-to- basics biology'. The article suggests that disabled people have not been consulted or involved in debates around the new genetics and that a wider discussion of these developments is urgently needed.

Address by the President of the Institute of Actuaries: Communication, Culture and Companionship

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nigel Stuckey Clark
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
Changing World

ABSTRACTThe Presidential Address relates events which occurred during significant years in the life of the President with matters relevant to the Institute, past, present and still to come, and with what was written by previous Presidents. It considers actuarial education, and specially its links with universities, and then comments on the President's career as a life actuary.The role of the Appointed Actuary is discussed, and also what an actuary is and does. The international actuarial perspective is covered through a description of the Groupe Consultatif and of the President's other international involvement, especially with Africa. Other subjects covered include with-profits contracts, the dispersion of actuaries throughout England and Wales, the role of the actuary in today's changing world, the relationship between the Institute and the Faculty, and the role of the President. Finally, the President looks forward to what actuaries might be and do in the future.

scholarly journals O TRABALHO COMO CATEGORIA ONTOLÓGICA: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DA OBRA CINEMATOGRÁFICA “EU, DANIEL BLAKE”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Luis Henrique Zago ◽  
Neiva Solange Silva ◽  
Allan Alberto Ferreira ◽  
Rodrigo Lima Nunes ◽  
Irineu Aliprando Tuim Viotto Filho
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
Materialist Theory ◽  
The Relationship

This paper thematizework as an essential category in the human ontological process using as a figurative element of this theme the film "I, Daniel Blake", which is analyzed in the light of dialectical historical materialist theory. Throughout the text we address the relationship between biological and cultural aspects in human formation and development; the role of work as essential in the teleological process of building something not immediately given by nature; the liberating character of this activity which, unlike animals, prey to necessity, enables us to evolve beyond the immediate; the conditions of alienated labor as a threat to this freedom and the impacts of this form of expropriation on subjectivity. We discuss the current precariousness of the living conditions of the working classes. Strangeness as a causative element of conflict and suffering. The film “I Daniel Blake” demonstrates in an artistic way the situation of conflict and suffering experienced by many workers today.

scholarly journals ‘Future Talk’ in Newspaper Editorials: Predictions and Their Role in Argumentative Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Farzana Masroor ◽  
Muhammad Yousaf ◽  
Azhar Habib ◽  
Ijaz Ali Khan
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Argument Structure ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Argumentative Discourse ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Newspaper Editorials

Newspaper editorials are known for taking a stance while fulfilling their goals of persuading the audience. In this regard, making future predictions is a crucial strategy in the argument structure of editorials. They are considered as risky acts since they are meant to outline future course of action as well as outcomes of such actions for their audience. This research is focused on the analysis of the speech acts of predictions among newspaper editorials of Pakistani, American and Malaysian newspapers. The analysis is focused on the exploration of forms, force and occurrence of these acts. The results indicate the preference of Pakistani and American newspapers in using strong predictions. The Malaysian newspaper meanwhile is found to be less explicit when predicting the future. This is indicated by less use of the strategy as well as adoption of implicit ways to express propositions related to the future. The results affirm the role of editorials as opinion leaders in their respective societies and the differences across cultures can be interpreted with respect to the extra linguistic and contextual factors that control editorial structures and strategies. The findings of the study are useful for future researchers to explore the relationship of language and its communicative purpose especially when fulfilling the goals of persuasion across cultures and contexts.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Customers and Community Pharmacies during the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic: A Survey from Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9582
Author(s):  
Francesca Baratta ◽  
Michele Ciccolella ◽  
Paola Brusa
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Community Pharmacies ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Community pharmacies are among the most easily accessible health services. Considering the major impact of COVID-19 in social terms, the purpose was to analyse the evolution of the relationship between community pharmacies and customers during the pandemic in 2020 and to understand which strategies should be implemented in the future. The data have been collected from May to December 2020. Pharmacists administered a questionnaire, also available online, to all customers that agreed to participate. The total number of respondents was 502. The results obtained confirm a generally high level of satisfaction with pharmacies among customers and appreciation for the role of community pharmacies. For the future, the priority is to monitor the situation to break down social inequalities. A task that can be entrusted to the branch of the healthcare service ideally suited to this end: local medicine, of which the community pharmacy is an essential element. The post-pandemic pharmacy will need to have the skills to provide accurate and reliable information on issues, including broad topics such as prevention and lifestyle to fight “syndemic” (two or more factors that work together to make a disease worse) and “infodemic” (too much information including false or misleading information during a disease outbreak).

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