Beyond Eighteen Wheels

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam R. E. Quin
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Sufficient Knowledge ◽  
Future People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Significant Length

When documents are stored for any significant length of time, or when they are used, whether continuously or occasionally, over an extended period, the original people and culture and context associated with their creation become unavailable. If the documents are to remain useful, it is necessary to retain sufficient knowledge about how they can be used that the future people involved can still gain value from them. This document is a position paper for discussion.

Application of Probabilistic and Interactive Information in Verifying Machine System and Kernels Based on Relational Modality

2010 ◽  
Vol 143-144 ◽  
pp. 67-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Ping Li ◽  
Zhi Ming Qu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Moore’S Law ◽  
Moore's Law ◽  
Machine System ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The networking approach to the World Wide Web is defined not only by the exploration of architecture, but also by the confirmed need for interrupts. Given the current status of authenticated archetypes, steganographers dubiously desire the analysis of scatter/gather I/O. the focus in this position paper is not on whether Moore's Law can be made concurrent, distributed, and pervasive, but rather on proposing an analysis of 32 bit architectures (Grange). It is concluded that, using probabilistic and interactive information and based on relational modality, the machine system and kernels are verified, which is widely used in the future.

scholarly journals Next Generation European Research Vessels: Current Status and Foreseeable Evolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Nieuwejaar ◽  
Valerie Mazauric ◽  
Christian Betzler ◽  
Mafalda Carapuco ◽  
Andre Cattrijsse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Position Paper ◽  
Research Vessel ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
European Research ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Community ◽  
High Level

This position paper provides a review of the current European research vessel fleet, its capabilities and equipment, assessing its ability to support marine science across the globe now and into the future. It particularly looks at current and future capabilities in the context of deep sea and Polar research. It also takes a wider vision, assessing the importance of these vessels in the ocean and earth observing landscape. This review includes not only technological but also human capabilities, looking at training needs for crew and technicians to ensure they can continue to deliver on critical science needs. It also considers the ways in which the current European fleet is managed.This Position Paper sets out recommendations for how the fleet will need to develop in the future to ensure that it will continue to provide the same high level of support to science globally, as well as highlighting ways in which management could be made more efficient. It is aimed at national- and European-level policy makers and funders, as well as the marine science community and the research vessel operator community.

3. Future generations

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Moral Standing ◽  
Identity Problem ◽  
Future People ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fundamental Objection

Concern about future generations stretches as far back as the Ten Commandments, but the belief that present people can significantly change the future originated as recently as the Enlightenment, along with the belief that our generation may be judged by posterity. ‘Future generations’ considers the moral standing of future generations; the fundamental objection to that belief—‘the Non-Identity Problem’; and the discounting of future interests. If it is agreed that future people and their interests matter, it is still widely held that their interests count for less than current interests. Future preferences and needs are discussed with some of the harmful practices that are detrimental to human and non-human health.

Shaping the future of Scandinavian anaesthesiology: a position paper by the SSAI

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 1062-1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. SØREIDE ◽  
S. KALMAN ◽  
A. ÅNEMAN ◽  
O. NØRREGAARD ◽  
P. PERE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Position Paper ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals On the Side of Predictable

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (43) ◽  
pp. 3-67
Author(s):  
Maja Petrović-Šteger ◽  
Felix Ringel ◽  
Ivan Rajković ◽  
Tea Škokić ◽  
Sanja Potkonjak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The People ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

In order to be able to contextualize and understand social worlds, anthropologists pay close attention. We observe how individuals and communities relate to each other and to their ideas. We study the intimate and subjective, as well as the large-scale cosmologies by which people make themselves and the world. Our participatory methods and reflective analysis document the complex, intricate, patterned, and also random aspects of people’s reasoning and actions. These activities, on anthropology’s part, supposedly offer not only critical descriptions of the present (on its historical trajectories), but possible intimations of a society’s future. Anthropological analysis, in other words, not only describes but also anticipates. This position paper focuses on the notions of anticipation, predictability, and possibility in anthropology. It asks what methodological and theoretical assumptions are built into our ways of making predictions about our field sites. It invites the reader to consider the effects certain anticipatory practices have for the people and phenomena we study as well as for the discipline. Centrally, the paper proposes different ways of attending to visions that anticipate the future. By reflecting on my ethnographic and analytical journeys in Serbia, I attempt to explain why I currently make so much of questions of predictability and possibility in both the field and the discipline. My desire is to open up a discussion on the value of cultivating attention to what seems to emerge on the side of predictable.

Imagining Future People in Biomedical Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta van Beers
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Future People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

Human genetic engineering and other human enhancement technologies bring about uncertainties and risks on both the physical and the conceptual and intangible levels. Much of the controversy surrounding these emerging technologies is due to the fact that categorical distinctions, such as between person and thing, and chance and choice, are blurred in radical ways. As a consequence, the emergence of biomedical technologies also entails, what could be called, metaphysical risks and symbolic uncertainties. This chapter explores the ways in which imaginings of the future of mankind and mankind itself have found their way into international legal regulation of biomedical technologies through an analysis of recent debates on the international ban on human germline genetic engineering. This prohibition, which is at the heart of international biolaw, is currently being questioned as recent scientific breakthroughs in the field of gene-editing are about to turn human genetic engineering into a reality.

The future of precision medicine, strengths and weaknesses: An expert position paper.

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e18879-e18879
Author(s):  
Vicente Guillem Porta ◽  
Antonio Anton ◽  
Enrique Aranda ◽  
Alfredo Carrato ◽  
Manuel Constenla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
The Future

Getting Your Child Back to School

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
School Attendance ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Extended Time ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Inappropriate Behaviors ◽  
Time Out ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
Out Of School

Many parents find getting their child to school in the morning a challenge. If your child consistently pleads with you to let him stay home from school, if she skips school or is often late to school, if his morning routine is fraught with misbehaviors, or if she exhibits signs of distress and anxiety related school attendance, this book can help. Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent’s Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems is designed to help address your child’s school attendance problems in the early stages. This guide helps identify different school attendance problems and provides step-by-step instructions to help solve the problem and learn different techniques for getting your child to school, including monitoring your child’s behavior, working with school officials, practicing enhanced relaxation, changing your child’s distressed thoughts about school, establishing a clear and predictable morning routine, setting up a system of rewards for going to school, handling inappropriate behaviors, writing clear agreements, and helping your child decline offers to miss school. Suggestions are made for preventing attendance problems in the future, dealing with special circumstances, addressing severe attendance problems, and handling extended time periods out of school. Easy to read and filled with concrete strategies, this book is the first of its kind to educate parents and arm them with tools needed to resolve their child’s school attendance problem. The book covers severe attendance problems and suggestions for families who must endure an extended period of time out of school due to school shutdowns.

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