scholarly journals SPACES OF VARIABLE DIMENSION

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Alice Hryshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Complex System ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Fractional Dimension ◽  
Variable Dimension ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs

Usually scientists build physical models depending on how they perceive the world. But the current state of affairs in science has shown that where the scale is very small compared to our usual world, it is not justified to use models that could be used in the macro world. One of the options that can take place in the micro world, but has no analogues in our ordinary world, which we observe every day, is that space can change or have a fractional dimension. It is possible that the dimension of space will have certain values, depending on the conditions in which our complex system is observed in space, or depending on the frame of reference of the observer. And thus the calculations in the mathematical modeling of complex systems must be adjusted in accordance with the dimension of space.

Public Facilities Design in Sustainable Ways for Reconstruction Work of Yushu Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 672-674 ◽  
pp. 2195-2210
Author(s):  
Ang Li ◽  
Shu Bin Kan ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Xin Yu Song ◽  
Shi Long Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Design Theory ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Current State ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
The World ◽  
Facilities Design ◽  
Pros And Cons

The region of Yushu has fragile natural environment. In 2010, it suffered severe damages caused by earthquakes. This paper subject, on the basis of status research of natural and cultural environment in Yushu area and urban public facilities across the world, is aiming at a design attempt of public facilities suitable for Yushu area under the guidance of sustainable-development design theory. After constructing computer models, we made physical models to further test the reliability of our scheme. The overall design acts according to circumstances, and makes it environmental friendly, developmental sustainable, economical, aesthetic, practical and reliable. We also added to our design some local characteristics to make it better integrate into the local natural environmental features so that it could be widely used. In the end, we summarized the pros and cons of the scheme through theoretical analysis of our design process, despite that, in June 2014, we had an on-the-spot investigation in Yushu, and according to its current state of development, we made outlooks of our further scheme practice.

Globalization of Economy: qualis es et quo vadis?

2011 ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
V. Pan'kov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
State Of Affairs

In a long historical perspective, the globalization of the economy is, no doubt, the future of the mankind. However, we should not overlook the contradiction that has dramatically intensified as a result of the 2008-2009 recession. This is the contradiction between globalization as an objective process with mostly positive effects and its model that is being implemented today (namely, the policy of globalization). Furthermore, we can propose a number of important arguments in favor of a statement that at the current state of affairs the globalization has exhausted itself. Nobody can exclude a short-term braking down of the globalization progress nor even a U-turn, albeit temporary, to a de-globalization. Under unfavorable circumstances such a reverse movement can cover the entire period up to 2020. The author states that transnational corporations are the main subject of the world economy which will the most actively oppose such a development.

scholarly journals Exploring Education and Education Reforms from the Complex Systems Point of View

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ljubinka Joksimović ◽  
Slavica Manić
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
Theory Of Complexity

Abstract The main motivation for this paper is that a negligible number of reforms in education systems, initiated all over the world, proved to be successful in terms of bringing desired results in promoting educational practice and its final goal - the promotion of students’ learning and knowledge. Regarding the education system and its reform a change of paradigm has recently happened. In some cases, changes were made gradually, whereas in other cases it was completely abandonment of treating them as complicated systems with simple interventions and solutions toward the recognition and respect of their true complex nature. So, this reviewed paper explores new insights and tools derived from the theory of complexity. They can help to better understand and navigate the education system and its reform. Becoming familiarised with methodological implications of viewing the education system and its reform as complex system is recommendation for different stakeholders included in education system, such as teachers, students, researchers, administrators and policy makers. Advance awareness of both urgency and opportunities of analysing and respecting the education system as a complex system would contribute to better understanding the essence of dynamic wholeness of education and, for sure, would provide desired results of educational reform. For all of us that means more successful coping with the world characterised by a growing number of complex systems with growing intensity.

scholarly journals Situación actual de la gestación por sustitución

2014 ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
Silvia Vilar González
Keyword(s):  
Current State ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Do So

Premio de artículos jurídicos «GARCÍA GOYENA» (Curso 2013-2014). Segundo accésit La gestación por sustitución es una de las últimas opciones a la que acuden aquellas personas que quieren formar una familia y que no disponen de otros medios para ello. En España, es una práctica prohibida y sancionada con la nulidad de pleno derecho. No obstante, la viabilidad para lograr la inscripción de la filiación del nacido, hace que muchos sigan optando por ella. El presente trabajo realiza un estudio de la situación legal existente tanto en nuestro país como en el resto del mundo, con mención a los múltiples problemas que los interesados pueden encontrar a lo largo de este complicado proceso.Surrogate motherhood is one of the latest options requested by couples willing to raise a family with no other means to do so. Surrogacy is illegal in Spain and regarded as null and void. Nevertheless, the viability to achieve the registration of the child’s parentage makes many people opt for it. This paper analyses the current state of affairs in our country as well as in the rest of the world, including the multiple implications involved in such a complex process.

