Information Technologies Socialise Geographies

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Ahamer ◽  
Josef Strobl
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
World Views ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Geographic Information Sciences ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Common World

One of the ethical tasks and practical effects of IT is bridging and spanning different locations, thereby “socialising” across diverse “geographies of understanding”. A dozen documented case studies use IT (especially Geographic Information Sciences) in distance learning. The underlying conceptual model of a network society combined with empirical research on long-term civilisational and economic evolution leads to a general understanding of Information Technologies as facilitators of a multi-perspectivist and multi-disciplinary construction of world views (m:n type of science). Such a synopsis of education, structural evolution, social spaces and institutional change provides insight into IT’s strategic role of facilitating consensus building and constructing common world views that can socially converge (“socialise”) isolated cultures of understanding. “Geography” is here seen as a provider of world views that emerge from communicative action. The presented cases in this paper span both geographic locations as well as constructed cultures of understanding.

Investment opportunities for student housing in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 578-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick French ◽  
Geetha Bhat ◽  
Gurpreet Matharu ◽  
Filipe Ortigão Guimarães ◽  
David Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Student Housing ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Requirements ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Property Markets ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into how the demographic of international and home students in the major university cities in three European countries (France, Spain and Germany) offers investors an opportunity to provide students housing. This paper looks at how a mobile and demanding student clientele now demands, well priced, good quality and purpose built accommodation during their studies at University. This offers a good property investment opportunity. Design/methodology/approach This practice briefing is an overview of the demand factors that are creating opportunities in France, Spain and Germany. Findings This paper analyses the link between the under provision of purpose built student housing and an opportunity to develop a long-term cash flow producing investment asset. Practical implications The role of the property developers and investors is to successfully identify trends and demands and provide the assets that meet the market requirements. This paper looks at the meeting point in three major European countries for this latent and, currently, poorly served demand. Originality/value This provides guidance on how investment opportunities develop in non-traditional property markets.

Pharmaco-EcoMicrobiology and Its Potential Role in Medical and Environmental Sciences

2012 ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Mohd. Shahid ◽  
Hridesh Mishra ◽  
Hemant Kumar Mishra ◽  
Trivendra Tripathi ◽  
Haris M. Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Antimicrobial Agents ◽  
Drug Effects ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
World Health ◽  
Adverse Drug Effects ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industries ◽  
Health Organization

Despite the call of the World Health Organization (WHO) for “Pharmacovigilance,” i.e. the monitoring, detection, assessment, and prevention of any adverse reactions, poor attention has been given to identify the long term and short term Adverse Effects (ADEs) of antimicrobial agents on the environment. It is obvious that most of the health sectors across the globe are occupied by infectious diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, HIV, and hepatitis), and to combat such threats, the pharmaceutical industries are pouring tons of drugs and reagents into a market worth billions of dollars. The discharge of these products into the ecosystem is potentially a threat to the environment and human health. In this chapter, the authors depicted a recently described terminology, “Pharmaco-EcoMicrobiology” (PEcM), that could cover these problems and their possible solutions on medical and environmental aspects. In this regard, the role of pharmacoinformatics could also be crucial, since it can provide swift information for implementation and use of information technologies for the discovery and development of drugs as well as in pharmacy education and also the detection and combat of adverse drug effects.

The utility of relationships in the creation and maintenance of an event portfolio

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Kelly ◽  
Sheranne Fairley
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose Event portfolios promote synergies among events and stakeholders within a destination in order to maximise resources. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of relationships in the creation and maintenance of an event portfolio using the four stages of Parvatiyar and Sheth’s (2000) process model of relationship marketing: formation, management and governance, performance evaluation, and evolution. Design/methodology/approach Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with tourism and government stakeholders involved in the creation and maintenance of an event portfolio within a single destination. Findings The destination outlined clear strategic goals through an event strategy. An Events Board was established to bring together key stakeholders from tourism, events, and government to oversee the development of an event portfolio. The Events Board gave advice to relevant tourism and government stakeholders on which events they should provide funding. Developing relationships was not a stated objective, but the Events Board realised the importance of relationships to create and maintain the destination’s event portfolio. Long-term funding contracts were used as a mechanism to establish relationships and were an impetus for interaction. Relationships were also maintained through dedicated staff who managed the relationships between the destination stakeholders and the events. Practical implications Understanding factors that contribute to the successful creation and maintenance of event portfolios can inform destination stakeholders who are responsible for generating tourism through events. Originality/value Limited research has examined the creation and maintenance of event portfolios. This study provides insight into the central importance of relationships in creating and maintaining an event portfolio.

