scholarly journals Introductory Chapter: Liquid Biopsy — A Promising Technology of the Future

Liquid Biopsy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilze Strumfa ◽  
Janis Gardovskis
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Biopsy ◽  
Promising Technology ◽  
The Future

Thinking about the future

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Andrew MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Evolutionary Success

The ability to think about the future has been fundamental to human evolutionary success, as well as to our everyday functioning. But, it also plays a key role in our emotional well-being and mental health. The growing recognition of the importance of prospection is shown by the burgeoning literature on the topic, including an expanding literature relating to well-being and mental health. This introductory chapter provides a brief overview of the importance of prospection, its relative neglect in the psychological literature and the recent blossoming of interest in the area. The chapter concludes with an overview of the material covered in the remainder of the book.

1. Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Abbey ◽  
Mark B. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
The Future

This introductory chapter begins with an overview of conveyancing, which is the process by which legal title to property is transferred. It then discusses the conveyancing of registered land; defensive lawyering and the conveyancing process; conveyancing and information technology; and the future of conveyancing.

Blockchain applications, challenges and evaluation: A survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 2030001
Author(s):  
Xin Cong ◽  
Lingling Zi
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Metrics ◽  
Promising Technology ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Basic Technology ◽  
The Way

Blockchain is a promising technology, which may change the way of transactions and affect our lives in the future, and has attracted the attention of more and more scholars recently. This paper provides an overview of the important issues of blockchain and the aim is to lead researchers to comprehensive understand applications, challenges and evaluation from the technical perspective. The basic technology including authorization, incentive and consensus is presented, focusing on their latest methods. Then, a wide range of blockchain applications are described. Specially, some of the latest intersection and integration areas with blockchain are introduced. Moreover, research challenges of blockchain are summarized and analyzed. Finally, evaluation metrics of blockchain are presented and as far as we know, these metrics are first designed for evaluating blockchain performance.

Virtual workshops: immersive technology of vocational education of the future

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
М.В. Зиннатова
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Promising Technology ◽  
Developmental Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Immersive Technology

Виртуальные мастерские являются перспективной технологией для профессионального об- разования будущего. При этом в научных изысканиях современных ученых и практиков век- тор изучения виртуальных мастерских как технологии виртуальной или иммерсивной реаль- ности практически отсутствует. Цель. Определение ориентиров для разработки и реализации в образовательной практике форсайт-технологии виртуальных мастерских. Результаты. Описана сущность виртуальных мастерских, их базовые характеристики, предложена структура виртуальных мастерских, рассмотрены ограничения и проблемы разработки, внедрения виртуальных мастерских в образовательное пространство, сформулированы воспитательные и развивающие эффекты данной технологии. Материал статьи может быть использован для совершенствования процесса разработки виртуальных мастерских. Он является основой для включения данной технологии в систему профессиональной подготовки специалистов с целью обеспечения реализации нового формата освоения профессиональных компетенций. Virtual workshops are a promising technology for the professional education of the future. In the scientific research the vector of studying virtual workshops as a technology of virtual or immersive reality is almost completely absent. Aim. Determination of benchmarks for the development and implementation of foresight technology of virtual workshops in educational practice. Results. The essence of virtual workshops, their basic characteristics are described; the structure of virtual workshops is proposed; the limitations and problems of development, implementation of virtual workshops in the educational space are considered; formulated educational and developmental effects of this technology. The material of this article can be used to improve the process of developing virtual workshops. It is the basis for the inclusion of this technology in the system of professional training of specialists in order to ensure the implementation of a new format for mastering professional competencies.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Graham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Individual Choices ◽  
Distribution Of Income

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book considers the extent to which the American Dream—and the right to the pursuit of happiness—is equally available to all citizens today. Building on the author's research on well-being and on mobility and opportunity in countries around the world, the book explore the linkages between the distribution of income, attitudes about inequality and future mobility, and well-being in the United States, and also provides some comparisons with other countries and regions. This scholarship is distinct from existing work on inequality in its focus on the well-being–beliefs channel and its implications for individual choices about the future.

Introduction

Mapping Power ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Sunila S. Kale ◽  
Navroz K. Dubash ◽  
Ranjit Bharvirkar
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Economy Analysis ◽  
Economy Analysis

The introductory chapter lays out the rationale for the volume and provides a framework for analysing the political economy of Indian electricity. We first present a historically-rooted political economy analysis to understand the past and identify reforms for the future of electricity in India. We next outline an analytic framework to guide the empirical chapters of the book, which locates electricity outcomes in the larger political economy of electricity, the field of politics that are specific to each state, and each state’s broader political economy. The chapter ends by providing concise synopses of the state-level narratives of electricity in the fifteen states included in the volume.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Aleida Assmann
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Order ◽  
General Sense ◽  
The Past ◽  
End Point ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Future ◽  
Shed Light

This introductory chapter describes a change in the modern temporal order. The first is a general sense that the future is no longer much of a motivator in the arenas of politics, society, and the environment. Indeed, expectations for the future have become extremely modest. Within a relatively short period of time, the future itself has lost the power to shed light on the present, since we can no longer assume that it functions as the end point of our desires, goals, or projections. We have learned from historians that the rise and fall of particular futures is in itself nothing new. However, it is the case not only that particular visions of the future have collapsed in contemporary times, but also that the very concept of the future itself is being called into question. Alongside the future's eclipse, the chapter contends that we are also witnessing another anomaly of our long-held temporal order: the unprecedented return of the past.

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