Conclusion: Technocracy at the End of the World

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-258
Author(s):  
Anders Esmark
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Political Decision Making

Taking up the case of climate change, the conclusion considers the argument for moretechnocracy in the face of ‘the end world as we know it’. Climate change is probably the strongest case for a technocratic model of political decision-making. At the very least, insufficient political adherence to the scientific evidence on climate change is an almost commonsensical part of the problem of in the current state of affairs. While fully acknowledging this problem, the chapter argues that attention to the destructive and mutually reinforcing interplay of technocracy and populism is necessary also in to the all-important challenge of climate change.

scholarly journals Faculty Perspective on Scholarly Communication

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Field
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Current State ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract: The means and method of scholarly communication are changing as new and faster forms of communication become accessible to scholars. The potential for electronic scholarly communication via the Internet and the World Wide Web to positively affect the current state of affairs is very good. It may provide the means to address the hegemonic tendencies of the large for-profit scholarly publishers. Many matters need to be addressed though. Some of these are: copyright and ownership of intellectual property; the methods used for assessing the work of scholars; development of the communications infrastructure, both within and among institutions; and provision of equipment and services to those in the scholarly community. This paper examines these issues in the Canadian context. Résumé: Les moyens et méthodes de communication savante sont en train de changer à mesure que des formes de communication nouvelles et plus rapides deviennent accessible aux chercheurs. La communication savante électronique à l'Internet et au World Wide Web a un très fort potentiel d'avoir un impact positif sur l'état actuel des choses. En effet, la communication électronique pourrait permettre aux chercheurs de contrebalancer les tendances hégémoniques des grandes maisons d'édition académiques à but lucratif. Il est nécessaire dans ce contexte d'adresser plusieurs questions. Parmi celles-ci, il y a : le droit d'auteur et l'appartenance de propriétés intellectuelles; les méthodes utilisées pour évaluer les ouvrages académiques; le développement d'une infrastructure pour la communication, autant au sein d'institutions qu'entre celles-ci; et la fourniture d'équipement et de services à la communauté savante. Cet article examine ces questions dans un contexte canadien.

Russia’s openness to the world: The unpredicted consequences of the country’s liberalization

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 355-361
Author(s):  
Vladimir Shlapentokh
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
External World ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
State Of Affairs

The author challenges the dogma that complete openness of the country to the external world has only a positive impact on its current state of affairs and its future. He uses post-Soviet Russia to show that in several respects openness, in particularly systematic emigrations of active people from the country, creates a lot of the problems which, however, can be partially solved if society has true democratic institutions.

scholarly journals Reflections on the Kurdish diaspora: An interview with Dr Kendal Nezan

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
Mari Toivanen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Independent Institute ◽  
State Of Affairs

In this interview, Dr Kendal Nezan, the director of the Kurdish Institute in Paris, reflects on the development of the Kurdish diaspora, the current state of affairs concerning Kurdish movements in Europe and the past and present of the Kurdish Institute in Paris, first established in 1983. Nezan notes that the institute has been successful in creating a non-partisan public space open for Kurds from all corners of the world as well as to others interested in Kurdish history, language, culture and politics. Furthermore, the institute has been an important platform to raise awareness about the Kurdish cause in Europe. The continued functioning of the institute remains essential and, according to Nezan, not least for the second generation diaspora to be able to engage for the Kurdish cause. To this end, the institute has been negatively affected by the austerity policies of the French authorities and launched a donation campaign to draw contributions to ensure that it can continue to operate as an independent institute.

Address by the President of the Faculty of Actuaries. The World Needs Actuaries

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Ronald Stewart Bowie
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Areas Of Interest

ABSTRACTThis presidential address looks at the current state of affairs, the opportunities and threats to our traditional areas of interest and the importance of developing in wider fields. It pays tribute to all the volunteers who help make it the organisation that it is whilst highlighting the need for all Fellows and students to be engaged with its future.

‘Patriot’ games? Visions of a post-liberal international order and how to keep peace

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-279
Author(s):  
Johanna Sumuvuori
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Small States ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Multilateral Cooperation ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
State Relations

Declaring the so-called Liberal International Order, and Multilateralism in general, obsolete has become fashionable after the Russian invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Among others, Russian and American leaders have emphasized competition and the uncompromising quest for the national interest as the basic and natural elements of inter-state relations. This worldview is reflected within societies throughout the world in populist nationalist movements and smacks of ‘strongman politics’ with its undertones of toxic masculinity, in which the only check against outright conflict is the balance of power.This worldview is, clearly, bad news for small states. Alternatives such as Xi Jinping’s ‘Community for the Shared Future of Mankind’ would also, at closer look, seem to refer back to the primacy of national sovereignty – in this case that of one particular state, China. Instead, small states with open economies such as Finland would prioritize strengthening multilateral cooperation and the rules-based international order. Adapting the present international order rather than abandoning it wholesale is key to overcoming these challenges. That adaptation should be driven by a constructive critique of the current state of affairs. But we also need to look critically at the ‘brave new worlds’ that populists and strongmen are promoting. An international order based on the balance of power and a search for absolute national sovereignty will rob us of the ability to overcome global threats as well as to seize opportunities provided by global civil society activism and scientific innovations.

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