scholarly journals The carbon dioxide signal from the COVID-19 lock-down

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Reid
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Layer ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Anthropogenic Emissions ◽  
Temporary Reduction ◽  
Local Weather ◽  
Global Carbon ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Two unintended experiments provide insight into the role of anthropogenic emissions in the global carbon cycle. One was the temporary reduction in emissions during the COVID-19 lock-down. The other was the emission of a radioactive isotope of carbon during the testing of nuclear weapons in the 1950s and the abrupt cessation of these tests in 1963. Together they imply the existence of two distinct reservoirs which exchange carbon with the atmosphere, viz.: the mixed layer and the deep ocean. Exchanges with the former are noisy because they are influenced by sea surface temperature which, in turn, depends on local weather conditions. They completely mask any variations caused by the COVID-19 lock-down. Exchanges with the latter are steady, long-term and uninfluenced by the weather. They result in half the carbon content of the atmosphere and mixed layer being replaced every eleven years.

Unravelling some mysteries of porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus (PRRSV) infections: new insights from modelling studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 30-30
Author(s):  
A Doeschl-Wilson ◽  
I Kyriazakis ◽  
L Galina-Pantoja
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Host Immune Response ◽  
Growing Pigs ◽  
Modelling Studies ◽  
Porcine Respiratory ◽  
Insight Into

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is an endemic pig disease in most European countries, causing respiratory distress, fever and growth reductions in growing pigs and increased litter mortality in sows. The disease is characterised by exceptionally long-term viral persistence within the host, a weak innate host immune response and delayed adaptive host immune response, and large between animal variation in the immune response (Murtaugh et al., 2004). Although numerous in-vitro and in-vivo studies produced valid insight into the fine details of the virus dynamics and its interaction with the host’s immune response, several fundamental questions concerning the role of diverse immune components and host genetics remain unanswered. In this study mathematical models were developed to investigate the role of diverse processes caused by the virus or the immune response on the infection characteristics.

Re-Establishing the School in the Light of Information Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 184-202
Author(s):  
Süheyla Bozkurt
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
School Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into

The aim is to open the discussion of the concept of education and school that emerged as a result of the changes in information technologies and to provide insight into the future educational institutions. Firstly, the effects of changes in the world on educational institutions were discussed. The skills needed by the world were introduced and finally the 21st century Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 technologies, which are information sharing methods that enable data sharing over the internet. In the conclusion part, a school structure where principles such as personalized ways and methods of access to information, development of creativity, acquisition of necessary methods for reasoning, integration of information with systematic attitude is proposed. For the schools of the future, it has been concluded that the elements of education such as classrooms, technique, methods, tools, and materials, and the role of the teacher should be reconsidered, and the school should be designed in a way that individuals can establish their own knowledge sphere within the boundaries of the school buildings.

scholarly journals Consequences of acute and long-term removal of neuromodulatory input on the episodic gastric rhythm of the crab Cancer borealis

2015 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 1677-1692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert W. Hamood ◽  
Eve Marder
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Generation ◽  
Stomatogastric Nervous System ◽  
Cancer Borealis ◽  
Cycle Frequency ◽  
Motor Behaviors ◽  
Rhythmic Motor ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Phase Relationships

For decades, the episodic gastric rhythm of the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) has served as an important model system for understanding the generation of rhythmic motor behaviors. Here we quantitatively describe many features of the gastric rhythm of the crab Cancer borealis under several conditions. First, we analyzed spontaneous gastric rhythms produced by freshly dissected preparations of the STNS, including the cycle frequency and phase relationships among gastric units. We find that phase is relatively conserved across frequency, similar to the pyloric rhythm. We also describe relationships between these two rhythms, including a significant gastric/pyloric frequency correlation. We then performed continuous, days-long extracellular recordings of gastric activity from preparations of the STNS in which neuromodulatory inputs to the stomatogastric ganglion were left intact and also from preparations in which these modulatory inputs were cut (decentralization). This allowed us to provide quantitative descriptions of variability and phase conservation within preparations across time. For intact preparations, gastric activity was more variable than pyloric activity but remained relatively stable across 4–6 days, and many significant correlations were found between phase and frequency within animals. Decentralized preparations displayed fewer episodes of gastric activity, with altered phase relationships, lower frequencies, and reduced coordination both among gastric units and between the gastric and pyloric rhythms. Together, these results provide insight into the role of neuromodulation in episodic pattern generation and the extent of animal-to-animal variability in features of spontaneously occurring gastric rhythms.

scholarly journals ANTI-CRISIS STRATEGY EXECUTION AT A FUNCTIONAL LEVEL OF MANAGEMENT

2014 ◽  
pp. 82-87
Author(s):  
S. Y. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Strategy Execution ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Functional Efficiency ◽  
Strategic Role

Theory and practice of strategic management requires strengthening the role of functional execution of strategy to effectively address issues of balancing long-term and short-term objectives, the successful implementation of strategy under the strategic plan, strategic alignment of functional management of a firm. Reasons for the increase in importance of functional strategies’ level reflect the formation of different kinds of rivalry capabilities of a firm. Functional efficiency of management is being measured. Strategic role of top management in the organization is about to change.

Long-Term Outcomes of Grade I–II Skull Base Chondrosarcoma: An Insight into the Role of Surgery and Radiotherapy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotaka Hasegawa ◽  
Avital Perry ◽  
Christopher S. Graffeo ◽  
Jamie J. Van Gompel ◽  
Colin L. Driscoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skull Base ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Insight Into

Catecholamines and pituitary function. IV. Effects of low-dose dopamine infusion and long-term bromocriptine treatment on the abnormal thyrotroph (TSH) dynamics in patients with pathological hyperprolactinaemia

1986 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildo Nicoletti ◽  
Paolo Filipponi ◽  
Leone Fedeli ◽  
Franca Ambrosi ◽  
Camillo Giammartino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Pituitary ◽  
Low Dose ◽  
Physiological Role ◽  
Serum Concentrations ◽  
Trh Test ◽  
Synthesis Inhibitor ◽  
Tsh Secretion ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract. In order to gain further insight into the role of dopamine (DA) in the control of TSH release and to investigate whether an increased or defective DA inhibition on pituitary thyrotrophs may be considered responsible for the abnormal TSH dynamics in pathological hyperprolactinaemia, we examined the effect of low-dose DA infusion on TRH stimulated TSH secretion in normally cycling women and in patients with pathological hyperprolactinaemia. The effect of long-term bromocriptine therapy on TSH dynamics was also evaluated in a selected group of hyperprolactinaemic women. Fifty-two hyperprolactinaemic patients with no other signs of pituitary or thyroid dysfunction had significantly higher mean TSH serum concentrations and mean TSH peak values after TRH administration than 75 healthy controls. Furthermore, the TSH rises induced by the DA-synthesis inhibitor α-methyl-p-tyrosine (AMPT, 500 mg orally) were enhanced in both prolactinoma and 'idiopathic hyperprolactinaemia' patients as compared with controls. There was a positive correlation between the TRH- and AMPT-induced TSH rises in the hyperprolactinaemic group. Low-dose DA infusion (0.1 μg/kg min) reduced TSH response to TRH in both regularly cycling women and patients with hyperprolactinaemic amenorrhoea. Long-term bromocriptine therapy (2.5 mg tid over 60– 150 days) not only normalized serum Prl levels, but also reduced the TSH response to TRH in 7 hyperprolactinaemic women who had presented exaggerated TSH responses to the basal TRH test. These findings confirm that DA plays a physiological role in the inhibition of TSH release, probably at the level of the anterior pituitary. The fact that both low-dose DA infusion and long-term bromocriptine treatment effectively reduced TSH release in hyperprolactinaemic patients seems to indicate that endogenous DA inhibition of pituitary thyrotrophs is reduced rather than enhanced in pathological hyperprolactinaemia.

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